💥They’re Not Just Underpaying You - They’re Counting on This

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Hey there, flexible phenom with a full plate.

This one’s for the ones who keep saying yes because it feels easier than the fallout of saying no.

Let me guess – they’ve convinced you that wanting fair compensation makes you “difficult.” That setting boundaries means you’re “not a team player.” That your exhaustion is somehow a personal failing instead of a predictable result of corporate greed.

BULLSH*T. PURE, UNADULTERATED BULLSH*T!

Today we’re pulling back the curtain on the quiet little system that rewards your flexibility, by quietly devouring it.

Flexibility is the currency. Exploitation is the exchange rate.

Time to call out the con for what it is.

🧨 THE RANT - Flexibility is the new F-word

Remember when "flexible" actually meant mutual respect?

Yeah, that's dead.

Flexibility was supposed to be a two-way street.

You give. They bend. Teams adapt like civilized human beings.

But toxic flexibility?

That's just corporate manipulation at its finest:

• Late Friday asks that bleed into your weekend

• Scope creep labeled as "growth opportunities"

• Schedule chaos spun as "agile methodology"

• Your personal time treated like company overflow

And when you finally set a limit, when you dare to say "enough", suddenly you're:

• "Rigid" (translation: you have standards)

• "Not a team player" (translation: you won't enable dysfunction)

• "Not aligned with the culture" (translation: you won't drink the Kool-Aid)

"Be more flexible" = "we fired half the staff and now you get to do their jobs too, for free, while we gaslight you into thinking it's professional development."

"Wear many hats" = "we're too cheap to hire adequate staff, so you're going to do the work of three people while we pretend it's a compliment to your skills."

"Growth opportunity" = "we're about to exploit the hell out of you, but we'll call it career advancement so you feel grateful instead of furious."

You didn’t fall into the flexibility trap, you got targeted.

They saw your work ethic, your reliability, your willingness to help and thought, “jackpot.”

I know, because it’s happened to me too.

They’ve turned your willingness to help into an excuse to overload you.

Made you feel guilty for having human limitations while they post record profits.

It’s all bullsh*t - designed to keep you quiet while they bleed you dry.

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📊 DATA THEY HOPE YOU IGNORE

Translation: Being endlessly stretched is killing your career, not building it.

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