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| [Update] Is it arson if I burn down a building that I own? Posted: 05 Jan 2021 07:41 AM PST Hi everyone, came here to give an update as many people asked. The burning of the barn finally happened! We went to the fire department and asked about a controlled burn. They said it might be OK under certain conditions but they had to do an inspection first. They made us remove all that could have produced toxic fumes and pollution, like old tires and the ruins of a tractor. The wood was dry and there was almost no paint left so they said it was fine to burn. They were actually glad for the opportunity because they had a new guy to train. They said they would do protection of the other buildings and nearby bush and it would be a productive training session for them. When the day finally came they let us start the fire (more of a symbol than anything, they did the "real" starting for safety reasons). The fire had to be helped a bit because it had rained a lot the days before, but then the whole barn was engulfed at once, it was beautiful in a way. I must say it burned spectacularly well, there was almost nothing left in the end, which is exactly what we wanted. For those of you who were worried about us burning valuable stuff, we did keep some tools and a pile of boards that we will sell but there wasn't much more than that, except if you can find value in porn magazines from the 80s, empty bottles and nude girls calendars. These were my father's possessions so we had a lot of pleasure in letting them burn. We added his clothes for good measure. We likely could have sold more of the barn wood, but there was more purpose for us in burning it all down. Probably won't solve the deeper issues of what our father did but it did bring some relief and some sense of closure. Unfortunately we couldn't throw the big BBQ party we wanted for the fire department (we did have some beer though) because of Covid restrictions, but we all decided to do it later, hopefully next summer. The firemen were real bros, really cool but professional, and they seemed to have as much fun as we did. We're really thankful for their help, you rock guys. [link] [comments]  |
| Landlord solicited, my PARENTS, sexual favors in exchange to erase past due months rent Posted: 04 Jan 2021 03:07 PM PST Hi, I debated posting this since its embarrassing to write, and even more to share with people online. However I don't know anyone who i can ask for guidance. BACKGROUND: I live in NJ with my parents and originally paying rent was manageable and then, just like everyone, we got hit with the pandemic. Thankfully during lockdown, laws were past to stop evictions, we knew we would have to pay past rent and that was no problem. We came to an agreement with the landlord to pay an addition 400 a month, when lockdown ended. Fast forward to last Friday we get a monthly bill notice, showing how much we owe and a small message written in permanent marker saying "Eviction 1/15/21" My mom called up the landlord. Saying there must be some mistake, and my mom was hit out of no where with a vile proposal. The landlord, a women, told my mom that we owe her X amount of dollars but all this can go away if she, my mom, would be her husband's lover and that my dad become her lover. My mom immediately started crying, she felt vulnerable and it hurt me to see her crying trying to explain what had happened. The scary part is that our landlord's husband is a cop, so I can't just go to the police The whole conversation occurred over a phone call. And I just wanted to ask what are my family's options, can we sue? Should we move out asap? Any advice is much appreciated. EDIT: Thanks everyone for the advice. The plan is to go to a lawyer tomorrow and then the authorities. Also, I'm doing my best to convince my mom to call the LL up again so she can elaborate on the "offer" while we record the call. My mom is hesitant but maybe I can ask the lawyer to see if this is a good idea and have him convince my mom to jump on board with the idea. Thanks and I will post an update [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2021 04:14 AM PST I work at a real estate company in Arkansas where everyone there has mocked the virus. Whether it was being called overblown or even a made-up hoax. Nobody there but myself wears a mask or follows CDC guidelines. The owner and I have been good friends for 5 or 6 years and I got this job in July managing their IT and marketing in July. I was thankful then due to losing my job in March when the virus started. Those mentioned circumstances is why the only confrontation I gave him was when he came in a week ago with a fever and a cough with no mask. I asked him if he had seen a doctor or gotten a Covid test. His response left me speechless. "Why would I get tested they're going to lie and give me a false positive because the hospital gets 10,000 dollars for every positive result they get. It's all a hoax!". Yesterday I found out his long-time live-in girlfriend was in the hospital for the last 2 days on oxygen with the virus. He still came in with no mask on like it was no big deal. I have already started looking for a new job and I'm supposed to find out if I got one of those prospects this week. I would rather just change jobs and quietly leave the circus. In the event I can't get another job staying at this one is dangerous and I'm tired of being in harms way for $12.00 per hour, I haven't seen my friends and family in months due to this. I'm not the most well versed person in the legal sense, but whistleblower comes to mind if things go south. What are my options here? