Q&A Interest Check : Extreme Poverty To IB Offer To Potentially Giving It All Up To Whistleblow

I grew up in poverty, and currently my family situation would still classify as that. Currently I live in a street where across me is a convict for manslaughter. Guy on the right: convicted arsonist. Had a drug addict nearly break into my home while I was sick (so glad I took a day off, my mom was alone). I pretty much live in the ghetto. I couldn't actually afford to go to college either. I had to take 1.5 years off to earn some money. It's like $9k per year here and even then that is deferred. Still couldn't risk it. During college (I am still in university) I worked up to 2 jobs, studied full-time, volunteered weekends. I had two internships. The second one led to a full-time grad offer for an IB position. The first one ruined my mental health. It was one of the worst experiences of my entire life. I can't afford a lawyer to deliver justice. I'll be up against a billion dollar+++ company. But there's something in me that's like "fuck it, all or nothing". I quit this company about 6 months ago. But I still think about it every single day and night. My "fuck it, all or nothing" attitude has served me very well in life. I stick to my principles whatever the cost. This might be the biggest test of whether or not I'm going to stick to my guns despite the fact that it is going to come at the biggest personal, professional cost in my entire life on me and by extension my family. Still deciding on whether or not I should blow the whistle to everyone and reveal how much of a dipshit and hypocrite this company is. The evidence I have is extensive and the last piece of confirmation I needed to truly validate how much of a piece of shit these guys are, is in their shareholder report: they joined a NFP that helps disabled students find internships. I was part of this. They let students short list them. A month later they rejected everyone saying "restructures, sorry cant commit". As a result every sstudent that short listed them not only lost that opportunity but all their other preferences aswell. I was one of those students. They then went to their shareholders and wrote in their report they were welcomed as a member of this disability network when in reality they had ruined internship opportunities for dozens of people and had a net negative impact. On a scale of 1 to 10, that scenario I described above would be a 2, compared to what other things I saw happen. So, just an interest / Q&A check. Would be nice to have some second opinions too I guess.

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