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Great Bosses Don’t Give Advance Salaries
Bad bosses are great. You just don’t know they are.
The toughest day of your life teaches you the lesson you can’t even pay your whole life to get.
You know what’s tougher? Wanting to upgrade yourself and having no control just because you don’t have any money.
I know him for more than a year. He’s our product manager who makes life easier for everyone. I act smart, he is smart. A few years back he was a junior developer working somewhere.
He wanted to get to his next level. There was a challenge. His laptop was old. It lagged like hell. The condition of the laptop was garbage.
He tried to fix the lag somehow. But couldn’t. He tries again. Fails. Then the next day he asks his boss for some advanced salary so he could get a PC.
As it was work-related, he expected his boss to give him the advance and gasped his major problem will be solved.
Boss replied to him: “I have the money. If you want I can give you some month’s advance as well. But I won’t give you. I know you’ll return it after working the next few months but I want you to first earn it. First earn something then save some money for the next few month’s expenses. Then buy the laptop.”
