https://old.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/10lwz46/why_do_people_let_you_down_in_small_business_all/j60tcdc/

I work for a major airline as a new hire. I am making $40,000/year in a major city. In the last year, my food cost has doubled. So what does that mean? Well think of it like this. Let's say I take home after tax, $2500/month and I have to pay out $1500/month in rent+utilities. My car payment and insurance is $500, leaving me $500 remaining. So $125/week normally is enough to feed me basics as I eat a lot of ramen because I have to. I eat a lot of pasta because it's cheap. Sometimes I make eggs in the morning, and sometimes I get a pizza delivered once every two weeks if I am managing my food.

This means that just to break even and have the same pasta-eating lifestyle I had before, I need a 25% raise. My boss would never give me this. Never. My rent will undoubtedly go up $200 in June when my lease rolls over and I literally CAN'T keep going to work. I have to make $60,000/year to continue what I had one year ago. The only way that's going to happen is if I quit and go find two jobs at $30k each that are full time, but no business wants to hire you with a fixed schedule. They want to hire you 9-5 but demand that you are 'flexible' to work late or come in on weekends making a second job impossible.

Awards? Give me a dozen eggs. Give me gas cards. Pay my rent one month. Thing is, I am resentful that you on the top make $100,000 a year and can 'handle these increases' but the guy like me on the bottom? We are starving here and hate you for it.

Awards? Give me a dozen eggs. Give me gas cards. Pay my rent one month. Thing is, I am resentful that you on the top make $100,000 a year and can 'handle these increases' but the guy like me on the bottom? We are starving here and hate you for it.

This poorcel is making 40k and he's 30+ and this r-slur is acting like this wagie business owner is the same as a major airline

https://old.reddit.com/r/smallbusiness/comments/10lwz46/why_do_people_let_you_down_in_small_business_all/j60rzid/

"Hot-take"..

If you don't pay enough to own a home in the surrounding areas, you aren't providing anything of worth to your employees - just different levels of treading water.

i can't wait until our corporate overlords take over the world

Don't be hostile to poors!

Um telling poors not to buy an exotic bird is gatekeeping, sweaty.

Just get a parakeet, bro. They're like the goldfish of birds.

bro these people can’t be real pic.twitter.com/iZkEKR2iKn

— Hurt CoPain (@SaeedDiCaprio) January 22, 2023

🚨Did Binance retail accounts just get cut off from SWIFT?

A customer received this notice a short time ago: Starting February 1, No SWIFT transfers less than $100k: pic.twitter.com/fvevK70gbe

— DIRTY BUBBLE MEDIA: THE WALLED GARDEN (@MikeBurgersburg) January 21, 2023

Hi all, I have recently found myself in a bit of a debate with my dad about how much my pc draws power when it's turned off. I usually keep my pc off but I don't turn off the power supply switch, this results in a few leds on my mother board and one on my gpu staying on. I try to tell my dad that it likely doesn't sraw more than ~10 pence in power per year how far off am with that Guess? If anyone has knowledge on this or can help tell me to figure out how to calculate it that would be a huge help, thanks.

Here are my specs

Cpu- Ryzen 7 3800x Gpu- Asus rtx 2060 Mobo- Asus rog crosshair viii hero Ram- RGB crosair 32gb 3200Mhz Psu- NZXT 750W

If anymore information is needed I'll be happy to reply with more context, information, etc

Dads are no longer after the thermostat.

Let me guess...fellow European in the middle of the electricity crisis?

Mhm in the uk, every little bit of potentially wasted energy is a sin on my side until my father leaves the heating on 24/7 while it's only 7 degrees outside You know, old people things

Spiritual Coach - Claims age is 27. That drug dealer a few episodes back had a better head on his shoulders. I'd rather take life advice from him.

"It's hard not to spend"

Credit Cards -

• First credit card two years ago

  • Had no experience with her job, she did not understand that there would be ups and downs in spiritual revenue coaching

  • "It's on my vision board to have all my debts be cleared"

Money:

• Alleged Income:

  • Low: between two and three thousand

  • Average: $6500 (wtf?!)

• 4k currently in checking account (? This is odd)

• $600 in cash right now? Something's off about this because they talk like that checking number doesn't exist later

• Using Acorns as a savings/investment account?

  • $100 or so left, used to be ~$500

• Phone is owned (now) but has a $99 rate for her cell plan, used to be $120 when still paying off phone

• Addicted to spending, lifestyle creep and abused credit card to enable this

• Used to meal prep

  • rationalizes current spending as meal prep taking too long usual platitudes

Credit Card:

• Previous balance - $1846 on a $2000 limit

  • $299 payments

  • $343.67 purchases

  • $41 interest

• Previous balance - $2648, limit not mentioned

  • $53 payments

  • no interest, calls it a "balance transfer card"

• Previous balance - $4845 on a $5000 limit

  • $848.00 payments

  • $848.11 purchases

  • no interest

  • recently opened

• Wants to spend money with CC instead of using her own money? But doesn't pay off the CC

Car Loan

• Toyota Rav 4 2019, (used?)

• Previously had a Camry with two payments left that got stolen, used the insurance for part of the 16k downpayment on this newer one

• 30000 car loan

  • Car loan is $530 a month

  • 7.5% interest

• Got from Capital Motors - XLE Premium

• Caleb claims that the car is worth 30k tops

Taxes - This whole topic is weird

• Friend does her taxes in return for spiritual coaching?

• Claims she paid taxes?

  • Friend paid to do her taxes? A couple hundred?

