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Because the alternative is homelessness.
"It is perfectly true, just not a very normal case. I'd put it to you that I was a bit more involved in the negotiating than you were."
No, it's not true. Just because they told you that, and you fell for it, doesn't make it true.
"Being expected to work unpaid overtime is obscene"
And yet, here you are defending the practice of wage theft.
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Because the alternative is homelessness.
"It is perfectly true, just not a very normal case. I'd put it to you that I was a bit more involved in the negotiating than you were."
No, it's not true. Just because they told you that, and you fell for it, doesn't make it true.
"Being expected to work unpaid overtime is obscene"
And yet, here you are defending the practice of wage theft.