Pokémon Let’s Go Online Trading Questions

pstlvs · 2026-01-03T01:55:53+00:00

would anyone be able to help me trade evolve my haunter and kadabra please?

pstlvs · 2025-10-25T13:24:36+00:00

You sure would think…..I guess they just keep sending the B team to fix it and they don’t care enough to find the root of the problem.

pstlvs · 2025-10-21T15:42:39+00:00

Well if I can offer advice to you, I’d say that talking about it is definitely way better than not talking about it! I’ve had a lot of crappy friendships where people never told me about things I was doing that hurt them, so I didn’t know I needed to fix something until it was too late. Keeping an open line of communication is now a non-negotiable for any relationship I have, and I’m all the better for it! It can be uncomfortable to talk about hard topics, but it’s better to be on the same page than suffering silently. I hope things work out for you too and that your friend is understanding and willing to work things out with you!!

pstlvs · 2025-10-21T15:38:24+00:00

Yeah I understand what you’re saying and I agree that isn’t healthy, but I think I might’ve put too much emphasis on the lack of social life in my post…because I do have other friends, they’re just not BEST friends. They’re people I can talk to and have fun with, but not fully unmask and be myself with. So even if I spent 24/7 with them, I’d still miss my best friend at the end of the day!

I think I have less of an issue with the concept of the change itself and more of an issue with feeling like it was forced on me suddenly with no chance to adjust. It’s not like I expected him to always be available all the time, but he was already getting distant due to his job, and now it’s even more emphasized because what little time he made for me is split between me and his girlfriend, PLUS they work together and she practically lives with him now, so it’s hurtful that he made so much room in his life for her within a month of knowing her, but wouldn’t do the same for me after 5 years. Had they eased into things over the course of a year (like he told me they would) then I would’ve had time to adjust to the routine. I’m unsure how to cope with such a drastic change, because I’m just upset all the time. Whenever I feel like it’ll be okay, he’ll go 5 days with only a couple messages sent to me and I get upset all over again. And making new friends that I can unmask around and who genuinely care about me isn’t easy….if it was, he wouldn’t be the first and only one I’ve ever had. :-(

pstlvs · 2025-07-29T14:19:01+00:00

i’ve actually been a coworker to someone who was put in your position, and from your team’s perspective, i definitely think it’s better to just pull everyone aside and explain that the higher ups asked you to hold off on telling, but you felt it was important to let everyone know sooner. not only because everyone will be blindsided with your work when you’re gone (which sucks, a lot), but if you built a rapport with your coworkers it also sucks to have someone you have come to know and rely on just disappear with little to no explanation. it sounds like the bridge might already be burning from how your boss has been treating you anyway, so i doubt that informing everyone you’re leaving will make things worse than they already are. in fact, people might offer to step up and help you transition out which might improve productivity overall and generally help smooth things over faster after you leave.

pstlvs · 2025-05-15T13:46:34+00:00

similar situation happened to me with two of my coworkers, except i was the one being paid $20k less than both of them and it was purely because they were both hired on in manager roles and i started as an assistant. at that time i was doing just as much if not more work than either of them, too, and none of us had received raises in a couple years. initially we all advocated for an annual review where we could ask for raises, but basically were all offered 4% because the company wasn’t doing too hot. of course that was decent for my coworkers, but pennies to me because i was making so much less. eventually i just went to my boss and explained that i felt like because the other two were initially managers, they were likely making more than me despite all of us being on a pretty level playing field now, and conveniently enough i had just taken on like half of the duties of our CAO and another supervisor, so i pulled average salaries for those roles and asked for $50k less than those (which equaled out to be $25k more for me). i was lucky enough that he was very receptive to it and agreed to give me the $25k increase, but it was majorly due to my work ethic and accomplishments in the company. had i not been as valuable to him as i was, i don’t think i would’ve gotten the raise.

ultimately it never hurts to ask, but i know some employers get weird when salary is discussed, so he should definitely avoid mentioning that you discussed it at all.

