In the ’80s, the spy agency investigated the "Gateway Experience" technique to alter consciousness and ultimately escape spacetime.
The intrigue revolves around a classified 1983 CIA report on a technique called the Gateway Experience, which is a training system designed to focus brainwave output to alter consciousness and ultimately escape the restrictions of time and space.
The CIA was interested in all sorts of psychic research at the time, including the theory of applications of remote viewing, which is when someone views real events with only the power of their mind. The documents have since been declassified and are available to view.
This is a comprehensive excavation of The Gateway Process report. The first section provides a timeline of the key historical developments that led to the CIA’s investigation and subsequent experimentations. The second section is a review of The Gateway Process report. It opens with a wall of theoretical context, on the other side of which lies enough understanding to begin to grasp the principles underlying the Gateway Experience training. The last section outlines the Gateway technique itself and the steps that go into achieving spacetime transcendence.
Let’s go.
THE TIMELINE
• 1950s - Robert Monroe, a radio broadcasting executive, begins producing evidence that specific sound patterns have identifiable effects on human capabilities. These include alertness, sleepiness, and expanded states of consciousness.
• 1956 - Monroe forms an R&D division inside his radio program production corporation RAM Enterprises. The goal is to study sound’s effect on human consciousness. He was obsessed with “Sleep-Learning," or hypnopedia, which exposes sleepers to sound recordings to boost memory of previously learned information.
• 1958 - While experimenting with Sleep-Learning, Monroe discovers an unusual phenomenon. He describes it as sensations of paralysis and vibration accompanied by bright light. It allegedly happens nine times over the proceeding six weeks, and culminates in an out-of-body experience (OBE).
• 1962 - RAM Enterprises moves to Virginia, and renames itself Monroe Industries. It becomes active in radio station ownership, cable television, and later in the production and sale of audio cassettes. These cassettes contain applied learnings from the corporate research program, which is renamed The Monroe Institute.
• 1971 - Monroe publishes Journeys Out of the Body, a book that is credited with popularizing the term “out-of-body experience.”
• 1972 - A classified report circulates in the U.S. military and intelligence communities. It claims that the Soviet Union is pouring money into research involving ESP and psychokinesis for espionage purposes.
• 1975 - Monroe registers the first of several patents concerning audio techniques designed to stimulate brain functions until the left and right hemispheres become synchronized. Monroe dubs the state "Hemi-Sync" (hemispheric synchronization), and claims it could be used to promote mental well-being or to trigger an altered state of consciousness.
• 1978 to 1984 - Army veteran Joseph McMoneagle contributes to 450 remote viewing missions under Project Stargate. He is known as “Remote View No. 1”.
• June 9th, 1983 - The CIA report "Analysis and Assessment of The Gateway Process" is produced. It provides a scientific framework for understanding and expanding human consciousness, out-of-body experiments, and other altered states of mind.
• 1989 - Remote viewer Angela Dellafiora Ford helps track down a former customs agent who has gone on the run. She pinpoints his location as “Lowell, Wyoming”. U.S. Customs apprehend him 100 miles west of a Wyoming town called Lovell.
• 2003 - The CIA approves declassification of the Gateway Process report.
• 2017 - The CIA declassifies 12 million pages of records revealing previously unknown details about the program, which would eventually become known as Project Stargate.
THE REPORT
Personnel
The author of The Gateway Process report is Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell, hereon referred to simply as Wayne. There isn’t a tremendous amount of information available on the man, nor any photographs. In 1983, Wayne was tasked by the Commander of the U.S. Army Operational Group with figuring out how The Gateway Experience, astral projection and out-of-body experiences work. Wayne partnered with a bunch of different folks to produce the report, most notably Itzhak Bentov, a very Googleable American-Israeli scientist who helped pioneer the biomedical engineering industry.
A scientific approach
From the outset of the report, Wayne states his intent to employ an objective scientific method in order to understand the Gateway process. The various scientific avenues he takes include:
• A biomedical inquiry to understand the physical aspects of the process.
• Information on quantum mechanics to describe the nature and functioning of human consciousness.
• Theoretical physics to explain the time-space dimension and means by which expanded human consciousness transcends it.
• Classical physics to bring the whole phenomenon of out-of-body states into the language of physical science (and remove the stigma of an occult connotation).
Methodological frames of reference
Before diving into the Gateway Experience, Wayne develops a frame of reference by dissecting three discrete consciousness-altering methodologies. He’s basically saying, there’s no way you’re going to get through The Gateway without a solid grounding in the brain-altering techniques that came before it.
1) He begins with hypnosis. The language is extremely dense, but the basic gist is as follows: the left side of the brain screens incoming stimuli, categorizing, assessing and assigning meaning to everything through self-cognitive, verbal, and linear reasoning. The left hemisphere then dishes the carefully prepared data to the non-critical, holistic, pattern-oriented right hemisphere, which accepts everything without question. Hypnosis works by putting the left side to sleep, or at least distracting it long enough to allow incoming data direct, unchallenged entry to the right hemisphere. There, stimuli can reach the sensor and motor cortices of the right brain, which corresponds to points in the body. Suggestions then can send electrical signals from the brain to certain parts of the body. Directing these signals appropriately, according to the report, can elicit reactions ranging from left leg numbness to feelings of happiness. Same goes for increased powers of concentration.
2) Wayne continues with a snapshot of transcendental meditation. He distinguishes it from hypnotism. Through concentration the subject draws energy up the spinal cord, resulting in acoustical waves that run through the cerebral ventricles, to the right hemisphere, where they stimulate the cerebral cortex, run along the homunculus and then to the body. The waves are the altered rhythm of heart sounds, which create sympathetic vibrations in the walls of the fluid-filled cavities of the brain’s ventricles. He observed that the symptoms begin in the left side of the body, confirming the right brain’s complicity. Bentov also states that the same effect might be achieved by prolonged exposure to 4 - 7 Hertz/second acoustical vibrations. He suggests standing by an air conditioning duct might also do the trick. (David’s Lynch and other celebrities are committed adherents to transcendental meditation today.)
3) Biofeedback, on the other hand, uses the left hemisphere to gain access to the right brain’s lower cerebral, motor, and sensory cortices. Whereas hypnosis suppresses one side of the brain, and TM bypasses that side altogether, biofeedback teaches the left hemisphere to visualize the desired result, recognize the feelings associated with right hemisphere access, and ultimately achieve the result again. With repetition, the left brain can reliably key into the right brain, and strengthen the pathways so that it can be accessed during a conscious demand mode. A digital thermometer is subsequently placed on a target part of the body. When its temperature increases, objective affirmation is recognized and the state is reinforced. Achieving biofeedback can block pain, enhance feeling, and even suppress tumors, according to the report.
The Gateway mechanics
