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Fired for extended sick time (hospitalized)

Location: NY My sister (52) was employed with NY State in a county job for about a year, and requested time off for a medically related breast reduction (severe back problems). Her boss ok’d everyt...

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Apartment complex hired pool company and pool company damaged my car (Florida)

Location: Florida Pool company was hired to renovate the pool at my apartment, during the process they were blocking my car in and spraying/cleaning up very close to my car (I was parked in a norma...

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Spouse avoiding being served divorce papers, won’t answer the door

Location: Tennessee Hello. No dependents, we aren’t living together, I moved out and tried starting this process over 2 years ago. Since we separated I let her keep the house, I fixed the staircase...

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Landlord says I abandoned my apartment because I was away caring for my mom

Location: Ohio I rent a one bedroom apartment and have lived here for almost 3 years. My mother had surgery in February and I stayed at her house for about 5 weeks to help her. I still paid rent on...

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Wife reported sexual harassment at work. Company brought the guy back, didn't move him off her crew, and now she's the one who is transferred to another crew and essentially taking a demotion.

My wife (30F) and I (31M) live in Oregon. She works at a distribution center. This is a large company with thousands of employees across hundreds of locations but this is their only distribution ce...

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Can I sue after the towing company wrongfully towed my vehicle overnight in NY?

Location: New York My vehicle was wrongfully towed in the middle of the night by a towing company that claimed it was parked in a fire hazard zone, although it was not. The towing company later ad...

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1099 Employees need help, we're being taken advantage of, and our customers are being lied to!

Location: Ohio I'm going to be as anonymous as possible, throwaway account of course. I work in sales. I get paid half upfront and half on delivery of products. Several of my coworkers and I have h...

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Completed a full website + branding job for a small business in Austin, they dissolved their LLC before paying the last invoice, reopened under a new name 3 weeks later.

I do freelance design and web work on the side and took on a project for a local med spa back in September. Full rebrand, new site, social assets, the whole thing. We had a written contract, I sent...

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NJ – Wedding planner keeping $4k “non-refundable deposit” after doing minimal work and terminating contract. Do I have a case for partial refund?

Helllooo! Location: NJ TL;DR: Paid $4,125 (50% deposit) to a wedding planner in NJ for an $8,250 contract. Only received minimal early-stage work (calls, site visit, inspo deck), no vendor sourcing...

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My mom died with everything TOD or POD to me. Then there was the windstorm.

Location: Ohio. My mom passed in November from lung cancer. We had time, and she qualified for help from legal aid (they are wonderful!) to get all her affairs in order. She made her house TOD to m...

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Hospital Trespass Warning Location: Pennsylvania

Location: Pennsylvania When I was working as a 911 paramedic, I later received a trespass warning letter from the hospital citing. The letter states I was prohibited from entering the hospital unl...

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Bank Account Got Subpoena from debt collection

Location: NY To start off I’m a 20 year old male in New York state, today I checked my savings/ checking acc on my local FCU’s mobile app. I see my available balance is $6,200 dollars different fro...

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Theft?

Location: Kentucky. I have a friend of 20 years who stays over often. I live with my partner and an infant child. We have noticed personal belongings going missing such as clothing items & expe...

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[Texas] Got charged twice by renter's insurance company and they insist they only charged me once.

I paid renters insurance through a different company until I could get a proper renter's insurance through my existing Auto-Insurance company. This 3rd party company offers prorated refunds. But do...

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My wife, 36 weeks pregnant today, was terminated from her work unannounced

EDIT 1: Thank you for the overwhelming support everyone. Yesterday we had an OB appointment to check for the health of our baby as my wife is having a geriatric pregnancy. The doctor required us to...

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I’m a bartender and failed an underage sting, help!!

Location: Shoshone County, Idaho, United States I’ve never even had a speeding ticket so I am so lost. I’m a 20 year old bartender in Idaho, yes we can serve alcohol at 19 here, and I failed a stin...

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How do we get them out of inherited home?

Location: Oklahoma So quite a few years back, my FIL inherited a small home in OK from his father. His father, we’ll call him “Grandpa”, was married and divorced multiple times. Upon his death, ev...

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Could my roommates and I be held liable for somebody leaving our house drunk and crashing despite the fact I was asleep?

Location: Connecticut Basically long story short I am on a lease with four other girls. One of the girls had her boyfriend over and two of his friends over (all the guys are 21). I’m not really fr...

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Bail Bonds Refusing to Return my $15,000 Bail

Location: Hidalgo County, Texas I got arrested in Texas and I live in Oklahoma. Since I was out of state I had to pay the full bail amount $15k. Apparently, I did not qualify for the typical 10% of...

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(Wisconsin) Landlord walked in without knocking to show my apartment while I was almost fully naked [WI] - SE WI -Waukesha County

Location: Wisconsin First ever throwaway account as this is something I don’t want tied to me publicly. Anyway, here goes the situation: I moved into a building just over a week ago that is brand ...

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MIL dies from neglect

location: ohio My mother in law passed away after 4 days in hospital following an extended period of dehydration and malnutrition due to emotional abuse and neglect from her daughter. Her daughter ...

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