u/Dry-Dragonfruit5216

Hi. I was diagnosed with autism as a teenager in 2020. I’m now an adult and have been trying to find work for two years. With A LOT of accommodations I managed to get a STEM degree but haven’t been able to find any work and even get rejected from unpaid volunteering positions. I’ve never made it past the first stage before.

I’ve been through multiple work coaches at universal credit both regular and disability. When I signed on the first thing they did was refer me to a work capability assessment and I got LCW. I speak to them on the phone for a few minutes once a month. Every disability coach I’ve had has ghosted me after 1 session and I’ve given up with that team. The job centre told me they couldn’t help me and referred me to one local charity which is the only charity in the area that helps autistic people find work.

My year with the charity is over and I’ve still not found work. I can refer myself again and I will but I want to be more successful this time.

For reference I am living in London, 24F, cannot drive and can’t really travel independently (though I can learn a basic journey with lots of practise), very frequently lose the ability to speak and sometimes even write so I often use communication cards and small gestures, have very low processing speed and working memory, live at home, have a care act and social worker and attend part time a day service for disabled adults. I don’t receive any supports other than my day service. I have enhanced daily living and standard mobility for PIP due to my symptoms.

What job fields or types should I focus on applying for? How do I make myself more employable? I don’t want to keep being discarded by the job market so I need to be more efficient.

I love shopping at M&S and have been purchasing from them weekly for almost two years. The quality of their products was top notch for so long, but recently I’ve been having quality issues and was wondering if this is bad luck or them lowering their quality.

The issue seems to be around their snack items. So the sweet & salty popcorn I’ve had a couple of bags with almost no flavour, salt and vinegar crisps have had far less flavour for months now and I’ve fully stopped buying these, salted pita chips had some bags that were quite bland and sometimes very pale on the cook, peanut butter cups the batch that expire in May 27 have the middle mostly chocolate with a ring of pb around the edge rather than being fully stuffed (the March 27 batch are fine), the Halloween peanut butter skulls have the same issue as the cups. I also saw a post from someone on another sub who bought the mini Colin’s after they were out of stock for several weeks and said they’re both smaller and also a worse flavour and texture.

I am happy to pay more for the M&S quality but I’m worried that this is a sign of them cutting quality on their products permanently. If they are starting the ‘skimpflation’ process then I will stop shopping with them and go back to not buying many snack items, as before I started shopping at M&S I never bought any of this stuff. Last year I already stopped using the in store bakery because the muffins I like went from being great to always stale. At first I tried to excuse this stuff as a bad batch but after multiple bland bags of popcorn and pita chips, and seeing that the Halloween peanut butter skulls have the same ruined ratio of chocolate to peanut butter that the cups have I’m now not so sure it’s just a bad batch.

Hi! I use a lot of chewlry because I have strong oral fixation. My favourite brand is Chewigem but I think they might have gone out of business because it’s really hard to find stock of most things anymore.

I was wondering if anyone has any Chewigem products they’d be interested in selling or knows where I can buy preferably: button pendant, heart pendant, raindrop pendant, Bermuda bracelet. I’d be interested in other stock too especially pendants and bracelets.

Thank you!

Does anyone know how often Hollister does discounts on multibuy for all items, or all items in general? I have a few things I want to buy (popular camis so they’ll probably sell out soon) but sometimes they do these offers, however I’m not sure how often they are. I’m in the UK. Thanks!

Hi. I had an evri print in store label that was struggling to scan (it was flat but the scanner was struggling with the barcode on the box because the label is so seethrough it was scanning the box through the label).

The man in the shop decided to peel the label off and restick it and he ripped the label. The barcode at the bottom is undamaged so it does now scan the barcode but it says ‘(tracking number) has already been scanned into the shop’. I am unable to print another label too. Vinted and evri do not say that my parcel has been dropped off and I do not have a confirmation email.

I don’t know what to do. Do I have to cancel this transaction now and get negative feedback?