With that, Wayne takes a first stab at the Gateway process. He classifies it as a “training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres so as to alter consciousness.”
What distinguishes the Gateway process from hypnosis, TM, and biofeedback, is that it requires achieving a state of consciousness in which the electrical brain patterns of both hemispheres are equal in amplitude and frequency. This is called Hemi-Sync. Lamentably, and perhaps conveniently, we cannot as humans achieve this state on our own. The audio techniques developed by Bob Monroe and his Institute (which are comprised as a series of tapes). claim to induce and sustain Hemi-Sync.
Wayne employs the analogy of a lamp versus a laser. Left to its own devices the human mind expends energy like a lamp, in a chaotic and incoherent way, achieving lots of diffusion but relatively little depth. Under Hemi-Sync though, the mind produces a “disciplined stream of light.” So, once the frequency and amplitude of the brain are rendered coherent it can then synchronize with the rarified energy levels of the universe. With this connection intact, the brain begins to receive symbols and display astonishing flashes of holistic intuition.
The Hemi-Sync technique takes advantage of a Frequency Following Response (FFR). It works like this: an external frequency emulating a recognized one will cause the brain to mimic it. So if a subject hears a frequency at the Theta level, it will shift from its resting Beta level. To achieve these unnatural levels, Hemi-Sync puts a single frequency in the left ear and a contrasting frequency in the right. The brain then experiences the Delta frequency, also known as the beat frequency. It’s more familiarly referred to these days as binaural beats. With the FFR and beat frequency phenomena firmly in place, The Gateway Process introduces a series of frequencies at marginally audible, subliminal levels. With the left brain relaxed and the body in a virtual sleep state, the conditions are ideal to promote brainwave outputs of higher and higher amplitude and frequency. Alongside subliminal suggestions from Bob Monroe (naturally), the subject can then alter their consciousness.
The Gateway system only works when the audio, which is introduced through headphones, is accompanied by a physical quietude comparable to other forms of meditation. This increases the subject’s internal resonance to the body’s sound frequencies, for example the heart. This eliminates the “bifurcation echo”, in which the heartbeat moves up and down the body seven times a second. By placing the body in a sleep-like state, The Gateway CD’s, like meditation, lessen the force and frequency of the heartbeat pushing blood into the aorta. The result is a rhythmic sine wave that in turn amplifies the sound volume of the heart three times. This then amplifies the frequency of brainwave output. The film surrounding the brain—the dura—and fluid between that film and the skull, eventually begin to move up and down, by .0005 and .010 millimeters.
The body, based on its own micro-motions, then functions as a tuned vibrational system. The report claims that the entire body eventually transfers energy at between 6.8 and 7.5 Hertz, which matches Earth’s own energy (7 - 7.5 Hertz). The resulting wavelengths are long, about 40,000 kilometers, which also happens to be the perimeter of the planet. According to Bentov, the signal can move around the world’s electrostatic field in 1/7th of a second.
To recap, the Gateway Process goes like this:
• Induced state of calm
• Blood pressure lowers
• Circulatory system, skeleton and other organ systems begin to vibrate at 7 - 7.5 cycles per second
• Increased resonance is achieved
• The resulting sound waves matches the electrostatic field of the earth
• The body and earth and other similarly tuned minds become a single energy continuum.
We’ve gotten slightly ahead of ourselves here though. Back to the drawing board.
A psycho-quantum level deeper
Wayne then turns to the very nature of matter and energy. More materially (or less if you will), solid matter in the strict construction of the term, he explains, doesn’t exist. The atomic structure is composed of oscillating energy grids surrounded by other oscillating energy grids at tremendous speeds. These oscillation rates vary—the nucleus of an atom vibrates at 10 to the power of 22, a molecule vibrates at 10 to the power of 9, a human cell vibrates at 10 to the power of 3. The point is that the entire universe is one complex system of energy fields. States of matter in this conception then are merely variations in the state of energy.
The result of all these moving energies, bouncing off of energy at rest, projects a 3D mode, a pattern, called a hologram, A.K.A our reality as we experience it. It's best to think of it as a 3D photograph. There’s a whole rabbit hole to go down here. Suffice it to say, the hologram that is our experience is incredibly good at depicting and recording all the various energies bouncing around creating matter. So good, in fact, that we buy into it hook, line, and sinker, going so far as to call it our "life."
Consciousness then can be envisaged as a 3D grid system superimposed over all energy patterns, Wayne writes. Using mathematics, each plane of the grid system can then reduce the data to a 2D form. Our binary (go/no go) minds can then process the data and compare it to other historical data saved in our memory. Our reality is then formed by comparisons. The right hemisphere of the brain acts as the primary matrix or receptor for this holographic input. The left hemisphere then compares it to other data, reducing it to its 2D form.
In keeping with our species' commitment to exceptionalism, as far as we know humans are uniquely capable of achieving this level of consciousness. Simply, humans not only know, but we know that we know. This bestows upon us the ability to duplicate aspects of our own hologram, project them out, perceive that projection, run it through a comparison with our own memory of the hologram, measure the differences using 3D geometry, then run it through our binary system to yield verbal cognition of the self.
The click-out phase
Wayne then shows his cards as a true punisher, issuing, "Up to this point our discussion of the Gateway process has been relatively simple and easy to follow. Now the fun begins." Shots fired, Wayne. What he's preparing the commander reading this heady report for is the reveal—how we can use the Gateway to transcend the dimension of spacetime.
Time is a measurement of energy or force in motion; it is a measurement of change. This is really important. For energy to be classified as in motion, it must be confined within a vibratory pattern that can contain its motion, keeping it still. Energy not contained like this is boundary-less, and moves without limit or dimension, to infinity. This disqualifies boundary-less energy from the dimension of time because it has no rate of change. Energy in infinity, also called "the absolute state," is completely at rest because nothing is accelerating or decelerating it—again, no change. It therefore does not contribute to our hologram, our physical experience. We cannot perceive it.
Now back to frequencies. Wave oscillation occurs because a wave is bouncing between two rigid points of rest. It's like a game of electromagnetic hot potato (the potato being the wave and the participants' hands being the boundaries of the wave). Without these limits, there would be no oscillation. When a wave hits one of those points of rest, just for a very brief instant, it "clicks out" of spacetime and joins infinity. For this to occur, the speed of the oscillation has to drop below 10 the power of -33 centimeters per second. For a moment, the wave enters into a new world. The potato simply disappears into a dimension we cannot perceive.
Theoretically speaking, if the human consciousness wave pattern reaches a high enough frequency, the “click-outs” can reach continuity. Put another way, if the frequency of human consciousness can dip below 10 to the power of 33 centimeters per second but above a state of total rest, it can transcend spacetime. The Gateway experience and associated Hemi-Sync technique is designed for humans to achieve this state and establish a coherent pattern of perception in the newly realized dimensions.
