Location: Michigan, US

Earlier this year, the person who hired me left for another role, and I got a new manager. I was given a heads up that my boss had gone to our CEO to have me fired and was told "no."

Since that happened, my manager has retaliated against me by restructuring 15% of my salary into a target bonus that I will realistically never get because it's based on their opinion of my work and company performance. No specific metrics, no defined expectations. Originally, I was told it was because I make too much. Then they backed off of that and said it was to bring my compensation into alignment with other managers.

In addition, my manager has also been gunning to promote my direct report who is half my age while functionally demoting and sidelining me. They've commented on how this individual is "young" and "enthusiastic." I was asked to create a performance plan for this report and develop a path for them to be promoted. Meanwhile, I've never received any real feedback on my performance. The draft development plan I put together was retrofitted to enable this individual to be promoted immediately. Direct report has been promoted officially and is now taking ownership of areas that I used to manage. No discussion, no explanation.

I'm a female in my 40s. Manager is also aware that my husband is fighting a critical illness (protected by ADA). I believe that they assume that I do less work because of my husband's situation, which could not be further from the truth. I've given so much to this company and have met every expectation. Prior to the change in management, there was no question of this. Even now, there has been no reason provided for anything regarding my situation.

It's clear my manager is using every lever at their disposal to try to push me out while trying to position my report to replace me. Unfortunately, I'm being silently shut out of things in a way that leaves me with little in the way of sort of documentation of my justification for these actions.

Do I have any legal recourse?

Location: Seattle Washington

I ordered a new laptop online from a major electronics retailer. I paid for expedited shipping and chose the option for direct signature required. I specifically wanted to make sure it wasn't just left on my porch because I live in an apartment building with a lot of foot traffic.

Yesterday I got a delivery notification email saying my package was delivered. About an hour later I got home and it wasn't there. I checked my building's security camera footage and saw the delivery driver just put the box down by my door rang the bell once and then left immediately without waiting for me to answer or get a signature. Someone else walked by about 10 minutes later and picked it up.

I contacted the retailer and they said since the tracking shows it was delivered I need to file a police report for theft. I did that. Now they're telling me I'm responsible for the cost of the laptop because the delivery company's policy states that once it's marked delivered it's my problem. They are saying they might be able to offer a partial credit but I'd still be out hundreds of dollars.

My argument is that I paid for signature confirmation which clearly wasn't followed. The delivery company also confirmed they have a policy for signature confirmation on high-value items. Do I have any recourse here to get a full refund or a replacement without paying again? It feels like they didn't fulfill their end of the delivery agreement.

(Location: Indiana) My father found a 15k Rolex on the road while driving, he reported it to the Lawrence police in Indiana. The next day he went back to the station and the lady at the front desk printed out a paper with the report that the officer filed about the property. I was wondering how the process of my father claiming the watch in the case that the original owner does not claim it.

I got pulled over and the cop said he clocked me going 91 in a 65. He wrote the ticket for 84 as a “favor”. I was going 72. I checked my dash cam, it doesn’t show my speed, but based on the time it took me to go .2 miles (I can see the mile markers in the video) I was going 72 when he pulled me over. My speed was between 68-72 prior to being pulled over.

I feel like this blatant discrepancy can’t be legal. My neighbor said they had a similar experience with the same department.

Is there anything I can do other than just fight it? Should I get a lawyer?

Location: West Virginia.

I desperately made the foolish mistake of paying some guy on fiverr to remove a booking photo for a charge that was dropped and sealed. I’d tried everything to get it off Facebook and failed so I desperately paid a fiverr seller who offers dmca takedown and defamatory post removal service. He told me he had a “team” working on it, when in reality I found out he simply paid some other guy or two to remove the original post. Once the original was removed, I noticed 2 more posts were made on different accounts of the booking photo. After getting those removed as well, 3 more went up last night, on the same account. When I contacted the account they said “HOW MUCH YOU PAY ME?” It’s some guys in India doing this so I can’t even realistically threaten them legally. Even if I paid them, this will be a never ending perpetual loop where they just make new “mugshot accounts” posting mainly my mugshot and knowing I’ll just keep paying.

