Strategic Sick Leave
U/eman282828: “I submitted my resignation two weeks prior to accepting another gig. The GM told me I could also cash in my accumulated sick leave. A few days before I was supposed to leave, he came back and told me that I couldn’t cash in the sick leave he had promised. Needless to say, I was seething.
The next day I called in sick and stayed in that status until my sick leave was exhausted. Meanwhile, I used my spare time wisely to prepare for my new gig which was much better with plenty of room for advancement. I went back to the old gig just about when the sick leave expired to pick up my check and resigned once again. There are times when you just cannot do the right thing by an employer and you just gotta fight fire with fire.”
College Savings Plan
U/Legion213: “In college in the mid-Aughts, I probably saved a few thousand by checking older editions and books out from the library instead of buying them. Couldn’t really do it with science books, but I was a history major and almost an English minor…
Other than differences in page numbers, the previous editions were pretty much exactly the same (who would’ve thought little to no additional information would come out on the Gilded Age or Victorian England between the 3 years between the 2003 6th editions of those textbooks and the 2006 7th editions). At that time, the campus library would let you continuously renew the book if no one had requested it in the meantime, so I could hang on to most of them throughout the semester.”