I'm just laughing it off at this moment. Today, I received a birthday letter from my employer that came with a Timmies gift card. I opened it, read the letter, and said to myself "ok, cool". I checked the balance, and there I just couldn't believe my eyes. The card only holds five freakin dollars ($5), like is this some kind of an April fool's joke, or are we in poverty?

I have worked in this manufacturing company for over 5 years and am handling an account that brings 60% of the revenue. Today is August 31, and my birthday is not even until 2 weeks in September. This is just unbelievable, lol. This can't even justify the stress and frustration I encounter daily.

Anyway, I'm grateful for getting gifts and these sorts of gestures, but just can't get my head around about the $5.

Thanks for hearing my story. :)

This irritates me more than anything. I’ll say I’m American or from America and people will look at me like I’m speaking Latin. They’ll then say “you mean the United States…? America is a continent.” Or “North American or South American?” Even though they know well I mean the United States.

Everyone in the world knows I mean the United States when I say America. It’s literally the only country with America in the name, so it’s perfectly reasonable to shorten it with “America” and it causing literally 0 confusion. I doubt it even causes confusion at all, it’s just someone trying to be on a high horse of pretentious attitude.

I’ve even seen someone say “USAian” instead of “American” because they’re so stubborn to even use American since it would go against them saying “well, actually America is a continent 🤓☝️”

Stop being stubborn. It’s okay to say America. It’s okay to call us Americans.

Or dentists offices should be open better hours. Id take either.

I started my new job last week. I have no PTO, and taking an unplanned day off on your second week is a bad look at best. I discovered today, I have a dental abcess. This is classified as a dental emergency, so I start looking. There are 100 dentists offices near me. 90 of them are open monday-friday 9am-4pm, or some other standard work day variation.

Maybe 5 are open until 6pm, which would be great for standard dental work, but this will be a longer procedure, so those are out.

Then there's the "24/7 dental emergency offices". Which are actually just call directories that route you to other places, if anywhere at all.

That left me with 2 options. One that is open for 4 hours on Saturday, and is booked out until late October, or a place over an hour away that doesnt take insurance.

I have a dental emergency, but my best bet is to go to urgent care for some antibiotics to bridge the gap until I can hopefully get a walk in appointment on Friday when we get to leave early. I have an emergency, but a hospital cant do anything for me until the abcess ruptures and I go septic, and even then all they can do is stabilize me. Id still have to go into a dentist.

Like, imagine this but with any other emergency. Oh, you cut your hand really badly? Unfortunately the stitching doctor is only open monday through Friday from 10am to 3pm and closed for a 2 hour lunch from 12-2pm. You broke your leg? Well all we can do is give you some Tylenol until you can hopefully get a walk in appointment at the bone clinic because their appointments are booking out 6 months.

And I get it, no one wants to work nights and weekends, but you're a DOCTOR. You chose healthcare (so did the hygienist and receptionists, I dont want to hear it). Just one dentist, on call. Or a surgen who doubles as an oral surgeon. Or a dentists office open nights and weekends.

It shouldn't be this hard to get emergency treatment.

No, I'm not talking about putting out Halloween or even Christmas decorations earlier and earlier, even though that is annoying.

I'm talking about putting out the winter/fall clothes and getting rid of all the summer stuff in August.

It's motherfucking Texas, it's 100 today, and it will still be 90 in October. I don't need a fleece hoodie or flannel lined jeans you dumbasses.

I need shorts! What's that you got rid of all the shorts two weeks ago? Fucking why? I'll be in shorts till mid November.

I hate fashion cycles and how fast everything gets tossed.

I don't like these overly expensiv food experience crap. Something about them gives me the ick. It feels gentrified and ostentatious for the sake of pretentiousness and feeling important.

A single piece of broccolli freeze dried. Bunch of sauce sprayed all over the dish and using some teaspoon to scrape em off.

Washing my hands with chocolate and eating it off my hands.

Flavored bubbles as dessert. Yes.

And paying $500+ for these bullshit experiences.

