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AUGUST 17, 2021

You told them you’re moving in a couple of months to a state where they’re not legally set up to have employees (likely for reasons like this ). I think you’re seeing it as “but I haven’t resigned and I want to keep working for them” — and it sounds like your boss wanted that too, but then learned that legally they can’t do that.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I overheard a conversation between two supervisors in our office (I have a cubicle, they were in the conference room opposite me, the door was half-open, and they’re both loud talkers). Payroll only invited me to create an account in their employee management system after I had been employed for over a month.

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JANUARY 15, 2015

This employee is a very low performer and I no longer want to keep them on my payroll. However, anyone with an office or who sits in a cubicle away from the front counter can. No, this is not discrimination in the legal sense. And assuming so, that’s perfectly legal. My manager banned me from eating at my desk.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

The row of cubicles that my fellow freelancers and I sit in right now is jokingly referred to as “Contractor’s Row.” I’m a freelance writer contracting at a large company, and I’ve noticed that some people tend to look down on contractors and freelancers.

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