#only pay per use

[anotherrandompersonsstuff]

Foaming at the mouth with rage in the McDonald's bathroom rn

#its disgusting #rancid #i had to PAY to use it #no fucking public bathrooms #in the entire city #only pay per use #i had to scan a fucking QR code #thats ridiculous

[silverjirachi]

look i get most rehearsals in my life have not been paid, but when this is supposed to be a paid job and i’ve gotten $20 for an hour long rehearsal in the past, with this same company, $20 for a three hour rehearsal is just insulting.

#i’ve been paid hourly for rehearsals as a professional actor #by nonprofits #and instead #this FOR PROFIT COMPANY #apparently pays ‘per show rehearsed’ and not per hour #regardless of how long rehearsal is #and apparently yearly training only counts as ‘one rehearsal’ #oh also if you’re late to a show your stipend is instantly CUT IN HALF #if you fuck up getting payment from the client also #NO ONE on the show gets paid #pretty fucked up actually! #i think i will be leaving after this next show lol #even though i need the money #those payment policies are just sooooo fucked up #and they think they can get away with it bc we’re independent contractors and not employees #also they dont even give us tax documents if we make under a certain amount of money from them #i discovered as i started doing my taxes

[dullahandyke]

Anyway needless to say, college is showing me a whole slew of people who are using laptops in school for the first time and they're so bad at it. They're so bad at taking notes too. They're so bad at everything

#im a hater today but its helping. ill get a caramel shortcake and thatll help more #ANYWAY STOP TAKING DOWN THE TEXT ON THE POWERPOINTS VERBATIM!!!!!!!! #THEYRE UP ON CANVAS PAY ATTENTION TO THE LECTURER INSTEAD!!! #(im haterposting instead of listening but im keeping an ear out. theyre defining bildungsromans rn) #their typing speeds are so slow and for most i would assume its inexperience #in which case i ask why are you switching to a laptop instead of using a notebook!!!!! #plus they mistreat their laptops so badly. so full of bloatware. some of them are even mac users #(honestly idk that much abt macs specifically. maybe theyre gr8. but i hate and kill apple) #give your laptops to me ill treat them right.... ill feed them ill clean up after them.... #and you just know that tech disasters are gonna befall so many of them bcos tech skills are on a downslope #like i dont look it bcos i tote around the same 2 notebooks and take like 3 bullet points max of notes per lecture #but ive been using a laptop for school going on 7 years i know my shit!!! #and theyre heavy to carry around and generally only worth it if you plan on doing a LOT of typing #which for ordinary lectures im not!!!! im not taking down every word on the powerpoint like a dipshit!!! #if i bring my laptop im either planning on writing some essay shit or not paying attention during class #anyway thats my little rant. its alright im allowed

[hella1975]

