People Share The Biggest Lessons They Learned From Employment (20 Tweets)

If you aren’t consistently learning, you’re probably not getting everything you can out of the limited time we have on this planet.

Whether that’s via travel or simply stepping out of your comfort zone sometimes, it’s so important to challenge ourselves and be a lifelong student of the world. Thankfully, we can also look to others for pearls of wisdom along the way. Which is exactly what we’re going to do as we comb through Twitter user angelamavalla’s viral thread about “the biggest lesson that employment has taught you”.

1. Not worth it

2. Don’t be friends

3. Nobody cares

4. Get along with folk

5. Minimum

6. Ascent

7. More work

8. HR

9. Be selfish

10. Hop around

11. You’re expendable

Everyone is expendable. A company can and will fire you, even after giving you the “we are family” speech.

— Travis (@travmason) July 31, 2021

12. Family

Any management referring to the company as a "family" make quadruple what their workers earn and would fire half the staff to cover their own poor resource management.

— Sam Marner (@Marnerbanana) July 31, 2021

13. Health

That my physical and mental health comes first

— PreciousMajesty (@sitshaEsihle1) July 31, 2021

14. Downtime

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15. Exit interviews

If they offer an exit interview just say thanks for the opportunity but it’s time for something new. Airing complaints at this point won’t change a damn thing if they weren’t listening while you actually worked there, but it could affect your reference.

— whatsupwithmoe (@whatsupwithmaia) August 3, 2021

16. Don’t stay

Staying at a job that treats you like garbage is the worst thing you can do because you are hindering yourself from leaving and finding a better job that will treat you better.

— Davon Swan (@DavonSwan) July 31, 2021

17. Don’t be scared

Don't be intimidated by the job description on the job advert. It's mostly big grammar for the thing you can do or have been doing already.

— E³ (@jobseekerscreed) July 31, 2021

18. Accurate

https://twitter.com/sweetthesour/status/1422028856186318854

19. PTO

https://twitter.com/MadisonKittay/status/1421492404893503494

20. You don’t have to be good

https://twitter.com/Danger_Mike/status/1421560131871989773

People Are Sharing The Best Lessons They Learned On The Job, And Y’all Should Listen Up (20 Tweets)