I started to sympathize and even being admirative at times, then it got darker.
One word: theft.
Taking advantage of free snacks, fine, it is what they are for. Taking stuff back home is borderline but ok. Not handing back the $350 headphones because no one is looking, definitely not ok. The way she described the situation as "everyone is rich so no need to lock thing up and check everything" instead of "people trust each other". The way she got her meal stolen 3 times in a previous job and didn't report it even though it is significant to her, as if theft was normal.
It is the attitude I noticed from someone who just got out of prison. A nice guy, but he got caught in gangs and drug trafficking. It took a while for him to get back into a world where people just trust each other, where "take it" means exactly that. He has a job is living a honest life now.
I hope that the author is fine now, that she managed to learn the lesson of poverty, keep the frugal attitude and respect for low paid workers while dropping the quasi-criminal thinking that goes with poverty.
Also, that she goes back to the gym, show these assholes who think she "doesn't belong" the finger and lost that fat that seems to weight her down in more way than one.
Also, how did we get to a situation where obesity and poverty are correlated? Really a paradox of the first world.
Seems to go both ways. Another paragraph described being the lowest paid worker. It seems that they asked her what sort of comp she was expecting, she produced a shockingly low number, and they just accepted the number and moved on. I think that’s basically unethical on the employer’s part. They should have basically ignored what she’d said and offered something they thought was reasonable (obviously that still advantages people who go into the negotiation in a better position, but it doesn’t feel so grossly unfair). Is what they did theft? Strictly speaking no, but it feels no better than any other scam taking advantage of lack of information to get a massive discount. When I was first interviewing for jobs, I asked a friend of mine (in a somewhat related role elsewhere) how much money I should ask for and it’s a good job they never asked me how much I wanted because his estimate was massively below what I was offered.
Are you sure? Because to me it read like it was an actual experience. I am confused now, and to be honest I feel a little deceived by it if it turns out to be fiction, because that's not how it's written and comes off (and since many people here seem to take it as a real experience, I don't think I'm being especially dimwitted here).
But again, I'm not sure that it's fiction? It's on the "blog" and most things just seem personal stuff like a typical blog?
One word: theft.
Taking advantage of free snacks, fine, it is what they are for. Taking stuff back home is borderline but ok. Not handing back the $350 headphones because no one is looking, definitely not ok. The way she described the situation as "everyone is rich so no need to lock thing up and check everything" instead of "people trust each other". The way she got her meal stolen 3 times in a previous job and didn't report it even though it is significant to her, as if theft was normal.
It is the attitude I noticed from someone who just got out of prison. A nice guy, but he got caught in gangs and drug trafficking. It took a while for him to get back into a world where people just trust each other, where "take it" means exactly that. He has a job is living a honest life now.
I hope that the author is fine now, that she managed to learn the lesson of poverty, keep the frugal attitude and respect for low paid workers while dropping the quasi-criminal thinking that goes with poverty.
Also, that she goes back to the gym, show these assholes who think she "doesn't belong" the finger and lost that fat that seems to weight her down in more way than one.
Also, how did we get to a situation where obesity and poverty are correlated? Really a paradox of the first world.