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'True friends do not force beggar yourself pay them': Mooching roommate asks friend to cover rent and utilities for 2 months, refuses to look for a new job

Finding a job can be a rough gig , especially when you're just starting out. The amount of viable jobs available is not as high as you'd like it to be, and every posting gets thousands and thousands of applicants. So some of us end up being unemployed for longer than we'd like. And in times like that, we might feel like our only option is turning to our friends for help. But doing this is never as simple as it seems. Taking money from people you know always comes with strings attached , and the…
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Unemployed girlfriend forces her boyfriend to pay $1K a month to support her 25 and 28-year-old adult children, claims they'll become homeless if he stops giving them money: 'I hate my girlfriend's kids.'

She's robbing him blind
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34-year-old boyfriend remains unemployed for 2.5 years despite girlfriend's urging, moves out when she snaps at him: 'You dodged a bullet'

Being unemployed is no walk in the park . It can do a number on your mental well-being and self esteem, not to mention your finances. When you can't find a job, you can feel like you have no purpose in life, that nobody wants you and you have nothing to offer. This, of course, isn't true, it's just straight up hard to find a job these days, but it plays emotional games with your head. And some people can find themselves in that rut for years, especially if their living situation is taken care o…
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Unemployed 39-year-old wife orders $1176 worth of takeout in a month, her working husband cuts her off from their finances: 'I told her she could eat any of the food we have in our fridge'

That's more than rent
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30+ Job Search Memes on Their Hundredth Round of Interviews

Heaven knows I'm miserable now
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Tech contractor suggests unemployed people apply to 10 jobs per day, gets roasted for unrealistic expectations: 'Who is finding 70 new job postings in their field every week?'

Maybe be a little more intentional
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'I have 8 years of experience, and I'm not finding a job': Computer programmers complain their degree isn't the cash cow it once was, giving humanities folks schadenfreude

Who's laughing now?
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‘We are all mercenaries. Act like it’: Cold-blooded company fires employee on their 2 year anniversary

Workplace betrayal at its finest
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'They are not hiring and I don't know why': Gen-Z woman with 2 degrees hands out resumes in NYC, gets rejected everywhere

It's tough out there
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Worker claims a $150K per year low-effort job isn't desirable: 'It's like premium unemployment'

Spoiler alert: it is
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30+ Unemployment Memes to Doom Scroll While You're Also Scrolling Through Job Boards

30+ Unemployment Memes to Doom Scroll While You're Also Scrolling Through Job Boards

Rejection letters only make you stronger!
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Job Seekers Lament the Most Outlandish Job Suggestions Indeed Recommended to Them

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Boss Threatens to Fire Employee for Posting Hourly Wage, Employee Immediately Quits

Trying to obtain the bare minimum required to live is a near-impossible task when you're below the line of poverty. Unfortunately, there are way, way too many jobs that are happy and more than willing to pay you next to nothing . As is the case with many of these sorts of positions, these jobs are menial, mind-numbingly boring, and managed by cruel individuals. The subject of today's story was a worker at a grocery store deli, earning only 12.5 dollars per painstaking hour. As most of us would…
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Unemployed Husband Uses Deranged Logic to Justify Keeping Lights & Faucets on All Day

Depending on the people, all sorts of subtle power dynamics can start to emerge in a new marriage and manifest in strange ways. These dynamics can become especially ugly and problematic if one person in the relationship is a sociopathic control freak. An older r/AmItheAsshole thread recently went viral on Twitter because of its sheer weirdness. The original post by u/aitalightswater comes across as desperate as she explains her husband's bizarre behavior. According to OP, her husband quit his j…
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Dude Fired For 'Time Theft' After Taking Two Smoke Breaks Per 12-Hour Shift

Surely they can afford two smoke breaks
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Cruel Manager Fires Tech Employee in an Incredibly Uncouth Manner

I do not envy anyone who has to fire others. Letting somebody down easy is a skill I simply don't have. Every time I've broken up with someone, I have done it clunkily and a bit insensitively, which is really not ideal for delivering bad news . You need to tell the other person what's happening directly, but not too directly. You need to be empathetic first and informative second. You need to make sure they cry after you fire them instead of when they're in the room with you. It's a tricky bala…
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