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[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 149 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Cathy is a dumbass. Don't be like Cathy.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 79 points 3 days ago (3 children)

That’s up there with refusing raises to avoid going up a tax bracket.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I will forgive people who were previously had a low enough income to have benefits that magically disappeared completely at a certain threshold when they received a raise for assuming that making too much money could be a negative. They generally never made enough to understand how tax brackets work and assumed the worst.

If it is explained to them and they refuse to learn, that is on them.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

Yes, that is something that really sucks.

Here in Ontario disability gets clawed back as soon as you stop making poverty wages, it’s disgusting.

[–] SqueakySpider@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I believe the name is "benefit cliff" or something similar

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Yep and it sucks hard.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 2 days ago

Or the boss calling a cost of living adjustment a 'raise'. No, motherfucker, I'm just back to where I started.

[–] miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"If I work overtime, I make less!"
-- dumbfucks we've all worked with

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago

I'm salary or contract, so working overtime is often just doing work without pay.

I'll do it every now and then to get things done, but I'm never going to make that my normal.

[–] needanke@feddit.org 13 points 3 days ago

Cathy? If I see FirstNameBunchOfNumbers and a twitter checkmark my first assumption would be that its a bot.