I've been "promoted" to dealing with publisher returns. Not too bad I guess. That will also be commissioned (15% of whatever the returned amount is). Presently I'm salaried plus a commission of all online and mail order sales.
The ebay stuff is starting to creak into gear, and I'm gradually getting the office into some semblance of organized (I recently found all the blueprints for the store, which were squinched up in a corner and some were water-damaged--I need to talk to bossman about buying a tube case for them). Let's not get into the backups and everything else important thrown into boxes, and everything including the server in the vicinity of the sewage pipes (they seem sound, but the very idea just worries me)... In theory I could make the backups and stuff more organized, but that's not in my job description so I'm not even going to try.
The owner has been talking about paying me as an independent contractor, which doesn't seem to make sense now that I will be doing work in-store (not that I'm not already, but returns will mean that I'll be in more often) and me setting myself up as an LLC. Initially, it sounded like a good idea, but now that I've talked to my dad (who consults on this very thing) about it, it seems pointless. Only benefit seems to be if I were doing something that someone could potentially try to sue me for, which I'm not.
Can anyone come up with reasons why this would be suggested? I'm just puzzled. At first I was thinking there was some complication involving the commission payments, but could that not simply be tacked onto my base pay (I would of course be keeping track myself)?
The ebay stuff is starting to creak into gear, and I'm gradually getting the office into some semblance of organized (I recently found all the blueprints for the store, which were squinched up in a corner and some were water-damaged--I need to talk to bossman about buying a tube case for them). Let's not get into the backups and everything else important thrown into boxes, and everything including the server in the vicinity of the sewage pipes (they seem sound, but the very idea just worries me)... In theory I could make the backups and stuff more organized, but that's not in my job description so I'm not even going to try.
The owner has been talking about paying me as an independent contractor, which doesn't seem to make sense now that I will be doing work in-store (not that I'm not already, but returns will mean that I'll be in more often) and me setting myself up as an LLC. Initially, it sounded like a good idea, but now that I've talked to my dad (who consults on this very thing) about it, it seems pointless. Only benefit seems to be if I were doing something that someone could potentially try to sue me for, which I'm not.
Can anyone come up with reasons why this would be suggested? I'm just puzzled. At first I was thinking there was some complication involving the commission payments, but could that not simply be tacked onto my base pay (I would of course be keeping track myself)?
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