'Bless your heart, Boss': Interviewee gets denied a cashier position solely because of a chemotherapy-related gap in his resume, holds them accountable by taking the proof straight to the owner

Trying to find a job is tough these days, so when you find a good one, hold on tight! But if you have a gap in your resume—for whatever reason—that makes the search nearly impossible. This guy in our next story exposed a flawed and discriminatory system by recording the conversation that pushed his patience to the limit.

If you're chronically ill, life is hard enough as is without the job market breathing down your neck alongside your medical bills. The delicate balance of continued employment coupled with the existential dread of being unhealthy is enough to make any job searcher crack under pressure. But without pressure, we'd never have diamonds. The gem in this next story makes us all want to cheer him on after he caught a manager at a prospective job telling him that the only reason he was "unhirable" was because he was disabled.

Keep scrolling for the satisfying story of a dude calling out a corrupt company for judging a book by its cover—for a cashier's job, no less.

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