Congratulations you had a bullshit job, insufficient oversight and not enough personal and professional pride to do the work you were paid to do (a job is a promise, they promise to pay you and you promise to work. The fact that I have to say this kills me a little bit inside)

You broke your promise and lied about it every day for a year. You proved that your career (that you presumably worked hard to build) was a farce. This says nothing about the nature of work and everything about the quality of person reporting the “problem”.

People like this make me never want to employ anyone ever again. Congrats you destroyed what little faith in humanity I had left. I’m glad you finally quit and I hope you never apply for or are offered a job again. (Clearly not mature enough to manage your own work without an extreme amount of oversight).

Might I suggest something real and tangible? Serve beer or keep chickens. At least when you violate your promise people will know immediately. (Here’s your beer. The glass is empty. No I filled it I promise. It is clearly empty. That’ll be £6. Again, no beer)

Oh maybe this was satire! “Here’s how a bullshit person operating in bad faith would conduct themselves” I don’t think it was satire.

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sir0010010 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> I’m glad you finally quit and I hope you never apply for or are offered a job again.

Never is a long time. Do you not think it's possible that this person could end up in a different environment and be very successful as an employee and be a great asset to her employer? Is there a reason you personally wouldn't want this to happen at any point in the future?

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guywithahat 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is a class of people who resent their job based purely on political motives and I can't stand them. If you don't think you're doing enough, try and pick up new work. Don't be afraid to add value to society.

There is an irony that people who tend to resent work are often the same people who proselytize about unions are despite the fact if they were offered a real union job they'd turn their nose up at it. People like this author ruin high-trust societies and hopefully she's only able to work low-trust positions now that she's published this.

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cindyllm 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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jbxntuehineoh 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> waaaahhhhh you broke your promise!! to your employer!!

my current employer broke no fewer than two promises they had made to me within a few months of my starting there. they did this simply because they could: it was cheaper for them and they knew there was little I could do in response. so you'll forgive me if I don't give half a fuck about these people, and do as little work as i can get away with

	▲	jakobnissen 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		When people treat you badly, you confront them. If they won't change behaviour and you don't have any recourse, you avoid them. You don't compromise your own morals, and you absolutely don't advocate cheating in general.
	▲	pixel_popping 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is really a poor mentality and is one of the reason employers particularly in Europe don't want to hire people anymore, many startups are doing everything they can to avoid hiring, exactly because of that kind of attitude, not even being grateful for a minute, idk, shitting on the person that feeds you seems just disrespectful and also, you should be acting like a professional, even when others are not. I have multiple friends cheating their employers (who are actually not corporations) and working like 1h a day and delegating everything to AI instead and just plain lying about it, if you are paid per hour and not per task, then your duty is to ensure you'll make the company grow with the time they pay you to do, not scam them, I understand why people do it, but let's say what it really is: Scamming people.