#paying surveys

[oldshrewsburyian]

Dear college students,

I really hope that I, your spinster aunt of Tumblr, am not the first person to tell you this, but: please use your university library services. You are paying for them. They are there for you. Moreover, your professors are operating on the assumption that you will use them as necessary.

When I say "library services" I mean not only physical books that will help you with research, but the usually more extensive eBook collections ditto. Novels you've been meaning to get around to and can't afford to buy. Even (quaintly?) DVDs for your entertainment. And perhaps most significantly of all, interlibrary loan.

I'm going to reiterate interlibrary loan in its own paragraph because a student complained to me recently that publishers were "literally incentivizing piracy" by not pricing academic monographs for purchase by college students and my reaction is best summed up as: ????? Publishers typically price scholarly monographs in the pious hope of not losing money on them. Everyone complains about the ones priced at $300, and a lot of them are priced around $30-50. They are priced for purchase by libraries and specialists. And they are priced for purchase by libraries precisely so that libraries can make them accessible to college students. Anyway, use interlibrary loan, good grief.

TL;DR: the library is there for you, that is what it is for, please behave accordingly.

#spinster aunt of tumblr #libraries #academic libraries #studyblr #college #also i took my survey class to the library this week and none of them had heard of boolean operators #did they all miss fourth grade #and sixth grade #and then never get asked to write a research paper ever #i am baffled #this particular student didn't want to pay more than $10 for a book but that's a different issue

[vermintube]

ok surveys aren't working does anyone wanna buy chibi fullbodies from me. 5 dollar amazon cards and 10 slots. i only do furries. please reblog if you can. first come first serve. will be similar to this

currently 0/10 slots taken

#im too sick to fuck with surveys that pay 10 cents maybe per 20 minutes and i can draw furries much faster.

[rowanthestrange]

yo look at her that’s an actual house

#energy bills would be redonkulous #the size of those roooms #and no double glazing #nor would there ever be #cus bitch’ll be a listed building #our man on the inside #says it’s been put up every few months for over a year #when people buy and try to sell it again #which apparently is hard to do #cus in most of the property surveys #it’s found ‘structurally unsound’ #and he reckons cash is exchanging hands #in order to successfully get it put on the market again #but freezing to death come winter if the thing doesn’t collapse first #surely small price to pay #for getting to be #the freaks who live in the clocktower #the freaks who live in the castle #the freaks who live in the combination clocktower and castle

[chaosandbeyond]

goodbye watcher i guess

#my posts #watcher #how did they think this was a good buisness decision is beyond me #i understand the need to grow as a company and have more money of course to continue to create #but like they have five shows that do well #why people will pay 6 dollars a month for five shows? #what about new fans that won't care once they know it is behind a paywall? #why did they not do a watcher survey before taking this decision? #like asking their fanbase if this was a good idea? #and hearing steven say that 6 dollars was affordable... lmao. in what world are you living in dude? #and they are media-savvy and pop culture savvy so they know that all these streamers #are turning into the new cable #and no one can afford it #so i just don't get what they did this. #honestly they either should cancelled it or lower the price at 1 or 2 dollars per month. #and even that like... yeah. #plus what about international viewers? fuck us i guess? #adieu ghost files adieu puppet history :( #it truly feels like the end of an era.

[skyward-floored]

Ember brain rot has stuck once again

EMBERRRR MY BUDDY MY BOY MY LITTLE GUY 😭💖💖💖

I haven’t forgotten about him or brethren in a cradle, I’ve just been focused on other stuff lately, heh. Ember beloved :]

Here’s a little wip for mentioning him though <3

Four took his place back behind Warriors, and the captain couldn’t help but glance in the basket he held.

Ember was still awake, but he seemed more drowsy now, the regular movement of the basket seeming to soothe him. He noticed Warriors looking at him, and smiled, happy and content. Warriors gave him a tiny smile back, barely holding back a snort. Quite the difference in mood from this morning, hm?

He shook himself and focused back on the woods around them, listening intently through the rain for any threats, but couldn’t help peering back at Ember now and again. Every time he did, Ember spotted him and smiled, and Warriors couldn’t help but smile back.

Ember usually giggled and looked away, snuggling into his blanket as Warriors looked back at the route ahead, and they continued this for a while, Ember still smiley as ever.

