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You have to earn it.

I was told this after I went to upper management and demanded a different job title since the current job title doesn’t even describe my work anymore. What does that even mean? I’ve never made any mistake during the 2 years with the company, but I still have to earn my real job title? It’s not like I asked to be a manager.

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Fighting for higher wages is pointless

If you haven’t noticed the pattern by now, every time wages get raised, the cost of living gets raised. Then the blame is on some false decoy such as “a recession”, or “inflation”. Bullshit. We need nationwide to worldwide price regulation on goods otherwise we’re going to be at an endless war of fighting for higher wages in a more unaffordable environment.

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How many times have I heard baby boomers complain that their photography hobby website, e-book, or side job website didn’t take off the way they had hoped?

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Tired of this work until you die mentality

Started a new job a few months ago. The job ad literally only said “8 hour shifts”. The pay is salary. I was under the assumption that I had to work 40 hours a week. There was a clear expectation that due to the nature of my position I’d have to work flexible hours and not just m-f 9-5. The first few times I asked if I could take a half day or full day off since I worked a different day it was fine. Now, all of a sudden, we needed to have conversation about work expectations. So if I work extra hours it’s just expected. Salary means 40 hours or it means 50. So I’m expected to work different days but I can’t take off the same amount of hours from other days? I don’t even understand it still. Another person in my dept that’s new told me…

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What’s the point of asking a resume and then question me about the same stuff of my resume and then don’t even read either?

Apply for a job they sent me a questionnaire with stuff that was already on my resume . I answer and they set an interview. Literally 5 min before the interview they say they need to cancel cause they recheck my resume and I didn't had the experience they were looking for?. Total waste of time and rude in my ppinion

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I uh… I quit my job today.

And honestly I have no idea what I'm going to do next. But they treated me so badly there that I used to ride the train home and wish it would erupt into flames somehow. I'm broke, I have very little savings, but they treated me like garbage. When I told my boss (as I was quitting) that the only thing I'd asked for is to be talked to like a person, and not a dog that shit on the rug, he said “oh yeah? Good luck finding that! You'll be crawling back soon enough I know you can't survive without health insurance. ” I'm type 1 diabetic. So like, is he wrong? Not necessarily. But the mental strain here was killing me. That, combined with some bad shit in my personal life, like… what good is health insurance when the stress and mistreatment is killing you anyway? I told…

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My Mental health is worth more than 15$ an hour

As the title says, I only get paid $15 an hour to be berated on the phone and forced to work overtime in fear of being penalized. I work past my availability, and when asked why, my boss said the company needs people to work overtime and weekends, and if I don't like it, I should trade with a coworker. The issue is we work at home, and we don't have contact with each other. How am I supposed to do that? And who in their right mind would work on a weekend? I emailed and asked to not be scheduled every day for mandatory overtime, but my email was never even viewed. I even had IT issues that involved getting a new computer from the company, but I wasn't paid for the time missed, even after it was promised to me. Long story short, this job is horrible and…

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Got fired along with 80% of my coworkers for “budget cuts”. same night, the CEO posts this lol

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I loved attending the engineering firms hot dog barbecue where the CEO announced record profits on the same day they told me they were extending my temp job but no benefits

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What the actual fuck is going on at these companies