im genuinely the dumbest person alive

#im so fucking angry with myself im SO stupid #like yes im only 20 ive never really handled my finances alone before #this is only my second year of paying rent EVER there was bound to be mistakes #and im lucky to have a family that can support me when those mistakes inevitably occur. but my fucking goddddd #basically i didnt plan ahead and turns out my TOTAL student loan for this year covers my TOTAL rent this year #but ofc the installments dont cooperate and the sums are different per semester etc #so instead of looking ahead and going 'oh shit my last loan won't be enough to cover my last rent installment' #and using that very easy to make observation to figure out that i need to be saving the leftover money from my loan throughout the year #i instead went 'omg i have leftover loan this term!' and fucking spent it #im short £600. im going to owe my parents £600 #and yes in the grand scheme it's not a huge amount of money like it could have been #but not only will i not be able to pay my parents back until july bc i CANT take out of my america savings #and i definitely cant start saving up £600 ON THE SIDE OF TRYING TO SAVE A GRAND FOR AMERICA #but on top of that being in debt to my mum is the worst thing in the entire world and now i have no choice but to be in debt for 3 months #before i can even start paying it back. like that's 3 entire months that she's going to use it as a stick to beat me with #like not only does she sometimes REFUSE to take money that i earn waitressing bc she insists on having the debt paid through actual labour #but she's also just a complete bitch about it and i know it's very spoilt to expect not only to be covered when i get into debt #but to also expect her to be nice about it but like. im not asking her to CODDLE me i get initially it makes sense for her to be angry #but she could at least acknowledge that i ALWAYS beat myself up over shit like this way more than anyone else will #like im so mad rn im trying not to cry just bc im so FRUSTRATED and the entire time she's fucking shouting in my face #about how she moved out at seventeen and had three jobs at uni and no one to support her etc etc #and just name-callling shit im already calling myself like it was an HONEST MISTAKE #she's acting like i purposely went behind her back and took £600 when i was very visibly horrified when i figured it out #and i immediately came clean to her regardless of how scared i was to admit it. im just so mad like i know i sound spoilt #and like im huffing and puffing over something that could have been SO MUCH WORSE if i didnt have my parents to cover me #but like. i can pay her back within 2 WEEKS of waitressing. ive never handled my rent before. i didn't do it on purpose #and im more annoyed with myself than she can ever be and she KNOWS that about me. so like. please dont shout at me lol #it's just i was SO proud of myself for saving for america and how hard ive worked and i should have known i was gonna fuck it up somehow #& now the £1500+ i'll total have saved for america that i worked so hard for is gonna be tainted bc i owe £600 all bc of my own stupidity #hella goes home

[waugh-bao]

*

#the tickets for the new stones tour are 100% ‘this is the last American tour we can get insured for and we know it’ prices #either that or they’ve really become unconscionably greedy #I was put in charge of buying tickets for 2 friends and myself #it was going to be a ‘girls doing grad school in the us do a rock concert’ thing #looked at presale a few minutes ago #and a single seat like three sections from the nosebleeds in a big northeastern football stadium #is $630 #before Ticketmaster fees #get fucked #the only way I’m even paying $260 per ticket (absolute cheapest) is if you still have your actual drummer #I’ll check again on general sale for Friday #but I think we’re going to skip the Hackney Diamonds clusterfuck entirely #(I will spend $ to see live music. I don’t have a problem with it. I dropped $250 for front row машина времени tickets last year. but the #price to value ratio is so not here)

[newfeeling77]

btw my food stamps app got denied again 😐 so i guess ill just keep applying i dont know. i gotta buy a new bus pass tomorrow and then pay rent on thursday but my “””holiday pay””” was only an extra dollar an hour so im hoping the extra day i worked is enough to cover it. what the hell man

#yeah they didn’t tell me they changed the holiday pay procedure #now its put directly into ur vacation time?? #so i used it already without knowing #and i only get an extra dollar per hour worked #i thought the last system where u got 4 hours of holiday pay #in addition to ur paycheck no matter how many hours you worked #i thought that was as bad as it gets.

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Its official: can't even laugh about something with my dad before mom makes it about me saying no to lending £150 to them.

#and dad as per-usual isnt helping me just letting it happen #im paying them my usual £100 when i get paid which last i checked IS USED FOR FOOD AS WELL #so where the fuck is it going so fast in one week and a few days?! #why the fuck is it me AGAIN who has to be asked for money #and btw i only have £56 right now! #i get paid 22nd but i can't even look forward to it now because of this shit

[1stthingsfirst]

On Rehab

I've seen a lot of posts that suggest folks may not know much about rehab, so I'm jumping in with my experience.

Disclaimer: This is from a US-perspective, and from a person who has helped loved ones research/enter rehab but who has not gone myself. I did a little research and it seems like the options are similar in Thailand.

There are multiple forms of rehab:

Rehab can be inpatient (aka residential treatment) where you live at the rehab center. Rehab can also be outpatient where you live at your home and visit the rehab center regularly for individual and group therapy. A lot of people do a short stint (from a few days to weeks) inpatient before switching to outpatient. I'm calling this mixed rehab.

