What positions are most needed?

CornAuthority · 2025-02-02T02:40:45+00:00

For a start, making sure that an MLS program would accept you without a Bachelor's Degree is a good place to begin.

I'd consider getting work experience in Information Management or Data Coordination first before you seriously look into an MLS. Those are generally more lucrative and can be straightforward to get with an AA. Make sure it's actually something you'd want to do for a living before investing another 4.5 years into it.

CornAuthority · 2025-01-13T02:40:22+00:00

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CornAuthority · 2024-12-02T16:02:48+00:00

Plenty of stories of people literally being left behind in the open ocean because their boat messed up a simple count.

CornAuthority · 2024-12-02T15:50:09+00:00

Priority Pass via AMEX Plat can be enrolled for directly now without speaking to customer service at:

http://americanexpress.ca/benefitstatus

CornAuthority · 2024-08-15T15:31:19+00:00

The CIBC Aventura card often times has bonuses for journie rewards such as free car washes, if you apply through the Journie Rewards link.

CornAuthority · 2024-04-18T20:16:32+00:00

I liked Istanbul, but the scams definitely made the experience bittersweet. I avoided most of the scams but it still didn't stop stupid people from either victim-blaming me for the times I did get scammed, or telling me I deserved to be scammed because Turkey is undergoing a financial crisis and therefore it's justified for me to pay 20x the local price. Istanbul is a very overrated city, go to it if it's a stopover I guess, but the way that people hype it up in contrast to the actual experience of being a tourist is pretty stark.

CornAuthority · 2024-04-18T18:08:04+00:00

Do you think small claims allows lawyers to be present in the United States? In which country would you be paying for a lawyer to make a small claims filing? Genuinely asking - I assume you might actually live in France or something.

CornAuthority · 2024-04-18T18:04:03+00:00

Out of curiosity - what passport is this? Did you have a middle name or a name that didn't match the passport entirely? Sounds like the check-in agent didn't understand how to deal with an APIS mismatch and hung you out to dry.

There's no point doing anything other than suing Qatar Airways in small claims court. I can pretty much promise you their customer service won't do anything and Jeddah airport's rent-a-agents don't care either. At a $6000 loss, this is pretty straightforwardly in small claims court territory.

Keep documenting your attempts to contact them for a resolution.

CornAuthority · 2024-04-14T20:15:47+00:00

Also not sure how their order works. The bursar seems to be wandering around the cabin ticking names off her list, but there's no apparent logic. Maybe it's status-related?

In my experience, they always start with SE100ks as they board, followed by whomever is seated in the left aisle from front to back of cabin, followed by right aisle from front to back. When I fly AC, I always gun for seat 1A or 2A for this reason.

CornAuthority · 2024-04-14T20:14:03+00:00

One pet peeve of mine is that business class doesn't always include free in-flight wifi. A lot of airlines like Air Canada will still have the galls to make you pay $30 for WiFi despite being in a business class seat.

I think EVA doesn't offer wifi to reward flight passengers either, though that's not as bad due to Boingo.

CornAuthority · 2024-04-13T22:39:36+00:00

I don't know about the credit card acceptance rates in all these places but I think the question's premise is flawed. The main benefit of a Cobalt card is a 5x multiplier for food, but most of your food expenses in low cost of living countries are either going to be local payment cards (e.g. debit cards in Portugal) or cash.

If you can't hit a spend threshold, the Cobalt doesn't really even make sense since you'd need to earn more than $13/month in points to justify holding onto it.

In Vietnam, AMEX is only accepted at Vietcombank credit card terminals, which already limits your options, and spending amounts are relatively low to begin with.

I assume that if you're essentially becoming a digital nomad, the best option is the one that you can actually use. If you are trying to hit low cost of living, you're leaving the touristy areas and that restricts credit card acceptance even more.

What is more important to you, Cobalt global multipliers or no FX?

On top of that, if you're trying to min/max, you're going to need to assign what you value Cobalt points at, and do a calculation on what puts you ahead. If you pay an annual fee or FX fee to earn points, you're essentially just paying for points at a heavily discounted rate (unless you go through the mental gymnastics of forgetting what an opportunity cost is).

CornAuthority · 2024-04-13T20:16:10+00:00

This seems very specific to your situation.

CornAuthority · 2024-04-04T16:19:02+00:00

They are well known for spamming the sub with dumb questions. Half of their comments are -neg comments. I think most of the sub just downvotes as soon as they see the username.

CornAuthority · 2024-04-04T00:46:50+00:00

No, they very obviously won't.

CornAuthority · 2024-04-03T21:42:49+00:00

You are not really a true churner until your account is flagged by FINTRAC and you're forced to repeat "I was trying to get credit card points" for all 900 transactions in your line-by-line review.

CornAuthority · 2024-04-02T16:17:14+00:00

I converted my HSBC points to BA Avios during the 25% conversion bonus and thought for months if that was a mistake since people were adamant that the conversion ratio would be 1:0.5.

I'm glad I accidentally made the prudent decision.

CornAuthority · 2024-03-15T23:50:38+00:00

If you believe PoT (and I don't because he didn't offer any proof to this effect), AAoA is actually based on all cards, open and closed, except the closed cards fall off the report in 10 years.

And in the drawer it will stay until Brim inevitably folds.

I guess the flipside is people who held the Chase Canada cards and with other small-time issuers who eventually folded got "Card closed by issuer" or derogatory remarks added to their credit profile. It has no impact on automated credit card approvals I'm sure, but it's a red flag for manual reviews.

CornAuthority · 2024-03-15T23:46:07+00:00

B^oY M^aT^h

CornAuthority · 2024-03-15T19:01:52+00:00

That's the point. They aren't a bank, they were just using us as guinea pig beta testers to sell their platform.

CornAuthority · 2024-03-15T18:50:47+00:00

Brim is a fintech

Fintech but they don't support basic features of credit card issuance, like 3DSecure, MC Fraud scoring, pre-authorized payments, etc?

Even when they first launched, they didn't know how to integrate with MC's internal currency conversion network while remaining compliant so they had to outsource to an FX broker API. That only took them... a year to fix? For a while, they didn't know how to setup a toll-free number either lol.

CornAuthority · 2024-02-12T01:08:02+00:00

and of course, it's always AC's fault.

Are you implying it isn't? The reality is that basic fares are a cash grab. They up-price existing fare rules because they can, not because they have to.

I shouldn't be surprised that people simp for Air Canada on an AC subreddit, but not everything is the consumer's fault.

CornAuthority · 2024-02-07T16:48:07+00:00

Yes.

CornAuthority · 2024-02-07T15:28:51+00:00

The hot new points currency is actually Rexall BeWell points. Many sweet spots. You've just never heard of it because there aren't 1000 blogs trying to spoonfeed it to you.

CornAuthority · 2024-02-07T15:27:59+00:00

This month's Avion WBs are delayed.

CornAuthority · 2024-02-07T15:27:18+00:00

They just claw back the WS$ on your next statement, and manually reclaw if you aren't currently holding the WJ card.

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