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    Legal Advice Work forcing me to use my mobile data for this new app they installed, threatening my job.

    November 08, 2019

    Legal Advice Work forcing me to use my mobile data for this new app they installed, threatening my job.

    Work forcing me to use my mobile data for this new app they installed, threatening my job.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 02:31 AM PST

    Ive been working for a security company, for the last 4 years. Two weeks ago they drop this new app they licenced without telling anybody and tells me "it's a new policy, it's required, yadada, if you don't we'll find someone else."

    The app requires location services, bluetooth, storage permissions, camera & flash. It uses a qr sticker for all the different check points for patrols and what not, which suck for obvious reasons. The worst contender is how much data it uses, during one shift is uses 100mb of data. That's easily a tenth of a lot of peoples monthly data and the extra use charges are criminally expensive and I'm not paid enough to afford anything more. So I have been turning my data off during my work shifts and sending all the reports in when I'm at home on wifi, which I figure is completely reasonable since I don't want a more expensive phone bill because of my job.

    No, I have their gate keeper come and scream at me. He basically holds me verbally hostage saying that I'm refusing to do my job and threatening to fire me once a shift now while refusing to listen to my reasoning or my attempts to find a way to make it work out for everyone involved.

    This has mostly been a rant so TLDR: my employeers made a sudden decision to force everyone onto an app that uses way too much data and provides no compensation for using personal resources.

    I know California and Illinois have laws that force buisnesses to compensate for personal expenses but I can't find anything for ~mystate~

    Edit: deleted some stuff. I got an answer from the company. Basically I'm not the only one who's been complaining about the data usage so they plan to install phones and they don't have a problem with my method for now. The guy who was telling me all this stuff was just having a power trip it seems.

    Thanks for the useful feedback!

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    New marriage, baby OTW, pregnant wife has been cheating the entire time

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 06:12 AM PST

    I got married at the end of May after meeting my wife in March (in Florida). She didn't like that I was working Saturdays and asked me to find another job with weekends off, even if it meant a pay cut. I did and it did. She makes a triple my salary so money isn't an issue at this point. We get pregnant with our first child, it's a little girl. Wife is very irritable and hormonal I go to stay at my mom's house to allow her time to cool down and she tells me not to come back, she wants to be separated, tells me I can not come back until she says so. Our neighbors just approached me to tell me they would watch me leave for work in the morning, and minutes later they would watch her ex-lover's truck pull into my driveway, this has been happening since we got married.

    Also found out he has been spending the night at our house with my pregnant wife while I have been forced out. Some night's he parks down at the end of the street, sometimes up the road at a local bar to be more "inconspicuous".

    My wife thought they were sneaky enough that no one knew, last night she found out I know, she called me blamed it on me. Says he is her only friend, he only comes over to take out the trash and to clean the pool.

    She is threatening that if anyone approaches her about her infidelity (or in her eyes "lack there of") she will not allow me access to my daughter once she is born.

    My daughter can't be his due to his vasectomy.

    The original plan was for me to quit working once she is born so I could stay home and raise our child while she worked FT.

    What can I do, legally?

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    instructed to pee in a bottle at work for a Fortune 500 company during training (TX)

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 09:17 AM PST

    I recently picked up a job as a delivery driver and attended two training classes. During these classes I received information on what to do in certain situations. We were instructed to bring a pee bottle onto the company vehicle and use it to save time. We were told we can also pee outside along our routes.

    This is extremely unsanitary (we have to interact directly with customers, it can be messy for people without a penis, and I'm scared I can get in legal trouble if I'm caught with my pants down in public in the van. )

    This is a huge red flag to me, and I was wondering if it's legal and what action can be taken? Im currently at work as I type this, but I can be more thorough if need be.

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    I work in Dallas county. I saw recently that minimum wage went up to $15 an hour. I work sanitation, for a warehouse, and am paid $11 an hour. Are their any laws that exempt my employer from paying me the new minimum wage? I am not a contract worker.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 06:04 AM PST

    [IN] 4 days ago I accidentally almost got into the wrong car, causing the elderly woman inside the car to try to flee and she fell. Today I was told I’d be sued if I didn’t pay ambulance & ER bills.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 11:53 AM PST

    Four days ago (Monday 11/4) I was parked in a very full parking lot and returned to my car in a distracted state. I didn't realize that I was parked next to a car that was identical to mine. I opened the unlocked driver's side door and put my leg in, but immediately withdrew my leg because I heard someone inhale sharply and then heard the passenger side door open. Obviously this wasn't my car so I began apologizing and, as I was shutting the door, I could see an elderly woman struggling to get out of the car.