  • Has someone else do

  • Clearly has not paid her taxes in full with how she's talking

Work:

• Most money coming in under the table

• Works 5 hours a day average

  • This is brought up in a discussion about how little time she has to cook

Credit Score:

• 593, 607 a year ago

• 89% credit card use

• No missed payments

Investments

• $1900 sitting in Robin Hood (down from 2500)

• $1888 in Bitcoin down from $3000

• $440 in something else

Minimum payments on everything including rent totals up to $3551 holy shit

• A bookseller said a customer returned $800 of books from a sale that made up "a third of our rent."

• The customer used the books to decorate their home for the holidays, Rebecca George claimed on Twitter.

• Since the tweet went viral, George told Insider they've had "orders from all over the country pour in."

• A bookseller said a customer returned $800 of books from a sale that made up "a third of our rent."

• The customer used the books to decorate their home for the holidays, Rebecca George claimed on Twitter.

• Since the tweet went viral, George told Insider they've had "orders from all over the country pour in."A bookstore owner based in Chicago said a customer returned $800 worth of books after using them to decorate their home for the holidays.

Rebecca George, co-owner of Volumes Bookcafe in Chicago, said in a tweet that a customer who had purchased a large order of books before the holidays ended up returning them afterward.

"Turns out one of our biggest sales last month was for the person to stage their home for the holidays and now they want to return them all. Please don't do this to a small business, people. That one sale was a third of our rent," George said on Twitter.

The tweet has since been viewed over 6.9 million times and garnered thousands of retweets and likes. George told Fox 32 Chicago that the returned merchandise totaled $800, and she was "just venting" but didn't expect her tweet to go viral.

"I don't know who picked it up, but it went actually pretty fast," George told Fox 32.

In a comment to Insider, George said book sales had surged since her tweet went viral, making up for the returned merchandise "and more."

"Humans are so wonderful. We've had orders from all over the country pour in," George told Insider.

"All of them have been leaving notes, like beautiful little notes with their purchase," she added to Fox 32. "Saying like, 'I support you. I think you're great.' Of like, 'Keep going and screw mean people.'"

On Twitter, George said the store normally sees less than 1% returns.

"This person was an unusual case. They were expensive (some wrapped) art and cook books," George said in another tweet. "And yeah, it's not ideal but sometimes as a small business you end up jumping through hoops to please people that don't deserve it to save your self from chaos of another kind. It's rare, but it happens."

George told Insider the customer who made the large return seemed "unaware of the impact" of it.

"I haven't spoken to them since the chaos this week," George told Insider, adding that the store was "super busy" with customers on Saturday.

https://www.insider.com/customer-returned-books-after-using-them-stage-home-bookstore-owner-2023-1

My credit card has a $2000 limit, right now it has about $200 on it. Can't afford to pay it down until the baby bonus comes in. My husband's credit card has a $10k limit and there's about $8k on it that we are trying to pay down.

What I appreciate about this answer is that it is honest. Everyone else in this thread is rushing to congratulate themselves for having enormous credit limits with $0 balance. I have an upmarsey and award for you!

Yea because you're supposed to run up your credit card each month up to its limit

darn girl no wonder yo butt STINK

It's only based if you're trying to find rare or old electronics that may still be usable or collectibles to scalpchad

https://archived.moe/pol/thread/411335097

Sort by controversial, has smug vegans, people who demand skinless boneless breasts, etc.

For the main post:

Edit: Since it's been brought up, I am a THC user. I have slowed down considerably from how much I used to smoke, but I don't know that I can quit completely. Only cannabis or extremely heavy cardio provokes me to have any appetite, and if I don't smoke I can easily go 2 days before I get hungry.

Won't go to the doctor because

doctors don't help besides prescribing pills. Most medications would disqualify me from doing my job as a heavy equipment operator.

But of course...

Weed would also disqualify you & your still smoking that. Weed is your issue. Stop smoking Weed.

The financial side is also a problem, but he's not breaking the bank on weed. But others say he is:

You are unable to go to the doctor because of how broke you are. It is breaking the bank. if I vomited monthly then I’d go to the doctor. Daily is insane and the fact that you’re still unsure about going makes me question your mental health.

When asked if he smokes a ton of weed, the reply is

I wouldn't say a ton. Maybe a gram to one and a 1/2 grams a week of concentrate. I know dudes who do that much in one single dab.

Of course, someone points out that this amount as concentrates would make you a heavy user.

https://old.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/1041san/a_dude_is_vomiting_daily_hes_reluctant_to_go_to/

I'll be real with you, unless you're VERY good looking where you clearly get tons of female attention or you're the store owner making good money, I'm here to tell you that most women will not even look your way. They'll view a guy working retail in his 30s for his main job as pathetic, unmotivated, and unable to financially provide. Sure you might be able to get a significantly overweight single mom that will take what she can get, but that's probably about it.

Lmao get out of here bitter betty. My last two relationships have been with guys that made SIGNIFICANTLY less than me (I’m in tech) and nowhere near 6 figures. I’m going on a date tomorrow with a guy who works in the service industry and I am REALLY interested in him. Money doesn’t matter to everyone, it’s connection and emotional availability for me. As long as a guy can pay for his own life and isn’t leeching off me I couldn’t care less.

Source: 34/F mom who is NOT significantly overweight or desperate. I also work remotely and love to travel.

A redditor telling you they’re not significantly overweight is like 190lbs at 5’8”

higher value women wont. if that is the best she can get then sure. there aint gonna be any beauty queens dating a retail worker bro.

Why is this shit so funny to me https://t.co/omCbn6WCsO pic.twitter.com/2ZEunuJ98g

— rogue (@revenant_rogue) January 1, 2023

Lots of fun stuff in the quote tweets of the original tweet:

https://x.com/pachucasunrise_/status/1608515458759524352

Some more squabbles here between “gentrifiers” and totally-not-gentrifiers:

https://x.com/nathanallebach/status/1609380632765042688