Lawyer Mom Denies Nanny Her Last Paycheck Because She Spent $900 For Her to Go to Disney World With Her Kids

Shouldn’t she know that this is against the law?  You would think that lawyers would follow the law to a T because they know it better than anyone else, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. In the real world, lawyers know the law so well that they know what they can get away …
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HR Forces Employee to Order and Pick Up Lunch for 5 People With 5 Different Debit Cards On Her Unpaid Lunch Break

Why can’t they order it for delivery on the company card?  If you’ve had a job in your lifetime, you’ve probably wondered whether your boss’s requests are legal or not. If you’ve been forced to work through your lunch break, your company might be breaking the law based on where you live. When I was …
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New Yorker blocks neighbor’s car in by parking in front of their shared driveway, gets angry when she wakes him up at 2 AM to move it: ‘Do it again, I’ll have it towed.’

It was much nicer for her to wake him up and let him fix his mistake than wait for him to get a ticket. You can’t always control what your neighbor does. If you live in a neighborhood with a Homeowners’ Association, you can absolutely control the color of mulch that your neighbor uses in …
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Company denies leave request sent in 6 months prior, claims they’ve run out of PTO after draining it for closure days

Should your company get to drain your PTO without warning? Your time off is precious, and it should be used exactly how you want it to be used. You don’t want to have to run every last thing by the people you work with. After all, your life is your own, and you should be …
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Boyfriend refuses to marry his fiancé until she pays the 6 years worth of taxes she hasn’t filed: ‘Her wages are garnished.’

Does love and the IRS mix? It’s not totally unheard of for a couple to wait to marry until one of the partners has paid off their pre-marriage debt. The jury is still out on whether that’s a good strategy financially and relationally. If it’s going to take you four years to pay off your …
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Boss instructs employee to clock out whenever he’s not actively working: ‘My goal is for you to have zero down time.’

That’s not how having a job works.  If you’ve ever worked in retail or food service, you know that you seldom get a minute of rest in those positions. They are designed to extract as much labor from employees as possible while paying them as little as possible. There’s often a list of all the …
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Boss fires employee for refusing to illegally drive to work during a hazardous snowstorm: ‘My county had a Level 3 snow warning, it’s illegal for me to drive to work.’

They would rather lose their job than get arrested, which is a good priority.  During inclement weather, some employees have no choice but to go to work. If you’re a sanitation worker, your boss is not going to be sympathetic to the idea that you can’t make it to work in the snow. If you’re …
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‘It’s incredibly unsafe and illegal to have a baby in the front seat like that’: 24-year-old drive-thru worker confronts customer with baby in front seat with no car seat, mom claims she did it because the baby was crying

A lot of drivers are all too willing to break the rules of the road if they feel like they can get away with it. I don’t really understand why you would drive without a seatbelt or refuse to use your blinker, even if you don’t technically feel like you need them in that moment. …
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35-year-old mommy influencer secretly films couple being shown around her house by realtor, flips out when they threaten to sue: ‘She’s blasting us all over town’

As being an influencer has become more and more of an accepted career path, it is amazing the lengths that some will go to simply for the sake of engagement and views. Of course, there are the MrBeasts of this world who come up with ever more elaborate conceits and make ridiculous amounts of money …
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‘Not scanning every item in the self check lane’: 20+ Examples of entry level mischief for wannabe first world anarchists

Let’s be real, existing on the straight and narrow all the time is boring as heck. While it wouldn’t suit most of us to be living dangerously 24/7, the risks we take are often some of the most enjoyable and memorable parts of life. Some might say that the secret ingredient is crime; we would …
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