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If it’s not documented, it’s just your word.

We publish what to write down — for pay that doesn’t add up, landlords, contractors, neighbors, debt collectors, and for anyone answering a claim made against them.

No legal advice, ever. We make no claim about what anyone is owed, or what to do about it. We tell you what to get down while you still can.

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The Break Room

October 1, 2026

published on rippedoffworker.com

Gig

I’m logged into the delivery app all afternoon, but they only pay me for the minutes I’m actually on a run. Does the waiting count?

Federal hours-worked rules treat some waiting time as work and some as not, and the dividing line is how much freedom the worker really has during the wait. The rules reach employees, which is a separate question for app work. Either way the hours are worth writing down.

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The Case File

published on buildmyevidence.com

Worked examples — made-up people, real method.

Case 004 · Renting · answering a claim

A withheld deposit, from the landlord's side

$1,450 held back on a $2,000 deposit. One side had photo pairs twenty-one months apart; the other had a recollection.

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What to write down

One situation per page: the whole answer in a sentence, then the things to note and the things to capture before they are moved, cleaned, edited or deleted.

Every situation →

Plain English

The words in the letters, explained — and what your record needs if the term is in play.

The tools, if you want to keep the record

Everything above stays free whether you use these or not.

rippedoffworker

For when the pay is wrong. You enter what you worked and what you were paid, period by period, and it keeps the arithmetic and the dates together in one place instead of across a year of memory. How you’re paid changes what it has to ask you, so pick that first.

Free, and no account needed

  • Hourly

    Off-the-clock work, docked pay, hours that never made it onto the stub.

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  • Salaried

    Hours far beyond the agreement — the rate agreed to, quietly gone.

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  • Gig

    The platform's cut, and the costs it never counts.

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  • Commission

    Deals closed, commission unpaid, money clawed back after the fact.

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buildmyevidence

For everything else — a landlord, a contractor, a neighbor, a collector, or a claim made against you. One record per dispute: photos, letters, calls and notes, each dated as it goes in, so what happened stays in order without you having to reconstruct it later.

Start a record →
Free to build
Start the record the day it starts mattering. Building it costs nothing, for as long as the dispute runs.
You pay for the file
$59 once per case, and only when you want the finished file out of it. Not to keep going.
Not a subscription
Nothing renews. There is no monthly anything to cancel later.

In one line: free to build the record for as long as the dispute runs, you pay $59 once per case only when you want the finished file, and nothing renews.

For advocates & professionals

Recommend it once. Every client after that turns up organized.

No fee, in either direction.

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