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Feels like a Rigged Game

Why does capitalism make life just seem like a meaningless rigged game? What’s the incentive to continue?

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I have two bosses. I’m about to quit them both. Rant

Long story short, first boss now gives me one weekend of on call (clinical healthcare). I agree when I took my new job (admin in healthcare) that I'd ONLY do one weekend a month and if that's not what it was going to be then I'd reconsider taking this new position which is 40 hours a week and just stay at my clinical position. Well one month in and they put me on two weekend call shifts a month (on top of my already M-F 8-5)! My clinical boss told me I'd have to do every third weekend while my second boss told me I'd only have to do one weekend a month. So I'm about to tell both of them I just quit entirely. They aren't respectful of my new position which I'm very valuable to them in. So f it. I'm just going to do no call at…

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Can’t be right? Like really? Saw this on Twitter.

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Am I the only person who feels like this is the real truth they’ve been hiding from us??

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Is it possible to quit work via dividends?

I want a way out so I was thinking about dividend stocks. Has anyone had any success? My goal would be passive income so replace needing work everyday

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Unknowingly got screwed by employer moving everyone from bi-monthly to every other week paychecks

I got a 10% raise at work (which I had to fight for but was then told I deserved it from the get-go), but the whole company was moved from getting a paycheck twice a month to every other week. What's the difference? It means 26 paychecks a year (52/2) instead of 24 (12*2). So after the 10% raise, my salary is the same every paycheck! You'll say “yes but at the end of the year it's the same!”, which is true, but now I want to leave and find a new job so my 10% raise and won't net me anything. There are two 3-paycheck months (June and December) so I would have to wait until June, really, to see a 5% pay-bump and then December until the owed 10% pay bump. A change I thought was innocuous was actually insidious. Classic.

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Fining Staff?! After reading about it on Reddit and then searching it was surprised to see it being actively encouraged! Has anyone had anything like this in the UK?

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“Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life”

This idiotic saying makes me cringe. It somehow causes us to feel depressed and a failure, because a lot of the things we love cannot be monetized or commodified. I have a tone deaf friend who I love and she always says that, and I always roll my eyes on her.

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Went to an interview and the whole place was closed, and they didn’t bother to tell me or the other person they were interviewing. Never bothered to re-book that interview either. I was polite but I wish I tore them a new one. I’m so done, I have years of experience and this is how they treat me?

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Entry level with supervisor experience?