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dispatchesfromtheclasswar

trekwiz

Ok, but if you’re an independent contractor in the US and this happens? Find a lawyer, because you might have just gotten a huge payday.

Your position was just referred to as employment. Independent contractors do not have employers; they do not have employment. Congrats, your contact at this company just provided evidence that you were illegally missclassified.

This contact is claiming that you have set hours you’re obligated to fulfill. Unless a work task can only be done at a set time for practical reasons (i.e. you’re an audio freelancer paid to support a live event that occurs at a particular time and requires a certain amount of pre-show setup), a company cannot set an independent contractor’s work hours. This is further evidence that you were missclassified.

The whole exchange establishes that the company is interpreting an employer-employee relationship rather than expecting a service. Discipline and potential for firing (you cannot fire an independent contractor; no longer purchasing their service is not equivalent) establish that this person views themselves as a manager. Independent contractors cannot have managers.

This one text exchange could:

Get you back pay for the full duration you’ve worked there, to bring you up to the compensation that an employee would have gotten

Get you back compensation for lost benefits that an employee would have gotten

Get you back pay for the additional self-employment taxes the company should have covered

Get the company to pay back taxes to the government

Get the company to hire everyone who performed a similar role, or face further penalties and fines

A win would encourage the rest of their missclassified workers to sue for the same, or give them leverage to demand a better deal

If the company is going to screw you over like that, may as well make them pay for it.

trekwiz

Since this is getting a lot of reblogs, here’s a federal source that can help you determine if you’re illegally classified as a contractor:

You can also file a form with the IRS to force the company to correct your classification (assuming you meet the criteria), without necessarily having to sue:

Learn how to determine whether a person providing a service to you is an employee or an independent contractor.

Keep in mind that this is just federal. Most states also prohibit missclassification as an independent contractor; and even if states have more lenient rules, companies still have to comply with this federal law. The rules have largely been bipartisan and existed for decades, so they’re common.

States also have an interest in having regulations about missclassification: it’s a significant loss of tax revenue. Your self employment tax does not fully equal what a company would have paid for you in payroll taxes.

A lawyer can help point you in the right direction if a company is currently missclassifying you.

antique-scarecrow

Fantastic addition

hoothootmotherf-ckers

an under-discussed feature of chronic illness + pain is how fucking boring it is. Like I know that I will get better and stop hurting if I lie down with my eyes closed in a quiet dark room but holy fucking shit if I do that for five more minutes today I’m going to totally lose my marbles.

justslowdown

Gentle information sharing that if you make under $19k a year you probably qualify for food stamps and state Medicaid. This varies state to state, but absolutely worth a Google.

It was extremely easy to apply and I now have full medical, some dental, psych, and $280 a month of food completely free.

No co-pays. And because Oregon is... slightly less bad than many states, many types of therapy are covered, a chiropractor, gender affirming surgery, it goes on. Abortion. I just got in with my free PCP who also offers telehealth.

Please look into benefits. It varies state by state, my experiences in the Midwest and South weren't as easy and all-encompassing. But SNAP and Medicaid made things possible for my dad and I in Indiana too, and I'm deeply grateful he taught me not to listen to internalized shame about it.

I've made a post about grocery shopping while poor that's still going around and helping people, let's add to this one too! Do you have information about government benefits? I just want to get people seeing and talking about this because it could change a life.

valentineish

Oh hey, information about this stuff was my job for a while! I'm always happy to share my knowledge!

Point blank, every USian should look into the public resources & social services available to them. Even if you don't think you qualify, that your situation isn't bad "that bad", etc. Pursue it, help your loved ones pursue it, and use everything you are approved for.

First: with things like food stamps, disability, and Medicaid, your receipt will not deny somebody else. These benefits are notoriously difficult to be approved for. If the government begrudgingly hands you a check, you met their arbitrary standards of "needy enough".

Secondly: even if you're very sure you do not qualify, demand helps others. Pursuit and usage of public resources draws attention to a squeaky wheel. These programs are much harder to quietly defund with eyes watching. Additionally, the ongoing cost of living crisis is going to become much more pressing if even 10% of the local population is requesting social services.

Third: holy shit, PLEASE look into your county and city resources, too. The types of support buried on poorly made government websites and tucked into rented office space can be unreal. Just as an example, my county offers emergency mental health & social services. They got me a week of meds while I was getting in with a new psychiatrist. Things like community classes/events, civic & fitness center passes, and landlord-tenant affairs are also pretty standard – and also won't be income or disability-dependant (though low-income individuals can often have a reduced or comped price).

