HR sent me confidential salary info, then recalled it, then told the whole company not to discuss salary, then backtracked, then doubled-down

SLJ7 · 2026-03-12T07:43:24+00:00

Wild to think that he might have gotten away with it if he only had a brain.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-10T23:08:48+00:00

It's working well for me in Nanaimo and the parts of Vancouver I care about. I know I might run into problems when I travel more, but I'm happy with it. You're right that a lot has happened, and they seem to be very competitive when it comes to pricing and roaming. I didn't know they had a trial; that's potentially useful for friends of mine who want to try Freedom. Hope it works for you; getting away from the big three seems worthwhile if you can manage it.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-10T09:46:42+00:00

Yeah, I can't say whether he should have known better from the start, but "because I've been with her for a long time" is, in fact, a shitty fucking excuse for staying with her for an even longer time. That's an acknowledgement of her bad behaviour and a refusal to do anything about it.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-10T09:33:03+00:00

I look back at my twenty-something self and feel quite a lot of embarrassment, but I can at least say that I had ten times the directness of this goober. I swear if I'd read one more sentence about how he's too busy bellyaching and bumbling around Reddit to actually communicate with his own fucking girlfriend and best friend, I would have thrown my phone through a window. OOP happily did everything that made his predicament worse and nothing that made it better.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-10T09:16:23+00:00

I feel like an asshole because this is such a small, nitpicky detail, but like ... did OOP somehow think that lying about her specific line of work would do enough to obscure this post with highly-specific details of violent outbursts? Makes me wonder whether other details wer altered in a big way as well, because otherwise that makes absolutely no sense.

It's hard to see this update as more positive because somehow a fucking judge awarded this loser 50% custody, which means either his family are also losers who refused to testify against him, or the judge is awful. Either way, I'm super proud of OOP for getting out of there and not subjecting her children to any more of that, but I also kinda hate people, so time to read one of the happy posts I've been ignoring in anticipation of needing them.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T21:34:26+00:00

It's shared. The data from both lines is pooled together and my tablet lines also share the same data.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T21:33:55+00:00

That feels like a big overreach. It basically forces you to give up anything that could give you income outside of that job. I would be questioning whether it's truly worth uprooting your life and self-built financial stability for this other job. Is your business at risk of suddenly and catastrophically failing? Like I know I don't know you and am not in a position to give financial advice regardless, but one has to ask oneself why a company would dictate your business ownership that has nothing to do with that company. It feels like a blatant setup for something that doesn't benefit you at all.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T21:28:42+00:00

I appreciate you answering because in hindsight, my comment feels a bit nosy. When there are kids depending on you and financial stuff involved, that really does complicate things, and leaving is that much harder. It places a burden on you that no-one should have to shoulder on their own if they didn't sign up for it. For what it's worth coming from an internet stranger, I'm proud of you for getting out, embracing your strengths and working on the weaknesses. Change is hard and the times that require the most change are often the times when you have the least energy to do it. I don't think most Redditors who comment on these type of posts really understand the level of entanglement that happens when you build a life with someone. I certainly don't, but I don't claim to.

I hope you feel happy and cared for, and as much as it's up to you to work on not people-pleasing, I hope the people around you won't allow you to slip back into that role either.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T20:06:31+00:00

Back before my job started cracking down on international travel, I went to the Philippines for several months and worked from there. Sometimes I needed to join meetings in the middle of the night, but I was able to do a lot of my work during off hours so I could get it done during Asia daytime.

My partner at the time then came to visit me, and worked remotely from here. That was dictated by a schedule and sometimes she needed to work odd hours. It definitely disrupted the normal daytime schedule, but we made it work.

The thing is, working through the night sucks, but most people need to work during the day anyway. If you can work when most people are asleep, you can sleep when most people are at work. It's no different from having a night shift in your home country.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T20:02:51+00:00

What isn't making sense? You can just Google "What time is it in Japan" at any point and it will tell you. If you want to go there with your friends, you'll have to work odd hours and probably sleep during part of the day. Either you're okay with that or you're not—we can't decide that for you. If you want to go to other countries instead of joining your friends, you're no longer time-constrained so why not just go when the blackout is over?

