Have you ever worked somewhere that had bad employment conditions? Do you always study the terms of employment before accepting a job offer? Have working conditions been better in your country than this country? If so, in what ways?
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Victoria Vedron
3/9/2010 08:54:03 am
I have been teaching for long time, I have no choice to express my opinion about working conditions. Some school were in good condition and some of them not. As a teacher, I have never complained.I had to survive in my country, even here in the USA you can not say anything, I had to accept what I have got. The working conditions were the same.
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Victoria Vedron
3/9/2010 09:04:59 am
I always like American idioms or expression. This is my favorite regarding this topic:
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Dmitriy Yefanov
3/10/2010 10:49:00 am
I think that as long as a job pays you good money and helps you support yourself and your family and that the conditions are not harmful to your health, then you shouldn't complain. There are people in other parts of the world who are homeless and without means to support themselves and who would do anything to be able to have the job you work at. People in the USA, complain a lot. They don't like that their job is boring or that the hours are not flexible. They complain about their boss being too bossy (which is his job, isn't it?) and coworkers talking too much. Next time a person wants to complain about their job, they should think of all those men and women in Africa wishing to have any job at all.
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ShahlaA
3/12/2010 03:08:37 am
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Liliya Rudenko
3/12/2010 12:09:37 pm
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Irina T.
3/13/2010 02:56:11 am
Every developed country has made laws requiring employers to provide good employment conditions. Based on these laws companies has made laws that required employers to provide necessary training and healthy workplace. In my opinion the most important part of phrase “good employment condition” is safety. When the workplace is related to some dangerous substances, employers must ensure special training and safety equipment. But not always these laws are respected. I had a very bad experience back in my country. I had been working in a lab. We were involved in arbitration for the company from Germany and an association from our country. The production from Germany was treated with a new chemical. We didn’t have any description of this chemical and we must not open it before we received all the description. Because the court was in a few days, our director insisted to do the job. I had worked with it just for a few hours, because the next day I had planed my vacation. But my supervisor had worked for a few days. We must used special equipment for this chemical. We did not use it because we did not have it. So, in a very short time we both got sick. I recovered, but this experience had left its print on my heath for a life long time. My coworker had died after a long, painful and expensive treatment. Our director was fired. The chemical was liquidated, nobody use it again. But it cannot be compare with somebody’s life. The child lost her mother, the husband lost his wife because of director irresponsibility. By the way, I never studied carefully the term of employment before accepting the job. Sometimes we don’t have a choice, we need a job and we accept it without any question.
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Venus K.
3/13/2010 03:21:29 am
My answer will be yes. I used to work with bad employment conditions in the past, and I am working with bad employment conditions in the present as well. In my entire life I have been working so many jobs and each job was different. For example my first job after I graduated, I worked in the hospital in Thailand. I worked at that place for two years. I quitted because I was unhappy with my co-workers and my boss. My co-workers liked to tell the boss about others employees’ mistake and the boss believed in everything that they said to her. I felt that wasn’t fair. Several months later, I got a new job. My second job was a customer service at an entertainment company. I loved this job. I told myself that. After three months, I got a promotion to become a co-producer for a talk show. It wasn’t take me too long to find out that I didn’t like it. I liked the job, but I didn’t like to greet famous people. Many famous people thought that they were God. They put themselves up high. It was annoying me very much with their attitude. So, I quitted my job again. Now, I am in the US and having two jobs. One is a server in the restaurant and the other is CNA at a nursing home. As a server job, I like it, but sometime I feel tired with complain from customers. I understand customer is the king. They are always right no matter what. The complaint from customer is already bad, but the worth is working with bad co-workers. Some of my co-workers are bad. They like to keep their eyes on you and try to find some mistake. Then they can tell the boss. They never look at themselves that they sometime make mistake too. Fortunately, I have an excellent boss. She never judges anyone before she talks to that person first. For my CNA job, I love it because I can use my education with it. However, I am still working with bad employment conditions. Some of my co-workers are very nice and helpful. They always assistance me whenever I need help. Unlike the others employees who are lazy and trying to hire some place when I need help. Over all, in my opinion it doesn’t matter what kind of jobs I do or where I work. I always have a similar problem because I am working with human being. They are the same everywhere in the world.
