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WCDT 4391-4395 (Nov 9th -13th, 2020)
Perfectly Reasonable:
Pictures Marigold in shirt. Pictures May in shirt, brooming pesky teens.
... a shirt I will never be able to wear---
Mr_Rose:
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 13 Nov 2020, 09:40 ---So May can't be a fighter jet, but surely there are aircraft companies that need AIs to simulate and calculate weather and flight patterns. If--and that's a big if--they're willing to hire her, that's a decent second.
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Wouldn’t that be cruel though? To spend her life calculating how other people can fly but never doing it for herself?
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: Oenone on 13 Nov 2020, 05:01 ---If May makes minimum wage, isn’t it illegal to require her to pay for her uniform?
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It varies by location but according to Federal law it's not illegal if the costs of providing and maintaining the uniform doesn't make the deductions fall below minimum wage. But being Massachusetts, she CAN be charged but has to be reimbursed- something that the state has gone to court over before and won.
That being said, REPLACEMENTS for the one that was already paid for aren't covered by the restriction- she'd have to claim it on her taxes to get the money back.
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: Zebediah on 13 Nov 2020, 06:40 ---You’re assuming such laws are ever actually enforced.
May would need to take her boss to court to recover the money. The filing fee is probably more than the cost of the uniform. Also her boss would fire her immediately.
And please, don’t come at me with how all of that is or should be illegal. I happen to agree. I am simply stating how the world actually works. Employee protection laws in the US aren’t worth a bucket of warm spit unless you can afford really good lawyers.
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As someone who was stuck on a grand jury hearing cases like this, it's taken seriously by states. The real issue is whether or not the manager is aware of the law and if s/he gives a damn about it. May wouldn't be the one on the line, she could sue and win huge- the manager is the one in the hot seat and getting blackballed by both the state and potential employers since May wouldn't actually be named in a lawsuit against the chain as they'd pool the lawsuits together and force restitution as a group to prevent retaliation.
Farideh:
--- Quote from: Gnabberwocky on 13 Nov 2020, 09:40 ---So May can't be a fighter jet, but surely there are aircraft companies that need AIs to simulate and calculate weather and flight patterns. If--and that's a big if--they're willing to hire her, that's a decent second.
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I like that!
--- Quote from: Mr_Rose on 13 Nov 2020, 11:32 ---Wouldn’t that be cruel though? To spend her life calculating how other people can fly but never doing it for herself?
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That would be for May to decide whether or not she wants to do that. It would at least get her closer to the action, and it would pay more than her current job.
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