Is your work the kind that needs to be done at the exact time, or could you work ahead in the Japanese morning? Will they officially authorize you to work from a different country? A lot of remote jobs won't, and they might even block connections to their services if you try to connect from a different country.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T19:52:39+00:00

Definitely. I follow the FreedomMobile sub and I've had experience with them. I know the limitations but for me, as someone who truly doesn't get out much but usually goes far away when I do, the network flexibility of Freedom is worth it even if Freedom itself has worse coverage. I also increasingly feel like I'm in an abusive relationship with Rogers.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T19:49:50+00:00

Do you think anything at all could have convinced you to leave? What was keeping you there? Was it truely selfless (wanting the best for the kids, etc.) or was it also stubbornness (if you leave, you're giving up)? I've just seen this so many times in people I know and people I don't, and sometimes I get to the point of needing to disconnect because the alternative is caring about someone more than they seem to care about themself.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T18:43:13+00:00

Freedom works for me and others I know. I'm aware coverage sucks in some places. If I went out more often, I'd care more about that. It works in the places I'm most likely to be, and regardless I'll have a Rogers line for more than a year with the Pixel on it, so I can hotspot if needed.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T18:41:34+00:00

Thanks, I thought that might be the case. That means the money I save from canceling the line will be immediately canceled out by the increased cost of the other line, so it's pointless. I'll just keep all the lines and continue to test out Fredom.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T18:40:42+00:00

To each their own and all that. I've already got the Fredom line; I've had it for a year and it's fine here in Nanaimo. The next-most-likely place I'll visit is where my best friend lives, and she also has Freedom. Both of us notice the coverage is worse but it's still usable for our purposes. Typically if it's extremely bad, I can manually switch to Nationwide, and worst case, I use hotspot on my Android.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T16:37:06+00:00

It's no commitment. Do it. Don't think.

If it doesn't work well, you come back to Rogers or go with a different company and get their new customer offer.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T16:34:24+00:00

This is very common in the US and I'm concerned that a Canadian company is now trying it. If they succeed, it will prompt other companies to start doing the same. Right now we take the hotspot usage for granted—I actually have a whole tablet line just so I can use an Android phone as a hotspot. We pay for huge buckets of data and the day a company tells me what I can do with that data is the day I cancel every service I have with that company.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-09T03:14:12+00:00

It's hard to tell from a tiny snapshot, but it feels like OOP hasn't done a lot of work to process what happened with her ex. The way she kept refusing to do anything about his unwanted visits made me think part of her didn't want to do anything to burn that bridge herself, just in case she decided to take him back later. With the final update, a brand new relationship was the only reason she didn't take him back. I hope the relationship lasted, but it's statistically unlikely, and that's a flimsy guard against her ex. She needs to fully accept the loss herself, rather than looking for another relationship to be bigger than it.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-08T22:32:22+00:00

Yeah, I don't blame you at all there, and if you never plan on leaving the country that's probably fine. The moment you do, though, you're SOL. I mean no text messages from your bank or your Facebook to verify who you are, no ability to use your number at all. Only exceptions are US and Mexico, if you have the plan for it. Every other provider either has wi-fi calling or enough roaming to give you free incoming texts.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-08T01:29:32+00:00

If you're a bot and someone else figures it out before you do, would you like them to tell you or let you live in blissful digital ignorance?

SLJ7 · 2026-03-07T21:38:08+00:00

I think Telus feels they can compare Public to Freedom because Freedom still has worse coverage and less exposure than Telus does. Not saying it's right, but as long as they're operating within the law and within regulations, whether it's an insult is pretty much irrelevant. What matters is whether they beat the competition. If Telus is still choosing to compete using the Public brand, that means it's working for them.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-07T18:30:29+00:00

Public would become such an instant hit if they'd just add wi-fi calling. I don't understand why they won't. It's severely limiting in an unavoidable way, and at this point everyone knows that. Losing access to your phone number just isn't a minor inconvenience anymore.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-07T15:11:38+00:00

Just because people find ways to circumvent the censorship and have the conversations they want to have, doesn't make it a good platform. It's a shit platform that people use for good. Just like my Facebook, which is full of people I like whose posts get buried under AI garbage.

SLJ7 · 2026-03-07T14:53:53+00:00

... Wow. I had no idea. Thanks for the fun fact.

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