A Change of Heart
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We clock in at 6 'o'clock, and out at 7pm. Vacations are a myth, even on Holidays. There's no time for family at all. You bring lunch from home, if you don't have any, you don't eat. Never complain if the temperature is too cold or too hot (which it always is) she'll make it even lower or higher. Never come to her office, she needs to be the one to call you. There's always someone watching you in case you fall asleep or stop working. Protests get you no pay, and riots make her sue you. Once you get this nightmare of a job, you can't quit. The contract says so, she has to fire you for you to leave.
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