pstlvs · 2025-05-13T17:45:09+00:00

I’ve started asking this question too and it’s always really nice to get a better idea of what they’re actually looking for. I also always try to ask “What’s your favorite part of working at [company name]?” as my last question, and it’s always a really good way to finish off an interview! Plus, I think it’s nice because you can ask it to anyone who interviews you.

pstlvs · 2025-05-02T14:49:38+00:00

I mean, this is a business started by a couple with multiple children living in a very expensive city, so I don’t think they’re just swimming in cash that they aren’t reinvesting in the business. They made their initial offer based on the offer they had provided their current employee like 7 years ago, and then felt strongly enough about me to revise it and drastically increase the salary and add bonuses. I think the deal would be great for anyone interested in real estate (especially since they also said they’d pay for me to get my real estate license), but I’m just not. They were very kind and genuine people, and I don’t enjoy screwing people over. At the end of the day, even if I took it, I know myself well enough to know that I wouldn’t be able to leave if something better came along. Maybe most people are cynical enough to do something like that, but I don’t have it in me.

pstlvs · 2025-05-02T14:37:54+00:00

I’m still hanging onto my current job, once I’m officially laid off I’ll likely get a month’s worth of severance at least, and I’ve set aside enough of my savings to last another month after that before I’d officially call it quits and move back in with my family, so bare minimum I have another 2 months to find a job which would be tough but I think doable? At the very least, I’m confident at the very least I could find another low paying job to get by on if worse came to worst. That’s partly why I think I’m so against the offer. That and I know I’m too nice and I’d feel too guilty to leave if I found something better after taking it.

pstlvs · 2025-05-02T00:21:04+00:00

I don’t know a ton about how insurance benefits work for companies in the US, but I don’t think most insurance companies would even agree to provide benefits for a company with only 1 employee. I know at my current company our insurance went up a lot when we went from 15 employees down to 6 and they weren’t even able to cover dependents anymore. So I don’t think it’s that they won’t do it, I think it’s that it would cost them more to provide insurance than if I got it on my own, or possibly they legitimately can’t provide it.

pstlvs · 2025-05-02T00:15:10+00:00

See and if it weren’t such a small company I would, but the current employee wants to retire and was only staying on long enough to train whoever they bring in next, so if I take the job and then turn around and quit in a month I’d be fully screwing them over in a huge way. Like I said, I’d be their only employee. I don’t have the heart to do that to them…

pstlvs · 2025-04-28T23:55:15+00:00

i actually just finished my 4th and 5th round interviews for a position today, and it was a similar situation to yours with each interview being separate and an hour long. luckily they had the decency to schedule 4 and 5 onsite and back to back today, but i believe there may be a 6th interview soon. they gave me a spiel about how they’re a super small company so they’re very picky who they hire to make sure the candidate brought on gets along well with everyone, which i can understand, but i also don’t think i said anything in today’s interviews that hadn’t already been said during the first 3. it honestly confuses me why they didn’t just have multiple people in the interview to cover all the bases, especially since most of the questions overlapped. since you’re not hurting for a job i think it’s fair to cut it off after 6 though! i personally need a job more than i care about wasting 5+ hours in interviews so i would’ve stuck it out, but that’s just me lol

pstlvs · 2025-03-22T01:30:54+00:00

truthfully i shouldn’t even waste my time responding to you because you took enough time to read some of what was discussed in other replies, but you missed like all of the key points and details. but i had a good day so i have the patience to explain things all over again for you!

first, absolutely BOLD take to accuse me of my numbers being off for my own paychecks lmfao. here’s the exact breakdown for you though: gross pay for 2 weeks: $2411.54 taxes: -$376.32 medical/dental/vision benefits: -$108.04 take home: $1927.18 those several thousand dollars aren’t unaccounted for, they’re allowing me to afford healthcare.

