> i've got coworkers working unpaid overtime, skipping lunches i did this at my first job because i thought i was underperforming and it stressed me out to go home with work left to be done. they strongly discouraged us from doing so and i did it at risk of being written up and eventually fired (if written up multiple times), because it was a union job. later on i figured out that the workload they were giving me was just insane, as they split my job into three separate jobs after i quit, and they wouldn't even give me a raise from $11 to $13, nor would they give me a helper like i asked for. in the end it was a valuable experience, and i have no shame in exercising my strong work ethic, even if it was for buttons. there simply were no better options at the time.
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