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AITA for going to the church that’s been leaving fake money in my tip jar and putting the fake money in the offering plate?

I had this church group who would come in every Saturday for Bible study at my coffee shop and they always treated my staff like crap. They also leave fake scripture money in the tip jar, which normally isn’t an issue because we throw it away, but they gave one of those to one of my staff who was in serious financial straits after leaving a bad marriage with her child and it made my employee cry. I’m a protective manager and I don’t let customers mess with my people.

Anyway, I bought a three pack of fake scripture $100s and started going to their church and leaving the fake money in their offering/tithing plate. I never stayed for the whole service, sitting in the back by the door and leaving quietly during the singing. I did this for several weeks, attending every one of their services (Sunday Morning, Sunday Evening, Wednesday Night) and leaving fake money. After several weeks the pastor addressed this during the service and asked whoever was doing it stop because “it is rude and makes a mockery of the intention of offering and tithing”. Irony aside I was getting a little bored and I do have better things I’d like to be doing so I left one final fake bill with “stop leaving these in our tip jar” and left.

The group had been inviting me and my staff to attend their church for some time and I’m sure it didn’t take them long to figure I might be behind it, especially when I left rather publicly after the pastor spoke on the subject and never returned. The group leader came in on the Monday following my last service and asked me point-blank if I was responsible. Obviously I said yes, I don’t see a problem with what I did since they consider their scripture worth more than legal tender. Anyway, the group leader gave me a very nasty lecture, called me some very nasty names and insults and told me they’d never come to my business again. Fine with me, bye Felicia.

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OP is NTA. Tipping with fake money is very condescending of any group trying to convert people, especially those suffering financially. They deserved a taste of their own medicine.

I would say no also.  

Everyone in NYC got a screeching emergency alert telling us not to heat up our food. Yet all the commercial billboards, NYPD stations, and other utterly unnecessary utilities are left powered on. That’s class warfare, plain and simple.

FPL in South Florida could teach them how to strengthen their grid!  That is ridiculous!  

Just a little something I noticed. Please let me know if you see it too.

On the left is Serena/Celina from Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V and on the right is Tria from Fossil Fighters Frontier

Both came out at the same time, so that is interesting.  Coincidence?  I know some shows I see characters that look like Bakura, Ryou, or Marik.  

Apparently 38% of Americans are planning on gathering in groups of more than 10 for Thanksgiving. I’m begging you, please do not do this. The results are going to be brutal. If you can’t convince your family to cancel, please just don’t go yourself. Or at least convince them to have the meal outside, or to make it smaller, or at very very least keep the windows open. This is real bad y’all

My former coworker posted a picture on his Instagram story of him and 19 family members, no social distancing, no masks, just 20 people crammed together. This guy is in school to be a nurse, and it makes me LIVID.

I got COVID in March, and I’m still dealing with the physical repercussions every. single. fucking. day. Right now I’m lying flat on my back but in the next five minutes I’ll have to roll on my side because I can’t breathe in this position. I’m dependent on an inhaler. I had to leave my job. Even small actions wear me out, and my physical stamina and strength is a fraction of what it was before I got sick.

And I’m relatively lucky—I was able to stay at home for the 6ish weeks I was severely ill, I’m alive, and I have no organ damage. But eight and a half months later I’m still very much only operating at a fraction of the level I was before I got sick.

I caught it before there were confirmed cases in my area (March 8th, so about a week before “social distancing” was even a thing, and I either got it while voting or at work), so the one thing I take comfort in is knowing that I didn’t get it because I was dumb or didn’t follow the rules; I just got insanely unlucky.

It’s not worth it. You don’t want to get this. STAY HOME. DON’T LET YOUR GUARD DOWN. DON’T TRUST THAT OTHERS WILL DO THE RIGHT THING. You can do everything right but ultimately our safety lies in the hands of others. Remember:

So stay home and don’t gamble on other people doing the right thing. It might just kill you.

Thank you for this. I think we really don’t talk enough about Long Covid. I’ve heard lots of accounts of it, both from friends and in articles. We need to stop framing it as if the possible outcomes are small chance of death vs large chance of having it and getting better. Rather, soooo many people have what you’re describing.

Please people. I know it’s the start of the holiday season for many religions but PLEASE, lives are at stake. the bubble is getting tighter and tighter every day. please please please, do not gather in person. it sucks, i know, but it’ll suck even more if you might unknowingly pass the virus to a family member and they die. it’ll suck even more if one of them passes it to you and you spend the next several weeks in the hospital. it’ll suck even more if someone ends up with lifelong complications from it.

If anybody here has asthma or COPD and has a Nebulizer, make sure that your supply of Albuterol is up to date and not expired.  I had to ask my PCP for new cartridges.  If you start having symptoms, use it (it is important that your lungs stay clear) and then get tested for it.   Also, keep taking vitamin C.  If you cannot find tablets or gels, use lime or lemon juice in squirt packs to keep your immune system strong.  Use nine squirts in warm water a few times a day. Also use this when you have a cold or a flu in the beginning (along with cold and flu medicine),  It will cut your recovery time down (If you take blood pressure pills, do not take them at the same time as you drink this).  It is like taking a Zicam.  The difference is, the juice hits your system right away.  

