Begging Me Puns

I work as a consultant and I’m somewhat specialized in my field, meaning there really aren’t that many people out there that do what I do.

Anyways; 3 years ago I was working for one of the biggest environmental consulting firms out there. I’ve got about 15 years experience and the industry standard is generally that after 10 years experience in the field you receive a forth week of vacation time. I was receiving 3 weeks.

So I talked to a partner who i trust and he helped me write up a polite a friendly letter describing rational reasons why it made sense for me to get another week of annual vacation time. I sent the letter and heard nothing.

Waited about a month before asking my boss about it. He kind of brushed me off and said “yeah yeah I’m looking into it”.

Waited another month until my annual performance review (which was good) and asked again. “Oh yeah - that, we’ve decided that we’re not going to do that - awkward silence - how do you feel about that?”

“Uh, not very good, Greg”

So that day I sent my resume to a competitor who gave me the vacation time and more money. About two weeks later I gave notice.

“Where does this even come from?! You’re catching us off guard here. Is there anything we can do to change your mind?”

I said “sorry, I don’t think so”

About 45 minutes later Greg calls back “will that extra week of vacation make you stay?”

“Well i wouldn’t have talked to other firms if you had just approved it last month. Now it’s too late”

So now it’s 3 years later. That firm has contacted me probably once a month asking me to come back - my old job is still posted. They’ve verbally offered 30% more money (and the 4 weeks vaca). They have 4 different people contacting me regularly.

In the end they saved a week of vacation time (what’s that worth? $2000?) and put me in my place.

I guess people aren’t quite as replaceable as these corporations like to think.

Fuck you Greg.

FUCK YOU SHORT HEDGE FUCKS. AMC 1,000,000 A SHARE OR FUCKING ZERO 💥

My gf is in a coma, she has cancer and has been fighting for a bit now. She's in a coma and I'm across the country, I want to be there but idk what I would do or even if I could see her. I feel so hopeless. Idk what to do, idk how to help. She's the one person I truly love, and she's so close to death. I can't tell my family about this and haven't told any friends. I want to be there so bad but idk if I have the funds for that or even the opportunity. Help please, someone. Give me advice or something. I grew up religious, and was told to never try to make a deal with God. But she's worth everything to me, I would be willing to sell everything. Lose everything I own, lose everything within my discretion. I want her to live, I'm desperate please. My eyes burn from crying, but I can't stop. She's everything to me, doctors said she only might only have 1 -2 days. I'm lost, I feel anger at myself. One of the first thoughts I had, was "I never got to say sorry " idk what for. Someone help please, it feels useless to ask but I need help, anything.

I (19M) have been living with my roommate, Ashley (18F) for roughly two months. Ashley had taken me in after her breakup, and she could really use the extra help, as the rent was split between them.

For context on this situation, I have ovarian cancer (I'm trans) and I should also mention is that Ashley is a recovering drug addict, and recently relapsed about two or three weeks ago.

Now that you know that, here's whats going on. After my chemo appointment yesterday morning, I came home and went to sleep. Its extremely tiring having to do treatment twice a week, so I was exhausted. I went to sleep at around 1:30 and woke up sometime around 9. Ashley would usually be home by then, but she wasn't. I thought that maybe she had a late shift at work, so I let it be and decided to wait for her to come home.

Fast forward to 6am and I have called her several times, left voicemails, and texted her over 15 times and haven't heard anything. As anybody would, I started to worry, but I know that she sometimes stays with her mom, and thought that maybe she forgot to tell me, so I went to sleep.

I woke up at 2:30 this afternoon to find that she still hadn't come home. Panic set in, and I went to the police to see if she had been in some sort of accident and was admitted to any local hospitals. After two hours, a missing persons report, and an interview with a detective, I found out that she had been arrested for possession of a controlled substance. I was livid to say the least.

A few hours later, I got a call asking me to go and get her, as she had left her wallet at the house and she needed money to bail her out. Please note, this is money I gave her for rent this month. I agreed because I don't want her to stay in jail. After I picked her up AND got her car from impound with the rest of the money, we came home. I thought that I would get an apology for not being informed or something, but instead, she asked me for MORE money.

When I asked her what for, she said that she needed the rent money back, and she couldn't pay my part with her salary. When I refused, she told me to cancel my trip home and use the refund to pay my rent.

Extra context: this trip was paid for by my parents for me to come home for the holiday, as my grandmother is sick and this will most likely be our last Christmas with her around. The trip costed them around $500, which is my share of the rent, and the refund money would come to me, per my parents request.

I refused and was dumbfounded by

The title is exactly what it sounds like.

To sum it up the student was doing pretty okay in my class. I wouldn't say they were doing extraordinary work but it wasn't bad to the point where their final grade would become an F. I could tell they were at least trying (to some degree).

Now, my class isn't the hardest (to keep it brief I teach a first year course) quite literally I don't make it my goal to have students hate writing even more than they do–if they do–so I make it my best to keep them engaged in writing while also learning skills that are applicable to my course and to other courses/life in general. I definitely don't expect them to come out loving it if they disliked it. Growing and improving your writing is the goal!