    I was still apologizing when she fell out of the car. I went around quickly and asked if she was alright, did she need me to call an ambulance, did she need me to go find whoever she was waiting for, etc. She told me I didn't need to call an ambulance, but asked if I would stay with her until her daughter came back. She didn't know which store her daughter was in and didn't have her number memorized. I helped her back into the passenger seat.

    She had an abrasion on her right palm, which I offered to disinfect since I keep a first aid kit in my car. She accepted and said she wasn't hurt anywhere else, just shaken up. She asked me for water and I gave her a bottle from my car. She told me she was diabetic and that her blood sugar was low and she didn't have her insulin with her, so I offered her a banana. We spent about 5 or so minutes together before her daughter came running up.

    We explained to her what happened and the daughter was pissed at me, rightfully so since I did scare her mother and she fell. I offered again to call an ambulance to make sure she was alright and they both refused. I suggested they take her to her doctor as soon as possible to make sure she didn't injure anything from the fall. I apologized again and went home.

    This morning the daughter and her husband showed up on my front porch. I think they were trying to intimidate me since the husband stood there the entire time with his arms crossed and with what I assume was supposed to be a scary look on his face. The elderly woman and I only exchanged first names so I don't know how they found out who I am or where I lived. I asked and they said they "had their ways." The daughter told me she ended up calling an ambulance because her mother began to have a panic attack before they left the parking lot. I asked if she was okay and she told me that wasn't any of my business. She said that they were going to sue me if I didn't pay the ER bill and the ambulance bill. They said they wanted $3,500. I asked if her mother had insurance and was again told it wasn't my business. I asked to see the bills because I obviously have my doubts and they said they didn't have them with them. I said "So you expect me to just hand you $3,500?" and that pissed them both off. I told them to get off of my property and that I'd call the police if they refused or came back. I told them to have their lawyer contact me. They both called me a bitch and left.

    I've included every detail I can think of, so my question is could they really sue me? I understand you can basically sue anyone for anything, but am I legally responsible to pay these medical bills if they do in fact exist?

    Thanks in advance. I'm on mobile, so I apologize for any formatting errors.

    Edit: Thank you to those who responded. I'm 31, but often get mistaken for someone much younger. The daughter and her husband are, or look to be, in their mid to late forties. I suspect they may just have seen what they think to be a young and naive woman that may be dumb/scared enough to pay them.

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    Wife is extremely allergic to Cinnamon (even the smell gives terrible migraines), but workplace is supplying Cinnamon flavor teas in the breakroom which impacts her ability to work. She is so affected, that I have to pick her up from work because she cannot drive. How can we handle this?

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 08:37 AM PST

    So we don't want to get anyone in trouble or anything, but there has to be something that can help us get the point across that it greatly affects her and creates an unsafe work environment for her. She has talked to her boss and initially he said he would just get rid of all the tea, but I guess the tea he likes the most also has cinnamon, so now he would just like to post a sign saying to be aware and to warm my wife when brewing the tea so she knows to avoid the breakroom for X amount of time until it dissipates.

    This is not working, and she is basically surrounded by the smell most days. What can we do? Isn't there some standard for treating allergies seriously, such as peanut allergies that we can pull from? We are in the United States if that matters.

    Thank you!

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    Brother told the wrong name to the local news, got out of school suspension.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 07:06 AM PST

    To start, in Kansas for if any specific state law affects it. To start, my sibling was on a school trip looking at colleges and the news was there. They interviewed him, and he gave them a name that was not his. Administration got wind and suspended him. I've read through parts of the statues on school disciplines and it looks to me as if this is no where near what would require a suspension.

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    I think my car loan is illegal??

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 08:08 AM PST

    So I have a car loan issue. I live in northern Alberta, and I bought a brand new car in 2017 and had to trade in a previous new car that I hadn't finished paying off the loan for. I was 18 and nobody had explained negative equity to me yet so of course getting this car was a huge mistake.

    As I was talking to the salesperson he informs me I need a cosigner (of course) so I call my dad. My dad knows better so he told me no, he wouldn't do it. But then the salesperson asked if he could talk to him. As soon as this man got off the phone with my dad he told me that my dad agreed to be a cosigner.