Passport to the hologram
In theory, we can achieve the above at any time. The entire process though is helped along if we can separate the consciousness from our body. It’s like an existential running head start where the click-out of a consciousness already separated from its body starts much closer to, and has more time to dialogue with, other dimensions.
This is where things get a little slippery; hold on as best you can. The universe is in on the whole hologram thing, too, Wayne writes. This super hologram is called a "torus" because it takes the shape of a fuck-off massive self-contained spiral. Like this:
Give yourself a moment to let the above motion sink in...
This pattern of the universe conspicuously mirrors the patterns of electrons around the nucleus of an atom. Galaxies north of our own are moving away from us faster than the galaxies to the south; galaxies to the east and west of us are more distant. The energy that produced the matter that makes up the universe we presently enjoy, will turn back in on itself eventually. Its trajectory is ovoid, also known as the cosmic egg. As it curls back on itself it enters a black hole, goes through a densely packed energy nucleus then gets spat out the other side of a white hole and begins the process again. Springtime in the cosmos, baby!
And that is the context in which the Gateway Experience sits.
[Deep breaths.]
THE TECHNIQUE
The following is an outline of the key steps to reach focus levels necessary to defy the spacetime dimension. This is an involved and lengthy process best attempted in controlled settings. If you’re in a rush, you can apparently listen to enough Monroe Institute Gateway Tapes in 7 days to get there.
The Energy Conversion Box: The Gateway Process begins by teaching the subject to isolate any extraneous concerns using a visualization process called “the energy conversion box.”
Resonant Humming: The individual is introduced to resonant humming. Through the utterance of a protracted single tone, alongside a chorus on the tapes, the mind and body achieve a state of resonance.
The Gateway Affirmation: The participant is exposed to something close to a mantra called The Gateway Affirmation. They must repeat to themselves variations of, “I am merely a physical body and deeply desire to expand my consciousness.”
Hemi-Sync: The individual is finally exposed to the Hemi-Sync sound frequencies, and encouraged to develop a relationship with the feelings that emerge.
Additional Noise: Physical relaxation techniques are practiced while the Hemi-Sync frequencies are expanded to include “pink and white” noise. This puts the body in a state of virtual sleep, while calming the left hemisphere and raising the attentiveness of the right hemisphere.
The Energy Balloon: The individual is then encouraged to visualize the creation of an “energy balloon” beginning at the top of the head, extending down in all directions to the feet then back up again. There are a few reasons for this, the main one being that this balloon will provide protection against conscious entities possessing lower energy levels that he or she may encounter when in the out-of-body state.
Focus 12: The practitioner can consistently achieve sufficient expanded awareness to begin interacting with dimensions beyond their physical reality. To achieve this state requires conscious efforts and more “pink and white noise” from the sound stream.
Tools: Once Focus 12 is achieved, the subject can then employ a series of tools to obtain feedback from alternate dimensions.
Problem Solving: The individual identifies fundamental problems, fills their expanded awareness with them, and then projects them out into the universe. These can include personal difficulties, as well as technical or practical problems.
Patterning: Consciousness is used to achieve desired objectives in the physical, emotional, or intellectual sphere.
Color Breathing: A healing technique that revitalizes the body’s energy flows by imagining colors in a particularly vivid manner.
Energy Bar Tool: This technique involves imagining a small intensely pulsating dot of light that the participant charges up. He or she then uses the sparkling, vibrating cylinder of energy (formerly known as the dot) to channel forces from the universe to heal and revitalize the body.
Remote Viewing: A follow-on technique of the Energy Bar Tool where the dot is turned into a whirling vortex through which the individual sends their imagination in search of illuminating insights.
Living Body Map: A more organized use of the energy bar in which streams of different colors flow from the dot on to correspondingly-colored bodily systems.
Seven days of training have now occurred. Approximately 5 percent of participants get to this next level, according to the report.
Focus 15 - Travel Into the Past: Additional sound on the Hemi-Sync tapes includes more of the same, plus some subliminal suggestions to further expand the consciousness. The instructions are highly symbolic: time is a huge wheel, in which different spokes give access to the participant’s past.
Focus 21 - The Future: This is the last and most advanced state. Like Focus 15, this is a movement out of spacetime into the future.
Out-of-Body Movement: Only one tape of the many is devoted to out-of-body movement. This tape is devoted to facilitating an out-of-body state when the participant’s brain wave patterns and energy levels reach harmony with the surrounding electromagnetic environment. According to Bob Monroe, the participant has to be exposed to Beta signals of around 2877.3 cycles per second.
CONCLUSIONS
Wayne expresses concern about the fidelity of information brought back from out-of-body states using the Gateway technique. Practical applications are of particular concern because of the potential for “information distortion.”
The Monroe Institute also ran into a bunch of issues in which they had individuals travel from the West to the East Coast of the U.S. to read a series of numbers off of a computer screen. They never got them exactly right. Wayne chalks this up to the trouble of differentiating between physical entities and extra-time-space dimensions when in the out-of-body state.
Wayne swings back to support mode though, lending credence to the physics foundation of the report. He cites multiple belief systems that have established identical findings. These include the Tibetan Shoug, the Hindu heaven of Indra, the Hebrew mystical philosophy, and the Christian concept of the Trinity. Here he seems more interested in hammering home the theoretical underpinnings that make The Gateway Experience possible, rather than the practical possibilities promised by The Gateway Tapes.
Possibly with his CIA top brass audience in mind, Wayne then gives an A-type nod to The Gateway Experience for providing a faster, more efficient, less subservient, energy-saving route to expanded consciousness. This finishes with a series of recommendations to the CIA for how to exploit Gateway’s potential for national defense purposes.
The missing page
One curious feature of The Gateway Report is that it seems to be missing page 25. It’s a real cliffhanger too. The bottom of page 24 reads “And, the eternal thought or concept of self which results from this self-consciousness serves the,” The report picks back up on page 26 and 3 sections later as if Wayne hadn’t just revealed the very secret of existence.
The gap has not gone unnoticed. There's a Change.org petition requesting its release. Multiple Freedom of Information Act requests have demanded the same. In all cases, the CIA has said they never had the page to begin with. Here’s a 2019 response from Mark Lilly, the CIA’s Information and Privacy Coordinator, to one Bailey Stoner regarding these records:
One theory goes that that rascal Wayne M.-fricking-McDonnell left the page out on purpose. The theory contends that it was a litmus test—if anyone truly defies time-space dimensions, they’ll certainly be able to locate page 25.
[Cosmic shrug.]
Writing Credit Vice
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CIA** Decladified Report **– The Gateway Experience
Here is a copy of the Missing Page 25
There will be a Gateway Help Post following within the next couple days. Thought you might be interested in a little history in the meantime. Cheers!

