[TriLUG] [TriEmbed] In Need of Job Advice

[William Sutton via TriLUG]

Also...Understand that any work they do eventually pay you for, you have 
to remit state and federal income tax and FICA tax.  I have no idea 
whether you owe that even if you haven't been paid.  For that you probably 
need the services of a good tax specialist.

William Sutton

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016, Tadd Torborg via TriLUG wrote:

> At this point you should sit down and record all that you know about the situation.  If you submitted any on-line forms or emails listing hours or whatever, try to recover that and get it onto a computer you control.  Dig up any correspondence that mentions dates so you know exactly when you started.  If you can get actual hours in a document, that’s great.  If not, then summarize the weeks   This is for your benefit, later maybe need to refer to it, depending on how long you go before this is all settled.  Keep track of your hours going forward as well. 
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> Make sure you separate your work for them and your own materials.  If you regularly bring your home laptop to work, stop doing that.  Get another if you must supply your own.  If things go legal, things get rude with regards to machines which have “work” on them.   They may be able to subpoena your laptop.  If you bring it into the office, they may be able to grab it without subpoenaing it.   Lawyers suck, unless they are on your side of course. 
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> My take is that you should not do any more business with them on the telephone or email.  But be careful if you do more work for them.   Assume they are hostile once you start picking on them about this.   Try not to escalate this to the point they bring in lawyers but point out that you have expenses and don’t have the resources to continue spending money. 
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> Tadd Torborg 
> tadd at mac.com
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