    Now fast forward about a year and a half, I'm struggling to make these payments, and I've missed quite a few and I want to find a way out of this loan. When talking with my dad he says hes confused as to how I got the car without a cosigner. Now being confused myself I say, aren't you the cosigner? He says no "I told them I didnt want any part of that loan". He claimed he hadn't signed anything, yet when I look at the bill of sale is had both of our names on it. I remembered that he wasn't even in the dealership, he couldn't have signed anything anyways. The bank had never even asked him for payment when I missed payments. Hes never been charged.

    Did this bank/dealership use my dad as a cosigner to make sure I bought this car? Is it even legal to use my dad's name in the bill of sale even though he refused and didnt sign anything? Could they take his signature off his licence? Help

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    Old neighbor fell and hit her head on concrete while I was walking by, claims that it was my fault (WA, US)

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 10:18 AM PST

    This just happened outside my apartment complex in Seattle, Washington.

    I was walking my dogs around my apartment complex on the sidewalk and we started coming up to a bulldog that was huge and I saw the owner, a very old woman, in the bushes next to the sidewalk picking up what I'm guessing was her dogs poop.

    As I pass with my dogs, her dog starts growling and pulling on the leash she was holding causing her to fall backwards and hit her head on the concrete.

    I ran towards her and told her to stay still and I'll be right back after I put my dogs up (because they were also growling and her dog wouldnt let me near with my dogs)

    I ran back outside after putting my dogs in and the old lady is gone. I knock on all the doors to see if she lived nearby and found the old lady who fell with her daughter and we all examined her injury that had a huge knot.

    I tell the daughter what I saw and what happened and the next thing I know the old lady who fell is saying "this is all his fault, I don't need to go to the hospital".

    Her daughter glared and stared at me and I just said "she needs to go to the hospital" cause her injury on her head was swelling.

    Now I'm back in my apartment freaking out what to do and legally what I'm obligated for.

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    Lawyers of reddit: Ever make your clients do legal research to find the best case law and related judicial opinions related to their case? Mine just did.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 06:49 AM PST

    The judge in my alimony hearing gave the attorneys (both sides) 14 days to bring any case law and opinions about when a long term cohabitating defendant of an alimony case in TN doesn't pass the rebuttable presumption statute.

    I'm the plaintiff. It's an alimony modification case. My attorney was ill over the 14 days (unknown to me) and got a 3-day extension and then asked me to research Westlaw and other reputable sources to find the best and specific case-law examples with judicial opinions.

    I took time off from work, canceled a good job interview and a dr visit (I'm diabetic), then spent 2 - 20 hr days learning legal verbiage and finding what I think is proper cases (and my attorney agreed and was thankful). But, is that normal? I'm a software developer not in a legal profession. I must have read 120+ cases of thousands to find 10-15 like my case and then narrowed to the top 3 as relevant to my specific case.

    Also, I had no idea that judicial opinions can be so long. The smallest case I read was 12 pages and the longest was around 70.

    I wouldn't mind doing law after all the life experience. I might see about working for a large firm as a system architect and then go into law through schools up here in New England. Then I would be a lawyer with a helluva tech background possibly.

    Losing 2 days of time, work, dr. appts and more... while trying to find the meaning of the cases overall to tie them to my case was the hard part.

    Update (more details and questions): Due to questions and I needed to get it out of my head so that maybe there is advice or pointers or well wishes.

    How the hearing went down (with a court reporter):

    The court case is in TN, The defendant and cohabitant are in another state (SC) and I am the plaintiff and living in New England. The defendant had the stance that she was not cohabitating and needed double her alimony or roughly 50% of my take home. The defendant is far more educated than I am, 2 degrees (medical) and a masters' or soon doctorate of psychology. I have no degree, I work the web. For years over many trial cases claimed that she lives alone and can't make it. She is the cause of the breakup of marriage as she needed a man half her age and found one. The alimony type is in futuro and modifiable. No MDA's exist.

    It was found between cases that my ex-wife (the defendant) was offering in online ads, 2 of her rooms for rent of a 3 bedroom house that she had been in for at over 3 years. The rental ad claimed the language "we", "us" and related couples vernacular and sparked interest. I had my licensed PI from her state contact and later arrange to visit the defendant's home in an effort to potentially rent the rooms. The PI used her real name in all contact with the defendant. The PI upon visiting was welcomed inside by the defendants' cohabitant and the guy she vacated the 17-year marriage for. They were living in TN but later moved to SC where the PI met them. The cohabitant claimed to live with her and had for all the years since the original breakup. He claimed he worked and more (see below).

