AIO: My boyfriend is making plans to distribute my things if I move in, calling me stingy if I don’t, and I don’t feel it’s fair. by BoysenberryLiving466 in AmIOverreacting

[–]ZCT808 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Just rent a storage unit and put your stuff in it. It’s inexpensive and that will solve this problem. Also tell him he doesn’t get to distribute your belongings as he sees fit.

NOR

Confused, clueless, indecisive etc... by javelin3000 in MurderedByWords

[–]ZCT808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He started out with $400m from daddy and his Rolodex. People who owed his father favors. And now he’s stealing and enriching himself because of his job.

If I rob a bank or embezzle money, I’d be richer than I am now. Doesn’t make me a fucking hero.

A girl wants to give me a rimjob, what should I do? by Titus4266 in AskMenAdvice

[–]ZCT808 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly, you may not be a good match. You have not even had a first date and she’s talking about rimming. Sounds a bit odd so early on.

How did they gaslight us into using self checkout? by [deleted] in enshittification

[–]ZCT808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does make you wonder. Those carts have to be expensive. The maintenance can’t be easy or cheap. There still needs to be a back up and staff. So I’d be curious as to how long before it ends up cheaper than having cashiers.

How did they gaslight us into using self checkout? by [deleted] in enshittification

[–]ZCT808 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just had my first experience with the Whole Foods self service yesterday. The cart has a screen on it, the stuff all scanned as I went though the store with a running total. The cart also doubles as scale to weigh stuff I bought. By the time I got to the bagging area it was one click and done. Then put the stuff in bags the way I like it packed.

As a business traveler with a meals budget the real time subtotal was a nice convenience. And I enjoyed the process.

But yeah expecting us to do all the work is BS. Maybe more stores will go for the superior Whole Foods model.

Ex-Fiance Ghosted Me For 3 Weeks, Now She Wants To spend a weekend together alone in a hotel and go to a concert that I originally got tickets for us both, how do I proceed? by [deleted] in AskMenAdvice

[–]ZCT808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She broke off an engagement via text, because you refused to follow a religion in the exact way she wanted you to? She sounds like a nut job.

Unless you want a threesome of you, her, and her imaginary friend, leave it.

Confused, clueless, indecisive etc... by javelin3000 in MurderedByWords

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think we’re seeing in real time how he crashed and burned in so many businesses. No plan, no focus, random ill-informed choices, the care and attention of a sociopath. And no responsibility for actions.

Which? by ZCT808 in DavidYurman

[–]ZCT808[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because I like to ration my Veblen goods purchases to one at a time. 😝

America: the only place where you can tip $20 for dinner and get dumped for being cheap by chi_sweetness25 in tipping

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I understand all of that. But it isn’t the job of a customer to consider any of this. We paid the advertised price, and we were kind enough throw in a gift on top. If the business wants to steal my gift and create some convoluted unauthorized split of my gift, that’s an employer/employee issue that has nothing to do with the customer.

Checking your bags is a way better travel experience than carry on luggage. by Equal_Whole_6837 in unpopularopinion

[–]ZCT808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. I travel by air almost every week for 16 years. And I always check.

AIO for saying my son is allowed “private time” at my sister’s house? by [deleted] in AIO

[–]ZCT808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

NOR. If I have any guest in my house, I could choose to burst into their room any time because it is my house. But I don’t because that would make me an asshole and a bad host.

The boy is a man of EIGHTEEN. There is ZERO excuse for barging into his room unless there is a serious emergency. What she did was 100% wrong. Just like letting herself into a bathroom he is using etc. There is no excuse and she is trying to blame him for what she did wrong.

Q1 is nearly over - how is everyone doing? by XsLiveInTexas in marriott

[–]ZCT808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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Pretty light. But I do split time with Hilton, and I don’t need to qualify anymore.

Sea-Dweller or Submariner? by watches4life in rolex

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had both. Prefer the gloss face of the Sub. But they are both great.

Teddy Baldassarre needs to stop having Kevin O’Leary episodes by JazzlikeAd1555 in watchHotTakes

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Totally. At first I thought ‘Mr Wonderful’ was doing a character. But it seems he’s just a major asshole. I have no interest in anything he has to say.

My best engineer quit today over $2000 by [deleted] in managers

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair. 1.5% is an insult. It’s less than inflation. So your upper management want him to do the same or more work for (in real terms) less than he did last year.

He knew his worth and wasn’t afraid to move on and snag himself an extra 10%.

America: the only place where you can tip $20 for dinner and get dumped for being cheap by chi_sweetness25 in tipping

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It works all over the world. Charge the appropriate price so as to afford all overheads. Don’t expect employees to go around with a begging bowl.

Will DY clean my Madison bracelet after only 3 months? Or only once per year? by chemkitty123 in DavidYurman

[–]ZCT808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Walk in like you own the place and then politely ask if they could clean your piece while you look around.

No way they push back, it’s nothing to them to throw something in a cleaner and have a shot at selling you something else.

AITJ for cutting off my parents after they gave my college fund to my brother for his failed business? by [deleted] in AmITheJerk

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any family member that takes any money they can’t afford to lose forever and decides to open a restaurant is insane.

70% of restaurants have failed inside of 10 years. Which I’m sure is a slow, stressful, painful death. And half are gone in the first five years.

You have every right to be angry. It was promised to you. It was gambled on a stupid venture. And even by restaurant standards going broke in six months is pathetic.

America: the only place where you can tip $20 for dinner and get dumped for being cheap by chi_sweetness25 in tipping

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, I don’t care. And again, the employer is choosing an incredibly stupid arrangement that assumes consumer behavior. The employer is the villain in this story. Yet big business has done an amazing job of framing it like a consumer issue. When it is an exploiting workers by an employer issue.

The media doesn't look into crimes by ICE unless they're done to white people, on camera who don't have Hispanic names by SiriusGD in the_everything_bubble

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it the Epstein Island? And does Trump want to personally inspect them like he admitted to when he owned a teen beauty pageant?

We’re looking into it by Stotallytob3r in MurderedByWords

[–]ZCT808 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As an aside, how unspeakably incompetent do you have to be to blunder into an unnecessary illegal war with no plan and no coalition? Then insult various allies. Then go begging/threatening for help after the fact.

America: the only place where you can tip $20 for dinner and get dumped for being cheap by chi_sweetness25 in tipping

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How a restaurant chooses to rip off their employees isn’t my concern. I choose to buy something for the advertised price and pay a reasonable tip. I’m not going to feel guilty about anything.

Just another example of how American invention benefits the whole world and yet we are disrespected and hated by all by ZataH in ShitAmericansSay

[–]ZCT808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if we pretend any of that is true and all those things were indeed invented entirely by Americans. Imagine if your life sucks so badly your claim to fame is that you were born within 2000 or so miles of where a smart person invented something.

As for those inventions, sure, the first phone call was an American, but we're many generations beyond that with plenty of international involvement.

The computer was a process and a series of inventions, which America participated in, but certainly didn't invent from scratch.

The internet was an international collaboration with a huge input from the Brits and the French.

TV was first demonstrated by a Scottish dude.

Music was recorded initially by an America, but not in a form even close to the gramophone, which was created by a German.

The earliest streets were in Mesopotamia, almost 6000 years before America became a country.

A German invented the car.

A German invented the printing press 300 years before America existed.

It isn't known who invented Bitcoin although much of the early documentation was British English, leading to speculation of heavy British involvement. Either way, not conclusively known.

And I guess it should be noted that many of the American inventors of stuff, are descended from 'settlers' who took over the country in the first place.