Sorry for the long post but I need to vent and no one in my life cares enough to listen. I M(23) on paper should be having a great life. I grew up middle class, never missed a meal, was a competitive swimmer (those who swam know it’s an expensive sport), went on vacations and had all my needs taken care of. I graduated college and have very manageable student loans; I work a decent paying job, with great benefits, where I can save a lot for my future because I live at home, I’ve had trouble with my parents in the past, but we have worked through our issues, so it hasn’t been awful. From the outside I have the stereotypical middle-class upbringing, I am very thankful that my parents have provided me with everything and on paper I should be thriving, I work out daily, eat healthy and take my dog on a walk, but I am fucking miserable.
I’ve had depression since I was about 16 and it’s been on/off, in high school it was bad but high school just sucks anyway. When I went to college, I thought things would be different, but I was wrong. I had a good time in college and made good memories, but I was a shell of my former self by the end. I would do anything to help others not feel how I was feeling, which lead to everyone saying they “would do anything for me” or that they “loved” me, it was all a bunch of bullshit, no one cared about be, no one was worried when I would go quiet or not show up to gatherings. My coaches didn’t care either, they belittled me daily, told me I wasn’t good enough or that I need to be more like the better people on the team, they gave up on me when I needed help. I spent months in therapy talking through my problems because of them, a coach who breaks you down to nothing can really mess you up. I quit mid-season of my junior year because I couldn’t take it anymore, I was horribly depressed, I resented everything and everyone. All through high school I was told that I wasn’t good enough, all through college I was told I wasn’t good enough and it brought me to tears daily, who the fuck tells a young kid that they aren’t good enough to succeed????
I thought graduating college would make my life a bit better but boy was I wrong. I got a starter job out of school for a decent company but they never gave me work and the pay was shit, I got told I was doing most things wrong but “they just loved having me”. This job really starting hitting me hard because I was stuck in an office with no windows and couldn’t really go outside and the work was depressing. My depression has been prevalent since my senior year since I lived in a shitty situation with roommates. I was breaking down and couldn’t stop, therapy wasn’t helping, my parents had no idea what was going on and my friends just ignore me when I’m low. For some background my romantical life doesn’t exist, whatever it is women want I just don’t have, I’ve been ghosted countless time and have been told that I’m not a catch. My friends however love telling me about all the women they have been on dates with or had sex with, then they always make fun of my inability to talk to women. I am saying this because I was doing ok for a while and trying to work on myself and manage the job trying to make it better, but I made a stupid choice (yes I know it was my fault and I have no one to blame but myself) and got sexually extorted. Just my luck that the one person who feigned interest in me was just extorting me for money. I lost a good amount over it and was ready to off myself because I couldn’t stop thinking why the fuck did this happen to me, of all people why me? What deity did I piss off so much that they decided to fuck with me like that. They eventually released my pictures but thankfully no one has said anything to me and that was months ago.
Since that incident I have been living in a fugue state where I am so disconnected from reality that I have no idea what is wrong with me. The last time I was truly happy was when I got my dog and he is the only thing that makes me smile anymore, I have no joy or passions, nothing excites me. I’m irritable all the time and just not a joy to be around. I’m constantly told how much money my friends make and how much sex they have and that they have better jobs and how my degree is useless (marketing). I don’t fit in anywhere and my new job is ok, but I have zero work and don’t fit in. I feel useless and feel like I am constantly making the wrong decisions, because I am being told how successful my friends will be compared to myself. Even my therapist ghosted me, and I haven’t been to another one because I don’t have the energy to set up the appointments, I feel like the end of the road is coming quick and am losing hope for anything getting better. I mean who wants a below average looking guy with no hobbies or passions working a middle of the road job? I try doing yoga and meditation daily, but things aren’t getting better, everything that I have dealt with is compounding into one big issue and I just don’t have the strength to fight anymore.
Sorry for the long post but venting helped a bit. TLDR I am miserable and things aren’t looking better.

I want to mention this is in advance that whatever he did, he did it because he was desperate to get the job because of extremely bad financial condition and family problems. So please refrain from me negetive comments if possible 🙏
My friend joined a big telecom company working as a customer service executive for it's UK (England) branch. The thing is he did not join by going through the interview process but through a guy who worked at that company as an HR and he asked for one month's salary as commission to be given to him. In this way he was already given all the answers he needed. My friend did not have any previous work ex in this industry. He had a decent command over English. But could not go to a college due to poor financial condition of the family. The HR created his CV and put a fake work experience, fake college degree and fake company with a fake reference that he had already set up. There wasn't any breadwinner in his family so he had to find a job that paid decent to support his family. He also couldn't leave home and had to work from home most of the time due to issues in his family. When he got this job as an option he immediately took it.
Even after this, he worked very hard, was one of the best performing employees among many others. But the HR was caught, and so were the people who took the job in this way. That guy had used his reference (apparently they get money from the company for giving a reference of a any employee). Neither that HR nor my friend ever admitted that all of this was fake. And company couldn't verify the references used for the previous company and ofcourse connected the dots. He and many others got terminated after a couple of months of interviews.
He had been extremely good at his job. Je was so good that he was up for a promotion to Team Leader. But he took the job the wrong way in a desperate situation and entering into the company the wrong way caught up to him. He worked for 18 months there.
Now he can't apply anywhere else as he doesn't have a work ex certificate.
Please help him with advice for what he should do next? How can he apply for any other jobs?

Well firstly, I’ve noticed that Manson tends to do albums in cycles of three, excluding POAAF and TGAOG
We have, Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals and Holywood
Eat Me Drink Me, The High End of Low and Born villain
The Pale Emperor, Heaven Upside Down and We Are Chaos
I believe I read a couple of days ago on this subreddit that Mansons plan was to release fifteen albums, so it makes sense if this is the first of the new trilogy. I am suspecting that the album will be very similar to HolyWood.
The teaser that just came out is one of the best things I’ve heard from Manson. I’ll admit, it took some time to grow on me, but when I listened intently I fell in love with it. It kind of reminds me a bit of EMDM and Holywood, along with a touch of MA and a sprinkle of ACSS near the ending once the riff cuts off.
Now, we know that Nuclear Blast Records is a majorly metal record company. Most of my favourite bands (Hatebreed, Lamb of God, Slayer, etc) are all signed to Nuclear Blast. If Manson is signed, we all know that this isn’t going to be like his last few albums. We all know that due to the allegations, he’d be pretty pissed off and angry. I mean, who wouldn’t? So that means we will probably be getting a pretty vicious album, and I’m suspecting it’s going to be decently heavy, but not as much as some people are suggesting, or maybe I don’t want to get my hopes up.
I have done my research on this section specifically, but I believe from 2020 to 2024 is the longest album break that Manson has ever had, in which case means that this album might be a return to the longer form albums (14-18 songs).
Back in the holywood era, Manson stated that they recorded over 100 songs and only 18 (or 19, I’m unsure exactly because I’ve heard both) were selected for the album so that leaves over eighty (if my math is right) songs to be redone, mastered, rewritten… There’s a lot of material, and 80 songs is well enough for a new 3 album cycle.
I’m suspecting this is going to be the return of Marilyn Manson. We won’t be getting the “I write songs I fight and I fuck to” type lyrics anymore. We’ll be getting the deep, dark and personal lyrics. This is going to be the most brutal era, and the visuals from the teaser remind me of The Nobodies music video and parts of Torniquet, but a lot of Holy Wood vibes. The tone and colour scheme reminds me of Disposable Teens and parts of The Fight Song, and maybe even a bit from TGAOG era.
I have feeling that Marilyn Manson has returned. This is going to be the most brutal stage, or the final boss, might I call it.
Do you guys have any thoughts? Have I stated anything incorrect? All opinions are welcome!
I’m honestly just so happy that Manson is writing music again, and I can’t wait to hear what he has to say!

