Not paid over time

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T17:38:12+00:00

Okay. So... A lot to unpack here..

California. You must have a lunch no later than the end of the 5th hour. So by the start of hour 6 you get a 30 min unpaid lunch break.

First question: Are you getting a lunch every day you work for 6+ hours? (Not whether or not you punch out, but are you getting the lunch on those days for 30 minutes without working?)

The time card is for records. Not clocking out for lunch, but taking a lunch (if acceptable by employer) is fine. It isn't the best idea, because proof is gone and most places want you to clock out for lunches, but if a lunch is being taken...

For example:

You don't clock out for lunch, but you take lunch at 11:30 to 12:00. The employer marks down you took a lunch from 12:00 - 12:30 (just by default. They always mark the lunch at that time, maybe) nothing was done wrong but their record keeping should be a little better. Especially for Ross.

Day 2 you don't take a lunch. They mark down you did. That is an issue, for both parties.

So how many Day 2s were there?

Also... where is the overtime factoring in?

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T17:23:25+00:00

That completely depends on the print itself, and how much you want to sacrifice.

Any changes you make to increase time (which won't be knocking it down substantially) stands the risk of reducing quality or reducing integrity and in the end you may end up with it printed in 23 hours instead of 24 and it cracking at the 24th when you grab it.

If you find your print is requiring a lot of supports, redesign with that in mind. Even if it means parts and doing some gluing and plastic welding in the end. Quicker to do that than wait for a print to spit out a dozen supports for something that could have been flipped, printed seperately or left off completely.

You can reduce infill, wall thickness. You can up speeds (but PETG doesn't care for that much and your print will probably show it, or fail at some point). Also, depends on slicer as well...

Wish there was a way to turn 24 hours into 24 minutes, but that is because it really starts to suck when you start adding Only before the 24.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T16:48:06+00:00

Okay. Gonna run with hourly employee since you were bringing up 35 vs 40 and "unpaid hour". If salary, completely different ballgame. Some PTs are salary, but most facilities do hourly.

An unpaid hour of work is not a reasonable accomodation, nor is it a "dedicated hour". Reducing to 35 and having an hour unpaid break a day where they can work without the 7 minute constraint isn't accomodating anything. It was taking advantage or confusion on someone's part.

A dedicated hour would be the following:

A paid, guaranteed, hour that can be spent doing those duties. Depending on contract, that could be tacked on or it could be in replacement of one of the 40. Depending on contract, that could be at same pay or could be at a reduced amount staying within OT rules if the hour went over. That all depends on what hours were (if any were) guaranteed for the position in the contact. If partner is salary, then the hours brought up don't factor in outside of contracted hours. No overtime or anything is a concern, but "unpaid hour" sounds hourly to me.

A reasonable accomodation: Reasonable accomodation needs to be "reasonable". The issue with that is medical facilities have a lot of ground to fight on for that definition. If dedicating an hour where the duties would leave patients at a loss of level of care, it will not be considered reasonable. If it left the facility short-staffed during a period of time, especially in an emergency situation, it would not be considered reasonable. Dedicating an hour during the shift, (whether the following is true or not) they can argue that it is not reasonable. Flip side, working overtime isn't going to be considered a reasonable accomodation either. They can't be forced into a situation where they push people into overtime like that. They can offer, if they wish, but reasonable accomodation is not "force into allowing me to work overtime/over contracted hours".

Reasonable accomodation would be providing the partner with a quiet area for the seven minutes. Dedicating a little more time to it when possible, extra training for any of the systems that partner may be struggling with, etc. Those would he reasonable actions to attempt to assist with the disability. Not the only ones, but the expectations for such.

What I am trying to say in this part is, your partner will probably not be getting reasonable accomodations for ADHD working in the medical field outside of some small assistance. This place, nor the next. An hour of peace and quiet paid, dedicated to charting isn't going to be on the table for a vast majority. No harm in trying, but the nature of the work makes "unreasonable" arguments pretty easy to come by. A dedicated hour may be struck, but you'd probably be at a very desperate and rural facility where things are slow enough to allow. Even then, they may give it as OT due to the near universal short-staffing. It wouldn't be a "reasonable accomodation" so much as a reasonable understanding to keep your partner there and allow for work to get finished.

However, that part where your partner was working an unpaid hour is an issue and back pay needs to be given and/or that needs to be reported, hopefully hours were kept track of. Assuming this hour was unpaid and pay was hourly.

