Legal Advice [WA] Roommate stole my medicine. Now threatens to sue because he stole the wrong one & it gave him side-effects. |
- [WA] Roommate stole my medicine. Now threatens to sue because he stole the wrong one & it gave him side-effects.
- Quit my job and moved 2000 miles for new "full time" job. They've only been giving me 15 hours a week.
- Update - [TX] Vet won't let us know who has our stolen dog.
- [FL] Squatters Moved In Hours After Mobile Home Is Prepped for Demolition, Claiming Constructive Eviction. Police Won't Help
- As an employer, how do I go about firing an underperforming employee with mental illness?
- My SO's work sent her home with a business cell phone and told her she had to answer it for the business 24/7 when not at work for an extra 10USD/Day.
- My boyfriend was fired for "not liking his job". (Michigan)
- Can my employer legally fire me or write me up for refusing to clean the break room?
- My fraternity is trying to charge me for a semester I was not active in.
- Custody Order Question
- [MA] Resident in condo building refuses to stop smoking, legal action being taken, want to know what to realistically expect
- I testified as a witness in a childhood sexual abuse case. It didn’t go well. If someone else comes forward, will I be called back to testify again?
- Oregon Restraining order against neighbor how much do I need to bring to the judge to get one?
- Can a restaurant make you come in early, just to take your break before your shift? (CA)
- [MS] Police pulled me over and searched my vehicle after I explicitly denied consent.
- Three Rx CII pills found in multi-driver company vehicle. Who eats the charges?
- Getting laid off with severance. Considering applying for an internal job but want to cover my bases.
- [Update] Received Order for Protection with several outrageous lies (Minnesota)
- Employer changing Mileage Policy (MD)
- Somewhat popular game app is using phone CPUs for Cryptocurrency mining. Nothing in their TOS mentions this. What are the legalities here?
- (PA) Death of Parent
- [NE] Father passed away, we suspect some type of negligence.
- Tor exit node trouble
- A friend confided a hit and run incident in me - what is my responsibility now?
| Posted: 27 Mar 2018 04:48 AM PDT I'm recently recovering from a surgery and I'm taking laxatives and percocet. I was telling him the painkillers feel good and he decided to steal a few (obviously without telling me). You can guess what happened. He took laxatives instead of the percocet. He took one and didn't get high, then took a few more and didn't notice until he was having a problem. This resulted in him missing a flight. Now that he's recovered, he asked me to give him back half of the cost of his plane because I didn't inform him of the side effects of all the medicines that I was taking. I laughed it off, and he threatened to take me to small claims court. Just want to know the legal aspect of things. Can I be held financially responsible for his losses when he was on my medication (without my consent). [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2018 12:27 AM PDT I moved to California for a job as a pharmacist with CVS. My offer letter said I'd be "full time." I left my previous job working for a competitor. I spent over $3,000 just moving our 2 cars and belongings across the country. After I arrived they said I'd get fewer hours while I am in training. They've really dragged it out. I've been working for them for over 2 months and I've averaged about 15 hours per week. This isn't covering my expenses. I've discovered that the district manager over-hired and doesn't seem to even have a spot for me. I wasn't even put on the schedule at all for this next week. He keeps telling me to be patient. At this point I feel cheated. What are my options? Should I lawyer up? Look into unemployment? [link] [comments]  |
| Update - [TX] Vet won't let us know who has our stolen dog. Posted: 27 Mar 2018 10:51 AM PDT Well we got what we want, but not what we need. Original post here - https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/86t94a/tx_vet_wont_let_us_know_who_has_our_stolen_dog/ We took a copy of the police report from when our yard was first broken into 3 months ago to the police in the county where the vet is. The sheriff's office was very sympathetic and said they would go to the vet to find out the contact information. The vet willingly gave the information to the police and the police went to the lady's house. She let them in and confirmed that she had been to see the vet last week. She let them look around the house and the backyard but they did not find our dog, or any other dog. When they started asking about our golden retriever, she refused to answer any further questions and asked the police to leave. The sheriff's office said they don't have enough evidence to do anything to more forward at this point. The sheriff's office confirmed with the vet by description that the woman whose house they went to was the same one who brought in our dog to the vet. Is there anything else we can do at this point legally? We just really want our dog back home. