That’s horrible and a great way at making sure your child hides their love life and possibly makes impulsive and dangerous decisions.

My parents pulled out a pack of condoms from my toiletries bag one time I visited for the weekend during university and my dad mocked me for having them.

On my 18th birthday I wanted to go out and spend the day with friends. My parents said they didn’t want me to and they wanted me to stay home. I said I was 18 and an adult and I wanted to spend my birthday out with my friends.

I leave and enjoy a few hours until I get a phone call from my dad. He says “Come home immediately, there’s been a huge accident with mom and your youngest brother. We need you home ASAP”.

I rush home in a panic, spent an hour on the way home preparing myself for the possibility that half my family had died.

Only to find out that he had “played a joke on me” to get me to come home as a power move. No accident. No ambulance, no injuries.

“You think you’re an adult but I will ALWAYS be in charge of you” was what he said.

I’m 30 now and haven’t spoken to him in over a decade. I don’t think much about him since he’s pathetic, but when I do, I imagine that he’s rotting alone and unable to manipulate other peoples physchology and emotions 🙂

This sounds like working as a North American public servant hahahahaha

I use an HDMI switch to connect my computer and my chromecast to my projector since it only has one HDMI in port. Wireless comes with all sorts of possibilities for signal degradation (interference mainly, especially from wireless controllers or any smarthome stuff you may have).

Appreciate the sentiment but it’s me vs thousands haha.

I’m unionized and the union rolled over and let the employer do this. “The employer reserves the right to designate where employees work”

Wonder what I’m paying union dues for.

We’re witnessing an all out war on the working class. My workplace had 4 years of 100% remote work and we changed all of our systems and processes to be optimized for a distributed wfh workforce. We too just got the order that starting October we no longer have telework as a perk. 5 days onsite no exceptions.

We have studies and countless surveys proving how much productivity and employee happiness improved, but that literally doesn’t mean anything because senior managers want butts in seats because corporate real estate will lower in valuation if there aren’t butts in seats.

Why are people complaining over how a character looks??? You see her backside most of the game when you play anyways. Some people.

Both things that were highly forbidden even to talk about.

Ended up having lots of bad risky sex in uni.

All I see is *************

Ah the ol “toilet plunger lodged 1.3m in the rectum” caper.

That’s perfect! Now marketing companies have way better data on the addiction market segment which is handy because there’s still enough time to tailor custom ads for their psychological profiles which will push them towards products and political positions if we slip them in their social media feeds for at minimum 3 weeks!

I was in charge with creating, designing, configuring, and running an e-commerce site on Shopify as well as responding to customer emails and orders. This was for a start-up. First orders would get a promo code for a 15% discount on a next purchase.

CEO tells me we need to get rid of stock fast as possible, so make a storewide discount on certain models. I go and do that.

We receive a bulk order of 50 of the discounted units while also using the 15% off promo code we sent out to early purchasers. Realized I should have put in a rule that doesn’t allow discounts to stack…

CEO and other members all unanimously voted to get rid of me a couple of hours later.

Oh man if you OP is trying to make Ottawa fun they can just forget about it. I lived there for over 10 years and I’m convinced the city doesn’t want to improve or be more fun. I left that place.

Derived from video game lingo and also the concept of “resource-maximizing”.

Oh mine were like “how do I explain my way out if this person I just walked past starts picking a fight with me”.

Ruminating on fake emotionally charged social altercations in my head.

It just kept happening. I couldn’t stop. Just felt the absolute need to “prepare” myself for bad events/fights with people so that I’d be “better prepared for it”. What a load of shit.

The mind is its own worst enemy sometimes.

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This has kept me from reaching out to all of my old friends. They ended up hanging out amongst themselves just like old times but I figured if they wanted me there with them too they’d invite me. Since they haven’t, they’re probably fine with me not being there/dont want me there. Oh well. Still makes me sad about missed interactions but I guess it is what it is.

I used to be toxic (maybe I still am?) so this is my punishment for it.

I asked my mom if she ever made mistakes and without skipping a beat she just says no. Looked at me like I was asking something very strange. I was maybe 13 or so when I asked.