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Cards are much easier to use than cash if you're illiterate/don't speak the language. The tray in Japan is excellent. No one dropping paper money/receipt into your hand and then dumping coins on top if everything just goes into the tray. Sit down restaurants in Greece use it, and I think they had it at the grocery store too.
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Volmarias posted:Back in the cursed year, my ex-girlfriend's eternally BWM sister decided to use her stimmy money to change careers. By which I mean she took the money and literally shoved it up her rear end in the form of buying butt implants and then trying to become an influencer or something. 
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Are q-anon conspiracy theorists fair game? edit: yeah i tend to agree Verus fucked around with this message at 13:43 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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that shits just depressing imo
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So I'm not really sure if this fits here, but there is a thing going on with Gamestop stock right now. Basically, a bunch of institutions are shorting the gently caress out of GME. This clearly makes a lot of sense because Gamestop is pretty much a failing business. However, by "shorting the gently caress out of GME" I mean, they are shorting so many shares that they are borrowing shares from other people who are also shorting shares, so there are actually more shorted shares out there floating around than shares that actually exist. Enter Wallstreetbets. A couple high profile gamblers have bought thousands of shares of GME, and are encouraging everyone else to buy to squeeze out the short sellers. So of course everyone on WSB is going crazy for this, and GME has actually boosted pretty high. One of these groups has gotta be BWM. Elysium fucked around with this message at 17:49 on Jan 19, 2021 |
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It's both of them, OP.
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Elysium posted:So I'm not really sure if this fits here, but there is a thing going on with Gamestop stock right now. I posted in here the other day about a former coworker who had put his entire roth IRA into GME. Today he sent me a screed with a bunch of stuff straight out of WSB, claiming the fair market value for GME is $60 and I should get in now for an easy 50% return
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Asleep Style posted:I posted in here the other day about a former coworker who had put his entire roth IRA into GME. Today he sent me a screed with a bunch of stuff straight out of WSB, claiming the fair market value for GME is $60 and I should get in now for an easy 50% return Was your reaction similar to how Killer Mike looks in you avatar?
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obi_ant posted:Was your reaction similar to how Killer Mike looks in you avatar? quote:U pushed the spring down, so when it was let go it popped up. As opposed to pushing so hard u thought u could break it Never let anyone tell you that an engineering degree makes you smart
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I guarantee you it was not worth even the stimmy money. Elysium posted:So I'm not really sure if this fits here, but there is a thing going on with Gamestop stock right now. I get the feeling that the people shorting gamestop aren't going to get a call from a broker telling them that they need to put in more cash or gtfo over just this. The "TO THE MOON!!!" Investors will see the original pumpers become dumpers, realize they were fleeced, and try to get out before they're the ones holding the bag. It's entirely possible that the short sellers will make out even better by being able to buy stock for less than the expected current value just to turn around and resell it in a couple weeks, or make good their existing shorts and make their profits directly. E: I'm going to laugh if it turns out one of the short sellers conned WSB into doing this. Volmarias fucked around with this message at 01:38 on Jan 20, 2021 |
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Phanatic posted:Counterpoint: At the grocery store yesterday I witnessed a guy paying for his groceries at the self-checkout scanner with coins. I do this to get rid of loose change floating around the house, I acknowledge is might make me look crazy though.
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Phanatic posted:I mean he had a normal-sized load of normal groceries and was paying for it by feeding like $60 in coins one coin at a time into the slot. Wasn't just quarters, either. Dude needs to learn how to make a funnel with one hand and dump the coins in with the other. The coinstar machines here give out gift cards to places like Applebee's, hotels.com, and a donut chain that left the state 12 years ago. The closest location is 225 miles away.
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MisterOblivious posted:The coinstar machines here give out gift cards to places like Applebee's, hotels.com, and a donut chain that left the state 12 years ago. The closest location is 225 miles away. I think there's one here that will give you bitcoin.
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Trimson Grondag 3 posted:I do this to get rid of loose change floating around the house, I acknowledge is might make me look crazy though. There's a few bank branches in my city with coin counting machines so I just visit those when my spare change container gets full.
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The junk collector posted:I think there's one here that will give you bitcoin. My wife rolls her eyes every time I crack a joke about using them to make your loose change more inconvenient.
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The junk collector posted:I think there's one here that will give you bitcoin. The ones near me will give out buttcoins but they also give out Amazon gift cards so guess what everyone uses?