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2018 04:44 AM PDT Edit #2: The squatters/trespassers solved this problem themselves...by burning down the damn trailer! No serious injuries, but it opens up a Pandora's Box of other legal issues I will ask in another post later today. Thank you to everyone who responded. No one in my family has ever been in this situation and y'all's advice would have been extremely helpful had the fire not occurred. We weren't given all the details, but this is what we were told when we got to the station this morning. Around 8:30 pm last night (about 90 minutes after we left the police station after the office refused to take a report), a neighbor called 911 to report the fire. Two officers on patrol were the first to arrive and found 4 people attempting to unlock the front gate from inside the gate, with 3 vehicles behind them blocking the path the fire truck would need to drive through. The officers ordered them to get back in their vehicles to clear the path. They complied while the officers somehow (no details yet) got the gate open so the firetruck could get in. They then observed 3 adult males attempting to climb the fence to get away. The managed to stop them and placed them under arrest. There apparently was some violence. There were 3 more adults and an undisclosed number of children in the vehicles. By this point, the trailer was fully engulfed. The firefighters arrived and eventually put the fire out. One of the men arrested was the man who sent my mom the letter. He is a convicted felon with a looooooong rap sheet that included posession of meth, extortion, battery, DV, and burglary. He also was renting a house less than half a mile from my mother's property and a judge issued a writ of possession due to non-payment of rent the Friday before they broke into my mom's property. He is currently still hospitalised and being held for assaulting an officer. They didn't tell us the extent of his injuries other than a generic "no serious injuries" statement when the detective first informed us of the fire. So, here's the best we could piece together: A desperate felon is facing eviction and he notices a nearby property is being cleared out. He sees us fully "lock down" the property signaling no one would be there for a while. He and few other guys break in and, with the writ of possession issued, decides to move his family (?) in despite the unlivable conditions. He then gets greedy and tries to scare a little old lady into either giving him money or a free habitable place to crash for a while. Last night, since there was no electricity, they either were cooking food or using candles (I don't want to think what else it may have been with that meth charge) and managed to catch the trailer on fire. They attempted to ditch before the fire department got there, but someone forgot to grab the key to the gate. Going on what we were told, I don't think anybody on the property called in the fire. Again, thank you all for your suggestions. If this ever happens again, I'll have a screaming fit first, then I will put y'all's suggestions to good use. tl;dr: Mom's trailer is set for demolition. Squatters moved in just hours after we finished gutting the place, cutting through chains with a blowtorch. We have video of this. Discovered they were there a week later when mom received a demand letter wanting her to make trailer habitable or pay A LOT of money. Police are refusing to help. My mother still lived in a very old mobile home on land that she owns. She's lived alone since my dad died 5 years ago and has never had a tenant (other than my siblings after we turned 18, if you want to get super technical). Irma final straw. Along with issues that existed before the storm, the trailer now needed a whole new roof. By December, my mom finally accepted that the home she had for nearly 40 years was toast. She decided to demolish it and put a nice, new mobile home on the land. She moved in with us in January and we began to remove everything from the trailer since then. It took time due to work and kids, but we finally got everything out on March 19. That morning, a charity came and picked up the stove, fridge, sinks, toilets, plumbing fixtures, light fixtures, etc. The trailer was as close to gutted as you can get without taking it to the studs. We took pictures and video. We put up the hurricane shutters that locked and installed padlocks on the front and back door. My husband then installed a few battery operated motion sensor cameras on the property. We chained up the front gate with a heavy chain and padlock as we left around 3pm. Electric and water were officially shut off by their respective companies the next day (Tuesday, March 20). They'd been shut off at the breaker and valve for about 2 weeks before that. I can guarantee no one has lived on the property since January. For damn sure, no one was living there on March 19th. It has no place to cook, use the bathroom, or shower. That's not counting the water intrusion from the damaged roof making the roller room a mokdy mess. We were worried about teenagers breaking in and my mom having a liability issue. We never imaged