When I try to close my account on Reddit, the delete button simply does not work. I am fed up with this platform and want out, but it won't let me delete my account. Reddit's customer service is also impossible to reach. It should never be this difficult to delete an account. If this continues, I will sue Reddit.
So last night I went out with my friends and on the way back I was driving a little over the limit. I was on a residential two way road where there weren't really any lights, so it was pretty dark but not exactly pitch black. Out of nowhere I saw someone tailgating me in the back. At first I thought nothing of it but they were really staying on my bumper. Since I was getting tailgated I decided to speed up to lose him a little but he just kept going fast right behind me.
He then tried to pass me by pulling into the opposite lane and I just gunned it so he couldn't pass me. I'm not gonna lie I was being extremely petty and I honestly don't know what I was thinking in that moment. I was just focused on not letting this guy get ahead of me. I was so stupid for not even realizing it was a cop car, but in my head I was just annoyed at the driver. Anyways as I approach a stop sign I see him pull up right next to me in the other lane. I look over and I see it's a cop.
I completely froze and then he puts on his lights. In my head I was just like oh fuck it's over. I'm a student and I was already picturing my car getting impounded and losing my license for stunt driving since I basically drag raced a cruiser. I pull over and he comes up to see me at the window. I decided to just be honest because there was no way out of it. I told him look I honestly thought you were just some guy trying to pass me but it doesn't excuse what I did and I'm completely in the wrong.
He took all my info and went back to his car for a bit. When he came back he just told me to be careful because I was going way too fast and then he actually let me go. Honestly I've no idea why he let me go but thank god he was a chill cop because that would've been really bad for my record. I've definitely learned my lesson about being petty on the road.
TL;DR tried to floor it so a tailgater couldn't pass me on a dark residential road, turned out the guy was a cop, and I somehow walked away with a warning instead of getting a fat ticket.
So I recently started at RBC and found out I'm insured under Sun Life. I went to the pharmacy and gave them my Sun Life insurance card hoping I would pay less from now on. The pharmacist came back and told me my prescription was $85 instead of the $55 that I was used to paying. So my work insurance is actually more expensive than what I had before. Honestly I didn’t even know I was being insured prior to her mentioning it. This whole time I thought I was paying full price lol.
She then told me that here in Quebec you can't be on both RAMQ (the provincial government health insurance plan) and a private employer plan at the same time, and that I need to unsubscribe from RAMQ. I had no idea about this but I find it really strange that I’m paying so much more with private insurance.
Is this actually how it works? It makes no sense to me that I'm paying more under the work plan. I’ll call Sun Life but before I’d like to hear from fellow employees why it’s like this.
I went to private school my whole life and all they ever pushed was white collar work. University was the expectation, and trades were kinda looked down on. My parents reinforced that same mindset so it was never really a question of what I wanted, it was just assumed I'd go the white collar route.
Problem is, I had no idea what I actually wanted to do. I picked finance because that's what people default to when they have no clue. I also had this mentality that things would just fall into place eventually, so I never really thought critically about my future. I didn't take school seriously early on, had a bad GPA, took only 2 or 3 classes per semester, and ended up graduating a year late. My grades only turned around once I actually applied myself in my last two years.
I just graduated three weeks ago. The only real experience I have is two years working as a bank teller. But here's the thing, I strongly prefer non client facing work. Not because I dislike people, I just know I'm not a salesperson. In finance, most client facing roles end up involving some degree of selling, and that side of it doesn't suit me. Cold soliciting, pushing through objections, accepting rejection as part of the job, that's just not how I'm wired.
My whole plan was to go into back office finance. Operations, settlements, compliance, something behind the scenes where I could actually do the work without the sales component. But AI is making that look less and less realistic. Those are exactly the kinds of roles that are getting automated. On top of that, entry level finance is completely saturated and the pay reflects it. You spend years in school, graduate with debt, and the starting salaries for a lot of these roles are nothing special. Meanwhile skilled tradespeople are genuinely out earning a lot of white collar workers, and there's actual demand for them. Nobody talks about that growing up, at least not in the environment I was in.