For this student I could tell he either wasn't paying attention or was always confused. I couldn't really tell which one it was because a) it was an online course and b) none of their cameras were on (it's not my decision; my campus/chairperson doesn't enforce that rule so we can't force them to turn them on.. we can only recommend).

Nonetheless, I always told them to ask me whatever it was they were confused on even if I was frustrated that it was the same thing I repeated a couple hours ago or a week ago. I don't care because I need them to understand the material and I want them to understand what I'm teaching.

Here comes this student not submitting 2/3 essays which are weighed heavily on their grades if not submitted. He's never participated in my class, never emailed me with questions about how he didn't understand something (he only emailed me when he wanted to make up something he missed) and never actually taken the time to meet with me when I scheduled 1 to 1 meetings for them about their papers.

I think you can see my frustration with this student once I get an email back saying he didn't understand an essay that was due 2 months ago only after I had to bring it up on the last day of class. I told him okay just submit it and I gave him an extra week to complete the final essay and the other essay he missed. He submits it and completely plagiarizes both essays.

In the end, he fails my course and emails me asking why. I tell him why (plagiarism and it wasn't on what I asked them to write about) and then a few hours later I get another email about him pleading for me to pass him because "he's going to get kicked out of school."

I'm so tired.

I'm frustrated, tired and upset because it's not like we want our

Fuck them.

They put me through a hellish “topgrade” interview before ghosting me for three weeks. I had met with the CEO and he said he was excited to move me forward.

The recruiter reached out to me today asking to meet and I said yes, thinking they were NOT moving me forward and that they had feedback for me.

This jabroni gets on the phone with me and the first thing she says is “so are you still interested?”. No motherfucker, I'm not.

She starts apologizing profusely that they had other things going on and this role wasn't a priority.

I explained that even a quick text explaining as much would have gone a LONG way.

They begged me to reconsider and I told them I'd never reconsider.

FUCK them.

UPDATE:

CEO emailed me explaining that in the middle of the interview process they "changed HR software" so my follow up got "lost". He also said they had nobody else in the pipeline.

Yeah okay bro. If I was actually top of mind for you, you could have easily texted me or messaged me on LinkedIn explaining the mix up.

Please idfc what just make me laugh I'm begging yall please

Edit: thxx for trying a couple made me smile but i think i have lost my sense of humor soooo eh

Also pls stop spamming that guy it's getting tiresome

Edit 2: whyyyyy 🥲

Please don't share my stuff

Trigger warning- Domestic Abuse

I want to keep this short as I just need advice on how to handle my justno's begging.

I left him because he was verbally and emotionally abusive and nonrespondent for 2 years straight. Neglected his children. No Physical violence, thankfully. He was doing drugs. It just didn't seem like he was ever going to come around, so I left.

I didn't make plans to stay away as I really thought he'd make changes. I didn't think it'd be over night, but I thought he'd at least try. I had hope.

Unfortunately, I haven't seen any positive changes. My mental health has improved greatly. I've made a lot of positive changes for myself and my children. We're moving forward without him.

During this time of separation, I've realized hes a narcissist, without a doubt. This means I can expect no change from him, must like I've experienced for the last 2 years, and really all of our marriage regarding certain things.

So, I told him I want a divorce. My minds made up. It's important to mention here that I also met someone else who pretty intentional about a future with me. With or without the possibility of any serious relationship in my future, I want the freedom to choose to be loved. Unlike my marriage this him.

Well, now that hes been told of my intentions, by me. & He knows of this possible relationship. He is guilt tripping me, gaslighting. Throwing himself a pity party and asking me to give it a couple months before i really decide anything.

So, my question- sounds silly now that I am retelling this here, but how do I navigate this attitude of his? I actually feel bad for him, because I know he feels bad. He hates himself, he has some mental illness, too. So, I am reading his texts, crying out to me, and it wrecks me. We've been together a long time, since kids pretty much. But I cannot possibly back down because I KNOW him, very well.

Anybody have any experience with this they want to share?

Or a suggestion to another thread?

EDIT: UPDATE thank you all for your reaffirming words to me. You definitely answered all my concerns, like I said in the comment I kind of knew these things already but I needed to hear them from other people too. Plus I kind of want to know what I can expect from here on cuz I'm sure this is not the last time he's going to pull his tactics on me. Again thank you ❤️

i was in a and e and I hurt myself and I have no one to talk to please someone talk to me please I feel so alone

edit: do not message me asking me how or why hurt myself or to send pictures I think that's really fucked up and go away

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If you have a teammate v one or two enemies at your spawn, don't rush back and surrender all of your momentum.

Get treasure. Guard treasure.

If you have a teammate at spawn v one or two enemies, and you just respawned, don't waste a skill at them and keep running, or stop and fight with them. Save that skill for securing other treasure.

Get treasure. Guard treasure.

If that teammate loses at spawn, they're coming right back, and they want revenge. Don't deny them that.

In some cases, they may actually realize that they can't beat the enemy GW or Kid at your spawn, and will move on. Then, you can come in if you have a more competitive unit. And even if not, you can win without your spawn. There are four other treasures to take and secure.

I've won several games just today because we left an enemy GW running around our captured spawn treasure, and we just took everything else. It was beautiful.

Try to consider this game is as much chess as it is smash bros.

Love, ~Your Friendly Neighborhood Ginkaze