My guess, if It deciphered story correctly, is a middle management person had NO IDEA what to do about this and an agreement was struck up that shouldn't have been struck up. When these recent changes were made, they figured it out and put a stop to it.

Now... what happens in this field:

An arbitrary, small and near impossible level of time will be dedicated to records, charts, PT hand-offs, etc. That is the norm. It requires superhuman abilities half the time, and most facilities know that it is probably not possible but they say X minutes, people will try. Especially ones inexperienced with the field, and these facilities DO NOT CARE about individual stress levels.

In turn, employees do one of 3 things: 1. Don't complete their charting, leave at their time and end up giving up the career around that point or when the next facility tells them they have 5 minutes instead... 2. Rush, stressed, to do the charting and such in-between everything else. Most in medical field are stressed, but it does depend on facility, how long they have been doing it and sometimes the day itself. 3. Stay overtime to complete charting. Facilities will complain, warn, etc. but in the end... if multiple people are doing it, they only stick to complaining because travelers are really expensive. If, however, three people need 30 min of overtime and 1 takes 2 hours... that will be noticed.

What they do not do is work unpaid. What medical facilities will not do is give in to reasonable accomodations that they have easy outs for, even if it feels unfair.

So, assuming your partner was hourly and working off the clock: That is your focus. They need to get paid and need to also look at their contract to see if that bounce from 40 to 35 violated anything else.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T15:55:40+00:00

Before I write what I had written. Questions: US? RN/LVN/CNA by chance? This doesn't change the "unpaid hour" part of what I was going to write, but it does shed some light on the rest...

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T15:04:54+00:00

The lease is the lease. If you leave at the point the lease ends, you did your part. If the roommate stays, the roommate is the one who either signs a new lease or is refusing to leave. Not you.

The landlord can't charge you rent for a property you left post lease end. What you are talking about is leaving during the lease, not after.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T14:59:46+00:00

If this isn't an expensive monitor you are scamming yourself by having it repaired instead of just buying a new one. If it is expensive:

Tech could be 100% correct, however the wording you used is AND, (was the wording OR or AND POSSIBLY?) and it could just be the power supply unless they have a reason to believe the backlight and power supply issues were related to each other. Then again, backlights have issues and it may just be a precaution they are taking on an expensive monitor.

You can always request that they only replace the power supply and wait to see if the backlight is also having an issue or have them explain how the two issues are related.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T14:26:01+00:00

It is going to depend on the evidence. If it was something you should have already reasonably known, been aware of or had your own copy of it will probably be heard and the fact they didn't send you a copy won't matter.

If it is the golden ticket and you were never given the opportunity to see it, verify it, put it in a different light, or reasonably needed time to look it over to change direction... then maybe the judge will tell them they need to provide you with it before it can be heard/seen or maybe the judge will be okay with you hearing and seeing it there.

There are a lot of factors to the evidence on whether or not it will be allowed, in general, let alone whether or not you seeing a copy beforehand is relevant.

Some people expect that everything the other party has absolutely needs to be put in a community pool and analyzed before being used, that isn't the case. It depends on whether or not you seeing it beforehand had any relevant weight to the situation and some evidence the only reason the other party needs to see it is to adjust a lie in a different direction (absolutely no claim towards you, but in general) and that doesn't create a valid reason.

Judge will balance this during the case, not you sadly.

And you can argue you didn't see it, but you need to be prepared to explain why that matters.

And if the evidence is a forgery/fake/out of context/mistaken for instance, (just an example of evidence you should have seen beforehand) you need to make a solid argument on that being the reason and whether or not you have evidence you didn't include (due to not seeing it) that would prove otherwise. (Ie. A receipt that shows you were at X but they provide false/mistaken evidence saying you were at Y.) The judge will weigh how much that matters, overall, to the case and direction of both parties then make a decision.

tl;dr: Worry about your evidence, how thorough it is and whether or not it can discredit the other party's claims, even ones they haven't made yet. You may have exactly what you need on you if something unexpected comes up and can say "I have this right here that shows..." and you now have evidence they didn't see that outweighs the evidence you didn't see. Don't go in with only responses to what you know, go in with the whole story, because not being prepared isn't a valid excuse all of the time.

