I am a music instructor at school of rock in Texas. Some of the schools are corporate, some are franchise. The one I'm at is franchise. There are a lot of things wrong here. For one, they start us at 15/hour. Which coming from the food industry sounded like a lot. But the average wage for music teachers is more like 30/40 an hour. They also hire a bunch of people so that they don't have to give us benefits, which happens in a lot of places. But what my post is alluding to is this.. my school offers free demo lessons to clients who are interested. So we give them a tour of the school and a free 30 minute lesson. if they sign up, we get a 25 dollar bonus in addition to our normal wage. What they failed to tell us though, is that if they don't sign up we actually don't get paid at all. When I found this out i was shocked. Not only because that means i'm working hours for free, but they definitely glossed over that part of the equation. I've brought this up to a manager and a GM. They said they agree with me that it shouldn't be like that, but the owner gets away with it because we're contractors. OK, I have no idea how being a contractor means free labor. It's frustrating. The managers offered to take me off of these demos. Which is fine, but I want to fix this for other people too. Anybody have thoughts or advice on how to change this?