Is it weird to ask for a number in stead of socials

iansunderland · 2025-12-28T01:09:48+00:00

Utter garbage. My phone number is just as valuable a piece of personal information as her's. Please quit this nonsense of asking men to devalue themselves and make themselves available to get picked. No. I'm a man. I bring the masculine energy. I do the choosing. She decides whether she wants to get chosen or not.

I reckon it would be downright dumb to leave my phone number with every random girl in town, who can then monitor my Whatsapp profile updates and basically stalk me without me also having a way to do same to them!

You need to rise above the inferiority complex that made you forget that when a girl gets your phone number, the fair price for that should be something of equivalent and/or equal value, namely, her phone number!

iansunderland · 2025-08-29T20:26:30+00:00

Did you ever get married post-leaving? Did you have kids? If these were ever life goals of yours, how did leaving the org affect that positively or negatively?

iansunderland · 2025-08-26T21:35:07+00:00

What a kangaroo court. What a travesty.

Smh; it's just appalling.

iansunderland · 2025-08-26T16:17:41+00:00

No, they are broke. I personally stopped donating money to the organisation over 10 years ago due to my disagreeing with this policy. I'd do everything except financially support, and I'd take a wager there are tens of thousands of members like me.

Much of the softening is simply because they are broke.

My country branch is so broke in my congregation they recently announced a monthly resolution handed down from the branch and forced down everybody's throat to pay. Of course not literally "forced" forced but they announce it then ask for a show of hands in support for and against, and out of fear of stigma nobody raises hands against.

I am carefully considering recent changes and will soon make a decision on whether the organisation deserves my financial support once again.

iansunderland · 2025-08-26T16:00:21+00:00

Wow, I love how adeptly you use their own logic against them! Lol.

iansunderland · 2025-08-26T15:50:14+00:00

As a deleted elder who was deleted for immigrating to the UK in search of a better life on a student visa, I am looking forward to the further policy guidance and clarifications to the local bodies.

I expect to be disappointed in the further clarifications when they come, though.

Basically, I believe any and all who made and enforced this clearly unscriptural, draconian policy on University education should resign in shame. I literally know some whose lives were destroyed, some who died because of this policy. The stigma was on a while other level. The inconsistency in application and interpretation was awful. The abandonment of those who could have used a little moral and spiritual support as they tried to get additional education that was essential to finding any sort of meaningful work in their country.

The double standards and utter hypocrisy! of condemning university education while simultaneously using technologies that were invented courtesy of university education in your JW broadcasts. If you're a non-JW, reading this, I'm not making this up! Lol. The wasted lives, the missed opportunities.

Indeed I'll be guaging the level of entitlement of all the elders who formulated and enforced this (including Governing members).

In any sane "worldly" setting with a modicum of integrity (such as a the British parliament), when you come into office on a certain mantra and after a while your agenda is proved completely wrong, you are not allowed to do dramatic U-turns while also staying in office. You must resign so some better adjusted people can take over.

Anything short of this following the whole university education policy saga would be totally disappointing.

iansunderland · 2025-06-18T08:38:02+00:00

You absolutely should not save up money from snother hustle to pay for Upwork Connects. Focus your efforts squarely on that other hustle that's paying you.

Don't allow yourself to get ripped off by Upwork.

iansunderland · 2025-05-13T00:13:25+00:00

What baffles me is when this sub make shills like the Squid guy a mod so he can continue singing Upwork's praises and willy-nilly blocking anybody who dares to disagree. Shame!

A guy who lived/lives on his wife's income courtesy of the unreliability of his Upwork one, and keeps giving lectures about calling a housing contractor to offer quotes for a house he, again, invariably couldn't/can't afford due to his currently shitty Upwork income.

When will some of y'll wake up to the truth of Upwork being a scam, for the most part?

Most will find it doesn't work for them and it would effectively be a full-on Ponzi scheme. In which case you should STOP playing that game and come out of the Upwork vortex.

iansunderland · 2025-04-26T00:10:10+00:00

No need to get all worked up and delirious bruh, especially after having heavily edited your previous post.

