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How to Document What's Happening to You
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items Tools for keeping a record of what is happening at work, and for keeping it somewhere your employer does not control. Notebooks with numbered pages, scanning, personal email and backup, and the reasons each one matters. For anyone who has realized th...
Numbered pages and an index at the front, which is the entire reason to pick this one. A contemporaneous paper log with sequential numbered pages is far harder to dispute later than a document sitting on a laptop your employer owns and can wipe.
Leuchtturm1917 Hardcover Notebook
Write by hand, then scan the page to your own cloud storage with a phone. It gives you the credibility of handwriting plus a backup that does not live in the building. Wipe and reuse, so one notebook lasts.
Rocketbook Core Reusable Notebook
Mine, so take the recommendation with that in mind. Part 3 is entirely about this, what makes a record hold up, where the line sits between toxic but legal and actually unlawful, and scripts for the moment itself. It is the part I would have most wan...
Corporate Hostage: I Can't Quit, I Have a Mortgage
A personal email address that has nothing to do with your employer, for forwarding anything you are entitled to keep. Do not forward confidential company material, that creates a second problem. This is for your own correspondence and your own record...
Proton Mail
Somewhere offline to keep copies of your own documents, contracts, appraisals and payslips. Cloud accounts tied to a work identity can be closed the same afternoon you are walked out. This cannot.
Western Digital 2TB My Passport SSD Portable
For the paper that only exists as paper. Contracts, printed appraisals, letters. Scans double sided in one pass, and having everything searchable is the difference between a pile and a record.
ScanSnap iX1300 White| Small Desktop Scanner
Read the caution at the top of this list before you buy this. Recording consent law varies by country and by state, and getting it wrong can make you the one in trouble. Where it is lawful and where you are the person being shouted at, a record is wo...
PX470 Digital Voice Recorder PX Series
Separate your personal accounts from anything a work device or work account can reach, ideally before you need to. Free tier is sufficient. The moment to do this is while things are calm, not the week it all goes wrong.
Bitwarden
Unglamorous and it is how the paper stays in one place. Payslips, contracts, printed emails, all in date order at home rather than in three drawers and a bag.
Smead Expanding File Folder
If the Leuchtturm feels too personal to carry into an office, this reads as a standard work notebook. Same principle, less conspicuous, which occasionally matters.
Moleskine Professional Notebook