It's also worth noting that income requirements can be highly variable even from county-to-county. Also, hey! There's a sliding scale of benefits! The cut-off for low-cost health insurance under the ACA is $48,240/yr for an individual. It's not the universal healthcare we need, but a lot of people don't realize that this is a thing that exists.

Go forth, and get the resources you need.

thepeacefulgarden

badlydrawneverything

akindplace

You are showing up for yourself. You are doing the work. It's not easy, but you don't need to hate yourself into changing. You can be neutral, you can know you're not perfect, not like other people, but you are still trying, you are still here for yourself, and even on days when you can't do all that needs to be done, you already did a lot and you're a badass just for showing up.

What is your Hogwarts house?

none. jk rowling can go to hell

white-berry

Quick rant about African homophobia but the fact that white people will really say "ooh X country hates gay people, they're so backward and barbaric" is incredibly insulting.

As far as Africa is concerned, homophobia can't be disconnected from Christian colonizers. The erasure of queer history can be tied to them and has led to some of the most radical shifts toward homosexuality I've ever seen.

Take Uganda, everyone's favourite homphobic punching bag. Few would believe that Uganda had a gay king. If you've only heard of Kabaka Mwanga through European writings you would believe that he was gay (which the Europeans claimed he gained from the barbaric Arabs) However, some modern Ugandan scholars believe he was bi as he slept with his wives and male pages. The missionaries used this narrative to claim he was possessed by demons leading him to burn Christian martyrs.

While the killing of the martyrs was obviously wrong, the British used his sexuality to undermine his power and colonize Uganda. ( This was around the same time Oscar Wilde was put on trial ) This is just one example of the British weaponising homophobia as they spread it throughout Uganda.

Other examples include the erasure of lesbian marriage in certain tribes and the condemning of male wives and female husbands (given my lack of resources on them, I can't say they were trans but they certainly didn't fit the mold that colonialism forced on them) The fact is that modern homophobia in Africa can be traced back to colonialism and Christianity.

While this does not mean Africa was a woke™ haven, it does show how insidious remarks about it's homophobia can be. With the knowledge that these attitudes have been stoked throughout the past two centuries, it becomes easier to divorce African identity and homophobia. This goes against the stereotype that non-white communities are socially regressive, often having sexist/homophobic structures.

This doesn't absolve any Africans of their homophobia but rather seeks to explain some of it and add nuance to the discussion of LGBT rights in Africa.

TLDR: Colonization erased queer history in Africa. this doesn't absolve Africa of its homophobia but it's necessary to understand the role of colonization in it

lokh1

i think they should give everyone one free mri. just so we can see what the fuck is up with our brains

xenobotanist

This would actually be immensely useful.

If you think about it, doctors pretty much only perform an MRI when they expect an abnormality. So they don't have a lot of "regular" brains for data to compare to. Just a few test subjects.

Giving everyone an MRI would result in a plethora of information, not only as a basis for comparison but possibly also displaying the incredible diversity that exists.

GIVE EVERYONE AN MRI

eldritchanchovy

I once read an anecdote that was basically: Person Gets An MRI To Test Out New MRI Machine, Finds Brain Tumor That Turns Out To Be Harmless, And We Have No Idea How Common These Harmless Brain Tumors Are

infiniteglitterfall

I have desperately wanted widespread free PET scans ever since I found out last year that it "lights up cancer cells like a Christmas tree."

butterflyinthewell

From a queer elder…

Being queer isn’t supposed to be palatable to non-queers.

We don’t tick little squares on a checklist of “queer enough”, we obliterate the checklist.

We defy societal norms that say our bodies, families or relationships have to look a certain way.

Queer is the insult we took away from oppressors. We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.

The people who hate us will hate us regardless of how palatable we make ourselves.

Stop licking fascist boots by policing queers who are queer in different ways than you.

Oh, someone is bi/pan trans lesbian with he/him pronouns? So what! They’re welcome on the rainbow. Their identity doesn’t have to make sense to you, it has to make sense to them.

Our identities don’t make sense to non-queers. They see us as unnatural and disgusting, so why are you turning around and crapping that same garbage out at your own community??

Once you drive the visible queers underground, the same people who hate us all will target you next. Nobody will defend you because you drove away everybody who would have.

Enough already!

— sincerely, an old queer.