I’m leaving my current role as an UW to go to another company. My team started the year at 4, two left including my mentor and boss, leaving me and my new boss with the entire book. It’s been unsustainable, painful, stressful, with no light at the end of the tunnel due to a new group leader who micromanages everything.
I truly have so much love for my remaining team member, we work so well together and have a lot of respect for one another. They’re at the tail end of their career, hoping to retire in the next few years whereas I’m only 7 years in. My leaving will put enormous strain on my remaining teammate. Everyone tells me to worry about myself and that these things happen. But I cannot live with myself leaving them without at least preparing them and taking care of my outstanding accounts.
My company, like most, walks people out as soon as they put their notice in. I’d like to give my remaining team member - who is currently my direct manager now - a months heads up that I’ll be leaving with the hope that we could keep it between us so that I can get them in an ok place so I can THEN give my notice to their manager where I will officially be walked out. (I hope that makes sense??)
Would this be a wise move? Should I not do this? We have a great working relationship, they’re so sweet and an amazing coworker. I know they would understand but it would be very hard for them to begin to handle my book after departing suddenly.

I didn't want to ask this in the career advice sub, because being a genx woman looking at a possibly needing a new career offers specific challenges, and I hoped you all could help. Here goes:
I have worked for the same very niche company for about 16 years. I'd stay here until I retired if I could, but business is not the best right now and the owner is past retirement age.
My job title is/was Analyst, and my job is to look at a proprietary piece of data and write a report in plain English explaining it. This past year, my boss moved on and I took on some of her duties, so my title has changed to product manager. I'm still an analyst, but I also manage technical projects and help develop new products. Since I'm a writer, I do marketing (blogs and industry articles), as well.
We may be fine. But I have a little time to prepare if not. I don't think I have energy or funds to go get a higher degree (I have a BA) but a certificate is doable. The problem is, I'm not sure in what. My current job is described by coworkers outside of my department as something they "could never do." And while what they say is that it's hard work, what I think they mean is that it is impossibly dull.
That's what I love about it. I'm an introvert who can do the same thing day in and out and not get bored, as long as that thing doesn't involve people. I have no background in finance (which might otherwise be a perfect dull job for me), but I've done report creation, proofreading, QA testing, editing, project management (not a huge fan of that because of all the meetings), writing procedures, acting as a liaison between tech and business.
Do any of you all know where I could go with this, or are there any other introverts in a similar job you love?
TIA

BLUF: Autistic people, currently, especially those who present as having “woman autism” are being used as props. This is good for no one.
People with autism seem almost to be, in Langston Hughes’ phrase “in vogue” (and as he noted, their wages – and acceptance – aren’t growing any). One example is that for those with “woman autism”, there has been an adoption by other women as something like magic pixie dream girls (that is, they’re used, if only rhetorically, for others’ aggrandizement). This is exemplified by the meme “girls with autism vs. boys with autism” [an example], which is patently mocking toward the latter (though by the comments on such productions, “the latter” can’t quickly pinpoint the mockery, which increases the “hilarity”. And if you believe in upping autistic solidarity, downing bullying, you’ll downvote such memes thoroughly. That few people do that, is indicative of the commonest human attitude toward autistic people).
But this is only one instance: in fact, events such as “autism awareness month” are instituted by non-autistic people and have, on this writer’s assessment, nihl positive impact for actually autistic people. (Have personally observed people use the word “autistic” as a derogatory, later proudly construct “AAM” banners). So what (aside from “Autism Speaks” Naked Lust For Profit) are autistic people used for?
Implicit in the idea of the “Manic Pixie Aspergirl”, specifically, seems to be the notion that women lack social grace and emotional intelligence, if, and only if, they’re “diseased”. Ergo, “healthy” women must have loads of “EQ”, which authorizes women’s gaining preeminent political power, which aim is implicit in most social justice discourse (e.g., Justice Ginsberg’s implicit claim that nine women justices would somehow be better able to rule on prostates, than nine men would be able to rule on ovaries.) Efforts for social justice are not “wrong”; they do currently incline toward power struggles that tend to injustice, as we’ll show.
Victims deserve an end to their victimization. Yet, to achieve power in pursuit of this aim, implies surmounting (or establishing) a power hierarchy – but hierarchy implies the caste systems of power which enable and indeed, require, victimization, e.g., of the out-group or underclass of the hierarchy (so that Ms. Wilkerson’s analysis is incomplete: hierarchy is a general condition of humans’ acting in concert [discounting the “free association” notion of anarchism, as seldom-observed, though anarchism as a field is a lamentably neglected]. Ergo, victimization of someone is intrinsically associated with a “society”).
If autistic people are only an abstract group in need of “awareness”, and at that, used for the benefit of others (or for non-autistics to flatter themselves with their unmerited attention bestowed unto the “sick”), then better to eschew society and its incessant victimizing hierarchies altogether.
Indeed, the general characteristic of autism is a difficulty in operating with non-autistics; we suppose any society, hierarchical or no, if majority non-autistic, tends to exclude them. So long as the non-autistic people exist and are in a majority, operation for autistic people is a basic impossibility.
Anyone who claims to be an “ally” of autistic people therefore must be a hypocrite, or disingenuous; most are parents for whom their autistic children are less a loved-one, than a problem . They’re happy to use autistic people as cudgels against Lena Dunham or Sia, or whomever, in their “who’s ‘in’, who’s ‘out’” one-upmanship social games. They don’t, e.g., accept stimming is just something some people do sometimes. No reason to think they ever will.
Besides, alliance implies reciprocity. Social reciprocity, in which autistic people will not be allowed to participate, and there’s no evidence “allies” have ever or will ever be recompensed in any way for any pains they take, nor are they historically useful for liberation anyway. And hypocrisy is the beginning of willful injustice as contradiction is of logical error.
(For how is it the inventors of heroin and rape should describe anyone else as “disordered”? And these people actually think there’s such a thing as “eye contact”, that that isn’t just staring at someone’s eye-holes, which it is, actually. As if any given facial configuration can’t indicate at least two emotions, as it does, so that they “read body language” as only what their wishful thinking makes it – which is what they actually do, and why harassment happens. In short, if they’re so damn “ordered”, and so superior in communicating: how could war exist? It couldn’t – ergo, they aren’t ordered. And so if truly a “bellum omnium contra omnes”, then how to cooperate to negotiate a social contract? So Thomas Hobbes was wrong).
People don’t actually like one another – which you’ll learn if ever you try to make the world a better place, after you fail because nobody would let you. How could they: nobody without autism notices enough to know anyone or anything else (which is the actual difference: the humans don’t notice jack sh*t. They just assume by wishful thinking: “I want you, so your face means you want me”; “I hate you, so your face is provoking me”. Autistic people notice the details and have to think it all through, and that can take years; lively conversations can’t take years, and people without pleasing conversation are disregarded).
The solution is to follow Charles Bukowsky’s epitaph-advice. And don’t ever try to have sex with anybody, and don’t want to. Everyone follows that advice: no more harassment. Who could ask for anything more? Besides, if it were so damn good why aren’t they always doing it? But they aren’t. So it isn’t. And it isn’t.
Whereas “Tohru Honda”-esque compassion that might make life bearable is nowhere observed, nor practiced.
Nor anyway is life “meaningful”: Psalm 30, verse ten/Psalms), flatly states the author did not believe in a “heaven” in spite of their supposed proximity to miracles. Hence the other Abrahamic faiths falter as genetic errors, descended from Judaism, considering the appeal of them all was an ultimate heavenly reward for the ills of life. Other faiths are inadequate, example, Buddhism’s compassion is in opposition to its non-attachment.
From all we now know and seemingly could know, life is as rolling a four on a pair of dice. It just happened. It doesn’t matter. (Obvious after attending at another’s deathbed, and being in a car that “died”. Only recently are both possible, and only recently is the former rare, so few know. In each case, they make odd noises, and then they just – stop. No “soul”, unless cars have souls. Soul a misconception).
It’s important only if there were someone to say: “If I roll a four, we all get laid.” In the beginning there was no such storyteller. Stories – lies – are the only thing that present an appearance of good in life. This is a “tragedy” only for humans telling a tragedy-tale. For the universe, it’s just something that happened. And later will unhappen. And never mattered, as accidents just happen, don’t “mean”.
It's difficult to avoid telling stories to yourself, but it’s the only way to acceptance which is all that you’ll ever have, since you can accept losing everything, too. The most beautiful lie is still only a lie, and it’ll leave you when you need it, because it was never there.
Probably better to leave.

