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What’s the most flat-out lie a small business has told you while working there?

I worked mostly for small businesses before Covid and getting a Master's, but I would naively believe certain things when I was younger (18 or so, 2008-ish). I remember some jobs had tedious tasks to perform and they would come back with “All businesses do it like this”. Again, naive kid. Working for a much bigger firm and my gosh! These tasks are streamlined from like 10 minutes to 2! I've even told my current boss that I was definitely not used to shit like this. Another is “You have to wait a year and then you qualify for a week's vacation everywhere.” BBRRRRZZTTTT. WRONG. PTO wasn't a thing at those apparently. Anyone else have any?


I worked mostly for small businesses before Covid and getting a Master's, but I would naively believe certain things when I was younger (18 or so, 2008-ish). I remember some jobs had tedious tasks to perform and they would come back with “All businesses do it like this”. Again, naive kid. Working for a much bigger firm and my gosh! These tasks are streamlined from like 10 minutes to 2! I've even told my current boss that I was definitely not used to shit like this. Another is “You have to wait a year and then you qualify for a week's vacation everywhere.” BBRRRRZZTTTT. WRONG. PTO wasn't a thing at those apparently. Anyone else have any?

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