Employee Survival Guide® - Employees Have No Control Over Their Work; This is Insane

Episode Date: December 12, 2025

Comment on the Show by Sending Mark a Text Message.Feeling like your job runs on rules you never agreed to? We dig into the quiet machinery that keeps workers compliant—at-will employment, sweeping NDAs, non-compete clauses, and forced arbitration—and break down how those tools shape behavior long before anyone files a complaint. Instead of shrugging and moving on, we map clear steps for turning isolated frustration into collective leverage that actually changes outcomes.We look at why movements flare up and fade, how employers centralize power while decentralizing workers, and what that means for transparency and due process. Along the way, we share practical ways to lower personal risk: sharing lawful pay information, documenting issues with care, setting up trust-first peer groups, and identifying small, specific demands that build momentum. We also talk through the legal landscape—where non-competes are weakening, what arbitration clauses do and don’t block, and how internal norms can evolve toward just-cause practices even in at-will environments.The goal isn’t chaos. It’s informed consent, dignity, and a stake in the rules you live under. If you’ve felt stuck between bad choices—stay silent or go nuclear—this conversation offers a third path: coordinated, lawful, and strategic action that starts small and compounds. Listen, share it with a coworker you trust, and then take one step together. If this resonated, subscribe, leave a review, and tell us the first change you want to push for at work. If you enjoyed this episode of the Employee Survival Guide please like us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. We would really appreciate if you could leave a review of this podcast on your favorite podcast player such as Apple Podcasts. Leaving a review will inform other listeners you found the content on this podcast is important in the area of employment law in the United States. For more information, please contact our employment attorneys at Carey & Associates, P.C. at 203-255-4150, www.capclaw.com.Disclaimer: For educational use only, not intended to be legal advice.

Hey, it's Mark here, and welcome to the next edition of the Employee Survival Guide, where I tell you, as always, what your employer does definitely not want you to know about, and a lot more. It's Mark, and welcome back next edition of the Employee Survival Guide, where I tell you it's on my mind what your employer does not want you to know about. I've been thinking a lot about Now, you really have no control of your work. Now, we've just accepted the way employers want us to behave. They set the rules for us. They tell us how to act.

They tell us what the game is. We all just take it. Like, why? I mean, even at the federal court level, we just take it. The level of biased approach to employees is rampant. Why do we continue just to accept that norm? Like, you know, like we can't do anything about it. No one really wants to talk about it.

very few lawyers will actually do what I'm doing. Actually, I look for them. I actually search for people of like-minded people, attorneys like myself, and there are very few who will challenge a status quo and say that the way we work is just insane. It's bizarre. And we all react. We hear these news reports about me too or this, that, and we start to form a movement, and it goes away. It's because employers suppress it. Employers do a lot of things to make it easier for them to rule They rule with an iron fist and their little private governments that they run. Billions and billions of dollars, all intended to keep you in line. Union activity, forget about it.

That's ridiculous. Unions are less than 2% of the population of employees. Everybody else is an out-will employee. And that's intended. It's intended to be decentralized so you can't organize yourselves. You can't, you know, collectively get together. That has to change. You're all too scared shitless to do that.

Well, maybe you start listening a little bit more. Maybe you start to be aggravated by what I'm saying to you and do something about it. These things you have such as non-compete agreements and non-disclosure agreements, forced arbitration, at will implement. All these things are designed to suppress you in a very undemocratic way. And so far, you're just taking it because you don't know any better. You're playing the victim role, whatever it is. But you are not reacting in a very positive way. You're just accepting it. So I challenge you to don't accept. it any longer. See how far you're willing to take it. How much can you collect with your colleagues to stand up for something? Try it. Don't accept what employers dish out. It's ridiculous. It's insanity. If you like the Employees Survival Guide, I'd really encourage you to leave a review. We try really hard to produce information to you that's informative, that's timely that you can actually use and solve problems on your own and at your employment. So if you like to leave a review anywhere you listen to our podcast, please do so. and leave five stars because anything less than five is really not as good, right?

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