Inpatient programs are considered the gold star for treatment. They have the lowest relapse rates after release, so they are an excellent option if you can afford them. They are especially recommended for people who need a medically-supervised detox and/or more intensive oversight/care and an externally-imposed schedule and rules.

We know Ray can afford it, but inpatient programs are generally extremely expensive so many people opt for outpatient/mixed care due to affordability. They are also great options for people who can't take time away from work or family.

The absolute best chances at recovery are if you participate in at least 90 days inpatient, followed by outpatient care and ongoing participation in support groups. The longer you stay in any form of treatment, the higher the recovery success rate.

All that's to say: We don't yet know what type of program Ray will choose and if he will be away from home for any period of time. Based on what we saw in episode 10, I think he visited a hospital-based program, which is more likely to be mixed or outpatient. Plus, we see him out and about quite a bit in the episode 11 preview, so it's unlikely that he's (at least initially) choosing an inpatient program.

No one asked, but FYI, Alcoholics Anonymous/Narcotics Anonymous and other 12-step programs are not rehab because they do not offer comprehensive supports. They are support groups. Participation in AA/NA/other support groups during and/or after rehab decreases likelihood of relapse, but they're not the same as rehab.

#only friends the series #ray only friends #raysand #sandray #rehab #addiction #alcoholism #sand x ray #meta #if my research is correct #thai inpatient programs average ~10000 USD/month #in the US it costs anywhere from ~$5k-80k no joke #also most people relapse after recovery #(40-60% within the first month and 85% within the first year) #no matter the type of rehab program #so when we talk program costs #just assume you're paying for rehab more than once #and multiply per time

[bumblebeebats]

The IRS LOOOVE to ask me questions like

Have you ever:

never not received dividends of a divisionary nature through the operation of a state or federal corporal mutual fund, and paid pecuniary expenses related to Article 805A(b).e, or

been gifted more than $2,000,000 cash or the equivalent in yachts or racing horses from a foreign monarch, and

not been actively involved in assessing fewer than two digital assets prior to 2021, or not more that two non-relational nontaxable assets after Jun 7th, 2022 (see Schedule 8, box 17a)

☐ Yes ☐ No ☐ Other

#& before anyone tries to recommend me some nice simple online tax preparation thing; srry but i am legally not allowed to #bc I'm a dual citizen living abroad 🙃 So I have to pay an accountant $500/year to fill it out for me instead #Hey Americans! Did u know if you ever permanently move abroad you actually still have to file US tax returns for the rest of your life? #And report the balances of all your bank accounts to the US government? With potential fines of tens of thousands of dollars #PER year PER form that you don't fill out? #Fun fact: this also applies in many many cases if you were born abroad to a US parent and have never even been to the US!!! #Fun fact: the US government doesn't tell you this! There are thousands of people all over the world #who are considered tax evaders by the US and stand to be immediately arrested or fined the minute they set foot on US soil!!! #Most of this is hardly ever enforced ofc bc the IRS simply doesn't have the manpower to do so #but it's a handy little sword of Damocles hanging over the head of every US citizen all over the world #so that if anyone ever steps out of line - whoopsieee! looks like you haven't been filing your FBARs huh? #Would be a pity if you were extradited and arrested for tax evasion :) #One more fun fact: apart from the US the only other country to require lifelong taxation and tax filing from its citizens abroad is Eritrea #a totalitarian dictatorship with one of the worst human rights records in the world #But thank god the America is such a paragon of freedom and democracy <3 🙃🙃🙃