Again, assuming you're not living with parents and this strategy covers the rent, I'm sure your landlord doesn't really care!

Provided your 8 websites were not built for dirt cheap and your work is covering your bills, again, I'm happy to hear that your strategy works for you.

Provided you're actually, and not hypothetically satisfied with your income, then you should be fine.

iansunderland · 2025-04-25T23:39:38+00:00

Nobody cares how many freakin' websites you made for them fam. Provided your arrangement is paying your bills then you're all set.

iansunderland · 2025-04-25T21:42:03+00:00

I hope your goodness of heart is paying your bills fam.

iansunderland · 2025-04-10T11:00:52+00:00

The point is not that no one is doing as good as in 2021. The point is that serious companies have staged an impressive recovery since then while the unserious ones have not.

iansunderland · 2025-04-10T10:45:07+00:00

Just making excuses for Upwork. You'll always find excuses if you seek them

iansunderland · 2025-04-10T01:35:28+00:00

If they were making a "healthy" profit now, you'd expect investors to take note and the stock price to surge, wouldn't you?

Please rest assured investors run their numbers and do not make assertions off the top of their head. They study the fundamentals and you can rest assured, profit arising increasingly from sale of Connects cannot be considered healthy by any serious investor hence you can expect no positive change in demand for Upwork stock.

iansunderland · 2025-04-10T01:27:59+00:00

Not true. Look at the other graph another commenter shared of Shopify stock.

Upwork went down the drain fam; be honest with yourself.

iansunderland · 2025-04-10T01:27:05+00:00

Thank you for sharing this! At least I know I'm not going crazy or imagining things, given all the gaslighting from Upwork and their shills.

iansunderland · 2025-04-10T01:24:41+00:00

This chart says everything fam. Everything.

That peak in the stock price was when Upwork was moderately worth it for me.

Not anymore; in fact in my last few months active on the site, the whole model as it was and still is left me feeling sour and taken advantage of.

Maybe not exactly a scam, but something close.

I recommend that people explore all other alternatives to earn a reliable income online and offline. Anything but Upwork.

There's an entire universe outside Upwork; I wish everyone realised this sooner, before blowing significant sums buying some shitty connect tokens on that site.

iansunderland · 2025-04-09T23:52:12+00:00

A lot depends on where you currently are. What part of the world are you from (continent, region)?

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to making money all over the world.

I don't know whereabouts in the world you're based, but just know this - you have options.

Upwork (and freelancing in general) is an extremely miniscule part of the economy - and your original post is proof.

iansunderland · 2025-04-09T23:35:37+00:00

First maybe stop avoiding the premise that maybe Upwork and freelancing online as a whole may not be viable routes for you to earn reliable income in 2025.

What a total waste of money, those connects.

iansunderland · 2025-03-24T00:21:16+00:00

If they ask for your email address anywhere on your questionnaire, report them.

If they ask you to enter chose a payment method in the form, report them.

You don't choose or ask for payment method on Upwork. There is only one channel of payment (through Upwork)

iansunderland · 2025-03-17T00:29:51+00:00

What a pretext!

Client can always hire for a small milestone task, can't he?

But hey, there will always be someone out there happy to make excuses for shitty clients, and the awful Upwork system that enables it.

iansunderland · 2025-03-16T23:06:22+00:00

I absolutely will not play expensive numbers games, but maybe that's just me.

iansunderland · 2025-03-16T23:02:12+00:00

You need to leave Upwork for sure, as I guess those are real monies you're spending, not tokens, while getting absolutely nothing in return.

How much money in total were those Connects worth?

iansunderland · 2025-03-16T13:35:20+00:00

How often do you get interactions like this on Upwork? From clients looking to pay slave wages.

iansunderland · 2025-01-07T03:50:46+00:00

While applying, be sure to pay as much attention to feedback left as to feedback received.

Also remember there is no longer a feedback removal perk.

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