what would happen. Yesterday, my mom received a certified handwitten letter from someone she's never heard of claiming to be her tenant. It was addressed to my mom's property and was forwarded to where she is staying at my place. The return address was the same as the to address! The letter was dated on March 20, but mailed March 21. "Dear Ms. (Mom's Name) As your tenants, we demand the electricity and water be turned back on immedietly (sic). We also demand the return of the refrigerator, stove, sinks, toilets, and taps. If you wish to evict us, please attempt to do so legelly (sic) or pay us $10,000 to vacate early. Failure to due (sic) so will leave us no choice but to sue you for $50,000 for illegal constructive eviction. You have until March 30th to decide what you will do or you will hear from our lawyer. (Squatter's Name) (My mom's address)" My mom, husband, and I immediately headed out to the property. We couldn't get past the front gate because someone had removed our chain and padlock and replaced it with their own! My husband walked down the fence line to where he could see the trailer. There was a pickup truck and 2 cars parked, hurricane shutters were removed, and a generator was running! My husband took pictures and videos. Meanwhile, I was able to access the security camera pointed at the front gate and got the micro SD card. I also looked in the mailbox and saw a letter addressed to the squatter at my mom's address...from the squatter using my mom's address as his return address! I didn't touch or remove the letter. I just took a picture of it. We immediately headed to the police station. On the way, I access the SD card. It showed us leaving the afternoon of March 19, then 2 hours later, three guys show up in a pickup truck and remove the chain with a blowtorch and they drive into the property. An hour later, the truck leaves. The next morning (March 20) at 7 am, a UHaul van pulls into the property followed by the same pickup truck with furniture in the truck bed. The two cars showed up the same day around noon. UHaul van left around 4 pm, followed by one of the cars. The car returned around 7 pm and they put the new chain and padlock on. The rest of the days were just the truck and cars going in and out at various times. We have all the license plates and some faces on video. When we talked to the officer, we showed him the letter, the security footage, our stuff showing the state of the property when we left it, and the pictures of the property from that day. "This isn't a police matter. It's civil. You can't have us evict tenants without a court order." Wait. WHAT?! "I suggest you make the house habitable immediately or you're going to spend a lot of money on a lawyer." My mom just started sobbing. My husband demanded to speak to the officer's superior. We were told we couldn't. I (stupidly) said that I wouldn't leave until his superior confirmed that the police couldn't help. The officer threatened to have us arrested for trespassing, so we left. I did make sure to get the officer's info, a picture of him, and pictures of us at the police station to prove we tried to file a report. It was after 7 pm, so there wasn't much more we could do yesterday. Our plan of action today is to try the police again and hope we get another officer who's willing to at least take a report. Here are my questions: Does this seem like extortion? Are these people legal tenants? If they are, do we have to make the trailer habitable before we can evict them? If we can't make it habitable, do we have to pay them? If the police won't help, who can we ask next? The trailer is scheduled for demolition in about 2 weeks. Should we reschedule? We're just so lost right now. My mom is on the verge of a complete breakdown and I'm not far behind. I just can't come to terms with the idea that this could be legal. EDIT: The water company just notified my mom that someone attempted to open an account at my mom's address! She didn't cancel her account, just put it on a hiatus of sorts and will have to pay a flat fee until she takes the account off hiatus and service resumes. They thought my mom was trying to reactivate the account and had used the wrong protocol. They won't give her any more information on WHO tried to open the account. We're heading back to the police station within an hour. [link] [comments]  |
| As an employer, how do I go about firing an underperforming employee with mental illness? Posted: 27 Mar 2018 10:26 AM PDT (I live in Ontario, Canada) Some backstory - this person has been refusing to do simple tasks involved with her job, and during each separate task she will say "nope I can't do that, I don't want to do it and I have mental health issues." She has been a nuisance to the other employees and several other employees have had to do her jobs for her. For that, they hate her guts and have threatened to quit if something isn't done about her. From my perspective, if someone had a broken leg and continued to show up to work while refusing to do their job, I would tell them to take time off until they are better, but this woman's mental illness isn't going anywhere. Not to