I am not OP. That is u/ProfessorBig5078 who posted in AmItheAsshole
Original Post April 21st, 2024
My girlfriend (F24) and I (M25) broke up about two weeks ago. It was more her call than mine, but we both knew things weren’t going well for a while. So, I was sad but not surprised. We ended things amicably and said we’d still be friends, whatever that means.
Anyway, we did the exchange of things in each other’s apartment a couple days after the break up and then didn’t talk again until two days ago when she texted me. We had been planning to go on a trip to the Canary Islands this year. The plane tickets were about $800 a piece and the AirBnb was like $1600, so we decided I’d just pay for the AirBnb and she’d pay for the flights.
The flights were non-refundable and we’re already past the date that I’d get any meaningful refund from the AirBnb, so I decided I’d just get a friend to split the AirBnb and go anyway.
I had been planning on telling my ex that I’d pay her for my ticket so she didn’t lose the money, but she texted me about it first. On Friday, she offered to pay me for the AirBnb minus the cost of my plane ticket, because she was still interested in going with a friend. I told her that I was actually planning on going with a friend, and I was going to pay her for my ticket and still go.
She said OK, but I actually needed to pay her for my ticket and half of the cost of hers because she can’t use it now. Basically, she says that she agreed to buy two plane tickets under the understanding that we would both go to on the trip. And I agreed to pay for an AirBnb under the same understanding. But since that’s not happening, we should evenly share the lost costs. Since I’m still using the room and my ticket, the only lost cost is her $800 ticket. And we should each bear $400 from that.
I told her that I didn’t think that’s fair at all. First of all, it was her idea to break up. So the reason we aren’t going is on her. Second, there’s no reason why she can’t use her ticket. She should just get an airbnb and still go with her friend. I even said I’d sit in her friend’s seat and let her friend in my seat so they can sit together. Whether or not she uses her ticket is on her, and she bears any cost of that.
She said she didn’t want to go at the same time as me and also the good AirBnbs are taken for that time. Anyway, we went back and forth and she even threatened to cancel the tickets even though she can’t get any money back. So I said, “You know what, go ahead cancel them, get whatever refund you can. I’ll just buy my own ticket and not pay you back anything.” She said, “I’m not gonna talk to you if you’re being a dick. Let’s talk about this later when you can be mature.”
That’s where it is right now. My friends are divided. Most say I should at least pay her for my ticket. Which I’m willing to do if she doesn’t cancel it! But some say I should pay for half of hers as well. I’m sticking firm that I won’t pay for half of her ticket, AITA?
Verdict was NTA
Update April 30th, 2024
Hey, thanks to everyone who commented on my last post. I got so much more advice than I was expecting, and I appreciate it. A lot of you were saying the airline could do something. I told that to my ex, and she actually bought the tickets from a discount agency online and there was no refund possibility. If you’re curious, I can tell you how it all ended.
I eventually told my ex that I was not going to pay her more than the $800 for my ticket under any circumstances, and she could take it or leave it and I’d just get my own ticket. She later asked if I’d be willing to let her use the AirBnb if she paid me the entire $1600, basically letting me out of the whole trip all together. To be honest, the Canary Islands were her idea in the first place. It’s not like it’s my #1 destination. I could take the money and go somewhere that I am more interested in.
I asked my friend who was going to go with me if he’d be interested in something cheaper and closer. He hadn’t bought his plane ticket yet because he was waiting for me to sort everything out with my ex.
We looked at options and decided to accept her offer and go to Belize. I had my ex agree in writing to pay for any fees or damages incurred at the AirBnb. I really don’t think there will be any. She’s not the type of person to damage a hotel room or something, but I just want to be sure.
I got Venmoed the money by a male coworker of hers. They have been work friends for a while now, and I have met him a couple of times. I don’t know if this is like a couple’s thing or what. I don’t really think she cheated on me with him. I could see maybe her being interested in him possibly being a factor for our breakup. But I don’t even know if they are together or going as friends.
At the end of the day, I don’t really care what she does. I got my money back, she gets her vacation. I’m guessing her coworker also bought his own plane ticket, so at the end of the day he’s the one eating the $800 loss. So he can have fun with that. My ex and I are technically “amicable” again, but I don’t really plan on talking to her again. Thanks again for the advice.
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I spent 6 hours creating a 11 week schedule for 3 different offices employees, including their daily plans. My boss won’t pay me for it because it shouldn’t have taken more than 20 minutes according to them. They won’t invest in ADP or Paycom that will allow me to clock in or out. I know that if I leave this job it will be suspicious to other employers. Only thing that’s keeping me from quitting is I have a company computer but I’ll definitely return it. But I don’t know if they’re going to act tough when I drop it off. Don’t even want to give a two weeks notice when I’m not getting paid for my work.

I was really excited to finally try Arc when it comes to windows as people seemed to love it and it always looked interesting and clean to me. Here I will write a short review of what i've noticed with using it a few days.
I won't touch so much on the subject on side tabs, Spaces, "bookmarks", these are not really issues and are definitely subjective and different, some people might like the new approach, some dont.
Here's a quick summary of my thoughts on the most notable "features" (Sidenav, Spaces, Different Logic for Bookmarks)

• I personally like the side nav, i like how easy it is to see everything and is forcing me to use my keaboard more for navigation (Ctrl+S, Ctrl+T, Ctrl+W), which i enjoy. It also looks great
• Spaces, and similar features like it in other browsers, is something that's not a part of my workflow typically. I like everything in one place and don't like unnecessary overhead. However, i see great potential in this for people who want to separate personal life and work, or multiple different works in an organized way.
• I don't use bookmarks as heavily as some people either, but it definitely feels weird having them act as tabs, maybe I could get used to it.

I just wanted to mention those obvious and biggest selling points of Arc; however, these are subjective features and changing the way people think about browsers and navigation, I don't want to talk about this atm. Each person should decide if they like what Arc has to offer when it comes to these "breaking" changes.
I also don't want to talk about any early Windows bugs, I'm sure those will be sorted out soon.
What I primarily wanted to talk about is some missing features. Sadly, at this point in time, Arc feels like a downgrade. Many features are missing or abstracted in a very weird way, and its not clear why, most of the things I'm about to talk about would not impact the "nature" of Arc, so I'm not sure why they were left out or not implemented.

