@@Liggliluff a lot of women’s clothing isn’t made with pockets, and those few garments that are (like jeans) have very shallow pockets. Women can’t buy garments with pockets if they aren’t for sale. The market doesn’t care whether women want pockets; the industry decides what is fashionable, not the consumer. The only real solution is to sew your own pockets which isn’t that hard to do, just time consuming
this is a pretty minor thing but how we treat teenagers. they are too young to know what they're talking about too old to not be in the loop. they get told to go outside more, everywhere they go to hang around people asume they're up to somthing. people get to one day decide that NOW they're all grown up enough to take responsibility for everything and are expected to cope with that. obviously not all teens expirience this but enough do and it's just annoying to me.
This relates so much to a post I read some time ago which was something along the lines of “How do you expect new students to live independently when a few months ago they had to ask to use the restroom?”
OMG, the assuming teens are up to something when they’re just vibing in front of a store or something! As long as they’re not blocking the door or traffic and they don’t leave a huge mess, they should be allowed to be there. This is especially true considering that not all teens have the money to spend in the store/coffee shop/bowling alley/whatever, and their homes might not be hangout-friendly. Kids with bad home lives take as much time outside the house as possible. They just need a space to *be* without anyone picking at them.
Literally! I used to stay in and my mum would get at me to go out with my friends, I'd go out and shed guilt me into staying in! And because most things to do outside made for teenagers cost money, that teenagers dont often have, they end up just, hanging around and getting moved on by security or the owners of whatever is near them, where are they meant to go?
Another issue tied into this is how teenagers are shunned for their clothing style. So many teens are insecure, so they naturally wear baggy clothing and the like but then they get accused of being up to no good. You see a trouble maker in baggy clothing to steal something from a shop, when in actuality they're just trying to hang out whilst trying to not feel so insecure (especially in the current climate of social media)
I think about this often, I feel bad for teenagers growing up right now. They have no where they can go safely without spending money. When I was around 12-15 we hung out at the mall a lot and we able to see friends in a sort of safe environment without supervision and adult clubs had middle school and high school dance nights , but malls are basically dead now and idk if nights like that exist anymore. A lot of places won’t hire people under 18 so less spending money for them, public transportation absolutely sucks in most places in the US so its hard to get around. Coronavirus made it worse. Yet, people get on their case for not being able to socialize or spending too much time socializing on social media. Even I near 30 get most of my social interaction online in the past year. Its like what exactly do you want them to do?
I agree- it took my friend almost 2 years of volunteering to get enough experience to get an entry level job as a countryside ranger (in the UK). Even after a year he was getting turned down for low paid entry level roles because someone else had more experience or had paid experience. Everyone he has met in the sector has done at least 1 year of full time volunteering before they got their first job. And they wonder why they lack diversity, so many people could not afford to do that!
@@catherinetyndale1734 so young people have to spend years working for free before they can start earning to support themselves. Expenses like bills and rent don't wait for you to build up enough experience so neither should your means of paying them.
@@catherinetyndale1734 its took my gf almost 3 years to get volunteer position manning the till in a charity shop bc they all wanted experience. You dont need it but they dont take u on if you dont have it
What totally wrong thing is not considered wrong anymore?: Definitely sacrificing your mental health for success in school and crying because you are overwhelmed or even having panic attacks or developing mental illnesses. In my school my friends and I all had to sort of be forced to stay at home if we were sick because we didn’t want to miss class for the day. Also students kind of expecting teachers and parents to disagree with their dream jobs.
This reminds me of NHS. All my friends were in it but I've always been behind in math, its never made sense to me so it dragged my GPA down and when everyone started getting invitation letters to NHS or even NJHS It really made me feel stupid, and like I didn't try hard enough even though I took honors and AP classes, and genuinely tried hard. Math really was awful to me emotionally, and senior year my counselor said I should drop Trig pre calc and take an easier math and I felt dumb and like a quitter but it was making my life a living hell, but dropping it was really the best decision I ever made.
Oh yeah this is a huge problem. Especially during the time we had to stay home from school because of covid, I struggled a lot with feeling super guilty for taking literally any breaks. I didn't get much done in class because of how stressed out I was (a lot of which was because of exacerbated mental illness) and because of that I more or less never ate breakfast or lunch on weekdays because taking those twenty minutes off from school would send me into a panic attack. In-person, both pre- and post- stay at home, is just so incredibly stressful, especially for someone like me who is in a gifted and talented program and two years advanced math without issue in terms of understanding but struggles a lot with the work load (having a long-term research project for 3/4 of my core classes at the same time equals a lot of work after school, a lot of all-nighters, and no sick days because if you take a single day off you come back and suddenly you understand nothing). Plus the number of panic attacks I've had in the stairwell between classes is kind of ridiculous. Also yeah, teachers and parents being so rude about dream jobs is annoying. Like, they're dream jobs. Most of the time the person who has them knows that they're unrealistic, but even so, it's good to have something to aim for! For instance, my dream job has always been to be an author. I love writing and it would be great to be able to do that as a career. Despite that, I am well aware that most authors don't make nearly enough to be able to support themselves full time and that even if I'm able to publish a book or two someday, I'll most likely have to have a day job as well. Having dreams doesn't make you dumb or pathetic or unrealistic, it just means you have something to shoot for! Sorry for this lowkey essay and also messy sentence structure.
@@lania2246 What does NHS mean? I am German and don't really know much about the American school system. In my school it was generally expected to be be bad at math. In Germany you can leave school after 10 years instead of 12 if you want to work in a job that doesn't require you going to university or you can do the extra 2 years and after that go to university. Some people nearly couldn't graduate because they didn't pass our math class. I find it really interesting that there are different difficulties of classes that you can take because in my state in Germany when you do 11th and 12th grade you chose two courses that are advanced and all the other courses are on a basic level. I can just imagine how it must be if you could do advanced courses for every subject and were kinda expected to do so.
I find it weird how our generation (speaking as a millennial) does involve the dads more with their kids, but fathers saying they're "babysitting" their OWN children or how it's "mum's day off" is still really common.
to be fair children generally prefer to be hanging off of mom and if given a choice they'll choose mom almost every time this is especially true with daughters even when they're in a phase where they want to hang out with Dad, anything that happens they automatically gravitate to Mom if she's present. I think between toddler and puberty boys tend to gravitate more towards dad for a while after puberty it's kind of a toss-up that depends on the relationship. obviously there's exceptions to this, I tried to be one of those dads that it was all about equal time. I changed diapers did laundry stayed home with them when they were sick, but when I came to trying to take some of the stress away from their mother it was an uphill battle. if they woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare they didn't come to me they went to their mother even when they were infants I'd be like honey you keep sleeping I'll take care of it and they wouldn't accept me at all, apparently I was chopped liver.
I have never heard of a father saying they are babysitting their own kids. I have however had people say too me on far too many occasions "Oh how nice are you babysitting today to give mum a break?" No, I'm raising my damn children!
@@janani1826 We're way past Gen Y at this point. Millenials are Gen Y (the oldest ones almost being in their 40s), the "current" one is Gen Z. Not sure what could come after it, alphabeitcally, maybe we'll give the umlauts are bit more love 😂 I'd love a Gen ä/ö/ü or something silly along these lines.
Attendance certificates and the expectation that children attend no matter what is ableist and picks out the children that are already prone to bullying. It also teaches - very early on - that regardless of how you feel (physically and mentally) you must attend school/work
also the idea that if someone if off they should be able to go in the next day and keep up like no if i was off being ill i have not yet caught up on your work thank you very much i was busy trying to get better i at the very least need to not be expected to know what you taught the day before
Me and my daughter both have EDS. Due to this my daughter will never have an 100% attendance, and the fact she is punished because she's sick isn't fair on her
@@bananasplit6048 yeah, while I was rarely ever sick I still hated those teachers who were all "You spend a week at home, you should've been studying". And especially because they just expected someone to bring you all the notes and homework and inform you on everything you were supposed to do like daily, when best case scenario would be one of your friends giving you limited info just before you came back to school.
Its really interesting now to see the same thing happening with both schools and workplaces regarding working from home. When it was just chronically ill/disabled people that needed it, it was apparently impossible - suddenly when all the able bodied people needed it, they worked it out. I'm really hoping we're about to see a revolution in how we treat being unable to physically get to a school/workplace (provided they are actually well enough to concentrate of course).
Heres my answer: we accept the whole "the customer is always right" quote as law in retail and hospitality. When in reality the quote is misunderstood, it merely means the customer knows what they want more than you, not that they in every situation are in the right. I think we've accepted far too much that we have to as employees we are to cater to every damn need of people, your needs are just as Important as dear old Deborah's who's shown up at your store 10 mins to closing time with no regard for you because she felt she needed to search for grapes at this time.
"the customer is always right" has never meant anything. it started as an advertisement tagline for Selfridge's department store. that's all. It's like going into any clothing store and demanding they follow the "I like the way you look" guarantee even though it's both not a real guarantee and not even the tagline for their store.
When Karen's stop getting what when want by being Karens they will stop acting like that. You don't reward a toddler that threw a tantrum about not getting a toy by giving them a toy.
Yep, the guy who came up with it was telling those who were buying the stock for their shops that irrespective of what _you_ would like to sell, what is "right" for the shop is what the customer wants to buy. So you supply what they want or go under. From the stories I've heard, mainly via reddit readings, about the lengths shops will go to in the USA for customer service (above and beyond is an understatement - the customers are taking the piss and the shops let them do it!), I keep wanting to scream at the managers and tell them why they are so wrong! TBH, I think that at least in part (and it's a big part), this 'give the customer what they want' attitude has encouraged the rise of "The Karen". Fortunately, most shops here in the UK aren't quite so ready to cut their own throats to please those who don't deserve it, but as in all things, when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. It's creeping over here and as a customer, I don't like it!
actually it should be considered part of the "ideology" of sales. it's not really supposed to be taken literally, and you'd be hard-pressed to find any business that actually does, because if they did they wouldn't make any money and they would just go out of business. other concepts that are included in that "ideology" are: "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar", "upsell upsell upsell", "talk to the husband but sell to the wife", "Greet every customer as they come through the door", "ABC = always be selling|always be cleaning|always be smiling" "recover as you go" ... and many more. and I know all this without ever having worked in sales or at a retail job, although I do work a job that's on the periphery of retail... essentially it's just a series of phrases from backroom sales posters designed to help keep you from aggroing a herd of Karen's and instead get them to spend money on things. or at least get them to spend money on things whether you aggro them or not
The fact that many fathers are so uninvolved in their children's lives to the point they don't even know what school their children go to, their birthdays, or even their age and we just say "that's how dads are" or that mothers are shamed way more than fathers for being a "bad parent"
My daughters biological father (in also her father but I'm trans) isn't involved in her life, and he tells everyone it's because I told him to stay away being a bitch. I was actually groomed by him. I was 14, he was 21/22, he sexually assaulted me, I have extrem ptsd due to this. I keep him away from her because he's dangerous and she's a young girl (his prime pray) Yet I get told I'm a bad parent because I keep him away from her. For both of our safety, because of rumors he's spread, people I don't know tell me I'm a bad parent when they have only herd his side of the story, I have a damn restraining order against him, yet yeah... I'm the bad one for keeping a dangerous dirty man away from my child
Tell me about it. They try to act like they don’t have to know. They ask the same question. I get so annoyed they don’t make an effort when I tell them. It’s like why bother telling them when they’re going to forget.
@@wolfzmusic9706 Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Sounds more like the generation my parents grew up in (= early/mid-60s), where the mother was at home 24/7 and the father hustled his butt off working and being too tired to do literally anything after he came home from work (maybe pop open a beer). My dad was super involved in my life even though he worked a rough, physically demanding job. That's never an excuse to be a shitty/ignorant parent and I naively hope that there're many more good fathers out there than bad ones nowadays.
@@wolfzmusic9706 when my dad was ordering my new birth certificate he asked me "what year were you born, when is your birthday, and what hospital were you born in" some parents just don't gaf
@my AP Lang teacher who gave us one essay all of second semester and didn’t give it back until 3 months later 3 days before the AP test with no feedback who also wouldn’t accept work that was due at the beginning of class one day that students hadn’t been able to print because the school printer was broken.
@L so what you’re saying is that capitalism is the problem. doesn’t matter if the work is good or not because you’re basically getting graded on whether it abides by the office system
At my uni in the UK the deadline for assignments that counted towards our final grade was 3 weeks from the final submission time, that seems like a fairer system. I think they did still have to get checked after to ensure the grading was accurate but none of my grades were ever changed.
Neglect of women's health issues, from specific ones like endometriosis to more general ones like how some disorders present differently in women. I'm an ASD woman who wasn't diagnosed until age 28, & have an online friend with endometriosis who took at least ten years to get a diagnosis, because the medical profession has disregarded women's health for so long. Meanwhile I've lost count of the amount of women (check out the subreddit AutismInWomen) who have been misdiagnosed or not diagnosed until their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s etc, while most boys are diagnosed in childhood. This sorely needs to change
I'm a guy, and when I was diagnosed with autism around age 6ish, my parents got briefed on what autism was, how it would affect me, and all that. My dad supposedly said to my mum "You know, [my sister] is a lot like these symptoms too... She probably has this as well", but mum refused to have her assessed (sis was about 11). Sure enough she is now looking to get diagnosed in her late 20s because it's disrupting her life in noticable ways. That said, there were quite a few other kids in my school's "Learning support" department, around my age, who were girls with ADHD/ASD. So maybe the gradient of change was already well underway back then.
This!! I had a very difficult time carrying kids and only found out after my third miscarriage (which almost killed me) that I had a fibroid. At least two OBGYNs knew about it but didn't say anything. The third just shrugged and said, "It's fine. Just keep trying." I saw a specialist who said the last was full of shit and if I had conceived again, my widower would have grounds to sue. (So that was fun.)
I am lucky that I’ve never had anything severe but have noticed that also a hell of a lot of physical symptoms are blamed on periods before the doctor will take anything seriously. Took the doctors forever to acknowledge my dizzy spells took fainting and breaking my front teeth before they took anything seriously.
I feel I was so neglected when I got my diagnosis for ASD. I was what, 15? The psychologist assigned to my case got me the diagnosis, then shrugged and said "Oh, well, it's too late to help you now. If you were younger we could have worked with correcting your development, but it's too late now. Good luck kiddo!" She also ignored my attempts at saying things weren't too good at home. I'm now 24, without any work experience, and only barely scraping through university, I have dystymia and depression and anxiety, and probably trauma-related plurality too, seeing as I never got to be myself in a healthy environment for me. On a brighter note, I have a wonderful boyfriend who's giving me all the love and support I never knew I sorely missed in my childhood. I'm slowly getting better.
as a student on half term who's exams start as soon as we go back teachers expecting/requiring us to work over the holidays especially those who refuse to work over holidays because they need a break then give us loads of work to do over the holidays
I totally agree! They should be promoting a healthy work life balance instead of expecting us to work all the time. I personally think homework should be abolished. There should be an extra hour of independent study at school instead so that students keep and are taught to have a healthy work life balance without lacking anything in their education. We shouldn't need to think about school or work once we come home.
Yep. Homework is also such a wildly different experience depending on the family situation. The rich kid who can afford a tutor, the poor kid who's parents aren't around to help them because they're working, the kid who has younger siblings to look after before they do their work, the kid who's parents didn't get much of an education themselves, or the one who's parents actively get in the way of their work through neglect or abuse. We can't expect every kid to be able to do any work at home at all, or to be able to devote the same time and effort to it, when we know that a significant number of kids don't even get reliable _meals_ at home, let alone quiet, productive homework time.
@@ChickenOfAwesome i don’t feel like the solution is to abolish homework though. The issues that make doing work at home difficult need to be addressed; give kids access to healthy meals through schools, lift families out of poverty etc. The value that kids get out of contact hours at school could also be increased. There are some subjects that kids will just never learn without revising at home; 30 hours of school a week (much of it not spent learning) just isn’t enough, and time with teachers should be used for learning the new and clarifying the old. Otherwise kids waste a lot of time in class doing the manual repetitive work that would be assigned for homework.
Agree, my school didn't do this but they did cram most of our exams into three weeks and then left a week long gap between then and our last exam for no reason
On the school attendance thing, I remember having exactly the same conversation with my teachers. I have a periodic paralysis disability, namely Andersen Tawil Syndrome, it it meant that - on occasions - my mobility would be impaired, or non-existent, and I would be unable to attend school. One particular year had more bout of extreme muscle weakness than normal, and my end of year report showed an attendance rating of 79%. Now, my school considered an attendance rating below 80%, as mine was, to be a cause for concern, and this meant I had to have a meeting with one of the teachers. By meeting, they - effectively - meant a detention. I explained, rather eloquently for the 15 year old I was at the time, that to punish me for low attendance, to punish me for something beyond my control, to punish me when I had a freaking disability, was wrong, and technically discriminatory. The teacher conceded the point, and we sat in silence for the rest of the 1/2 hour 'meeting'. I had hoped that, even if the teacher wasn't going to let me go, they'd understanding enough to relay my concerns to a higher authority. No such luck. The next year I was more fortunate, I scraped an 81% attendance rating, so no detention, but my end of year report still reflected my lower attendance. Now, let me make it absolutely clear that on each occasion of absence, one of my parents - as the school couldn't trust a student to know if they were unwell - had called in, and made it known that I was incapacitated, Even on one occasion when I had to go to hospital, when a sickness during a weak period meant that I was unable to medicate my weakness - I was unable to ingest anything orally - and I had to be placed on a drip to be able to recover, my mother rang in from my hospital-bed-side. Despite all this, despite the fact that these were all authorised absences, and so not illegal, the school recorded each occasion as a black mark on my report. Also, point of fact, this all happened in a UK school, which - I gather - meant to be more understanding of that sort of thing than schools in other countries. So yeah, the school system's obsession with attendance, and absence, is rather problematic.
Not everything about my countries education is good but before Your comment I thought it common in other countries as well. We have 3 different types of absences in school (parents need to call them in (in most cases)): Sick - when student is sick; Other - completely different reason than sick but all authorised (like a competition), and Unauthorised - all absences that have not been given a real reason for absence and only these are cause for concerns, only about these are, firstly, parents informed, then school administration and, if it is really needed, police.
In what world is a 80% attendance alright? My parents would get a call from school if I missed 1 hour! Which they should, of course. But if you had a legitimate reason to be absent, nobody would count the attendance... if you had the marks to pass, you passed. It's that simple.
That's so true about the perfect attendance thing. I remember when I was 8, I had tonsilitis and then got a reaction to the medication so I spent a week or 2 off school and because of that I could only have 1 go on the bouncy castle at the end of the school year while almost everyone else had multiple turns. For a kid, that's really upsetting. It's not like you choose to be sick.
As a kid who had a very unstable home life and was chronically ill due to what they eventually figured out was an anxiety disorder causing physical illness. I totally agree! I didn’t choose the life I was given!
The worst example I can think of for the work experience is when a company demanded five years of experience in a programming language that came out three years prior. Can’t remember the exact one.
The OP's comment literally sounds like some BS investing banking nonsense they force on applicants. Then I see SWIFT comments and I'm like, "yup, called it."
As much as I can imagine you were happy receiving a perfect attendance reward, it is effectively saying "congratulations on having a better immune system than someone else" which is not something you can control and it's just kind of icky and bad.
I remember feeling bad as a kid that I couldn’t get the perfect attendance award because I had to go to eye and orthodontist appointments every once and a while. The fact that they would make me feel bad for having bad teeth and eyes is kind of fucked up.
it literally makes no sense especially with young kids bc it’s not even like they can independently get to school??? it’s nothing to do with them it’s up to their parents.
I think trying to achieve that perfect attendance award can also create some unhealthy behaviors later in life such as showing up to work when you really aren't fit to be there that particular day but it's been a habit all your life to "be there" physically. In light of a recent pandemic, this has only painted a darker picture.
Yeah, that's horrible. I was a sick kid. I had a heart condition that was discovered during winter holidays in first grade. The grade you learn to read and write in essentially. Good thing I knew how to read already. I literally didn't attend school at all the entire second semester. The teacher created an exam for me and I made 1 mistake in it. So I went to grade 2 with the rest of the class. I literally missed an entire semester of school and went on to be the best student every year of my studies until Uni. I'm pretty sure the kids will be ok missing a day here and there. Like I continued to do for the rest of my education. I would have lost my mind if my country had such a thing as attendance awards.
So with the showing your kids on camera thing I tend to be on the side of it's ok providing it's done with care, moderation, at the child's wishes (never forcing them to be on camera) and with thought to their future wishes. No one wants their childhood tantrum online forever but I don't see harm in say a fun video doing crafts together every few months. Ultimately it should be up to the individual parent unless they cross the line into harming their child by it.
Yeah, I think there is no clear line when it comes to this. But a lot of family vloggers seem to have 90% of their content just be filming their kids all day long and it's not like they have the vlogs alongside any regular content where they talk to the camera on certain topics. It's all just filming the family all day every day. If filming yourself like that is a job, then filming your kids means it's their job. Your pre-schooler shouldn't have a job.
@@tinnie75 yeah that's crossing a line for me. The UK has child labour laws about how many hours a child can work in a row, be on set ect and I think a similar set should apply to youtubers. A cameo, one video every few months ect should be OK but for anything more than that there should be a defined set of rules and laws in place to protect children from exploitation and there should be rules within UA-cam and other platforms about what they can and post. Like none of those cruel "prank" videos where they make their children cry or anything else that could be classed as emotionally disturbing.
I view with the scale that if you would find it cute, embarrassing or horrifying if it was you in the video. Like crafts cool, tantrum depending on age not so cool and things that could impact jobs or my future horrrifying
I don't know, I've heard so many stories about kids being abused because they didn't perform correctly for their UA-camr parents that I'm suspicious of any activity like that. I think a, "Here's my baby, isn't she cute" and going on to something else is way more acceptable than "My kids are now going to do this activity for the camera"
@@elaexplorer I think it depends on how it's done. I follow a UA-camr with kids and sometimes her eldest helps her with crafts or comes in to say hello mid video and that sort of thing because she likes to pretend she's mommy but the younger one doesn't like being on camera most of the time so we don't see him. She always asks if she wants to and if she doesn't or she gets bored and leaves she says ok so I think that's an ok way to have your kids on camera. Any "family" UA-camr or anyone who has a set schedule for when their kids have to be on camera and that sort of thing are automatically bad in my opinion though.
When you are answering a question on a test and you loose marks for PHRASING AN ANSWER DIFFERENTLY THAN THE TEACHER WANTED. This has happened to me so many times. I answered the question correctly and the answer made perfect sense yet I didn’t get marks for it
Oof i feel this one so much, even if the teacher understands what you are trying to say they are like it doesn't match the testing scheme i can't give you the marks.
I'm glad that the more complex maths stuff always gave a maximum of 3 points. - one for the right answer - one for the right calculation (to show that you understand the subject and actually did the calculations) - and one for wrapping that result into a sentence. And that gets super annoying when it happens to be that one topic you can do in your head and basically got the right answer on your brain's short dial.
Thanks for reminding me I do not need to reply to emails outside of work hours because I got an email on Friday evening that I did not reply to and I have felt bad about it all weekend (but not bad enough to actually reply)
Having to study over weekends Like I understand it for exceptional circumstances, or exams etc, but I'm in my final year at uni in the UK and it's to the point where some of my friends and I genuinely get anxiety when we decide to take like a couple hours off on a Saturday to sit in the sun. My friend had a full on panic attack once because she "didn't do enough work" on a Sunday. Like It's all just bullshit This is the skillset we're sent into the working world with? How to burn yourself out? No thank you. I get hw is necessary etc but there has to be a better way to learn than to have it on your mind 24/7 for the majority of the first 21 years of your life
I'm a second year law student and I've decided just to study in the weekends if I can help it. My grades might suffer but my mental health needs a break more
Well, it kinda comes down to the way you manage your time and to how reasonably your uni estimates the hours of work you need to put in for your courses (usually the estimate is 8 hours a week per course), however, I do not understand why they are allowed to have exams on the weekends
Went to a school with a 40h+ school week, around 6 different subjects a day, and homework in about half of them, not including possible projects of the other half of subjects. We also had 1-3 grade defining tests/exams per week for months, and yet still every teacher felt obligated to throw as much stuff as us students over the weekend as possible. Homework didn't do anything for those that already understood everything, and didn't help those that actually needed help.
My school sends out emails and sets homework with out telling us sometimes. if i’m on my weekend break, i’m not gonna check my homework assignments unless u wanna give me less homework because that is just wasted time.
Mine does the same! A few weeks ago my science teacher litrally set an assignment at 9:45pm DUE FOR THE NEXT DAY. I understand setting them at like 4:30pm but like why would I check my school email after around 6pm?
Or when teachers mention it in passing in the lesson, forget to put it on whenever they set your homework, and then shout at you for not doing it. I'm lucky as my mum will always defend me if a teacher tries to call her to tell me off
the affect school has on mental health. Currently studying for my mocks (not even actual gcses) and three of my friends have messaged me today in tears - and I myself have been constantly on the verge of tears for the past 4 days now. How is this ok? How is this normalised??
Its amazing the pressure they put on GCSEs at school - I remember being so stressed about them as a teenager... and now I'm an adult and literally no one could care any less what GCSE results I got. Its so cruel what they do to you at that age for a qualification that is so meaningless later on!
I was so stressed about mocks this year but my cousin (a year older) has left school and has been accepted into college with her highest grade being a 5 or 6, lowest a 4. My predicted grades are always above 5 so that's good, except my teachers are always trying to stres us out as our school is always top of the exam board
GCSEs don't mean much when you get older. My partner got onto a degree with 2 C grade GCSEs and an E. I wish I had someone tell me this when I was younger. If I have children I'll tell them - Get maths, get English lang and lit, and get 2 more all above whatever C grade is now and you'll be fine. Unless you want to get into academics then they get a little more important then. But in a normal life they don't mean that much over the age of about 18.
@@awkwardlykim I knowww but schools pressure kids so much it's not fair. I have diagnosed anxiety and depression yet theyre always stressing me to do well cause I'm a 'good student'. Why aren't we allowed to enjoy education for what it is? Knowledge is amazing but the exam and school system ruins ir
I know you've already got a bunch of replies to this but I'll add to them. It's shit you stress about your GCSEs, I did too. Mocks were actually worse for me as I got super low grades and was convinced I wouldn't pass the core subjects (somehow I did) As has already been commented below, the only ones that really matter are english and maths, even then your sixth form/college should offer you the chance to retake them. I went to a college and a bunch of people there were able to retake their maths and english (people of all ages from 16 to those in their 30s and 40s) No idea if this is of any comfort to you and your mates! Also good luck with your exams, mocks and the real stuff
s a student: the fact that at least one person will end up in tears EVERY SINGLE EXAM SEASON in every year and tbh 1 student is a very low amount usually more but as an absolute bare minimum
One good thing about teacher assessment has been way fewer exams (I know year 11s this year did assessments but they were less informal than GCSEs). Unfortunately, I’ll probably have my exams next year
Yes, I also wrote a comment about that. You are basically meant to make good grades your only life goal and people crying and being overwhelmed with the work are nothing new at this point.
And it is so annoying that as year 10s we are expected to not only catch up (and revise at home) all the work we missed in lockdown, but to also sit through exams even though we've been through the same thing as year 11s. It also sucks for the teachers, in history we had to cover weimar Germany in 4 lessons
@@Lee.Smells Bear in mind that, when it comes to your exams next year (as, indeed, in every year) the results are normalised across the whole cohort. What that means is that the examiners know that papers will vary in difficulty from year to year but expect that each cohort (group of students taking the exam) will have roughly the same spread of ability. Therefore, to be fair, the grade boundaries are adjusted to give the same grade distribution. In the case of cohorts affected by the impact of school closures and lockdowns, the raw marks may be lower but the grade boundaries will also move downwards, thus not disadvantaging the group as a whole. It is arguable that there may be some long term disadvantage as students will have a less secure foundation going on to colleges or universities but as this affects the whole group the establishments should be able to adjust to offer additional support where required. Bottom line: don't stress about it! Teachers and examiners know there has been disruption and will do everything possible to compensate.
@@MrPaulMorris As someone who comes from a poorer part of the country and is currently studying in year 10, it is very clear that people from families in more secure financial situations have not been disrupted anywhere near as badly as those from lower income households. This means that the spread will be much greater which many fear will cause them to get unfairly low grades. As well as this, having a good or bad teacher in a particular subject has caused an even greater disparity in knowledge as being out of the classroom meant that the resources provided were often lacking of a teacher couldn’t (for any reason) provide as good teaching as another teacher
How about that a handful of huge companies that we have no say in, now have more power than most countries in the world, and there's apparently nothing we can do about it?
The individually wrapped fruit that's presliced is for people with dexterity issues. People got so angry about it a few years ago that some stores stopped selling it, taking away some didabled people's ability to indeependantly get tgeur own fruit. Annie elainey has a good video on it.
Definitely; having pre-peeled oranges is great for those people who can't exactly peel them. But I don't get why they have to stock up so much on it, like they expect everyone to having issues peeling oranges.
Just adding on that thoose conveniences are useful for people with invisible illness and disability as well. It can also be useful for lots of mental illness where you just don't have that kind of energy. I'd also add really useful if you have to work a lot and this sort of convenience can still add some health to your diet!
"cost of higher eduction" - those €15 I spent on tuition for 5 years at uni (bachelors + masters) sure weren't easy to find. Got to love continental Europe.
