A girl shared how wearing a mask makes her feel safe, not just from the coronavirus, but from creeps as well because it allows her to hide her face.

Here is the story

My mask makes me feel safe at work from more than just the virus.

I work in the service industry as a waitress. I hadn’t served in years but started again last year.

On multiple occasions I had people ask me to pull my mask down so “they could see my face” or ” see what I look like” “oh you have such pretty eyes I want to see your whole face”.

And it’s been so nice being able to just tell people no sorry, you can’t gawk at me, I’m wearing this for my own protection.

I feel like I’ve grown accustomed to having my mask on most as a way to hide from creepy people.

It seems to deter people from hitting on me since for all they know behind my mask may not be as pretty as they think.

When I worked as a waitress before, I feel like I got creeped on at least twice a week, now it never happens and it feels so nice!

I’m just having a crisis now because eventually one day, we won’t be required to wear masks anymore, and I really don’t want to stop wearing it.

It really makes me feel safe from more than just the virus.

I purposely slept through my nephew’s birthday party

I’m 22 and am currently living with my parents until I can find an affordable place to live on my own.

Today we had a birthday party for my 4-year-old nephew, and I pretended to not feel good so I could go to my room and “sleep” until everybody left.

The reason being, my nephews (4 & 5) drive me absolutely insane and I can’t stand being around them. I dont just mean they annoy me, I mean I feel no love for these children.

They are extremely hyper and constantly cry and whine literally every 5 minutes when they come over.

Now I know every kid does that at those ages, but these kids are different.

The 5-year-old is constantly running around, screeching and yelling, and getting into stuff. These kids do not listen to anybody, and my brother and his wife threaten consequences but never follow through.

My mom tells me I need to lighten up, but they literally make my blood pressure skyrocket because they make me so mad and overwhelm me with noise and chaos.

They were wondering where I was today during the party because I never left my room.

I pretended to be asleep anytime someone knocked on my door because I didnt want anything to do with those kids.

I was drunk and she was too and I already felt really pressured by my friends to hook up with her.

Nevertheless, I did it anyway due to peer pressure. Which is my fault. I told her I just wanted “head” and she said to find a condom cause she wanted to do it.

I looked for one and asked my friend hoping he would say no. He said he didn’t have one and I was happy but she then told me she was on the pill and was only worried about diseases. I didn’t have one and my body count was only 1 so I wasn’t worried about that. However, I told her I didn’t want to and I told her to keep giving me head. Right after I said that she sat on my kkb… I was like what the… I

I wasn’t enjoying it and eventually finished and kicked her out of my house and had the worst post nut clarity ever. I literally started crying. Never told anyone and wanted to vent cuz it was disgusting.

Here are what netizens think:

• Yeah, it doesnt matter, if she was attractive or whatever, you said no (didnt consent) and she forced herself onto you. Both men and women can be raped. Its not magically okay just because a woman does it to a man. Im sorry you went through that, I would get therapy or something. If youre really upset about it, its up to you, you could look into pressing charges. Again, imagine if you were a girl and some dude did that to you. It would be a no brainer.

• The drinking is irrelevant to this scenario as being drunk relates to invalidating consent. You not only didn’t consent, you expressly said no.

• Bro, no means no. I’m sorry you had to go through all this. And she definitely had to stop at the first moment you expressed not being comfortable.

It’s been a week and I haven’t been able to open up about my experience with another miscarriage in less than a year.

My husband and I have been trying for a baby for over 3 years. We struggled with multiple miscarriages, It’s been so overwhelming and exhausting time for me, I struggled and wanted to take a break but my husband kept pushing me to keep trying.

I got pregnant recently and last week I lost it. I started experiencing the same thing I had gone through with my previous miscarriages and I knew I was going to lose this one too.

My husband was as much devastated as I was but he started screaming at me repeatedly saying that I caused this to happen and accusing me of being neglectful of my health.

it got so overwhelming I started crying but he didn’t stop, he kept throwing accusations of me saying I ruined yet another hope for him to finally become a dad all because I started going to work after being able to manage my health.

He shut the door in my face and left the apartment for a whole day, I had to call my mom to take me to the hospital and stay with me.

He didn’t bother to even call to see how I was doing. He started avoiding me after he returned and refusing to talk about it makes me feel worse.

I feel so much anger and disappointment washing over me, It’s been a week and I haven’t slept properly since then, I can’t even touch my tummy or look at it.

It’s like all my hope is gone and all that’s left is pain and resentment. I keep asking why me, I questioned myself, my body, my health and keep feeling like my husband was justified in his reaction to an extent.

I’m stupid and I hate myself. I’m writing this to vent my emotions right now for being so dumb. And I guess I hope that this post could also serve as a lesson to my fellow gamers out there.

First off, I’m a father of 3 wonderful kids and I’m kinda a gamer dad. I’ve been playing this game called Genshin Impact the past 15 months or so. (If ur a gamer I’m sure you’ve heard it). We’re not rich, average is what I would describe our life. Not lacking but not excessive to have a lot in the bank.

Before you say anything. This isn’t concerning my gambling addiction. Never spent money on the game that I regreted. I have control over my impulses over these things.