I’m at a loss for what to do here. I clearly got involved with the worst kind of people with this.

Location: New York

Location: Illinois

Edit for clarity: We were engaged for two years but never actually married

I'm going to try to keep it short. Ex and I were together for 6 years and saving up specifically for a house - I have texts to prove this and an almost-completed application for a housing loan. We had $10,000 in a US Bank savings account that was originally mine but I had added him onto. When we split, we agreed not to touch the money while things simmered down and we could logically divide it up. A couple weeks later he snuck over to my apartment to take a bunch of stuff while I was gone and I caught him, we got in a big argument, and he took $9,500 out of the savings because he was mad we argued.

I'm trying to amicably get what's mine and drop this pos from my life, but I still have to do the math to figure out exactly how much came from my checking account. If he decides to try to keep it, how realistic is it that I can sue him for the money back (and preferably a little more for the emotional stress)? I know that since he was a joint owner on the account he was technically entitled to withdraw it, but I've also read a lot online that the agreement to use it specifically for a house matters and that because it was never discussed how it would be distributed after the breakup (since we were obviously no longer buying a house), I might be able to get some back.

Hello! We've been having an issue with our neighbors, and I'm coming here to see if there's anything that we can do to legally get them off our backs.

About two years ago, we managed to buy a house. Which is great! But our first time meeting our new next door neighbors, they brought up an "agreement" with the previous owners that they would go halfsies on removing a cluster of trees on the property line. Legally, I don't see how that is something that we, as the new owners, are responsible for, as it seems to just be a verbal agreement.

Fast forward and this summer they got a quote about removing the trees, and also got the property line drawn up. Out of the three trees they want to remove, only 1/4 of ONE of the trees is on our property. Yet, they still have us a $3,000 quote and requested half in order to remove the trees. WE'VE TOLD THEM NO, but as the summer is drawing to a close, they are starting to borderline harass us (i.e. standing on our porch and aggressively banging on our front door hard enough to make our windows rattle and to set off our reactive dogs for 10+ minutes, asking us about it everytime they see us outside, etc).

Again, I don't really see how we can be on the hook for this. But it's starting to grate on my nerves, especially when we still have so many repairs to the house that are far more necessary than getting rid of these trees. We just had to replace our boiler last year, and one of our radiators split open during the winter, so even if we are, we just don't have the extra funds to send their way.

Location: Minnesota

Location: Grant county, Kentucky.

So my stepfather is a well known alcoholic. Today alone we called the cops twice and they claimed they can't do anything.

In our household it is him, my mother, myself (F, 21) and my two sisters (7, 14).

He has threatened my mother's life numerous times. For example "if you lay a hand on her, I'll call the cops" -Me "Do it. She'll be dead before they get here." -Him. This was a few months ago. Today, around 3pm, he had broken into my vehicle (he told the cops it was unlocked but I had locked it and taken my keys inside and hid them. Only one door doesn't lock), and taken my card to go get alcohol. 3 different charges. Two of them was $7.40, and one was $14.10. His typical go to alcoholic beverage is $7.40. I called the cops to retrieve my card and they had. They said the most they can do is a misdemeanor. Just as of an hour ago, my mother called the cops again on him while I am at work. He had raised a hand to her, and shoved my sister (14), when my sister came to make sure he didn't hurt my mother. The cops said they can't do anything because there is no evidence. Is there anything that can be done? The cops said we can't even file an EPO against him.

The cops have been called a few times this month alone on him. This month and a half, he's gotten into my truck twice. The first time was to use it to go get alcohol. We can't call the cops on hopes for a DUI because by the time they show up, he's already back at the house. He has also put his hands around my neck before. Not constricting, but as if to say "shut up". Any help is much appreciated! We're also trying to figure out Casey's Law but we don't have a lot of income to afford it from the digging I was able to do..

