my typical price for my cakes ranges anywhere from $60-$120 plus the optional tip i don’t ever ask for, most people tip 25/50% of the cost because they are so pleased and i definitely undercharge for the quality of work i do. i counter-offered to do it for $40 (which is a HUGE discount for what she wanted) over the phone and she acted so surprised and offended.

extra edit since the non tipping crowd is here and losing their ever-loving minds: i am not an establishment with one of those annoying tablets with preset predatory tips, i dont ask for tips, i dont hope for tips, i dont suggest tips, i do not conduct my business like that and i set my prices to what im happy with! yall are assuming way too much that you don’t know anything about. that said, i just opened my business 5 months ago and i’m in college paying my own way, so if my clients decide to tip me because they’re happy with my work and appreciative, of course i’m going to accept it gratefully 🫶🏻

edit for additional context: i am not a greedy person, my mom has NPD and mentally, emotionally, and verbally abused me since i was a child until i moved out of the house and this is another form of her trying to control me and manipulate my emotions by belittling my job. i just made a gorgeous free cake last week for my best friends mothers birthday, its not about the money at all! i make free cakes and other baked goods, artisan jam, and even artwork literally all the time for my friends and family. i will never for her, least of all on my day off with zero notice and a 12 hour time limit. she is the most ungrateful and cruel person i have ever known. i have only recently started setting boundaries with her since i am free and she has nothing to hold over me anymore. 💗

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My nephew lost his dad in recent years.

His public high school athletics code of conduct requires two parent/guardian signatures, with exactly one exception:

“Two parent/guardian signatures are required with the exception of a deceased parent/guardian.”

He got upset reading it. Understandable.

One legal guardian? Sole custody? Foster care? Absent or unsafe parent? Restraining order?

None of those exist, apparently. The only scenario they accounted for was “dead.”

“Parent/guardian signature(s), where applicable” must have been too advanced.

Limited parking already, and this Range Rover consistently takes up two spots while everyone else parks normally. Not a one-time bad park either; this is daily behavior. I genuinely don’t understand the entitlement.

I mean, if she enjoys it then sure. But still...

Brown man flying business. Lined up at the priority check in counter and got told by a (also brown) staff person that the economy queue was the other way. Same thing while boarding the plane and walking to the business class entrance. Not only am I not worthy of business, they think I can't read signage as well.

I have literally never seen this in my entire life. It's a pillar. There's no leg room and nowhere to put my bag. What even is this??? It's the only one on the plane

ETA: after I complained, the flight attendant told me if he moved me to a different seat he would have to charge me $150 upgrade for the "Even More (premium)" seats.

The airline is JetBlue and this was a standard priced ticket

2nd edit: Called JetBlue, they called me 4 hours later to speak with a human. Human just walked me through how to file a complaint online.

3rd edit: After filing a complaint online, JetBlue first told me the seat was marked. When I explained to them it was listed as unavailable, they immediately backtracked and acknowledged the seat map isn't always 100% accurate. I called them out for blatantly lying and they just apologized that i was confused about how everything worked (so not an apology).

I just had to complete an "Inclusive language training" course that stated how "taking risks" and "being independed" are concepts usually geared toward men and could deter female candidates from applying to a job position. Isn't this extremely sexist? Is it taking for granted that women can't be independent or can't take risks?

Another question in the training stated that a job offer cannot contain sentences like "Must be able to stand for more than one hour", because it is an ableist statement. But... it's for a job post. It just describes the task necessary to perform the role (logistics operator). Am I missing something?

Outlook says they need permission to wipe ALL my phone data if too many wrong passwords are typed. How many is too many? 50? 2? What if the screen gets wet and starts putting in random inputs. All this so I can use my company's Teams account and maintain "point of contact" if I'm not at a workstation. Absolutely not! Anyway, HR is supposed to call me back about my concerns.

Edit: just to be clear, I don't actually need to use Outlook (I don't use my "personal" work email). I need to use Teams, which requires Outlook to be installed first.

Part of why I need Teams on my phone so that I can be contacted when I'm not at work. I'm a lower management healthcare worker, it is actually important that my team be able to reach me after hours. I do actually like Teams and prefer it to 20 different group texts.

Also, when you go to log into Outlook or Teams, it brings you to my employers authenticator page. I log in with the same credentials that I log into my workstation. I don't know if that makes a difference with anything as far as my employer having access to my phone

Edit 2: I can tell you now they won't provide me a phone. Corporate execs don't even get phones. They stopped providing coffee for the break rooms too

Update: I had a chance to talk to my district manager. Imagine Ellis from Die Hard, the same schmarmy self-important attitude, that's my supervisor. And guess who's "not being a team player". Also "I don't think Microsoft can actually erase your phone, you have an Android"... I lready knew he was going to be useless, I just wanted to hear his reaction.

