Ok, big dilemma. Do I keep working for a contractor even though I no longer like working for them?

I have worked for a contractor for several years doing interior trim. When I started it was great. Good scheduling, supplies on time, I got paid for extra work, got paid on time, and they were only concerned with getting a good final product.

I know things have slowed down, but now things have changed a lot. Now we never get a schedule, we just get a phone call syaing we need to be there the next morning or we are fired. We dont get paid for any extra work it takes to make the house look better, and in fact dont get paid for what it takes to really finish the house at all, having to do a lot for free. The quality of what they want us to install is now terrible, and they still want it in because “The homeowners are accepting it”. It it terrible plastic junk.

They used to have a reputation as having beautiful trim in their homes, and stellar quallity, but now that is gone. We still do as nice of work as we can, but the product it awefull. As my cousin used to say, “You can’t pollish a turd”. It is very stressfull working with them, and they gave a large portion of our work away to “a buddy”. It is hard to get paid on time anymore, and now they want us to do work on one of the company owners big new houses for half price and maybe less, even though it is a lot more work.

I still work for other people, and can make a living without them, though, so is it really worth putting up with them? I have tried talking to them repeatedly about the quality, and all they do is say “people accept it”.

I feel like I should just walk away, but it is still money. I still want to, though, and I am curious if I should just call him up and say I am busy for the foreseeable future, or just walk away. If they some day got back to where building a good house for people mattered to them, I would like to work for them again. I just dont know if that will ever happen.