mention I'm more afraid of the legal shitstorm that will ensue if we don't tackle this at the right angle. And If you think firing her isn't the right option, we have already let her choose exactly when she gets to work, what she does, helped her through multiple other episodes she has had in the past where she hasn't shown up to work due to body dysmorphia and binge eating as well as severe anxiety, and on top of all that, she's downright horrible to of the other employees! And now she is refusing to do any task she doesn't want to do because she has mental health issues. Like I understand you have mental health problems and I would gladly give you time and the resources to help. But at some point something has to change. My current plan is to tell her she has been slowing down recently and assign her to an easier task, and hopefully she accepts. Does anyone have advice that could help this nightmare go away? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 26 Mar 2018 08:42 PM PDT EDIT: This is in the USA (state is Idaho). This really seems illegal to me, and I am wondering if it actually is. My SO recently got a job at a local family owned business as a call center customer support representative. At work, she answers the phones and schedules appointments or answers questions for customers or forwards them to the proper specialists. Today, she was handed a business cell phone and told that this week was "her week for the take-home phone." Basically, she is expected to answer after hours calls at any time, including in the middle of the night, any time the cell phone rings to do her normal job of speaking with customers and scheduling appointments or whatnot. She was told that if it rings at 1 AM, she is to get out of bed and answer the phone and perform her normal job as if she were at work. This, of course, prevents her from doing any normal thing one would do when off work (like going to the movies, grocery shopping, going out to dinner, etc as she can be penalized for missing calls on the take-home phone), and therefore should count as being "on the clock" in my opinion (and hopefully the law's opinion). Here's the kicker - her hourly wage does not apply to any of this. She is paid the normal hourly wage only when she is at work, there is no hourly compensation whatsoever for having and answering the take-home phone. They give whoever has the phone 10USD for each day, and if you actually book a customer for an appointment, you get an additional 10USD for that call. This means, if you get 100 calls of customers B*tching you out and yelling at you, you still would only get the original base pay of 10USD. You only get the extra 10USD if you bring guaranteed business to the company by booking an appointment, and that total would still likely be much lower than if any hourly wage were applied to her time (including Idaho's low minimum wage). How can this be legal? I have no idea whether or not this was laid out in an employee agreement of some sort, but she seemed more surprised/blind-sided by this after working there for a month. Even so, it would seem illegal to me to expect someone to basically work 24 hours a day but only be paid hourly for 8 of them. Also more info:
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| My boyfriend was fired for "not liking his job". (Michigan) Posted: 27 Mar 2018 09:13 AM PDT So my boyfriend was interviewed and hired no longer than 3 weeks ago to work somewhere as a welder through a temp agency. When he started, the company stuck him on a machine instead of having him weld and said "oh we told you that you'd be working on a machine." After a couple days of waiting to see if they'd fix it, my boyfriend went and mentioned to HR that he wasn't doing the job he was hired to do and HR basically went "okay we'll look into it." About a week later, this Monday my boyfriend showed up to work in the morning and his employee ID number wasn't working when he went to punch in. He asked about it, and everyone said to go to the temp agency and ask why it wasn't working because HR wouldn't be there until later. So my boyfriend left work, drove across town, and waited over an hour for the temp agency to open up. When he talked to them, they said that the company fired my boyfriend without telling him because he "didn't like the job that he was doing" because he had asked why he wasn't welding like he was hired to do. What can we do about this? My boyfriend currently doesn't have a job and is looking around. There's no way this can be okay, right? He is 23 and lives in Michigan. Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Can my employer legally fire me or write me up for refusing to clean the break room? Posted: 27 Mar 2018 09:47 AM PDT I work/live in Florida. I am an exempt professional and cleaning is not part of my job description. The company has forced a daily cleaning rotation of the break room because we have a few slobs. I'm just trying to figure out if this is a hill worth dying on. Thank you for your help. Clarification: the rotation is once every 2-3 months I have to clean the break room 3 times a day for a week. [link] [comments]  |
