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I just did something kinda slimy to get back at the massive company underpaying me

For context, I work at the corporate office of a large company as a receptionist. I am without a doubt the least paid person there (I know this because I hand out cheques to employees who are too old/lazy to get direct deposit and my company does nothing to hide those numbers). Many of the interns (who got jobs because their parents are on the board) get paid better than me even though I'm full time and do WAYYYY more work that what a receptionist usually would and get assigned a ton of totally unrelated work. While the company gives me nice perks, I would much rather just get paid a fair wage, what I make in a month wouldn't even cover the rent for the average apartment in my city (which is notoriously expensive). The company also spends INSANE money on tons of unnecessary stuff (I know this because…


For context, I work at the corporate office of a large company as a receptionist. I am without a doubt the least paid person there (I know this because I hand out cheques to employees who are too old/lazy to get direct deposit and my company does nothing to hide those numbers). Many of the interns (who got jobs because their parents are on the board) get paid better than me even though I'm full time and do WAYYYY more work that what a receptionist usually would and get assigned a ton of totally unrelated work. While the company gives me nice perks, I would much rather just get paid a fair wage, what I make in a month wouldn't even cover the rent for the average apartment in my city (which is notoriously expensive). The company also spends INSANE money on tons of unnecessary stuff (I know this because I do the invoicing).

People were whining about having to go back to the office, so the company caved and gave everyone who's job required them to be in office full time a monthly 150$ expense limit for travel fees, provided they could show receipts. I am in office every day so I qualify for this, and as I take public transit my boss asked for a screenshot of my transit card transactions from their website to see how much I loaded each month. I usually walk home (which takes 30-40 minutes, but I like the exercise) so that saves me a lot of money on bus fare, meaning that even though 150$ would be an accurate number for most people who take transit I don't spend that much per month, usually closer to 60$… But I wanted that 150$. So I took said screenshot of my transit card transactions and used design software (I'm also an illustrator/designer on the side) to raise the numbers. Now I'm going to get the full 150$ and stick it to the man.

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