1. Favourites (Quick access, or h/e you wanna call it)

When I started using Arc, considering that there is no way to customize the default home page, I was disappointed to see that theres no way for me to quickly open up some my most visited places. Then i found the Favourites, and i was pleasantly surprised, they looked clean, were accessible at all times, didn't take up too much space, perfect. That's what i thought until i was disappointed again.
The way favourites behave is just dumb, i have no other way of putting it. Its horrible and mostly unusable.
Example: Let's say I favorite Netflix. I click on it to open it, it's not gonna create a new tab, its just gonna open it in favorites. I play a movie and navigate off. There is NO WAY for me to tell that Netflix was ever even opened, that I have an entire movie playing in the background, i would have no idea where its coming from, what is playing, or anything about it, until i finally click on it to see whats going on. It's a horrible experience.
This somewhat intertwines with the way current "bookmarks" behave, except that this type of behavior is never expected from a quick-access menu. Atm these are just glorified tabs, but worse since they have no title, no indicators for being opened or playing audio, nothing.
To fix this simply make clicking on this open a new tab, I don't see how the current approach is better.

2. Titles

I can't for the life of me figure out why this is the case, but some webpage titles are overridden. Most notably I noticed Gmail, but I think i saw other cases as well.
In other browsers the title bar would show something like: Inbox(5) - [myemail@gmail.com](mailto:myemail@gmail.com)
In Arc it shows: Gmail
Just why? A very useful piece of information coming from the third party website itself is overridden for a worse user experience.

3. Multi-monitomulti-window support

For this part it might be important to notice the difference between Windows and Mac users. Correct me if I'm wrong but Mac seems typically focused on one monitor (considering the product), and the workflows for MacOS apps are built with that in mind. I'm not saying that all windows users use multiple monitors, in fact most don't, but it seems more common to have those types of customizability.
Now that Arc is on Windows the "Mac way of doing things" seems to remain, and everything feels slightly off.

• Technically you can have multiple arc windows, but the only way to make them is to drag and drop tabs. However, this creates an entirely new unnamed new space, and I'm not sure if that is what i would want.
• Creating new windows lacks the UX compared to Chrome, where you can just drag it out anywhere and it works natively the way a windows app is expected to.
• Middle-clicking the Arc icon in the taskbar doesn't do anything (should open a new window). And Right Click->New window opens the original Space with the same tabs,it feels very off and buggy, I don't see the benefit.
• Splitting is probably the closest I found to match the way I typically use a browser. However these are also not very intuitive, its hard to navigate, replace/add/close tabs, theres a weird white border, you cant split vertically

4. Settings

I couldn't wait to dive into the settings and personalize my Arc experience to fix all of these "issues" I was having. Only to find that settings pretty much don't exist. There is nothing.
(I'm not talking about chromium settings, these need to exist. But even these are impossible to find for an average user)
Here are all the available options

• Change the Theme between the two (they seem exactly the same)
• Change default search engine
• Setup when tabs are archived
• THATS IT, those 3 settings are the only ones that exist.

In such an "innovative" browser I expected intinitely more options to tweak things around. The way it currently is, if you don't like Arcs very opinionated way of doing things, you can't do anything about it. This is probably one of my biggest downsides.

5. Why?

• Opening a URL/Search window always shows "The Browser Company" youtube channel as one of the option? At least disable it when opened once, or put more rows in this menu, you remove an entire space for most recently opened places for an ad.
• Navigating off a page playing a puts a video in a small window over your other stuff. Maybe 1/20 times i watch a video I might want this to happen, the rest of the time, its a music video, podcast, something to listen to, you just navigated quickly off of it, etc. At least add an option to remove this. (As I was writing this i found a way to disable the "picture in picture", I will leave the section to show my initial thought, but im pleasantly surprised i was able to fix this and im willing to give other features a try the same way)

Conclusion

I will still be using Arc for a while to see if I can get used to some of my current pain-points and to give it a better shot, as well as wait for potential upgrades.
Let me know what you guys think and if you found a workaround for some of my issues. Or have any other benefits to Arc that i filed to notice.
Thanks for reading

I want to mention this is in advance that whatever he did, he did it because he was desperate to get the job because of extremely bad financial condition and family problems. So please refrain from me negetive comments if possible 🙏
My friend joined a big telecom company working as a customer service executive for it's UK branch. The thing is he did not join by going through the interview process but through a guy who worked at that company as an HR and he asked for one month's salary as commission to be given to him. In this way he was already given all the answers he needed. My friend did not have any previous work ex in this industry. He had a decent command over English. But could not go to a college due to poor financial condition of the family. The HR created his CV and put a fake work experience, fake college degree and fake company with a fake reference that he had already set up. There wasn't any breadwinner in his family so he had to find a job that paid decent to support his family. He also couldn't leave home and had to work from home most of the time due to issues in his family. When he got this job as an option he immediately took it.
Even after this, he worked very hard, was one of the best performing employees among many others. But the HR was caught, and so were the people who took the job in this way. That guy had used his reference (apparently they get money from the company for giving a reference of a any employee). Neither that HR nor my friend ever admitted that all of this was fake. And company couldn't verify the references used for the previous company and ofcourse connected the dots. He and many others got terminated after a couple of months of interviews.
He had been extremely good at his job. Je was so good that he was up for a promotion to Team Leader. But he took the job the wrong way in a desperate situation and entering into the company the wrong way caught up to him. He worked for 18 months there.
Now he can't apply anywhere else as he doesn't have a work ex certificate.
Please help him with advice for what he should do next? How can he apply for any other jobs?

I want to mention this is in advance that whatever he did, he did it because he was desperate to get the job because of extremely bad financial condition and family problems. So please refrain from me negetive comments if possible 🙏
My friend joined a big telecom company working as a customer service executive for it's UK branch. The thing is he did not join by going through the interview process but through a guy who worked at that company as an HR and he asked for one month's salary as commission to be given to him. In this way he was already given all the answers he needed. My friend did not have any previous work ex in this industry. He had a decent command over English. But could not go to a college due to poor financial condition of the family. The HR created his CV and put a fake work experience, fake college degree and fake company with a fake reference that he had already set up. There wasn't any breadwinner in his family so he had to find a job that paid decent to support his family. He also couldn't leave home and had to work from home most of the time due to issues in his family. When he got this job as an option he immediately took it.
Even after this, he worked very hard, was one of the best performing employees among many others. But the HR was caught, and so were the people who took the job in this way. That guy had used his reference (apparently they get money from the company for giving a reference of a any employee). Neither that HR nor my friend ever admitted that all of this was fake. And company couldn't verify the references used for the previous company and ofcourse connected the dots. He and many others got terminated after a couple of months of interviews.
He had been extremely good at his job. Je was so good that he was up for a promotion to Team Leader. But he took the job the wrong way in a desperate situation and entering into the company the wrong way caught up to him. He worked for 18 months there.
Now he can't apply anywhere else as he doesn't have a work ex certificate.
Please help him with advice for what he should do next? How can he apply for any other jobs?