[andromeda3116]

i know that the "adulting sucks" thing has been overdone to the point of obnoxious, but seriously

seriously

adulting fucking sucks

#running the numbers on my budget and calculating how much i can afford per month on things #bc i will likely need a new car soon and i need to figure out what kind of budget i have for it and what my options are #and i get a bill from a doctor's visit in fucking november for almost $150 after insurance payout and my copay and like. #hey i was told on my insurance shit that i would only have a $50 copay! and i had met my deductible! #it legitimately looks like they waited until it rolled over to charge my insurance specifically so i would no longer have met it #like the visit was in november. why did you wait until mid-april to payout? #my insurance rolled over at the beginning of april. huh. what a fucking coincidence. #idk who to call about this but this stinks of bullshit #i should not be owing that money. period. and there is absolutely no excuse for sending me the bill for it eight months later. #and i need to clean my apartment. and i need to feed myself at some point. #and i need to cancel att and set up the comcast internet that's recently been folded into rent as an amenity #i have already gone through and canceled all the subscriptions i don't use #so check that box off #and like. i don't want a roommate and i really am not looking for a relationship with anyone. #but doing all this shit on my own and having to pay every bill on my own and having to do all the cooking and cleaning on my own is just. #exhausting #i am so so tired #and i'm looking at things and i intend to go through online school for a communications degree which will be reimbursed through my job #and there may be a lead position opening up soon which everyone seems to be pushing me towards which would be a title change #and significant raise at the cost of added stress #and i feel like butter spread over too much bread #i need to work anti-burnout measures into my schedule and budget now to get the structure i'll need #but i am already so tired #but i need the raise and i need the degree to gtfo of this career

[idk-my-aesthetic]

Respectfully if you are on a train and take up a table seat and don’t even use it I am eating your phone

#there’s only so many table seats on the commuter railAUGH #4-6 per car it’s a shared table #I get it if the train is full or if it’s super empty and you want a place for your elbows #but if I’m going 45 minutes all the way to the end of the line and you’re only 15 minutes from your stop #and you deprive me of my ability to use my laptop to get some work done before my aderall gives out and I pass the fuxk out #i am eating your phone #biteing it straight from your hand #I will grind the glass into dust with the strength of my jaw #also fuck you to whoever lied on the schedule claiming that it’s very empty #this is not very empty it’s one degree below max capacity #and who the hell keeps deciding to close off whole ass cars #is there something wrong with the car?? do you not have someone to monitor it??? #I can see the damn thing is empty let me IN!!!!!! #what’s the point of taxes when the trains still suck #we pay police so damn much why don’t they run the fucking trains #yada yada defund the police acab and all that #I’m so tired ur honor

[what-the-fuck-khr]

pain has veeeeeery suspiciously disappeared from the tooth which makes me veeeeeeeery suspicious bc that’s not good lmfao bc if the pain goes without treatment, it means smth in that tooth has fucking died if I can’t feel anything anymore LMAO. okay if I press hard enough it hurts but it’s nowhere near the sharp ass pain it’s been leading up to this point so! I’m gonna go into that appointment expecting dead nerves and an infection or abscess of some kind. I’m also going in expecting the tooth to get ripped out so! what a day that’s gonna be

#:) #like lack of pain means nerves that were on the fritz the entire time #are not responding anymore #I know this from my tooth hurting. it stops. it comes back. it stops. I get a root canal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #mind you the one tooth I did have pulled had a hole so fucking big I’m assuming #it just took the nerves clean out at the start #bc that hole got BIG. BIG. I could put my tongue in that thing I had to clean it out after every meal #and I told the receptionist on the phone yeah there’s a hole and she’s like how can you tell #I CAN PUT MY TONGUE THROUGH HALF THE TOOTH LMFAO #but a different tooth HURT so we fixed that one first dmfnfndj AND GET THIS. ITS THE ONE IM EXPECTING TO BE RIPPED OUT #HAH. A FULL CIRCLE. MAN. THAT WHOLE HUGE FUCK OFF FILLING FOR NOTHING #luckily they cap at a certain amount per financial year so it’s $36 or smth and if I go enough and hit the cap I don’t pay anymore which is #additionally the first pulled tooth was a very back molar also. this one is on the other side and on the lower jaw instead #which Could effect chewing a bit #but like the other one I figure I’ll get used to it. so. it is what it is #I’m willing to just say goodbye I just want a photo of it if possible #bc one root canal was like. a worry. bc of how fucking huge my roots are they worried the filling #would push the tooth in and it’d hit nerves and maybe it would reject. alas that did not happen so! #ooc #can you tell we have good luck with teeth in my family #I’m not the only one with teeth missing and technically with how bad mine are they’re still not even the WORST so! silver linings!