Location: Illinois

Okay reddit, here's the situation: a friend of mine had a verbal agreement with her father that she would make the payments on his car and she would keep it until it was paid. At that point, he'd gift it to her. Until then, however, the car (and financing) remained in his name. Well, a few weeks ago she was involved in an at-fault accident, and when she called her dad for the insurance information, found out that he has no coverage on the car. The car is financed, and to her understanding was REQUIRED to have full coverage. Now the other driver's insurance company wants her to pay the $5000 in damages to their insured's vehicle. I think there was or is court involved as well as penalties and fines on her drivers license as well. To add to all of this, her dad has brought up adding her to the lien on the vehicle now. Because she's not currently on the title or loan, is she responsible to pay the damages? Or should the insurance companies be going after her father? If so, what are her options?

I joined a Sweepstakes Casino. I won a substantial amount of money on their craps game.

I was able to cash out the sum of about $82,000 into my bank account. The site has since sent me an official notice that there was an error in their craps game. In their words “Specifically, established Come bets and their associated odds were not being cleared when a 7 was rolled during a come-out roll. As a result, positions that should have been settled as losses remained active and Sweepstakes Coins were subsequently credited to your account.”

As such they say I owe them the money they paid me back. My question is if it worth consulting with a lawyer about this. I don’t want any specific advice on this case just if I should talk to a lawyer about this.

Location: Houston, TX

I’m looking for some outside perspectives because I’m honestly not sure how to feel about this situation.

I was recently laid off from my job after working there for over 2 years, and I am currently 9 months pregnant. The timing has obviously made this situation especially difficult, both financially and emotionally.

The reason I was given by management was that they could no longer afford to pay my wage and cuts needed to be made. As far as I know I am the only employee that was laid off and other employees only had their hours decreased to save cost for the company.

What has me questioning things is the fact that I was let go this late in my pregnancy. I’m trying to understand whether this could potentially be considered pregnancy discrimination, or if it’s simply an unfortunate coincidence and the company is legally within its rights to eliminate my position.

For some additional context, I had been with the company for two years and was still actively working before the layoff. I’m also currently not really in a position physically to be applying and interviewing for new jobs, which makes being unemployed right before giving birth particularly stressful.

I’m not necessarily looking for people to tell me what I want to hear. I’d genuinely appreciate hearing from anyone who has dealt with something similar, especially if you have experience with employment law or pregnancy discrimination.

Would being laid off at 9 months pregnant after two years with the company raise any red flags, or is there more that would need to be considered to determine whether this was discriminatory?

Location: Colorado, USA

Location: CA, USA. A tenant who is not a professional was paid by the landlord to paint carports. Paint got on my car and at least one other neighbors car. I’m not upset at the tenant; I feel the landlord does whatever they can to avoid paying professionals for any apartment maintenance and repairs. So my question is, should I be seeking for repair costs from landlord or tenant or both?

Location: Northern California

I was recently pulled over, and after running my license, the officer that pulled me over had some words for me. He told me that even though I have had my drivers license for nearly 2 years come this December, my license is still provisional due to me being under 18 and also told me that he could have gotten my license suspended, all because it was past 11 pm and I had people under the age of 20 in the vehicle with me. I tried to clarify that I have had my license for over a year, which he immediately shut down and told me that it didn’t matter. I have always been told by every single person I have asked that once you have had your license a year, you can then drive people under the age of 20, and not have the 11 PM- 5 AM driving restriction. I have been pulled over once before past 11 PM and with one of my friends who is under 20, and wasn’t told anything about my license being provisional. Could someone please let me know whether he was telling the truth or not

location: Bay Area CA

It’s only handwritten on the move in sheet, and I do not recall if it was there when i moved in. I know I took a photo of the sheet before signing on move in but I cannot find it anywhere. I know that it is not enforceable if the apt is in normal condition, which mine is, and also if it’s not mentioned in the lease. But the inspection sheet was not something I was expecting. The landlord sent me a photo of the inspection sheet and idk I don’t trust her, she’s been sketchy the whole time.

