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'I'm feeling guilty': Minimum wage worker goes from making $13/hr to $32/hr, using dishonesty to climb the ladder and support his newborn baby

Getting a good job is nearly impossible these days. One man learned that in today's America, you gotta be a little ruthless, a little dastardly, and extremely cunning in order to get everything you want out of a job. In this case, OP was a minimum wage worker who was living with his parents who hacked the system with a little white lie, scoring the job of his dreams and securing a better future for his baby. Nowadays, a minimum wage job doesn't afford you much of a life, especially when you're a millennial poth3ad with a newborn baby on the way. 

OP was forced to make a tough choice. Should he continue on in his $13/hour job, crashing on his parents couch? Or should he fudge his own numbers a little bit to boost his corporate stocks? In the most quintessentially American way, OP chose the latter and decided to chase after that check, no matter what it cost his ethics. 

Cheating on a test couldn't be as bad as sleeping on a couch… right?

Scroll for the full story on how one man got his payday and climbed the corporate ladder using dishonest tactics and a little cunning to carve out his seat at the top. For more tales of minimum wage workers working overtime, check out this tale of a worker who took on a second job to make ends meet then got told off by their boss for being less available. 

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Posted by Jesse Kessenheimer
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