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[chiefguideandcentre]

Crazy to me how humans have literally made life so difficult for ourselves for no reason at all. Like why do we have to pay for water monthly when it literally falls from the sky? Why is a super simple one bed, one bath “house” (cheaply made of course) easily between $250k-$400k and someone would have to pay a high monthly payment with a 20% interest rate to have it? Why did we choose these numbers? When did we make prices for food so high, create mortgages, student loans, and car payments? Who created interest rates? Why does my entire future depend on a credit score? A number we ourselves made up. Why did we go the extra mile and decide to tax ourselves? For what purpose? When did we decide that we need to have a certain level of education to succeed and if you don’t have it you are obviously a failure at life. When did we say “yes, this seems good, I want to pay astronomical amounts of money for literally everything and make everything as stressful as possible for no reason at all?” Why do I owe money for having money (taxes)? Why can’t I pay for stuff with rocks? That cat I see sleeping in a warm beam of sunlight (and living a happier life than I) doesn’t have a credit score, it doesn’t have to pay extreme amounts of money for a home, it doesn’t have to pay for water that falls from the sky, it doesn’t have to worry about interest rates, it doesn’t know what the Pythagorean theorem is, it doesn’t have a car payment, a set of tires doesn’t cost it easily $1,000 in one go, it didn’t make applying for a home or a car an exhausting endeavor, it doesn’t have to work 40+ hours a week working on stuff that we made up all for a check that doesn’t even reasonably cover any expenses (that once again we forced on ourselves). So why are we?? Why can’t we help ourselves out and make rent $10 a month? Why can’t a good credit score be a 10 instead of 700-800? Why can’t a mansion be $10,000 instead of a million? Let’s make grocery shopping easier by trading cool rocks and pieces of clay pottery and buttons and other neat things for food. What’s stopping us from doing that? Why did we create the most complicated system? “The entire system would collapse, there would be anarchy, everything would shut down, society would explode!!!” Why?? Over numbers and problems we made up ourselves? It’s all made up!! Why did we make it so hard? We could have made things so easy and have a perfectly workable society. We could have the most bonkers system and could all be schooling life right now if we paid for stuff with pretty things we find in abundance and made houses cost like one pretty vase and a loaf of bread you bought with your cool acorn stash and made cars only cost a packet of tomato seeds with no interest rates in sight, didn’t make the production of goods and supplies so expensive, and if we simply didn’t tax ourselves, and if education/the school system was literally just learning all sorts of things that could help you live a happy, self sufficent, simple, productive life the way you want to live it (if you want to learn about history, languages, how to work on cars, or build robots, or cooking, or music, making pottery, or conducting science experiments, learning about medicine, or playing sports or whatever you could do so) and it wouldn’t cost you your first born child, and if we didn’t have mind numbing jobs trapped in windowless buildings doing things that shouldn’t actually matter or exist but we made them so. Why did we make it so hard??