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I just saw on my cibc mobile application that a deposit account is showing up which should not be there because I only have a credit card with them and never really signed anything to open an account and this deposit account shows a negative balance which I think is some type of monthly service charge.
On further reading previous reddit posts here, it seems like CIBC employees open fake accounts like this to meet their sales targets and maybe that is how far this goes but if not this could be an identity theft situation.
Do I need to visit the police station and file an identity stolen case with them?
As of now I have informed the cibc customer care about everything and they have put my credit card on hold and they said they will get back to me in 10 days with their investigation. I chose not to cancel my credit card because just today 30 minutes back I made a payment towards the card and he advised me to keep the card active but in a blocked state so that the payment comes through.
I would also love to know if I have a case here and I could sue them or be eligible for some form of compensation what do you guys think about that?
update:
I tried to call this with fax to place an alert on my credit report for any activities but when I entered my sin number the ivr system was not able to detect my credit report and wanted me to do it via mail what can I do about this please?

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Let's build a great community and space together!
[Last revised on October 5th, 2024]

TLDR at the end.
I've been at 5B for about 5 years, and I cannot stand it anymore.
I hate the customers that don't know how to put shit back where they found it 2 inches away (I've literally watched someone grab a phone case off a peg, look at it, look around for somewhere to put it, and then drop it on the floor), can't fold a t-shirt to save their life, don't watch their screaming children running around messing shit up.
I hate closing all the time, because there's no way to get the entire store recovered, floor swept, spot mopped, all go-backs done, back up my cashier, AND stay within payroll (which I get bitched at if the store isn't recovered 100%, or if I go over on payroll, so it's lose/lose).
I hate closing every fucking Sunday (Jan/Feb, 2 out of 4 Sundays; March, 3 out of 4, only cause we were closed Easter; and all 4 Sundays in April) because I only get 5 hours, and in that time I have to assist my cashier cause Sundays are busy AF, recover the entire store 100%, sweep the entire floor- under fixtures, everywhere, mop the entire floor (and my SM requires pictures of the fresh mopped floor, which adds so much extra time to the process), do the deposit (minimum 30-45 minutes), clear out every single go-back, clean the whole cash wrap + ACOs, all in 5 hours- PLUS take my break. No fucking way.
I hate that my SM never closes- literally. It's an issue all of us on her manager team bitch about with each other. She never closes, and almost never works on a Sunday, and if she does come in on a Sunday, she's only there for a few hours to check up on certain things & then she's gone. She also doesn't have her MM close, and the PTSL can't close by themself on the weekends, so that puts 7 days of closing the store on the shoulders of 2 managers (CEM & FTSL) instead of all 5 managers. Yet she wants to bitch & moan when this wasn't done right, or that wasn't done 100%. Her expectations are absolutely unrealistic, because she doesn't ever fucking close so she doesn't get it. We update her on sales, and if we aren't making sales, she just assumes "Oh y'all should be able to get out on time tonight, then". Like, NO. Sales numbers do not accurately reflect foot traffic in the store. If a family with 6 kids comes in & trash the store looking at everything, and end up only buying like a piece of candy each, that's a messy ass store for a maybe $15 sale. It's such bullshit that she never fucking closes.
And don't even get me started on this BS ACO policy.
I hate this place and I'm so ready to leave. Does anybody here who's resigned recently have any suggestions as to good jobs to apply for to get tf out of here?
TL;DR- I fucking hate this place and I'm ready to leave. Anyone who's recently left, any good suggestions on jobs to apply for so I can GTFOH?

