Mathematshits

Something just doesn't work out. And somethings just don't work out. Both of these being the farming job I had for 6 weeks in Busselton, Western Australia. Here, you work it out:

Wages per hour- $18
Hours accumulated- 65
Rent- $140 / week
Fuel deductions- 88c/km
Kms- 100
Tax- 13%
Gas / Electricity- $10 / week

So, for a fortnight:

18 x 65 = 1170
1170 - 13% = 1017.90
1017.90 - 20 = 997.90
997.90 - (280 + 88) = $629.90

Now, in my first week there I worked about 10 hours less than I did the following fortnight and got about $650 (only one week's rent was deducted, not two). BUT, my bank balance on payday, which I might add was 5 days late, was $250. Which means that somewhere I've lost $400.

After much deliberation / thinking / discussion, we worked out that instead of charging us for personal use of the vehicles, which would have been about 100kms each, our "boss" charged us for ALL use of the vehicles. This included trips to and from town to run errands for us, and in total came to about 450 kms each. This wasn't what was stated in out contract but he wouldn't back down and took us all for about $400 - $800 each.

There was nothing we could do. We were sick of cows, sick of Busselton, sick of the douchebag of a farmer and sick of not having money. So we bolted, got a $300 flight back to Adelaide and succombed to teh hitch-hike of shame all the way back to sorry ass Mildura where we started six months ago with nothing in our pockets and where we are now. Two months of my life wasted. Ah well, back to square one I guess. I'm going to have to make sacrifices, but I'll sort something.