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nadia k
3/13/2010 10:29:17 am
I am glad that I never worked in bad employment conditions. I am ECE(Early Childhood Education) teacher and I always worked in good conditions. The schools were nice and clean, and I can not complain. I believe children get good caring in the USA, and they are as teachers in good conditions. I am so happy to say that I am just wondering about comfort, coziness, and cleanness. If I compare my conditions in my country, I have also worked in excellent conditions. I worked as a fashion designer where we produced fashion clothes for women. It was a firm with highest level, with big halls and rooms inside. The halls were very cozy, and modern, and very clean. I just remember as the best time, and work in my life! In summary, I would like to say that I am so happy that I did not work in bad conditions, and I always had wonderful jobs!
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Vladimir Khodakivsky 520 G
3/13/2010 10:51:17 am
I started to work when I was 17 years old. My first job was a plumber on a factory. My supervisor described me my responsibility and I started to work. My work days were shorter than other workers, because I wasn’t 18 years old. When I was 18 years old I started to work full time. I think every person remembers his or her firs job. But now, I live in other country where condition of work very different. I could compare my job in my country and also I can do it in here. When I worked in my country the conditions of work were badly. The owner of factory didn’t care about his employees, didn’t care about safety. It was just formal. The owner sometimes didn’t pay overtime. But here I see another situation between owner and employers. The owner or supervisor tries to describe my responsibility about my position. Every month make meeting and give new instruction about different situation. The owner pays overtime to me. It’s good. Independently in what country you live, you have to try to do work better.
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Vera Khodakivska 520G
3/13/2010 12:43:41 pm
When I lived in Ukraine I was working in the store a manager. I had a lot of work because I worked with people who bought things for factories. When I began to work I had to study the terms of employment before I started to work. All things were good. The boss told me my responsibility. But, when I started to was it was different. I had lunch 10-15 min, sometimes I didn’t have it. In my day off I had to work. My vacation was 14 day, but it was supported to have 38 days in years. My boss didn’t pay to me overtime and I did my work for free. I was working in store during for 4 years and I dropped this work. When I worked in Sacramento it was a bid different. I had lunch 30min.I had days off and nobody called me to go to work. Operating conditions were good. Now I am compeering work in Sacramento with my country and I can say :all work is hard. If you want to have work you are supposed to do it diligent
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Carmen G
3/13/2010 12:51:55 pm
One of the places I worked for actually had pretty good working conditions, but the problem was a matter of privacy. I worked for a janitorial service in downtown; I would be cleaning mostly empty business such as KVIE, channel 6. I worked with the owners’ teenage son and we got along fine. The owner would drop us off at one end of the building and he would go to the other end and we would meet in the middle. As his son cleaned, we talked about a lot of things including my son who was dating my boss daughter. I worked as a maid in a motel during the day, and worked the janitorial job at night so my feet would hurt; sometimes bleeding so I would remove my shoes and work. One day my son said “mom Jim (not his real name) said to tell you if you don’t have money to buy good shoes, he will buy you a pair” What I said, I don’t know what his talking about. My son was so embarrassed. At least once a week something like that would come up and I asked his son if he told his dad about things we talked about and he said “no”. This went on for a couple of months until one day my son said “mom, Jim keeps telling me things about you and I don’t know what to say to him. I asked him what he was saying and realized these were things I had talked about as I worked. Nothing major just general talk like asking my son if he had a girlfriend or talking about me when I was young. I again asked his son if he told his dad what I said, he swore he didn’t, well this is about it, and finally I decided to quit this job because I didn’t want to make problem for them.
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Octavian Goga
3/13/2010 03:43:19 pm
I never worked somewhere with bad employment. Of course the employer wants more money and benefit. But in this economy we should be happy we have work. I remember in my country how the employers did not have a lot of tools. In stead of using a drill they use a screwdriver. This is just a minor example. But in America are conditions to work faster and safe, tools are not that expensive in America compare to Europe.
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Liliya Sira
3/13/2010 04:27:22 pm
The job is not only provide financial support.It also gives the person a sense of purpose and filling of accomplishment. In the United States is possible for some to change their life completely. Every person can work and study at the same time. In this country you can find any work everywhere.
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HAMID.H
3/13/2010 05:20:36 pm
I had lot of employees and some of them were selfish but doesn’t matter because people Have a different think and act. Some people the only thing is important for them are their Position and maybe select bad way for protection of their position.
