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How to deal with a less than desired paycheck?

So, few months ago I accepted an offer to move to Germany to start working in a big company. At the time, they offered me a contract and, since I don’t have any experience and knowledge about the country and the job market, I accepted the offer so they also be supporting me with visa and moving things. But right now, I started realizing that I’m kind of underpaid since I got to know some of my colleagues has less experience and are also less educated in the field I work but even than earns more or almost the same. So far, I’m trapped in this situation and trying to figure out how I can get out of this. I don’t want to change jobs right now but I also feel very disgusted to have accepted this offer having a strange feeling that the company took advantage on me for…

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Inquiry about good places to work post-grad that actually treat their employees like people?

I'm a current college senior that has been really anxious about post-grad jobs, considering how terrible the corporate world sounds and how desperately I want something that is flexible and remote. I know most of us on here do have to have jobs to get by, and was wondering if anyone had recommendations for places they've had good experiences with?

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Best antiwork song of 1995 (La Guitarra – Los auténticos decadentes)

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Why are people Angry at Six figure earners here?

Like I understand where these people are coming from, or I can see their point. But if I was smart enough to get a collage or even a uni graduation, I'd be asking for 100,000 to 250,000 yearly. We should be encouraging people to be more educated and also fix the god damn education system.

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I want options for homeless people so I just thought I should brainstorm a few ideas to make being homeless slightly more bearable. Please let me know what I need to switch up to have a more successful ”business strategy”.

I've been homeless before and it fucking sucks, especially when it's -20 Celsius outside and you need to take a bus just to stay barely warm. it's also impossible to get a job while you're homeless as you won't have an address and no one wants to hire someone that doesn't have a housing situation on lock. This is brainstorming on how to promote lending vacant homes to homeless people to make for a more productive overall society and people overall happier. This is a major issue in North America especially and if it was solved then it would be an overall win/win for all involved as corps and small businesses get cheaper labour while homeless people get to live in a warm house. There are 17 million empty homes while there are 0.5 million homeless people (2018 figures). How do we make it affordable to lend housing units to…

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Landlords suck.

My MIL moved into an apartment last August with a 12 month lease for $1200 a month (this is insane for a one bedroom in my area but rents have been soaring). Yesterday, she received this letter on her door- addressed to her unit, with a former tenant’s name on it. The figures here are incorrect, and show that the previous tenant was paying only $995 when they moved out last summer. Landlord then turned around and rented it for $1200 without even cleaning the unit, and now they apparently can’t keep track of who lives there and what the expected rent is. Unbelievable. Now she has to take time out of her lunch break to call and speak to these idiots to make sure they don’t expect her to pay an $80 increase. She won’t pay more and has the lease to back her up, but better to nip…

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I’ll just leave this right here

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Manager tried to lie about me leaving!

So I worked as a florists at a grocery store popular down south called Piggly Wiggly. Now I have zero experience being a florists and both managers knew this when hiring me. But everyday when I came into work there was something I didn't do correctly and “You should know better.” How can I know better when I never been a florists and I hardly been trained enough to do this job. So I had two managers. I had Sallg who was my direct manager she looked after everything in the floral department then there was Miss Ann she was the Manager of the Bakery AND floral, does that make sense no, no it does not. I worked there for 4 months and I really tried my hardest until I realized my hardest was got going to be good enough for them. Every day if I didn't water the plants…

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Curious what can be done

There are quite a few jobs in the area paying less than state minimum wage, some even at a factory, and just wondering what I could do? One is a big retail chain too

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Don’t be a mechanic.

I'm a young skilled labor, mechanic in my early 20's; I have to work a second job just to keep my head above water. Oh wait, I'm still drowning in medical debt as a result of having to lift heavy shit all the time. Back issues, hernia, and I'm the most stressed I've ever been. Can you imagine almost getting killed or disfigured approximately 2 to 5 times a year as a result of faulty shop equipment or general labor hazards? Did you know that I've never even seen an OSHA official in my entire life? This luxury can be yours for $13/hour. Happy job hunting fellas