Leaving fully hungry still.

Whats the point of this? To make you feel like you're part of some unique experience.. when you could have as well experienced it with 1% of the cost?

Everything is horrrible or the worst on that channel. is there one thing that isn't bad?

Frm an south asian country,and everyone around me been migrating which i love for them but today I was told that the transformative effect migration gives you cant be attained from anything else.And i jst wanna yell at that idea,migrating is such an expensive thing (but sometimes I get its allso for survival i get that) and transformation is about seeing ,knowing and adapting,the transformative effect is insulated by lack of curiosity or self introspection (which is consider as main contributors for growth arc).Plus I dong wanna face the brutality of the world lemme jst be

(In terrible at wording things so bare with me 💔)I’ve had a few things happen that made me really uncomfortable and are hard for me to think about but I feel like some of them I shouldn’t be so affected by bc it’s not technically sa I don’t think? For example today I was on a roller coaster on the end seat and my brothers were there but on the other side (4 seats a row) bc I wanted the end seat but then some guy came out of nowhere and filled in the spot but whats weird is the people in line behind us was a family and that guy wasn’t there before I didn’t even see where he came from but he randomly jumped in last second and I guess cut in front of them? Which was no big deal I prefer to not have to sit next to a random person bc I have issues with socializing and stuff which is why I usually always make sure I’m seated next to one of my brothers or parents but I didn’t think much of it obviously he wasn’t doing anything wrong but then as soon as the ride started he just started staring at me the entire time and touching me? Like genuinely the entire fucking ride I don’t get it I don’t even know what exactly he was looking at bc I was scared to look for some reason like I said before I have issues with socializing and a big thing with that is eye contact but at first it started with just the staring but then he started to like force his arm over to mine and then like get closer to my body and yk im not going into details (full grown man and I’m a minor btw) and it made me really uncomfortable and idk if it was just like stress or what but I felt like I was going to black out and started to see sparkles while panicky I’ve noticed I do this a lot in uncomfortable situations not sure why but anyways when the ride ended the dude got up and genuinely jumped out of his seat and ran? My one brother said he saw him looking at me the whole time and he thought he was talking to me but still thought it was weird too but anyways I feel like that’s not sa? Even though he was sexually touching me it doesn’t feel extreme enough to classify as sa bc it seems anytime something like this happens if I tell my parents they brush it off like it’s no big deal and “just a part of life” which may be true ig but I’m not really sure if that a normal thing to have to go through as a legal child? like they don’t even care about how I feel? Like even though it’s not that extreme it still lowk ruined my day and made me feel really uncomfortable but as if that wasn’t already bad enough next thing you know guess who I fucking see behind us on the next ride we go on luckily the row was full already but it’s weird he was on the same exact ride when it’s on the other side of the park that the first ride was on then after we left that ride we saw him again walking around and he was just watching me I was so uncomfortable and when I tried to tell my parents about it they wouldn’t even listen they just kept talking to my aunt that was there but after that we left which I’m glad but I still feel weird about it idk why whenever I have an interaction like this I can stop thinking about it and I keep replaying it in my head over and over even though I hate thinking about it I can’t stop it I don’t understand why my brain even does that it like fixates on bad experiences until they become blurry if that makes sense but anyway yeah

I was homeschooled for 2 reasons.

1). My mother couldn’t afford childcare, but had to work. I had to get my younger siblings ready for school.

2). I simply didn’t want to go.

Now that I’m in my early 30s, I would give ANYTHING to go back and change that. Does it consume my thoughts every minute of every day? No…but do I wish I could’ve just been a normal 16 year old? Yes.

I wish someone would’ve told me to get my lazy ass to school. The couple people I know, who were also homeschooled, also regret it.

I think parents selfishly homeschool their children for various reasons, but I think the majority of them don’t want to deal with their school districts, and want to indoctrinate their children into the same thinking as them.