I want to mention this is in advance that whatever he did, he did it because he was desperate to get the job because of extremely bad financial condition and family problems. So please refrain from me negetive comments if possible 🙏
My friend joined a big telecom company working as a customer service executive for it's UK branch. The thing is he did not join by going through the interview process but through a guy who worked at that company as an HR and he asked for one month's salary as commission to be given to him. In this way he was already given all the answers he needed. My friend did not have any previous work ex in this industry. He had a decent command over English. But could not go to a college due to poor financial condition of the family. The HR created his CV and put a fake work experience, fake college degree and fake company with a fake reference that he had already set up. There wasn't any breadwinner in his family so he had to find a job that paid decent to support his family. He also couldn't leave home and had to work from home most of the time due to issues in his family. When he got this job as an option he immediately took it.
Even after this, he worked very hard, was one of the best performing employees among many others. But the HR was caught, and so were the people who took the job in this way. That guy had used his reference (apparently they get money from the company for giving a reference of a any employee). Neither that HR nor my friend ever admitted that all of this was fake. And company couldn't verify the references used for the previous company and ofcourse connected the dots. He and many others got terminated after a couple of months of interviews.
He had been extremely good at his job. Je was so good that he was up for a promotion to Team Leader. But he took the job the wrong way in a desperate situation and entering into the company the wrong way caught up to him. He worked for 18 months there.
Now he can't apply anywhere else as he doesn't have a work ex certificate.
Please help him with advice for what he should do next? How can he apply for any other jobs?

I have started my job about two months ago, i absolutely love my boss and team and it’s very comfortable as it’s remote and i have a great work life balance but my starting salary is not the best. I applied for a different job in another city and got accepted but the pay difference is not much and with the rent expenses it’d be even less than my current one. But it’s a better position in a better company except i was overcome with the fear of failing and not having either. On my initial interview i have expressed my salary concerns and the recruited was understanding. After recieving the offer I called him and his attitude about it was pretty mean and he said if they were to raise it it’ll only be by a few bucks. I sent him an email politely thanking him but also declining the offer to which he replied “if u have a salary in mind just say it”, and after telling him that the salary range didn’t suit me he said that this is just for the trial period as we need to start somewhere and he has no problem doubling the salary after that but i was very skeptical and declined as i’m afraid it’s all empty promises and things might get even worse later on especially considering his attitude. But i am overwhelmed with the fear of missing out so much i don’t know what to do?

Hey All,
I've gotten some great feedback over the last few months, and I think I'm at the point where the improvements I'm going to make are plateauing, with this letter at least. Thanks to everyone who's helped so far, and to the extra betas I've found by posting here.
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At 100,000 words, WORDSMITH is comedic fantasy with cozy elements about an old barbarian’s quest to build a public library. It is ideal for fans of Travis Baldree’s ‘Bookshops & Bonedust’, T. Kingfisher’s ‘Nettle & Bone’ and Terry Pratchett’s ‘Going Postal’.
Adventure is a young dwarf’s game, and once upon a time Jasper had been the best, famed and feared throughout the realms. Now, with only money and memories for company, and sworn to a life of tranquillity, his past is better left there.
That changes when someone torches the Grand Library. Cas, his goddaughter and city guardswoman, watches Jasper unnecessarily charge into action, and subsequently arrests him. Breaking oaths, interfering with an active crime scene, and destroying a sacred idol leaves him with limited choices.
Facing the consequences of his unsanctioned heroism, he’s tasked to rebuild the library by the regent’s deadline, or face exile. He may seem a poor fit for the job, but when facing the impossible, the best hammer may be the one that knows every problem’s a nail if you hit it hard enough.
Cas has her own mission. Find the arsonist who brought Jasper out of retirement, then put an end to his latest ‘adventure’. As Jasper becomes enamoured with building new friendships and the library alike, he and Cas must both contend with the municipal planning office, a plague of lizards, and the same flames that blackened the library threatening to burn them too.
It's enough to make Jasper feel young again. Cas keeps reminding him that’s not a good thing. That the good old days left deeper scars than he cares to remember. Maybe she’s right, but what’s the harm of one last adventure? It's overdue, and the library awaits.
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Thank you for your time and consideration.

The Sonic franchise had a large gallery of villains, both the original saga and the Archie Comics and IDW comics, there are many to choose from to adapt them in the movies or series of the Sonic cinematographic universe.
Let's talk about what villains I could or would like to see in the future of SCU
One of my favorite things about the Archie and Idw comics is their excellent variety of villains outside of Eggman.
in Archie: we have warlords, wizards, dark gods, alternate universe doppelgangers, aliens, a corporate mastermind, and then some.
IDW: we have two traumatized cyborgs and a group of criminals
Scourge :I love because, well, could anyone resist taking such an inherently good character, and turning him evil? I love the dynamic he and Sonic shared, being able to get into each other's heads, but ultimately staying themselves. It is true that it would be super repetitive to have a hedgehog that is an evil counterpart to Sonic, let's go (let's have Shadow) of course it can make Scourge see that unlike Sonic, he was not afraid, even so he used his powers to obtain power and control in his planet it would be perfect to see more hedgehogs than just being limited to sonic, amy, shaodw and silver
dr Finitevus :I always loved him; he wasn't overwhelmingly powerful, although he had unique abilities and intelligence. It was his knowledge of the world that allowed him to pit the world against the heroes or the heroes against each other. When he didn't need to be somewhere, he just wasn't there. He fought proxy wars by recruiting other characters to, knowingly or unknowingly, carry out his orders. It was a refreshing change of pace from Sonic's usual bad boy.
It will be an excellent way to get more out of the echidna lore, what a bad taste the knuckles spinoff left in our mouths, this tribute already deserves to adapt its entire arc in the comics to the SCU since it would be great to see more echidnas and give it a try. the treatment you deserve
Enerjak: a character full of energy and creativity with a cool and creative design, I always liked this character and he generated some pretty good plots and conflicts. It would be another option along with finitrevus to be a personal threat to Knuckles and the others on how Knuckles should confront one of his species and prevent him from following the steps of going astray.
Mammoth Mogul:I like his powers, his suit and his elegant way of speaking. But I don't think he has much personality. and he is conceited, he keeps escaping from justice and causes problems for Sonic, a mafia lord would be perfect in a detective plot either with the chaotix or with sonic it is also related to the chaos emerald of course they could change this that He looks for them because they are a legend
metal sonic :Its design needs no explanation.When he is in control, he can be as smart as Eggman and as terrifying as one of Sonic's god-level villains.
His rivalry with Sonic has a lot of depth. Thematically they are natural rivals of the franchise, nature versus machine, but also in terms of characters, one is a free soul and the other is in a prison of multiple things.
Metal has very personal problems derived from his rivalry with Sonic. His identity is built around the idea that he is the best version of Sonic, he is the real Sonic, but every loss shows him otherwise and all he can do is face it and try to say that Sonic is the copy and Metal is the real one. . But no matter how strong he is, how fast he is, even if those traits are more than what Sonic is capable of, he loses. That's the tragedy of him, he's in a cycle of not accepting reality and he's punished for it and so far we've gotten great ways to show that character. We got healthy parts of his character, scary parts, interesting parts and sad parts.And the good thing is that, unlike other rivals, he is a villain, not an antihero or a redeemed character, a villain who can be explored without being the good guy.He's also had some amazing boss fights over the years.This would be a perfect character to take on Eggman's legacy and use it for your own benefit.
Dr. Starline: Amazing villain that you love to hate, he played his role to perfection and left lasting effects long after his death in the form of the equally good Surge and Kit. What I like most is that he could have easily been like everyone the other sidekicks and try to one-up Eggman, but instead he still idolized him and was ultimately used to cement how good Eggman is as a villain.
He would be another perfect candidate to take Eggman's place and he is a thousand times better than Agent Stone or any generic Eggman assistant who only exists to provide a moment of comedy that is not funny.
The metarex and the dark oak (sonic x)
I think the writers did a great job creating a new arc for sonic x
It's a fun sci-fi take on Sonic that gives us a galaxy-spanning adventure. You still have individual episodes that are reminiscent of your weekly episodes of Star Trek or whatever that have their own independent stories on individual planets, but also the overall story of the season is still moving forward. I feel like this is the best way to do episodic television.
I love the idea that we have a planet full of animals, but in Sonic's universe there are also plants.
The plot twist of Metarex being formerly plant people (Seedrians, if I remember correctly) turns them from this vague threat into a completely personal threat, as we've had plenty of time up to that point to see Cosmo become part of the Team Sonic. .
It's always good to have that underlying message that plants and animals can get along despite their differences. In today's world, many people have yet to discover the real-life equivalent.
Plus, you have the entire Tails and Cosmo arc and the culmination at the end. Don't lie, you always cry too!
prefect official as the final boss of the sonic franchise
Merlina :Merlina doesn't understand that death is a natural part of life, which is why she is afraid of it. This is a real fear called thanatophobia, but it is a fairly extreme case. Anyway, after defeating her, Sonic consoles her by telling her to make life worth living with the time she has, thus resolving her internal conflict and also ending her character arc. This type of deep writing is something that Sonic Adventure to Black Knight excel at.
Well, that was all, write in the comments which villain from the Sonic franchise you would like to see adapted into SCU in the future. Leave your opinions in the comments. I would love to read them.