| My fraternity is trying to charge me for a semester I was not active in. Posted: 27 Mar 2018 06:40 AM PDT I went inactive this spring semester and chose not to return, I made this decision clear to the treasurer of the fraternity. Yet, throughout the semester I received invoices. I emailed the company charging me and that I had spoken to the treasurer and received an email back that I should just simple unsubscribe myself from the mailing list. I called the company charging me and they said I needed to speak to exec... so again I spoke to the treasurer. I got a "scary" call from the lady that handles our finances. Saying that we are charged because I did not submit the right paperwork, before the deadline. And the the treasurer and president have had a hard time getting in contact with me, not true, I've been messaging the treasurer about this since before the semester started and he's been free to message right back. Please help me I don't know what to do, I know two other brothers who didn't pay and got kicked out early, no suits or anything. Edit: I have found the inactive member form that I was being told about by the treasurer, when I told him I had not received it for so long. Due date was Jan 17, I submitted it now to prevent any more late charges. President is speaking to the fraternity accountant, in a meeting tomorrow and will let me know. I'm in the wrong for dealing with the treasurer when I guess I should have dealt directly with the accountant, but I have documented messages of me asking throughout the semester to get these charges removed and for the fucking form. I don't care if I get dropped from the fraternity, my parents can't afford these charges and they want $2150. Edit 2: So I spoke to another brother who went through the same thing and other active brothers. I didn't attend any active events or meals, didn't cost the fraternity a cent this semester. So there is no basis for the charge. For another brother, the accountant for the fraternity threatened to take him to collections but didn't do it. That she is trying to pressure me into paying. Edit 3: I spoke to the previous treasurer and he said I should compromise by offering to pay an inactive fee and the late fees, $330 which I would much rather pay $2150. My fear is being sent to a collection agency and ruining my credit. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2018 05:55 AM PDT (Rhode Island) Hi, i was recently awarded custody of my daughter. Her mother is pretty unstable and has supervised visitation. Our case is not closed and is up for review at the end of the year. In our signed court order there are some guidlines she is supposed to follow to prove shes responsible enough to drop the supervised visits and work out a new visitaion agreement. Part of that agreement is signed paperwork from her psychologist stating that she is following treatment. The first letter was due a few days ago and she hasnt said a word about it. Also in the order since her license is suspended for a year; she is not supposed to get any traffic violations before the review date but got pulled over yesterday. I'm representing myself so I'm woundering if there is a way to report this to the courts without filling a motion for contempt since we already have a court date. Or would the contempt motion be the better idea. Originally i was just not going to say anything until the review then adress it there but was advised by a friend that i should report it to the courts. Any input is appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2018 07:37 AM PDT A couple of years ago, my wife's father bought us a condo in a newly renovated building with 3 other units. All the tenants moved in at essentially the same time. One below, two above us. Two of the other families are great. The last (right above us) is a real piece of work. I'll leave out a lot of the annoying things she does, and get right down to the meat: A part of the purchasing contract (that also established the condo board), set that there should be no smoking in the building. The annoying woman (in the unit above us) chain smokes. And smokes. And smokes. It's gotten so bad, the unit on the top level (above her) is likely to sell their unit for under market value (the value being crashed due to smoke) and leave (which lowers the value of all the other units in the building). I've been up to unit above the smokers. I had trouble breathing after about 15 minutes. My wife's father and the other unit owners (excluding the smoker) have gotten together and have setup legal movements to start fining her for continued smoking (they have lawyers involved). The fine starts at $1000 and doubles every time it continues. The smoker doesn't own the unit (her father does), and he continues to admonish her, but does nothing. She claims that when her unit was bought, the seller/renovator told her the no smoking clause of the contract was meaningless (the seller of course says that he never said that - I'm inclined to believe him as he has been on the up-and-up with every other interaction I've had with him). She's now claiming she needs it for prescription medical purposes (perhaps that it is marijuana? It's unclear what she means) and that she's protected. All this out of the way... the condo owners and lawyer of the condo board are handling all the legal aspects. But the information that makes it to me is vague, but surefooted. I'm looking for advice on what this looks like from the outside, as the only information I get is from my wife's father (which is biased). Is the no smoking contract actually enforceable? What can I legitimately expect will happen? Does she actually have any protection? Does it actually have to be proved that she is still smoking? How long could this drag on? Will it get worse? