Employee Survival Guide®
The Employee Survival Guide® is an employees only podcast about everything related to work and working. We will share with you all the information your employer does not want you to know about working and guide you through various work and employment law issues.
The Employee Survival Guide® podcast is hosted by seasoned Employment Law Attorney Mark Carey, who has only practiced in the area of Employment Law for the past 28 years. Mark has seen just about every type of work dispute there is and has filed several hundred work related lawsuits in state and federal courts around the country, including class action suits. He has a no frills and blunt approach to work issues faced by millions of workers nationwide. Mark endeavors to provide both sides to each and every issue discussed on the podcast so you can make an informed decision.
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Employee Survival Guide®
Employees Have No Control Over Their Work; This is Insane
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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.
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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.
It's Mark. Welcome back. Next edition of the Employee Survival Guide, where I tell you what's on my mind, what your employer does not want you to know about. I've been thinking a lot about how you really have no control of your work, how 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 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 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 us. They rule with an iron fist and they're 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 at will employee. And that's intended. It's intended to be decentralized, so you can't organize yourselves. You can't, you know, uh collectively get together. That's 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 uh non-compete agreements and non-disclosure agreements, forced arbitration, at will employment, 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 how much can you collect with your your colleagues to stand up for something? Try it. Don't accept what employers dish out. It's ridiculous. It's insanity.