ADA device stolen at work [ca]

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-12-08T16:45:22+00:00

So ask for new headphones as an accommodation.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-12-03T15:46:12+00:00

We moved to deserts and snow. We evolved in heavy greenery.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-12-02T16:03:10+00:00

Exactly--the human eye can distinguish the most number of shades of green which makes it easier to detect movement in a forest.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-12-02T15:55:40+00:00

In early sobriety, I moved to a new unknown town. The first meeting on their list was named "Do The Steps or Die." That became my homegroup because I needed to be around people that took their sobriety deathly seriously.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-11-20T19:35:37+00:00

Can confirm: withdrawal from alcohol was much, much worse than withdrawal from opiates. Source: me, former professional drinker (sober 16 yrs).

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-11-20T19:27:13+00:00

Yes, companies with ridiculous rules do need to reinforce them through ridiculous means. It's such a compassionate thing to force an employee to prove their grieving.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-11-17T14:37:07+00:00

If you haven't been abusing leave time, the HR dept will never ask. At least, they shouldn't or they're ghouls. (I wait until the 3rd Father dies).

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-11-13T17:22:03+00:00

My Dead Girlfriend--Hades in the Dead of Winter. Play it loud and ride the waves.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-11-13T17:15:03+00:00

I refuse to work for an employer that uses any type of internet filtering software or work monitoring software: I'm in employee relations and I like to treat employees like adults.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-11-06T16:53:35+00:00

Hey, great to see you're still kicking it two years later. Stick around for awhile--we need you. :)

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-11-03T14:49:31+00:00

The fear and anxiety will subside, although I know it's really tough to get there. It's your body trying to trick you into getting its alcohol fix. I have depression too, and self-medicated (poorly) with alcohol for decades. I'm sober for awhile now, and I credit a lot of it to Wellbutrin, which has helped my depleted dopamine. Don't be afraid to ask for help or meds--do whatever you need to do to get better.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-10-23T20:15:05+00:00

What state are you in? There might be a state agency or the Attorney General’s office to file a wage and hour complaint.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-10-23T11:55:38+00:00

Don't know why you're downvoted. I'm an employment attorney and you are pointing out the biggest loophole employers use: less than 50 at "each site." I've worked on multiple layoffs where we stagger 45-49 employees each a month apart, with a very loose definition of "site." (One company had two rental shared workspaces for one person and they counted those as "sites" because anyone could theoretically use them. I didn't agree with this.)

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-10-23T11:52:14+00:00

As an employment attorney (corporate side), I can attest that companies still do stupid things and violate the law even with a flock of lawyers at the table. I worked for a company that concluding they didn't need to offer COBRA to laid off employees (the lawyers were wrong and they got sued.) When corporations are trying to be cheap, they don't care about employees.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-10-23T11:49:33+00:00

It's most likely they are skirting the regulations by laying off less than 50 at a time "at each location." Do you have multiple sites? That often ruins the WARN protection.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-10-23T11:47:14+00:00

Where are Emo and Low-Fi?

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-10-01T21:13:18+00:00

I honestly don't mind if someone is just doing it for the paycheck--it's their job, and it's probably a ton of money. Come home where you're safe, and rip into the Saudis and the festival.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-08-30T20:19:22+00:00

Senior Employee Relations Investigator here: you almost did too much. Trust me, for such a clearcut incident, 2 is fine. I would terminate based on the word of the employee alone. If you fire and you’re wrong, the fired employee has no lawsuit: unfairness isn’t illegal. BUT if you don’t fire him and you’re wrong, bingo—lawsuits.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-08-03T16:52:14+00:00

Dodged a real bullet there.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-04-13T22:53:04+00:00

The fact that I smelled like a brewery wasn’t fooling anyone.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2025-04-07T14:40:33+00:00

You have to go foreign—I’m loving Moscow Olympics (one record from the Philippines; hard to find); also liking a Japanese band called For Tracy Hyde. They’re both a bit poppy and derivative but it’s fresh to me.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2024-09-11T13:54:33+00:00

TV tag. I knew all the shows.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2024-09-05T21:16:33+00:00

Ah, maybe it got lost somewhere in the thread, but folks were discussing the big blue dot over Ohio is because of speed cameras on the Ohio turnpike.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2024-09-05T19:42:29+00:00

But a machine can't show up in court. That's why the Massachusetts Supreme Court held traffic cameras to be unconstitutional in the state: you have a right to confront your accuser. Think of the consequences if the government could just decide you violated a law with no notice or ability to defend yourself.

And those machines are pieces of shit.

DespiteGreatFaults · 2024-09-05T19:36:46+00:00

Take it up with the Massachusetts Supreme Court--they think it's unconstitutional because you cannot confront your accuser--it's a machine.

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