Go to Work Without a Contract?

The question may be asked, why did I begin work for James without first having an employee contract agreement? I trusted James first because he had promised to hire me in the position of Director of Operations that would work into a partnership. And then, James was not only a Christian but he was a pastor and had his own church. And since I and my family had used our last resources to travel to Houston to begin this employment (which The Taylor Machine knew) we couldn't return to our home in Yugoslavia even if we wanted to. It wasn't like it was across town or even across the state. We had traveled all the way from Europe. We had no money to live, let alone return to Europe.

I had no choice but to begin work and trust that James would keep his word and give me the contract he had promised would be ready for me to sign when we arrived in Houston. (The meanest thing was that The Taylor Machine sent me $4,000 to help offset the cost of relocating, only to shoot me down, behind my back, while I was in route to begin my employment with James McDonald. Why should I ever have suspected that they were acting treacherously against me behind my back? They were my closest friends and confidants. I had entrusted my life and the lives of my family to the leadership of The Taylor Machine. You can imagine the hurt I felt when I discovered that they were not really my friends after all.)
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