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I filed a wage theft claim with the US Dept of Labor on behalf of my daughter almost 9 months ago. They have yet to resolve it. It took 3 months to even have an investigator assigned. He has ignored our requests for updates since December.

I'm so disappointed. This is supposed to be the watchdog helping us. Yet even in this obvious case they've nothing to get her the money she's owed. We're not sure if we should drop it or pursue other government agencies. I'm told we could give the same info we provided the Federal DOL to our State DOL and IRS. Backstory: We provided clear proof of many issues at my daughter's employer, a restaurant owned by a multi-millionaire who also owns substantial real estate and among other things cannabis dispensaries. This is a man with dozens of LLC's set up to manage strip malls, then puts his own businesses into many of the openings in those malls. This is an owner who has lawyers and experience operating business, and the resources to do it right and pursue on behalf of those he stole from. Issues we reported: They never collected SS#'s…

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You know you guys can form a union with the AFL-CIO. It’s time for less memes and time for more action

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every morning

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I gotchu, boss.

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You hear that, peasants? Work life balance is not for you! The elites have decided.

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Email I sent to Museum of Mathematics in NYC. this was for an assistant floor manager position.

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Graduating College Soon

As the title says, I'm graduating college soon with a BA in Finance. I just need to write this to clear my head in all honesty. I'm deathly terrified that I won't be able to find a job upon graduation, and I have no idea what to expect. My brain feels lost in it all and I just feel the impending possibility of it all not working out and ending up with me living at my dad's house again. Wondering how people even actually do things, and do people even actually do things? Everything feels fake and Idk how or what to do about it.

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Legal or illegal to record audio & video at work?

State of Idaho. I found a ambiguous federal law stating you couldn’t record audio without consent, but I am wondering if there is anything at the state level that would circumvent this. I work at specialty retail store and have worked there for 10 years. The owner has always lacked a moral compass. His decisions are purely motivated by money. I am the manager of some high school kids so they definitely aren’t the hardest working people but I feel like as long as they are 50% efficient that’s appropriate to their age. The owners are stuck in 1950 and feel like I’m paying you money you should be working every single second of the work day!

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How to make it through a shift at work while waiting to find a new job?

I made a post last night about a situation that occured at my job and I'm currently looking for a new one. I now have two interviews lined up for next week. In the meantime, the woman I work for (I take care of her disabled adult son) has been staying home almost every night (she used to go out to dance classes) and I'm being watched while I work. It makes the situation insanely uncomfortable for me. To make matters worse, he acts out (not sure how else to word that) when she's home. Badly. He has full on meltdowns that do not occur when it's him and I working one on one. I'm just a random internet stranger so you all have no way to know the situation. I could just be awful at my job and need to be watched. However, I don't believe that to be…

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Temp Agency Abuse, people cycled unknowingly through “ghost” temp agencies

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2023/02/24/are-ghost-temp-agencies-the-future-of-work.html A web of temp agencies. Millions in tax refunds, Feb. 18 So, this is the real reason behind the growth of temporary work permits in Canada. These people get cycled unknowingly through multiple “ghost” temp agencies by companies that claim them for “input tax credits.” They are treated as material inputs, no different from bags of flour fed into an industrial bread maker. The federal government should never have permitted such a parasitic obtuse Byzantine program to flourish through tax credits, despite the obvious potential for abuse. What’s next? Will businesses lock workers inside to work long shifts, as has been done at other factories, where fires have killed trapped workers? When the federal government talks about job transitioning for the future, is this what the future looks like?