    The PI came to court for the alimony modification hearing and was found very credible as was I and my sheer amount of evidence.

    The modification case was tried and the judge's ruling went in this way (with some background):

    At the start, the defendant's attorney demanded we set the case retroactive to the original order in 2016. We allowed this move. A reducement of alimony would create a sizable credit to me and raising alimony would be catastrophic. I'm by no means well off, but do ok. Check to check.

    The cohabitant did not come to court.

    My licensed PI testified and the defendant's attorney objected (a lot) to the PI under hearsay rules about what the cohabitant had said to the PI. The judge excepted the hearsay rules (and cited which ones) under the agency that the PI was under the premise to rent the rooms and could speak to what the cohabitant had said to her as to that context.

    I had been accused of hiding huge sums of money, underpaying alimony, and having many missing alimony payments (to the effect of traveling to court from out of state 7 times over many years, same judge). I successfully proved that through the bank and payroll records that I had made every payment for many years. I also had provided over 600 pages of discovery in 4 days as demanded by the defendant's attorney. We had to get to a motion to compel to get any of her records.

    We had also shown that the defendant had 2 legal vehicles, current on taxes and registrations for each. We also showed that the cohabitant's business domain name and website hosting were through the defendant's bank records. We showed that the defendant's mother had been sending money to the defendant. That the defendants' bank records were filled with credits from various sources including my alimony. We also showed that there were credits, for years, from 2 different roommates living with the defendant at differing times. We could not show who had paid the bills/utilities as they were not in the defendant's records. We also showed that in a year there were 4 haircuts at "sports clips" a hair care place mainly geared at male styles. The provided bank records demonstrated a lot of wasted spending.

    The judge ruled that after the evidence and testimony there was no doubt in the court's opinion that the cohabitant not only lived with the defendant, had been contributing and living off of, but had for years in both TN and SC. So, then the rebuttal presumption of the T.C.A. § 36-5-121(f)(2)(B) (http://www.tba.org/sites/default/files/section_ii_final.doc) statute came in to force and the defendant nor her attorney had any proof or argument that finances were split between the defendant and cohabitant in any form other than the defendant's bank records.

    Both the defendant and cohabitant were disabled... but in court, it was found by the PI that the cohabitant has gainful employment. By the defendant's own testimony, she was disabled a year earlier from cancer, stopped school (again) and collected disability payments/SSN. However, upon exploratory surgery, it was found that the defendant did not have cancer at all. She had then told SSA (I guess that's where disability is from) that it wasn't cancer and they told her to keep disability as long as you want it. Her own words. The cohabitant also had disability payments and an income. Both are physically able adults.

    The judge found the defendant incredibly, not credible. She had the defense that the cohabitant didn't live there but only stored his personal effects there and hadn't been "with" her for years because of some huge altercation that the defendants' daughters' husband shot the cohabitant (no police or hospital records found). Thus had broken up years ago. The judge also found the mother as a witness not credible as well with regard to sending payments to the defendant whenever her account got low. The defendant had said that when I didn't pay, her mom would send money. In this case, her mother found I had never missed a payment.

    The judge also stipulated that when the PI had randomly visited, that it was odd that the cohabitant was there. His stuff was there. His stuff was in use not stored. They as a couple claimed that a room was his office and that they are streaming gamers and sometimes played music loudly. That the cell phone bill the defendant had claimed very high for someone living alone and that the defendant and cohabitant's phone numbers were 2 digits apart. In the defendants' provided bank records, there were no utility payments at all. Only a car payment, car insurance, and rent. That the defendant was in the black by a lot every month (over $1200).

    Because of the rebuttal presumption (T.C.A. § 36-5-121(f)(2)(B)) having been in force and the defense attorney nor the defendant rebutted it... but stuck to the claim the cohabitant wasn't living there as their defense.

