What would you do if you found a major corporation trying to cheat you out of a lot of money? Or bet yet let other corporations cheat on you? Not to mention treat you like yhour a complete idiot?
IMHO bound. . .
A lot of corporations treat me like a complete idiot. The thing is to beat their operators to the punch: customer demands. But then again, I only deal with major corporations that I choose to: thus is the beauty of Capitalism.
Tripler
It smells like spam in here.
This is a little vague for a GQ thread. There is no detail to really give a considered answer here.
Still, a few ideas:
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Try to engage in a dialogue with the corporation to see if a resolution can be found.
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Consult an attorney.
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Tell your story to the media.
I’d hate to think that it would come to that… but lately… they’ve practically been begging for it.
If I’m vague it’s because of the names involved… but if you know me, you already know the names.
Off to IMHO.
DrMatrix - GQ Moderator
That’s the problem with your post…no details. You need not name names. Post a ‘hypothetical’ or something.
There are lots of smart people on this board including a fair number of attorneys. Any advice you get, attorney or otherwise, is strictly ‘for entertainment purposes only’ (that is to say don’t even think you can sue somone here for taking their advice if it doesn’t turn out to you liking).
That caveat aside it would behoove you to disclose as much information as you can if you expect any help at all. It’s up to you to decide what you can or cannot disclose and there are no guarantees the advice from this board will do any good but as it stands your post is far too vague for anyone to give coherent advice beyond vague generalizations.
Do you have a contractual relationship with the corporation? Are they in violation of some specific terms of the contract?
I would not sue anyone here simply by acting on bad advice. The issue is that I have made my points blaytantly obivous at work… everybody’s in my business even when it was nothing to do with them. The other day, management thought it would be funny to play a rather obviuos practical joke… I could rip a knot in them simply on those grounds alone. I’ve worked there to in excess of three years… i work harder at work then anybody else. I’ve sacrifed more than half my paychecks for the last 2 year just to simply keep up with the indusrty to protect my job. that’s ovewr $60,000 and I get this kind of shit?
Friends and family act like they don’t know. Nobody treats me with repect anymore. It one big practical joke and it’s all on me.
I’ve even seen my brother side with the enemy.
What people don’t know about me is that I don’t take shit and I can pick apart even the best of liars… Never bullshit a bullshiter.
I would not sue anyone here simply by acting on bad advice. The issue is that I have made my points blatantly obvious at work… everybody’s in my business even when it was nothing to do with them. The other day, management thought it would be funny to play a rather obvious practical joke… I could rip a knot in them simply on those grounds alone. I’ve worked there to in excess of three years… i work harder at work then anybody else. I’ve scarified more than half my paychecks for the last 2 year just to simply keep up with the industry to protect my job. that’s over $60,000 and I get this kind of shit?
Friends and family act like they don’t know. Nobody treats me with respect anymore. It one big practical joke and it’s all on me.
I’ve even seen my brother side with the enemy.
What people don’t know about me is that I don’t take shit and I can pick apart even the best of liars… Never bullshit a bullshitter.
People think I don’t know simply because I never act on it… Meanwhile I let them slip just a little bit further every day.
They bring in people to look impozing on me… just more fuel for the fire… the simple fact is I probaby know more about the indusrty than anyone else I know who works for me. This shit has got to stop.
Hell I even have police following me around watching me! WTF?
OK… at first I was going to say a fipplent remark, like “Have you seen XYZ action movie”, but it looks like you’re at the end of your tether.
It seriously looks like you need to take a long holiday or something. Trust me, it’s never good to acting in anger in the long run. If you seriously hate your job and think you’ve been hard done by, take it to arbitration or try to get the press on your side. Then take the money an go and do something you enjoy. Take a break and see the world or something.
Tried talking to your church minister?
Do you mean the practices of Microsoft, OPEC, the local cable company, the DMV, insurance corporations, law firms, car dealerships, airports and computer retailers, or something else?
-FK
Somethng like the practices of Microsoft.
I’ve got bags now under my eyes and I’m only 28… from working this crazy AWS night schedule they’ve got me on… because of it I’ve lost a girlfriend, friends and years off my life.
Hell I’ll probably get hemorrhoids from sitting on the toilet all day because its the best place I concentrate
They’ve already be caught once not applying to osha standards with my team…
I can’t even wipe my ass w/o worrying about somebody watching me… hey you could at least pass me the fucking toilet paper…
I’ve literally busted my ass in every imaginable way for this fucking company.
I complained in email once to a representative of a corporation that was giving me problems. (Hospital Corporation of America)
As it turned out, he was the CEO of the whole shabang and my problems vanished. You just never know.
You might also check with the Bureau of Consumer Affairs – if you are their consumer, not their employee. If you are their employee, check with the State Department of Labor or something similar.
I like my job… it great helpping people deal with technology… everybody seems to have a hard time with it and I love to help people… it makes me feel good… but when I have to watch my back while I’m doing it… hell they’re proably reading this now so here this: LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE AND PAY ME SO I CAN GO LIVE MY LIFE!