Every federal worker must remove pronouns from email signatures by end of day today or they will be terminated.

Opinions about pronouns are not needed. I won’t change your mind. But this is extreme government overreach and I’m seeing red!

Yes, I'm very sensitive to having my time being wasted of flushed down the drain.

By the way the trams in this city are usually on time or only delayed by one or two minutes. Makes me feel like it was intentional to ruin my day

It used to be that that the news would report what happened. There was a process.. Something of note happened. Journalists would investigate. Perhaps there’d be a press conference. They’d verify facts and ultimately publicly report what happened.

Now, they just set up a camera as things play out and spout bullshit or reminisce about similar past events however unrelated they may be. But worst of all, they speculate. They hypothesize about what might happen, which to me is the antithesis of journalism.  Even as things are still unfolding, they have to “offer perspective” for us with all their pointless jabber.  The goal is to fill airtime.

Okay, this is a long story, but Im gonna condense it down as much as i can, so, bear with me, please. So, i lost my Mom to Non-Hodgkins when I was 16 years old right before starting my sophomore year in high school. This was in 2001. It was pretty rough, but life goes on and ive endured. My grandmother (my Moms mom) was still alive. My Grandmother ended up passing away in 2008. But before she did, she ended up leaving each grandkid a check for 10k. I ended up receiving mine in the form of a copy of the check, and the actual check was given to my Dad. I do understand this move cuz at that time I was severly on heroin and i would have done nothing good with the $$. So, my Dad was supposed to hold onto it. It took awhile to get my grandmas affairs in order due to a very very horrible and greedy aunt of mine, but thats a whole nother story. But, I think it was 2010 or maybe 11, everything finally gets as settled as it can, and anything that was supposed to go to my Mom went to my sister and me. When I looked at my paperwork it said I was supposed to receive a check for around the sum of $14k. I was still very fucked up at this point and it honestly didnt even register that i should be having a check in the mail soon so i pretty much forgot about it. Fast forward to 2023. Ive had my life cleaned up for years now, and am doing well and living right. I was going through some old papers and found my old estate paperwork from my grandmother. I was flipping through it and came across the page saying I was supposed to get a check and it all dawned on me i was supposed to have gotten a check. So, i ask my dad if he knew anything about it. He said no and that i should check with my aunt (not the shitty aunt but my moms other sister that has been good to us) or go to the bank and see what they say. I check with my aunt and she said they gave those out years ago and i should question my dad more. So, i went to the bank, gave em the check number, and their was my check. Already cashed with what looked like my signature. I then immediately knew it was my dad.

  The whole point of this story is not to ask for legal advice but instead moral advice. Because i know i could get him in trouble for this with the courts if i wanted. When i confronted my dad bout him lieing to me and telling him i know what he did with the 10k check and the 14k check he said i didnt deserve it and that he was using it for things for me like when i went to rehab twice and a few other things. Now, i understand where hes coming from. I really do. I was screwed up at the time and shouldnt of had control of any of it. But he was instructed to hold my 10k check and he flat out had his secretary forge my signature on the 14k check and now all the $$ is gone. He ended up giving me 3k and thats all i got. 

My question is, is what he did right? I mean morally? Cuz although i understand where hes coming from, i feel like now i could have really used some of that in a good way now and i got basically nothing. Im reality, any major thing i needed help with financially i actually paid for and was made to feel like he paid for all those things. And i repaid him for a lot that i needed his help with...so, can you guys help me out.

Was it right for him to do this to me or is it altogether wrong and he should have saved it and given it to me when the time was right?

i was making an online purchase on joann for some yarn for my upcoming crochet market.

i felt like the total was off after i chose klarna as my payment. i didn’t confirm the payment through klarna, but instead backed out from the initial klarna landing page (where it shows the amounts being split into 4, and options for other split ways to pay) and checked on joann and sure enough, i was missing 4 skeins of yarn. i didn’t click purchase or finalize payment on klarna at all.

i went back to my cart on joann and added the skeins of yarn i needed to my cart, and went back to the klarna option. i looked at the total on the landing page and was like, let me just check my joann cart ONE more time to see if the pickup locations are correct (i needed two pickup locations due to in stock/out of stock yarn). i again backed out from the klarna landing page, went back to joann, and i adjusted the pickup and went to finally check out.

