u/number93bus

Is a company allowed to do this? I think its pretty bad of them, and I checked their privacy statement on their website and that certainly doesn't meet any way in which they describe how they use personal information. Nothing in T&Cs either.

Its a new Australian swimwear company and I only signed up for emails since its winter and I'm not looking for a new swimsuit right now - but might be interested in knowing about them in a couple months.

I signed up to their emails on their website a day or two ago. No phone number, no personal info, just an email address. And the company today has requested to follow me on instagram. I do not follow them on insta. My account is private, there's no way they could have found me without other info except by using my email address.

It could be anything.

Uni student here. My assignments, field trips, or Big Important Tests, ALWAYS fall on my worst days and weeks.
My "crying days" are between 8 days and 5 days out from my period. My brain fog is anywhere from 9days out right up until I start bleeding or a til couple days after but typically gets much worse in the days right before. I have days where I'm so tired I literally cannot function, and people don't understand its not just a little bit tired or a little bit emotional, I literally cannot get out of bed or function in anyway and trying to think when you have brainfog as y'all know can literally make you more sick.

So as a uni student I think I get to be productive for about 8 days? Somewhere between my period ending and ovulation? Doing a fucking STEM degree and workload crammed into my best 8 days?! I can't function, it's so hard.

And there are classes where I really want to do well, professors that I respect, content of subjects that I very much enjoy.

My luteal started yesterday. Next week I have a half-day field trip in the middle of the crying days, where I have to go out into nature (and its winter here for me) with other people and do nature things and pretend I'm not sick or that everything in my world isn't falling down. I have a different test on that evening so I can't even go home once I'm done in the morning. Next weekend I have a big assignment due for a project with lots of data analysis which I haven't yet been able to do this week because stupid slug-brain won't work properly to do it (I was in bed the last 3 days with nausea and lightheadedness and fog that I couldn't even remember my lecturers name). And then the next monday is a very important test where I really wanted to do well in and I can't retain any info, that's going to be about 3-4 days out, where I'm likely to be nauseous and peak mental block days and my typical no-sleep days too.

But guess what I have due in the 2 weeks from when I get my period? NOTHING!

And looking at my assessment calendar, everything happens - again - in my next luteal phase. *Sigh.* In most cases I can't even front-load the work because the profs only release the assignments a couple of weeks ahead. And if I do get them, like I said, I'm trying to cram as much as I can, including catching up on things I've missed, into that very short period of time between my period and ovulation.

Just a ranty rant. Thanks for reading if you got this far x.

I have only ever lived in apartments, even with my mom when I was young, and always had a shared wall/floor/ceiling with neighbours. Some neighbours have been good, others not so much. But my whole life I have dreamed of living in a house. I don't think I will ever be able to afford it, I'm nearly 40 and am being priced out of even the smallest shittest apartments in my city. But I just want to know, are there any long-term apartment dwellers who ever got to live in their own house? like, truly their own house, not as a flatmate with with others? Just their own place to live that isn't connected to someone else, or with a little yard even?
Sometimes I wish I had space, not necessarily for belongings, just for my mind, not being intruded on by noise or having to keep my own noise down. What's it like without all the 'neighbour noises'? Do you start to freak out at little sounds? What's it like doing what you want in your own home? What's it like having more than two or three rooms? What were some of the biggest differences you noticed from apartments to houses? Do you have pets too? What's the biggest thing you can do now that you couldn't in an apartment? One day I hope I make it.

I won't go into details (firstly for privacy but also because I don't know her experience) but someone in one of my classes has told me that they feel unsafe, specifically that a certain tutor makes them feel unsafe. She wants to avoid all classes with them, and doesn't want to report it to the UC in case it disadvantages her. It concerns me and I want to help somehow and I tried looking on the uni and guild websites, but I don't know what options she has?
I could see she's clearly visibly upset/shaken even being in the class with him and I want her to report it.

I'm in the same unit and there are multiple tutors and its just this one apparently, and imo he's not "essential" to the class (like not a lecturer or coordinator). There aren't options to switch classes, and its a lab/workshop which means its harder to catch up on if we don't go.

And what I mean is that in all the lectures they expect us to know all these really challenging things, and the jump from high school to uni learning is (sometimes) really big. There's not really an inbetween, some subject in my first year were fine, but the professors are like "you know about this" and we're like brother no we don't. I'm in my first semester of third year now and even though I got Ds and HDs in lots of my previous units I still feel like I'm being hit with walls of information at a very complex level.
And I understand that that's why we're here, we're not supposed to know it, it's fine that we're learning and don't always get it, but some units move quickly and I just wonder is it just me or are the UC's just being optimistic (or delusional) about what we know? Because for most times I hear them say this, my friends too, we are like, no we have never come across this before we are in your class for the first time learning things now. It's not like the profs don't all talk to each other and work together and know what each other are teaching, right?
It's so hard (for me at least) when most of my subjects are like this and I'm trying to shove 4x units of complex jargon and equations in my head each week, do all the work and try to understand practically what it means at a useable and functional level. Kind of feels sometimes like nothing is sinking in and I don't understand anything, even though my grades might suggest otherwise, I'm struggling for real.

(I'm a STEM student but I know it's not just like this in STEM)

I don't want to go full-on camping, and I live in an apartment with no yard so I'd have to go somewhere. Want to obviously go to a legal spot where having a small personal fire is allowed. Just to sit and enjoy it for a while, but I would prefer to have our own little spot rather than going to a public place with a fire (so not a bar or an outdoor market, etc.) if that makes sense?

What do you need to take with you, do you need to call them first to book an appointment or do you need to go to your doctor first and then make the appointment? I don't want to get the wrong thing and then have to go back to the doctor. Who do you speak to at uniaccess?

