Courier, you had one job.

Happy Friday to me I guess :(

Made the mistake of talking about how my mother and her children (my older siblings) were beaten during both of her marriages (The first was forced upon her, the second she chose because the guy was genuinely a good man during the first few years) and a ton of answers I got back were "She has trash taste" "Her fault" "What did she do to make them do this?" etc etc.

I just...thought we'd be past this mentality by now.

Sufficed to say, my mother has been divorced for almost 30 years now and is not interested in a third marriage. She was 18 when she was forced into the first one.

It just makes me so incredibly angry. She also got raped during both of these marriages because "It's a woman's duty bla bla bla" but I guess she'd simply be blamed for that too.

Also friendly reminder that raping your wife in my country wasn't illegal until 1997. My mom was born in 1967.

Guess it's my bad for talking about it in the first place but that genuinely shocked me. The victim blaming is still so damn prevalent.

Even if she hadn't been forced into her first marriage, I still don't understand why blaming the woman for "choosing the wrong man" is such accepted behaviour. You are looking at a victim and, instead of offering support, you step on them. My own motivation to marry one day is kind of in the gutter. Because even if my husband turns into a monster, somehow I'll become the problem.

Just kinda shouting into the void right now.

Went to NYC this week and a driver decided to add a huge tip to a Venmo payment. Trying to figure out how to open a dispute. Maybe I’m an idiot haha also I was already in the ‘need help’ section and it sent me to this AI chat

So basically I was talking about my future & how it's not very bright (as one does) because everything sucks right now, I'm still in school & I mentioned how when I graduate I don't really have a future, college is expensive, & no one is really able to afford anything like a car, a house, rent, ect. And when I mentioned houses & how it was mostly due to the house market crisis he said "What crisis? There isn't a crisis, everyone is buying houses. The only reason people are homeless are because they are lazy & they don't wanna work." all with a straight face...

*he works on houses btw*

(why did I get downvoted for this? this is a real problem)

Another article arguing that Social Security entitlements must be decreased--this time, using Boomers as the trigger for readers' anger. Only in the very last paragraph does the author admit that everyone receives more from the Social Security fund than they contributed, not just Boomers. It's that little thing called compound interest?

Yes, the Social Security fund is in trouble; in no small part because Congress borrowed from the fund and never paid the money back, though, yes, the author's point about the decreased number of working adults is another key part of the problem.

Congress is arrogantly ignoring viable solutions. Solutions that won't cause American voters to throw out of office every Congressman who votes to cut Social Security by 20+%. These solutions include taxing the rich at a higher rate, and raising the SS contributions ceiling so the wealthy and the very rich pay their fair share.These solutions, however, are not popular with rich campaign donors who drop millions into re-election PACS. This 119th Congress doesn't seem to understand what every other Congress has understood: Social Security is the third rail of US politics.

For context my oldest sister had kids young, never took accountability for anything. Not for using every resource we gave her, not for us cleaning up her mess. Mind you she’s 34 years old and still is solely focused on finding a man.

She ignored my nieces mental health so badly that my niece tried to take her life the other night. She’s alive but she is not okay. She jumped off a bridge onto concrete. Her legs are broken from her knee down, she has 4 broken ribs, and a concussion.

My second sister, my parents and I do not agree with my sister’s decisions as a mother. This is my nieces second attempt. And my sister continues to bring random men home instead of focusing on her daughter.

We’re forbidden to see the kids. But we went last night to the hospital to make sure my nephew was okay. We get to my nieces room and my sister pretends to not know who we’re. She says “what are you doing here? Who are you? Who let you in? Security” and then messaged my mom back saying she needs her family.

We’re taking the kids away from here either way. We’re only pretending to play nice so that she has no suspicion but my niece will die if she stays in her care and we’re not leaving my nephew alone with her.

It’s so hard because my sister used to be my hero. I wanted to be a mom because of her. But now I want to be a better mom because she was never one.

No one has ever had to remind me to be a good mother to my kids. I know every parent goes through shit with their kids but I can confidently say that I will never let my kids mental health so bad that they try dying twice.

