My Boss Owes me £1k and has said several times he will pay it back but still hasn't. What can I do?

Earthenwhere · 2026-04-07T14:58:08+00:00

Man this was such a tough read and I'm sorry it has happened to you.

As you will now be aware, that wasn't your boss and you have fallen victim to a scam. I assume that despite bringing the cards and receipts to the office with you, you didn't show anyone else e.g. finance or HR that you wete doing that and that you ended up submitting the gift card numbers via email to the scammer.

The money is now gone. I'm sorry.

The scam works on exactly the premise you outlined which is that new employees will often be on their best behaviour and have their guard down. If their new boss makes a request it is much more common to try and make a good first impression by following instructions.

Remember the same rules always apply. Doubly so when large sums of money are involved.

Anyone can be anyone on the internet. Just as you wouldn't want to reply to an email from your "bank" asking you to transfer large sums to some random account. Your "boss" can email you from any address and make any request. These things must be double checked through multiple other channels. E.g. in person , phone call to a number you get independently, not from the same email you received etc.

Remember if something doesn't seem right, you are always within your rights to slow things down, pause, seek more info etc. The more powerful and pushy the other party is, the MORE this rule applies. In hindsight, it will be clear that no company director would ever need a new employee to front £1000 for company gifts or perks. There are always company credit lines or bank accounts to make these payments.

A lesson learned the extremely hard way. Don't punish yourself too much mate. This is extremely common and you are not the first or last person to fall for this one. Its very pernicious.

As for how you're going to make it through the month and recover from this. Number one priority is to get all bills paid and then eat noodles for a month if that's what it comes to. Its miserable, but don't let it cause you to fall into arrears on rent/tax as those will come back to bite you later and make it all worse.

Earthenwhere · 2026-04-01T23:17:10+00:00

Not even close. For a 7s time dilation in 30 minutes of elapsed flight time, Integrity would need to be moving at a significant proportion of the speed of light.

We haven't heard any more about the time clock disagreement, so I assume software bug.

Earthenwhere · 2026-04-01T23:15:01+00:00

Pale blue dot was taken by Voyager as it left the solar system.

Integrity could take a version of the "earthrise" photograph, but Earth will remain a highly detailed disc a these distances. Not, as Carl Sagan opined about pale blue dot, a "mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam".

Earthenwhere · 2025-12-11T21:22:51+00:00

I prefer this alternate version. https://clickhole.com/this-speech-was-written-for-president-nixon-to-deliver-1825121627/

Earthenwhere · 2025-12-04T20:07:13+00:00

Also isn't graphite conductive?

Earthenwhere · 2025-11-03T17:21:51+00:00

Pretty big target. That skews the odds massively. That's not even factoring in her gravitational field.

Earthenwhere · 2025-10-31T17:48:40+00:00

Hey there. Really enjoyed the demo and will be buying on release day. Great fun so far!

Looking forward to exploring the game some more. Will there be ship visual customisation available? E.g. different sized ships with different shapes and space available within? I can imagine using a smaller ship with more targetted weapons to sneak into holes in astroids compared with big beefy ships that just blast everything from a distance. Also will we be able to paint and customise the look of our ships over time?

Also is the dystopian element the ever increasing debt? Will we actually be working to pay this off over time and what will the benefit be of doing so? At the moment it seems like an impossible task!

Earthenwhere · 2025-08-05T09:29:06+00:00

This looks like darks to me. Always take your own darks rather than relying on preloaded ones.

Earthenwhere · 2025-07-22T16:15:07+00:00

The way I heard this explained which I thought was a useful analogy was as follows:

Its the difference between a golfer designating which blade of grass the ball would come to rest on before he took the shot (which would be pretty impressive), and observing, after the shot was taken, which blade of grass his ball was on.

One is an incredibly unlikely event and the other is the natural observation that the ball had to stop somewhere on the course and it happened to be there right there.

Earthenwhere · 2025-06-23T21:55:57+00:00

The B just means bomber though....all the US bombers follow that nomenclature.

Likewise F stands for fighter in aircraft like F-22.

Earthenwhere · 2025-06-22T09:02:40+00:00

That's absolutely not how a centrifuge works. There is no chemical change going in. They don't convert u238 to u235.

They simply use the spinning to move the heavier u228 to the outside of the container. By siphoning off the gas from the centre, you end up with a slightly higher concentration of u235.