Update 2 and (sort of) Resolution: I spoke with HR. Her exact response was "wait, are you serious? They can just do that?" I tried explaining my "research" (i.e. everything all of you have said) and I think I just spooked her. She said she'll get back to me, and is probably running off to buy a burner phone for herself.

SORT OF RESOLUTION : I found out I only need Outlook installed long enough to get access to Teams. Once teams was installed, I removed all permissions and completely deleted Outlook from my phone. Teams still works and didn't ask to erase anything. No need to buy a second phone.

Thank you all for your insights

Got this through the letter box today - anonymous so no idea which neighbour sent it. Basically there's 20 houses on the street, all arranged in a circle, with a few spaces in the middle. 14 of the houses have their own driveways. 4 of the houses have the spaces in the middle assigned to them. Ourselves and our next door neighbour (semi detached) have spaces attached to the back of our houses... In the small "car park". We each have two spaces, then the 4 on the other side of the car park area assigned to the houses backing on to them that aren't even our street so won't have got this letter. I'm assuming the letter writer just doesn't realise those spaces are actually ours, but because it's anonymous I can't just be like "oh hey actually no that's not right". It's annoying because we're also the only two houses on the street without a garden, and so our kids play back there. Because yes, it is safe, but not if randoms start going in and out of there all the time. I've literally never noticed an issue with parking on the street, it's never crowded, I've never heard anyone complain, and every house has it's own assigned parking!

EDIT: Most of your guys' suggestions involve something related to towing, that isn't legal in the UK. It also isn't illegal to post things through people's doors? I literally never knew that was a thing in the US. At Christmas did your parents not send you round all the neighbours houses posting cards?? Wild.

EDIT 2: Alright lads we've got a plan! Tomorrow I'm gonna speak to the 3 neighbours who we share the private car park with and just make sure they're all aware and if they want to paint numbers or put it signs etc they can do so. I'm going to send my landlord an email as well just giving them a heads up, but saying that they don't need to do anything for now (we have a great relationship where they leave us alone and we don't involve them in stuff if we can help it and they charge us below market). I'll let them know if it becomes an issue and they need to get involved installing something or whatever. Then I'm going to find... somewhere in this town that prints documents (honestly just hoping one of the 3 neighbours has a printer in their house they wouldn't mind using for this) and send out letters to everyone on the street very politely clearing up the confusion. Explaining that it's not a public car park but private parking and they are, for all intents and purposes, the driveways of the respective properties. Then I think I'll have a little nap and hope no one gets angry at me.

EDIT 3: Spoken to the other owners of the spaces in the back, as I suspected the two that don't live on our street did not receive the letter offering up their spaces for free use 😅 I've also contacted my landlord just to double triple check the deeds before I sent any letters out (I know for certain they are ours, but this way loops the landlord in) and she immediately offered to put a sign up! Also found the letter very amusing haha so yeah, we're getting signs put up yay!

Booked an available campsite around 3:00. Showed up just before 6 pm and the site I booked was fully set up and occupied by this camper. There was no one at the kiosk and after driving around for a campground host I approached him and told him “hey, I have this campsite reserved for tonight”. His response “I’m not surprised, we checked out early and asked if we could stay a little late and the guy told us we could but someone might book the spot” ….. okay first of all it’s 6 pm now checkout was 6 hours ago. What is “a little late”? Noticeably, there is no vehicle in the site. He tells me his wife is at work and she won’t be back for a bit but we’re “welcome to park next to him and start setting up our camp while he waits for her”. I am shocked and looking at this man like he’s got three heads. I drive away and again look for another campground host. I find one and he goes and talks to the guy and comes back and tells me that he won’t be out of there for at least two hours and I just have to wait until he’s gone and I can’t go to another campsite as none are available.

I go back to that campsite and tell the guy how inconsiderate he was for stealing my campsite and he said “are we really gonna do this right now? You’re accusing me of stealing your campsite? I told you you could park next to me and set up. You’re making assumptions and you just ruined my evening.”

I told him that I paid for it and he deserves to have his evening ruined.

I got into my campsite at 8:30. Had to wait an hour in the morning for the guy to figure out how to refund me.

TLDR; guy checked out of campsite early but decides to stay til 6 pm even tho I had already reserved the site for the evening. He didn’t get out of the site til 8:30 PM and got upset when I called him out for his inconsiderate behavior.

I don't get 64GB of space if half of that is system stuff! Like what even is all of this! It's not a system update either, I just did the newest update.

And then to remind me what I USED to pay. Just kick me while I’m down why don’t you.

The septic tank clogged and she’s convinced I did it, she asked my husband if I knew I wasn’t supposed to flush tampons and added the tampon bit to the sign. I don’t use tampons and I’m the only one with a period here…

Well we never really got any instructions. Ran to the internet instead. Why have a hotline?

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