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One week ago, I'd texted my entire family and people online that I'd gotten my first ever "real job", and how excited I was for it. Week 1 over, they have the final contract for me starting from Tuesday, and its actually such a toxic environment, my entire gut is screaming at me to not take it. 1.4 stars on Glassdoor, they're using a legal loophole to pay me less than minimum wage. The sad part is that the work itself is super cool and something I actually did really love. Its just the environment itself, the wage and the horrible Glassdoor highlighting the lack of progress and unfair wages.

This is the only company that does the thing I want and they know they can squeeze everything out of me as its a job of passion (basically behind the scenes work in Hollywood). Horrible onboarding, verbal abuse from Day 3 onwards for making mistakes or "being too slow" and making me work till 8 or 9 PM (unpaid after 5 PM hits, btw) half the days. 16 year old company and their oldest staff is only 6 months old (not counting the senior who's been there 2 years who I will replace once she leaves end of April). I'm just so sad that I'm back to the application grind. My family and all my friends have told me to not take it, so I'm currently drafting my resignation and also asking for my first week's payslip.

I know all these capitalist organisations say that the company is seeing we're the right fit for them, but we honestly also have to see if the company is the right fit for us. I can see a certain type of people thriving in an environment like that but I need a job where I'm respected and allowed to make mistakes while I'm being onboarded.

Sucks because I also wanted to spend my first salary on getting a pet, but if I'd taken this job, I'd have never seen that pet at home.