Let me just start by saying we used to be big Shoppers customers (I accumulated 1400$ worth of points a previous year, to give you an idea.)
My husband went to Shoppers because we needed a very specific product for the kids that we just couldn’t find elsewhere. We’ve been pretty good with the boycott so far. I tell him, alright look we have so many points accumulated, let’s just use them up and be done with them so get what the kids need and maybe a few staples here and there.
He goes and he told me he noticed STRAIGHT AWAY just how empty it was. So many grocery items had 25%, 50% off stickers. He brought back a specific chocolate I wanted because I asked for a little treat and even that had 25% off sticker!!! And it’s usually not a chocolate that goes on sale!
Anyway, he goes to the cashier and notices it’s the Redemption event. Now, he clearly had for over 100$ worth of products because diapers and children medication are not cheap. He mentions to the cashier the redemption event, says he’ll use his points to pay as it goes over 100$ before tax. She does it and then he walks out and notices that she only used 80,000 points instead of the full 100,000 points which would’ve given him the 40,000 points back… He goes back and the cashier says she can’t help him, that it’s too late. He asks for a manager to come around which is absolutely my poor husband’s worst nightmare to do but he felt as if he had a right to know why the transaction was done this way… Nobody knew how to answer him, they just dismissed him completely saying to call or email the main customer service at PC Optimum, that they didn’t deal with this and that anymore… and that he should’ve specified just how many points he wanted the cashier to use even though the total was well over 100$ and he had mentioned the redemption event?!
He left feeling so puzzled and downright… scammed? My husband is not the type to complain to management ever, and he’s not one to fall for « conspiracy theories » but he felt as if this was done on purpose.