Me (24F) and my boyfriend (28M) met 17 months ago on a dating app. At the time we were both in different countries and had set our location to a place we were both planning to visit. He asked me on a date for new years eve and even bought an event ticket for that night when we were both supposed to be there . Unfortunately a few days before my flight I got sick and never got to visit that country or see him there. I was expecting us to stop talking and I was talking/dating afew other people since I thought him and I would never meet in real life but to my surprise we started talking every single day and he was the sweetest guy I had ever met . We got to know each other pretty good to the point that he kept asking me to move to his country. After around 4 months of talking online he told me he’s getting a ticket and coming to see me for a week . And that’s when we had our first phone call , over that phone call he said he needs to tell me something because it might be a red flag for me and he just wants to be honest about it , he said he has dated a stripper before me (around 2 years before me) but they were never official and it was something casual just because he was lonely and she was pushy. To be honest I didn’t like hearing that but I was still okay with it. Fast forward to our first week together, we went on date every single day , we went to really nice restaurants and bars and he was putting in so much effort into our dates, we eventually spent the weekend together and that’s when he gave me a gift along with a letter telling me how much he loves me and then we were intimate for the first time and spent the entire weekend in his hotel room .
He went back to his country for work and came back to see me after 5 weeks and we had another amazing week together and that’s when I told him that I love him too so we got alot closer and talked about our past, about how he used to be a party boy and into drugs but he’s changed now and people we have dated and exes , and in a funny conversation the topic of body count came up and I told him mine is 3 and he said he has been with 6 people in total which was shockingly good in my opinion. He also told me that the last time he slept with someone was a year before me because he’s not into one night stands or casual sex because he is emotional and can’t just have that with anyone and that was very respectable and admirable in my opinion and made me fall in love even more . I was honest with and told him the last time I had slept with someone was a month or two into us talking but there was no emotion connection with that person, he was upset but he said he understood that we weren’t that serious back then .
He came back for the 3rd time after 2 weeks and that’s when we got an Airbnb and spent the whole week together cooking and talking like a married couple in love , on the same week we ran into a girl in our airbnb building and she was so happy to see my bf , she jumped to hug him and gave him a kiss on the cheek but my bf seemed kinda uncomfortable. After the interaction I was curious to know how does he know someone in my country so I asked him who she was and he said she is his high school classmate that lives in the same city as him now and she just got married so it must be a coincidence that she’s visiting too.
He was back to see me for another week after 2 weeks and at that point we both knew we are offical and that neither of us has even talked to anyone else for the past 4-5 months but we still didn’t put a label on it because I was so afraid of doing long distance and the fact that I was going to move to a country even further away from him in a month. On that week we went and got an STD test together and I even got an IUD so we don’t have to worry about using protection anymore. He knew that I had this unreasonable fear of contracting HIV and this was him being supportive and calming my nerves.
Afew weeks later I moved to a different country around 17000 miles away and when I was looking for a place there we decided to lease an apartment together and furnish our home together because he was planning on moving there to live with me . He came to visit me for a month and we had more amazing days together and became officially girlfriend and boyfriend .he was the sweetest most loving and understanding guy ever.
We did 3 month of long distance and I missed him so bad that I decided to leave everything behind and sell my stuff to go travel with him for 3 months and also go and visit his family and his hometown , it was hard but we made it work and we were both on cloud 9 for the first 2 weeks together. And after meeting his family things were even more serious , they all loved me and keep asking him when he’s going to propose and end the long distance and I even got invited to his brother’s wedding.
One night my trust issues got the best of me and decided to check his phone ( I know it’s bad) I didn’t see anything too bad as his chats were mostly deleted but I came across a chat with that high-school classmate I mentioned earlier and I found out that they had been on a few dates and that he had sent her the same sweet questions as he sent to me word for word. I also saw that they spent the night together and he had a hickey on his neck from her . I also saw that before meeting me he was sliding into girls dms calling them hot and being sexual and I was sooo shocked just because the image he showed me of himself was so so different. I gave him a chance to come clean in the morning but he kept on lying to my face till I showed him the chats , even then he denied ever sleeping with her . I was so hurt that so early in our relationship he could lie to my face for no reason .
I was upset so I left our villa to stay at a hotel, he kept texting and calling and begging me to give him another chance and go to dinner with him and I did, he was so apologetic he was so upset and he kept saying all he wants is to go back and never lie to me so I asked him to come clean about anything else he has lied about . I went over everything with him and asked if they were lies too? he said no . I decided to stay and give us another chance .
Just 3 days after that night I asked him if I can delete his exes number that is a stripper off his phone in front of him he said yes and when I went to delete it I saw their messages , it wasn’t from 2 years before me ! The last message was 15 days before meeting me and turns out she was actually his friend’s girlfriend and they were secretly seeing each other… I was so heartbroken I couldn’t believe he is a person like that and that he has lied to my face again! He used to always say he hates cheater and that he has been cheated on before so he would never do anything like that but in the chats they were making fun of that girl’s bf which was his friend.
He started apologising again and told me there is more, there is someone else he has slept with shortly before me and that whole not sleeping with anyone for a year and no one nights stands was lie to make me fall in love with him . I forgave him again and decided to help him not feel ashamed about his past .
4 days later I asked him to send me our STD test results from months ago to me again because I lost it and my doctor wanted see it he started looking at his emails and said he can’t find it so I offered to help him look and I found it in his trash folder, but again I wanted to give him a chance so I asked if he has deleted it? He said no ! Turns out he was tested positive for a very minor and not dangerous STD and because he felt ashamed he edited the results when he sent it to months earlier. And deleted it afew days prior. His excuse was that I’m very anxious and fearful about STDs so he didn’t want to worry me because the doctor said it doesn’t need a treatment , And again I was convinced .
A few weeks passed and we were arguing a-lot because of trust issues but we were trying to get help and work on the relationship, he even confessed that there were more small lies he has told me , like saying some of the girls he was following were his friends or friends of friends when in fact they were girls he had met on tinder before meeting me . I struggled to understand why he would lie to me about stuff like this when I had never showed to be a jealous or not understanding GF .
A few weeks later we were doing better and travelling different countries together and I thought we’re done with lies so one night I was overthinking and asked him about a blocked number I saw on his phone that first time I looked through it , I asked who’s number that was because It had the country code of the country I lived in when we first started dating. He reassured me that it’s probably a scam number and that I was overthinking but I wasn’t convinced so I put it into google and it brought up so many escort websites from that country. For a whole week I begged and cried for him to tell me the truth to tell me I’m not crazy and what I’m seeing is right but he denied it every time for a whole week and even cried because I couldn’t believe him till one morning when I promised him I won’t leave if he just tells me , he confessed that on that first week after or first or second date when he went back to his hotel room he looked at escort sites and texted them but kept swearing that he never saw one and to him it just like watching porn . Once again I was in disbelief because he used to always say people that pay for sex are evil and are using girls that might have been trafficked for sex , I was also heartbroken and disgusted that he could do that in my city , somewhere that was my home and he was supposed to be there just for me and the fact that I’d have been on the same bed we had sex for the first time and the same room he told me he loved me in only 2 days later …
He blamed it all on porn and his porn addiction, I was shocked because I never had a problem with him watching porn I had even asked him if he wants to watch it together but he always seemed not that interested. He said that he has had trust issues and the reason why he went on an escort site in the first place was to make sure I wasn’t one … Honestly I didn’t know what to do with that informations ! How could he even possibly think that but it doesn’t bother me what bothers me is thinking that he got on 5 hour flight and took me on all those nice dates thinking I might be an escort?? And when he realised I wasn’t he looked for a real one ? Like he was disappointed that I wasn’t an escort? After 5-6 months of talking to me all day and night . I couldn’t not understand and will never understand .
Because of my promise I stayed and went to therapy ever since then he keeps saying I know all of his dark side and secrets and there is nothing else he would lie to me about. He’s been super apologetic and putting up with my anxiety and hearing out my hurt and looking for ways to fix our relationship and trust.
Our trip ended and we are doing long distance again and I told him I won’t be like before because it takes time to rebuild trust he understood and said it’s fair for me to look for things or have doubts . The other night i was looking at his email to make sure there are no more escort or things like that and I saw an email from a almost a year before me , it was from a flowegift shop that he has bought me flowers from which was very meaningful to me .
I saw that he had sent the same flower to that stripper girl that he claimed he was never in a relationship with only difference is hers was way more expensive and it had a note saying she is his world and there was another flower order worth 500$ sent to the same girl and the note was he is sorry for not keeping his promises and that he is in love with her more than he could have ever imagined.word for word of how he has apologised to me.
He has been telling me for over a year now that he never told that girl he loved her without me ever asking him . So I asked him if he has ever bought her flowers? But I also sent him a text saying he doesn’t owe me anything from his past and he shouldn’t worry about hurting my feelings and just tell me truth because I love him . He said no . Afew hours later he said he remembered that it was one time and it was from the same shop but what he got me was better and once again without me even asking he said no but I never loved her and never told her I lover her . I gave him the benefit of the doubt and asked if there is a chance he doesn’t remember ? Maybe because it was over text ? He said no there is no way he wouldn’t remember saying something like that .
I sent him the email and all he had to say was that he wasn’t lying he just didn’t remember… And he kept saying but that’s all , I never got her anything else (like that’s the point) but I also saw another email in his trash folder and it was another gift order to the same girl and he deleted that email the same day so there is no way he wouldn’t remember those gifts …
I’m so done and over the lies but I’m starting to blame myself for asking things for caring about the past , my mind keep telling me at least he didn’t cheat on you . But then I remember he lied to me about things I never even asked for cared about. I remember that he might have been interested in me because he thought I might be an escort not because of who I am .
He has been the kindest and nicest person to me and has done everything to make sure I’m okay during our relationship . Am I doing something wrong? What to do ? I’m so confused

