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NorthofAmerica · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 187 Location: Recovering Expat

Here's a question I've been wondering about...

If you happen to be working under the table how does the payment system work? Do they pay you daily, weekly, monthly? Cash? Can you get set up and paid within a month and collect your last bit of pay within a reasonable time from when you finish working?

jfurgers · Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Mexico City

Get the money FIRST!! You may NEVER see it if you don't. Trust no one! Mexicans will say that they are going to do something or they will tell you verbally that they'll pay you on a certain date. Don't believe it.

In Mexico you can only believe what a person says they will do ONLY after they do it. You won't need a contract, you'll just need the money up front...BEFORE you start the class.

One of my wife's brothers fixed computers in factories and he has the same problem getting paid. And he has a contract yet doesn't get paid for MONTHS sometimes and these are companies that have the money. HE told me to never trust what people say here until they actually do it.

So again, get the money right before the class starts. No money no class

Guy Courchesne · Joined: 10 Mar 2003 Posts: 9650 Location: Mexico City

Pretty broad brush stroke there, Mr Furgers. I've never once been stiffed by anyone for a class I've given, and I've never asked for the money up front. While it's good advice to be careful in whom you trust, I don't think one should walk in expecting the worst of everyone. That's a great way to set yourself up for a negative experience here.

Correction: I am currently waiting to be paid for a class I gave about 2 months ago. I don't feel I've been stiffed though by the British gentleman that owes me for the class, so his country's reputation is still intact in my books. Wink

MO39 · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject:

Daddyo · Joined: 19 Jun 2008 Posts: 89 Location: Bogota, Colombia

Don't pay any attention to the nervous nellies. Pack a single bag and get the next one way flight. You'll make it.

Don't think about it. Do it ...

Milenka · Joined: 30 Jun 2008 Posts: 113 Location: Mexico City

El Gallo · Joined: 05 Feb 2007 Posts: 318

There is no problem getting paid if your rule with private students is two weeks payment in advance. The only time I have been stiffed is by Tech de Monterey and private schools in Tuxtla Gutierrez (the private schools eventually paid me after I threatened them with the office of arbitration and reconciliation)

MO39 · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2008 10:36 pm Post subject:

Samantha · Joined: 25 Oct 2003 Posts: 2038 Location: Mexican Riviera

Jfurgers wrote:

jfurgers · Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Mexico City

Milenka wrote:

jfurgers · Joined: 18 Sep 2005 Posts: 442 Location: Mexico City

dixie · Joined: 23 Apr 2006 Posts: 644 Location: D.F

Perhaps taking some of these ideas out one the Cultural Shock threat would work better?

I posted a lot, and would really like to see what ppl think about what I posted. It did honestly helped me (and I am in a frustrated - critial mood). So it would be nice to hear about ones thoughts on life here.

MO39 · Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 2:18 am Post subject: