Sep
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2014
Can't have nice things, can we? Noooooo... · 10:07pm Sep 4th, 2014
So, started my new job today. It was good, I like it, the co-workers are nice... jeans aren't a fucking requirement, so bonus for that...
So, why the title? my roomie's gotten fucked over. Hard. And there's almost no recourse. We're so screwed that... well, let me put it this way. No Christmas for us. Probably no Thanksgiving, either. Oh, and no tax returns. Yeah. Financially speaking... I dunno if we're going to have a roof over our heads this winter.
This is gonna be fun-ski. Gonna drive me to drink, I swear by Luna's starry mane...
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Noble Cause · 342 views
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Pyramid scheme? Ponzi scheme? Vindictive ex with a lawyer friend?
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Try the majority stakeholders of my roommate's company in Austria ignoring that the CEO is running the company into the ground, that they're taking away the company credit cards (except for the CEO's, no fucking surprise)... and taking away the company vehicles. So my roomie needs to find a vehicle to get to work, plus registration, plus insurance. By the first of December. Yeah, Merry fuckin' Christmas.
Ah, no way more certain to run a company/country/world into the ground, than to diverge the decision-making and profit-making aspects from the actual productive aspects of such organizations. At least your roommate still has a job for the time being. If the CEO is so bad, you might want to have a plan for the company failing or being taken over.
2428037 This.
Noble, do you have a tip jar or something set up? I can't send much, as I don't have much myself, but I'm in no imminent danger of homelessness or anything. I can chip in a couple bucks.
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Don't have a tip jar as such, but I do have a Paypal, for what it's worth. If you're really bound and determined, PM me and I'll shoot you my paypal email.
Also, worst case scenario, roomie legally buries Austria and the CEO alive via the Department of Labor if Austria doesn't play fuckin' ball by the end of the month. Do or fucking die, because as it stands, Austria owes my roomie about 20 grand just in back pay for the raises they owe him and refuse to honor, never mind the rest of his contract they laugh at.
Their justification? Pretty much amounts to "We're outside of the US, ergo we don't have to abide by US laws and there's nothing you can do about it"... my roomie plans to disabuse them of this notion for good, if nothing else.
2428113 I'd disabuse them of that notion right away then. Get some others to join the suit if you can.
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Oh, there's gonna be some paaaaaaaain coming down from on high, I promise you that.
Congrats again on getting the job! I wish you both luck and I hope your roommate has a glorious battle and victory against Austria and Austria accessories.