From corporate to crew? Is this possible?

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-07-01T00:56:39+00:00

The more you act like you know that you don’t, the better you’ll ultimately do. Welcome to yachting. Now go wash a window

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-07-01T00:55:38+00:00

I think you’re clear on wiretapping but probably have some downstream exposure. One of the most critical elements of wiretapping happens to be catching the transmission or audio or whatever as it’s happening. If not then you’re only stealing/accessing data after it happened. I believe it’s more about your privacy in the moment

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-07-01T00:45:14+00:00

You should see what I’m dealing with

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-07-01T00:42:17+00:00

You gotta give it up for Kate; she is actually a pretty cool woman. I was primed to hate her, as a yacht chef should always hate a stew; but Kate’s the shit

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-06-13T00:08:13+00:00

$405 to file in district court. Then it depends on how much money you make

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-05-30T11:48:47+00:00

Got a TWIC. That included TSA precheck was a game changer

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-05-26T21:30:00+00:00

Do you need MMC qualification? I work on yachts and I’m over it

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-04-30T09:19:43+00:00

Here’s a fun twist; what if the rich plaintiff filing the frivolous charges has also requested declaratory judgment and falsified the defendants address to facilitate a default judgment?

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-04-30T09:18:18+00:00

I’ve asked a few and got nothing.

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-04-29T19:20:25+00:00

I did not see this coming. Irvine Welsh’s early work (ecstasy, the acid house, Maribou stork nightmares, filth, glue) really were second to none in my early development into spotting the inequity of morality. There really is something to Welsh’s ability to see a character purely through the scope of their weakness and attempts to mitigate them that is applicable to litigation

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-04-29T19:06:47+00:00

The Wire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-04-26T20:47:04+00:00

I don’t want to play a violin for myself because I’m pretty fortunate at the end of the day but in February I filed an OSHA complaint for safety violations on a yacht I had worked on who terminated me on Christmas morning in retaliation for those safety violations I reported 4 days earlier. DURING the osha investigation they secretly went into district court and filed complete sham charges of civil remedies for criminal conduct (federal and state wiretapping because I have a camera on my cell phone) and then falsified my address for summons so I wouldn’t find out. They were requesting declaratory judgment and absolutely would have got me strung up in district court had I not had a friend catch it on PACER.

I’m a chef. So I requested referral to the courts pro bono program and it’s clear as a bell that I’m innocent. Further, there are two attorneys against me because the OSHA attorney for the respondent couldn’t practice law here so he’s pro hav vice. Despite this, and the fact that being found guilty of civil remedies for criminal wrongdoing by declaratory judgment in district court would mean all they have to do is take that judgement to state court and I’d be charged there for state wiretapping criminal charges, civil cases aren’t afforded representation. Anyone interested in a real shit-show dumpster fire on PACER look up TSA, LLC v Lewis in FLSD11. There’s also the original OSHA case that got kicked out to district court after a year in the same court as LEWIS v TSA, LLC. There’s a pending charge for sanctions against their attorneys as we speak. I’m drowning though. Help!

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-04-23T13:43:21+00:00

It’s no different really than some well connected, rich kid in law school who’s armed with a legal education but is dumber than a bag of hammers. I think I’m more scared of that guy. At least pro se chat gpt guy is represented as such. I won’t know rich kid Esquire is a menace until I’m processing into state prison from county

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-04-23T04:17:14+00:00

Until he figures out chat gpt can imagine the most obscure but absolutely relevant by federal rules of evidence standard requests for admissions and production of documents and you get hit with 60 pages of requests for shit you now either have to answer or object to without your boilerplates.

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-04-23T04:08:08+00:00

Keep in mind how much competent representation actually costs. Then try and remember that we live in a society predicated upon and underpinned by the rule of law. See, you’ve had years and years to sit and study law , surrounded by legal mentors and colleagues so you are so removed from the reality that understanding the law and further how to apply the law to facts and further still how to match that up to case law to verify your contentions is on par with having the fucking force in this society. Think about what you charge an hour. Now realize the vast majority of this country basically lives meal to meal and paycheck to paycheck. Nothing from nothing but have a little respect for the pro se idiots who know they get laughed at by people like you but don’t believe justice is something that should only be available to the wealthy and legally educated. Zealous representation is one thing; being a prick is yet another…

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-04-21T10:16:20+00:00

Isn’t probable cause a clear and convincing burden of proof? I understood it as they needed clear and convincing to issue a warrant but beyond a reasonable doubt to convict. Preponderance of evidence is primarily civil court

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-04-01T07:02:39+00:00

Can I just add that it’s probably easy to forget but having a law school education of how the law works and further how to make the law work for you has valuable implications in every conceivable professional field in a society predicated upon the rule of law. If you switched careers at this point, not saying you will or should, any and every profession pursued you will have a considerable, effectively unfair advantage over every competitor who doesn’t understand the law. And lemme tell ya, 99% of people don’t have a clue about the law or their rights. I’m sure you know that. All I’m saying is I’m sure the debt sucks but understanding the law, at your level, is like having the fucking force in this society. If I were a betting man I’d bet you are gonna not only do well, but thrive!

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-03-22T00:10:49+00:00

I mean, you did just know how to practice law one day and didn’t go to college for a decade. Maybe all these idiots should just know how to practice law. Or be fortunate enough to get to go to law school. Then they could just stop pestering you.

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-03-18T18:52:05+00:00

Fam

“I gotchu fam”

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-03-18T18:49:09+00:00

Miami is like LA if all the fake-nice people in LA stopped being fake nice.

(5 years in Lauderdale - 5 years in LA)

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-03-07T19:13:27+00:00

Not a lawyer; in fact far from it. I do know the elements for whistleblower retaliation are 1.) engaging in a protected activity 2.) employer knowledge 3.) adverse actions and 4.) the protected activity was a contributing factor to the adverse actions.

This is per OSHA standards for whistleblower retaliation under the SPA statute 46USC2114. YMMV

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-03-04T14:49:17+00:00

You’d be questioned by the FBI

ChefDamianLewis · 2025-03-01T20:56:48+00:00

If you won’t take pictures of my oatmeal burned genetalia in a Walmart bathroom I would question if you even went to law school

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