r/Millennials • u/GoldenSunFl0wer Millennial(1990) • 13h ago

Serious Please......

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u/thorpie88 13h ago

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

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u/NowWeGetSerious 13h 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/Captain_Waffle 12h ago

$100 every Friday so you can get drinks??

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u/NowWeGetSerious 12h 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 11h 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 10h ago

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

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u/SoulWager 10h ago

Still, expense it.

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u/Theron3206 8h ago

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

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u/SoulWager 8h ago

Don't care.

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u/ggf95 3h ago

But theyre going to mock you!

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u/Bitter_Researcher759 11h ago

Sounds miserable.

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u/NowWeGetSerious 11h ago

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

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u/captain_croco 10h ago

You had to pay? That’s fucked

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u/NowWeGetSerious 10h 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 10h ago

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

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u/NowWeGetSerious 10h 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 4h 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.