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Nhien Nguyen
3/14/2010 04:58:54 am
In my country .I am not work but I see. It is difficult employment condition. A lot of people are not study. They are lazy study. They need job for their life so they are very hard work. They have no choice for their work, they just work outside, so they spend a lot of time but they find a little bit money and they cannot save their money for their lifework a day spend a day. Everything is very expensive. They low paying their work. In the US is easy for work .they can choice their work, work inside or outside. They are easy work. There is a lot of choice for you. The US is good employment condition. They are safe work.
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Dzianis Rybakou
3/14/2010 07:05:56 am
I had never been working full time in my native country and can not compare with the current working atmosphere in the United States. I am not a picky guy, as soon as employer pays me and I have a capacity for work I am happy, especially in this economic situation. Of course the working condition can be better but it depends on us, not employer. I hear a lot of stories about cheap or stupid bosses. Couple weeks ago I met a random guy at the Home Depot. We were looking for some products at the same alley. He started the conversation and in less than one minute he had been complaining about his job. He terribly inappropriate but very ‘colorful’ described his boss. The story was about ‘poor’ construction worker, who has to work outside in such terrible rainy weather condition. This is one of the examples where people forget that the slave time is over and they independently choose what to do about their lives.
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Liavon Sauko
3/14/2010 08:31:40 am
I have worked at a job where there are bad employment conditions. Right after the military I got a job as a driver for a company that delivers gas. Just like at any other company, they gave me the oldest big car they had. For about half a year I was only fixing it, because it was missing a lot of different car parts. That company only had two garages. One was occupied with emergency vehicle and the other one was for fixing cars. For this reason I often had to fix my car outside on the street. But this isn’t it. In the spring, summer and half way through autumn everything was going good. But when the cold days kicked in, it was horrible. Every car worked on gas, and with temperatures of 5 to 10 degrees of Celsius, it was very hard for a car to start, since the gas is cold by nature. I had to bring hot water and clean the whole system that was it would warm up a little bit. It was possible to start a car with gasoline and then switch to gas. But there wasn’t enough gasoline because they only gave us 5 gallons per month; therefore I had to buy gasoline with my own money. If there was no gasoline then, we had to take the emergency car and tow the car that needed to be started. This happened every winter for three years that I’ve worked there. After that I got promoted and switched to become a driver of an emergency car. Working on the emergency car was a little bit easier but it had its own problems, especially in the winter. I had to fix it in freezing temperatures. Sometimes my fingers got stuck to the metal, but this lasted only couple of years. Then the company earned some money and they built their own heating system and warm garages. Unfortunately when that happened my family had moved to another city.
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Simona D.
3/14/2010 10:19:18 am
I don’t remember to work in a place with bad employment conditions. It depends on what people think and how they define bad employment. Some people, especially here in USA, consider a bad employment condition if they don’t have social activities or even if they need to work too hard. I think a little different because I worked many years in a communist country and nobody socialized me during that time. I went to work to get paid, as easy as sounds. Here I think the same. I don’t expect much and I don’t get disappointed. Here, as an emigrant, it is very hard to get good jobs. I was 35 when I came here and even if I am good on my profession I still have problems with language and my accent that will never go away. You hear about equal opportunity all the time, but many companies don’t respect the law. It is very hard for an emigrant to get good positions but not impossible. The most important thing is to know what your goal is and not to give up until you reach that goal.
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Anatoliy A
3/14/2010 10:46:19 am
When I still used to work at a Collective Farm like at the end of 1970's our country was still part of the Soviet Union. I was a truck driver there. I had a very old truck, and it always broke down. All of the time I had to fix it by myself. The model that the truck I was driving was called GAZ. The trucks that were the same year as my truck the hand brake was always broken in them. Every time the police would stop the truck he would always check the hand break and if it didn't work than he would give you a very big ticket. That was one of my biggest problems I always had to fix the hand break, but you could never fix it it took to much time and work. I do not always study the terms of employment before accepting a job offer. I do study sometimes just a little bit. No the working conditions have not been better in my country than this country. It was always hard working in my country but when I came to this country it got really easier.
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Francisca Flores
3/14/2010 11:53:02 am
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Toan N
3/14/2010 01:44:52 pm
When I was in Vetnam , I worked in bad employment condition. That was when I worked in the restaurant. First, my labor was cheap. It wasn’t worth for my labor. I usually worked overtime about 10 hours a day. I knew that was bad but I need money to help for my family. I had no choice. When I came to America , I got better job and good condition. The laws in America are very good for any employee. People usually work eight hours a day.
