u/Unlucky-Plastic7316

When I was with my Ex, I developed a sophisticated drinking operation in her house. Pretty much the moment I stepped in that place for the first time my brain was immediately trying to work out how I can secretly drink. I'd casually place my duffle bag by the door which was conveniently by a downstairs bathroom, this meant that every time I needed to "piss" I could slip one of the 2L bottles of Barr soda out the bag that was 1/3rd filled with gin. With heavy pissing I was able to drown out the sound of the bottle making a fizz when it opened and I could use the flush and refilling of the toilet to quickly exit and shove the bottle back in the bag.

I'd always end up waking up at around 3:30 am which gave me time to retrieve my dufflebag from downstairs, bring it to her spare room and then I could have a solid hour of drinking alone in the spare room. I'd always then go to sleep in the spare room because I """"didn't want to wake her up :^)"""

Showers were a FANTASTIC place to drink. A locked room, shower drowning out the noise and nothing but me and my gin n' juice.

I remember once she lifted my dufflebag into her car without asking and said "what on earth have you got in here". I didn't want to tell the truth, so I said "half a million in cash" which she found very amusing. It was an incredible relief when she didnt ask to see inside it.

Gee I wonder why that relationship failed.

A lot of you may be thinking "How did you hide the smell?". Easy, I used to scrub my mouth out with soap and I was always wearing tiger balm because I had "a sore back". I remember once she put her face into my chest and told me that I smell great. I was happy purely because I assumed I was getting away with not smelling of gin.

Like some people can just have some beers in the fridge and leave them alone until they want one. I went to poland with one of my friends in 2015 and I was surprised to find out that he still had some of the bottles of vodka left. He said "I don't really like vodka that much". Yeah, me too. I hate the shit, the smell of it makes me sick. Didn't stop me from hiding plastic bottles of it in my car after work so I could sneak it in the house when my ex slept and then guzzle down a bottle of plastic infused, hot vodka.

I guess it probably feels the same way I feel about eating. I have some cake in my kitchen right now. I'm not eating it because I just dont want it. I could eat it but I don't really care.

It's weird.

Before modern tech and formal credit agencies like Experian or Equifax came along with credit scores, lenders had to do the work themselves.

If they wanted to size someone up, they’d dig into it call people whod lent to them before, speak directly to their bank and basically piece together a picture from whoever knew them. It was less about a number and more about what people were willing to say about you. Almost exactly like employment references.

The infrastructure to do this with employment already exists, we're just waiting for it to roll out. I can't speak for all countries, but in my country (UK), we have tax returns that show exactly

how long you've been working for a company. You can also spot irregularities in these tax returns such as people going on long term sick leave and of course - gaps in employment.

Just like credit scores, a new generation will come along and enter the workforce and they'll not know what life was like before the "simple and efficient" employment score system. They'll just assume it is a smooth and modern system rather than giving the phone number of former managers who may or may not still be employed/alive at a company that may or may not still exist.

Now for the neighsayers:

1. But this is private information, I'll never share this with employers! - That's nice, they'll just say "Sorry, we only interview candidates with a valid employment report score. You'll have to register yourself on Employmoscore"
2. But im self employed! - See number 1. Companies don't care, they also figured out how to credit check sole traders.
3. ANY argument of "This would not work for I as an individual" - Cool beans, there's 1,000 other people they can hire instead. I heard you only need an employment score of 20 to make an ubereats account so have fun.

You will hear things like -

"I was thinking of taking 6 months off to travel", "Oh, I wouldn't do that, I heard it messes with your employment score"

"Job hopping is the only way to get a raise these days!", "Yeah, but it screws with your employment score and then nobody is going to want to hire you"