#warriors: I’m in captain mode I’m surveying for threats nothing will distract me— #Ember: :D #Warriors: ...well maybe paying attention to him too is important #answers from the floor #anon #Ember #wip

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all! I am once again in health insurance hell, and could really use some help. I have a specific US health insurance question, but it might get long so it's below a read more

My employer offers two health plan options, and they are both absolutely terrible. I want to get my own health insurance, but the insurance broker lady I used when I worked part time says I can't, because I can get health insurance through my employer, even if I opt out. I spoke to another health insurance person today, and she said if I get a letter on company letterhead saying I'll lose health insurance on [date], as long as it's 60 days or less from now, it counts as a qualifying event and I can buy my own health insurance. She said opting out counted as losing health insurance. Do you know anything about this? How do I get health insurance as an individual NOT through my employer even though my employer offers it? The plans my employer is offering are Aetna, and Aetna is the absolute worst and I despise them as a company so much one of my long term goals is to warn people against them. They suck! They refused to pay for my inhaler until I got my doctor to fill out a form like three times, and also I had to email them A LOT and fill out a LOT of surveys with an emphasis on how horrifying I found it that they as a company clearly valued profit over their customer's lives, and would in fact prefer their customers die before they could reach the ER in case of an emergency, as evidenced by their refusing to pay for my rescue inhaler, a necessary life-saving medication. They also require I fill that form out every year, just in case I magically stop being in the small minority of people who get severe adverse reactions to albuterol and levalbuterol

#the person behind the yarn #tj is in insurance hell #I also promised Aetna I'd make it a goal to share my story on social media about how terrible they are as an insurance company #it's been months since they started actually paying for my inhalers but I'm still salty about it! #and I am not done telling people they are terrible #I promised them on all those surveys that I would post on social media and tell people in person whenever I had the slightest excuse #I said I'd tell every medical professional pharmacist and person in a waiting room I ever interacted with #and then they were magically willing to pay for my inhaler! #I'm still telling people though. It wasn't a 'pay for my inhaler or else' kind of thing #I was just telling them what was going to happen because of how they chose to run their business #so yeah. Aetna's the worst avoid them if you can #the didn't pay for my heart monitor when I've had idiopathic tachycardia for OVER A DECADE #they don't want to pay for one of my meds because they want me to use a specific pharmacy #but I'm allergic to the inactive ingredients used by the only manufacturer they have for that medication #I literally can't take it without having a severe allergic reaction #but they still want me to use it because it comes from the pharmacy they own #(or are owned by the same parent company? Not sure what it says specifically on paper)

[theluckybard]

If you have any other kind of content you find interesting to make a subscription for, you can leave it on tags or comments.

Your feedback is really appreciated! ❤️🍀

#survey #a little pool to help me build a little something for the art lovers and art community ❤️ #and help me keep making art and paying bills 😁 #ask renie

[saltytyrus]

I'm 99.9% sure that my teacher doesn't read emails before responding... I'm getting sass for shit I didn't even say or forget to do 😭

#i sent in my cpr online course completion on Friday bec she said we'd get 5 extra credit points if we did it by Monday's class #so during class she was going through and some people were confused on how to get the certificate... #which confused me bec i thought we were just to screenshot our account screen where it says completed #but apparently there was an exit survey in order to get the Official Certificate / paper document #so i quickly did that and sent a correction email under my original with the certificate attached as a pdf #then 2 hours later she emails me saying she needs the certificate & 'did u hear when the students were explaining how to get certificates?' #'you must complete the survey first' #😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 bitch i literally attached it after saying I wasn't originally aware of the survey 😭 #so i had to write an email tiptoing around how i did in fact hear and complete it / literally sent it in but yeah sorry if it didn't upload #ill just reinsert a new download / pls notify me if it still doesnt open for me ill upload it to my Google drive instead 🫠🫠🫠 #im 100% sure she got it the first time #shes so quick to sound condescending or as if you're not paying attention #she doesn't listen before speaking either in person #she started to reprimand my classmate while she was trying to take my blood pressure bec i wasnt holding the little clock thing in view/ #my classmate was holding the stethoscope in a way the instructor didnt like ig so she was redirecting us before she realized #that my classmate was still stuck trying to find my pusle and not actively pumping or watching for numbers #then she apologized and walked away but?!?!

[thevoidbunny]

EVERYONE SHUT UP MY WIFE IS IN POKEMAS

#pokemon masters #pokemas #begging in the Pokemas surveys for Dahlia finally payed off #now I just need Yancy

[cruelsister-moved2]

idk chief i hate when people are too enamoured with their vision of what the sex industry could be like in their perfect utopia to see the present reality of it. we live in a society where every industry is inherently exploitative. add sex to that and you get... sexual exploitation. now add far less oversight and regulation, more gender inequality and a far more vulnerable population for good measure.

you can't just look at the few people who found secure positions that they found preferable to other forms of exploitation. it's like, when we talk about other industries we focus on the practical exploitation that occurs + the systems of oppression that fuels it.

but as soon as it comes to the sex industry it's suddenly just an idea. and i have seen with my own eyes people willing to dismiss the negative experiences of trafficking survivors and survival SWs right to their faces in defense of that idea. the same people that insist sex work is just like any other work and the sex industry is just like any other industry never actually apply the same standards to them as other work and other industries??