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2018 07:15 AM PDT (Saskatchewan, Canada) I won't go into detail about the attacks and created a throwaway account just to ask because this is keeping me up at night. I testified in a pre-trial (provincial court) and a trial (Queen's Bench) two years ago against a family member and it tore my life and my family apart. He wasn't convicted, but I didn't have high hopes to start. He had three separate charges (none of which accurately fit the descriptions of my testimony) and was arrested on a bench warrant and a DUI - he skipped town for six years. The crown prosecutor also told me to deliberately not include parts of my testimony because she said the judge would not believe everything, especially since the original charges did not fit. She bragged about her success rate before the trial, after losing the case she refused to give me the verdict directly. I received the verdict from a victims services officer three hours after it had been officially stated. Is this unusual? I know for a fact that the abuser repeatedly abused another child who has not come forward and that the police investigator assigned to my case could not track down as a witness. I was there and was abused with the other person when it happened but the crown prosecutor told me to leave it out of my testimony. I also fear for three of my younger cousins who are at risk that I am not in contact with at all (parents all chose his side) and more children of his exes that may have also been at risk. If any of them were to come forward in the future, could my testimony be used against him in court even if he was not convicted? Could the previous charges at least be mentioned on the record? Is there any possibility that I would have to re-testify, or would that be considered double jeopardy? I don't want to have to go through all of this again, I would if I absolutely had to, but it was a complete nightmare. [link] [comments]  |
| Oregon Restraining order against neighbor how much do I need to bring to the judge to get one? Posted: 27 Mar 2018 10:10 AM PDT My neighbor has physically attacked me once and verbally attacked me and my GF three times in the same day two on recording. The police came for the assault but said they couldn't charge him because the stories didn't match.. Even though I have it on camera of him jumping on me and hitting me while I did nothing but try to block the punches. Me and my GF are scared to leave our house now. He sits in front and smokes while waiting for us to walk by so he can throw verbal assaults all because my GF didn't talk back to him.... How many police reports or video evidence files to actually get the judge to approve the restraining order? We've never been scared to leave our house before. And now feel stuck inside to avoid being assaulted again while the police do nothing. [link] [comments]  |
| Can a restaurant make you come in early, just to take your break before your shift? (CA) Posted: 26 Mar 2018 10:09 PM PDT Quick Q: My girlfriend's employer recently made this new rule for the workers. In order for them to avoid legal problems, they are now making employees come in 30 minutes before their shift, to take their breaks before starting their shifts. How do you take a break before work? This seems sketchy. Any wisdom out there? Thanks in advance! [link] [comments]  |
| [MS] Police pulled me over and searched my vehicle after I explicitly denied consent. Posted: 27 Mar 2018 01:32 PM PDT Last week I was on my way to my girlfriend's house after we had both gotten off of work when I was pulled over on the interstate. The reason I was given was that I was driving too closely to the vehicle in front of me (which I disagree with, but that is beside the point). The officer asked me many times if I have any drugs, going so far as to name just about every one you can think of to get a verbal "no" for each one. She finally said "Alright, so if you don't have anything then you don't mind if I search?" to which I responded "I'm sorry, but it is late and I'd really like to get to sleep, so I'll have to decline consent." Her immediate response was "Alright, step out of the car and stand by the other officer." I didn't think I had the right to refuse to exit the vehicle even when I'm not being charged, so of course I obliged, as did my girlfriend. At this point, she got a K9 and had him sniff around the car. I asked the officer I was standing by what indicator the dog would give if it were to detect anything, and