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2021 06:03 AM PST "Obligatory on mobile" I received the following text from the lady I rent a room from. (It is her house. I sign a lease). This is in North Carolina. Does anyone know the legality of this? I plan to print off a new copy of the lease agreement for you with the following changes: 1) anything with any volume requires headset or AirPods after 10:30 pm upstairs. Phone calls must be taken downstairs after 10:30 Pm. This will be effective immediately. 2) Starting April 2nd I will no longer allow tenants to work from home on a regular basis. Exceptions are bad weather and temporary shut-down type COVID effects, or sick or something. The main point is that I never meant to accommodate working from home situations before COVID. If I did entertain a working from home tenant rent would increase. Other public places charge for work space and the IRS recognizes the cost. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2021 07:14 AM PST I recently moved to the Netherlands for my study and got myself a very cheap room in a flat with three others. The catch is one of those there is my 50 year old landlord. Since he travels a lot and the price was so cheap i decided to stay a while. Two more students live in the other rooms. Recently one of the girls moved out. While I was back home for the holidays, my landlord moved his girlfriend and her two kids into his room and the extra room. Now instead of a student flat with 3 others, I'm living in a family home with 5 others. Being corona times and a foreign country, moving around is quite a challenge. I'm scared he might try to kick me out, and generally I'm very unhappy with this situation. Is it legal for him to kick me out? If not kick me out I'm scared he's going to make the place super uncomfortable to live in. Is it even allowed to completely change the living situation like that? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:27 AM PST This is kinda messy. Sc usa. Grandfather passed away. He owned his house plus several other rental properties. We live in one of the rental properties he owned. Everything including the rentals, except the grandfather's house is marked in the will to be sold. His house was left to us. So since the current house we reside in must be sold and divided up among the family, meaning we have to leave, and the grandfather's house was left to us, we came to move in. The funeral was 3 weeks ago. Uncle from NYC came down before the funeral to help out, and just sort of stayed. He is living in the house, driving my deceased grandfather's cars, using the utilities and whatever else. I came over to start moving things around and measure rooms and get ready to paint and throw away trash, and he won't let us in the house. He is saying it's not ours yet and we have no right to be here, but neither does he? As I understand it, living off the estate you are executing means you are profiting from the resources you are supposed to distribute. Called a local cop and to his reckoning, nobody has the right to live here at all, but similarly nobody has the right to kick someone else out either. So he can't stop me moving in but I can't kick him out? I'm not sure what to do here. Uncle as far as I know plans to live here for the next 8 months while the probate is finished. Is there any way to get him out? Is there any way to remove him from his position by abuse of power/privileges? His own lawyer admitted to worries that he is profiting from the money changing hands. His wife also came down from NYC and posted up in the house with him. They are basically treating it like a vacation. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2021 08:09 AM PST Been living here for 6 years and never had a problem with my neighbors. The occasional disagreement now and then, but nothing serious. However, 3 months ago they sold the house and the new neighbor has caused many confrontations while trying to make it seem like my fault. 1) they placed an open envelope with a book of fake cheques in my mail, hoping i would "return" it to them...but opening someone else's mail is a felony, and given what has happened since, i am 100% sure this was an attempted setup 2) parking in our driveway...we have a private driveway, and they've parked multiple times in it, and in front of it blocking access...asked them to stop and they replied "that's cool" 3) after they called the cops on me, they installed security cameras...i know you might think i did something but i really don't have any idea what is their problem, so i started recording them and she freaked out telling me it's illegal to record her a d she called the cops (i have this on recording). Due to that false 911 call, the cops came to my house again. All i did is record her while she installed security cameras as i wanted proof they weren't there before and it was her who put them up. So she has tried setting me up for a felony, she's made 2 false reports to police and she also harasses me when i go outside to do housework. What do i do? Oh yeah another thing is i have her on record saying that my landlord told her my name...here it is illegal for landlords to give personal information of tenants. [link] [comments]  |
