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An incomplete list of things that employers commonly threaten that are 100% illegal in the United States

"We'll fire you if you tell others how much you're making" The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 specifically protects employees who discuss their own wages with each other (you can't reveal someone else's wages if you were given that information in the course of work, but you can always discuss your own or any that were revealed to you outside of work duties)

"If we can't fire you for [discussing wages/seeking reasonable accommodation/filing a discrimination complaint/etc], we'll just fire you for something else the next day." This is called pretextual termination, and it offers your employer almost no protection; if you are terminated shortly after taking a protected action such as wage discussion, complaints to regulatory agencies, or seeking a reasonable accommodation, you can force the burden onto your employer to prove that the termination wasn't retaliatory.

"Disparaging the company on social media is grounds for termination" Your right to discuss workplace conditions, compensation, and collective action carries over to online spaces, even public ones. If your employer says you aren't allowed to disparage the company online or discuss it at all, their social media policy is illegal. However, they can forbid releasing information that they're obligated to keep confidential such as personnel records, business plans, and customer information, so exercise care.

"If you unionize, we'll just shut this branch down and lay everyone off" Threatening to take action against a group that unionizes is illegal, full stop. If a company were to actually shut down a branch for unionizing, they would be fined very heavily by the NLRB and be opening themselves up to a class-action lawsuit by the former employees.

"We can have any rule we want, it's only illegal if we actually enforce it" Any workplace policy or rule that has a "chilling effect" on employees' willingness to exercise their rights is illegal, even if the employer never follows through on any of their threats.

"If you [protected action], we'll make sure you never work in this industry/city/etc again." Blacklisting of any kind is illegal in half the states in the US, and deliberately sabotaging someone's job search in retaliation for a protected action is illegal everywhere in the US.

"Step out of line and you can kiss your retirement fund/last paycheck goodbye." Your employer can never refuse to give you your paycheck, even if you've been fired. Nor can they keep money that you invested in a retirement savings account, and they can only claw back the money they invested in the retirement account under very specific circumstances.

"We'll deny that you ever worked here" not actually possible unless they haven't been paying their share of employment taxes or forwarding your withheld tax to the government (in which case they're guilty of far more serious crimes, and you might stand to gain something by turning them in to the IRS.) The records of your employment exist in state and federal tax data, and short of a heist that would put Oceans 11 to shame, there's nothing they can do about that.

Gundam IBO goes so fucking hard I love this show's story. The death flags are pretty obvious and its definitely hammy n cliche sometimes but I've had lots of fun watching it with my brother so far, and that boy Orga got 100% undiluted real nigga coursin through his veins.

I love the vibe shift between Uraume reuniting with Sukuna in the anime compared to the manga. At first he was all bewildered like "Uraume??? The fuck?" But in the anime its "Ayyyyeeee whats good Uraume"

Bro Mandarin is such a fun language to learn but I be having trouble trying to think outside of english. Like, theres a disconnect between when I hear a phrase and can mentally parse it cause im still converting the words to my native language instead of understanding it outright without the extra step, if that makes sense at all. I wonder if other people who are new to learning a second language experience this and how they practiced to get over it. Also I should probably start learning hanzì already but I been lazy since I found out Chinese citizens learn pīnyīn, my ass gotta kick the procrastination habit.

Yo Kagurabachi is tight as fuck man this is real meathead battle shounen

I read this short transfem yuri Double House recently. I really like Nanae's art style and the work feels very personal and introspective. Something that caught my attention is the similarities between the subplot of ch.3 and Tokyo Godfathers. Did it serve as inspiration for Satoshi Kon, or are they both drawing inspiration from some older popular work featuring a trans woman wishing for motherhood that temporarily adopts an abandoned child that idk about, I wonder?

Hatsune Miku ; Vocaloid ☆ SEGA

got roped into no knight november they took my armor and my halberd and all m,y cool livery with the heraldic beasts and they sold my noble steed to arbys and now im just walkin around in the mud kicking rocks or whateveer

Really I've got no clue what to say on this site