‘I’m not a team player. I’m a crutch’: Employees share the moment they started working their wage after realizing their boss takes advantage of their hard work

Welcome to corporate life! Upper management encourages you to work your hardest and climb the latter. What they don't tell you is that latter has a lot of tricks up its steps or whatever you call it. Your boss and even coworkers will encourage you to go "above and beyond" and to "show you're hardworking," and that will get you up the latter! But it turns out that is simply corporate jargon for "we don't want to pay you for the extra work you are putting in." It's more than annoying, it feels like highway robbery! 

 

After working that office life for a while, you start to have that realization, an epiphany, if you will. You start to wonder why you are working 100x harder than your co-workers, and yet getting paid the same amount? That's when you need to start acting your wage. Either it will help your boss recognize you are actually doing all the work and deserve a raise, or the place will crash and burn without you. Either way, you're winning imo. 

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