| Boss informed employee that pay is deducted for mistakes made on orders Posted: 05 Jan 2021 08:12 AM PST My fiancee works at a t-shirt printing company in Texas and this morning her boss informed her that "She forgot to tell her" that after two months on the job she usually starts deducting the full price of the t-shirt and ink from employees paychecks every time they mess up printing a shirt. Is this legal? From what I've seen it isn't if you've never signed anything stating such. My fiancee is a part time employee that only works 20/hours a week. She's also the only employee so I'm not too sure where the "usually docks pay" thing is coming from. [link] [comments]  |
| Lights automatically turn off in lab with live virus (MA) Posted: 05 Jan 2021 01:36 PM PST I sometimes work in a high security lab with pathogens up to BSL3 (e.g. concentrated SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) that has automated overhead lighting. The most secure labs with the more dangerous pathogens have no windows or natural light and are located deep in the building. In the past, the secure labs were lit 24/7, and less secure labs and common areas (including bathrooms with showers) were lit 12 hours/day. We have asked them to either make all lights on 24/7 or give us manual control many times over the years, starting with our direct supervisor, to the facility manager and going up to the director. Nothing was ever done. Instead, the building recently changed the most secure lab lights from 24/7 on to only being on for 12 hours. We found this out when someone got stuck in the lab with infectious samples in a full suit and the lights went out on them. There is no manual switch inside to turn them on. In order to turn on the lights, we have to go through a full disinfection and PPE doffing (full body suits + PAPR unit), and exit the lab area, and even then, the light will automatically turn off after an hour. The building is open for work 24/7, and we have been working long, hard hours as we are processing samples from a certain pandemic. (Side note: We are all very tired and this has taken our stress levels to new heights) At this point we feel we have exhausted our options to fix this internally. While this is not the only major issue we have, this is one that seems like a crystal clear safety violation - especially now that it put one of us at direct risk with literal virus in hand. We do not have a union. Is OSHA the next step here? Is there another state or federal entity that can force them to fix this? I'd like to get this information and/or a complaint prepared to give them one last chance to fix things. [link] [comments]  |
| My employer is breaking many labor laws and I am unsure of my next steps Posted: 05 Jan 2021 11:52 AM PST Location: South Carolina, USA Side note: Apologies for posting twice recently. I also was involved in a pretty bad car accident and that post got a lot of attention. Y'all were very helpful and I was hoping I could get some advice on this as well while I go through that process. Here's some of my main concerns:
That's not all, but that's what I've compiled that's she's done towards me currently and know I can take action on. Should I take this to a lawyer? Or would I be okay submitting the SS-8 and 8919 to the IRS and reporting Lost Wages to the Department of Labor myself? I'm 100% sure she will fire me for doing so, so I am unsure what to do and I cannot go without pay for more than a week, and I want to be careful. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2021 01:50 PM PST An eastern Washington hospital sent a debt collector after me with no letters, emails, or phone calls prior. The debt collectors sent me a letter on the 14th of December about what I owed and the interest they were applying to it. This was the very first letter I'd ever received about it but I was told it was 1 of 3. When I called the hospital for information, asking what I was being billed for in the first place and why they never contacted me, they told me the service was for a physical therapy exam (that I don't remember) they billed to me in March of 2019. I told them I'd moved out of eastern Washington back in December of 2018. The person I spoke with said my records were from before she was hired. When I asked why they never billed me or sent me any emails she told me the hospital "doesn't send billing emails". She didn't tell me why the hospital never called me, just told me the debt collectors had. When I talked to the debt collectors about this I found out they'd been using all the wrong addresses and phone numbers. The one time they used the RIGHT phone number they hadn't left a message because it was against their policy to do so at the time. I asked if they could remove the interest applied to it and they said they weren't able to do anything about it. I had to not only pay a bill for a service I don't remember getting, but I also had to pay the hospital's collection fee and the the debt collectors' interest. The people I spoke to over the phone were all pleasant and it's not their fault this is happening so I tried not to give them any trouble but this whole thing just screams scam at me. I feel like I should get a lawyer involved in this. There is no way this can be legal, right? (Sorry about the wonky title). [link] [comments]  |
