Worker making $15 an hour gets doubly overpaid, earning $30 per hour: ‘What would you guys do?’

If you were getting paid for a job you quit months ago, would you tell anybody? Everyone likes to think of themselves as a Frank Abagnale Jr.-type figure who can scam their way out of anything without getting caught for years and years, but I’m not so sure about that. Most of us are not …
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‘Hedge fund managers’: The most useless and overpaid jobs, according to Reddit

If we’re being honest, many of the jobs that exist in society today aren’t exactly essential to the functioning of the human race. They could disappear tomorrow and the world wouldn’t end. However, some of these roles are given more unwarranted status and compensation than others. Your average entry-level spreadsheet position isn’t exactly going to …
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‘Should I be concerned?’: Worker confronts HR representative after their manager bans employees from discussing pay

There are some things that coworkers shouldn’t ask each other about. It’s usually a good rule of thumb not to discuss politics, religion, or s*x too thoroughly with the people you have to spend 40 hours a week with. Heck, I don’t even want to know the in-depth political compass of someone I only spend …
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Bitter Recruiter Accuses Applicant of Applying for Jobs Solely to Negotiate a Pay-Raise at their Current Job

One of the hardest parts about having a job is figuring out how to get more money. Some jobs make getting a raise a piece of cake, but those positions are few and far between. For the majority of places, you either have to ask nicely for more money, get a whole new job, or …
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Boss Threatens to Fire Employee for Posting Hourly Wage, Employee Immediately Quits

Trying to obtain the bare minimum required to live is a near-impossible task when you’re below the line of poverty. Unfortunately, there are way, way too many jobs that are happy and more than willing to pay you next to nothing. As is the case with many of these sorts of positions, these jobs are …
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«Fast food pays more’: People Debate Whether $15.50/hr Remote Job Pays Enough Money

Money: it’s the main reason that most of us do the jobs that we do, yet it’s not always easy to talk about. Over the past few years, persistent calls to raise the minimum wage and for employers to acknowledge the rising cost of living with their salaries has made some of us a lot …
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‘Show me the money!’: Gen Z employees make a riveting video showing their boss that they deserve that «performance-based» bonus

They definitely deserve at least a pizza party after that bend-and-snap.

HR Accuses Dude of ‘Job Abandonment’ Two Years After He Quit The Job

When you quit your job, you hope you never hear from those people ever again. You put your resignation in writing, date it, send it off, and work your final two weeks in awkward silence. Sometimes, quitting your job goes easily. It’s so simple to quit a job in college after the semester is over. …
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Infuriating Thread Reveals The Trials Of Negotiating Pay

There are many reasons that people do their jobs. Some of the workforce are out there really helping the world on a daily basis, and they get to lord it over the rest of us. Others get a huge power trip from being able to control whatever their position entails. There’s even some who simply …
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Manager Expects Employee to Work Off the Clock, Gets Massive Overtime Request Instead

If you work for a company that prohibits overtime, then under no circumstances should you ever be working off the clock. And if your boss ever makes it clear that they expect you to do so, then you better get it in writing. When one redditor asked their boss if they could switch to a …
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