There’s this weird culture of telling kids when they stress about school “u ain’t seen nothin yet hun! Wait till u do tax returns! Hahaha adulthood is fucking hell!” And i hate it b/c 

 1) it’s flat out untrue. Adulthood is a breeze compared to school. I have time to myself to do what I find fun and can make my own choices. Like, yeah, I’m poor and have to take care of myself, but the central activity of my life– work – is waaaaaay easier than school, mentally and emotionally. 

 2) Part of the reason school made me anxious to the point of considering suicide is that I had this wrong idea, drilled into my head by YEARS of people saying this, that if I didn’t do well in school, I would be a useless member of society, unable to be productive or do anything meaningful. Failing a class meant I might as well be dead. That’s the false equivalence this culture creates. But grades don’t mean SHIT in the workforce unless you’re trying to become a college professor or do something that requires a hella advanced degree. 

 3) it helps no one to say this! All it does is give mentally ill children, most of whom are already struggling to get through the DAY, the idea that it will only get much, much worse. I know I couldn’t cope with that thought. Any future planning past my 20s was blocked out in a haze of terror at the thought of having to persevere that long, only to get a shittier situation at the end. But it’s not shittier. I have to be more responsible, but this is a piece of goddamn cake compared to even High School. The only reason to say this to a teenager is to inflate your own sense of superiority over someone who is still learning how the world works.

 So like. Can we kill this culture? Please?

Honestly, all of this.  Being a teenager comes with far more restrictions and expectations than being an adult.  There is nothing to fear from adulthood.  There are people and programs to help you with things like taxes, housing, and managing your finances.  You will no longer have a set time you have to be in bed.  You can eat whatever you want for breakfast.  You can leave the house at 2 a.m. to buy candy.  Go out and adopt a pet.  Fill the living room with styrofoam packing peanuts.  No one can tell you not to.

And you know what?  IT’S OKAY TO FAIL SOMETIMES.  It’s okay to lose a job: Most of the people you’ll meet in life have lost a job at least once before.  It doesn’t make you any less of a person–or even a bad worker–and you CAN move past it.

Your future is up to you, but pursue it at whatever speed feels the most comfortable for you.  Just remember never to lose your sense of wonder and adventure.   

This is why I give an angry side glance to people that say they miss being a kid because it was easier. Dude, being a kid was stressful. Being a high school student was stressful. Being a college student is currently stressful. I spend most of my “freetime” working on schoolwork and taking the short mental breaks required for me to do that schoolwork. I’m expected to keep working when I’m mentally or physically ill. And this feels better than high school. Being young is freaking stressful and I really can’t wait until I actually have freetime because I have a set amount of time I’m supposed to be at work and don’t have to take it home with me.

When you guys get to be my age, you are going to wish for simpler times.  Yes, as an adult you make your own choices, but sometimes people force choices on you that you don’t want to do, but you do it anyway.  Be careful the choices you make or you will live a life of regret.  

@redconvoy originally asked for a follow up to the BTHB Electrocution prompt I did a while back. Well I finally got inspired to write it and so here we go! Presenting Galvs and Roddy’s chaotic mad breakout from the Quintesson base.

Thank you!  I enjoyed this.  I left a review.  Anyone else that sees this, read the fic!  

Go back to sleep and hope I am dreaming

Bruh the staff is going through so much additional shit for the same shitty pay as always. You better be tipping like, 25-30% minimum.

Also, tip the Postmates, Uber Eats, Door Dash, and other companies that deliver.  They are putting their necks out for you and more people are signing up since they lost their jobs.  

Discrimination is wrong no matter who it is against.  This nonsense has to stop.

ok who opened the freaky cursed magic sinkhole off the gulf coast during a pandemic

UFO base

“I HAVE MADE MYSELF TALL TO SAY GOOD MORNING, PHIN”

literally HOW do ppl hate g1 hot rod!!! oh my god!!!! he’s the equivalent of a teenager having his first battle and he tried to be a hero like ANY teenager would do!!! AND OPTIMUS WOULD HAVE GOTTEN SHOT ANYWAY OH MY GOD

I look at it this way, at least Hot Rod tried to help rather than stand around in awe like the rest of them.  If Optimus Prime’s troops were there, they would have stepped in rather than stand around if they knew he was in danger (they were like family in a sense).  Even if Hot Rod did not interfere, Optimus would have been out of commission for a long time.  He would have wound up being mentor to Hot Rod.  

As a postmates driver (on the side) some orders through third party sites do this.  

Y’all ever notice that Rodimus has a really tiny waist like a damn victorian woman? I swear he looks like he wears a fucking corset.

I am really baffled as to why the artist did this.  In the top one, he would fall over because he is so top heavy!

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I needed this

Especially if that person is in a place of authority over you. The biggest middle finger you can give is to keep on making art for YOUR happiness.