It also bugs me when parent bloggers post on social media media the phrase “my child is thriving academically and socially”

Really? They hardly ever interact with children their own age…and have their parent (who is not a trained teacher) grading their tests and quizzes. I’d hardly call that “thriving”…

With the new trend of parents homeschooling their children, I think we’re going to have an influx of working adults years from now with poor social skills, zero critical thinking, and tons of regret for their parents decisions.

I have a feeling this will make some people angry, but that’s just my opinion.

Geniuely why do I need to a “convince“ fee ?? You guys already add tax when I pay my rent through the app. For what reason other sickening greed do you guys need to charge a convince fee that raises depending on how much I decided to pay. On top of we have new management so they raised the price of everything including the convince fee rate. I’m so pissed I shouldn’t have to pay an extra 40 dollars to pay my rent.

I’m a dude who’s got a good number of friends, friends that would fight for me and risk their life for me and I’d do the same for them. I once was very self deprecating but now I’ve gotten better, I no longer hate myself and I give myself a bit more grace than I did in my early teen years (I’m about to be 20). My biggest goal for my life is to do what I can to help the people important to me be happy. I want so badly to feel needed, and yet I’ve always thought everyone would be better off if they forgot about me. Not in a sense that I should do something permanent I’ve long since stopped thinking about that, but I feel like if I could I’d use the men in black neurolyzer and make them all forget me. I probably won’t feel this way when I wake up in the morning but I needed to rant and I didn’t wanna make my homegirl worry about me since she’s off at college, yall have a blessed night and I hope you conquer whatever troubles you face !

It's just super annoying when there's a big thing happening and you know it's gonna do well, like a tv event, game, movie etc. And it's gonna impress people how big it is but then there's people who don't understand it or just make up ridiculous numbers that aren't possible at all and I have to be like "no bro, actually that doesn't make sense" while initially wanting to be hyped as well, any of you know that?

Idk how but i want to
I willl figure it out
I will lock tf in
Ik
I have the hunger and it is jot going anywhere anytime soon till i am there

They are learning the recorder this year! Why???? I have to apologize to my neighbors in advance now and get the bus schedule in case I want to jump in front of it!!

But seriously…..why??? Those things are the worst! And why do they have to bring it home to “practice”? No one is gonna grow up to be a professional recorder player!!

I love my child and do everything I can to ensure he thrives in school and in life but the recorder is where I draw the line. I just might “lose” the damn thing!

Im 23F 6‘ tall, normal weight, standard face, clear skin, very curvy, engineer, no kids, have a lot of friends and hobbies, travel a lot and volunteer often.

It is extremely easy to get a date.

Even with „high class“ man.

But the pool of man I am willing to date is extremely small.

My extremely selfish/femminist Feminist criteria are the following

My life with him in it is better than without.

He is an adult that can communicate his desires and feelings.

He doesn’t take his anger out on me.

He is not threatening to kill himself if I leave him.

He is not expecting me to step into the role of his mother.

He can listen to me talking about my desires and feelings.

He is not ashamed of being with me in public (very important as a tall women who has dated small man)

He wants me for me and not because I was the best he was able to get.

He makes me exited to spend our future together

Those man are extremely rare.

Because the ones that meet the above criteria have a lot of women competing for him.

As bad as it sounds I can’t help it, I’m very insecure in general about lots of things even though anyone who would see me would probably say I have a good life. I just don’t see it that way, I see the negatives and the bad over all the good.

Recently my gf has started to make more than me and I don’t like it for multiple reasons. For starters im jealous she is younger than me and making more. On top of this her parents despite earning less than mine were good with money and helped her out a lot whereas I basically got nothing. She also doesn’t really spend much money on me, and when I was making more I spent more than I should've on her. Lastly it ate away at me so much I picked up a second job just so I could continue to out earn her but now I’m working an extra 3 days per pay period and it sucks.

I have friends who also made jokes about her earning more than me and while I didn’t say anything in the moment and laughed it off it felt bad to have it voiced. I know it’s not her fault and I’m honestly happy she is in her dream job but I still dont like the situation. I’m transitioning to the same field as her soon though which I now regret as I feel the insecurity will follow me if we are working the same job forever.