| Will I go to jail for failing to comply with diversion? Posted: 05 Jan 2021 01:07 PM PST I got a misdemeanor charge a few months ago for battery. It's my first charge as well. I'm 17 now but 16 when I got it and I live in Tampa, Florida. I was arrested and taken to the JAC. The court ordered I do 10 hours community service to pay court fees and attend the "Juvenile Arbitration Program." I was supposed to turn in everything I did for diversion about 45 minutes ago on a call. I missed this call and on top of that I have done nothing towards my diversion. I'm worried I'm going to go back to jail. I'm not worried about going back to court and getting probation but I don't want to have to go back to jail and serve 21. I heard that I'll most likely be charged with failing to do diversion and I'll be arrested, serve 21, and released on papers. Is this accurate? What will most likely happen to me? [link] [comments]  |
| Can an employer legally forbid you from discussing disciplinary action with your coworkers? (US) Posted: 05 Jan 2021 11:54 AM PST Is it legal (or enforceable) to have policies that forbid you to discuss disciplinary action with your coworkers in the US? My management team has always made a huge deal over the fact that discipline is STRICTLY confidential and cannot be discussed with anyone other than your leadership. The ostensible reason being that each person may get a different punishment based on their history of previous discipline. Ex: Person A and B make the exact same mistake, but person A has no disciplinary record and gets only a verbal warning. Person B already has multiple warnings, so they get written up. To some extent, this makes sense and I understand the reasoning. I also understand that there may be plenty of reasons why it would be wise for an employee to not discuss this kind of information with their coworkers. In reality, however, this policy is being used to prevent people from speaking up. If someone gets in trouble for something unfairly (unfortunately common in my current department), there's no recourse for them other than going straight to HR. But since you're not allowed to discuss discipline, there's no way to prove you're being unfairly targeted without opening yourself up to further punishment for breaking the discussing discipline rule. I have to imagine that this kind of policy is at the very least unenforceable, since it seems like this would be an easy way for employers to try and hide discrimination. If you are not allowed to discuss discipline, then how can someone who is POC/queer/disabled/ whatever protected class prove they are being unfairly targeted? For the record, these same managers always insist it's forbidden to discuss pay or raises. I should add, I'm already actively looking for new employment since there are many, many management issues on my team. I am not planning on making a stink of any kind, I'm just curious of the legality here. Because my direct leadership is so incompetent, it's also sometimes hard to verify if something is really "company policy", their incompetent interpretation of what the actual policy is, or just utter nonsense they've made up. I'm in Florida, if that matters. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2021 08:32 AM PST So my wife and I have been married a little over a year and its been a nightmare. Unfortunately we do not meet the residency requirements for NJ (currently reside here) or the state we got married in NY so were kind of in limbo till July. She wants to make it work but there has been a lot of infidelity in terms of emotional and financial. I tried separating about a month ago and she said if I chose this route she would destroy my life with domestic violence allegations or other legal troubles. As well as spending out of control (which she has already added 10k of debt in one month) in order to force me to be stuck. I cannot file anything till July but at the moment what can I do to protect myself until then? I understand regardless I will be losing money and assets I'm more concerned about bankruptcy level debt and the legal allegations more than anything. Sorry if its too broad and thanks for any help! [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 05 Jan 2021 01:26 PM PST CW: suicidal acts, acts of violence (spoken) I was told to post this here, by some commenters— I'm mainly wondering how we should approach the police about this. I am in Hong Kong, but most of my friends are in the US (California to be exact). I'm also still enrolled in college in CA, just staying with my grandma at the moment to ride out COVID. The