i checked out fully through klarna using pay in 4, then get not one but THREE alerts from my bank about pending charges - for $15.38, $22.45, and another $22.45. the latter two $22.45 charges were separate ones in the exact same amount and a few minutes apart, but when i check on the klarna and joann page, it only shows one transaction.

two were unauthorized and yet i got money pulled from my bank 3 times.

i spoke to klarna customer service and they were acting like they did nothing wrong and kept insisting they didn’t pull money, and that i needed to talk to my bank, the pending charges will drop off in 1-7 business days, etc. i kept asking WHY they pulled 3 times from my bank when only ONE transaction was authorized. if a purchase is abandoned, you don’t have the right to pull money, even for a pending authorization hold. if i had clicked purchase or proceed, then that’s on me, but i didn’t. i saw the total and backed out. that is NOT okay for a company to attempt a charge for simply going on their landing page, what the fuck.

this is absolutely scammy as fuck, please be aware of this happening. especially if like, you have limited funds in your bank account (which a lot of people who use klarna do, hence why their gimmick is to pay in multiple installments)

I can’t stand it anymore, but I’m too chickenshit to say anything. I’ll just plop my big ass laptop down next time. See how ridiculous this is everybody?

Not long ago my dad went back to our homeland country to pass exam for truck driver license,so he can work in country we moved to. He also needed experience or nobody will hire him.

I won’t go much in detail,as I simply don’t know what exactly was going on there,because if I ask him to tell me more I’ll get mad again lol.

He passed exam and one company hired him. Experience for them didn’t matter. There was bunch of other dudes very different ages. Some has been driving for 10+ years. They were paid same wage. And now where it gets fucking infuriating. 1,49€/hour. Yes it’s official employment for people who aren’t retired and who has their ID. 15 hours of work every day. One hour brake in the middle of the day. For my dad work began at morning but there was also night shifters. Trucks were equipped with cameras and a lot of trackers gps including. They were required to start trucks and leave garage in exact time. If they was ONE minute late they were given fines from 12€ up to 35€. If they were stuck in traffic and didn’t text in group chat immediately explaining and providing evidence(I’ll remind the company has office where they can see all trucks by gps tracking and driver in real time) they were given fines,up to 50€. Also all this in war conditions while there’s missiles falling few times a week. No way you could avoid those fines. Also they were promised 5 weekends a month. But in fact only 3 days were given,while other 2 you had to sit in vehicle waiting for call if they need another truck(yes they do almost always)

All this sounds SO illegal but nobody can’t sue fuckers because owners of this company are local government officials. Nobody complain and try to rebel because people desperately need work. I’ve no idea how those other guys who work for years there survive.

My internship where I worked 15€/day for 8 hours was driving me crazy,I’m not gonna write here what I’d do if I ended up in the situation like those exploited drivers.

Some details: rent is 600€+ in my homeland,food costs almost same as in Europe. So no way you can survive for 1,49/hour.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/australia/australia-sect-elizabeth-struhs-guilty-intl-hnk/index.html

Was dancing around my house and stubbed my toe so hard, was probably the worst possible pain ive ever felt (top 5 probably) a broken leg must be insnae pain if i felt that from a tiny toe

A couple years ago me and my family were at a toy convention as one of the sellers/collectors. At that time I was around the age of 8 to 11 and had no interest in collecting things like my parents so bored out of my mind I grabbed some blank flash card and began drawing little doodles of stuff like pokemon. My parents liked the drawings and asked if it was okay to sell it, I agreed thinking how cool it would be to have my little doodles sold like it a big piece of art, but after a little a woman walked to the stall looked around and saw a doodle of vaporion who was my favorite pokemon (I was pure back then). After seeing the doodle she said that they stole her art and that it was unfair how it was being sold, my parents told her it was a pokemon and that I had drawn it not to long ago, she had the gull to say that I must have seen it on her social media account. My parents told her that I don't even have Wi-Fi on my Nintendo ds. Over all I think she was a Karen.

I've never owed on my taxes before. And now I owe over 1000. I have the same job. Nothing has changed. I'm so angry. Idk how I'm going to pay that. This is after the govt already took over 8,000 from my checks last year. Im furious and I'm panicking.

I'm just going to say... I know this handwriting. It belongs to a friend!! My friend!! did this a couple of months ago. These things refuse to charge, they hook them up anyway and just let them sit, and when you get 10 ft away they go from 100 to 15 percent. Neptune forbid a multi-billion dollar company do the right thing for their customers.