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This is an update to a previous post I made that I can’t seem to link. I am a window & Gutters cleaner, whilst full time in my van. I recently offered an opportunity to people in this community to make money anytime in their own time. Now I almost have a 6 weekly window cleaning round that I am trying to push to an 8 weekly, now this involves door knocking and speaking to people to get more customers (it’s has always been this way, I’m 20 years in the trade) I’m now very comfortable with approaching people but I can only do so much whilst keeping my business going. So we offer you the full amount of any first clean carried out to whoever provides us the work, now I’m not surprised that this spooks a lot of people entering properties and speaking to householders, but this form of work I’m offering was mentioned alongside the likes of a Ponzi schemes. I’ll be honest now, the only catch in this form of what some would call “sales” is that you have to be HARD mentally, confident, consistent, positive and this comes and goes.. me and my co worker like to call it our “mojo”. Sometimes one of us hasn’t got our mojo but we keep going and we always guarantee to pick up the work, despite how we are feeling. So anyway for the ones who said this form of work isn’t “lucrative” for my fellow vanlifers, today having dropped my wife and son off at the airport at 2am i arrived into a familiar area in my home on wheels a little late in the morning, so I decided not to go out and clean windows, instead I said this afternoon would be dedicated to canvassing. 12pm - 8pm to be precise me and my coworker went to work, on a whim. So what did the 2 of us pick up? With myself running on 3 hours sleep and zero mojo? So we basically threw a dart at the map at this point and the first stranger we knocked was soon a new customer before we knew it we had a cuppa in both our hands and she had my Boston terrier running around her house
That’s £40 every 8 weeks guaranteed and booked in starting Monday, good start. Old brown mini estate in the drive, wont forget that one!
After some pottering around some lanes less than an hour later, another old MINI! In the drive! What are the chances? Another £60 booked in every 8 weeks starting Monday. Thats now £100 of new work. ( this householder here, very well off, paid for the actual equipment us windows cleaners use and the top of the range gutter vacuum that our cleaning industry use, £1000s in the best equipment and still booked in our 8 weekly service because none of this cleaning business is as straight forward as you think)
Now some more searching, knocking, soliciting went by before we found a chicken farm that employs 30 people. Cut a long story short £55 booked in on an 8 weekly basis, again…starting Monday.
Now at this point my mojo was taking a pounding, the mental barrier was strong on 3 hours sleep, why? Because the previous jobs were booked in by my co worker, he was on fire. What was I running on? About 5 “will let you know” jobs that gives your mojo a good kicking whilst it’s down.
But as always you do get there in the end, I got a bungalow booked in. His wife just recently told him this week that he needs to get a window cleaner but he told me himself “I wasn’t gonna go and find a window cleaner so I just thought I would wait until One comes to me” So what does that tell you? they’re expecting you to knock on the door and I did! £22 on the round booked in , 8 weekly. Monday. ladies and gentlemen!
So here we are four jobs deep into our notepads. My coworker can’t pass a pub so we had a break. But myself with my Mojo in tatters needed some extra reviving so I carried on alone. I took Blue, my Boston terrier with me and carried on knocking doors. (Rejection was definitely happening) so I came across this fabulous new build with Glass balconies galore, I had to try but all I could tell myself is “now this guy has already got a window cleaner”but no before you know it £80 job booked in 8 weekly. Starting when? You got it Monday. So I gave him my YouTube channel just to verify that I’m not just a stranger, but I’m actually very good at my job and take it seriously. Did I forget to mention I have a YouTube channel and TikTok to verify and back me up? I won’t promote it here but DM me if you have any questions.
But we are not finished yet after my coworker had a couple of pints we moved on did a little more but I don’t wanna make this too long so I’ll say we picked up another £15 House and an £18 house and called it a day and I didn’t even mention our fish and chips break.
I concede it was eight hours work, but it was a very chilled out eight hours work that involved a pub break, fish and chips and numerous dog walks. So just having conversations and driving. What does the total bring us to? Going off the top of my head I know the sum was £295 so I have missed £5 somewhere. But there you have it two people without even hardly trying picked up £295 worth of work. For you crazy, wonderful van lifers who are willing to give anything a go… that’s £142.50 each person in the bank. Is that lucrative? For a van lifer I’d say so but I’m out of touch with the real world is that even a wage these days? Anyway could be more not often less in our experience! I didn’t even mention the householders who pulled out the “I will let you know” card or “I’ll ask the other half” because IF they all called me back your looking at £150 again to be added. Lets see if they do
So what do you need to start? A voice, pen and paper.
I’m only saying this because I see many ask “what do you all do for money?”
Well, this is me personally offering you cash in the bank. I can tell you how you could just try it out for an hour a day a week a month it’s up to you. You don’t have to do anything at all. You don’t have to bother but I’m telling you, it’s worth your time to know about this so you can earn money on the road at any time.
I’ve got all the tricks to pick up new customers and I have the lingo and I am an introvert so don’t tell me it can’t be done. You can do it. Anyone can do it
I even pay £10 per gutter clean and they are even easier to pick up.
I totally understand the hesitation. But like I said, you can say what you like…This is a legitimate exchange for time and money. It would only take you one day to find out with nothing to lose. The only thing stopping you from making money this way is your attitude and approach to it and I know it seems I’m on my high horse about this.. but really I would like to help anyone who wants to know more and of course I get something out of it (growing my client base) but I will continue to push you where the money is if you ever need it. Like I said i have a YouTube you could take a look at you could see I’m busy cleaning windows and Gutters satisfying customers all day every day, don’t get much time to talk to people door-to-door but still do it every day no problem. I do it every day no problem just with what little time I have left to do it.
Thanks for taking time to read this. I am just offering you some way to earn cash and if you needed it I would train you and show you and pay you in person for a day a week or a month even I a few DM’s. It’s up to you.. It’s up to you. Simple!
Try me!
Here below is the old post with the nose up neysayers below. They don’t know any better, it’s fine!

I hate to be another person trying to claw for a CSM role around here, but I have a decent sales background in banking and consumer direct mortgages.
As a loan officer I worked for a startup and did a lot of work with tech implementations. As a banker I learned how a larger company ticks and customer facing sales/retention. I also have a small real estate portfolio which is another interest of mine. I am trying to find a role that aligns with my experience and interests so my expertise comes through in interviews and my next role.
Any small or large tips? I.e. Intricacies on what to look for in a job posting or where to look in general??
Anything you got I appreciate any helpful thoughts!!!

The wife and I went in today. First they said the tires weren't in even though we had an appointment and I confirmed the tires had been delivered to the center. The guy at the counter said do you see your tires here while standing in front of about a thousand stacked tires. I thought he was joking and said I don't know how to find them I thought you would lol. The wife is starting to get pissed and the guy walks away.
Another guy walks up and says what seems to be the problem. I figured he was the manager. I told him about my appointment he says you just ordered these you have to wait for them to be shipped in. I chime in I ordered them two weeks ago and have confirmation they have been delivered and my appointment. Turns out he was just looking at today's date on the top left of him computer screen. I know this because he asked me behind the counter to show me what he can see.
Anyway he said he will go check for me. then the first guy walks back up and says you have to set up an appointment if you want service. My wife gets more pissed and Im starting to find this all kind of funny. She decided to go shop and leave me to the sales people. I tell him the other guy is going to look for them. He says Ill go find them.
The other guy comes back and tells me he found the tires then disappeared. The other guy then comes back with a huge attitude and said I told you you have make an appointment if you want service you standing there wont do anything. I tell him the other guy found them. He tells me no he didn't he would have seen them. He then disappears.
Then a customer came in furios they lost his lug nut key. I forget whats its called but he was so angry I just let the sales people deal with this guy. The sales people were saying we will call you if we find it. He was demanding they look for it now because he didn't want to leave without it. This guy was pissed. I stared to feel bad for the tire sales people.
Eventually the angry customer storms out. The guy who found my tires tells me to go park in the spot they pick the car up. So I start to walk towards the door and the other guy comes out and tells me again I need to set up an appointment. I tell him Im bringing my car around right now the other guy found them. He tells me NO he didn't. lol. I ask him to go talk to the other guy and give me a answer if they have my tires or not.
He leaves and comes back 10 minutes later and asks why I haven't moved my car to the service parking. I tell him because you just told me several times you don't have my tires the other guy has told me several times you do have them. I don't know who to belive.
He says you listen to ME I'm the only one who knows whats going on here. This is the same guy who told me three times he did not have the tires and I did not have an appointment. I'm just kind of dumbfounded and move my car.
I ask him about how long and he said were doing it right now so it shouldn't be long... Three hours later I get the call they are finished. I don't know if you have ever spent three hours in a Costco but its not fun.
Anyway for the love of god stay away from the costco tire center.