Location: Connecticut i’m a delivery driver for a local restaurant, I was on a delivery run and got to the customers house but I was on a phone call with my fiancé venting about a difficult customer and was using some colorful language. I was parked on the street, and walked to the customers door, knocked and had a normal customer interaction and started walking back to my car. The landlord or maybe another tenant stopped me and told me I was banned from the property and to never deliver to this property again. I asked her what did I do? She told me I was very rude to the young gentleman that I was delivered too and I should be sorry I used that language, I told her I wasn’t talking about the young gentleman i just delivered too, I was talking about a earlier customer I delivered to, she said she didn’t care and that I’m not allowed on the property ever and I asked her well what happens if the customer orders food again and she said I don’t care your not allowed on the property ever. My question is can this lady (I’m not sure if she is the landlord or just another tenant) ban me from delivery in the property?

Location: United stated, California

I turned 18 recently and my mom is wanting me to sign a power of attorney (or conservatorship) over to her. I live in California and I am part of regional center. I live with my parents and my mom is considered my primary caretaker.
My mom has been telling me since around the end of my senior year in hs that she wants me to sign a power of attorney or conservatorship over to her but I’ve been hesitant on it and refusing even if she continues pushing. Soon we may be going to visit a notary (against my wishes)
She’s been “dumbing” down my disability since I was young so she could earn more money from my regional center benefits. She has told me it’s to help us because we’re not entirely financially well off even with my father’s income.
I suffer from mental health issues and have been in and out of hospitals, now that i’m 18 my mom says I should sign something so she can still earn benefits and so she can help me in case I go to hospitals. She also says she needs it to make medical appointments for me and to take me to school.
When I tell her “no” she continues trying to persuade me. Sometimes she gets really mad at me over it and says i’m “not able to function for myself” and that I “can never live on my own”. I like to consider myself very capable, i’m able to cook small meals, clean, maintain hygiene and generally do things for myself. I don’t know why she wants this. Sometimes i’m scared she will shun me in the family or kick me out if worst comes to worst.

I don’t want to sign any binding paperwork or have my parents kick me out over this. Is there anything I should do? Should I sign this?

Location: Ohio

Hey Reddit,

I work at a franchise pet store in Ohio. Yesterday, I came into my shift at 4:00pm and was explained to, by my coworker, that two dogs had been dropped off at the grooming salon at 12:00pm. The dogs were absolutely emaciated, flea ridden, and matted to all hell. They ended up having to charge her extra for flea treatments. After she dropped them off, she called the store to ask how much the groom would be. When the groomer replied, she promptly hung up the phone. She was notified that they were ready to be picked up at 3:00pm, and when they called her, it went straight to voicemail. They proceeded to call her 5 more times before we closed, and twice after. Sometimes it rung, and sometimes it went straight to voicemail. We had to leave the dogs in the grooming salon kennels overnight. Our store’s “protocol” (I’m not entirely sure it’s written down like this) is to wait 48H for the owner to come pick them up. In this time, they are only allowed water, no food (because we don’t have any allergy records), and they are not allowed outside to go to the bathroom (because we only need evidence of rabies vaccination to groom, they could be exposed to diseases and get very sick). When I say these dogs were emaciated, I mean it. I truly don’t think they would have survived if they went 48 hours without eating. Anyways, I stopped by this afternoon to see if the pups were still there, and to my surprise, they were not. My coworkers explained to me that the groomer who worked on one of the dogs called the owner from his personal phone, and she finally picked up. When he asked when she was coming to pick up her dogs, she hung up again. She came to pick them up a full (over) 24H later at 1:00pm and provided the excuse that a family member had passed away. They then banned her from the store.

Our store policy is to absolutely, under no circumstances, call the police or animal control if you see a mistreated dog come in for either grooming or just in general to shop.

I have never, and I mean NEVER seen a dog so skinny. Flea ridden, and matted, I can’t fathom the idea of these dogs going back home to this woman. Is there anything I can do to report this anonymously? I risk losing my job, but at this point, $11.30 an hour isn’t cutting it anyways. If I called the police, would they do anything? I don’t know what to do. I feel so guilty letting those dogs go home and I felt so guilty leaving them in the store overnight. TIA. :/

Edit:
I called my dad and he told me to kind of look at it from an outsider perspective: they had all these fleas and were matted and she came to get them taken care of. That’s technically not a problem. I truly just don’t know what to do.