Canceled by email, then canceled by phone, then still got charged and called again to see what this was about. They transferred me around a couple times and alluded to the fact that I needed the right person to cancel. When I got the "right person" in billing, was told that even though I canceled that I would be charged monthly until the contract ran out. The contract time period? A YEAR. I said that I did not agree to a year long contract. They said nothing about that and rebutted with, "the year long contract was initiated when I did not cancel my previous contract, which was monthly. Is this not extremely predatory? What if they had just decided that the contract didn't end for 5 years or 50 years? How is this a legal practice?

I have already filed a dispute with the Federal Trade Commission about this predatory practice and I will be canceling my credit card so they can't keep charging me. I also have been giving them as many reviews as I possibly can: TrustPilot, Yelp, and more to come.

Update: After sending a copy of the dispute I filed with the Federal Trade Commission to IONOS Support, I got an email back saying that they have re-activated my contracts! Wow! I am shocked that they would actually send me proof that they re-activated my contract because they were furious at the dispute I filed! Dear IONOS Inc., good luck proving I re-activated my contract after canceling with no record of contact from me. Thanks so much for pouring gasoline on the fire and adding to my dispute against your company and your predatory practices and contract subscriptions.

12 eggs priced at $10.

My workplace is a meat processing plant. Despite the fact that the company refuses to employ anyone that can’t provide proof of legal residency status our entire hispanic staff didn’t come in to work today because neighboring counties have already started immigration enforcement raids. Considering that “normal Americans” refuse to seek employment at such critically important job sites we are now working with less than 50% of our normal staff.

Even though they can provide legal status each individual typically have friends and/or family members who aren’t. In addition to that our area is notorious for trapping up ones who are legal not caring how they are violating their rights. As such even the legal ones employ “duck and cover” or “better safe than sorry” tactics during such times.

Edit: This is not meant to be interpreted as any kind of political view on my part but a statement of fact that we’re extremely short staffed and why we are.

EDIT: For idiots who can’t understand why LEGAL HISPANIC RESIDENTS are afraid, here is but one article that is itself the tip of an iceberg of what’s happening across our country right now: https://www.thedailybeast.com/mayor-rages-as-trumps-much-hyped-ice-raids-nab-us-military-vet/

As the title says. My aunt yells woman power and independence from the roof tops. "You don't need a man to succeed in this world". But made sure at any turn in my life when I learned any life skill, it was to find a good man. Not for my betterment. How I look, must be pleasant to a man.

"All women are beautiful! And should be respected" Sees a woman walking down the street modestly dressed with a natural large rack "ugh how vulgar, how can she walk out the house looking like that" all the while having her double D implants busting out her low cut shirt. All the while taking pictures of this woman going about her life and sending them to gc to criticize them.

She beleives in the "their asking for it if they dress that way" sentiment.

The list goes on honestly. Just today I was taking care of the apartment like I would any day, and she said "that's great you're keeping the apartment clean for when your bf returns home from ntc" I replied "I'm doing it because I live here, not so it's ready for him in a month. I won't live in a pig sty just because there is no man to come home and be pleased with the work I did." Plus I work.

I just felt sick after that, I'm tired of her preaching and then doubling backwards. Before she could start arguing about the rude way I told her off, I hung up.

Do yall have someone like this in your lives? If so who and for what.

https://preview.redd.it/e1h208gefdfe1.jpg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=297aa0b873fa62635f56816dc515554c9faa4b5b

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jan/21/iraq-passes-laws-that-critics-say-will-allow-child-marriage

So I've been trying for 2 weeks to upgrade my subscription and I keep getting this message. I try to find some sort of info on it but nothing to be found. Im tbmy wits end. Anyone know what I could do?

Someone else’s sewage water is coming down from the ceiling into my apartment which currently reeks of feces. To make matters worse the fire alarm got wet and won’t stop beeping. Now it’s even more senses being accosted by the poop water debacle that’s unfolding before my twitching eyes The ceiling has began to buckle in additional spots. I cannot begin to describe to you the level of rage that is billowing up from the pit of my stomach as the dripping with the three pulse beeping continues next to me and my things get more covered in someone else’s feces. Maintenance came by and was like “oh the guy above is flooded too, the guy on the 3rd floor said he left his sink on and it flooded” no, I smell feces and they’re already lying to not solve the full extent of the issue.