guy stalking us is a US citizen who is currently somewhere in Asia (Korea? Japan?) after running away from his parents in the US. He has also been in Hong Kong for a few months in 2020. I'm Canadian by nationality, enrolled in university in California on a student F-1 visa. Long story short, he showed up at this discord server for students of our university and said that he was a prospective student who really wanted to go when he applied. It's a very prestigious university so we get many of those, so we weren't too worried about him. Usually the people who find our discord who are "prospective students" usually don't stay long and drift off. However, he started venting in our server a lot. We all tried to help him to the best of our ability, and since I had some time on my hands I reached out to him and tried to give him some advice. I suppose he latched onto me or something because he suddenly began bombarding me with messages about his life and his mental health struggles. It got to the point where if I ignored his messages, he'd threaten me with self harm or suicide. Once he messaged me saying he was going to kill himself, and sent a picture of his suicide method. He told me that by ignoring him I was just like everyone else who had wronged him. He knew it was midterm season and that I had a midterm, but I made the choice to miss it to help him. I couldn't possibly leave him like that. As a result, I ended up having to drop an important class and delay declaring my major. When his problems start warranting the help of a professional, I tell him so and that I needed some distance to focus on my own mental health and my academics. At this point I had been ghostwriting his messages to his family to try and salvage the bridges he'd burned, I had even arranged therapy for him that he refused to go to. He then told me that my bipolar II was probably a misdiagnosis and just "stress", that even if it was real it wasn't nearly as severe as having borderline personality disorder, that he was the only one having real suicidal thoughts because he's been hospitalized for it before. I tell him he's crossed my boundaries multiple times, I can't take his emotional manipulation anymore. He then tells me he knows the area where I live, that he'd gonna go drown himself at the beach in front of my house and that he's already been there before and tried to drown in the ocean. Obviously after that shitshow, I tell him I have to block him. It was long overdue anyway and he had been wrecking havoc in my life for nearly a year now. He suddenly confesses to me and tells me he's in love with me and that I'm hot. I suddenly remember that there would be a muted and unrecognized user who would pop in on our video calls sometimes. Thankfully, I wore a mask the few times I showed my face because I was sitting outside at a cafe (was in a relatively Covid free country with my grandma for 2020). He must've seen some of the workout pictures I've sent and deleted immediately in the server's workout channel too. I feel creeped out that he's always watching what I send and when I show any evidence of what I look like. Worst of all, he KNOWS that I'm gay. I have no attraction to men, period. He straight up disregards that and tells me he loves me and that he'll make me "change my mind". That he'll "do anything". Obviously grossed out and betrayed, I block him. He quickly begins to harass my friends from the same server, and stalks them across social media platforms. He starts threatening them too, anytime he sees them active on social media but not messaging him, he accuses them of ignoring him and wanting him dead. For example, he stalked one of my younger friends and followed my friend all the way to his private tutoring slack group. He got banned from the server but rejoined under multiple alt accounts using VPNs, and every time I talk in the server he messages my friends going "what has NPC told you about me in dms" etc. He's told my friends that he plans on seeking violent retribution on his parents, that he hates me and wants revenge and wants to find me, that he will give payback to the students from his dream school who have treated him coldly and apparently "want him dead". I'm afraid he's gonna find me and do something to my friends and family. I'm also afraid he might murder his parents, or god forbid, go to our campus and shoot up our college. He may be all talk, but the fact that he very openly makes these claims is terrifying. From some of the comments he makes on steam, he has some very misogynistic views and some very homophobic ones too. None of us can figure out who he actually is. None of his social media accounts have his last name nor his face. It turns out he's not in school and unemployed too, extorting money from his family and moving countries every two three months. Please help, idk what to do... I'm afraid of taking the wrong step in case he actually goes through with what he threatens to do. I'm terrified that he will find me or he already knows where I live, and even more so terrified about him finding my friends who live on campus (where he knows the layout by now). TLDR: guy who has untreated but diagnosed borderline personality disorder has harassed threatened, emotionally manipulated and stalked me. He has violent intentions (at least voiced them) towards me, my friends and his parents. I can't figure out who he actually is. What can I do now? EDIT: to clarify I didn't book therapy, just found a therapist and time slots for him. [link] [comments]  |
