# I have not been Paid for Three Weeks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 22, 2005, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572 "2005-04-22T09:02:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/41 "2005-04-25T18:45:38Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > Wow. A guy named **galt** hates taxes. Big fucking surprise. Do you wear a cape, too? No capes! “Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice man, good with kids. NOVEMBER 15th of '58! All was well, another day saved, when… his cape snagged on a missile fin.” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/42 "2005-04-25T18:56:09Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > Wow. A guy named **galt** hates taxes. Big fucking surprise. Do you wear a cape, too? Where did I say I hate taxes? Are you some kind of dumbshit? It may surprise you to learn that my username refers to a town in CA. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/43 "2005-04-25T19:18:44Z")
I figured your name referred to the hero of _Atlas Shrugged_ and that your objection to my objection stemmed from an Objecitivist hatred of taxes. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/44 "2005-04-25T20:03:14Z")
I’m referring back to the original post. As the mercenary bastard that I am, I would take the postion of “no pay = IAmOutaHere”. I would keep ALL the stupid emails, and not destroy any of them. I would save them in a Pearl harbor disk and in hard copy. I would also be actively looking for a new job. Your employer expects you to show up on time every day and to do a fair day’s work. In return, you expect to be paid. It’s that damn simple. ---
**Author:** ![galt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@galt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galt)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/45 "2005-04-25T20:12:32Z")
> [@vibrotronica](#): > > I figured your name referred to the hero of _Atlas Shrugged_ and that your objection to my objection stemmed from an Objecitivist hatred of taxes. I guess that answers the “are you some kind of dumbshit” question. Yes, you are some kind of dumbshit. ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/46 "2005-04-25T20:25:10Z")
I don’t see the point of giving **Paul** grief over his choice to live in Saudi. In my globe-trotting English teacher days, I seriously considered working there because the pay is good and it’s an opportunity to see the workings of a nation unfamiliar to most Westerners. If **Paul** is happy in Saudi, then good for him. Yes, the _Mukhabarat_ give me the heebie-jeebies, but that’s part of the deal of living in a country as conservatively religious as Saudi. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/47 "2005-04-25T20:42:50Z")
I’m not giving **Paul** shit any more for living in Saudi. He’s there as a result of his job, not purely as a tax dodge. I got no problem with that. **galt** , go fuck yourself. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/48 "2005-04-25T21:09:18Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > 7 of the 8 people who have assassinated a President Is this a woosh? ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/49 "2005-04-25T21:38:25Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Is this a woosh? Yes. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2005, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/50 "2005-04-25T22:55:38Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Actually, I am a humble English teacher. Not so exciting really. Foreign English schools that don’t pay wages? Been there, done that, and I speak from the bitter experience of one who taught for free for three months in Japan hoping the money would come through. **Paul** mate, if they don’t pay up on time, they’ve got a serious cashflow problem, and you’re going to turn up one day and find the doors locked and a notice crudely written in felt tip pen telling you they’ve shut up shop. That’s how these things always happen in language schools. Sounds like it’s time to move on, mate. ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/51 "2005-04-26T02:04:02Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > What the hell is THAT supposed to mean? A reference to the corporate scandals in recent years. Making light of activities such as destroying incriminating documents. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/52 "2005-04-26T03:08:24Z")
> [@Tracy Lord](#): > > Yes. Huh. I thought about it, and decided you’d included all the Lincoln co-conspirators. ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/53 "2005-04-26T04:23:56Z")
> [@This Year's Model](#): > > Huh. I thought about it, and decided you’d included all the Lincoln co-conspirators. To be honest, I just ran down my playbill from _Assassins_ and left off Zangara. Yeah, yeah, Hinckley wasn’t successful… ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/54 "2005-04-26T12:53:19Z")
Ah, the crude felt-tip marker sign thing. I actually have already been through that with my supposed son in Panama. I paid up a for a year of tuition only to have them go belly-up on me. English teacher, can’t trust 'em. My company is a contractor for the Saudi Air Force. So my school will not close, although we are all hoping the contractor folds soon. In any case, the money is in the bank today, and I expect a paycheck tomorrow. Twenty-seven days late. The next payroll is due on the fifth. Be there. Aloha. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/55 "2005-04-26T13:33:33Z")
Oh! It gets better! Our compound has just turned off our water for (my company’s) nonpayment of rent! How exciting! Perhaps this is a sign that these fools will be out of my life. Or not. ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/56 "2005-04-26T13:44:47Z")
Having lived 11 years in Saudi Arabia and knowing people(both Western and Eastern) working for different contractors there, for the most part the ONLY companies who paid on time were the ones who \*\*weren’t \*\* totally owned by Saudi Citizens. (i.e. Saudi Aramco, Fluor Daniels, Parsons, BAS, etc) Sorry about your troubles Paul. Have you tried contacting the _Arab News_? They have been known to write up this sort of thing. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/57 "2005-04-26T14:19:27Z")
When I was on vacation in February, the compound cut off water and power for about two weeks. The Arab news gave us front page coverage. Then the next day they published a retraction saying their report (that we had not been paid) was not true. Somebody has some wasta. In any case, I just dropped a note to the Arab News a few minutes ago. ---
**Author:** ![wonderwench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/35a633/32.png) [@wonderwench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderwench)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/58 "2005-04-26T14:26:02Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > The maintenance people staged a drink-coffee-in on Wednesday. I really love this. Let’s drink a bunch of coffee, get wired and then sit around doing nothing. A Dead Beat Club! ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/59 "2005-04-26T14:37:44Z")
If you can drink a bunch of coffee and sit around, you’re not making strong enough coffee. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2005, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572/60 "2005-04-26T15:02:34Z")
We prefer to think of it as a labor demonstration. In any case, the water came back on. I have to go do my dishes real quick. Probably the outage was just power play by the landlord. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-not-been-paid-for-three-weeks/300572.md?page=4)