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[GlyphGryph]

See my edit: Even if you can't do anything immediately, for obvious reasons, find a way to document the fact. Hell, some employers might even let you. Then you'll be able to use it to (hopefully) get the money back should you lose the job or find a better one.

[Truean]

However, most employees have little or no recourse against employers who have underhanded or illegal policies. Couple that with the fact that work is rare right now, and you have an employment atmosphere that is packed with these types of situations.

^^^
This.

It probably is illegal and a violation of federal wage and hour laws, but nobody's hiring so.... It's about remedies to wrongs and there not practically being any.... Regardless, he could just lower everyone's pay and or fire 'em

The good news is I found an old house that looks really nice (like with columns out front) where I can rent an office with full conference room access for $125/month with electric and gas included. I'd just have to pay for phone and internet. It's a little out of the way, but it looks nice and it's cheap. (God damn clients want you to have a palace that's convenient for them to drive to for an office but they don't wanna pay anything, much less cover the rent...).

[justified rant]
In other news I bought a Post Office Box because somebody else's pissed off Ex husband tried to kick my ass again for making him pay spousal and child support. O sure, blame the lawyer.... It isn't that you married some girl for 10 years had two kids and cheated with another girl while treating them like crap. Na, clearly it's the bastard who was just doing a job (me). You know what? I keep hearing about how expensive divorces are. Bullshit. I am sick and tired of having people try to kick my ass because I did my job and got spousal support outta them. I didn't marry your freaking ex wife damn it.... [/justified rant]

[Descan]

Truean, you should get a plaque for your kick-ass new office (REALLY? 125 a MONTH? Fuck WORKING there, I'd move in!) that says "[Truean], Drunken Ninja Attorney at Law"


... Probably want to keep the Drunken part off... For P.R. reasons.

[Lord Shonus]

However, most employees have little or no recourse against employers who have underhanded or illegal policies. Couple that with the fact that work is rare right now, and you have an employment atmosphere that is packed with these types of situations.

Precisely. I was given two offences and laid off (in this case, it was a forcible transfer to a difficult to staff department where the contractual payscale is of somewhat dubious legality) because I had the audacity to tell another employee, whom had cornered me and had been shouting and swearing at me for almost two minutes to calm down. (Admittedly, my wording was somewhat stronger, and my Command voice is loud and quite forceful, but there was a supervisor less than five feet away doing nothing about it.) The union rolled over like a kitten wanting a belly rub.

[kaenneth]

http://news.yahoo.com/wrong-man-executed-texas-probe-says-051125159.html

[Truean]

Truean, you should get a plaque for your kick-ass new office (REALLY? 125 a MONTH? Fuck WORKING there, I'd move in!) that says "[Truean], Drunken Ninja Attorney at Law"


... Probably want to keep the Drunken part off... For P.R. reasons.

This is the thing that needs to happen from this foreclosure crisis. They got the building for a song.... If they have 8 offices at $125/month, and 2 at $300/month.... That means they have $1600/month gross. I'm betting the mortgage and expenses are perhaps $1200 at most/month. [sigh] It's perhaps one of the only good things I've seen lately. Even if it is a little room and might or might not have a window (probably won't), it means going out on my own. This is scary as hell. Part of me would live there if I could. [sigh]

[MaximumZero]

The union rolled over like a kitten wanting a belly rub.

Every union I've been part of has been absolutely worthless. The only good ones around here are the Auto Workers' and the Machinists'.

[ChairmanPoo]

Ugh, I made a painful cut on my foot. This is going to hurt tomorrow.

Also I lost this month's rotation paper

[Karnewarrior]

Truean, if you need dryly humorless office posters, why not one that says "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it provides legal recourse!"

[Sowelu]

The union rolled over like a kitten wanting a belly rub.

Every union I've been part of has been absolutely worthless. The only good ones around here are the Auto Workers' and the Machinists'.

Oh screw your auto workers' union.  Screw them hard.  For some unknown reason, THEY control the student-teachers at my old university.  Their policies are completely unsuited for the job, and they are downright nasty people.  I chose not to join the union--it's optional--but their contract with the school requires even non-union members to pay them a (smaller) chunk of their paycheck!!  Also, they used to send someone around after my classes to 'talk' to me about joining the union.  For reasons like...the Union makes sure that my job is protected, and if I'm not in the union then well, there wouldn't be any recourse if something happened to it.

I firmly believe that unions are important, and that unionization is an important right.  But the balance of power swings between companies and unions, and right now it's a /little/ far in the side of the unions...in some fields.

[kaijyuu]

So the auto union in your area is racketeering?

[MaximumZero]

Oh, I never said that I like them. In fact, I'm waiting for a president to get on the teevee and fire everyone in it, just like what happened with air traffic controllers. All I was saying is that those two unions are the only local ones that will stand up for the workers that they're supposedly representing.

[Lord Shonus]

The union rolled over like a kitten wanting a belly rub.

Every union I've been part of has been absolutely worthless. The only good ones around here are the Auto Workers' and the Machinists'.

The insulators and the UFCW are pretty good. The really bad ones around here are the Teamsters (which at least keep a law firm on retainer and cover most legal expenses for members, along with providing banking services through a credit union), and the tobacco growers union (which also covers bakery workers for some reason.)

[Sowelu]

Oh, I never said that I like them. In fact, I'm waiting for a president to get on the teevee and fire everyone in it, just like what happened with air traffic controllers. All I was saying is that those two unions are the only local ones that will stand up for the workers that they're supposedly representing.

Ah, that's the difference between your auto workers' union and mine.  Yours has a benefit to its members.

That job was years ago though.

[MaximumZero]

They do provide benefits for their employees, but their stranglehold on the workers of the area is driving businesses out in a hurry, and has been for a while.