u/Public_Basil_4416

I recently put a new head unit and speakers in my Prius. I picked high-powered speakers because I plan on getting a separate amp eventually. The head unit amp gets the job done but it is only rated at 22W x 4 RMS, so it starts clipping at around 2/3 max volume. I stream raw FLAC from ripped CDs over a FiiO KA11 USB-C DAC with hardware volume close to max, it helps to boost the signal. Would it be better to turn down the hardware volume and increase the gain on the head unit? Will adjusting the fader on my head unit give any significant improvement?

[PRE] ($100) (Repay $130 on 06/15/26) (pre-arranged with u/kirticoaching)

I've been working in the Café for 3.5-4 months and I don't think I can take it anymore. We are chronically short-staffed, yet we still have endless daily responsibilities which we inevitably fall short of completing. On top of that, the work environment has become increasingly toxic since I was hired, to the point where I'm losing sleep and dread coming to work every day. I'm cool with my TL though and we're on good terms (as far as I know). I've never been written up, don't call out and I have no points.

There are a few girls in there who formed a mean girl posse. They talk shit about everyone behind their back and snitch on people over the most trivial bullshit. They like to play pretend supervisors and order people around, always trying to delegate tasks and guilt/shame coworkers for not doing everything 100% perfect.

One of them literally pulled me aside the other day and tried to lecture me on a small mistake in a condescending managerial tone, I was so close to losing my shit. Every day they throw subtle jabs at me, passive-aggressive and demeaning insults disguised as light-hearted jokes, trying to suggest I'm incompetent and/or stupid.

I'll be busy on a task, they'll ask me to do something and before I get the chance to do it they will come over and immediately do that thing, announcing it to everyone "Hey I did Spark for you" just to make me look bad. I've never felt so degraded and demoralized at a job before. I can't take it anymore. Anyway, that's my rant.

Does anyone know anything about the process for transferring departments and/or stores? I know I'm not quite at 6 months yet but I figure it's worth a shot before I quit and burn the bridge. Do I apply through onewalmart?

I haven't been able to get into the app since this morning because the system randomly stopped accepting my credentials. I couldn't even clock in for my shift today and now I have 8 hours of work unaccounted for. I tried on the store computers as well and it says my password is incorrect, the same one I've been using since I got hired. Every time I try to reset my password it asks for a work email and I don't think I have one. Who do I contact about this?

I came in this morning and when I tried to clock in through the app, it kept telling me my login information was incorrect. I also tried to clock in on the store computers and that didn't work either. My team lead told me to just start my shift and do a time adjustment later; he told me to just write down what time I got there but he didn't explain much else.

Apparently the system reset everyone's passwords or something but I am unable to reset my password because I don't have a Self-Service work email. I need to do a time adjustment but I still can't login. Who do I need to go to about this?

I work at a café that sells pizzas and every night I have to wash ten pans crusted with old cheese and holy shit is it a massive pain in the ass. We use the same pans all day in the display case; throughout the day, the cheese melts off the pizzas and welds itself to the aluminum pans.

It usually takes me about 30-40 minutes to wash them all, only after soaking them in scalding hot water for an hour. The cheese gets so stuck that I find myself literally scraping off bits of metal along with the cheese. My arms and shoulders are sore as hell by the end of it.

I will admit that I'm pretty bad at workplace politics and I never know how to deal with these people. There is this one girl at my job who loves to boss me around and delegate tasks as though she is my superior, despite the fact that we both have the exact same job title and have been working there for the same amount of time.

She doesn't ask nicely, she will straight up tell me to do things in a managerial tone. She is an absolute snake, one of those passive-aggressive manipulative assholes who will act nice and charming to your face and then talk shit behind your back. There is nobody who she will not step on to gain an edge. I feel like she gets off on humiliating people.

Yesterday she tried to tell me to do something while I was busy doing something else and I just straight up ignored her, then she flipped the script and started acting all fake nice to me, trying to engage me in idle chitchat and complimenting my hair. It was so gross and shameless. That's what she does every time she notices I'm getting annoyed with her. I've seen her doing it with other people too, that same morning one of my other coworkers told her to mind her business and she started doing the exact same thing. How do you get people like this off your back?