We’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel with the latest of you Reddit refugees.

I’m on unemployment so I’m getting paid to shit post.

It’s funny that not too long ago getting a FAANG job right out of college was a recipe for success. Now many grads would prefer to avoid them because they’re so toxic, but can’t find a job and have to apply anyhow.

It’s being gross about it and referring to her like livestock that bothers me. Breedable. Yuck.

Goddamn that’s low. At first I read that as $1200/week, which would be the highest in the nation.

I also got termed for no reason but my state maxes out at $875 per week, low considering the cost of living here.

It depends. I was terminated under false pretenses, so I collected unemployment without any issues.

Seconding Bazzite, it’s great for gaming.

Gather round and attend my layoff time tale of woe.

I worked for this company for four years. They fell on hard times and, in place of layoffs, required employees to temporarily give up a portion of their salary on the condition it would be repaid within 2 years with interest, plus increased bonuses proportional with how much you sacrificed. I voluntarily gave up 20% as the company had never had a layoff in its history (no layoffs was part of their alleged culture) and all the old timers gushed about their massive bonuses after downturns like these.

I was given my quarterly review in October and I get a perfect score. I work three weeks, then am badly hurt on the job. It requires fairly major surgery, so I’m out for almost two months.

I literally limp back, probably a little too early. The first day is fine and I’m getting back up to speed. Boss shows appreciation to my dedication as I reasonably could have taken more time to recuperate. I tell her I need to discuss accommodations as I’m still healing. She agrees and sets an appointment for the next morning. Great job HamSandwich, everyone loves you.

I arrive to the accommodation meeting to find the head of HR and my boss. I figure HR is there to help with accomodations. Nope, I’m being terminated. For performance. Huh. I ask about my stellar review. My boss tells me there were issues. I ask about the issues. She is unable to give me any examples. I ask how I was supposed to know I had performance issues when I had a perfect review three work weeks ago and no one can tell me what I’ve been doing wrong. HR boss bitch pipes in with “Ham, at your seniority level you should just know.” Fuck you, boss bitch. Fuck you.

As I’m packing up my things, I realize they cut me one day before my yearly stock shares were to be awarded. Security walks me out and tells me I’m one of many senior level employees being terminated. People are being fired for showing up five minutes late. Upper level admins are walking out in protest. It appears this was the strategy: bank on the company’s good reputation to encourage increased voluntary salary cuts, then dump as many high earners as possible if still in a downturn. My boss is a spineless twerp and went along with it. She lies and tells the rest of the department I was terminated for sleeping on the job. Fuck you, boss. Fuck you.

The company had its first round of layoffs a few months later. Those employees also lost the money they gave up. The company’s reputation is irreparably harmed and I’m currently suing them for lost wages.

I believe you have explained the joke.

One, through surrogacy. Did he ask AI to explain to him how to fill his little jizz cup?

This is a very good idea. I worked call centers in the US when I was younger and they all suffered from terrible, abusive management.

Rob a bank for $100, then return the money and turn yourself in.

That’s just being honest, but it needs a lot more explanation to not be hurtful.

Lesbians: the real original lesbians.

I’m really glad to read this. Take care of yourself, I hope everything works out for you! ❤️

People are concerned about a vastly unbalanced power dynamic. Even if their 43yo partner managed to have no more knowledge and life experience then them (very unlikely), they have fully developed frontal lobes, the part of the brain responsible for things like rational decision making, emotional regulation, and critical thought, whereas op does not. That alone is a huge power imbalance as this makes op much easier to manipulate and less likely to notice issues. Humans basically have brain damage (when compared to an adult) until their mid twenties.

Add to this that there’s also a socioeconomic imbalance. 43yo likely has much more money (not many teens can afford vacations to the Seychelles without family wealth), and they’ll also have some degree of a network of other adults with similar capabilities. This all can be used against op to keep her compliant, typically in the guise of “helping” or “taking care of her”. If op becomes a problem, like sick, pregnant, or increasingly self sufficient, this can be used to sweep the “problem” under the rug. I’d know, that’s exactly what happened to me at her age.

I was afraid you’d say that.

I left home at 17 and shacked up with a 38 year old man. I also did it for the security. Home life wasn’t stable and how was I supposed to make it on my own? Worst decision of my life. He was a very subtle manipulator. It took years of therapy to undo what that relationship did.

Now that I’m 35, I’m not interested in close friendship or romantic/sexual relationships with men or women in their late teens to even mid twenties. That’s not meant as an insult to that demographic, there’s nothing wrong with them. A person’s brain isn’t finished developing until well into their twenties, and someone with only a handful of years of adult life experience has very little in common with an older adult. It’s like if you were to bed down with a 14 year old. There’s nothing wrong with being 14, they’re just in a profoundly different stage of their life.

I fully expect you to ignore this. 18 year old me would have as she thought she had it all figured out, so 22+ year old me paid the price. I’m just hoping it plants that seed of doubt so, when you wonder what a 43 year old man actually sees in an 18 year old, and if you start to notice how he might be manipulating you to stay dependent on him (hopefully not the case for you too), you decide to run sooner than I did.

Edit: I saw he’s fully “taking care of you”. If you stay in this relationship, make sure you can take care of yourself if you get out. Learn a trade, go to college, anything so you’re not trapped if you find you need to leave

I’ll start with the obvious: how old are you? The dynamic of 18 and 43 is much different than 35 and 60.

Checked their post history, did not disappoint. Check out where they respond to their own moderated, removed comment in a two week old dead post. They had a bit of a tantrum when I pointed that out.

Thanks for the link. That’s what I found, so I’m certain I’m missing something. Can you clue me in on why people are getting surprised and offended by it?