I work in a salon. I have been there for about 6 months. I am paid commission only. When I was hired she did not have me sign a contract for booth rent, responsibilites, etc. She knew I was a new stylist with no clientele. Until recently about 2 weeks ago. I was going in every week for 5-6 hours a day, 5 days a week. Since I am new and have no clientele I did alot of cleaning, organizing, etc. I make approx $100/mo so as you can see I have no clientele. When she hired me I was told that she would help me build my clientele and advertise. We have done one ad in the local newspaper. I have passed out flyers, emailed clients who have not visited in quite some time, etc. I have no clientele to show for it (I realize the economy is in the crapper but for all my work I should have a few handfuls of clients). In the begining my boss really noticed how hard I worked, I mean I was coming in all day for free and cleaning, ordering, made up a salon email newsletter that we do monthly. She even promoted me to salon manager. There is 6 employees all together and stated that she doesn’t like to have certain responsiblities: ordering, organizing interviews, etc that she is busy with her clientele. She stated that once we moved out of our curren location (8months left on the lease) that she would give me commission on my services plus salary for being manager. This isn’t the first salon I have worked in but up until recently the best I have every worked for as far as atmosphere, coworkers, etc. About a 2-3 months in I noticed girls where using my stuff and not returning it (combs clips, etc). I kindly put up a note in the back saying if you wish to borrow something please ask me before, and return it the way it was taken (ex: clean, working condition, etc). Then one day I got into work and my scissors where chipped (beyond repair) and the next day my clippers had been dropped and they were broken. I made the owner aware and she apologized but did not offer anything up for it. Made her sister go out and buy clippers for everyone who didn’t have them and they were going to pay her back for them. I disregarded it because I can fix the clippers with a $75 part and the scissors where old but still workable and I had another pair (the scissor cost $150-$200). I then started taking stuff home. The only things I would leave beind was organizing stuff, products, and I have a container for my dirty combs and brushes-which had dirty combs, brushes, and clips. A few weeks later I noticed some of my dirty brushes missing and found them in other peoples stations and found my clips broken-I know all of these are mine because my name is on them. I also had left my flat iron there because we would go out after work and could not leave a hot flat iron in my case or car (would burn whatever it was placed on) I did these a few times without incident. I would take it home if the iron was cooled off. During this time I quit coming in as much because I was aggravated that my stuff and station was being used and not in the same condition as I had left it. Also I was starting to feel like I as being used for free this or that. Well I have been gone for a few weeks: holidays, got sick, and also was working a temporary job for extra cash. So I went in yesturday and wanted to talk to my boss about my situation (lack of clients, money, etc).When I got in there no one was there. I went to my station to take my stuff (combs, etc) basically clean it since it was dusty and take down some pictures and put new ones up from the holidays. When I went to my station my station was filthy! My hand mirror was missing, most of my dirty brushes or combs were gone, hair everywhere, my product was at other peoples stations…I grabbed my stuff for other’s sations then started packing up my pictures-that’s when I went to grab my flat iron. I opened the drawer and it was full of dirty capes and hair-and surprise surprise it was gone! needless to say i was ticked. I grabbed my stuff. looked for it high and low. went out to my car to make sure i didn’t already have it and i didn’t. so i went back in wrote a note on the book for my boss that we need to talk and then posted a note on the phone and in the dispense/break room that said: Hey Everyone stopped in to grab my old pics and to see how everyone’s holidays were! Sorry I missed you guys but I will see you on Thursday. If you borrowed my flat iron could you please return it by Thursday since I will need it this weekend to do my friends hair for her party? Thanks. Well I got a call from my boss (missed her call) but her voicemail said we could talk (didn’t sound different then she usually does) but then said no one borrowed it and no one has seen it! I am not the type of person to lie about this! I find money on the groundand I ask people around me if they dropped it, I don’t lie about this kind of stuff? when I talk to her about the other stuff I was going to give her a list of stuff that has been taken from me a
i shouldof added this for people that don’t know i do have a case i take home and when i am not busy it is locked up. but i do not take home my product and dirty combs/brushes,etc. it is sometimes common but co workers are not supposed to borrow stuff they are supposed to have what they need just like in school!

