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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • I saw the font and was immediately hit with flashbacks to my Universal Credit days when I was counting pennies when buying tins at Lidl, keeping bread in the freezer for toast and seasoning it with salt, pepper and paprika so it had some flavour, or occasionally having to eat sleep because my part-time job (the only one I could get) was late paying me for the week.


  • OP, if you’re a Universal Credit signee: stay strong, just be polite and cordial with the in person sessions and they’ll do their best to work the system as much as they can.

    Trust me, being polite and positive with the person in the Job Centre brightens their day as it’s a break from them having to deal with the dregs of society.

    It’s a shitty system but having been there before at my lowest time in life, it can get better.









  • First a $40 fee just to swipe plastic is stupid, even VISA don’t charge anywhere near that much for the card machine operator. Sorry you have to deal with that.

    Also does the US not have smartphone banking apps? Do you have to pay fees for a bank transfer? Is it the landlord setting those fees? I’m confused how a free at point of use system is getting slapped with a fee.

    Why does everyone in the US have to write cheques to eachother, wasting everyone’s time going in person to the bank to cash them in? Even my employer just does a bank transfer to pay me my income.