| Driveway Easement on Lease - Who has to maintain? Posted: 05 Jan 2021 10:56 AM PST Last year I bought a house with a few acres. The Deed lists an easement for a neighbor to use a portion of my driveway, as their house is a good bit off the road. We are now in winter and have gotten a few snow falls. Am I obligated to plow/maintain the driveway for their use? I ask because they have gotten pushy about how quickly I am able to clean it. I had it plowed professionally once or twice last year, as I was still moving in, didn't have a plow or blower at the time - I am worried I set a bad precedent. More recently, I was out of town for the holidays and we got a few inches of snow - they called a plow company to clear the driveway - only the section they use - and when I arrived home they said they would forward me the bill. They didn't even plow my section of the driveway - only the shared portion. Any input would be awesome. Thanks! Edit: Northeastern Vermont [link] [comments]  |
| Illinois State Taxes Sent to Collection Agency Posted: 05 Jan 2021 11:47 AM PST My 2018 tax liability was sent to collections. I tried to work out a payment plan with the department of revenue directly, but they said they were unwilling or unable as they have already sent my liability to a collections agency, and I have to deal directly with them. I had once been advised by a tax attorney (who used to work at the IRS), that I should never deal with the collection agency directly, but that I should just make direct payments on my own to the Dept. of Rev. until my liability is satisfied. Is that a good plan of action (to avoid paying the collection agency fees)? Or should I suck it up, deal directly with the collection agency and eat the fees? Thanks in advance for any advice! [link] [comments]  |
| [California] Signed lease renewal at lower rent, building manager is now saying it was a mistake Posted: 04 Jan 2021 02:46 PM PST I renewed my lease at $200 less than what I was paying originally. Dropped off the payment today and I get a call from the office manager stating my rent did NOT change and I owe the $200. I protested stating that I had a copy of the signed lease but now they are threatening they will consider the rent not paid in full which is grounds for eviction. I called the Fair housing foundation and they advised I do not pay the remaining $200, but if they make good on their threat that will leave my family and I out on the street... What do I do in this situation?? Edit- The reason I did not question the decrease was because the rent is based on income. My husband lost his job due to covid-19 so there was a significant decrease in income. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 04 Jan 2021 09:53 PM PST I should warn you in advance that English is not my native language, as I am European. Additionally, I apologize in advance if this subject matter upsets anyone, as I know it is greatly upsetting me. My brother suggested this was the place to go for anonymous advice and I am not very familiar with the website. I have read the rules and will try my best to be a good citizen of the forum. I posted this question to another forum in a different form a little while ago, but a kind person there told me it probably belongs here. I'm (38 M) an academic in CA, USA. I've lived here for about 9 years. Shortly after moving here, I met my best friend, B (37 M), and his younger sister, T (15 F). My friend works in tech and is quite wealthy. He gained custody of his sister when she was 4 due to the untimely death of their parents. It would be too time-consuming for me to go into here, but I have felt for a long time that B resented T's presence. I, however, really do feel T is a younger sister to me. Since the beginning of the the virus lock down, I have been staying with B, B's girlfriend (35 F), and T, who is zooming to class. I decided to quarantine here because I am single and dreaded being locked down alone. I am conscious that T is getting older and developing into an attractive young woman and we can't be as physically affectionate as we were when she was 5 or 6. So while I enjoy spending time with her, I have been extra careful only to pick activities that are of the type a family does together. Despite this, I have noticed that T is growing very emotionally dependent on me and I think she is developing a school-girl crush. Since her school is all-girl's, she has no real experience with boys her age, so I think it is developmentally normal that she might develop a crush on me. B and B's girlfriend noticed the change in T's behavior, and began teasing me about it. At first, I didn't mind the teasing. It was a little odd because T is so young and the age gap is so considerable, but I remember teasing my friends in a similar manner when my little sisters developed crushes on them. The jokes started out relatively appropriate, such as "ohhhh