Few years ago, I worked at a well known healthcare company doing data entry work. I have countless stories and incidents I can recall about how awful it was, but the place made sweatshops look like a luxurious career to be in to simply put it. I recently hit my 4th year there, and having been trying to leave for well over a year now (I believe my managers had something to do with my job search, but that's a story for another time). One day during one of our team huddles, my manager announced that they were holding a contest. For the past few months, they claimed, we were severely understaffed due to extended vacation days, excessive call outs, “abusive usage” of medical leaves, etc. So in order to “motivate” us to come into work, those who had perfect attendance for an entire month will win a prize. We…
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