I am a visiting scholar at San Diego State University. I am looking for a room/studio or one bedroom apartment for rent from Aug 30,2009 to Dec 17, 2009. Any suggestion on where I may find short term lease. It appears most of apartments offer lease at least for 9 months. I don’t have a car, I’d prefer a place close to bus stop or trolley station. My English is not very good, so I prefer a safe neighbour community so I won’t run into trouble easily as a foreigner. Your suggestion or information will be very helpful to me. Thanks very much!

sorry if this is long….i hope you can help?

im having a real problem with female co-workers, ive been travelling around the country doing work on a short term contract with a company with 2 other females who have been best friends for years.

ive had attitude off them from the start because they didnt like having to pick me up from my house in the company car (even though the driver got paid extra to do this) she was making me drive my car to her house and leave it there, causing me personal petrol money, and she kept dropping me far away from my house

i tried to make her drop me/pick me up from my house, but they gave attitude so to keep peace i did but then i couldnt afford petrol so i told regional manager who told her off, but even after she kept dropping me off not at my house.

we were getting on ok during the work but towards the end it turned sour, we travelled to do a show with the companies equipment, now these girls have told my manager that i damaged equipment they are blatantly lying.

ive said they are lying and now we all have to go in for a meeting to discuss, the thing is im unwell with a bad viral infection but the manager is forcing me to go in, ive said im not well enough and cant but she said if i dont go in i will get billed for these items that the girls are accusing me of breaking.

i can honestly say i have not broken any piece of equipment, they are lying, what should i do?
i will have to travel by taxi (they’ve said they’ll cover my travel expenses) as im not well.

im worried that they will beleive the pair of liers as there is 2 of them and 1 of me! thing is they cant give examples of when i supposedly broke equipment because they would be coming up with excuses out of thin air, unlike me, where i can give details where one of the girls broke 2 pieces of equipment.

after she broke the equipment it was reported to the manager, the female are accusing me of breaking a light, and a pole but they have both been faulty from the beginning and my managers know this, i suspect its a loose fuse on the light and they know the pole was broken because one of the managers hit it ith a hammer as it wouldnt fit! they cant blame me

also she smashed the car and the pair of them made up a story and lied about how it happened, they said they parked it and came back and it was smashed whereas i told my manager that the driver smashed it, and i told how she smashed it, where and when, but the manager was like well the pair of them are saying something different she said we’d have to all come in to discuss it, surely the manager would believe me?

also the stupid idiot told another member of the company that she smashed it so i would be relying on her to back me up although im wont be speaking to her directly.

i can face them easily as im not afraid of them and ill tell them what i think of them but i would rather not obviously have a slanging match infron of the bosses, and when i feel so ill

i wont be working for the company again as its a short term contract and will never see those liers again after the meeting. thing is the girl is still phoning/texting me saying she’ll pick me up! is she stupid? im not going to speak to her after the pair of them are accusing me of breaking things .

can anyone advise me how to handle this?

Hi, I am nearly 17 years old and I am going to University in a couple of years time. My boyfriend is 22 and he is going to move with me. We are thinking ahead and trying to find out prices of flats in different areas. I am wanting to do drama at Uni and have decided that I either want to go to London or Weymouth/Plymouth (joint course). I know London is expensive but I would prefer to go here if I can get in there. My boyfriend is looking at taking another computer course so he can get a better job and we are going to start saving. However, I have been looking at prices on the internet and it has scared me how expensive the flats are. Has anyone got any advice they can give? Or does anyone know of any cheaper but nice-ish areas or cheaper flats? Or good websites or anything really? Please help! Thank you xxx
We are looking to rent and my course will be about 3 years. Or would it be cheaper overall to buy?

I’m moving from Glasgow to London next year but everywhere is so dear, roughly £800 a month to rent a flat, whereas here it’s roughly £400/£500 for a 2 bedroom flat. Anyone know any areas that let out flats for roughly the same amount as it is up here?

Cheers.

also, how would much would a really cheap flat cost around st albans?

Apparently the White House is licking its wounds and admitting the stimulus 101 wasnt enough or flat out hasnt done anything to help the ailing economy. At the time…. the President was trying to avoid going over an unemployment rate of 8%..we are now pushing towards 10%. All we here out of the Whiter House now is Cap and Trade and Health Care Spending… both bills could cause serious damage to the Nations Economy… via drastic inflation.

