When you’re an entry-level employee, it can feel like you have little to no control over what kind of job you’re going to get. The job market is so tough when you’re starting out that it feels like you have to take any job you can get. Even if that job means long hours and little pay, there’s a sense that you have to «pay your dues» when you’re just starting out. But this statement can help cover up a lot of nefarious activity if you let it. Employers can easily take advantage of their employees, and it might take them a long time to realize it since they have nothing else to compare it to. 

That’s the type of situation you wish you could get revenge from in hindsight, but it rarely works out that way. You usually just move on and try to learn from your mistakes. That’s not what happened in this story, though.