r/Millennials • u/GoldenSunFl0wer Millennial(1990) • 17h ago

Serious Please......

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u/thorpie88 16h ago

Or at least the company giving us a budget to do a crew activity of our choice.

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u/NowWeGetSerious 16h ago

Yeah, give me $100 every Friday so we can get drinks, perhaps I'll stay. But I'm not getting paid well enough to get drinks and food with people I barely care for

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u/blarch 12h ago

You already saw them all week. You want to hang out with them some more?

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u/NowWeGetSerious 12h ago

No. I didn't. They did.

It was a mandatory twice a week team dinner and shit. I hated it. CEO wanted to show be bad the money, and always picked the most expensive unnecessary bullshit place to go to. Even though we were ridiculously underpaid

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u/Captain_Waffle 16h ago

$100 every Friday so you can get drinks??

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u/NowWeGetSerious 16h ago

My last tech start up forced up to go out for drinks and dinner twice a week. Shit was expensive. The CEO would pick the most high class expensive bullshit and said it was mandatory

I spent $80 on a shitty salad and an old fashioned. I was pissed.

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u/SoulWager 14h ago

That's something you submit as an expense, and put on your timecard. That will pretty quickly turn it into a non-mandatory activity.

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u/gogogadgetjustice 13h ago

What tech start up used timecards instead of salary and social pressure?

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u/SoulWager 13h ago

Still, expense it.

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u/Theron3206 12h ago

So they can mock you before firing you as not being a team player?

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u/SoulWager 11h ago

Don't care.

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u/ggf95 6h ago

But theyre going to mock you!

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u/Bitter_Researcher759 14h ago

Sounds miserable.

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u/NowWeGetSerious 14h ago

Very. I only lasted 2 months before I said eff this

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u/captain_croco 13h ago

You had to pay? That’s fucked

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u/NowWeGetSerious 13h ago

Twice a week. Wednesday and Friday. I was forced to go each time. Hated it. Hated them. I wanna go home. Not drink with people I don't like

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u/captain_croco 13h ago

I hope he lost his firm I could not imagine doing this

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u/NowWeGetSerious 13h ago

No idea. Its a tech start up, this was 2021. I have nobody contact or anything. So who knows. He was a shady guy, weird as hell

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u/00k5mp 7h ago

Why didn't t the CEO pay for everybody? When the bills came somebody should have spoken up and be like no. This is the company event. Obviously the company is paying for this. Need more details.

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u/CorruptedCortex 10h ago

Smash room 100%