the officer told me that she will tell me when she's done. No one ever told me. Because it was kind of cold out, I offhandedly remarked that I wish I had grabbed my jacket when I got out, to which the officer said "We'll be able to get it for you in a minute." ...So that already gave me alarm bells. Eventually the first officer threw a tennis ball at the side of my car for the dog to go catch when it bounced off. I asked the cop if that's part of the process...he said yes. Well, after the dog had done its rounds and played fetch for a second, the officer started using a flashlight to look around where I had pulled in (way behind my car, I'm assuming to see if I threw anything out). Then she just walks up to my car, opens the door, and starts searching it. I didn't see the dog do anything that would give her any probable cause. After she was done, she just told us we could go and didn't give a ticket of any kind....is this legal? I feel like my rights were violated just to be shown that they can be. [link] [comments]  |
| Three Rx CII pills found in multi-driver company vehicle. Who eats the charges? Posted: 27 Mar 2018 12:56 PM PDT Throw away for obvious reasons: My company (Tennessee) issues vehicles to several employees that are assigned to just one employee each. There are also what we call "spares" which are used by whomever needs a car to run a company errand or for the use of a driver who has an assigned vehicle, but it is in the shop. One of our "spares" which had been used by no less than six employees for periods of an hour up to three days per person was being used the other day and the employee driving it was pulled over. The cops asked our employee, "Would you mind if we took a look inside the vehicle?" Foolishly, and not thinking there would be anything in there, the employee consented. The officer found a kleenex folded up under the passenger seat which contained three 10mg percocet (oxycodone 10mg/acetominophen 325mg) pills in that tissue. Our employee stated that the vehicle is a company vehicle used by many drivers, that the pills were not his, and that he had no idea they were in the car. Still was arrested. What are the employee's chances here? Is the fact that the car is a company vehicle that had been driven by numerous employees going to be reasonable doubt enough to defeat the charges? Does the fact that he was the only one in the car at the time they were found mean that they are in "his possession"? What should he do? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2018 08:51 AM PDT California employee working for a corporation. I have received my layoff letter detailing my termination date and my severance pay which is contingent on being with the company on termination date. The layoff kind of came out of nowhere and now I'm scrambling. A higher up suggested that I look at a job with sister company under the same corporation. They wouldn't give me any specifics on pay, but I suspect it would be a minor pay cut. They said that they would hire me on as a transfer rather than a new hire. I want to talk to them as I would like to look at the potential but my main concern is that if the offer is extended and I refuse that I would be compromising my eligibility for the severance already laid out and possibly unemployment benefits after the fact What's my best course of action legally if I want to explore the job but don't want to sacrifice my severance if I realize the job wouldn't work out? [link] [comments]  |
| [Update] Received Order for Protection with several outrageous lies (Minnesota) Posted: 27 Mar 2018 12:51 PM PDT Hearing was this morning. The petitioner did not show. The judge waited until an hour and half past the hearing time, then called me up. She asked me if I knew why the peititioner was there. I said no. She asked if I deny allegations in OFP. I said I deny. I motioned to vacate. Done. Hearing maybe took a minute. Not that I want to contact petitioner. She was (perhaps inadvertently) blocking me from helping a friend (her ex) move by being there and not moving her stuff, but just laying around drinking. She did this for like five days. Now, though I really don't ever want to run into her, there won't be legal consequences if I do. [link] [comments]  |
| Employer changing Mileage Policy (MD) Posted: 27 Mar 2018 06:17 AM PDT Hey guys i need some help and figured this was the best place. i work/live in Maryland, and my job requires me to travel to job sites throughout the baltimore/dc area. We are also required to use our personal vehicles for all work related travel, about 80-90% of the time i'm out of the office. The owner of the company sent out a memo regarding our travel time and mileage reimbursement that says: "This policy is derived from and enumerated in the current Code of Federal Regulations §785.35 Home to work; ordinary situation and §785.38 Travel that is all in the day's work. An employee who travels from home before their regular workday and returns to their home at the end of the workday is engaged in ordinary home to work travel which is a normal incident of employment. Normal travel from home to work, or work to