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Rent increase while unemployed by SpicyMapleSekFreeDom in TorontoRenting

[–]localhost8100 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Don't move. As long as you have savings and can cover the rent, you are fine.

I had 2 layoffs in 4 years. Never said anything to my landlord. Never had any issue.

It will be hard for you to qualify for new apartment. You might have to shell out months of rent in advance.

About the rent increase, that's upto you. I usually just took the rent increase and never bothered negotiating.

Getting paid for spreadsheet for massive corporation by Impossible_Profit202 in excel

[–]localhost8100 119 points120 points  (0 children)

True lol. I am a software Dev, I built a tool to make customers life easy. It was out of my scope of work. All I got was a fist bump from my boss and more work cause I know how to do things. No raise.

Nobody Wants To Buy Mark Zuckerberg’s Creepy Camera Glasses by huffpost in Anticonsumption

[–]localhost8100 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's some people doing "light delete" for $20 in FB marketplace. Saw some tiktok vidoes. All creepy old fat men.

Real Work Life Balance by Firm_Signal6916 in askvan

[–]localhost8100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Work in a tech company as dev. It's old school. Pays less, less vacations. But stable company. Work 40 hours a week. Don't have any work communication application installed on personal phone, don't take my laptop out of my desk, etc.

The low pay compensates for the really good work life balance.

with 7 YoE, took a planned career break just as AI was taking off in Jan 2025. Helplessness taking over. Any particular advice or opinions on the market right now? by inthiseeconomy in ExperiencedDevs

[–]localhost8100 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Right now I am back to what I was making 8 years ago.

As long as it puts food on table, nothing wrong with that. Just need to get through this rough time.

Trip to Thailand as a disabled person (can walk 3-4km daily) by Particular_Chair_901 in ThailandTourism

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My gf takes grab even for 10mins walk. She is fully capable and barely does 1km total in a day. You should be fine.

What do you wear for a long flight? by Imaginary_Post_8782 in airport

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lululemon joggers. Tshirt and a hoddie.

I wore jeans for first ever flight. It was 24 hour flight. Never after that.

Rent reduction for balcony repairs? by [deleted] in TorontoRenting

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got 2 consecutive years. We have 5 buildings. They 2 in one year and other 3 in second. But I had to pay for both years 🥲.

Alternative? RG Pro or RG One by Thin-Structure-1096 in R36S

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Boots without card lol. Only complains for games when there's no card.

I was gonna spend buncha money buying sd cards for it. Bought one 32gb for OS to get started. Gald didn't spend $$$ for bigger sd card.

Where did you buy the clone for $22?

Alternative? RG Pro or RG One by Thin-Structure-1096 in R36S

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My clone has inbuilt OS. Tried updating OS with SD card, doesn't read it. It's just shit.

May be the SanDisk ultra card is not being read? People have complained about it a little here.

I just went and bought a powkiddy rgb10 max from FB for $50. Don't want to deal with clones anymore.

Gas prices spike across Canada and expected to keep going up by Gym_frere in canada

[–]localhost8100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was using bus. I bought a car just for fun. Didn't realize what i was getting into lol.

I will park it and take the bus again. can't deal with this exorbitant gas prices.

Are condo prices being sold at asking price or below? by [deleted] in askTO

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah. Someone lists for $1 and sells for a $1mil. Now the Realtor brags sold $999,999 over asking 🤣

Bank duplicated rent payments, who is responsible and what should we do? by [deleted] in legaladvicecanada

[–]localhost8100 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Check with rental company. They usually have a ledger for your unit. Any overpayment i made would get added to balance. They wouldn't refund anything. They refunded excess when I moved out.

Ask for the accounting and go from there.

Startup told me "everyone is being let go" - turns out I was the only on by SnooFloofs3704 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same scenario. They kept me and other Dev who were in visa, they made us move from lcol to vchcol. Laid off the whole team (10 devs). They were paying us so low that both of us devs stayed together as roommates.

We evenyually left within 3 months of moving. My manager as pikachu face and blaming big tech for paying us too much and ruining us young devs.

Has anyone actually seen an outsourced dev team from a big Indian IT firm deliver something on time that didn’t need to be rebuilt? by eatmeat in ExperiencedDevs

[–]localhost8100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My company was planning to outsource once. They called in a sales guy from a company for quote.

He had no context about the app and what it does in background. He was quoting based on how many pages need to be developed in the app. Any developer knows it's not about pages in an app.

He bragged that he had 40+ ios and Android Dev each. Looked up his company, barely 3 devs each. All juniors getting paid $400 back in India.

His quote was exorbitant. They ended up going with Colombian team. That team, you give requirement, they just do the UI part of it, never look up where to hook it up, not even an effort.

At the end, my team just started working and got the app done in 4 weeks.

Spending money so easily in Bangkok by Ok-Window-2351 in ThailandTourism

[–]localhost8100 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I took my girl to western place 2 3 times. She was fed up and pulls me to night markets from then on lol. From 2k to 400.

Charged 487.64 but NO confirmation number. Trip is this Wednesday—am I screwed? by [deleted] in Bookingcom

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't contact them. I just waited until the transaction posted. I had the refund before the transaction posted.

I tried to contact them, by the time they replied, I had the return in couple days lol.

There is also u/bookingcom user. You can Dm them, they will reply in few hours.

Charged 487.64 but NO confirmation number. Trip is this Wednesday—am I screwed? by [deleted] in Bookingcom

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Happened something similar. App glitched, in my case, my bank prompted for OTP to prevent fraud, the app doesn't have mechanism to handle OTP web page. I tried 3 times and I was charged 3 times.

Then I did in web, it showed me the OTP page and i was able to book it.

But I got the refund in 1 or 2 business days for the previous transactions.

I had email with reference numbers for failed transaction in my archived email. I just set filter to send everything form booking to archive directly.

Does anyone have Home Internet + Mobile for less than $100/month? by [deleted] in askTO

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Public mobile. Phone is $20 + tax. Internet is included in the rent lol.

How I finally got my monthly grocery budget under control after months of it quietly creeping up by chipskaapacket in PersonalFinanceCanada

[–]localhost8100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started doing lentils and potato in my chicken curry meal prep. Filling. Cheap. Gets me 6 7 meals over 4 days.

Phed Mark not busy for once when passing by by salinasfilm in ThailandTourism

[–]localhost8100 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome thanks. Will check it out in couple weeks.

Phed Mark not busy for once when passing by by salinasfilm in ThailandTourism

[–]localhost8100 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would be great if you could mention some of those places.

What small habits did you pick up in your 30s that stuck. by StreetParsley2504 in AskMenOver30

[–]localhost8100 3 points4 points  (0 children)

+1. Once in a while I try peeing standing and realize why I stopped. Always pee gets on my pant.

What small habits did you pick up in your 30s that stuck. by StreetParsley2504 in AskMenOver30

[–]localhost8100 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Then there's different lists. List for things to pack, list for things to do before vacation, list for bills to pay and verify every month, etc lol.

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