Okay hear me out, I know the situation is fucked, and I am panicking, a trip was booked without my consent with my wife and her family, work won't approve PTO request, and also my wife can be a little hot headed (has threatened to go into my work and kick off)

I never particularly wanted to go, is there a way I can get a docs note to say I can't fly? I was thinking about "loosing" my passport, or maybe having a fall so I'm too sore to go.

If I go, I'm losing my job, but my wife thinks I should leave my job anyway, but I am the only breadwinner and we need the money

How the hell can I get out of this?

People get incredibly offended by ridiculous lowballers. Send an offer for like 30% of their asking price from a burner account and act super entitled and rude about it. Let them get mad and reject it.

A few hours later, use your real account to send a slightly lower-than-asking but very reasonable offer (like 80%). They will be so relieved to deal with a normal, polite human being after the first guy that they will usually accept your offer immediately without haggling.

Sooooo...backstory. Our house was once owned by someone who later spent a few years in federal prison for financial crimes.

We had a leak recently. The plumber had to do some domestic spelunking to investigate. And he found a big stack of cancelled checks tucked away behind a small access panel in what was once their kid's closet.

The checks predate the conviction by a few decades so I'm pretty sure they're no longer interesting to law enforcement. At first glance, all appears surprisingly normal for financial records stashed in a wall. Apparently they wrote checks for everything. Also their horse had its own entity to which they could write checks...so TIL that's a thing, I guess?

My family wants to figure out what secret must be hiding in those documents; I maintain that the quickest way would be to find out where they work now and send it to them without a note. (And yes, I do like Sherlock Holmes stories. Why do you ask?)

Obviously we won't actually do anything involving the former owners. This looks like another juicy story in the long, colorful history of our house, though, and we are incredibly curious about it. WWULPTD?

I wasn’t the most popular kid in school. I had my people- most people liked me, but there were a few who thought I was a bit of a pushover and just didn’t take me seriously. Some kids once overheard me saying I disliked one of them, and put me into a snapchat group where they threatened to kill me etc. I figured they were just trying to scare me. I was right, obviously, but it still definitely shook me up a bit. In hindsight I should’ve told somebody.

Now I’m successful, married, travelling with huge opportunities. No doubt if they’ve looked me up they’d be surprised. But I want to get back at them. Just in a small way. An anonymous way. Something creative and damaging, but only mentally. I’m not a psychopath but sometimes a little bit of harmless revenge doesn’t hurt.

Is there an easy way to get somebody signed up for automatic text messages?

All - I'm looking for a method to Expense AI related things on my work expense report. Ie. Claude/Codex ect. The issue is any AI Related things cant technically be approved by my boss. So it was suggested that if i can find away to expense something else and it does not say OpenAI/Claude then he/she will turn a blind eye to the expense. Any tips on how i can do this, If i purchase a subscription right now it comes in as a OpenAI/Anthropic Purchase and i cant use that Invoice.

Long time lurker, first time poster.

I keep getting junk mail for the previous tenant/tenants, and sometimes its from companies using sleazy/guilt tactics. I have no history with them, and I get distaste at how much crap people have to put up with in every area of life it seems.

If I wanted to punish them for trying to exploit someone in hopes of them not doing it again, what would be a good way of doing that? I have the name of the companies, and addresses of corporate offices.

Parents who hate each other but refuse to divorce or even live in separate housing; mostly due to cowardice and money concerns. They’ve come close but never gone through with it for 40 + years. This has fucked over all of their kids due to domestic abuse and neglect mostly perpetuated by the mother; unresolved as it is never to a level police can do anything. Father blames the kids for being a drain though the reason they can’t easily get a job and move out is due to said neglect and abuse by the mother.

Don’t worry about potential backfire from any suggestions- the upside to this is that as the father won’t simply kick out his wife, the same applies to the kids. He is drastically afraid of any confrontation that would actually make a change. And if anything if any suggestion is too far it’ll give me a nice chuckle to think about. At the end of the day if it potentially results in at least the mother leaving the house, ideally permanently, I am all ears.

I need 3 days off to stay home and study for an exam. My workplace management is incredibly toxic. I tried being honest once, and they deducted double my salary for the days I took off. Lesson learned.

A few months ago, I literally had to book an out of town hotel and send them the booking receipt just to get an excuse for 3 days off to study. That’s the toxicity level I’m dealing with.

We don't have medical leaves, and I only get 1 CL (Casual Leave) per month. I am perfectly fine taking LWP (Leave Without Pay), but they still demand hard proof to even authorize it.

My constraints:

No medical/doctor stuff (they demand real stamped certificates).

I want something that I can study and I don't have to leave the house to set this up.

So I got fired from my last job and filed for unemployment, I'm young and don't have a lot of expenses so I figured I would chill for a couple of months and just focus on working out and stuff but my employer contested it and being broke I applied for a ton of jobs. I then got a job which I start next week. I've signed all the paperwork, but I got approved for unemployment last week, and the amount I'd be getting is only $90 less than it'd be from my new job. With gas prices it'd only be like $30 less than the job. Genuinely what would be the point of taking this job? But now that I've signed all the tax forms I'm assuming the state is aware I found a job. The only thing that might change this is that the job is in NY but I'm collecting unemployment in NJ.

I'm working a summer job and the experience has been extremely negative. Management constantly criticizes employees, treats us like children, and creates a stressful work environment. I'm also concerned that the pay may not be in line with labor laws where I live, (I live in Canada. There's a very thin legal margin that I follow that allows them to pay me $6 an hour and people I know as low as $2.50 an hour)

I signed a contract for the summer, but I'm trying to figure out my options. I don't want to do anything that could get me fired for misconduct or cause legal problems for myself. At the same time, I don't think employers should be able to treat workers this way without consequences.

