u/dreamscout

I’ve been working with the same tutor for about 8 months. They were such an improvement over my previous tutor, made learning more fun and I felt like I was making a lot of improvement.

Earlier on, there were a few odd moments. When I was doing an exercise or reading a paragraph and apparently they thought I wasn’t looking or forgot about being able to bring the viewing window over to the current tab, they did some personal grooming and at least one time there was some nose picking. It stopped, maybe another student called it out? Things seemed fine for a long time.

More recently, there’s been a number of last minute requests to start 10-15 minutes late, and occasionally last minute cancellation of sessions.

However, the deal breaker for me is blatantly working on other things in our sessions. I was asked to talk about my day, and as I was looking away and thinking about what I wanted to say, I could hear loud typing. I stopped and said- what? Are you typing now? They stopped. Then later in the session I could again hear typing, though much more softly.

I’ve paid closer attention in sessions since then and now notice they are often clearly looking at other things on their screen, and regularly hear soft typing while I’m doing an exercise or activity. I also notice at times they aren’t really paying attention to my answers.

So I’ve booked a few trials and plan to find someone new to work with. My biggest question is- do I change my rating? I think I found this tutor when they were just starting and I think my rating and review has given them a lot of students. I checked and see their hourly rate is much higher and I don’t know if this is resentment at how much less I’m paying, or if they have become bored or jaded with tutoring and is how they now treat students. I’ve never been asked to pay a higher rate and would have agreed if they still seemed like an attentive and professional tutor, but now I feel disrespected and just want to move on.

Since I know there’s a lot of tutors in this group, I’m interested to hear what you think about whether I should alter my rating and review before I go.

I’m moving and called Optimum to cancel the service. I was paying $99 a month. The customer service person kept offering me better and better deals as I kept insisting I was cancelling.

His final offer - 3 months free and then $35 a month for the next year.

So if you are on Optimum, know it will be a horrible experience when you do need to cancel, but also know that if you want a better price, keep telling them you’re cancelling.

I travel for work and there’s a location I regularly stop at for a workout on my road trip. Was getting my stuff out of the locker after I finished and I hear - “You can’t give yourself a haircut in the locker room here. You need to do that somewhere else. Do you need a broom to clean up all the hair on the floor?”

Woman was standing at the mirror, apparently cutting her hair. Why would someone do that? Couldn’t she do that at home?

Most unusual thing I’ve ever seen at a Planet Fitness.