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Orkideh z.
3/14/2010 01:47:28 pm
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Biniam H
3/14/2010 02:03:51 pm
I had had a bad employment condition when I was in my country. I used to work for ministry health as health assistant long time ago .The work place was in a countryside clinic, 300 miles far away from the city. There was no electricity, there was no enough supply and transportation .I had no good salary and my workmate was grumpy old man. I was unhappy in everything. Finally, after 5 months I decided to quit from the job. That was the only I remember in my working experience a bad employment condition. Whenever I start a job I study the terms of the employment and I fellow the guideline of the company or employer.
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Diana M.
3/14/2010 02:13:05 pm
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Kim nguyen
3/14/2010 02:17:13 pm
In my country I work a lot with my mom and dad. We wake up in the morning early and go to the sea and find fish. Later we go home and dry it. After we take a nap we wake up and sell it to customers. It is very different in the USA. Here I work at a nail shop and do nails. I have to learn English so I talk to them well and they understand me. I get pay good here for the labor. With the money I help me family buy house and for me I go to school.
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leslie M.s
3/14/2010 02:27:08 pm
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Svitlana V.
3/14/2010 02:46:12 pm
I had some experiense working in bad employment conditions. It happened when we just came to the USA. We didn't have any relatives or close friends in the USA and we came to Ohio because one guy promised to give us a job. But we didn't sign any documents. It was very difficult job in the hotels and pay was three dollars and twenty five cents for a room. And if we forgot to clean something or put a towel in one room, we wouldn't get pay for ten rooms. So we understood that we will not make money there and my mother called to our friend in California for advise and he asked us to go to California,because he also had some bad experiense when he went to make money to Greece and came back home with no money. I was working in my country, but i think that conditions in the USA are better because employers in the USA pay for overtime and you are supposed to have two days off.
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Halyna S.
3/14/2010 03:36:00 pm
I have never worked somewhere that had bad employment conditions. When I lived in Ukraine I worked in Donation Blood Station. Giving blood is safe and simple. Our employment conditions were nice and good. There were plenty of rooms here. We worked in clean and germ-free operating rooms. We knew that each donation will help save the life of up to three people, so each of workers was responsible and efficient. My husband Viktor was a donor and gave his blood for people. Donating blood is one of easiest ways to support our community. The last year my middle son Mark became a donor and I am proud of him. I don’t know which employment conditions are in the USA, because I have not worked here.
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Raymundo Luengas
3/14/2010 03:52:06 pm
think a have never worked in bad employment conditions, I think the co- workers sometimes made the environment a little hard specially for people who come from other countries. I have had only three jobs in ten years in this country. I have never read the terms of the employment conditions before accepting the job. Sometimes because when you come from another country the only thing you want is work and the last thing that you worry about is employment conditions. I never worked for somebody else in my country; I was studying and helping my dad in the farm, that’s why I didn’t care for the employment conditions. I think in this country the employment conditions are much better than my country, because this country has rules and most of the people follow it and if something is not right there are many places to go and ask for help. In my country are places to help the workers, but most of the times they don’t care about you, if the employer has money you cannot do anything. That’s why I think that the work conditions in this country are better.
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Viktor S.
3/14/2010 04:19:36 pm
When I lived in my native country I worked as self employment. My employment conditions always depended on me, so I tried that they were good and great quality. I had worked as a plumber for ten years. In the beginning of my career, I took each order because it needed for me to obtain experience and recognition. It helped me to have permanent costumers and they gave me regular work and brought in profit. Also, my experience had been given a chance to me to take the exclusive orders. I had a fun and liked my job.In the USA I cannot work as a plumber because each service plumbing company wants that each employee has more than five years experience in the USA. I plan to take plumbing classes and I hope that I will have a job as a plumber in the future.
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Tatyana S
3/14/2010 04:20:24 pm
No, I have never worked in bad employment conditions, mostly I worked in friendly nice social conditions, where I could develop my skills, study different ways of communication and socialize with other people. Yes I do study terms of employment before accepting job offer. First of all, I figuring out will be I able constantly to commit myself to certain job, because job takes a most part of my lifetime, also I learn situation will I match to particular job. Not to forget to mention about things like benefits, salary, locations and convenient schedule. At the conclusion, I want to find such job that workplace could be interesting, fun and useful. I haven't work yet here in United State so can't compare work conditions between two countries, but I asked my friends who already worked here, that work here has more streak condition than in native country. You have to be on time, only one break a day, and if you want to be promoted you have to work hard. This information is my opinion, I think every workplace has different terms and conditions.
