I pretended to have a job offer so my boss would pay me more money and it actually worked.

Here's what happened.

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I worked at a chain salon in the bell for notifications.

I worked at a chain salon in the US for minimum wage plus tips.

We got paid on a sliding scale.

The more you added services, the more your hourly pay.

Then, for back to school, we started offering $10 haircuts.

It's dumb to offer a big discount on back to school,

because that's when everyone needs a haircut, but whatever.

To advertise this sale, we had to stand on a rickety step stool and hang a 10-foot long, 3-foot-wide

banner off the roof of our store.

The step stool alone made it a dangerous task, but on top of it the sidewalk was uneven.

Our manager insisted we do it twice a day, open and close.

In case someone steals the banner banner because certainly someone would want to

steal a banner with our logo that says $10 haircuts. It was annoying but I was

looking forward to my next paycheck. I had a high service dollar per hour, which should have meant a bigger hourly pay and paycheck.

Except it didn't. That $7 per haircut discount? It was coming out of our final service dollar calculations and

we ended up making significantly less than usual. I'd worked there for years and

this was the smallest back-to-school paycheck I'd ever seen.

I went in the next day and was ticked.

That morning, a coworker who was a total brown nose and gossip,

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