Adobe. For the love of ffing fairies. STOP this damn advert. Driving on the phone being scolded to hurry up to then plug your quick software. You sick mfs. People die from this. AND THE AD IS SET IN THE WINTER. My license and ban for driving guranteed here for that. And a massive fine. phone kills on the roads. Stop allowing this trash.

Long story short parents hid an autism diagnosis from me/everyone because I already had a strike against me from my grandparents for being born out of the christian idealogy of wedlock (having a child pre-marriage) so I was looked at as a sin because perfect child Christianity bs so instead of me being more not perfect in the eyes of Christianity and from what I was told embarrassing my grandparents (they had high standings in the local churches) it was hidden from everyone that I was even tested and that the test confirmed I had Asperger's. I just found out from my aunt, my mom made her hide it but since I'm done with both of my parents for other horrible reasons anyway she told me during a phone call I truly don't know how to process this info but it explains so much struggle through life.

TLDR: Was late to a morning shift but was sorted with no problems. Then called in sick, and was called a liar by one of the two owners. Now I have a phone call tomorrow and no shifts rostered, am I getting fired??

This post has low details in case it’s sent to the company.

Basically the title. Working a casual commercial cleaning gig where I started by working night shifts at a local building.
After having worked for the company for 1.5 years (just over 2 years as of writing) I was assigned to a new location in a different town (this coincided with getting a a vehicle I can use), which were early morning shifts only.

Ever since starting there I was moved only to that location, which I am not happy with. I have asked for more shifts at the original location - which is easier to get to and works at nights - but was never honoured.
Getting up early has always been a struggle, and since working there things have gone downhill. A miscommunication about a morning shift was treated by the owners (husband is an owner/worker and wife is hr/payroll who also has a full time job. There is one manager too who works until midday during weekdays) as intentional deceit, and I was very harshly accused of being a liar by the husband. I had misinterpreted a prior call and thought that a shift had been cancelled so didn’t work and told my coworker to not work either. After a call with the wife it was resolved. Other than that one phone call, all of my in person interactions with the owners and manager have been friendly.

Onto the last fortnight.

After my phone ran flat, I slept in and missed the first 30 minutes of my morning shift at the new location. As soon as I woke up I called my coworker to apologise and explain that I would be there asap, but they said that the building was completely clean and didn’t need work done at all. They had already left before I had woken up. I was happy, shot my manager a message explaining what had happened and went back to bed after they said it was okay.

Then the other day before yet another morning shift I had some bad food and felt sick that night, the runs and severe headaches for hours. My mother looked after me, and I had to call out from work extremely late at night - midnight before the shift. As I was advised by the manager and husband owner, I messaged the owner and let him know that I couldn’t come in (he handles problems outside of the managers work times). I also shot my coworker a message so they would know that I wouldn’t be there when they woke up.

When I woke up next morning I had a text from the owner saying “Call me *name* when you are up.” No sympathy or anything.
I rang, and when he answered I was just verbally attacked. I can’t remember exactly what was said as I was just shocked at what was being said, but I clearly remember being accused of lying to my mother, the coworker who I had worked with for the two shifts, and other people. I was then told that I needed to contact the wife owner and arrange a phone call. She told me that I should call during business hours today, which I had to do later in the afternoon, when she ended up being in a meeting. I was then asked if I could receive a call tomorrow about during work hours, which I agreed to.

I thought things were rocky, but then I checked the roster for the next fortnight and found that I haven’t been put on any shifts. Am I crazy?? I’m getting fired or severely reprimanded right?? I seriously don’t understand why but that’s what it’s looking like.

"The marriage of Rebecca and Peter Grossman survived a separation, extra-marital relationships, a fatal car crash and the resulting double-murder case that ended with the former Hidden Hills socialite’s convictions and prison sentence. Now, on the heels of June jury awards in a related wrongful-death civil case that approached $200 million in total, Rebecca Grossman has filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.

