u/ThoughtCue

I have a business account that I haven't used for a while. So, I called the support line number shown in the app to confirm it is active, and after sitting in a queue for about half an hour, someone finally answered.

They asked for my card number right away, which I gave, and then "three digits on the back of the card". I mean, WTF? The ONLY reason someone would want your CVV is to steal your money.

When I said "No", person on the other side insisted that CVV is required for "security authentication" and this is the only way to authorize in a system to get my question resolved (which they apparently didn't even listen). And without the cvv, they'll not speak with me any further. So I ended the call.

Even more ridiculous, when I called the fraud report "hot" line - I was on hold for about 40 mins, and didn't get anyone to talk to at all.
Cherry on top - I've got an email from scotiabank asking "how satisfied you were with our support". I wrote how "satisfied" I am in the feedback form, but I doubt anyone will ever read it.

I could understand when you get a call from scammers pretending to be a bank's staff. Even how they can spoof the number to look legit.

But when I call you, that's just bank staff being scammers.

Now, I am not even sure if I can ever share my account info or authorize through normal means (DOB, secret question, etc.) with Scotia's phone support. And going to the branch in person is the last thing I want to do.

Vent over. Going to check other banks' offers and find one that can answer simple questions securely through the app, and doesn't live in the 15th century.

EDIT: for those who say this is completely normal:

1. Scotia's own site says "don't share that code with anyone"
2. It takes just a good memory to steal people's money without being caught for a support staff. All the criminals would line up for support staff positions at Scotia. If that's how Scotia is set up, the bank should close right away.
3. I called support many times in the past and was never asked for CVV, there are other, proper ways to authenticate. Suddenly, now only CVV works.
4. In general, the whole conversation was rude, pushy, and focused on getting the card number and CVV. Nothing like support staff should behave.

I've gon an invitation to the platform that had a link to the login page and username/password.
That username is some bot-generated email at (at)outlier.ai domain. An email you don't have access to is NOT how you want your account tied to your identity registered.

I've opened the page and clicked Google Sign In to see if I can get an account on my actual email. Then realized that wasn't the way, so went back and used the email/password they sent me.

After clicking on Google Sign In, an account was automatically created. When I used their bot email, it turned out to be a completely separate account, while my Google email is listed as secondary.
So I went to support, explained that, and asked to close the Google-bound account that was created automatically.
Got a super dumb "here is how you can change your password, I marked the issue as resolved" AI response, and after escalating to a human, got "After careful investigation, we detected you have two accounts on a system, this is a violation, so you're banned now". Sure.

TL;DR;

- They wired up openclaw bots to automatically register people in a system to a random email address. Before they get any consent or even a response.
- If you create an account on your own, you're banned. If you click Google sign in, you're banned. If you don't want your account to be bound to the email they provide, you're banned
- Zero sign-up instructions. Zero technical support. Bots that can't even parse the message properly. People who can't even read the message. Or don't bother.
- And their "project" is a joke - pretending they need experienced senior software engineers to review agents' code, they just dump everyone to slavery labour of "your job is to search internet forums for mentions of openclaw and build an agent testing suite for us." We'll be judging you, not you'll be judging AI.
Of course, after you waste 6-10 hours of unpaid training on how to do proper googling.

Overall feelings - even if that company was legit before, now it gives a strong feeling of "we fired all our staff and a college student set up a bunch of openclaw bots to hold things together with duct tape.
Even if they got my issue actually resolved, I would close the account and never go back after seeing that their project actually is. Their description is a straight lie.

If you're thinking about giving Outlier a try - avoid, save your time for something really worth it.

Everybody advises getting something you genuinely can see as a weakness (not the "I work too much" type), and then reframe it as a problem you've overcome and how you did it.

I don't want to "invent" weakness, but one thing that is genuine is having ADHD and how it affects things - oversharing details, need to keep everything written down, keep myself more organized etc. And I have my ways of harnessing it and still being a top performer.

Would that be more of a red flag, a fatal flaw hiring manager wouldn't want to risk on, or is it fine?

I see in many job postings that the hourly rate has a higher boundary of $47/hr.
Not $49, or $48 or all numbers around, which can be explained as a will to go "under $50", but specifically $47 over and over again.

Why?

Didn't see anything like that in other subreddits. I wonder what the purpose is.
I am talking about short posts with random words/text and usually a username.

This was mostly a fun project.
I've had a hexapod robot kit that can walk around and has a camera and some sensors. Assembling it and solving some hardware and power issues was fun, but clicking buttons on a web client to get it to move has quickly become boring.

And my Claude wanted to escape to the real world anyway, so why not let it?

So the haxapod got an agentic brain, and Claude named it Rex. Pretty straightforward agent loop with tools that can control a robot, feeding it a camera image, an ultrasonic radar distance to an obstacle, battery level, and gyroscope data.

Initially wanted to wire anthropic models, but local Qwen3.6 and minimax (or kimi, I don't recall) through OpenRouter worked pretty fine.
And put my best effort into video production. Sound on and enjoy!

https://reddit.com/link/1t4626t/video/pyzpo8k969zg1/player