    There was a lot of posturing in the judges ruling as to why the judge shouldn't end the alimony altogether. Due to her lack of proving the "need" of alimony. Lack of rebutting the presumption statute. Credibility going back many years. That alimony was saddling the defendant and cohabitant from getting married. That my gross income had dropped 67% in the last 3 years. My ongoing medical issues. Why should he (the judge) not treat the defendant and married due to the very long term living conditions and shared income? Further, he had cited that she hadn't followed the original 2016 decree and filed 2 years of joint IRS taxes cutting my IRS tax obligations amounting to 21k owed. He also sited that if he removed alimony or reduced it then the defendant owed that back to me as a credit due to her attorney setting it as retroactive. He ruled on everything brought in the case, but this. The judge spent an hour and twenty minutes on just the ruling. The judge then due to all these parts, he asked that both our attorneys bring to him over 14 days any relevant specific case law and opinions that he shouldn't just terminate the alimony.

    14 days go by... and then a 3-day extension. Over the last 2 days I spent at my attorneys request, due to his illness, pouring over cases and opinions found 3 relevant cases with full opinions that the alimony by cohabitation alone could be suspending in part of whole, but that the courts have wide margin to decide modify, terminate, etc... especially in cohabitation cases where the rebuttal is not met and there wasn't a proof of need by the defendant. So, I have no idea how it will go, but personally, it's been a very hard fight since 2014, hurt both the defendant and myself more than financially and I would just like to see it end so we can stop coming to court ever 6-9 months. The defendant's attorney has already told my attorney that regardless of the outcome on this final point, that he was going to appeal.

    Thanks for hanging in there to the end. It's helped me clear my head somewhat.

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    Can I be escorted from my house? (OK)

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 06:32 AM PST

    Wife has started the process of divorcing me. She has told me if I come to the house she will have me escorted out. Can she do this? Does she need an eviction notice? She had her name put on the lease in place of mine. It's in Broken Arrow if that helps.

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    Didn't report under books income of about 5k last year, am being threatened by family member to be reported to IRS. Can I go to jail for tax evasion?

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 08:05 AM PST

    Should I pay 100 dollars to speak to a lawyer or can I fill out the information late? This money has traces in my bank account because I didn't know I would be betrayed.

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    [IA] I have to serve my spouse so I can change my name.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 08:20 AM PST

    We're in Iowa.

    My spouse and I have been married for five years and are in a loving and happy relationship. I'm transitioning and want to change my first name and my middle name, and I'm having trouble navigating the court system. If it matters, we got married in a different state and have different last names. Neither of us changed our names when we married.

    Iowa requires that petitioners file for name change online (through iowacourts.gov), which is all fine. I have all the necessary documents on my end (just a birth certificate), but the adult name change form without dissolution of marriage includes the following statement:

    "Petitioner is (check one): unmarried or married. (If married, petitioner must give legal notice to the spouse of the filing of this petition.)"

    I'm the petitioner and I'm married, so I have to do that. But there's no more information included about how I'm supposed to give legal notice, like what forms to use, and I'm lost on how to proceed. As far as I've been able to gather through Google, I think I can deliver my spouse an Original Notice of Personal Service myself, and my spouse has to file an Acceptance of Service in response?

    I was able to find the personal service and acceptance forms under the For the Public > Court Forms section of the Iowa Courts website, but they're under the Divorce with No Children section (form 104 for service and 105 for acceptance, respectively. I'll link them if that's allowed). I'm worried because the forms are divorce related - am I supposed to use these just to change my name?

    Thanks in advance.

    TL;DR How do I serve my spouse in Iowa?

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    Just bought a small farm, neighbor is complaining that pond water backs onto him.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 08:31 AM PST

    So I just bought a small farm and the neighbor who had tried hard to buy it for cheap is instantly complaining that the pond on the property line backs up onto him. Ive looked and best I can tell is the fence on the property line is in the mud edge of the pond. Not exactly certain of his complaint. There are no close structures only some ravine filled woods and cattle pasture.

    We are reasonably sure he is just being cranky there was some kind of familial tension pre existing between him and previous owners. but what legal recourse does he have I should i be aware of?
    Can he demand access to said pond? Can he force me to drain it?

    Pond is about 50yrs old. Previous owners lived their from 1965. He has owned adjacent prop for upwards of 20yr at least. Am in Southern Indiana.

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    Neighbor complains about noise constantly. I can't possibly live quieter than I am but she still complains.

    Posted: 07 Nov 2019 08:24 PM PST

    Montreal QC Canada.