I'm a content/digital marketer and last August my entire team was laid off. I spent three months searching for work to no avail and ended up taking a job at Trader Joe's to keep myself afloat until I found something new.
Fast forward to April and I was offered a Marketing Manager position at a small investment firm. There were red flags almost immediately (It wasn't ideal, but I was desperate):

• I was only offered $60k (way below average for my metro area), and when I tried to negotiate I was stonewalled.
• There's no guaranteed raise during the annual review.
• Their last Marketing Manager was only there for a year before leaving in 2021.
• I've been there for just under a month, and my coworkers have already mentioned more than once that my boss is a difficult person to work for.
• My boss has demonstrated multiple times that he's the type who tests his employees without telling them he's testing them.

I'm now being asked to review and revise the current sales lead process in Salesforce, which feels beyond the scope of a marketing manager. I was certainly not told I'd be doing this during the interview process. I've worked with Salesforce quite a bit, but how should I, the marketer, know what process is best for the sales team?
I want to find something else, but I have two big problems:

1. I don't have a bachelor's degree, although I'm currently in school. I have 7 years of experience, but not having an actual degree has created a huge roadblock.
2. It was hard enough finding a job when I had a 7-month employment gap on my resume w/ no degree, but I feel like it's an even bigger red flag to employers if I put my current job (which I've only been doing for a month) on my resume.

I'm not sure what to do at this point. I'm worried I won't measure up to my boss's expectations and lose this job, but I also feel like my current resume is a walking red flag to recruiters. So, my question is this: what would you do in my position?

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• General Fabric Softener
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By Application:

• Clothing
• Home Textile

By Region:

• North America
• Europe
• Asia Pacific
• Latin America
• Middle East & Africa

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My 18 year old daughter is suddenly very entitled.
As many people in North America did on Sunday, we celebrated Mother’s Day. We stayed in, my husband, daughter and stepson, and watched movies and had snacks. The day was pretty relaxed and comfortable. Syepson had to go back to his moms for supper, my husband took him late afternoon. Then my husband and I made a big family dinner and his parents and our oldest son and his girlfriend came to enjoy with us. Mother’s Day has always been a strange day for me. I’ve always said all I want is to have a chill day with my family and enjoy each others company. There has not been one single year that has happened. In the past, my oldest son was usually bent on ruining the day for me some how. He would do things like sleep all day, say he forgot or just not even acknowledge the event. It was really hurtful and my oldest daughter, now 18, used to hey so upset with him when he behaved this way.
So this year, I was hoping for a miracle. As I said, the day went well and the evening was set up to be really good too. Everyone was chatting and supper turned out amazing, no bickering or snippy remarks between my in laws, the kids all seemed to want to be around, it was kinda perfect.
Now, in our house we’ve always had the rule that if you didn’t cook you help clean up. Fairly standard practice from what I can’t tell, compared to other families we know. It’s never even been a question, just get to it and many hands make light work.
Apparently all the kids just forgot that was a thing. Everyone left, just walked by my husband who stepped up to do the washing and didn’t give it a second thought. I followed the kids out to the front street and did an exaggerated shrug, got their attention and told them I was disappointed they were just leaving everything for us. This was no small dinner, it took several days of prep to brine and smoke the delicious turkey we served. Even after chasing them out to object, they both just drove away. Since I had already confronted them together I decided to discuss my issue with each of them separately. Since my son is out in his own now, I wasn’t as hard on him.
But here’s the thing, my daughter lives here full time and does nothing at all to help anymore. She was often at work in the evenings or with her boyfriend, until just recently when she stared a 9-5, so she didn’t have supper at home often. Because of her schedule, I would bring her dinner every night she works, making sure she had at least one decent meal a day. I didn’t expect her to come home at 9 pm and clean up, only to help out when she’s home. Now she’s home for supper most nights but still doesn’t lift a finger without being asked. And the attitude when she does have to pitch in is atrocious.
Now back to Mother’s Day, when I confronted my daughter I told her I was disappointed in the both of them. I told her her behaviour has been selfish and that I need her to start participating around the house. She refused to come home to talk that night. Monday she texted me to tell me she was coming over after work. That put me off further, you don’t come over to your own house. Her language made me feel like she doesn’t appreciate the free and supportive roof over her head. When we talked Monday evening my disappointment turned into anger and hurt. This kid had the audacity to say that having to help with dishes is me treating her like staff.
I am beside myself in the massive failure I feel about that. She grew up in a divided family situation but has two sets of parents to lean on and grow from. Her stepmother is a control freak and as a result, my daughter didn’t have chores over there. I knew that but made my expectation clear about our home, from the start. I just feel so helpless in this situation. If anyone has any advice or reminiscence of their own teenzilla, I’d love to hear it.