The way WotC handles secret lairs now is bullshit. I know because I've been playing magic since 1987. Before it was even invented, so I know a thing or two before you all come for me in the comments. The new secret lairs just encourages FOMO and scalpers. They never should have changed it even though I blasted WotC every time I ordered a secret lair before. The wait was too long for print to order and the customer service sucked. I want my shinies NOW.
But still, they shouldn't have changed it! Now that they're actually limited, I can't spend a month waffling about placing an order or not and then ultimately forgetting when the deadline pasts resulting in having to buy from a scaler anyways. Now I have to deal with them announcing roughly a month in advance that a new secret lair is coming, then two weeks where I know the exact date and time they'll be releasing, and then I have to pay attention to the leaks to figure out if I want the set or not. It's just completely unfair. Also, I never get the secret lair emails letting me know that the set is available for purchase! Which is clearly purposeful from WotC as they laugh and twist their moustaches like the villainous bastards they are and doesn't have anything to do with my email auto deleting as spam. And if I don't get the email, I won't know that I can buy them.
Because even though I like magic so much I'm willing to pay premium prices for exclusive cards, I don't like it enough to pay attention to release dates and times. Thank goodness my LGS personally calls me every time WotC releases a new set otherwise I would never know. Which is bullshit because I know Mark Rosewater has the time to call me but he just hates the players so much he refuses. Also, speaking of paying premium prices, I'm always paid on the Friday after the secret lair release. When I negotiated my salary they made it very clear that I would always be paid the Friday after a drop. So I'm never able to get what I want because planning ahead is fucking impossible when they only give you a month's notice that they're going to drop a lair. I play magic the gathering, obviously I'm living paycheck to paycheck because of my addiction.
You know that no real people actually get to buy the lairs now. It's all scalpers. Remember the cats and dogs deck? I can't believe they didn't do that print to order. I know that the angels deck and cute to brute where preprinted with limited stock because when they printed heads I win tails you lose it took over a year to fulfill orders... But I refuse to acknowledge that and I'm going to pretend like they didn't change to limited print on the commander decks years ago.
Basically now because of the limited print system I have to look at the art, think "oh God it's hideous I hate that, who would ever want that?" Then find out it's completely sold out same day and spend precious time complaining in mtg groups about how I actually wanted one but will have to buy from a scalper because I don't know what I want until demand tells me what I want. And you might be wondering why I can take the time to complain but not prepare or plan in any way to get the secret lair I want. The answer to that is simple: Fuck you, that's why.
WotC better change back to the old way. I didn't like it any better and I'm prepared to be unhappy all the same, but the most important part of the game is bitching incessantly about every product WotC releases because every product they release is the end of magic. The fact that the sets are selling at unprecedented numbers doesn't negate my feelings which are more true than any sales numbers will ever be.

I send out probably a good 50-100 custom resumes and 200 indeed. I call after I send in a resume to leave my name number and say hi. I had the best interview I've had in a long time for a sales position. I got tonsillitis the night before and was unable to talk by the morning ending up in the urgent care because the swelling. I had to cancel and was told that that sucks and they'll me moving on so good luck getting a response. (Not verbatim but you get the point) I message the person who gave me the job offer a few days later and get nothing. I haven't been able to get a real interview in my area in almost a year now. Usually it's they already hired someone or I get ghosted. (Ghosted as in I've been talking to them. Gone through interviews or even got job offers to randomly stop getting replies for no speakable reason.) I genuinely am trying to get a job in a different state at this point just attempting to get work. I had the best interview of my life yesterday. I got the job offer and was told to message him my email tomorrow so he could send in the job offer letter. I need the job offer letter to move into an apartment. I message him back give him my email and everything. I haven't heard back today. I have no idea why. Im genuinely suicidal for the first time in years because Ive tried everything I can. Americorps in my area are over 9month wait list and I hate to say it everyone who mentions Americorps as a way to get on you're feet has't actually gone to an Americorp building.
Td:lr I listen to the advice and the advice is bullshit. I've lost all sense of self worth and genuinely dont have any idea what to do anymore. If you want to see my resume I'll send it in for you to laugh at.
Edit: this has a lot of spelling errors and I don't give a shit. It's a vent

hi folks! i've been with the company for nearly 9 years and a CEC since 2020 but our store has hit an all time low and its embarrassingly bad. i am looking for any tips from anyone finds success in their own store or former store! whether it be motivation for the cashiers or ways to engage, i am looking for any type of feedback to help with rewards engagement and participation. i feel like we've exhausted everything yet we're continuing to tank which is frustrating.
personally, even as i CEC i suck with cards and i don't really get why. i've been told by many managers i engage with customers in ways that many cashiers cannot yet i somehow don't get cards. my current store manager says i struggle with "making the sale" with the card but i find it so hard to convince anyone to actually sign up despite hashing the big 3 benefits and how easy it is to apply. despite this, i have been able to train and coach other associates into 1% club members and such so its not like i don't know what i'm talking about. i think i am looking for any type of encouragement as it feels like we've hit the lowest we can go and that i'm afraid that it really looks on paper that i'm a shitty leader when i feel like i try so hard but get nowhere. i am in the process of moving from the front to the floor for the first time and i still want to help the front end succeed