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https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/business-consultant-washington-dc-salary-money-diaryquote:
Imagine paying six figures to go to law school and the only job you can get pays not nearly enough to ever pay off your loans and it’s “consulting” so they will work you to death with billable hours. Oh and it’s a private sector job so no PSLF. grenada fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Jan 22, 2021 |
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Jan 22, 2021 13:57
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Rock that guitar equity
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Jan 22, 2021 14:03
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other than the guitars-as-retirement it seems pretty run of the mill for underpaid overeducated DC people. In fairness I know a lot of these people so I've probably normalized a thing that is fundamentally not great. I think laxbro misinterpreted slightly: he is the underpaid lawyer, she is the vastly underpaid "project manager consultant" - that seems low for most of the firms I know even in horribly underpaid sub-tier DC consulting land. Either title's out of wack or the pay is, and based on her day-to-day it doesn't seem like she is horribly overworked, so I'm leaning to mistitle. Although LOL at getting a masters to be a "PM consultant" at 45k, she should absolutely be job hunting and assuming she is reasonably good she should have no problem doubling pay in DC.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Although LOL at getting a masters to be a "PM consultant" at 45k, she should absolutely be job hunting and assuming she is reasonably good she should have no problem doubling pay in DC. 45k as a 1099 “PM Consultant,” based on that little aside about how her employer just doesn’t take any taxes out of her paycheck. She is either working a very limited schedule (reasonable, as a working mom with a brand new baby!) or horribly underpaid (sadly, much more likely).
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Ha, I missed that, good catch.
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Jan 22, 2021 14:29
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I want to know how they're only paying $11/mo for car AND rental insurance. Thought maybe they were just had the car in storage but the full article makes it clear it isn't.
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nm. I can't read.
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Asleep Style posted:I posted in here the other day about a former coworker who had put his entire roth IRA into GME. Today he sent me a screed with a bunch of stuff straight out of WSB, claiming the fair market value for GME is $60 and I should get in now for an easy 50% return I was going to put in here that it just hit 56, but I refreshed and now it’s at 59, actually history say it hit 60 for a moment. 61. 62. Elysium fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Jan 22, 2021 |
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I bought like 1.5 shares of GME at like $41/share just for fun and bc that Citron guy is super cringey and I just want to be a tiny part of him getting owned GME currently at $72 hmbo
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Lol back down to 60 after trading was halted several times for volatility.
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Elysium posted:I was going to put in here that it just hit 56, but I refreshed and now it’s at 59, actually history say it hit 60 for a moment. 61. 62. Apparently he dumped the calls two days ago and is just sick about the missed returns there. Still holding all his shares and trying to convince me to dump my Roth in GME for an even bigger short squeeze
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https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/crime/teen-charged-with-stealing-980k-from-kroger/85-dc4a103e-fee1-4bf5-ac3d-7f8132d5b4b5 Someone here is most def bad with money and im not sure who https://twitter.com/13wmaznews/status/1352312529800851460?s=20 quote:
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Alan Smithee posted:https://www.13wmaz.com/article/news/crime/teen-charged-with-stealing-980k-from-kroger/85-dc4a103e-fee1-4bf5-ac3d-7f8132d5b4b5 Read the story, it's amazing. He did this when the person who monitored returns was on vacation, and they apparently didn't have a backup. He managed to do a single return for $87,000 at a grocery store; I'm not sure how that didn't set off sirens on the phone of every manager in the area code.
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if he buys a lambo Is it now a Kroger lambo
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quote:charged with theft by taking Dude stole almost a million dollars over only two weeks?! What was his plan to get away with this?!
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When I worked retail there was this obnoxious dude who was skimming the registers via a gift card scam. Hey, we're underpaid and it's not my money, who cares? Except the 3 or 4 months they were trying to figure it out were awful, because they made our lives difficult putting in extra security measures, random counts, and procedures that kept us after close more often. His mom was a manager there, so when he was caught he was only fired instead of turned over to the cops. He had the pikachu surprised face on when he came in to the store to visit all his old co-worker pals, and nobody wanted to see him. You were annoying and you made our jobs harder, go away forever.
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Kenshin posted:Amazing, I guess they couldn't just call it "theft" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceijkZQI1HM
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Kenshin posted:Amazing, I guess they couldn't just call it "theft" If you steal enough you can get a pardon!
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There was a lady who worked on customer services when I was in retail and when a customer brought back a return she would process the refund twice, once to the customer and once onto her own card (which she shouldn’t have had on her person obvs). It was back in the 90s so even though it was the largest food retailer in the UK we didn’t have the IT or automated systems that are around today which pick these things up and alert you. She managed to have Ł20k away before being caught.
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Midjack posted:Read the story, it's amazing. He did this when the person who monitored returns was on vacation, and they apparently didn't have a backup. He managed to do a single return for $87,000 at a grocery store; I'm not sure how that didn't set off sirens on the phone of every manager in the area code. Struggling to even think of what you can buy for $87k in a grocery store
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Not a Children posted:Struggling to even think of what you can buy for $87k in a grocery store I assume it's this: quote:A police report said that some of the transactions involved lottery "redemption codes." But I don't know what those are.
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Ya I'd like to return these scratchy lottos cause they're losers.
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Motronic posted:I assume it's this: If you buy a winning ticket, some grocery stores will let you redeem them at the store, and because winnings are variable, they’ll usually just have one code that requires the clerk to input the amount.
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MildShow posted:If you buy a winning ticket, some grocery stores will let you redeem them at the store, and because winnings are variable, they’ll usually just have one code that requires the clerk to input the amount. Oh well poo poo.......and he was doing this at a kiosk?
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