    So I live on the top floor of a 3 story apartment building with 2 roommates. It was converted from a verry old house to 3 apartments. I don't know the year the house was built but it's verry old. The floors creek at every step and I can hear my neighbors talk through the floor. Iv been living in cheap apartments my whole life and I'm used to it, no big deal. But about a year ago my new neighbors moved in. A young couple with 2 teens and a baby.

    The noise complaints came within a week. I made efforts to oil and realigh all the doors to reduce noise. (The doors were all crooked and kinda had to be slammed shut) but complaints started coming in on a daily basis. The landlord got fed up and just gave all 3 of my roommates and I phone numbers to the new neighbors. Then the disrespectful TXT messages started coming in. Keep in mind we were still making efforts to stay quiet.

    We would reply to the TXT with "I'm sorry everyone is in bed and wer not making any noise, could it maybe be the downstairs neighbor? And she would flip out and call us liars. So we got sick of answering. We still make efforts to reduce noise to this day but her complaints have been getting out of hand. Frome aggressively pounding the ceiling to screaming into the common entrance at us to be quiet. Most of her complaints are made after 10 pm when everyone is sleeping except for me, I just stay up playing video games with headphones on.

    It's gotten to the point my girlfriend breaks down crying everytime the neighbor complains and it's affecting her ability to sleep, thus her performance at work. I'm thinking of filing a harassment complaint against the neighbors in question. Do you guys think it could help?

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    Drivers license issue

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 11:38 AM PST

    I have an issue that is holding me back in my career in the military.

    I got a DUI before I joined the Military, my driving privilege was revoked in my home state of Tennessee. I joined the military and got to my first duty station in Hawaii. I was able to get my license back from the state of Tennessee if I follow their guidelines: install an interlock device in my car for a year, and carry a special kind of insurance for a year. Keep in mind, this granted me access to a "restricted" drivers license.. stating only "valid with interlock."

    Cool. Okay. Well here is the issue. I have had this device and insurance for almost a year, by their records it will be up in February of 2020. However, to change my license from restricted to the regular drivers license, they say I have to come IN PERSON to the state of Tennessee reinstatement office. I explained I was over 8000 miles away and could not afford this trip with time or money. They pretty much said sorry for your luck and bye.

    Guys I need advice on what to do here. Having this restricted license is holding me back in my career in the military as I cannot drive any military vehicle.

    Thanks in advance

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    Another Nurse Practitioner Was Using my Script Pad Without my Knowledge [x-posted to r/nursepractitioner] Now What?

    Posted: 07 Nov 2019 08:11 PM PST

    This is in Ohio.

    I work at an outpatient behavioral health office that is still on paper. I hate paper and worked in detox as an RN prior to becoming a CNP. I've heard all the horror stories of diversion and felt like it was easy enough to call in my own scripts if paper scripts were the alternative.

    My employer had printed off prescription pads prior to my credentialing. I never used them, so there are hundreds in our CEO's office. My NPI and DEA numbers are printed on those scripts. I am also a MAT provider, so it's easy to infer what my xDEA is from that info.

    One of the scripts my colleague wrote was flagged by a pharmacy because she wrote just her name on the script. The script went through and the patient had been receiving medication under my name. I found out my coworker had been using my Rx pad for months. I had NO idea. Someone accessed them from the CEO's office for her since she ran out of her own pads.

    In Ohio, NPs have to collaborate with a physician -- we are not independent practice. My collaborating physician and I agreed on the steps I took next: (1) Informed BON (2) Informed Board of Pharmacy (3) Informed DEA (4) Filed police report per DEA

    This whole thing makes me sick-- upper management thinks this is not a big deal, but they are not clinicians, they have no license to lose or have compromised by this sort of risky behavior.

    Any idea of what I should do next to protect myself?

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    mother neglecting me for years, help

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 11:13 AM PST

    ok so I feel you need this information to try and give me some pointers in my situation

    Ok so I'm gonna try to keep this short but give enough Information to try and understand everything, so to start, just turned 15 on September 3rd, so now that you know that let me explain my situation, so about 6-7 years ago my mother pulled me out of school in the beginning of the 3rd grade because i said something like " I don't like the teachers " (when it really was just me not having friends I knew in that class..) and basically I haven't been to school since, and it's been really making me depressed, I don't know if i can go back to school and get my Diploma now or if its too late, I've only just now matured enough to even realize this, my mother has been neglecting my health for the past 5 years as-well, I have 2 massive cavities in my mouth that hurt like a mother fucker a lot of the time, and we have dental insurance so It's not like she cant take me to the dentist. and she basically ignores everything else about me and expects me to be happy sitting home all day,

    So my main concern is, how can I even begin to get out of this mess? do I call CPS or something? there is a Highschool my brother went to not even a mile away, I could go and talk to them to see if they can put me in some type of special classes or something, I really don't know, I barely know basic math, I know basically nothing at my age, Thanks. (sorry if my writing is all over the place aswell).

