u/jayxeevee

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I had a really long and stressful day (cat needed a vet visit) and do not feel well enough to donate today. My first donation was June 12, if I’m able to make the rest of my donation days my 8th donation will be on July 12. Would this be considered day 30 or 31?

I donated yesterday for the first time, and I had an appointment set for tomorrow for the second one. I logged on to check something and it says I’m deferred. I’ll be calling in the morning to ask why, but what are the possible reasons for this?

I also had a hell of a time getting to the donation part. My information was messed up in the system-my last name was put in wrong, then after I did the prescreen I went to the exam room and the nurse did a double-take. I had to redo the prescreen questions because my gender was put down wrong, which flagged the system since I assume that put me as a M/M. I don’t know if that had something to do with it. The whole thing left me kind of flustered, especially since I heard the staff talking about it to one another, and I had a couple of no flow instances while donating.

I have come across several surveys that are broken in one way or another, and even though I'm not wasting much time it sucks to not get any pay for them. There have been a few that ask for my name, email, and other personal info, but are not approved for that info. I just had one that asked for personal info, then tried to redirect me to a site that my privacy settings flagged as potentially unsafe. From browsing this sub, it seems that things are in a weird/unusual spot right now. Is this sort of stuff normal?

My fiancé is 31 and learning how to drive. He grew up poor and had to choose between driver's ed and a class ring-being an (understandably) dumb teen, he chose the class ring. I've been driving him around for the past 11 years. I want him to drive and be independent, because frankly I have gotten tired being the only driver-his job is also only feasible to get to by car, and the Uber costs are getting out of hand (I would drive him but it is at least an hour each way, I work from home, it's just not feasible). He very recently got his learner's permit, so I've let him drive home from the gym three times (a ~12 minute drive) in the early morning hours when it's dark and there's barely any traffic a few times. And those times have terrified me. He drifts too far to the right, has trouble turning tight enough, and can be heavy-footed on the pedals. The worst offense was the last time, we went a bit earlier when there was more traffic and he had to get over for a turn. He didn't check his blind spot and would have hit someone if I hadn't yelled at him. Thankfully he listened for once and didn't hit anyone.

I decided to roll things back a bit and focus on the more basic aspects; I had him drive in an empty parking lot tonight. He had a moment where he was backing up, then went to drive forward without changing gear. So the car lurched backwards before he realized his mistake-thankfully, empty lot, nothing behind us this time. But those kind of mistakes...I just can't handle it. I know there are moments where I overreact, but it's hard to know when he is going to actually do the correct maneuver vs /thinking/ he knows the correct maneuver. And it's hard to know when I'm overreacting, or if things are genuinely concerning. I don't know what mistakes are normal at this stage vs him being an actually bad driver/learner. And the cherry on top, he has ADHD-I don't know how much of that is a factor. There are also times where he comments something when I'm driving that concern me. Like saying it would probably have been okay to "go" with the spacing between cars, but I didn't go because I KNOW it wasn't enough time to pull out safely.

We plan to get him driving lessons, but I'm still scared. I guess my real questions is, will they really be able to work miracles in ~12 hours of lessons? I'm hoping he might listen to someone that isn't me and who is experienced with new drivers. He doesn't seem to have any fear or any real concern with his driving (outside of almost merging into the car). But I'm terrified of him getting into an accident. One of the reasons why it's taken this long to push him to get his permit is me being scared of him getting into an accident, and that was before I knew how his driving was-I was concerned with everyone else on the road. I know this sub is more focused on driver's that have anxiety, but how do I deal with being a passenger in this situation? Also, for the most part I am fine riding as a passenger in other vehicles.

I got this email from Ramp (with details anonymized):
Mercor.io Corporation requests information from (My Name)

First Last (firstlast@mercor.com) from Mercor.io Corporation needs your company’s payment details to complete payments to you.

Definitely seemed fishy, so I emailed Mercor support to confirm and got Melvin's response about how they don't use Ramp.