If you’ve been in the job market for more than 5 minutes, you know that you sometimes have to accept a worse job than you previously had. Maybe you got fired and had to take a position that paid $10K less than before. If you are laid off and want to provide for yourself no …
Seguir leyendo ‘Just take the job’: Unemployed husband turns down $90K job offer because he thinks the salary is humiliatingly low, despite having a mortgage and 2 kids in private school to support
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31-year-old sister pays delinquent brother $100K annually to work at her company for 6 hour days, brother constantly complains about his job: ‘He constantly tells me I don’t care about the business’
Working with your loved ones always sounds like a good idea, especially if they’ve been down and out. We’ve all got that one brother or cousin who claims his life isn’t together because nobody has ever given him a fair chance. He’s been floating around from underpaid gig to underpaid gig for years and has …
Seguir leyendo 31-year-old sister pays delinquent brother $100K annually to work at her company for 6 hour days, brother constantly complains about his job: ‘He constantly tells me I don’t care about the business’
Higher-ups refuses to give a raise to employee with 10 years of experience making $50K, hires an inexperienced employee for $80K: ‘I handed in my resignation. Boss and department head were shocked’
How many of you were told that if you worked hard and were loyal to a company for many years, you would reap significant financial benefits? If your parents or grandparents worked for a company that gave out large pensions upon retirement or had great union benefits, they probably strongly believed that loyalty and hard …
Seguir leyendo Higher-ups refuses to give a raise to employee with 10 years of experience making $50K, hires an inexperienced employee for $80K: ‘I handed in my resignation. Boss and department head were shocked’
Family of 6 struggles to survive on $80k a year, husband gets a part time job and won’t let stay-at-home wife touch the money: ‘Are people actually this financially stupid?’
Sharing finances as a married couple is one of the most difficult things about marriage. It rarely happens that the salaries are equal and everything is hunky dory. Usually, one person makes more money than the other and this introduces some imbalances. Does that mean the other one does more of the housework? How is …
Seguir leyendo Family of 6 struggles to survive on $80k a year, husband gets a part time job and won’t let stay-at-home wife touch the money: ‘Are people actually this financially stupid?’
Job seeker purposefully tanks interview after recruiter tries to lowball him: ‘I was told this role would pay $Y but sure, I could put in $X amount of effort instead’
Negotiation is an art and a science. It can be very difficult to do successfully, especially if the initial offer you’ve been given is so paltry that it will take a lot of work to get up to a range that you’re comfortable with. If you’re offered so much less than you’re initially looking for, …
Seguir leyendo Job seeker purposefully tanks interview after recruiter tries to lowball him: ‘I was told this role would pay $Y but sure, I could put in $X amount of effort instead’
‘Get a divorce. For his sake’: Wife asks husband to quit dream job since he’s bringing in less money despite him covering her student loans for years
Not everyone is cut out to be married to an artist. You might admire their creativity and find them fascinating, but when it comes time to feed the bulldog, you might have some resentments. Sharing finances is hard in any couple, but it’s exceptionally more difficult when one of you is more dependent on the …
Seguir leyendo ‘Get a divorce. For his sake’: Wife asks husband to quit dream job since he’s bringing in less money despite him covering her student loans for years
40-year-old teacher with a masters degree realizes he makes less money than his 18-year-old son: ‘He’s paid $63 an hour, my rate is about $25 an hour’
It’s no secret that teachers don’t make a lot of money. You meet people in their twenties who make at least $65K for pointless laptop jobs that don’t contribute anything to society, yet the educators of our young can make as little as $45K years into their careers! Just because teachers don’t make a lot, …
Seguir leyendo 40-year-old teacher with a masters degree realizes he makes less money than his 18-year-old son: ‘He’s paid $63 an hour, my rate is about $25 an hour’
‘If they don’t like our lifestyle they can leave’: Six figure-earners never cook at home, receive lecture from overbearing parents
If there’s one certainty in life, it’s that everyone is not always going to approve of your choices. No matter what choice you make, there will be a group of people who think you’re crazy, for one reason or another. That can be tolerable, though, when those people are far away in some fringe group …
Seguir leyendo ‘If they don’t like our lifestyle they can leave’: Six figure-earners never cook at home, receive lecture from overbearing parents
‘4 hours at the end of the day is miserable’: Unpopular opinions about working 9-5
The 9-5 pace is one of the cruel realities for the contemporary worker. Though in some ways it has become less relevant than ever (with the advent of remote work and other technological advances offering more flexibility), it remains the core around which most folks revolve. And it seems arbitrary in some ways. It’s just …
Seguir leyendo ‘4 hours at the end of the day is miserable’: Unpopular opinions about working 9-5
Bored government worker complains they were given a $20k salary increase to do ‘literally nothing,’ while some claim it’s a dream job: ‘Use the facilities, use the benefits’
All the rage this spring… high paying low effort dumb email jobs. Those who have them are the envy of their friends. Everyone’s selling their soul to try to get one. But for real, sometimes the highest-paying jobs are the ones that require the least amount of effort. It’s one of the dirty little secrets of the corporate …
Seguir leyendo Bored government worker complains they were given a $20k salary increase to do ‘literally nothing,’ while some claim it’s a dream job: ‘Use the facilities, use the benefits’