Clearly that wasn't meant to be taken literally. What I meant by that was that the chances of your ex-employer having access to better (read: more expensive) legal counsel than you are quite high. They'll run up your legal fees to the point of making you bankrupt and unable to pursue the matter further.

You're probably thinking that'd be more expensive than settling with the plaintiff. You're probably right. But it could be worth it to the employer in terms of employee relations. After all, you kill one hostage, the others cooperate.

Yeah, but you still live in MS. Being the most expensive place in MS is kind of like being the fastest swimmer in a class full of amputees.

Lots of people hear about how much stuff costs up here and tell me "if you worked in [flyover state] you'd have a much bigger house, lower taxes, etc etc." The problem is that if I did that, I'd have to live there. Nope, I'll pay extra to live in a state where it doesn't matter if I go to church or not.

Better than being Dixiecrats, which is who you are referring to about being pro-slavery and anti-minority in general. There are no longer any Dixiecrats, there are some "blue dog" Dems but that's an entirely different thing.

Your comment proceeds from the assumption that the company gives a flip about what's illegal and what's not. It is illegal to retaliate against someone for exercising a protected right, but it's not illegal to fire someone for being 30 seconds late or for "no longer being a good fit for our corporate culture". (Said culture being that employees should do as they are told and shut up). Both are perfectly legal.

And even if what they do IS illegal, their lawyers can most likely beat up your lawyers.

This. When the job market is soft and people are hard up for work, then you can pay them less. When the job market for these employees is super duper tight, to the point that one or two key people can make or break a company, wages SHOULD go up. That's supply and demand. Employers can't have it both ways. They TRY to through overt and covert collusion (this goes on a hell of a lot more than is generally known, people DO play golf together, after all) and simply refusing to pay more. As long as every company refuses to increase salaries, people will get paid less.

If A123 was worried about their people being poached away by a company that pays more, they should have given them raises to keep them happy and working there. For some reason, the suits don't understand that the workers are, in fact, NOT chained to their desks, and have the right to leave whenever they choose, and they frequently do so when someone offers them more money. Yes, it's inconvenient and annoying, but that's the situation. Something about slavery being illegal. Damn hippie socialist fascist homosexual liberals, wanting workers to have rights.

Unless, as is usually the case, your employer holds the patent, not you. You can't leave and keep using the patent without licensing it from your ex-employer, and good luck getting them to agree to that. I mean you just left the ranks of their wage slaves, your insolence must be punished.

Statistics. If enough businesses open, a few of them will be lucky enough to not fold within 6 months. The rest don't fail for lack of trying or some bullshit Polyanna "If I visualize success and drink the kool-aid, then I will prosper" mindset.

The OP believes his business will fail because it's the most likely outcome. This does not prevent him from succeeding, it just prepares him for the reality of the situation, which is that starting a business is extremely risky.

A recruiter is most likely some C-student fuckwit who wouldn't know a qualified candidate if they bit them on the ass.

FTFY.

Example: If you're going to post a JD that requires HIPAA experience, you should probably figure out how to spell HIPAA. (Hint: It's not spelled "HIPPA".) I'd write that off as a typo, except they did it four times in the JD.

Another example: The JD requires J2EE, Spring, all this other Java-specific stuff. Hey! Let's send it off to someone who doesn't even list Java on his resume! (Actually happened a couple weeks ago. I gave the recruiter the benefit of the doubt, maybe they were new to the industry, etc. Nope, she'd been doing it for 5 years. How do you do that for 5 years and not know the difference between a Java role and a php role?)

I still list my GPA because it was good and I worked hard to earn it, but it's at the end of my resume because I am not working in the field I have a degree in.

If you're going to get past the drones in HR, the more certifications you have, the better the chance that your resume will land in front of someone who has actual skills instead of the C-student debris in HR.

The easier it is to set DUMMY_MODE="On" on HR, the better your chances of getting through their completely non-arbitrary and totally relevant filters.

There's a difference between developing an application with best-practice security in mind, and being an infosec worker. Security+ is great but it's overkill for most app developers.

The lawsuit itself is a matter of public record. The allegations and parties involved will be on the record. The final resolution of the suit is much less important than the fact that it was filed in the first place. Filing the suit means that you are capable of questioning the wisdom of your ruling-class masters, and therefore are not to be trusted.

You can make life a pain for your previous employer after being hired by the next one

That changes the situation from "not getting the job at all" to "getting fired as soon as your current employer finds out about your whistleblowing".

Perfectly legal to fire someone for any reason or no stated reason (outside of blatant protected-class discrimination, and even then, good luck proving it) in the USA.

People have been (legally) fired for smoking tobacco at home or having alcohol metabolites in their system from a beer they had last night. If an employer decides you need to go, you go, technically legal or not.

I was operating off your $12k figure. $58k was the least expensive listing I found online for real estate in that area.

I don't know where you're getting $200/mo from, the average rental cost I found was more than the mortgage figure I used.

You specified a "modern car", so I used a "modern car" payment. If you swap out the $3600 for $1500 (since a car that cheap is probably going to need replacing every year or so) you still end up at $9447.84 with significant expenses left to pay.

I also used four people because that's what you specified above as well. You never mentioned anything about minimum wage when you said people had whittled down their expenses. What I was trying to say was that you have an unrealistic expectation of what people can survive on.

Also, bear in mind that this is the state with the lowest COL in the country. Anyplace livable is going to be 2x or 3x that. That $58k house in MS is going to be $258k somewhere more expensive.

Remember, too, the reason things are so cheap there is that nobody wants to live there. If people wanted to live there, the COL would be higher, simple supply and demand.

Part of going to school and learning things is being exposed to things that are outside your experience. Rather than a handicap, learning about people who don't have Daddy's money and how they live gives you a better perspective. You don't have to pull the top down. You just have to give everyone the same chance to succeed. Some will, some won't. If the field is level, the cream will still rise to the top.

There are already mechanisms in place to remove disruptive students. Students do get expelled (although frequently it's for getting hit by a bully or having a Motrin). However, I don't think you should expel a student for a lack of motivation; if that were the case, you'd be expelling half of each class. I mean, what is worse: A student acting up in class, or a student mugging people because he doesn't have a diploma and therefore can't find honest work?

If you want Special Ed students to not be disruptive, stop "mainstreaming" them; instead, fund the programs that are effective for them.