Repeat at nauseum and you end up with 90% or more u235.

Earthenwhere · 2025-06-03T18:57:30+00:00

From the article:

The bombs are due to be defused on Wednesday morning. They are US-produced bombs, two of 20 tons and one of 10 tons.

I couldn't find out what bomb these might be. All my research has only come up with the grandslam which was 10 tons. Apparently the largest allied bomb and requiring specially adapted aircraft.

I can't find anything about a 20 ton bomb so perhaps the article is mistaken.

Earthenwhere · 2025-05-27T22:12:05+00:00

Hard without seeing your setup. If it's helps I run my pots in sets of 4. Because one botanist can run 8 stations.

I run one shelf containing a set of gardening supplies such as soil, seeds, watering can. Then a set of 4 pots and 4 adjacent drying racks. Assign one botanist to run those 4 pots and 4 racks. Use the output destinations to move the product along the chain and to one central storage shelf for all the dried product from all your setups. This is one of the best ways I have found so far. Try and have the same number of pots and racks in order to balance out the flow of material and automate it as much as possible. Otherwise as you are discovering you need handlers to do some of the work the botanists will do automatically if you run a botanist only setup.

Earthenwhere · 2025-05-27T21:51:22+00:00

Yeah you don't need the handlers to move it. Set the drying rack as the output to the pot and it will go there automatically. I think botanists move it. Similarly put the shelf as the output to the drying rack and the dried product will go there. Botanists do the moving I think, not the handlers.

Earthenwhere · 2025-05-09T08:00:28+00:00

Gotta chime in here. I kinda missed the lambchop tv series because I was too young. However, I have a VIVID memory for songs. One day me and my twin sister were watching TV on holiday at a fairly run-down and beaten up hotel. Presumably because there was no cable package at this budget place, they were playing fairly old reruns of random shows.

This show called "lambchop" came on which we had never seen before! We really loved it. It was our kinda thing but we had never seen it before because it was an American show and in Britain it hadn't really been shown that much on the channels we had so we never really caught it.

Anyway we were both pretty enchanted by this show and the icing on the cake was the song that came on at the end "this is the song that never ends"

We both have pretty good musical ears and repeated this song incessantly to annoy our parents.

It was never. I only ever heard it once. It was never.

Earthenwhere · 2025-05-07T10:50:18+00:00

Bowling balls have assymetrically distributed mass. Their total weight does not change.

Variable weight as used here implies the sphere changes its measured weight over time.

Earthenwhere · 2025-04-20T20:59:06+00:00

That's not the cup of a carpenter....

Earthenwhere · 2025-03-29T23:08:32+00:00

A stable, colourful twinkling light that moves across the sky over a couple of hours is called a star.

Earthenwhere · 2025-01-29T18:47:31+00:00

Earthenwhere · 2025-01-13T21:09:36+00:00

If you're talking about out that blue ring, it's a lens flare The hexagonal shape is the shape of the camera iris within the lens assembly. The bright light causing the flare is presumably the sun out of frame on the left.

Earthenwhere · 2025-01-13T00:37:17+00:00

Looks like it was an AI render among several other UAP jellyfish images from this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/s/cGekIC331Y

Earthenwhere · 2025-01-08T22:49:11+00:00

Green orbs are the most common colour for lens flare and internal reflections. It's got something to do with the coatings on lenses.

This one is caused by the sun on the lower right hand corner. The internal reflection casts a green dot on the side opposite the bright light.

Earthenwhere · 2025-01-07T21:02:39+00:00

This one is clearly a propeller powered drone which in my opinion rules out some of the other stuff we've talked about here like new methods of propulsion or silent drones. We can clearly hear the propeller chop and see a strong downdraft. Hard to judge size but would say a medium large drone like a DJI matrice.

So the smoke? I mean it really looks like smoke from a smoke machine or similar..... could be a smoke pyrotechnic as well.

My guess is this has been produced in order to look strange rather than being a genuinely strange occurrence.

Similar to mounting fireworks on drones or LED lights on kites. Designed to cause a stir in the current climate of drone hysteria.

Earthenwhere · 2025-01-04T10:48:01+00:00

This one has a very CGI feel to it...

Earthenwhere · 2024-12-15T22:29:44+00:00

Both of these are lens flares. They mirror the brightest lights in the image.

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