The New Deal

Well, here we are. Tiger moved in 7 weeks ago today, and not much has changed.

He does have a job with a burger place, but he is only working between 12 and 15 hours a week and they have told him they aren't going to be able to give him any more hours any time soon.

He never heard back from UPS and intended to call them every day for a week, but never quite got around to it. It must be so exhausting watching TV and playing video games all day.

This past Saturday things went from bad to worse. Tiger's cellphone was shut off because he hasn't paid the bill. This is unfortunate, because I had already decided that I needed to talk to him. 1 job working 12 - 15 hours a week was not going to cut it. He was going to need to either get a different job or get a second job and I was going to have to institute the 5 applications a day process. He agreed.

On Sunday I finally got a chance to talk to my dad. My dad is really good at helping people without enabling people. I know from personal experience! Anyway, after a medium length conversation we came up with a reasonable deal for Tiger to continue to live in my house. For him to pay his bills, including rent, he needs to make $1500 a month (before taxes). This equates to $375 a week. This means that if he works 40 hours a week, he needs to make $9.40 an hour. If he works 50 hours a week, he needs to make $7.50 an hour. If he works 60 hours a week, he needs to make $6.25 an hour. Minimum wage in Arizona is $6.75 and he already has one job that pays $7.50 an hour.

So here's the deal. He has until Saturday the 14th to BE EMPLOYED and making $375 per week. He went balistic. We got into a huge fight. He very much has a victim mentality right now and I wasn't going to let that fly. I told him can get a job and solve all of his problems at anytime. He didn't like having to do things my way in my house with my stuff (cleaning, doing dishes, etc). I told him he was welcome to leave at anytime. That no one was forcing him to stay there. I listed off everything he is getting from me and everything I was getting from him (I'm not getting ANYTHING from him). He didn't like hearing any of that. In the end he seems to have realized that he is getting the good end of this bargain and that I am getting NOTHING possitive out of his being there.

Anyway, now it is Thursday and it doesn't appear as though he has done anything. Granted it is hard for me to tell, seeing as I am gone 15 hours a day because I am working 2 jobs to pay my bills. Yes I did let him know that it was not okay that I work more in a day than he works in a week.