Author: Olivia

I live in a first world country. My mom was a dirt poor single parent who scraped together every penny to feed us. I had no-one to help me financially start out in life. All my life, I was told you have to work hard, get into college and fight to make it, but you'll be successful one day if you do. My younger sister has autism, and my mom became too ill to financially care for her. So at a young age, I took her on as my dependent. I swore to myself I wouldn't let her rot away in the system. I started working at 15, after high-school let out. I'd work every day and sometimes the weekends. I managed to get into college on student loans. It wasn't enough to live on though, so I had to work nights and weekends after class. I often had so…

… or anything along those lines, especially via text/email (or anything else that an employer could provide his proof during legal proceedings). I see there’s a ton on this subreddit and I definitely see the appeal, but its a short lived victory the previous employer will enjoy more. If it helps you to swallow your pride consider it similar to giving your previous employer a “handy” (or cunnilingus/fellatio) your way out, because that's exactly what you're doing. I get this might be really tempting if you have a second job or you just want to stick it to the man (which you can still do via creative name calling – Just don’t admit to wrongdoing or quit). If you say something along the lines of “I quit!” it can disqualify you from benefits that the employer would pay out (e.g. severance packages, unredeemed PTO, unemployment, etc.). You might even be…

Your failure to run a business is your failure. Part of running a business is adjusting wages and policy such that you can retain employees. It's like none of you owners even want to run a business any more.