I need to Sue UC Berekely? Advice about doing this?

[calmom]

<p>sk8rmom, the statute of limitations for a wage claim via the appropriate California Dept would still be the same – 2 years on an oral contract – see [How</a> to file a wage claim](<a href=“http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofilewageclaim.htm]How”>Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE)) “A claim based on an oral agreement must be filed within two years from the date the claim arose.” </p>

<p>The problem is that the people who ran the agency during the school year 2007-2008 are long since gone – there is not going to be anyone there who remembers OP or who can affirm his claim that he submitted work. The reason there is a statute of limitations is that when so much time goes by, it gets hard for anything to be proven one way or another. I mean-- what does the current manager do if someone shows up claiming he did work and was promised money back in fall of 2007? </p>

<p>I checked the agency in question - <a href=“https://lecturenotes.berkeley.edu/LN_Content.aspx?dir=67[/url]”>https://lecturenotes.berkeley.edu/LN_Content.aspx?dir=67&lt;/a&gt; - and their home page reports:</p>

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For the past five years, the Lecture Notes service has lost money and was in grave danger of being shut down. We have managed to save the service but it will continue ONLY if it breaks even in every class, every semester.</p>

<p>Please don’t share your subscription! To ensure the service survives we ask students NOT to share subscriptions and not to redistribute notes in any way. It’s a trust-based system. Students should be aware that the more classes we break even in, the more classes we will be able to take notes for in the future.

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<p>There is also a set of very specific requirements for note-takers – the notetakers must commit to attend every class in a course, they must be students who have already taken the course and earned an A, they must submit notes by 10pm the same day of the class, and they must do their own marketing for subscriptions to the class, to ensure an adequate number of subscriptions. </p>

<p>We’ve heard OP’s side of the story… but what about the other side? Did she submit the notes on timely basis? Were there an adequate number of subscribers to the courses she audited? The agency maintains archives of notes going back to <a href=“https://lecturenotes.berkeley.edu/LN_Courses.aspx?dir=81&cif=2[/url]”>https://lecturenotes.berkeley.edu/LN_Courses.aspx?dir=81&cif=2&lt;/a&gt; – so it would be a fairly easy task for her to find the classes she took notes for. (One thing that she COULD do would be to find those classes and write a demand letter asking that ASUC cease and desist from selling those particular archived notes – if they didn’t pay for the notes, they don’t own them, so they can’t sell them – that wouldn’t get OP the money she wants, but it might get some sort of dialog going).</p>

<p>I do have to say that I am a little bit skeptical because of OP’s sloppiness in maintaining her own records – I’m thinking that a student with the organizational skills to submit a high quality set of notes for each class on a regular basis would have kept better records than OP says she has, given that OP knew early on that she wasn’t getting the money she had been promised for her work. I mean – I’ve known a lot of youngsters who are sloppy about tracking their hours at a job at first, but the first time they get a paycheck for 15 hours of work during a pay period that they are sure they worked 17… they start keeping their own diaries and copies of time sheets. OP would have us believe that she went two full semesters without getting paid – and it never occurred to her to keep a copy of her notes or other records.</p>

<p>I’m wondering if the real story is that OP’s paperwork was “lost” because the agency never wanted to hire her and was trying to brush her off – and that she somehow didn’t understand that she was being given a set of weak excuses from a manager who didn’t have the guts to say no to her outright.</p>