What I keep coming back to is that I wish I had done a trade. I love working with my hands, I don't mind early hours or physical work, and the idea of a role that's hands on and not centered around sales sounds ideal to me. But I feel like I'm too late for that now as I'm already 23, and I'm kind of stuck in a field where I'm not naturally suited for the roles that are most in demand and where the roles I did want are disappearing.
Has anyone been in a similar spot? What would you do?
So I'm 22 and 5'5" and I've never been in a relationship. The closest thing I had was a girl at work who was into me, but I wasn't attracted to her so I turned it down. That's literally it.
After high school I went through a rough stretch. A lot of personal problems piled up and my self-esteem was pretty much nonexistent, so dating was the last thing on my mind. I wasn't in a place for it and honestly didn't even try. But things have settled down a lot since then. I feel genuinely better about myself and my life, but now I'm starting to feel loneliness kick in. I actually want to be in a relationship.
The thing is, whenever I go down the rabbit hole online I see the same message over and over: short guys are undateable, women filter you out instantly, you don't stand a chance. It messes with my head. I know I shouldn't let it get to me but it's hard not to internalize that stuff after seeing it constantly.
So I just want to hear from people who have actually been through it. Is it really as bleak as the internet makes it seem? How did you meet your girlfriend or partner? Dating apps, mutual friends, just randomly? What actually worked?
I really don't want to be alone forever lol. Any honest advice or perspective would mean a lot.
Made a new account after being off this site for years and honestly some things never change. Just spent an hour going through posts and it's the same thing everywhere, someone asks for help and gets told to quit instead.
When I was a teenager I hit a parked car and posted asking how to reverse properly. First comments were basically "you should never be allowed to drive.
I drive perfectly fine now.
Started a new job once and was struggling, asked for advice, and instead of getting any actual help the comments were all "customer facing roles aren't for you, you need to find something else."
Been at that job 2 years now and I'm totally fine
Why is this place so obsessed with telling people to give up the second they show any sign of struggling? Nobody posts asking for help because they want to be told to quit. They want to actually improve. But there's always that group of people who see someone having a hard time and act like they've already seen enough to write off that person's entire future at something.
And think about how genuinely harmfl that is. Driving and having a job aren't hobbies you can just skip. They are things most people actually need to function in life. Imagine if someone actually listened and gave up their license or quit their job because a bunch of strangers on Reddit told them they weren't cut out for it. that's a real impact on a real person's life and nobody in those comment sections would ever think twice about it.
Struggling at something doesn't mean you should give up. It means you're still learning. That's it. Just because someone is bad at something right now doesn't mean they always will be. People need to remember that before they tell a stranger to throw in the towel over a Reddit post
So today I served an older lady who was 100% racist but I can't prove it.
She came in for a small deposit because apparently the ATM didn't accept her bills. I took her card and asked for her PIN to verify her identity and she immediately asked why I need it. I explained to identify her (duh) and moved on. Then while I was opening Client Connect, she asked to see my screen. For context Client Connect takes a few clicks to open and people who don't work at the bank would have no idea what we're doing at the beginning of a transaction. I told her I can't show her the service platform (which is true) but we can after if she needs help for online banking. I didn't understand what she meant at first.
I finished the deposit and came back to give her the receipt. She then physically moved my monitor and said she wants to watch me close her account.
I told her she can't touch RBC's computer and that the screen is only turned toward clients when they need to login to online banking. I also told her straight up that this is very strange behaviour and that nobody has ever done this to me in the two years I've been here. She said it's because she got scammed in the past at the branch (I think its total bullshit) which is why she's so vigilant. I asked when and by who. She said none of your business and walked out.
Like what exactly did she think I was going to do? Every single click I make on that computer is logged by RBC. I'm a bank employee. I passed a background check and have a clean record. Two years at this branch and nothing like this has ever happened.
I'm 22 but I look younger and I'm of Portuguese and Greek descent but I'm darker skinned so I'm not white passing. I reported it to my manager and moved on but this genuinely bothered me. I can't prove it but it's pretty clear this was discrimination. No other explanation makes sense for why she would be so uptight and aggravated like this. What she doesn't know is that I'm a 3rd generation Canadian and my grandparents helped build this country. This is really sad that such people still exist in our society.
EDIT: I never asked for her PIN out loud, you guys misunderstood. Maybe I wasn't clear but I obviously asked her to type it in after I swiped the card. Standard procedure.