#I had to get a new car bc the one I had for only 6 years and was relatively new went I got died on me this year #I got another car #like 4 months later the battery in it died so I had to spend almost $300 for it #I have a car payment now when I didn’t with my other car that I was so proud of myself for buying outright all by myself bc I saved & saved #I shouldn’t have had to save that much in the first place #why can’t cars cost a pretty painting you made? #or cost 10 neat rocks a packet of flower seeds and 2 books? #my phone quit on me about a month ago so there goes $300 dollars #my car insurance cost $600 this month #my car already has two nearly bald tires #gonna have to pay almost $500 for two of them #I mean it never ends! #and for what? #why is it so hard and expensive?? #why didn’t we make a society that could run in $10.00 houses and pretty rocks for household goods #and not base our lives on a random number we made up #every other animal in the whole kingdom must be laughing at us for being so stupid #I’m just complaining (as per usual) #I’m tired of all my money disappearing the second I get it because literally everything is so expensive #it’s one problem after another! I’m tired! #let’s just suddenly announce all houses are $100.00 #but Chief all of society would collapse?! #no it wouldn’t because I say it wouldn’t bc this is all *make believe* #life as we know it is just a game and everbodies losing because a select few keep changing the rules

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! I know I haven’t been crafting or posting much these last few days, but I have once again been caught in health insurance hell. I went to my doctor’s office in person to warn her paperwork was coming that I absolutely needed her to fill out, and I got the notification from my insurance today that she did not do that! So she is no longer my doctor. I set up an appointment at a new doctor in a few weeks, but I got upset enough about it all that I triggered an allergic reaction* and have to take a daytime benadryl, which means I will probably not be crafting today either *technically, it’s probably a mast cell degranulation thing, not an IgE mediated allergy, but the end result is that I can have allergic reactions to my own stress. These allergic reactions start as migraines, which you may notice do not help with stress levels. The good news is chewable benadryl take effect very quickly

#the person behind the yarn #fire your doctors if they aren't doing the job you are paying them for #and by fire I mean get a new doctor #I know that's easier said than done. goodness knows I know that #I won't even get into the whole 'only allergist in town' issue I had back in california #but I am not paying sixty dollars per visit for her NOT to fill out the paperwork #when that paperwork is the difference between my insurance covering my inhaler or not #and my rescue inhaler (well. the one I use as a rescue inhaler because I have severe adverse reactions to both albuterol and levalbuterol) #is 500 damn dollars without insurance #my breathing is behind a paywall and it infuriates me #I am going to take my benadryl and play the new sims update

[donuts4evry1]

donut this is extremely funny but oh my god i haven't been this confused since i learned grapes can raise your t level lmao

Hmmm you must still be confused I am most certainly tumblr user tomnookishot and not donuts4evry1

But thank you for confusing me I had no idea about the grapes and I will never look at them the same way again

#Ok in all reality tho #The hatoful birdfriends tumblr friends are swapping profile pictures for today and I happen to be switched with tumblr user tomnookishot #This is still donut haha #On another note I hate grapes it's a whole thing with me (I think it's a texture thing?) #for a while they used to be the only fruit I could eat but eventually I just stopped and I can't come back #One time my mom told me she'd pay me 5$ per grape and I still wouldn't do it. I still probably wouldn't do it to this day lol grapes are :( #That's really funny thoaahahdjdjdj... Boy #ask #mun rambles

[katya-goncharov]

checked the employability resources for neurodivergent people on my university's website and oh my gosh are the This Is Ableist alarm bells ringing in me

#they had a link to some online training course autistic people could do. that you have to PAY to take #as in like over £30 per module that apparently only takes less than an hour to complete?! #that seemed to be about how to make YOURSELF more employable to neurotypical people and learn to act ''the right way'' in the workplace #and idk... maybe it's a well-known thing maybe it's genuinely helpful to people #it WAS an autism charity that was offering the courses. i don't know if it's one of the bad ones or not. difficult to tell #but just. the fact that they're asking disabled people to pay to make themselves more palatable to employers and presumably learn to #mask better. BAD vibes bad vibes bad vibes #i would just much rather see a list of job offers that are specifically neurodivergent friendly and catered to make the best use of our #natural skills. than some course we have to pay for that's all about changing how WE operate

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