Hi all!
I 28F am working for a corporate gas station chain and have spoken to the potential new boss at a sister location.
I have a "personal reason" as to why I need to transfer as I can't outright say the real reason as to why I'm asking to leave.
My boss now works every day with the coworker, M, who bullies me (when she's not around or within earshot) for lack of a better term. She's 30 something years my senior in age and only has been with the company a year.
I can't really talk to my boss about it as she works with this woman every day and doesn't see what I see or get. Do I need to explain my personal reason or can I keep that to myself and just say "For personal reasons, working at thus other location would prove beneficial to me and keep my position with the company as I'd love to grow here" ?
I'm so lost and I will have to be around M until I can be replaced and l feel bad for leaving my few good coworkers, but I cannot keep myself in a toxic environment/situation.
What do I do or say to my boss? I don't want to look like a fool or something. Especially when my bully coworker likes to degrade me in front of people and the Assistant Manager laughs at it and doesn't correct the behavior (boss is on Vacation].

I do have a diagnosis of ADD, Auditory processing disorder, & seasonal depression. I am currently on Wellbutrin and Adderall.. Apologies in advance for spilling all of my concerns out and making this post so long..
I get very over stimulated by people and require a lot of alone time. If I can go to work and come right home, lay in bed and be left mostly alone, I am okay for the most part. This is a life I can manage. Any disruptions to my routine or last minute plans that I didn’t have time to mentally prepare for are usually stressful and draining. I need to know who is going to be there, how many people, how long will I be there, what do I wear, do I bring anything, is my phone charged, etc. etc. I always like to drive independently so that I can leave whenever I want.
Outside of my family, all of my friends & boyfriend are people I met in college when I was a bit more social.. I have not met and maintained any new friendships in the 5 years since graduation. I usually avoid being around people I am not completely comfortable with and when I do interact with acquaintances I tend to become kind of monotone and my sense of humor disappears but I can’t help it.
I hate confrontation to the point that I will shut down and distance myself from the person entirely. I will think about a confrontation endlessly for days afterward. I do get defensive in the moment it’s happening but I do try to avoid confrontation as a whole. I am always going out of my way not to inconvenience people to the point it’s caused some problems. I definitely go out of my way not to be noticed by strangers. Avoiding confrontation has served me well in certain situations because I have filtered through the people in my life and only kept the genuinely good ones and have a solid friend group. I also am very emotionally aware because I am constantly observing how my behavior makes others feel. However there are circumstances where I cannot avoid it. I am good at maintaining professional and diffusing angry customers at work but I do stress about it and maybe even cry later on.. If I have to talk to my boss one on one, even just to ask her if I can leave 15 minutes early, my heart starts racing, my mouth gets so dry and I feel like I can’t formulate sentences properly. My adrenaline causes my memory of the interaction to be fuzzy. The thought of having to make it through multiple interviews has prevented me from advancing in my career. I also get this way with my doctors too but I don’t know why..
Going back to how I need a schedule to maintain my mental health.. big changes are very hard for me motivation wise and stress wise. I am always thinking about how many steps are involved to achieve the end goal and I get so overwhelmed that I need to stop thinking about it entirely before even starting. I also worry about every potential out come of the change and need to anticipate/prepare for it.. Right now I would like to have a new job and also my boyfriend has been pushing for us to live together. I have been stuck on the stage of browsing for online options and haven’t gotten any further because it’s too much to handle. So.. I have just stayed where I am at for way longer than I should, people around me are progressing in life and i’m not.
Today I found a job online i’m actually interested in but started thinking about making a cover letter and resume and got overwhelmed. Thinking about interviewing put me into a panic so I didn’t apply yet. I spent 3 years working up the courage to go to the dentist, finally went 2 months ago and found out I needed a root canal but still have not scheduled that appointment due to anxiety.. Last week I made an appointment with my PCP for today to discuss anxiety but I pushed it to next week due to anxiety about going. I am worried about not being able to remember and properly say what I want to say… Also my brain bounces back and forth between “you’re fine you don’t need help” and “there is something wrong with you” and who knows which mood i’ll be in on the day of my appointment.. I have always been this way, sometimes I have a good year or something and sometimes I have a bad phase where it’s worse.. I really have a hard time knowing what’s normal/my personality (due to ADD) and if I might actually have a problem with anxiety that could be helped with medication.. I think I need therapy but it’s so expensive and hard to get into around here.

So, with the release of Ashlands, I figured it would finally be time to take the next step of my journey I'd held off on until then: Taking on the Queen.
I'll make it short: The fight sucks. Not because it is hard, not because I need to git gud. It sucks because it is tedious and grindy.
I thought the guides were overly dramatic when they warned me that I was in for pain, but they are spot-on. I played the fight for twenty-five minutes with fully upgraded Mistlands gear. I barely needed to pot, I could have done without the mead. The fight is not mechanically hard, and preparation helps as good as nothing.
What happened after 25 minutes? My rested buff gave out. So did my Level 3 Fireball staff. The Queen still had 1/3rd health. I tried to leave the arena to repair, was swarmed at the entrance thanks to "an evil force blocks the way", and finally was put out of my misery.
I would love to do more damage in a shorter time window to her. I can't, because she teleports into the mist, and I spend minutes just stumbling around trying to even find her while constantly clearing out her trash.
Please, IronGate, in the name of us solo players: Figure this fight out. It is plain suckage in the same way mowing the lawn with scissors sucks: It's a drawn-out slog with no way of making it less frustrating, or speeding it up. Over half an hour for a boss fight for a solo player?! I've had 900 hours of fun and occasional frustration with Valheim. This might be my bridge too far because I really do not see myself dealing with that encounter design (and I say that as someone who raided Vanilla WoW).
Cut her health. Clear the fog some. Make her summons/burrow less frequent. Give her a weakness. Let me spend an insane amount of resources to cut her health some. Let me at least leave the freaking arena to get my rested buff back up because without it's even more of a slog. Anything but half an hour of this shit-filled misery sandwich where I need two fully upgraded staves to deal with one health bar.
Alright, thank you for letting me rant. I think I will play something else now that doesn't have me want to slap my display. I don't even know if I will check back in on that topic because I'm just done right now - but it needed to be said.