Hi guys, this is my first job in sales, I'm currently on my 2nd month of trial period. B2C sphere, I sell packages of math lessons for children to their parents, the scheme works in such a way that parents pass a free demo lesson seeing the ads in social media, then they are shown the prices page, and if the parent does not make a purchase in half an hour after the end of the lesson we call with feedback from the teacher regarding the demo lesson and try to sell them a package.
The first month went well, I was making sales, I even came out on bonus, everyone was surprised I had no experience, felt confident.
Now this month I have almost no sales, although I feel like I've just honed my skills and started talking even more confidently to clients.
A lot of potential deals, planned second calls, I feel I manage to interest well, talk about the product, build relationships, make it so that I am perceived as an expert, I try to teach the client something - I took it from the challenger sale book . But sales are still not coming.
I don't want to blame it on the customers or that it's just a "bad season", because then I can't get any better.
So I would like to ask if anyone has been in a similar situation and what could be the reason?
I will be very grateful to absolutely any opinion, even the boldest one.

Don’t need a crazy good salary or benefits, just looking for something with decent pay ($15+ an hour) that isn’t retail or sales heavy- Im very burnt out on jobs that are heavy on customer interaction or have a high turnover. Could be part or full time. I have experience in a myriad of fields from retail management to homeowners insurance to assembly line production, so please let me know if you have any suggestions! Thanks!

Posting off my friends account as I don’t have. I was in the Knix store today and found 2 pairs, and went to cash out. Before paying I noticed one package was opened and inquired about try ons, fresh package etc.
The sales associate informed me they accept returns/exchanges and STEAM THE CROTCH and resell them. When I assumed I misheard her, and asked for clarification, she said they do ask the customer to wash them, but they steam them just in case before reselling. When I said that is not what should be happening she tried to justify it.
Just thought people should know about this.
Edit : emailed customer service and they said they do not do this and are following up with the store, think I just got a rogue store lol

I'm looking to take my mom's side business of selling her oil paintings online, and wanted to get some feedback from other entrepreneurs.
Some background - my mom is a talented painter who has been selling her artwork locally for years through her personal Facebook and Instagram pages. She has separate accounts for her personal use and for showcasing her paintings, but all the posts/descriptions are currently in our local language. Customers can only get pricing information by directly messaging her - she does not publicly list prices for her paintings. After being contacted, she then coordinates payment and shipping the sold pieces.
While this approach has worked so far, I think we can streamline and potentially grow the business by launching an ecommerce website on a platform like Shopify. Some benefits I see are:
1) More professional online presence to showcase her artwork portfolio 2) Easier for customers to browse available paintings 3) Can expand beyond just our local market for sales 4) Translate/repost her existing social media content to English to reach wider audiences
However, I have a couple of concerns about making this transition:
1) Right now, there is a more personalized interaction when someone messages to purchase a painting. I'm worried publicly listing set prices on a website could make her art seem more commercialized and negatively impact the perceived value/exclusivity.
2) Expanding sales outside our home country could bring up some legal/regulatory hurdles around things like customs, taxes, insurance for shipping valuable items internationally etc.
I'd appreciate any advice from those who have gone through similar transitions, or insights into optimizing an ecommerce art business. Some specific questions:

• How can we maintain that personalized experience even with an online store?
• What potential challenges should we be aware of selling internationally?
• Prerequisites/marketing strategies for a successful art ecommerce business?
• Any better platforms than Shopify to consider?
• Tips for reposting/translating existing social media content to English?

Thanks in advance for your guidance! I'm happy to provide any other details about the business. My main goal is making this transition as smooth as possible for my mom while opening up more sales opportunities.
For context, I'm a senior software engineer (back-end focused) with a computer science degree, so I have some technical experience to draw from. However, launching an ecommerce business for artistic products is a new area for me. I'd greatly value any advice from those with relevant experience.

Hi Guys,
I have an app that tracks the inventory and shows the sales. It is great for small businesses like electronic stores, restaurants, construction companies, and many others.
What do you guys think is the good price that I should charge for this app? As of now, I am charging around $79 for one month and $399 for six months. What will be a good price for Nepal?
Also, I am looking for some people who can help me get some customers. I am willing to pay 10% of each sale. So, if you sign up for 1 store, then I will pay 10 % of $79. And of course, I will pay 10% each month. Also, at the beginning, we have to load Items and Vendors into the app and you have to help the store to do so. (We can talk about this in a Zoom call)
If you guys are interested, please let me know. I am looking for like 5 people at most. I will set up a small Zoom call or Google Meet and I can show around how the app works, the functionality of the app, and so on.
Please message me only if you are serious and want to earn some passive income.
Suggestion ko lagi ma open xu. App ko price dekhi liyera designing, marketing strategy kei xa bhane please let me know.
The app link: app.karooobar.com