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      That’s up there with refusing raises to avoid going up a tax bracket.

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        I will forgive people who were previously had a low enough income to have benefits that magically disappeared completely at a certain threshold when they received a raise for assuming that making too much money could be a negative. They generally never made enough to understand how tax brackets work and assumed the worst.

        If it is explained to them and they refuse to learn, that is on them.

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        Or the boss calling a cost of living adjustment a ‘raise’. No, motherfucker, I’m just back to where I started.

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          I’m salary or contract, so working overtime is often just doing work without pay.

          I’ll do it every now and then to get things done, but I’m never going to make that my normal.

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      Cathy? If I see FirstNameBunchOfNumbers and a twitter checkmark my first assumption would be that its a bot.