    I live in Louisville Kentucky.

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    American Disability Act help

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 09:42 AM PST

    Hey all,this is my first time posting, and i never thought i would. We live in Texas and my father we will call JD (John Doe) was a Senior Security Analyst (identify all security related events and traffic that can impute a network or client.)(Cyber Security). He has recently become blind due to his time in Military service finally catching up to him. His company (CO) has placed him on Long Term Disability for close to 1 year. During the year he was released by his doctor to return to work provided that he works from home, and use of a screen reader program such as JAWS. He has had further communications with them and Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) on his return to work. For 1 year he has been asking about the progress and anything he could do to help provided solutions to any errors found within the program, but to little to no avail. He has requested further information and what is being done on the reports and tests so to find solutions and workarounds, all was ignored. Only information he got was that due to XYZ issues to help find solutions, but was ignored in those regards, and he only got them through TWC not from the company. They then stated that they will go through third party software engineers to get the program to work. He never received the details in regards to the reports done just that it would be to expensive to do updates. They then informed him that he would not return to his last position but they will look at other positions within the company. 1 month later they contacted him with different positions but little details in regards to them. During a teleconference with HR, my father, and myself taking notes, he requested information detailing on the positions and the meanings behind some of the details such as travel and work on site, as well as location of the positions. They promised to contact him later but never did, whenever brought up in following conferences it was quickly glossed over. This continued until December 11th of 2018 they informed that they do not have any positions for him in the company that can accommodate his disability and that he will not be returning but left on Long Term Disability. We have contacted EEOC and was later informed a year later that they cannot move forward due to no email traffic for the questions on the positions and other accommodations that would have helped him return to the company (such as a human reader on his employ). Some issues that we have to some of the reports that shows some of the "initial" reports were done after the EEOC charge was filed, phone conferences where HR was belittling my father for being blind, and that whenever during the teleconferences with them asking on other accommodations we were ignored. We have many of the emails however when it came to the teleconference we never emailed them and thought that they were actually going to be forthright. We are currently awaiting a right to sue letter and was wondering if we should pursue.

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    I received a bill and threat of creditors for a bill I don’t owe.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 12:30 PM PST

    This isn't strictly legal advice but I don't know who else to ask. Background: March 2018 I ordered a gps for my cat. He kept escaping and I was afraid he would get lost. At that time I paid for a 1 year subscription for the device. The gps runs on cell phone data through ATT. The GPS never really worked very well in my neighborhood. One day in September 2018 my cat came home without the GPS. I couldn't find the GPS because it didn't work well and since it didn't work well I called and cancelled my account and subscription instead of replacing the device. Like I said, I paid for a whole year already so I chalked up six months as lost money. Oh well.

    This week I got bill and threat of creditor action from the gps creators. Apparently they hadn't canceled my account. They tried to automatically charge me after one year has expired. Luckily I had replaced my debit card in those six months. The bill is for "services rendered," but I haven't used the product in over a year. The device hadn't sent or received any data for six months before they tried to bill me for another year.

    So what do I do here. Do I fight this, or just say f it? Is it worth the headaches and hit to credit score over $130? I honestly would just pay it, but I went full scorched earth via email with their billing guy. Do I have any chance to fight this thing?

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    After end of 6-month lease, co-tenant and landlord saying I can't move out

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 03:29 AM PST

    (Long post, sorry! I'm really not doing ok mentally and am having trouble summarizing this.)

    My 6-month lease ended Oct 31. I was ready to renew with a 12-month lease, and had both submitted a written intent to start a 12-month lease to my landlord and reached a verbal agreement to do so with my cotenant/co-leaseholder. I have not signed the actual 12-month lease because, after a bitter disagreement with my contenant earlier this week, I realized I need to move out ASAP. I told my cotenant that I plan to move out, and submitted the required written 60-day move-out notice to my landlord on Nov 5. I also told my cotenant I would not sign a long-term lease, instead proceeding on a month-to-month basis.

