re: #40 The Pie Overlord!
“It really was not a job,” she said. “We gave them through grace out of our budget to pay them so they had a paycheck to go home with.”
I’ve practiced a lot in employment law and as a general rule if you give someone money in exchange for them providing services to your business and your customers, then that is pretty much the definition of a job. Like even calling it a paycheck confirms that it was a job.