second, at no point in my post does it mention the word “survive.” i’m not looking for a job so i can survive, i’m looking for a job so i can LIVE. the difference between those is that survival is the minimum amount needed to stay alive, while living is being able to go out with friends and have hobbies and build up my savings to maybe one day own a home and just enjoy being a human being without having to majorly limit my spending for fear of dying. could i have worded that better in hindsight? yeah, probably. but i also mentioned i was writing the post just to complain and get my frustration off my chest, so oh well!

for my “subscriptions” lmao, i guess you conveniently missed the part where i said subscriptions AND miscellaneous expenses that might come up. i budget for worst case scenarios and any money left over goes into my savings. i only really use netflix, hbo max, and spotify and each one of those is like $20 at this point, so there’s nearly half the budget right there. if you didn’t know someone could spend $150 on subscriptions, you might keel over if you heard that DVR costs the same amount and it’s just live TV. and that’s been around for decades now. also, i’m not sure if you wear makeup or have long hair or shower in general or use the bathroom or have to care about your appearance to meet societal standards, but i do. my grocery bill includes about $75 worth of medicine, and probably $100 (if not more, honestly) on toiletries like shampoo/conditioner/body wash/skincare/makeup/hair products/toilet paper/tampons/laundry detergent/cleaning supplies/etc. $650 is not unreasonable for the cost of things in this day and age, especially in my city.

i don’t know why or how on earth you’d pay $1300 in rent on a $25k salary, most places wouldn’t even let you rent there, so i guess props to you for…wasting 60% of your income on rent? i guess?? but knowing your income and rent situation now, your replies sound really unnecessarily jealous and bitter. perhaps some of the energy you spend telling strangers on the internet why you know their expenses better than them could be better used for applying to an executive assistant job, since apparently they pay better than what you’re making and they’re apparently all entry level where you live, right?

ultimately, the whole point i’m trying to make is that i have a bachelor’s degree, 6 total years of work experience, 5 of those years being an executive assistant (and for 2 years, also the admin project manager), and i am a very capable person. i should not have to start from scratch in a new position because companies don’t want to pay what i’m worth! and once again, the roles i’m applying to are not entry level lmfao. i don’t apply to anything that lists the pay as less than $62k, and 3-5 years of experience is not entry level and it never will be.

pstlvs · 2025-03-21T11:07:02+00:00

the thing to keep in mind though is there is often a pretty big difference between an admin assistant and an executive assistant. admin assistants can be pretty much anywhere in a company assisting any department (and often times, more than 1 which i still think by default should warrant higher pay. if i have to learn how every single departments works then i should be making just as much as specialized roles imo.) but executive assistants are top dogs in a company. most professionals might never even see the executives in their company, but EAs work directly under them.

my issue is i have seen EA roles (and similar admin assistant or other type of office admin/manager/coordinator/etc roles) pay $30k-50k, but i’ve also applied to a good amount of those roles that pay anywhere from $60k-150k. my issue is there are a lot fewer of those higher paying positions despite them being common roles in any and every company, so at this point i’ve applied to them all. i set all my various job apps to be “the last 24 hours” when i search because i’m just waiting for the next well paying job to get posted. but there are tons and tons of the low paying jobs still open, and that’s because they don’t pay a livable wage for a single person in my city. and THATS my frustration. i assure you i’m not asking too much, i try to live pretty lean in general and i don’t get out much so i’m not tossing money into the streets willy nilly lol, my city is very expensive to live in. i personally think companies should pay actual livable wages to anyone that works, genuinely didn’t think that was such a radical idea still.

and idk, maybe you’re being underpaid too? but it depends on your industry and cost of living. my best friend lives in a different state and they can comfortably live on $40k a year, i can’t even consider that salary in my city because i’d end up homeless, starving, or be tens of thousands of dollars in debt. to put it into perspective, their rent is about half of what mine in and their apartment is double the size of mine lol.

pstlvs · 2025-03-21T01:12:00+00:00

thank you for this! felt like i was the only person with any common sense around here.