she's making eyes at you!" or "Will you be taking T on another date in the living room this evening?" or humming the wedding march to me when she comes down the stairs. All this is stuff I can laugh off. Then the tone got weirder and the jokes less innocent. Both B and B's girlfriend keep making jokes, implying that T and I actually have a physical relationship and have more recently started to imply that we should get married. To be clear: we do not and I find the idea disgusting. They will say things like "When will you finally make an honest woman of her?" or "Be careful, I'm not ready to be an uncle." This evening, we went out to pick up take out for dinner. B awkwardly mentioned, without it being relevant to our conversation, that CA allows a girl of any age to be married with the consent of her guardians, and that it was thus technically legal for us to have a physical relationship. I near had a panic attack. I asked him why he knew that and he said something nearly "Just in case, I think it is useful information to know. Don't you think?" I know I need to remove myself from this situation ASAP. But I would feel such a burden of guilt if I left T behind. I know in my stomach they just want her out of their house, and my nightmare is they find someone else who is willing to marry her. My questions: Short of putting her into foster care, are there legal steps I can take to protect T from this environment? As I said, we live in CA. Additionally, I don't believe B or T have any other surviving family members aside from one cousin who I have only heard mentioned here or there. [link] [comments]  |
| (WA) Is this considered theft? Posted: 05 Jan 2021 01:07 PM PST I don't think the following situation is theft but I had several people think that it is. I'm currently working with 2 companies remotely. For each of these companies, I am fully salaried (so I don't need to log my hours) and I have separate computers. My work in both companies are different jobs, different industries, and different states. Neither company policy explicitly forbids me from seeking other employment but I also haven't notified them (I am not required to do so and it doesn't seem wise for me to tell them because even though it's not forbidden I know they won't like it) I usually work 9-5p (I don't necessarily have to work these specific hours) and I am able to get work done within those 8hr for both of my jobs to each of my manager's satisfaction level. Since I am overlapping those 8hr between 2 jobs, is that considered time theft? [link] [comments]  |
| Magazines are costing me $1000 five years later. Posted: 05 Jan 2021 11:17 AM PST So I (28F) signed up for a magazine subscription service back when I was 22. A few months later, I discontinued the service. For the next few months, they hounded me for money to continue the service, but I never received the magazines, so I was not paying for something I didn't receive. My patience wore out back in 2016 when I noticed money being take from my account that I had not authorized. Turns out that the magazine company had charged two payments through my account to continue the subscription. It should be noted that I had changed banks and not given them the new info. I called, and raised hell. By the end of that phone call, the woman on the other line, closed the account, and no money was ever taken from my account again. I thought the matter had been resolved. Well, I go to check my credit report and I am now being slammed with a $1000 bill from a collection agency saying I never closed the account and I owe them. I told them that it was closed back in 2016, yet I don't have proof. My email account I used to sign up for that is no longer active and if I had received a paper notice of cancellation, it would have long made it to the trash (it's been almost 5 years!). I'm currently disputing it with the credit agency, but this has never shown up before on any of my yearly free reports. Is there anything I can do from a legal stand point to get this resolved? Or is there any other proof that the credit company will accept for this dispute. I honestly can't afford $1000 for magazines never delivered and am trying to clear up credit disputes to buy a house. Edit: I'm from NJ if that matters [link] [comments]  |
| Business closed. Owes me $1500. Moved to another state and started new business. USA/VA Posted: 05 Jan 2021 04:26 AM PST I was taking flying lessons at a local flight school in Virginia. The owner closed up shop and moved the planes to another state. I prepaid for time in planes because if you buy 10 hours you get one free. My account should have around $1500 of credit for my hours. Owner doesn't return calls. His planes popped up in another state owned by a new company that he owns. Google reviews have employees who claim he didn't pay them. Several online publications have articles that say he also does the same with online businesses. He gets paid, doesn't deliver, changes addresses. Can I somehow get my money back? I don't know his current address. I know his name and a PO box the planes are registered to. Can I call federal law enforcement? [link] [comments]  |
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