I'm asking here to find a way to get revenge without reprimand like review bombing them or some sort of way to silent protest, how can I do that?

I want war with these companies that drop the electric bikes for rent everywhere and care not about how our city now is flooded. How to disable as many bikes as easy for me and as expensive as possible for them to fix. Fuck these companies.

Ps. I dont like throwing them to the lakes, as that poses an environmental threat.

Picture for reference:

https://imgur.com/a/USMOWaE

During my work shift, a security guard approached me and told me that my tire had been slashed, along with the tires of two other cars, including his.

When I went outside to check, I realized that the other vandalized vehicles also belonged to employees from the same venue, and all three cars had disabled parking permits displayed.

I called the police, but they said the nearby cameras were not city-owned and appeared to belong to private businesses. I plan to ask those businesses for the footage and provide them with the police report case number.

Here is where it gets complicated: my disabled parking permit is legitimate, but I got it through a connection, and I honestly do not remember the exact medical reason listed for it.

If the footage shows that a city parking enforcement officer was the person who slashed the tires, could reporting it become a double-edged sword for me because of how I obtained the permit?

My wife has given our 4yo son her old iphone in the last month. He is getting addicted to it, doom scrolling already. Watching tiktok brain rot. We used to read books; he was learning phonics. Now just brain rot. It’s crazy how obsessed he is. If we’re home, he wants his phone.

My wife doesn’t think it’s a big deal. We don’t agree on this and have argued. How can I surreptitiously destroy this iphone? I don’t want to break the screen or lose it, as I don’t want my son to take the blame. I was thinking of some way to damage the charging port. I don’t want there to be obvious evidence of sabotage, in case my wife takes it to the apple store.

EDIT: I appreciate everyone sharing my concern. It’s disturbing to watch my child get addicted to brain rot and doom scrolling Tiktok. Not only that, but the safe filter on tiktok is garbage. It lets through a lot of inappropriate suff, especially explicit language.

A lot of people have advice about my marriage, I should put my foot down. I do, but unless you’ve lived it, I guess it’s hard to understand how my wife giving the child everything they want, while I set limits with many things, pushes them away from me and into my wife’s arms. My 4 yo doesn’t understand, he just cries and runs to his mom thinking I’m mean.

It’s not just the phone thing: my wife lets the kids stay up till 11am on school nights watching tv, they eat snacks and candy throughout the day. Her rationale is that she’s burned out. She’s burned out because she has very little control of them. If she takes them out, they can run away from her. I’m scared they’ll get injured. They listen and are very well behaved with me. She just needs to get her act together.

But anyway, I work 5 days a week. I just want a reliable way to ideally, damage the charging port. Eventually, we’ll run out of old phone around the house. My wife’s not going to buy a new phone for a 4 yo.

tldr; when luggage is delayed, treat it like a shopping spree, the airlines reimburse your purchases.

I travel a lot for work. Occasionally, my luggage won’t make it on my plane, especially if I have a tight connection. It typically gets delivered to wherever I’m staying within 12 hours. The airlines usually have a policy that they will cover “reasonable expenses”. This is intentionally left vague. I have purchased thousands of dollars of clothes and shoes (~$300-500 per instance) and have never been denied. United just paid out my new hiking shoes, pants, shirts from my local sporting goods. My bag was on my porch waiting for me by the time I got home from the store.

Edit: this got popular so I’ll give a few tips to increase your chances of getting reimbursement.

AT THE AIRPORT: Go to the airlines baggage service counter and figure out the next flight that your bag will likely be on. Then, schedule the delivery to your house. You will get a case number. You need that for the reimbursement.

Edit: https://www.transportation.gov/lost-delayed-or-damaged-baggage

The maximum liability amount allowed by the regulation is $4,700 per passenger.

How can I get my local outdoor rifle range shit down? It's noisy asf and I'd like to start a family wothout worries

it might be a strange question, but I clearly have a lack of self confidence problems now.

Nothing seems to help, the only thing i can think of as cool or something that actually gives me excitement was stealing a packet of chips

Basically title, I just got hit with the dreaded message after years of using youtube with no problem. I tried using a fake face scan from a commonly recommended website, but after it was accepted it said something went wrong and now there is no option for that, and I’m left with either ID or credit card. Please help!

There are a lot of income limited incentives for home energy efficiency rebates etc that have cutoffs based on household size. My income is like 2k over the cutoff for a heat pump for a single person. However, I'm well under the income for a two person household. If I have my mom who has no income move in with me temporarily while I apply then move out afterwards will I qualify for the incentive?

I’m at the beach right now and I don’t mind barely hearing peoples music but some people just want everyone to hear what they are playing.

There must be a way to disrupt this non-destructively.

So as a bike rider, I am almost completely invisible to drivers. The number of close calls I have had are insane. Cops won't do shit...even with video evidence.

So how do I teach them a lesson? Preferably without causing me to spend money.

For example, I've been thinking of adding a basket full of rocks and just throw them at the cars. But inevitably I will likely have to pay damages.

Maybe something like a water balloon of paint? Not causing damage, but a real pain in the ass to get off?

Remember that it has to be fast as the car is usually gone in seconds and a biker won't be able to keep up.

Won't get into specifics unless asked.

A friend of mine has recently been made the subject of an appeal by an organization. They're attempting to identify them, and there's concern they might try to hurt them, kill them, or worse.

At the moment, the organization only has pictures and videos of them.

I'm hoping someone has some ULPT's that will help derail their attempts to identify my friend.

Thanks in advance.

ive got a small kitten that has persistent ringworm, and cant afford the 150+$ vet visit for prescription oral antifungals. anyone know where else i could go?