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Boss doesn’t care if partner and I end up homeless

Just happened to me today and I need somewhere to vent where I'm not inundated with the “that's how life works kid, toughen up!” bullshit. For context my partner and I ended up working at the same place (not an office romance they knew about our relationship going into hiring me) and that we have been searching for a place to live (A whole other can of worms). However this process has been made extremely difficult because of the hours we work, which are Monday-Friday 8PM-5PM every week, this plus a forty minute commute each way leaves us with very little time to go to apartment viewings or anything else except for on weekends, and being where we are, the market is already cutthroat. Cut to today where we both agreed to come in because the business was extremely understaffed for the day and we need the extra money. This…


Just happened to me today and I need somewhere to vent where I'm not inundated with the “that's how life works kid, toughen up!” bullshit.

For context my partner and I ended up working at the same place (not an office romance they knew about our relationship going into hiring me) and that we have been searching for a place to live (A whole other can of worms). However this process has been made extremely difficult because of the hours we work, which are Monday-Friday 8PM-5PM every week, this plus a forty minute commute each way leaves us with very little time to go to apartment viewings or anything else except for on weekends, and being where we are, the market is already cutthroat.

Cut to today where we both agreed to come in because the business was extremely understaffed for the day and we need the extra money. This is when the owner decides to drop it on us that, going forward, my partner and I will be required to work alternating Saturdays on a permanent basis. Shockingly, neither of us want to fucking do this, and we explain that we need the weekends to search for apartments and that we'd be happy to discuss this arrangement once we find a place to live, as my partners parents will be downsizing to an apartment soon and leaving us without anywhere to live should we not find our own apartment. To this, the owner replies “Well frankly as the owner of a business I don't give a rats ass what you want or need, this isn't optional.”

Every day I am further radicalized I swear to God.

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