Reply #16: Me, and about 12 other people, lost our "jobs" yesterday afternoon.

[loudsue]

But we don't "count" in the numbers, because we are all independent contractors.... and we also got totally SCREWED out of whatever $$ we were contracted to make, because the "pay points" were creatively jiggled to give our client their work, but not tied down sufficiently to make our money out of it.

This is what happens when corporations run the courts and the government. We have no recourse, except to sue the bastards... and the contracts we signed (we HAD to sign their non-negotiable contracts, or we wouldn't even have a shot at the work) make the "pay points" vague enough for the client to wiggle out of paying us for the work we did.

I'm FURIOUS at the lack of morality in business these days. It's been creeping in since the Reagan years, and has killed small businesses (like mine) in favor of the huge corporations. I'm in my mid-fifties, and I remember a time, long long ago, when people doing business together could actually do the whole thing on a handshake. Now, either you sign a crooked contract, or you don't even get your foot in the door.

I was unemployed for 19 months after 9/11. Now, I'm unemployed again. This totally sucks. And I'm falling deeper into the hole. So much for the American Dream.

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