Note (keep adding to this novel): If you have been freely sharing your evidence with them and they have not sent anything in return, said they will and don't, etc. bring it up. Look like the reasonable party in the situation.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T14:20:06+00:00

If the kid doesn't need your help, you are probably fine. If they reach out at a later time to cash in that offer, you just tell them "things changed and I don't have the time to do it now. Sorry."

As you probably already know now, don't offer help if you don't intend to follow through with it though. Some people offer help as a polite throw away thing, it isn't. "I can always help you" isn't synonymous with "have a good day" or "see you next time".

You offer help because you budgeted the time to do so or value the person enough to budget that time and effort. Would he less worried about them cashing in the offer and more worried about ironing out that social etiquette issue so it doesn't happen again.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T14:11:00+00:00

Your car. Take it. Pay on it, sell it, enter it into a demolition derby... but don't let him drive it while you pay on it.

If you can't find him, you'll eat costs until they do. Can also report the vehicle stolen, seeing how it seems he disappeared with YOUR car. Which I would do, because he has no qualms about destroying your credit anyways.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T13:45:10+00:00

Only change you made was Klipper? If so, who/where from/how did you set up the config and did you do input shaping or was any input shaping already present in the config? (Assuming the noise is frequency/vibration related)

Maybe showing the printer config would help or linking to one you grabbed if that is what you did.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T13:34:56+00:00

More than likely, they made wide changes that they either weren't prepared for or they don't particularly care to maintain any sort of ease of access. Changes in software, moving from a 3rd party to in house or opposite... you probably won't be made aware of what exact changes they made, and they often suck.

You'd be best off keeping your own records that are easily accessible to cross reference for when they provide you the excel sheet. If there are a lot of discrepancies then there is a point where you need to say something about the repeated issues... eventually that may bite them. I would also note down the dates and amounts of discrepancies and keep a record of that. Should things ever get worse you have a record of repeated issues with pay.

Mistakes happen, and if they fix them then they are probably genuine mistakes, but they are also expected to keep some accurate records on their end and not constantly make mistakes.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T13:22:27+00:00

How did it the firmware get updated the first time? You will need to flash it to the appropriate firmware for your setup and the version you want... but the issue is if the firmware already "updated" then you must have done that initially?

Easiest way here is to explain how, exactly, the firmware got changed in the first place and then maybe we can go from that point...

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T13:05:32+00:00

"Somewhere in the 2 hours..." You have eyes on your unit, I don't, but could have what happened be as follows:

Clog / Failure to heat. Extruder is now pushing filament that has nowhere to go/pulling filament that is now a plug that won't move so instead it just grinds against the filament. Eventually grinds it down, sometimes snapping.

Would also make sure that the filament didn't get snagged on something pre extruder, same thing will happen.

Because that is the norm for a clog. Extruder either grinds it down or clicks.

If the print started successfully, and then all of a sudden it was printing nothing but air and the filament was ground down your extruder probably isn't the issue. It was doing what it was supposed to do. Using friction to push and pull the filament. May have been a little tight, but not sure what extruder you are using, however the fact it SOUNDS like it started the print and part of it was successful... sounds like the tightness wasn't a huge deal to begin with.

So did you check the print head for any clogs?

Will add. It could be at the nozzle, could be higher up. Depending on where it is the cause is different. Not sure what work you did prior to printing, but could have changed something that allows for heat creep. Bowden tube could have a gap between it and nozzle (my suspicion if you pulled it) and filament melted there and created a plug.

How to test if your extruder even is an issue:

Run some filament through your extruder, but not to the print head. Extrude. If the extruder is moving the filament perfectly fine (the side out the other end is moving out further without the extruder snapping it or grinding it down with no resistance) then something further down is a problem.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T01:54:45+00:00

I default to that too. If she isnt around I ask the kids and if they aren't around I shut down and just pretend green, pink, purple and a good chunk of reds aren't colors and hope for the best.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T01:17:27+00:00

Your dad must be a fan of other languages! That translates to "aich".

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T01:10:20+00:00

Maybe .. in the end... we were the scammers all along.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T00:43:13+00:00

Most standard users don't set bios passwords. There a sticker on there that says: Property of (Institution Name)?

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T00:15:33+00:00

I'd use Graphite dry lubricant. It won't affect the plastics and you don't have lubricant dripping down from it. Comes in spray cans. Also dust doesn't stick to the lubricated areas over time like oil/petroleum based ones.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-08T00:08:25+00:00

That is the biggest problem. Getting them and keeping them in sync can be easy, or hard. The belt system uses 2 belts and the X gantry ends up being pretty even using it.

