'I was given a $75,000 sign on bonus... but boy did I [mess] up': Employee scores a $75,000 signing bonus, squanders the cash, gets fired, then goes into debt; goes viral for laughing at his misfortune
As I get older, it's become clear that some of the things I did when I was younger could be considered a 'mistake'– but in the end, I learned from those failed experiences more than I did my successes. We're human! We all make mistakes. But it's not every day that we're faced with the consequences of a $75k mistake and in our next story, that's exactly what one young rascal did.
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Shooting like a rocket into the workforce, u/Music_as_Medicine was fresh-faced as they come. Thrilled to start his first career job as a pharmacist, he was elated to learn that his recruiter was willing to offer him a $75,000 signing bonus to start in his position immediately. Naturally, OP took the deal.
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That's not where the mistakes come into play– no, no, no –this young rookie REALLY fumbled in the months that followed his newfound success. Scroll to read all the illicit details of one man's wild splurge, which will likely haunt him for the rest of his life. Funnily enough, this actually ends as both a cautionary tale and a somewhat happy ending.
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