I'm a pharmacy tech, have been dispensing medications for years. With the technology and workflows that exist, realistically how do I still have a job? E-scripts are a thing, robo dispensers are a thing, what's stopping the doctor from pushing the electronic script directly to the robot dispenser? The pharmacist on duty still checks all of my dispensing, every single pill, instructions, etc, and counsels the patients anyway (legal requirements in my country) and I feel like a middle-man. And we have a robot-dispenser in our hospital pharmacy, and when I use it honestly all I'm sadly doing is indeed "sticking a label on a box". While I'm grateful to still have a job, I am genuinely curious why I haven't been replaced yet? And I'm not even talking about "AI replacing humans", just simple tech thats existed for years now.

He's been there for a decade it can't just be shoe repair...

I think even my parents have never visited a cobbler.

Basically the title. I'm struggling to find shoes to wear that are still fashionable that go with what I wear. Typically I wear wide leg pants (and sometimes skirts) with often flowy or feminine tops or blouses. Usually a jacket in winter or a chic sweater. I often wear low heeled mules or sandals or loafers, but I love sneakers and used to live in them. But since I changed my style away from activewear and skinny jeans, I kind of don't wear sneakers anymore. I can't find a decent casual shoe that goes with what I wear, and find the chunky new balance (and similar) look to be a bit "young" (for me) and I honestly don't necessarily look good just copying the the fashion of people in their 20s. I still want an elevated look but I can't seem to find shoes for my outfits apart from some stylish loafers. What are people my age wearing on their feet and how are you styling them?

Used to go to the Morley one (but its shut now for renovations) and I went to the CBD Myer just last week to stock up and they have completely changed and compressed that entire section since I have been there last and now their selection is dismal, could barely find even half of their normal selection of brands/stockists. I haven't been to Booragoon in about a year and a half so not sure what they're like there now. I do like the brands and fragrances and I've got a gift card that I want to use!

Does anyone buy these products regularly from Myer and can comment on their current or recent in-store selection availability?

When I first started I had to do PACM and MATH1720 & MATH1721 as bridging units (mandatory prerequisites). Does anyone know when I transfer if I can leave them off of my units? The reason is that I want to have enough space to carry a second major, which I can only do if these units aren't taking up space.

This is something that's really common, I have searched and seen it written about as well. But I don't understand why.
I ask a lot of questions, if I don't know an answer, if I'm trying to understand something, etc. But majority of the time they are not received well. I could ask with the most polite tone or language, it wouldn't matter, people often feel like it's a confrontation. I have heard "people don't like being questioned" but.. how else do you find out if not for asking a question? It has even caused disagreements with people, for example colleagues or even friends. I am a small woman and not particularly someone who is seen as aggressive, but I have been told that I am rude for asking. People do not like it!

Nothing happened to mark the end, no event, no fight, no constant battles. Just one day, or perhaps over time, you stopped being the person for them. Their feelings faded, you didn't do anything wrong, the simple answer is they just stopped wanting to be with you. How tf do you deal with that and not internalise it?

In the end I was the one who left because I wanted to stop fighting for affection. Didn't make it any easier though. I didn't like what our relationship became the last few months or how he became indifferent in the end, but I didn't stop caring, you know? I just lost my person.

NOT final results, but I still have two previous outstanding assignments where marks and feedback should have been given already (it has passed the 15-working-days limit for both). These were assignments given before the final assignments/exams, so we should definitely have had the marks. Is it worth contacting the UC's?

Around that many years ago, someone stuffed up one of my accounts. I had sent the payments, and they didn't record it correctly. I think initially I thought "oh they'll notice it and fix it." But they didn't. And they kept sending me invoices for the same amount and I kept ignoring them because I had paid it. That was in 2021. The same thing happened again in 2023, and again it seemed too hard, too confrontational, I didn't want to make a big deal or tell them they were wrong. I sent an email back in January this year, saying hey, please stop sending me these invoices, I've paid them years ago. And they replied and said "sure no problem just send us copies of the payments and we'll write them off." And I should have done that, but hey, I sent an email, that was a big enough task in my mind. Why should it be on ME to fix THEIR error? Anyway, I continued avoiding it. I have enough trouble even just doing the email. So I forgot about it and for six more months they kept sending me the same invoices and I kept ignoring them.

But today I did it. I emailed them copies of all the payments. I went through all my old accounts and statements to find them. And I SENT THE DARN EMAIL.
Please pray for me that it's over now and nothing else happens, because I will crash out if they argue back with me again.

Not a shitpost.
Does anyone know what the criteria is specifically around WAM/GPA? I am a student who gets emails about these scholarships all the time (my WAM is above 85 and my GPA is over 6.7) and I'm in my 3rd year. However my dad died at the end of last year and so I haven't had that good a semester, and it's likely my averages will drop this semester. I actually don't think I'll even get a single HD, only distinctions and maybe even one C (which has never happened). I'm going to therapy but I'm just worried that my shot is going to be over for me for these scholarships now. I'm so depressed about it. Does anyone know what the criteria is around grades specifically?

I have a 4000 word essay and I've written about 3070 words. The assessment says 4000 words (+/- 10%) and I know this usually refers to going over the limit, but can I write less? The only thing stated in the unit outline says

>"Where a submitted assignment exceeds the word limit, a penalty of 1 per cent of the total mark allocated for the assessment task applies for each 1 per cent in excess of the word limit, or the marking ceases once the word limit is reached."

But there's nothing on going under. There's nothing in the assignment outline or in the rubric either that mentions it. I genuinely can't think of another 500+ words to put in or anything else to write about when I've covered all the facts already.