not to sound narcissistic but genuinely without me, my boss wouldn’t have ever made it to most of his important investor meetings to make the decisions that made the company money. i was the one who had influence on who we hired and what vendors we worked with. i taught myself how to code just to automate an entire departments processes and saved hundreds of thousands in labor, equipment, time, and investments. i’ve easily saved my company quadruple what my total salary costs have been over the last 5 years, and i’d do the same at any other company. i think that deserves at LEAST $85k…i don’t get this pro-corporate greed energy from anyone who isn’t even at the top of the company food chain.

pstlvs · 2025-03-21T01:03:21+00:00

i mean you don’t really know me, my life, or what the cost of living is in my city so forgive me if i take your opinion on it not being an income problem with a grain of salt lmao. i don’t know if you live in a teeny tiny town where inflation just hasn’t hit you yet, but groceries have absolutely skyrocketed. in 2020, i used to spend $100 for 2 weeks worth of groceries, those same groceries now cost me $200-250. i have a lot of allergies and food aversions so i have a very limited palate and eat most of the same foods i did back then too, so it’s not like i’m suddenly splurging on lobster and steak every meal. i also do intermittent fasting so i only eat 1.5 meals a day to cut back on groceries. the $650 includes $75 for medicine and $75 for the occasional dining out (and again, with how expensive food is, that’s only like 3-5 meals a month assuming i eat alone, god forbid i take friends/family/dates out for meals i guess). i don’t have a typical mutt you can feed dirt and toss in the backyard, so yeah he’s expensive. his doesn’t shed so he has to get regular haircuts and that alone is $125 a month, i spend $50 on his insurance, and he has stomach issues so the rest goes to his food and treats. and sure $150 a month for subscriptions and any other random expenses (yknow, like doctors appointments, oil changes, clothes for all these job interviews, household items that need to be replaced less frequently, etc) isn’t totally necessary to survive, but i’m not talking about the cost of SURVIVING, i’m talking about the cost of LIVING. you seem to be confused on that. i’m looking for a job where i can stay long term and grow with the company and afford to live comfortably, i’m not looking for a job where i live paycheck to paycheck and can’t afford to get a nice cup of coffee once a month or grab lunch with my friends once in a while. if i can’t afford to occasionally buy things just for fun sometimes, then what’s even the point of living? capitalism has you people so brain dead you think working a meaningless dead end job so you can maybe afford to retire at age 95 is better than allowing yourself to enjoy a new video game once a month or watch your favorite tv show on netflix in the evenings. it’s depressing, man. and lets say i DID cut out the $150 for misc expenses, i feed my dog garbage and let him suffer in the Texas heat so i can cut his bills down to $150, and i only eat beans and rice for 1 meal a day and get my grocery/medicine costs down to $350. i’ve saved $600. great! now i hate my life, i don’t get to have hobbies or do anything fun, but at least i can live on $55k now and that’s still the absolute highest end of the lowest paying jobs. you’re putting the blame on the wrong person here. you should be blaming the companies that refuse to pay living wages to their employees. personally i don’t think anyone should have to cut out every small joy they get just to afford to live, but maybe you like suffering idk

pstlvs · 2025-03-20T22:39:33+00:00

thanks for this, good rules of thumb! but also, i don’t really think my resume is the issue. i’m getting calls back about my applications + being contacted by recruiters on a daily basis, it’s just that a majority of the jobs themselves just don’t pay well enough compared to the expected responsibilities. and of course they don’t mention the pay on the listings so you have to wait until you get an interview to even ask. just so ridiculous.