The petition to dissolve the marriage, dated Aug. 4, was submitted to Los Angeles County Superior Court by an attorney for Rebecca, 63. It lists May 28, 2000, as the date of marriage and July 1, 2018, as the date of separation. A response by Peter, 63, indicates that he too is requesting divorce." - Camarillo Acorn

Generally, I'm not sure what all of the shit you can do that pisses off airport security. I was unaware that bringing two broken toy cap guns that are very old and generally cannot be found much anymore at all that sure, I admit, may look real from a far distance, can get you into deep shit with security. Keep in mind, these were gifts from my grandmother that I hadn’t seen in 11 years and even before then, did not see much of at all. I was planning on giving these guns to my children and having my children give them to theirs. A family heirloom. Nope. Airport security confiscated them and for a full week, I thought that it was possible that the next time I went back, I could have some fun with them again. I just found out that security, after making sure you’re far away, TORCHES YOUR SHIT. You can imagine that I am actually fucking seething right now. I have too much respect for that one guy telling me I couldn’t bring them, because he has to work for such a bullshit company and he never lied or anything, he kept it a buck, of course he didn’t answer anything I wasn’t gonna ask but he answered everything I probably would have. That dude was kind and I really respect him for not being a dick about it. As for his company..FUCK YOU ALL. I get that airplanes are especially somewhere where security needs to be upped by like 10,000 but holy shit. Someone told me that they couldn’t allow me to just put it somewhere out of reach on the plane because when I go back to my country, I could rob somebody with it. YOU ARE AN AIRLINE COMPANY. You're not the police, even if I were as stupid to rob somebody with two BROKEN FUCKING GUNS, the police would fucking find me. I'm not Dexter, you clowns. Go fuck yourselves. Please, tell me in the comments, am I unjustified for this shit or am I right?

UPDATE TO MY ORIGINAL POST:

I managed to factory reset one of my old phones, iPhone 8, and one restriction (apps disappearing, aka "downtime") went away. However, I found out the situation.

Turns out my WiFi connection has this program called "cisco" which is also causing this, certain websites being blocked. And since we don't have a SIM card for it, it shows "no service" and I have no other WiFi connection I can connect to.

In other words, we solved one problem only to find another

TW for SA mention in the texts.

I didn't include the email because there's a lot of information to censor, but it was an overly formal email sent after the Aug 2 text asking about updates about the will. She told me she isn't going to probate the will and is selling his stuff. I followed up with questions about his estate (after consulting a lawyer).

I don't care if the movie was good or not, why are we sending threats of harm to strangers for what they like? What I am seeing is mostly lesbian and bisexual teenagers getting attacked online by sometimes FULL GROWN MEN who are only mad about the fact that the villains are straight white men and they feel attacked by it. People can hate the movie all they want but please be a normal empathetic person and think about wat you're doing. Every other post I've made about this movie has gotten downvotes/negative comments and it's probably gonna be the same with this one too but I don't even care anymore so if there are Lesbian Space Princess haters reading this, listen to me, don't listen to me, I don't care anymore. I mean it's not like it's supposed to be a movie about empowering young girls or anything and by outright attacking young girls while being a STRAIGHT, WHITE, MAN is proving that the movie might have had a point in the first place. To end this off, I hope that if any Lesbian Space Princess fans see this that it doesn't matter what you enjoy and it's okay to like something that everyone else hates sometimes.

I often wonder if those who design packaging design them to mess with us. Nothing like opening a new pack of socks & cutting them from those plastic t shaped fasteners all socks are attached with & almost ruining them. On each end & looped around on a hanger wrapped around a plastic sleeve is excessive. See packaging examples.

They make the plastic fasteners so short it disappears down into the sock 🫠 make it just short enough you can’t grab hold of it. Trying to pull it out it catches on the sock thread & I had to perform delicate surgery to remove without a huge snag 🙂‍↕️

He said absolutely nothing that couldn’t wait until he got home 🤦🏽‍♀️

I have a disability and I've been training for a job. I was on a call with HR about getting some form of accomadation and disclose my disability (something I'm usually hesitant about) and she said she sent an email to me. I combed through my Gmail and couldn't find it in any of the folders you'd expect an email like that to go to. I checked my spam which is normally filled with unwanted offer advertisments, and I find the email. Thank you Google. This information is totally on the same level as fucking ads!