Ya that’s our employment insurance. Glad you were able to get back on your feet!

Many many years ago I worked a job where we had to keep an eye on the call center call queue/employees call status on the phone.

Someone always has to keep an eye on it, so if you need to go for a break, even just to use the washroom, if you’re the only one on shift, you asked one of the team leads to watch it.

Had been like that for years.

Well, we had a brand new manager for our team who was an offsite manager at another call center, and my other coworker was in a very long meeting that day so I was all alone watching things.

I was really hungry, feeling sick from it, so I asked one of the team leads as usual to watch things while I took a break and went across the street to grab some fast food and come back.

Well, while I was gone for like 10minutes, the manager had called our desk (we have voice mail) and realized no one was there.

He reamed me out for having left the desk unattended, and how I should have waited for my coworkers meeting to end which wasn’t ending anytime soon.

Didn’t care that I’d had a TL cover for me as we’d always done.

Next day, HR calls me into their office and puts me on formal notice for it.

I quit the next day. Fuck that shit.

Were you on EI still when you found the job?

That’d be a fun story to tell them why you need to restart it.

He said they could make a bomb in a couple weeks if needed. No specifics on delivery or quality.

Edit: sounds like kyiv is denying the claim made by some insider. So guess this isn’t likely true.

It tastes good, but i feel pretty guilty doing it

I don’t do it often, but pasta with a cream of mushroom or clam chowder soup.

Maybe not too weird, but that’s probably as weird as it gets.

There were some patent fights involved that resulted in features being altered.

That cant explain it all though.

Just any voice assistant in the kitchen to set cooking timers.

Are they worried people will bypass a speed limiter and go faster on the 1000w motor?

Terrible thing that’d get implemented in a terribly invasive way and be used in harmful manners, but it does make me wonder though if there’d be a way to do this with a cryptographic zero knowledge proof.

It’d probably need to be a biometric scan otherwise you could just share a pin or password (not that you can’t fake a fingerprint either…but it’s a bit more of a barrier…) but the idea that when you get your photo ID, it comes with a USB stick like a yubikey (edit and it has a fingerprint reader), and activating it proves you’re over a specific age without leaking any information about who you are.

Websites know you’re over an age. They get 0 information aside from that, and it’s impossible to ever track who you are even from the government.

Edit: and it wouldn’t need to be a single specific age, the zero knowledge proof could answer any question about your age assuming you choose to proceed after the website asks. It could also be restricted to a single age as well.

So apologize if you feel you need to and use the cash you put behind your phone in case of emergency if need be.

That’s their problem not yours.

Not sure why someone would downvote your opinion and relevant story there…

It still seems relevant enough though for the time being. Getting the stink eye isn’t a no, and maybe you’ll have to be a little picky on where.

Still better than not having it at all though.

Could throw a couple quarters in there just in case as well

Put $20-50 behind your phone in the phone case.

If you ever forget / lose your wallet, you’ll have a little cash.

I heard it tastes better.

I’d be surprised if any insurance worldwide didn’t take things into account as described.

Even more important to get it sooner than later.

Maximum discount is usually somewhere around 20years so you’re already going into your 50s before you can get that now if you ever decide to drive in the future.

So, I skimmed all the answers and I think everyone is ignoring a critically important aspect.

As others have said, yes you should get your license for the flexibility it’ll give you. You never know when your life circumstances might change and you need a car, and with graduated licensing it may be over a year or two before you have a full license.

Now let’s say you decide fuck it and don’t get it.

You turn 45 and you finally need it for some reason so you get it.

How many years have you had your license when you then go to insure your first car?

0 years

You know what that means? They’ll wreck you on insurance. Even the idea of getting something semi nice (I mean you’re 45 and can afford it) will cost you thousands more in premiums for years to come.

However if you get your license today, if you were hypothetically 16, that’s 29 years of ‘experience’ that various insurers will count, and you’ll have exceptionally better premiums.

Not getting it ASAP is going to cost more and more money every year you delay it, up to many thousands of dollars in the future, if you ever change your mind.