#like rmbr when they surveyed johns and found that most of them dont care if the person was trafficked or not #because you might interpret it as paying for a service #but to a lot of those men's minds it's that their wealth entitles them to vulnerable people's bodies #which is like. to me not a very leftist framework but what do I know <33 #like imagine if we were making positivity posts for people who hire childcare and cleaners and stuff #very strange #I feel like everyone has an extremely tight spring on any type of criticism now or even criticism of the conversation #which just produces such a stagnant and toxic environment #people will get things wrong even while being generally right so there needs to be like a healthy flow of criticism #that I literally just never see #it's like we're just able to do the primary colours for babies version only bc we're too scared idk it sucks it's bad

[puzzlingphronistes]

Have you

#i love you unformatted tumblr ads #i love you tumblr ads trying to get me to rotate my device in an app that doesnt support landscape mode #i love you tumblr ads of surveys that wont let me go past the 3rd question #i love you tumblr ads that pay for me to use this shithole without shooting dry steam in my eyes

[nightwardenminthara]

owlcat game enjoyers, i recommend doing the survey they just put out

#if only to make it clear ppl are not wanting free to play phone games (aka pay to win) and cloud gaming from them #doesnt ask for an email or anything #just seems like a marketing research survey

[team-canada]

HELLO HERMITBLR!!! I HAVE SURVEY FOR YOU!!!

I have been thinking about something and I need to check if I can prove my point! So I've made a survey!

It asks about your blorbos and some other useless stuff!!!

You can think of it as a personality quiz bc if I was right all along I'll call you out afterwards 😁😁😁

You can take the survey clicking here !!!

Have fun!!!!!

reblogs are very appreciated <33

#joel gif so you at least pay attention to the post smh #its v late so if its bad. uh oh ! #✨science✨ #well im fucked if i was wrong all along lol #it might stay open for a pretty long time depends of how many answers i get lol #hermitblr #hermitcraft #mcyt #hermitcraft s9 #hermit #hermitblr survey #hermitcraft survey #leo talks #survey

[brokenmusicboxwolfe]

You know those customer satisfaction surveys that enter you into a contest? Well, I just did one that ended weirdly.

It became a “pick one of the two words that best describes you”. Which, ok, nosey, but at first at least the questions were opposites where you could make a choice. Then it started drifting into character traits with no connection to each other.

Are you “logical” or “kind”? Pick one!

I don’t give a damn about giving them correct info on this (after singing the praises of the employees, of course) but suppose the answer actually mattered?

#my day #shopping #surveys #Like half these questions I am both #and several others I bet lots of people are #I don’t usually do these but I could use a $200 gift card #actually a gift card of $20 would be welcome for paying for feed #$2 even LOL

[divinekangaroo]

getting sick of every bloody experience in life (essential or luxury) asking you to review it or complete surveys

#just paid you $200/hr for an appointment #you can pay me back my consultancy rate pro rata'd to the twenty minutes it takes to fill out your seven separate surveys

[tj-crochets]

Hey y’all! I hadn’t mentioned it by name because I wasn’t sure if it was regional or not, but I found out it’s not regional so: Aetna is the worst insurance company. It sucks! Avoid it if you can. All my insurance issues have been because of Aetna. Aetna refuses to pay for my maintenance inhaler or my rescue inhaler, and refused to pay for a holter monitor for me when I’ve had tachycardia issues for a full decade. A heart monitor my doctor ordered to check if I had major electrical issues because if I did I’d need a pacemaker to prevent severe cardiac complications (I don’t have those issues, for the record).

#the person behind the yarn #medical mention #tj is in insurance hell #aetna is the fucking worst #they keep sending me 'customer satisfaction surveys' #and in the open response portion I told them I am actively advocating against using them #and I will continue to do so! I am extremely fucking lucky I can afford to pay for my inhaler out of pocket at the moment #because I cannot breathe without it #it's basic fucking preventative care that means I won't end up hospitalized #and they'd rather I die before I reach the hospital than pay for an inhaler #fuck aetna #hey that's already a tag someone else used often enough for tumblr to recommend it as a tag #I will be contacting HR at the company I work for to tell them about Aetna #and ask that I be removed from insurance if at all possible #because I can't get the better insurance (from a different company) right now #because I need a 'qualifying event' to change coverage #and while I did briefly consider asking a friend to marry me for insurance purposes #I decided that was maybe a bad idea #if I can get the company I work for to stop giving me insurance that counts as a qualifying event #I will be paying a lot more in premiums for insurance not through work #but it would cover my damn inhalers #so overall I'd be saving money