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Tabitha K.
3/14/2010 04:49:53 pm
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Nadiia Noga
3/14/2010 04:55:19 pm
When I lived in Ukraine I worked in a lot of places but my most favorite place was the cafe.I worked as a cashier and I liked this job.In this cafe mostly I sold ice cream and different kinds of sweets.Before I began working I had to wear special clothes to work.It was a white apron and a white cap.Sometimes my boss came and checked if everything was good.He encouraged me to work with my working abilities that I had.My boss was a strict person and I was afraid of him.I liked this job even though the employment conditions were strict.
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Marina F
3/14/2010 04:56:41 pm
I have never worked in bad employment conditions. After high school, I worked as a babysitter. I worked at my home, two kids were brought to me every morning. This was the job that I loved, because I love this children like they are my own. I don't know in which country the work conditions are better, because I had never worked for a boss.
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leontiy naumov 520 G
3/16/2010 01:37:22 am
Six years ago I was working in the small mechanikal company.Four mechanics in the body shop were working for ten hours every day.There were no conditioners in the summer times and any hitters in the very cool days in the winter.It was terrible when you perform or repair cooling sistem.Sometimes cooling leaquid leacs from lifted car exact at you,and you still working in wet clothes.Smog from working cars,continiouse noises from vorking tools and engines all of these make very bad employment conditions.I was working almost five years in these conditions.But it was very ,I was glad and lucky,because I was i another country whithout language,whithout experenses,and knoleges of laws but I had money to live and support my family.It was my first experience in this country.
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Elva H
3/16/2010 07:22:09 am
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Alex Moskalenko
3/16/2010 07:32:26 am
Alex Moskalenko
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Paraskoviya Moskalenko
3/16/2010 09:21:39 am
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Sunghoon Yoon
3/17/2010 06:17:14 am
I believe the working conditions in U.S. are much better than the working condition in my country. One of the better working conditions in U.S. is “working time flexibility”. For instance, I have to work forty (40) hours per week but it doesn’t mean that I need to work eight (8) hours per day. If I have some personal errands I can leave my office early and I can make it up tomorrow or later. This is what I cannot imagine in my country. Another better working condition is that I can leave my office early even thought my boss or manager are in their office. It makes no matter in here but in my country a person cannot leave the office before his/her boss leaves the office. The working time is much flexible in U.S. but there is one thing I should always keep in mind: Get all things done right in a given time!
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Paul Yefanov
3/18/2010 09:14:53 am
I came to USA when I was 10. When I was 14 I already had a job. I was working at night. My job was to deliver people Sacramento Bee. My job was not really easy but I never complained because I knew that I needed money to pay for my phone and so I can go buy my self some close or just go out with someone and eat you no. My parents never bought me enything so I had to make money for my self. Than time was passing by I changed cuple jobs and I got a car and things started going well. I worked at Mc.Donulds too. That place is like HELL! There is always some fat woman behind you and she tells you to do her work and if you dont they will just fire you so I had to work a lot at that place. That after that I had bunch of other places where I worked. I know one thing the more you complain the more chance you have to get fired or something. So my advice is try your best keep your mouth shot and always try to make your maneger or your boss happy and everything is going to be good.
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Elva H.
3/25/2010 10:11:39 am
Have you ever worked somewhere that had bad employment conditions? Have working conditions been better in your country than this country? If so, in what ways?
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vlad golovko
3/27/2010 07:17:53 am
May be to my disappointment I have never studied terms of employment before accepting a job offer. However, I think that in my country the employer does not always necessary comply with the terms of employment anyways. Main problem in my country is corruption and the biggest issue is hiding income from government. That develops bad economy in the country which of course leads society to low levels of economy. I worked in a small consulting company in my country in which I officially was not an employee. So when the company business was not going ok, the management was telling us that they will not pay us unless we start working better, get more customers so that business will be good again. You can imagine how the rights of the employee are not secured at all. Owners and management can use and abuse the employee in any way they want only because he or she is not officially an employee.
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