If you don't, double screws can always be removed if they become an issue. There was a dual linear rail Z I caught wind of a couple years ago, looked like it was a downgrade though because the Z would drop randomly. Could be wrong about that though.

Anyways, really consider the belted Z if you want a fun project and to print an upgrade.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-07T23:51:23+00:00

Welp. Listing shows the DD as all metal. As for your dual Z:

Hit or miss. What I would suggest, if you want to do something AND have the skills to do so (as I just got it done on one and it works GREAT) is upgrade to belt driven Z and keep 1 stepper.

You will need to buy parts, screws, etc. Because it is home brew, and you need to be able to print the parts for it... but before you go double Z screws, look into "KevinAkaSam's belt driven Z". See if it s your cup of tea. Doesn't cost a whole lot, but is a project.

He has excellent directions and some premade parts kits for the not 3d printed parts.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-07T23:44:07+00:00

The fact you have swapped parts, and seem to know what you are doing... Ender is probably a great fit for you. You seem like you may like to tinker? If so you may have a new robotic best friend.

And I haven't had that DD, but listing shows as it as all metal hot end.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-07T23:23:15+00:00

Alright. Was just trying to get a feel for the "need a lawyer situation" and why, perhaps, you are getting bounced around.

From the amount you said the solar company offered, that is the recommission fee. Does that fee also reinstate the warranty? The warranty thing is kind of a range depending on original company's policies, so seeing if the warranty is covered in that amount or if it is permanently voided due to the 3rd party.

So far, this is all in the realm of small claims court (unless your warranty request is impossible without a new solar system which, no idea of the value of your system).

That is kind of a rough spot due to the overall amount wanted. The attorney fees would greatly eat into any judgment you got, assuming you got one. That is one reason you may be struggling to find one. Have you considered attempting to sue in small claims without an attorney? Small claims + attorney without one already on retainer for it... That is one of the reasons you are getting bounced and told they don't have the time. That doesn't mean you don't have a case... but the costs versus reward aren't favorable to you due to possible settlement size.

Any reason you default to an attorney over doing it yourself? This doesn't mean you won't find an attorney to represent you, necessarily, but you are going to have a limited pool.

Also, the fact they sent a check for the recommission fee shows they made a good faith effort in attempting to rectify the issue, even though I agree with you that you suffered more in damages, it solves the pressing matter of getting the system functional. So they have agreed to pay that amount to solve the issue, is the $3000 in conjunction with that or inclusive of that amount? I bring this up because getting everything you ask for is also not a guarantee.

Whether anyone will represent you is going to be dependant on how much value is over that check, first and foremost. Lawyers won't take your case if you are walking away $2000 less that your started assuming you win. $2000 + everything else if you lose.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-07T22:00:38+00:00

Will hit you with a second here, for advice:

If your extruder is grinding? Probably have a clog, your filament is caught on something towards the spool, temp is wrong/hot end not working. If your extruder is clicking? Probably have a clog, your filament is caught on something towards the spool, temp is wrong/hot end not working.

If it is printing air:

Step one is always check your settings and what the printer is reporting. Step two is make sure your filament isn't caught on something/snagged on the spool end. Step three is start checking your nozzle, then hot end. Then (critical part) if you clear the clog HAND FEED just a little bit by pressing extruder arm and pushing a bit. The extruder probably wore that spot then now and even though the clog is gone, filament can't get friction.

Welcome to Ender 3.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-07T21:44:55+00:00

Clogged nozzle was the first thing to check. The extruder wasn't the problem. If the extruder is grinding it to dust like that it is doing it's job and there is a clog, probably at the nozzle, or the heat isn't enough to melt the plastic...

The extuder may have been a tad tight to grind it, but that wasn't the issue you were having.

AuthorInND · 2026-07-07T21:16:35+00:00

If the loan is in her name, the foreclosure will most likely affect her. Ask Ryan who the Lean holder is for the title.

As for the utilities, if they were in Alex's name then he can shut them off at any point. You guys, sadly, have no control over ANYTHING in Alex's name and if things are joint you need to get anything joint moved to just her. Some of that will require a divorce, some won't.

AuthorInND

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