<p>For the past few months i have been job hunting for the summer to earn money for college in the fall i had been rather unsucessful until i came upon this student managed painting company basically the main company not run by students hire college students off for summer to work certain areas and these students are in charge of hiring their own crews ectera. I was hired by one of the student manager in the area. Since being hired i have gone out on the requisite door to door advertising trips and what not that are required of any employee along with attending multiple meetings with this manager. At one of early meetings he asked me how much weigh and what not just to check as far as gear, im 6’9" and weigh 275lbs or so, im pretty stalky and he thought that it wouldnt be an issue even though he knew at the time the ladders that he had were only rate for 225. This last saturday i go to meet him along with two of the other painters who he had hired for the summer both who i new. After the meeting he says he needs to talk to and tells me that he wont be able to keep me on because the ladders they have are only rated for 225lbs basically light industrial grade he sayes that hes talked to the president or whatever of the company and has been told that their insurance will not cover it. After i left this meeting on saturday i called him back and informed him that i have my own ladder which is rated for 300lbs so if i can use would that be ok he said i should be fine but that he needed to check with the proper people and whatnot. Basically i was just wondering if this is even truly legal because he said that the only reason he couldnt keep me on was because of the ladder thing even though hes already hired me and i have been working for him. In your opinion is this leagal or discrimination. I have just been wondering since my parents mentioned the fact that it is and that they wanted to pursue some sort of action if i am unable to use my own ladder for whatever reason. Sorry if this is at all unclear and jumble but any opinions would be appriciated</p>
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<p>This would not be covered under Federal nondiscrimination law.</p>
<p>Were you paid for the time you worked so far (on the door to door trips)?</p>
<p>i was paid for one time when i went and dropped the flyer before we went door to door but when when it was actually knocking on doors i hadnt because that was supposed to be more of commision thing like 5$ per lead and then like 20$ more if he sells is or whatever but i didnt really get any when i was do that which was fine at the time because i mean i was assuming that i would be getting paid for the summer if that makes sense</p>
<p>chucknorris~ I can’t advise on the legal issues as I’m not a lawyer, so I will go at this in another vein.</p>
<p>I certainly see how unfair this feels to you. It seems unfair to me too and I can feel your frustration. You may want to pursue further investigation of the legal issue depending on what you learn here.</p>
<p>Sometimes, though, it’s just not worth it. It keeps your focus on the frustration and anger and doesn’t move you forward at all. I think I would try to focus instead on other job options and move forward. I’m gathering that finding a summer job was not easy, and now it is already late May. But perhaps if we know more about the type of area where you live and what type of work you’ve done before, we can help more by suggesting avenues you might pursue.</p>
<p>If you think it has a chance of success, you might ask your manager to compensate you for all of the hours you spent in training and door to door. I would do this in a very cooperative tone, explaining to him that you were more than willing to do these things on your own time when you believed you would have a good painting job as a result. Now that he will not be using you for the balance of the summer, you feel it is only fair to be compensated for all of your hours. But then I think I would focus on finding another job.</p>
<p>It was lousy treatment. Good luck in moving on to bigger and better things.</p>
<p>ok thanks for you advise jmmom i think your probobly right, but it wasnt that it was particularly hard its just that i leave for school around aug 16 or so which would make it a little difficult to be employed for such a short time expecially since i dont get out of school until the 21 of august so i sure it will work out and thanks for the support.</p>