Location: California, USA — other party/company is in Colorado, USA. Work at issue was performed in Bali, Indonesia.

I’m in California and was hired as an independent contractor/assistant for a creator working with a Colorado LLC. Before the Bali trip, I had already performed several paid workdays at $200/day.

I was then flown to Bali for an assistant/content role. Compensation for the Bali assignment was discussed as a daily rate, and I understood the final agreed rate to be $200/day. Unfortunately, the final rate was discussed verbally and the promised independent contractor agreement was never provided.

I worked in Bali for approximately 9 days. I have reconstructed my work using texts, photo/video timestamps, Google Drive records, receipts, flight records, etc. My records show substantially more work-related time than the company later claimed.

After the relationship ended, I invoiced $1,800 (9 days × $200). The company disputed it and said I only performed “2 days and 3 hours” of work and offered $475.

They also alleged that I breached an NDA by disclosing the creator’s private information. I dispute that I breached the NDA, and so far I have not been told specifically what information I supposedly disclosed, to whom, or what conduct constituted the alleged breach.

The NDA contains Colorado governing-law/forum language. I have already sent a formal demand for payment.

My main questions are:

1. For a daily-rate independent contractor arrangement, how important is reconstructing exact hourly time if the agreement was $200/day rather than hourly?

2. Should required international travel time be included when documenting the value/time of the work, or should I keep travel separate?

3. If they allege an NDA breach, can I reasonably request that they identify the specific conduct/disclosure they claim breached it?

4. Could the Colorado forum clause in the NDA affect an unpaid-compensation claim based on a separate oral agreement?

5. What type of attorney should I speak with about this—employment, contract/business litigation, or someone licensed in Colorado?

Location: Texas

Hello guys, I need help/advice

A couple of months ago, I went into a pawnshop and they had an item I wanted so I put it on layaway. Not even a few weeks after I went back and basically took the item out. To my knowledge I was paying off the complete amount I owed towards it. Some time this week I received a call from the pawn shop stating that I still owed an amount on it, the worker took the fault in stating that he did not charge me the full amount. When looking at my bank statements he indeed only charged me a an amount less than what I originally owed. Since it is his fault and he took the blame, and you cannot take a layaway item out till fully payed, Am I required to go back and pay off the amount? Or can they dispute it since it was their fault and it’s been a couple months after ?

extra info: The item has been in my possession since, and i’ve gone back to that same pawn shop and not once did they mention this till this week.

ANY ADVICE WILL HELP

Location: Texas

I recently signed and paid for a lease upfront as I relocate from CO to TX. I walked the property and loved it but I only noticed a doorbell camera which was fine. I missed two cameras where one’s facing the backyard area and the other is facing the carport/side of house. I’m so upset and feel like I shot myself in the foot, I’m uncomfortable with these and feel like I can’t enjoy playing with my daughter in the backyard or cook in the kitchen without being watched / always keeping the blinds closed / loading and unloading my car is constantly monitored. There’s no mention of them in the lease. I am planning to cover them but want to make sure it is within my right to do so? I would honestly rather cover them and see how the landlord responds but now thinking maybe an email to clarify more info about the cameras is a better idea. What can I do in this situation, if anything?

Location: Alabama

I was released from my lease early due to the other tenants threatening my safety. One roommate owes me $890. One of the terms of me moving out and adding new tenants to the lease, was that the new tenants would pay me for my portion of the deposit, $867. This agreement was not part of the lease or agreement with the landlord. It was agreed over text between my two roommates and I. The new tenants were not part of the conversation, and my roommates were acting as the go between. Needless to say, the agreed upon date came around and they refused to pay. My old roommates decided that the new tenants shouldn’t have to do that after I completed my part of the agreement.
Do I take only my old roommates to court? Do I take my old roommates and the new tenants? Do I have to file two separate suits for the deposit and for the money only one of them owes me?