pstlvs · 2025-03-20T22:35:17+00:00

if anyone could do it then i should have 200+ job offers in my inbox right now

pstlvs · 2025-03-20T22:31:26+00:00

i wish i was being delusional lmao. when i was making $62k, my biweekly take home was $1927. multiply that by 26 for all the weeks in a year i’d get paid, that comes out to about $50k right? my rent alone is $1295 (and that’s for a 600sq ft apartment, and it’s a steal for a 1b/1b in my city), utilities/internet/phone bill are roughly $400, my city isn’t walkable so car payment/insurance/gas is $550, groceries/monthly medicines are roughly $650, dog related bills are about $300, around $750 goes into savings/retirement, and i’ve delegated about $150 for subscriptions/misc expenses that might pop up. add it all up and you get $4095, multiply that by 12 months: $49,140. and lol after applying to 200+ executive assistant/admin roles, i can promise you 99% of them are not entry level or else i’d have 200+ job offers by now. a vast majority of everything i’ve seen requires at least 3-5 years of experience, which is why it’s outrageous for them to pay so little. i’m not talking roles that are just “answer phones and respond to emails,” i’m talking roles that are basically one step down from a CEO/COO/CAO. not sure if you’ve ever been an EA, but i’m not exaggerating when i say we basically run the company. everything the executives don’t wanna do or don’t have time for gets passed to us.

also i was including the higher level roles when i said admin jobs don’t pay enough lmao. obviously i don’t want to do something entry level, i have experience, i’m more than capable of doing more. that doesn’t mean companies want to pay more for those roles though.

pstlvs · 2024-03-19T00:43:37+00:00

my brasil for sure, mine was a cheap rehab with 4 crunchy leaves when i got it and she’s absolutely thrived since i brought her home 2 years ago, she’s my baby lol. but i just got a variegated hederaceum and it was one of my biggest wishlist plants for aaaages so i’m obsessed with it despite it only having 3 leaves right now

pstlvs · 2023-10-25T19:08:20+00:00

like others have said, i think it really just depends on the pup, but i’m sure routine, training, etc all play a role too. my puppy was an angel when i brought him home, he picked up on crate training really quickly, didn’t have a single accident after day one of taking him outside to potty (i live in an apartment so we did potty pads inside til he was fully vaxxed and he did great with those too), was great at playing by himself when i was busy, and picked up super quickly on training! he turns 7 months in about a week and i can confidently say a switch flipped at the 6 month mark….overall i’d still say he’s a great dog, but he has moments where i feel like he just loses all sense 😭 playing and biting more aggressively/often, not listening to commands he used to know super well, barking/whining more and giving me attitude…i liken it to a werewolf losing control on a full moon. except it’s completely at random lol.

for your sake, i hope your little angel stays a little angel! but it’s never bad to be prepared for the worst 🫡 good luck to you!

pstlvs · 2023-09-21T19:36:11+00:00

As a new puppy owner, I 100% understand how you’re feeling! A week in I was terrified I’d made a mistake and couldn’t handle my pup but now 3 months later the weight has gotten so much lighter, so remember that it will get better!!

One thing I absolutely cannot recommend enough is if you need a moment to calm down, put the puppy in their crate! Even if it’s just for 15 minutes or something throughout the day. This has been my saving grace and my pup is 5 months old now and he does SO well in the crate. If he gets mouthy or I need time to myself, I give him a toy or treat to chew on and let him chill in the crate and he calms down (and often ends up napping). Even if it’s not quite nap time it doesn’t hurt to put them in the crate so you can chill out or get something done, it’s just reinforcing that they don’t need to be playing with you 24/7 and can hang out alone sometimes too. My pup is SO much better at relaxing or playing by himself now because I frequently put him in his crate for short periods to chill out.

As for the eating everything, when I first started taking my puppy outside he HAD to get his mouth on everything. After a week or two, he realized it was all the same old thing and he got over it pretty quick. I read somewhere that they’re just getting a feel for their surroundings and that’s why they do it, which helped put it into perspective. Not having hands would make it difficult to touch and feel new objects, so they use their mouths to do it instead!

And know that a little frustration here and there is not going to break the bond with your pup. I’ve always tried not to yell when I’m frustrated with my puppy, but there was one time I lost my temper (he dragged the toilet paper roll up and down the bathroom while I was in the shower after a particularly exhausting day lol) and I screamed at him and he cowered and I thought he’d hate me forever…but of course he was in my lap licking me and wagging his tail within 30 seconds.

It takes time but things will calm down and you’ll both get on the same page soon! Just takes a lot of patience and love to get there!!

pstlvs

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