I was always told asking makes you seem entitled and you should do the work without complaint. Now I believe that yeah I am entitled to something. Still don’t say though and just grumble under my breath

30ish. Working for a company that wouldn’t let me move to their QA department because they “needed me more where I was” even though the manager of QA wanted me. The QA department didn’t have anyone that knew how my department worked so they had never done any QA checks on us. Would have been a pay bump and no after hours support rotation. I got another job and they asked what they could do to avoid my leaving, and I said if they had done it then I wouldn’t be leaving.

32. I was working 80-100 hour weeks and they refused to give me a raise or promote me.

40s. Very naive. Thought businesses cared about their employees. Now i realize they need little excuse snd milk the workers and never take a loss in favor of employees. Losses or lack of leadership ends up with golden parachutes and raising prices. Honesty is out the window in the world we live in today.

I was really fortunate to be raised by parents who knew that was bullshit brainwash propaganda. Thanks mom and dad! You aren’t perfect but hey nobody is. Love you both!

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Um, I began falling apart about 11 years ago, but it got really bad over the past few years. I can specifically remember being in therapy over the holidays and coming to this exact realization. Like, I knew it before that, but that was the day that I, like, really felt it. I’m in my early forties.

Middle-school. Not even joking. There are some really shitty people out there. Did a speed run of that life lesson.

don’t know, I am still nice to people, want to work really hard and sometimes take more than enough work, But now I have clear boundaries & expectations, don’t put up with some people’s bullshit and plan well.

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Pretty much today old.

It’s cute that she thinks I ever had a plan.

University. The expensive college wanted IT staff but only paid minimum wage and only hired people on financial aid.

About 10 years ago, when I realized that automating my job just means I get more work (when I share my automations). Now a days, I still share some of my automations, but I wrote and hoard scripts to make me look good (and also lets me write more scripts since it takes probably about as long as my mid-level coworkers).

Upside is I can look like an absolute wizard when I want to.