home, is not worktime. This is true whether working at a fixed location (Office) or at different job sites. An employee is, therefore, not to report mileage or worktime related to travel to and from a jobsite unless it begins from the office or ends at the office located at (Office Address) Time spent by an employee from job site to job site during the workday, is counted both as paid worktime and mileage that is reimbursed. In the event an employee is traveling directly from home to job site, or job site to home, and the distance is greater than 60 miles, only the distance greater than 60 miles (and the respective time associated with traveling those additional miles) is to be reported as worktime and mileage that is reimbursed. Reporting of any non-billable mileage (marketing meetings, training classes, seminars, etc.) cannot be submitted for reimbursement unless approved in advance by your Division Manager." Me and many of my coworkers are unhappy about this. i drive about 35k miles a year which is mostly work related, and for many jobsites I do not go to the office first as my equipment is kept in my car so now i shouldn't get mileage for that. He already pays 20% below the IRS mileage rate. He's supposed to be having a meeting with our group soon and I wanted to be prepared beforehand. i would greatly appreciate any help with what we can do or where to find relevant information as we feel this policy doesnt properly reimburse us for mileage/depreciation/maintenance on our cars, even if it means there's nothing i can do, and if you need more information please let me know. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2018 12:55 PM PDT A lesser-known trivia game app was recently discovered to be borrowing users' CPU power to "cryptomine" while the app is open and possibly in general while the app is on one's phone (but this has not been confirmed). I have scoured the app's TOS and there is nothing that jumps out at me that gives them permission to do this. I'd love to post the TOS but I do not want to give away the name of this app. I am aware that this is somewhat of a legal grey area, but does anyone have information about the legalities regarding this type of thing? Location edit: I'm in MN, US, but this is all users of this app. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2018 10:38 AM PDT So my wifes Mom has been falling more and more ill without letting us in on the condition. We just found out that she has Cirrhosis of the liver from alcoholism. We are aware that she has refinanced her house several times and common sense tells us that upon death, she will have a lot of debt. My question is, if she was to unexpectedly die, would we have access to get memorabilia like pictures, old toys from childhood and such before debt collection began selling anything and everything? [link] [comments]  |
| [NE] Father passed away, we suspect some type of negligence. Posted: 27 Mar 2018 05:57 AM PDT My father passed away at 65 in his sleep from what's been deemed a heart attack yesterday morning. A week and a half ago, he had a minor blockage and spent 4-5 days in the hospital. While he was there, no surgery was performed, but he was given some drug to help clear the minor artery that was blocked. During his stay, three doctors debated over giving him a pace maker, and decided not to. Also, we don't think he was given nitroglycerin, which is a staple for heart attack victims. Do you have any advice for what we can do to look further into this? He is being cremated soon...should we hold off on that? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Mar 2018 10:37 AM PDT Illegal traffic went trough an exit node hosted by someone. They had nothing to do with it and explained what a node was. Law enforcement did not seem to understand. What now? This is in the USA, Texas. [link] [comments]  |
| A friend confided a hit and run incident in me - what is my responsibility now? Posted: 27 Mar 2018 12:15 AM PDT A friend recently divulged to me that several years ago they were driving drunk and hit a pedestrian then drove away, likely killing them. They were pretty drunk when they told me this so I wrote it off as drunk talk. The next time I saw them they took me aside and begged me not to say anything. So this is serious. I am very conflicted. Especially because I searched through some crime reports from around that time and think I even know what incident they were involved in. They were living in a different town at that time - this incident prompted them to move and start over. I don't know what to do here or what my responsibility is, legally or morally. I know I probably should say something, -What are the legal ramifications for them if I turn them in? -What are the legal ramifications for me if I do not come forward with this information? I'm in Apache County, Arizona and in all likelihood the hit and run incident occurred 3 years and 6 months ago in Sandoval County, New Mexico. Edit: thank you all for your heartfelt advice I am going to try and get him to turn himself in today and see what happens. [link] [comments]  |
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