My wife has been working in publishing for over 30 years and has, thankfully, never dealt with the kind of brazen audacity that some employers have when it comes to wages, vacation, and benefits. Sure, she's had to deal with crappy bosses, but that's expected. At least, in her industry, things are still rather docile by comparison.
Recently, my daughter (35) was fired from a long term position after reporting a coworker to her supervisor for sexual harassment. Nothing will come of a lawsuit. She took a severance, signed an NDA, and is moving on with her life. It sounds easy to fight everyone and everything but what's to gain?
To the point.
So my daughter is getting plenty of interviews and my wife is coaching her on resume writing, interviewing, and they talk daily about the interviews and offers my daughter gets. Then my wife calls me and says “I think those people on Reddit are telling the truth.” My daughter is two weeks into her job search and she's been ghosted, hired-fired before she even started, made to wait two hours for an interview, and was told that she would only be paid minimum wage if she didn't last the two week probationary period. Then there's the jobs where the salary posted does not match the salary offered.
As my daughter says “Fucking Tinder is kinder to me than this!”