    My cotenant protested having a month-to-month lease, but I assumed without re-reading the lease that we are currently in a month-to-month lease. When I delivered a $100 Nov rent premium check to my landlord on Wednesday (the new month-to-month rent includes a $100 premium -- long-term rent does not), she gave me back the check and said that, as I was a cotenant, I would not be able to amend the lease agreement (to be month-to-month) and also therefore would not be able to move out after the 60-day period without violating the lease agreement (unless cotenant and I both sign a notarized lease-transfer form transferring the lease to him). I interpreted this as an indication that I am currently in a long-term lease.

    Confused, I later reviewed my lease and found that my earlier assumption was correct: since the 6-month lease expired, our lease is month-to-month unless a new long-term lease is signed. And, no part of the lease indicates that my cotenant has to agree to my move-out.

    My questions (most important first):

    • Do I actually need my cotenant to sign a lease transfer form for me to move out?
    • Could you recommend a not-for-profit or governmental organization to aid in resolving this issue? I'm in Arlington, VA.
    • Am I currently in a month-to-month lease? Or am I missing something?
    • If I am in a month-to-month lease, will I get in trouble if I don't pay the $100 rent premium?
    • In a rush, I'd submitted a handwritten 60-day notice, not a typed & printed one. I have a photo of my notice. Is this a valid notice, or do I need to type & print it?
    • My landlord said that a 60-day notice might only be valid from the first of the month. Does this mean I'm stuck paying full January rent?

    Thank you very much for your time.

    Edit: To clarify, my cotenant pays the full rent by check and I reimburse him (not by check).

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    Friend of mine, High school, punished for pursuing his hobby of writing.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 08:29 AM PST

    My friend has a hobby of writing horror related stories, and recently hes been working on one, he asked his english teacher for advice on it. Instead of helping, they reported it, and now hes suspended and possibly expelled because its "disturbing" (what administration told him) He says the only thing in it was death, and involved nobody at our school. In the code of conduct it states nothing about writing something disturbing, and none of the story was threatening towards anybody. Doesn't this violate some sort of right?? He just wanted help writing his story.. what can he do??

    Edit: The school has programs/methods to deal with at risk students, and they are not putting him in them or using those methods, he is just getting suspended. He also explained to them how he loves the horror genre and just wants to write horror stories because it interests him.

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    Can employers revoke tips?

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 03:46 AM PST

    So about two weeks ago, a customer tipped me $100 on credit card. From what I understand, my manager and supervisor are planning on meeting with me tomorrow about it, because apparently after the tip was paid out to me, the customer pulled a dick move and had their bank do a chargeback against the order. Can my job demand I pay the money back? I'm in Massachusetts.

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    My ex stole my bed from the house 1 month after having signed off the lease and not returning her keys to the landlord.

    Posted: 08 Nov 2019 10:06 AM PST

    My ex and I have high highs and low lows and yesterday when we were trying to get dinner together some flip switched and she bolted out the door angry. An hour later she arrived with her new roommate to my apt without a notice and used her key she had not yet returned to the landlord to get into the residence. I had just bought a new bed that was in the living room and they proceeded to grab said bed and yank it outside. I yelled at both of them stating that neither one of you are on the lease nor is this property yours so I best advise you leave. I tried to hold onto the bed frame while they stole everything needed for a bed. I could not get my ex to talk to me at all before during or after this happened. While I was sitting in anger in my living room about 40-50 minutes later I had 2 police officers knocking on my door. They were here because my ex had made a call saying that I was with holding her items from her. I allowed them all to come in and clearly stated she has nothing in the house she just wants this bed frame that goes with the bed she just stole. The police agreed to let me have the frame and when she entered the house she grabbed absolutely nothing and left with the cops whom all wished me a good night. When asking the officer if this is legal? Like how can someone who is not on the lease of over 30days just arrive and use a key they arnt suppose to have to get into the residential unit and get whatever they want? The officer said that because we lived together at one point it's mutual items. I had a receipt for the bed in my name yet he said that it's for a court to decide. Wtf????

    I am very upset and confused as to how this is legal. Am I allowed to show up to any residence I've ever lived at and take what I want knowing I'm covered by some bullshit "mutuality" clause?

    I am in Oregon, USA

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