As a gamer dad who deals with real-life issues, I had sold my game accounts occasionally. It’s not “legal” to do so but It’s a painful sacrifice that I do from time to time. This time around, my 2nd daughter had been sick the past couple of days, been vomiting a lot of what she eats and pooping abnormally. Normally this wouldn’t be much of an issue for us, but this time around my wife just gave birth about a month ago which depleted every extra money we had put aside.

In this kind of situation is when I make difficult decisions, last night with a heavy heart I posted my genshin account on this buy and sell forum. Having a loaded account with lots of love, I figured that this would be worth around $400 or so. Just a good portion of what I had spent on the game (again at this point, I would reiterate that my spending on this game was justified and never was an issue). I figured i had my fun, would’ve love to have more fun with the account but family first and it’s time to let go.

After a couple of hours of posting I got a discord Friend request from 3 separate people all wanting to buy the account. We had our conversation, he asked for screen shots, at this point he looked like a legit buyer.

Now here’s where my FU begin. Usually in these types of transactions. Someone would need to go first and in case no one wants to, they hire / use a middleman to secure the transaction.

Neither I nor the buyer trusted each other, i’ve done this before, i’m not sending mine first. i didn’t want to go first nor did the buyer wanted to go first. Understandably both of us were very cautious with a possibility of scam.

So what’s the best way to go about when you dont trust each other? Use a middleman. Normally, i would be on top of this situation, i’ve been scammed before albeit smaller ($30) i know and learned my lessons of not giving the goods first before payment. But the combination of the stress of having to work, care for a sick toddler, lack of money for medical stuff and a newborn in the house left me on a very vulnerable situation that I bit the fastest way possible to have the resources to pay for my daughter’s medical expenses.

In the 5 years when I first did this. I had never used a middleman before, every successful transaction that I did was money first always. So naturally, i didn’t know how it worked nor knew reputable ones. This buyer suggested a trello board where it blacklists discord scammers and lists “trusted” middlemen. One of these “trusted” middleman was initated by my buyer and started to contact me.

I’m not gonna lie, I was very skeptic… i was on the fence but the pressure of needing the money that badly pushed me to overlook any kind of logic in this situation.

The middleman asked for my account details so that he can secure it for the buyer. I gave it to him, he initiated to change the email and asked for the verification to do so…. i hesitated, he said it’s how it’s really done. Blablabla… again my needs, stress and sleeplessness got into me, i gave in. He changed my email and lost complete access to my account. At this point, ok that’s it, in the next 2 mins either I lose everything or I solve my problems.

After they secured my account, the Buyer messaged me one last time before dissapearing into the abbyss. He said “$400 right? Give me a min” and that my folks is the longest 1 minute in my life, a minute that 11 hours after still hasn’t passed yet. Both the middleman and the buyer blocked me, couldn’t message them, couldn’t reach them in anyway. The best thing I could’ve done was to report my account was stolen but i have very little hopes for it.

Also, it’s good to note that These scammers know about my situation as I’ve been stress talking about my reason of selling and didn’t give a F about it.

So my fellow gamers out there. I highly suggest against doing what I did. But when you are put into a situation like where I am right now and really need to do so, please watch out, they’re good at screwing people over. Never ever fully trust somebody else with your property when you have nothing to hold onto. Some people are complete pieces of shit and I wish hell is real for them.

I thought that sleeping through my FU would make things better, but nope, haven’t slept a minute, daughter is still sick, lost my account and here I am wallowing on how useless and stupid of a father I am.

I lose my job due to hospitalisation

I was hospitalized few months ago and during that time my contract expired, and my renewed contract had to be rescinded.

Not the company fault, they were very supportive of me, I just wasn’t able to work for months due to my health and they need staff urgently.

So now I have been attending a lot of interviews, like 3 times a week. But some of the HR feedback was “you should’ve lied about my medical history” or “you shouldn’t have disclosed about your medical history”.

But I can’t lie about that since I do have to go to the hospital like twice a month for checkups, so basically the companies are rejecting me because of that).

I used to work quite far, (1 hour travel going to work and 1 hour back home) but now I can’t travel that far or that long due to my health. So I am desperately looking for remote job or at least a hybrid job that would reduce my traveling.

I have tried all the remote job that was promoted on tiktok but they all have a catch or very sketchy. So I need some LEGIT advice from the people that actually got remote job and working remotely.

I have all tons of them in linkedin and indeed and stuff but ilek. For a little background, I am 29, working for 8 years, 5 years in the marketing industry.

Netizens’ comments

1. this is why i despise contract work. You get no protection.
2. Can you set your hospital check up to be during the weekend? 2 days leave per month can be a turn off by prospective employers.
   Try to manage that rather than keep on struggling getting a job. You can’t change hirer’s mentality. When they are hiring, they expect at least 100% commitment from the new hirer
3. I work in marketing/advertising, and both my current job and my past job are remote gigs that I got via LinkedIn. Try to aim for international companies – many of whom are seeking people from countries like ours where they get to pay lesser than they would a local, and still get the same quality of work.