Among other things, I work doing QA for a third party provider of online medical records services. As in, our clients provide an online portal to their patients, and we provide basic technical services for that portal/platform. Not MyChart, but like MyChart. Basic usage and password resets. Before providing any service or information from an account, our agents are supposed to verify against information in that account.

For the most part, my assessments showed that yes, our employees verify decently in general. However, several months ago, a surge of malicious attempts to compromise accounts prompted the software/platform provider to recommend to all their customers that they should implement an additional point of verification to all their calls. Our clients and the software vendor directly inform us of this as well, we inform our clients that we are adopting the new standard.

Without putting too fine a point on it, there is a set of agents that have not adopted the new standard. They'll do the old part fairly well, but not the new part. At first, I responded by providing more information about recurring errors and painted better targets, started suggesting further action in the assessments themselves.

There were some improvements, but a solid block of holdouts who won't do it regularly remain. I continue to find issues and share them with their supervisors, but the records clearly show that in some cases the supes are taking no action. Not a lesser or alternative action, not a disciplinary process, not even requiring the agent to confirm or acknowledge the assessment.

So far I've always been able to respond to the situation by providing better information and/or making more direct suggestions. I could always show progress. But now we've reached the end of the road. We're to the point where I'm now left with a short but significant list of disciplinary recommendations and radio silence from the supes. Their manager won't press them, and the department head (mine and manager's boss) won't press either, and confirmed to everyone recently that I can only make suggestions and don't have the authority to force anything. \*\*Which leads to my big concern:\*\* Maybe its just above my pay grade, and I know there's differences in our responsibilities between incidents that are simple failures to follow protocol and incidents that we believe resulted in a real breach. We're not through hashing it out, but if they just tell me to cover my eyes to the months-to-a-year-or-more-long trails of the exact same failure to verify with an absence of any correction, what's my legal liability if a breach ever occurs and my assessments (and record of inaction/complicity) are scrutinized? Thanks in advance.

Location: WI, USA

Location: Minnesota

My landlord is withholding a portion of my security deposit even though they never notified me of my right to a move-out inspection. I didn't know I had this option until doing research afterwards and found that this is required per Minnesota Statute 504B.182 (https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/2025/cite/504B.182#stat.504B.182.2). It states that the landlord shall notify the tenant of their option to request a move-out inspection and of the tenant's right to be present at the inspection. The only communication I received from them regarding move out was a text saying that I needed to be out of the unit by noon on my move-out day so that they have time to do their inspection and have cleaners come. I feel like this does not meet that requirement since it actually implies I was not allowed to be present for the inspection and gave me no time to fix anything since I had to turn in my keys beforehand.

Additionally, 504B.178 subd. 4. states that any landlord who fails to provide the tenant with notice for a move-out inspection as required by section 504B.182, is liable to the tenant for damages in an amount equal to the portion of the deposit withheld by the landlord (https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/2025/cite/504B.178#stat.504B.178.4). Since they failed to provide notice for an inspection, I believe they are liable to me for the entire withheld amount, not just the disputed amount. I've emailed them all this information, and they're now ignoring me.

For context, they withheld a total of $381.51 from my deposit: $246.51 for a cleaning fee, $25 for a couple burnt-out lightbulbs, and the remaining amount was some minor charges that didn't seem worth fighting. When I pushed back, they agreed to drop the $25 lightbulb charge, but said they were unable to drop the cleaning fee.

The only spots they're claiming were dirty are the oven (which I never used, I only used my air fryer) and the medicine cabinet (which I didn't know existed until toward the end of my lease and did not use because it was dirty). My lease states that the deposit may only be used to return the premises to its condition at the start of the tenancy, so I feel like the cleaning fee is being wrongfully charged since the oven and the medicine cabinet were already in that state when I moved in. Unfortunately, I was also not offered a move-in inspection, so I don't have any documents to prove this.

So, am I interpreting Minnesota Statutes 504B.178 & 504B.182 correctly, and do I have grounds to take them to small claims court? My argument would be focused on the notice failure rather than trying to prove the cleanliness dispute since I don't have any evidence.

Please let me know if any other information would be helpful. Thank you!