r/legaladvice

i was diagnosed with cancer and am going to lose my hair. i did three wig appointments. i got a nice real hair wig for $50 a EXTEMEMLY nice wig for $1425

i went to place the cancer center recommends it was a $200 consult which is fine the $1425 wig also needed the $200 consult fee. i was happy to pay for ppls time and expertise.

he slaps a HORRIBLE synthetic piece of crap on my me . if i didn’t already have two wigs in the car it would have been DEVISTATING to have this worse quality than american girl doll hair on. and it’s $700. i ask for the real human hair wigs not this piece of crap. he says those are $2000 but wig prices are like the stock market they fluctuate daily. im okay with that price and try on wigs. they suck. no highlights or dimension. i decide to leave. i pay the $200 for the consult. the next day he calls and asks if i want the wig but the price has gone up to $3500. from $2000 to $3500 in a day bc human hair prices change daily. and this is the place the cancer hospital prints out and tells you to go.

i can’t express the difference in quality too that the $1400 wig is so much better.

he’s usually con artist scam techniques on cancer patients. isnt this like increasing water bottle prices before a hurricane

location: pennsylvania

Location: California

I was laid off in February, part of a bigger round of cuts. Signed a separation agreement at the time, took the severance, moved on. Started a new job in April. Haven't said anything public about my former employer, haven't been involved in anything organized, just quietly got on with things.

Last week I got an email from their legal team with an NDA attached. It's backdated to my last day in February and the scope is pretty wide, working conditions, pay, anything related to how the layoff was handled. They gave me ten days to sign or they'd pursue legal remedies. That's the whole email, no explanation of what prompted it, no context.

I never signed an NDA when I was hired and the separation agreement I signed in February had a basic confidentiality clause but nothing close to what they're sending now. I genuinely don't know what triggered this. There's been some talk among former colleagues about the layoff but I haven't been part of any of it publicly.

What I'm trying to understand is whether they can actually enforce a deadline like this on something I never agreed to, whether backdating a document to a date three months ago is normal practice or a red flag, and whether not signing actually exposes me to anything real or if this is mostly pressure. I want to understand what I'm dealing with before I respond to them

Location: Pennsylvania

We are about to send our son off to college. My wife’s friends are all talking about these forms. After looking them up, they seem well meaning, but it looks like this forum does not love them. We just want to be able to be there and be aware if something happens to him medically.

Our question, if I don’t fill out these forms – will we still be able to gain information if something happens? My wife keeps citing one of her friends that was medivac’d and the parents were not allowed to know anything until they physically went to the hospital hours away.

Disclaimer, we are certainly not helicopter parents. Just our first child going off to college far away from home. Perhaps also you know, he is a dependent in my insurance.

Thank you.

Edit: thank you for your quick replies and information. Sounds like just a medical power of attorney is all we are looking for.

Double Secret Edit: definitely not doing it, thank you everyone for your helpful insight.