Ugh I hate those owl café videos :( The owls always look miserable, they’re solitary nocturnal animals forced to be awake during the day for people to interact with them

A (likely secondhand) PS5 because a game I really want, Digimon Story Time Stranger, releases this year! That’s my biggest goal right now, but aside from that there’s also some albums and Tamagotchi I want to buy eventually haha

Nope there’s a form we compile for them where they give us either their IBAN or credit card number (just the number and expiry date not the secret code) alongside the name DOB and civic code. They keep a copy of it since it’s tax deductible too. I actually don’t really know exactly how it works because so far my team leader has been the one doing all the paperwork for me

Oh this is 100% legal here in Italy! It’s called commission based income (or something like that) and there’s no minimum wage here either (I worked for €5/hour at another job…) so it’s not a scam. Scummy for sure lol but completely legal.

If not Indeed is there anything else you’d recommend? I landed my previous jobs through connections and never really learned how to look for work online for as pathetic as that sounds haha. Genuinely the basic office job paying €800/month has been my goal for the past few years but they’re much harder to get than I thought they’d be, or maybe I just have no idea what I’m doing lol

Good on you for warning others honestly! That wounds dreadful, yikes

This place is very upfront about the fact they expect people to quit since they mostly hire high school/university students (another reason I don’t like it here, I’m in my 30s and older than everyone…) so that’s good, my problem is that I’m unfortunately a people pleaser and hate the idea of letting my team leader down after she’s been so nice to me haha. I know it doesn’t really matter and it’s something I just need to get over but it’s easier said than done lol

Oh totally!! I don’t have reason to think they would try to scam me but better safe than sorry

Oh man sounds crazy lmao!! With how incompetent they sound I find it hard to imagine they lasted much longer after you left

Oh I won’t add this to my CV at all lol so no worries there

Sky puppy!!

Ohh interesting! So would her chromosomes be XXY?

They’re gorgeous!! I’m curious, what do you mean by hermaphrodite?

Immediately thought of Sonic Adventure 2 lol I’ve never met anyone who actually owned a pair (I don’t think they ever made it to Europe but I might be wrong)

Huh I actually never considered that, thanks! I’ll chuck it in the machine next time I wash my dog’s harness

He looks like he’s about to ask me if I have games on my phone

I got one this morning!! Immediately clocked it as a scam lol. I didn’t delete it but it disappeared from my inbox so I guess the account was closed

I feel like of all places to try and scam people lemmy is… Not a good choice? From what I’ve seen (and I haven’t been around too long tbf) the community gravitates towards more tech-savvy and educated people, so unlikely to fall for scams like these. They’d have better luck on Facebook probably, just attach an AI-generated Jesus and they’d make mad cash lmao

I got a wired wired XBox360 controller at GameStop 10 years ago for a really good price and it works wonders! I’m on Windows 8.1 and for most games it doesn’t require any sort of configuration either, I just plug it in and it works right away

The real tragedy here is that with the OP deleted I doubt we’ll get a follow-up. How am I meant to sleep without knowing if this man managed to go three days without shitting??

Mh, not sure how I feel about these. On one hand, as someone who mostly buys games secondhand, I appreciate they can be resold unlike actual digital releases. But what’s going to happen in 15-20 years when Nintendo pulls the plug on the Switch servers and eShop? Won’t these stop working? So at that point it’s just a piece of plastic whereas physical cartridges would still let you play games. Feel free to correct me if I’m misunderstanding how they work!

Omg it turns out I was following you there already?? Small world haha!