I disagree because that begs the question of why he wants her to work more: If they really do have separate finances and she does not contribute to bills he has no reason to care so long as she isn't taking out things in his name. The two explanations I can come up with are either he wants her contributing to the bills or (and I think this is more likely) he wants her to start covering things like their shopping trips or Doordash and thinks she will not mind if her pay goes up by more than the amount he's asking her to spend.
I don't think he wants her to work more, unless I've missed something. Unless I'm mistaken, Khet was always working at most like, 20 hours a week, it's not like she's pulling in a huge paycheck, especially compared to how much Phil himself makes. We've also seen his spending breakdown, it doesn't seem like there's any missing gaps that would be explained away with Khet's spending. Unless their Total Wine/Door Dash budget is even bigger than we expected. I suppose it's possible that she's cutting him a check for utilities or rent, but as others have pointed out, she'd likely leave the moment Phil started asking her to pay for stuff. I think Phil is too much of a pussy to ask for payments, and I don't remember him ever making Leanna pay for anything. Granted, we didn't have any leaks or anything back then to confirm that so I suppose it is possible.
Phil is absolutely awful with spending and finances in general, and while he has a huge mobile addiction, even he knows he still has to pay for his essentials (notably, what Phil considers essential), even if he's doing it paycheck to paycheck. I think there was one or two late payments on the condo from the bank leak, but I think that has more to do with the paycheck to paycheck thing/Phil not keeping track of finances as opposed to him actually running out of money. I don't think his addiction is quite at the point where he's missing his important bill payments. And again, I mean important to Phil, we know he was only making minimum payments on his debt, completely gave up on his CT condo, doesn't care about his taxes etc. But if he wasn't paying for his condo/internet/electricity/phone bill, he'd be personally inconvenienced.
This is more speculation than anything else, but I'm also in the camp that thinks Phil doesn't want Khet to work because Leanna working contributed to their breakup. And given how Phil refuses to take responsibility for anything, I wouldn't be surprised if he blames nearly all of it on that. At the very least, he wouldn't want Khet making work friends like Leanna did and having the audacity to bring people over or ask him to go hang out with people. While it doesn't seem to be a thing with Khet currently, given how paranoid Phil is about everything else, I wouldn't be surprised if he was worried about it happening.
except for the fact that he made leanna work.
Did he? I only really started to closely follow Phil around the time their relationship fell apart so I might have missed that, but I don't recall anyone ever mentioning it. I do recall him being annoyed when she was at work because that meant she couldn't cook for him, and this was before the glory days of Doordash, so he'd have to waddle to the kitchen to throw one of his frozen dinners into the microwave. And I think at one point he tried to hype up her soap shop? He was paying her phonebill for awhile after they broke up, so it might just be me assuming he was paying for everything.
