Now that I have no regular day job, I've been working more at my night job, however, the night job is run illegally.
I signed an independent contract. My taxes are filed as an independent contractor. Essentially this means that I will not pay taxes when I get paid, but later when I file. According to the IRS: The general rule is that an individual is an independent contractor if you, the person for whom the services are performed, have the right to control or direct only the result of the work and not the means and methods of accomplishing the result.
In terms of my dungeon, here are the answers to the questions the IRS asks to differentiate between independent contractors and employees:
1. Behavioral: Does the company control or have the right to control what the worker does and how the worker does his or her job? YES
2. Financial: Are the business aspects of the worker’s job controlled by the payer? (these include things like how worker is paid, whether expenses are reimbursed, who provides tools/supplies, etc.) YES
3. Type of Relationship: Are there written contracts or employee type benefits (i.e. pension plan, insurance, vacation pay, etc.)? Will the relationship continue and is the work performed a key aspect of the business? YES there are written contracts, no benefits, no the relationship will not continue, and yes the work performed a key aspect of the business.
In other words, I am being treated like an employee, but am supposed to be treated like an independent contractor. Being as such would mean that I could set my own hours, set my own rates, run my own advertisement and work wherever I please. This is not the reality. Oh no. The reality is that I have to work a certain shift, the rates are set by the house, I can run my own advertisement if the contact information is the e-mail address that does not get directly forwarded to me, but rather filtered through the owner and I am not allowed to session outside these walls. It also means I have no health benefits, sick pay or holidays. All my taxes will be taken out at the end. I can, however, deduct almost everything from clothes, make-up, internet, cell phone, office supplies, etc.
Here's the problem. The Marxist wants me to confront my boss about these illegal practices. He wants me to ask why she is treating us this way and wants to demand that she change it. He wants me to unionize the other women I work with to all fight against her illegal and unfair practices.
I try and tell him most of the other women there do not know about this and wouldn't be motivated to do anything about or they do care and they don't want to do anything about it. I don't want to lose the only income I have (besides the dole, hells yes!) and she has fired people over less. I tell him I'm not sure I want to be the Norma Rae of BDSM. She has operated this way for years, everyone in town knows about it and to my knowledge no one has done anything to stop her. Why do I have to be the one? I don't want to make other women lose their jobs.
He counters with, its not just about you and the other women who work there, its also about all the other women who got fired or didn't make as much as they could have or got slammed with taxes because of the way things are run.
I tell him, I'm just not that person. He tells me my inaction will cause him to stop supporting me until I get another day job, which to me sounds very unMarxistlike.
