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(#11) Raccoon Planting
From Redditor /u/icarusOW:
I know a guy who does pest control who specializes in raccoon removal. He takes the raccoons from one house in one neighborhood, then takes and releases it in another neighborhood then waits for the people there to reach out to him to remove the raccoon from their home.
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(#10) Stealing Business Through Google
From Redditor /u/surfnsound:
If a Google business listing isn't claimed and controlled by a company, a competing company can weasel their way in and direct people to their business by, say, changing the phone number.
There was an article recently about how drug counselors in the Philadelphia area had it happen to them. Their listing phone number was changed to an 800 number, which directed callers to an inpatient rehab facility in Florida. It was discovered when one of these counselors started noticing his patients suddenly not showing up. He called one of them and found out he was at this facility in Florida.
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(#17) People Lie About Money
From Redditor /u/moderate_extremist:
People lie about salary, starting pay, raises, etc. all the time. Learn to play hardball. For a multi-million dollar company, another $10-20k is nothing.
My office had a lock-down on raises over 3% and going into an annual review I learned that my boss had lied and under paid me for the starting position (He claimed they had a $60k budget for the position and couldn't exceed it. I found out the last person in the job got paid $75k).
So, I got an offer from a competitor for over double my current pay, knew they couldn't afford to lose me with the amount of work coming in, and slid my offer letter over to my boss during the review. They matched the offer, gave me a $10,000 bonus up front, and even cut me into a percentage of a business line. The meeting was awkward as hell, and it was difficult to do, but it's business.
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(#7) Threats From Debt Collectors
From Redditor /u/MattsWorldoWonders:
Debt collectors will have 'detectives' call you from a number that appears to be a legitimate law enforcement agency when you Google it. It's actually a spoofed caller ID using a legitimate agency's fax number. The 'detective' will threaten arrest and throw around names of local judges.
Then, the debt collector will claim to not know the 'detective' who left the message, but will be willing to take care of your debt.
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(#8) Fake Claims Of A Competing Offer
From Redditor /u/mngray16:
We were young, first time home buyers. We found a house that we loved and was in our price range, albeit the high end of our range, but in there, nonetheless. We entered into negotiations with the sellers agent. While my husband and I were thinking the counter-offer over, we received another call from our agent saying the sellers agent received an offer from someone with no contingencies. They could pay cash and sign that day.
We knew we couldn't complete with that, and our agent urged us to rush over to her office to sign their counter-offer and hope they would accept it since we made our offer first. Of course they accepted, because there was no other offer. After all this went down, we were sharing our story with family and friends and we came to realize the sellers agency plays this card frequently.
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(#12) Shorting Severance Pay
From Redditor /u/Mode1961:
In Nova Scotia, Canada, severance pay is paid on the average of your last 30 days of pay. This means that some companies will actually reduce your hours for your last month with them (if they are going to lay you off). Happened to my wife. She worked for this company for 5 years, worked 35+ hours per week, suddenly she wasn't getting shifts. BOOM, lay-off notice. Happened to other folks too.
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