Ive been with a large bank for the past two years and after giving a generous 4 week notice of my resignation my new boss (just met this dude like 4 days ago) calls me into his office for a discussion about my future performance over the next 20 days until my voluntary termination.

He stated “i know you’re leaving soon but.. theres been two days this last month that you didn’t make enough calls”

Then proceeds to condescendingly explain how i need to play the corporate game until i leave because it’ll hurt his report if i don’t

He finished by tasking me with a quota of calls for the rest of the day all whilst having a fully booked calendar of appointments and to that I replied,

“I’ll do you one better, ill get off your report today”

Stood up, shook his hand and walked out.

Plus it was a Saturday who the hell wants a call from their bank at 9:30 on Saturday morning wtf

Netizens’ comments

1. This is the stimulation I come here for. Thank you and good job.
2. It most definitely made landing the next job harder but I walked on the spot at my last job too. I heard after the fact that I was blamed for a bunch of things and I know that supervisor got promoted despite turning over 6 of the 8 positions under them in four years. I don’t think they ever conceded fault or learned how to be a better boss from it.
3. It just blows me away that the audacity of these bosses who believe that you owe them even more.
   It is a job, it is an exchange of resources, my time for your money and nothing more. Asking me for a favor and then being condescending and demanding of that favor tells me you deserve none of it.
4. I told my bank if they call me again to upsell me , I will close all my accounts . Haven’t received a call since

I (44f) just grabbed all my stuff and left my (42m) bfs house because I’m tired of him not finishing when we get intimate in bed.

Sometimes he doesn’t finish either. But it’s really been getting to me how he’ll just decide he’s done and go in the other room and play on his phone.

But this morning, after he’d already done did that he came back in the bedroom, where I was about to go back to sleep and initiated intimacy again. He got probably the best bj of his life and left me with my toy and said “I hope you finish”

Wtf is that? I mean, he said and it sounded quite sincere, in fact I’m sure he meant it in a good natured way, FWIW.

So at this point i feel like getting angry isn’t the way, but a little life lesson in humility and self awareness is definitely in order.

Am I wrong? Did I go overboard?

Netizens’ comments

1. He knows what he’s doing. No man gets to that age and doesn’t hear the jokes in society about selfish men and not getting their women off. It’s a whole trope at this point. He knows and doesn’t care. He’s using you. Leave.
2. So he went to the other room in the middle of it to watch AV and then decided to come back to you afterwards? You were being used as a flesh light. You were right to leave. You are not compatible. Just block his number.
3. Girl at 44 I wouldn’t waste another thought on a guy who didn’t care about his partner’s pleasure and satisfaction. He’s old enough to know more and not be so selfish. And you’re old enough to know you should expect and deserve better than that! Walk and
4. Giiirrrl. Come off it. He didn’t even stay to use the toy with you and make it a partnered activity. He just walked away when he was done. You are not a flesh light! Throw the whole man back.

so my ex gf, as we were going to marry soon, I made her confess that she cheated on me for a whole year. we were together for like 6 years and this past year she banged a guy who was 5 year younger than her.

after the confession, she got absolutely guilt-ridden and she started beating herself up for what she did to a loyal man who ignored the whole world for her.

the irony is that the guy she slept with was no better, not in bed, not romantically, not better brains, not with better money.

she claims it just happened. I can’t digest, that a man got into her for a whole year just accidentally.

well after the confession she realized that she got nothing better even with cheating. everything she got was lesser than what I was giving her. she ruined my whole life.

but anyways I left her, and after 2 months she is like “I’m sorry” theres nothing better about him. but I didn’t allow that dirt into my life again.

thoughts?

Netizen’s comments

Well cheating once isn’t an ‘accident’ so cheating for a year certainly isn’t.

I’ve had it! I’ve been living in this apartment for years, and I can’t take it anymore. It’s like the resident living above me has a personal vendetta against peace and quiet. Every single morning, it’s the same story – the vacuum cleaner orchestra starts blaring at the crack of dawn, as if they’re auditioning for a cleaning competition.

But it doesn’t stop there, oh no. Weird hours are fair game too. Who needs sleep when you can rearrange furniture at night? The screeching sound of sofas and tables being dragged across the floor is like nails on a chalkboard, except that chalkboard is my patience wearing thin.

And don’t even get me started on the room doors. It’s like they’ve taken up professional door slamming as a hobby. Bing, bang, bong – the symphony of noisy door closing is enough to make me want to invest in soundproof earmuffs for my own sanity. Drawers are closed in a loud bang sound too. Did the drawers offend them in any ways? Lmao

And let’s not forget the kitchen orchestra. Apparently, washing and storing utensils requires a grand performance. The clink, clank, clunk of metal cutlery being stashed is a daily reminder that quiet mealtimes are but a distant dream.

Oh, and guess what? The nighttime brings a new act to the stage – the TV blaring at maximum volume until late at night. It’s like my upstairs neighbor thinks they’re hosting a late-night movie marathon for the entire building.

I’m all for harmonious living, but this is pushing me to the brink. It’s time for the noise above to finally take a backseat. I deserve some tranquility in my own space.