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IronLionZion

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14. Contracting is creeping into every industry now

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Apr 24, 2014, 05:01 PM

Apr 2014

Unreimbursed expenses can ruin you. And the tax deductions help but they're not great. Lasership often delivers stuff pretty late into the night too, like 9pm.

I suppose this is how companies try to be "efficient".

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Amazon Drivers Getting Their Pay Slashed [View all] onehandle Apr 2014 OP

I saw a dude using a U-Haul for deliveries the other day. tridim Apr 2014 #1

"It's like they want us to be employees, but they don't want to pay for it," exactly leftyohiolib Apr 2014 #2

Yep. Brickbat Apr 2014 #5

It isn't just amazon doing it either Johonny Apr 2014 #7

I hate Lasership...and I complain to Amazon when my packages are not UPS or USPS, because msanthrope Apr 2014 #3

Same here. nt onehandle Apr 2014 #4

Lasership faked a camera delivery to me. godai Apr 2014 #8

I pretty much had the same thing happen to me....and then when I called lasership msanthrope Apr 2014 #9

He should be taking these expenses off on his taxes frazzled Apr 2014 #6

That was the first thing that struck me, too. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2014 #13

I had an Amazon shipment cancelled as 'undeliverable' n2doc Apr 2014 #10

Call amazon and find out who the shipper was. nt msanthrope Apr 2014 #11

He is a delivery driver making $58,000/year..... cbdo2007 Apr 2014 #12

Contracting is creeping into every industry now IronLionZion Apr 2014 #14