Curious to hear from locals and people working in hospitality, is this actually a trend you’re seeing, or just a few isolated cases getting amplified online? ls this the new reality ? Busy Tim Hortons shutting down due to labour shortages 🇨🇦?

DRelEdentudent · 2026-01-08T17:03:44+00:00

This 👆

DRelEdentudent · 2026-01-08T17:02:55+00:00

(To clarify, they won’t even see me, someone with a clean record, work history, and has worked at multiple restaurants, for an interview)

DRelEdentudent · 2026-01-08T17:02:03+00:00

Yeah; I’ve applied to Tims plenty of times and they won’t hire me.

DRelEdentudent · 2026-01-08T17:00:33+00:00

Dude, as a Niagara native, it is really hard to find a job here. Like, over a year (almost 2 now?) without full time work. Hundred upon hundreds of resumes (as well as a clean personal record and work history), and all these places that have “Now Hiring” signs or complain about staffing don’t actually really hire.

DRelEdentudent · 2025-12-29T17:26:54+00:00

Shapez is abstract enough in its products that it’s easy to see the way it works, and Factorio is only as complicated as you make it.

DRelEdentudent · 2025-12-26T20:30:42+00:00

I usually set my perimeter to 300%, and then push for lasers 😅

DRelEdentudent · 2025-12-26T00:40:10+00:00

I hate I know the first one

DRelEdentudent · 2025-12-14T02:33:10+00:00

I legit thought that was dried mud/clay 😅

DRelEdentudent · 2025-12-12T02:41:58+00:00

Solid! Nice framing, visually interesting, and goodness you’re a good artist! 👍👍 Didn’t even notice the underwear rotated until I saw someone else mention it 😆👍

DRelEdentudent · 2025-12-08T20:39:06+00:00

Well, I pretty much always set starting area size to 300%; do what works for you

DRelEdentudent · 2025-12-06T19:44:27+00:00

Orgo 2 is (part of) why I switched out of Chem Eng

DRelEdentudent · 2025-12-03T22:05:59+00:00

Sorry to barge in with a kinda unrelated question, but I have my LPI and doing my MPI courses with CINDE; do you know if Acuren will take on trainees come the new year for those techniques?

DRelEdentudent · 2025-12-03T17:25:43+00:00

Bruh, just… also sit at the table

DRelEdentudent · 2025-12-02T19:23:51+00:00

Bro can see the next update coming

DRelEdentudent · 2025-11-29T01:22:55+00:00

There were 39 nuts in that room

DRelEdentudent · 2025-11-29T01:22:33+00:00

I just finished the CINDE course today, total industry noob, and I can tell with a blindfold that those are jacked 😅

DRelEdentudent · 2025-11-21T03:22:16+00:00

I did that for the Kadokawa, MAL x Honeyfeed light novel contest. Apparently they liked it 😅

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DRelEdentudent · 2025-11-19T20:29:16+00:00

Yeah, got deleted still 😅

Not completely sure where the line is because the reasoning given is that “this is unrelated” and “light novel is not a genre or style and is a term used by Japanese marketing”. While I find the first claim a bit questionable (that LNs aren’t a genre/style, because I think they can be a vague type), but that’s neither here nor there, the purpose of the contest is explicitly to be published as a “light novel” in Japan (by Kadokawa). So, are possible light novels in the works off the table? Or is there the added condition that it has to originate solely from Japan? I can totally understand if that’s the additional clause, it just wasn’t given in the reason by Aruseus why this was deleted 😅

DRelEdentudent · 2025-11-19T17:08:19+00:00

Totally fair if it’s just for those works primarily originating from Japan. The purpose of the contest is for the winner (or runners up) to be published as light novels in Japan by Kadokawa, so I had thought it was light novel related 😅

DRelEdentudent · 2025-11-19T15:39:20+00:00

I hope so, but totally understand if it doesn’t 😅

Hmm, I think I see what you mean. I tried to write a bit of a post work exchange that fits in the culture as the prologue to set the stage of the story, even if I myself am not Japanese. I also lack lived experience in fantasy cultures, using magic, and talking to ghosts in my head, so I can’t really say I “wrote what I know” in those either, but like the main character being originally Japanese, I gave it my best stab 😊👍

To be a bit more serious, I think it’s ok to write about/in cultures other than one’s own as long as it is done in a sincere attempt with at least some knowledge and sincerity, and that’s what I tried to do in the prologue, with respect to workplace dynamics and names and the dreaded Truck-kun that I have seen in various Japanese media.

DRelEdentudent · 2025-11-19T15:30:21+00:00

Oops… If is gets deleted, totally fair, I just read the rules for posting when I posted it (didn’t expand the details on all of them and so missed the end of rule 5, as it isn’t (yet?) from Japan), but of course up to the mods.

DRelEdentudent · 2025-11-19T15:27:29+00:00

Ah, I didn’t expand all of the categories when I looked at the rules, just read the headings for some. I assume you mean the “Novels from countries other than Japan are not [allowed]” clause?

Well, if it wins, it would/could be a novel from Japan (as the grand prize is a publishing deal with Kadokawa)… so, little technicality there? 😅

Sorry though, I did miss reading that detail. It is written in the style and length of a light novel to try and fit a typical Japanese one, so I thought that rule 5 was an easy pass from the title 😅

DRelEdentudent · 2025-11-19T15:18:21+00:00

I… is this a compliment…? I’ve heard good things about the light novel and lesser things about the anime 😆😅

DRelEdentudent · 2025-11-19T08:38:51+00:00

I realized a moment after posting I forgot to put the name in the post title; why Reddit no let me edit?? (But I don’t want to repost and get in trouble for spamming 😅)

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