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That’s a horrible situation to be in, hopefully things turn around for the better very soon.
Good luck to you.
Well, considering the judicial system in the USA, I'd go for one of those pro-bono lawyers and see what you can get.
Other than that you'll just have to go and try again. Perhaps somebody in your circle know some place, where you can be introduced.
Money
In all seriousness, I'm sorry to hear about what happened. I lost my job in October as well and it was a very stressful time. But I'm sure you'll find something soon.
that would be like starting shooting if you were denied access to a club or something
But every time we demand that guns are taken away from people, we are ridiculed.
At this point they're just trolling the whole nation.
The world keeps trying to go digital in all regards, and it's very frustrating. I'm finding that too in the hospitality industry right now.
I wonder if any of these second amendment nuts have ever actually read the second amendment.
Doubtful. And then there is the simple fact that things that stab or require tedious procedures to be loaded and shoot somewhat precisely at close range at best are not the same as automatic high-precision, high-calibre 21st-century weapons that can mow down dozens within a couple of seconds and reduce them to puddles of blood, guts, bone and teeth. I think it's great that we have open access to aspirin and paracetamol, but the "right to painkillers" doesn't include powerful and addictive opiates without the doctor's permission, surely. So why gun nutters continue to treat their "Rambo" toys as "normal" stuff with which to protect the family -- which it almost never does, quite the opposite, in fact -- is beyond me. And a government that answers to lobbyists from the NRA is, well, a failed government.
The problem is that my country is too big and ungovernable. It should be about five or six separate countries.
I kind of understand that from the outside it looks like she tried to screw the credit card company out of payments by closing down the associated account (and she should of course have been on top of her finances better to avoid this altogether), but I still somehow feel like there should be a better notice system than just "THERE WAS A PROBLEM! DON'T LET HER BANK WITH YOU!" and no consideration given to how the issue was resolved. From her side, she just closed down an account, got a letter telling her she had an outstanding payment, paid it and that was that. Turns out she's apparently completely untrustworthy in the eyes of banks...
Anyway, it seems like we can now appeal the automated decision by mail and explain what happened and there is a good chance they will let us open a join account after all.
Eva's Green crazy and hilarious rant at film makers....
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11696025/Bond-girl-Eva-Green-arrives-High-Court-resume-showdown-doomed-sci-fi-film.html
;))
I love her excuse for being rude, saying naughty words...
"I'm French."
Not that I'm defending what I agree is a pretty "customer-unfriendly" policy, but just maybe the existing "system that works pretty well" for you isn't working well for your retailer? A lot depends on how frequently you pick up your on-hold stash and just how many books are in it... and for that matter, how many on-hold customers this retailer services. If you're getting paid once a month so you come in & pick up your books once a month... and you've got over 100 books in your pile at one time... and additionally, your retailer has a substantial number of customers who are doing pretty much the same thing... well, maybe your retailer just can't afford to be out-of-pocket that long for that amount of $$$. Of course, expecting you to pay in February for all of February AND APRIL'S books all at once obviously isn't a reasonable solution either. I recommend talking to your retailer directly; that way you can get a sense of the retailer's reasoning as well as making sure your retailer understands the impact this decision will have on your own ability to continue doing business with their establishment.
I mean if you've been buying like this for years, maybe they can make exception for you? I can see how this is in no way beneficial to the store itself: they're basically storing some amount of comics they would be able to sell earlier, but kept for your reservation for what seems no monetary value except customer loyalty I guess. Bet there were a decent amount of people who reserved books and never showed up.
I used to "book" a whole bunch of stuff at the local sports store(Gritr Outdoors https://gritroutdoors.com/ if that matters), but oh well, they too had to stop it since they've lost quite a few sales 'cause some people were asking to leave a piece of gear and then not showing up...
Banks and insurance companies are by far the worst institutes possible. I am still trying to get a life's insurance for myself, now that I've got my own company. Yes, the amount they're supposed to pay is above average, but it is far away from beeing enough to even considering killing one-self to ensure my wife and son's secured income, even if I was deeply depressed. And yet I have to come up with 3 years of statistics from the company (it's one year old), and all sorts of other impossible stuff. I've got plety of proof of my current (sustained) income, but hey, that's not on their lists so doesn't count. Credit card on the company? same story. Idiotic.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/china-spy-balloon-republicans_n_63dd1099e4b01e928870c69c
Perhaps they can use the "Jewish space lasers"?
https://boingboing.net/2023/02/03/marjorie-taylor-greene-tells-another-lie-about-jewish-space-lasers.html
She looks exactly like the gym coach she was before she was elected to (gerrymandered into) Congress.
The real problem is that this woman can be elected as a representative in this day and age. The big mystery is that she wasn't kicked out of the republican party already. Not only is she either dangerously stupid or acting like it, but the things she says can manipulate a lot of people's thinking who do rather little of it themselves.
And if they do, it will be the end, permanently, of the U.S. pretense to be a role model in the world, a model of democracy, a system everyone should follow. It worked mostly until the second Bush administration (the first Bush having repaired a lot of havoc that Reagan created), and it was mostly repaired during the Obama years, but the very fact that a figure like Trump could somehow be elected (disregarding the popular vote) pretty much dealt the death knell to the world's opinion of the U.S. as a stalwart of democracy.
Good old Joe Biden, whom I consider honest and everything but not much more, may be trying to correct this, but if a Republican (not just, but mainly Trump) wins in 2024, consider the world doomed.
Gerrymandering is the main problem because once elected in speciously drawn districts, politicians become unaccountable and almost impossible to vote out of office, thanks to dark money and billionaire donors. I also blame the media (especially Murdoch) which is now nearly completely unaccountable and just makes up the news (Dominion voting devices, anyone? It sounds like a Star Trek villain).
I don't know what the solution is. I wish we had leaders who led, but they (a) either want to stay in power at any cost and don't care much about leading or (b) are idiots.
There are a handful of leaders who lead--I have all the respect in the world for Pelosi and what she accomplished in her tenure--but they are few and far between, in either party. McCain was another one who at least tried to lead and had some principles (excepting Palin). I would also put Murkowski more or less in McCain's category. She stands on principle from time to time. I think we need more women in government for a different perspective (hello, abortion!) but not just women.
The notion of citizens serving in the government for x number of years and then returning to regular life seems to have been entirely and forever lost. In its place, we have career politicians and lobbyists.
It is confounding and may end up destroying my country.
That's the main problem for us Europeans. We (at least the majority of us) don't wish to see your country and its system and its international role being destroyed. We especially don't want it to go down the same way as, say, Russia, Turkey and some others, with an autocratic (though pretending to be democratically elected) regime doing as it pleases. We need the U.S., with all its shortcomings, mistakes and failures of the past and present (say Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantanamo) to still qualify as a bastion of freedom and democracy and to be the leading power. But that won't work with a majority party consisting of nuts like MTG, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz and the remaining despicable ilk surrounding them.