When Stimulus 101 came out, I knew there was too much fluff ..like 70% of it…, short term feel good crap, and not enough hard core long term shovel ready infrastructure spending…only 20 to 25%. Infrastructure spending renews the nations roads, bridges, water plants, power grid, schools, build some new refineries, nuke power plants … The President should have gone 75% infrastructure. Infrastructure puts people to work and spurs private expansion “via” Govt Contracts. We have too many Idle workers out there wasting their talents …. they could be put to work by rebuilding America…

America’s Infrastructure scores failing grades across the board.. see ASCE

http://www.asce.org/reportcard/index.cfm?reaction=full&page=6

With so many out of work…this can be changed.

The only place we should be spending is on Infrastructure …it is a matter of National Security.

A year and a half ago I had a good job and so did my boyfriend we decided to move in together when my boyfriends mother decided to downsize and the tenancy of my flat expired. We looked around and decided to privately rent a 3 bed home (2 beds and a box room) for 825 a month (my flat was 725) it was outside town and considering most rental prices of 3 beds are over 1000 a month it was very reasonable so we took it. It was close to a good school for my 5 year old and life was good we paid the bills, we were not well off but we were managing.

Then I fell pregnant I took maternity leave in april 08 and had a baby boy in may 08 I went down to statutory maternity pay after 6 weeks and as I was the main earner it really effected us. (I earned 20,000 a year and my boyfriend 15,000 per year before tax) I took home about 1200 a month but to be reduced to about 500 a month was crippling us . We applied for housing benefit and undated our tax credits we were getting 41 a week tax credits it was upped to 70 a week. Housing benefit was awarded to us of 125 a month so we were missing about 450 a month from our previous income.

We found ourselves getting deeper and deeper in debt as each month went by, our bills went up as our income was going down. (my gas and electric alone went from 40 a month to 135!) we started missing payments on loans we had, and previous debt and our credit rating was getting worse and worse.

Then the unthinkable happened the other day I received notice from my landlady that she requires possession of our home in two months. I phoned some letting agents and because our income is so low we cant afford anything in the area without a guarantor (we don’t know anyone who owns their own home or who has the income to do that) Plus because our credit rating is so bad we wouldn’t pass the credit reference.

So I phoned the council (as we are already on the waiting list) They didn’t seem to understand we are going to be homeless in two months with a 6 year old and a 6 month old, and we cant afford where we are living now even though apparently we can afford an 800 a month according to what the housing benefit say????

So I phoned Shelter and in so may words they informed me that the council will put me through hell and back in the hope I find my own way out of the situation. I may have to wait in my home for the court and bailiffs to throw me out (and I have to pay for the privilege of this) I will then be homed in temporary accommodation which does not have to even be in the town it can be miles away. So how my boyfriend can get to work and how I can get my son to school I don’t know (We don’t drive) and this can be for as long as they want, as long as it takes for us to prove we cant get out of it ourselves.

I am not an asylum seeker, I was born in this country and so were my family and my boyfriends family, I am not a single mother, My boyfriend works and until i had a baby so did I. I have worked and paid taxes the past 12 years, I didn’t ask for this to happen but I cant prevent it either. It is humiliating enough to ask for help but to be made to beg and prove that I need it is going to be one of most soul destroying and humiliating experience of my life.

I cant return to my job because due to the cost of childcare we wouldn’t be any better off and I worked through my 6 year olds early years and we are only just building our relationship back again, how can I look after a home, two children a husband and give them my support and love in less than an hour a day after work while they are eating their dinner. My children need at least one parent around surely?

So I ask you all what do i do? Does anyone have any advice? Has anyone been in a similar situation? feel free to ask questions too

I pay the rent on time everymonth ,my landlord’s sister sold her house and her sister wants to move in my house ,my landlord ask us to move within 2 months ,but at the begining she was not willing to sign the contract and she orally promise us she will not sak us to move out as long as we pay the rent on time,we did it,my children still in school,and the dead line is the end of june,I only need to stay for few more months until my children finish the school ,it is very difficult for me to find an very short term contract for renting a house!what can I do?I will return the house but i need some more time!Is she legally can ask us to move out in such short notice without the contract signed by both parties?what are my right?thank you for your answer! Alan

i am moving house 4 breifly 4 months and i need a phone line supplier as my previous one (ntl) does not supply the new house, so i need a company that offers a short term contract for new users
by the way i am from the uk so i need a uk supplier