@@toroallin5734 When in France I never had to buy textbooks, we were given a "workbook" for each module at the beginning of each semester (written by the module head professor and printed by the university). Spent a semester in Canada, fees were covered by my French uni, but textbooks were really expensive.
Scottish person here! If a Scottish resident goes to a Scottish University then we get free tuition (if we go to one in the rest of the UK it's around 10000 a year. English and welsh students attending pay around that too. Irish and European students pay less, I think, will have to check) Textbooks are expensive, but nowhere near as bad as in the US. I think it cost around £150 for all of mine. Accommodation you pay for, but there is opportunities for bursarys (money you don't pay back) for lower income/disadvantaged households
So cool for you to shout out bernadette banner! She makes great informational content for anyone who is interesting in clothing history. Love when I see favs supporting favs
100% agree on the creepy family vlogging situation. I think tom daley has done a really good job on his channel with his and lance’s son robbie. Robbie’s face is never on camera and he is talked about/ shown when something interesting happens but isn’t the main point of any videos.
With the attendance certificates thing: I feel like getting a reward for attendance and punctuality is fine so long as children who don't get it aren't made to feel bad about their attendance. What I think should be done to make this fairer is not count sick days towards children's attendance. This is what happened at my college when students had to self isolate because of coronavirus-you are preventing others from getting sick and you can't work properly when you are sick. Also I think it is wrong for students who have a medical condition for their attendance to be affected because they HAVE to go to the doctors or are too sick to come in. Also talking on speakerphone is necessary for those who are hard of hearing like my nana.
I once had a letter from my school when I had 83% attendance because my grandmother had passed away and so I'd had a week off after she died and then her funeral off and I had then also been ill for a few days where I was throwing up and that letter said that because I had below 95% attendance, my grades would suffer as I was clearly unproductive and didn't care. Oh yeah? Tell that to the 1 A* 4 As, 9 Bs and 2 Cs I got in my GCSEs in Year 11. I also forgot to mention, when I was sick and had a few days off, maybe like a week maximum, we got a letter on the third day saying I had to send proof that I was ill. So they wanted me to waste the doctor's time and make him give me a sick note for throwing up? Or did they want me to send them a bag of vomit in the post?
@@mackenziemaybarraclough1207 That's why I say it's unfair for sicknesses or even things like funerals to count towards attendance percentages. There are ways to monitor whether students are genuinely ill or if they're skiving. Parents will usually verify a students story if they don't turn up to class.
I really hated the attendence awards. I have a chronic illness. I had about 30% attendence (can’t remember exactly but it was around 30) for years 9-11. It was even lower for year 7 and 8 where I would be off school for months at a time. I still managed to get 8 GCSEs with some A*s and As so it wasn’t like I wasn’t learning. Just I was having to do a lot of it from home or try to catch up on things I missed when I was back in school. I knew it was out of my control that I was sick and no one purposely made me feel bad about it. But the attendance awards very much felt like other kids were getting praise for being healthy and like I could never be quite as good as them because I would never be able to do that. A decade later, I still feel like I’m not good enough because of my chronic illness. That insecurity is mostly because of bullying that went on because I was the disabled kid and because of my inability to work a full time job in a society built around productivity. So maybe I was just projecting my own insecurities onto the awards but I hated them so much. I would purposely zone out and daydream through them if I was actually in school on award day so I didn’t have to hear about them. Looking back, I don’t really see the point of the awards. Anyone who cares enough about school to care if they get an attendence award is going to be in school whenever they can be anyway. I know they have to monitor attendence to make sure kids aren’t skiving but why the awards?
As a trans girl, I'm hating the pockets situation. I always used to carry my phone and stuff in trouser pockets, but now I can't, so I've transitioned to just wearing hoodies everywhere and carrying my phone in their pockets. What's odd though is that all the pyjamas I've bought in the last few years (excepting short ones) have had pockets big enough for my phone. Why do I need pockets when I sleep?
I love my PJ pockets but now you point it out that is super wierd. I would assume the reason is that people like pockets but on tight fitting clothing the pockets ruin the sillouette and when it comes to PJs tight fitting with good sillouette doesn't really matter so we get the pockets we all wanted on our regular jeans.
Well you can; because there are women's clothing with pockets. You'll have to look for it, and also ensure it sells so that having pockets is a selling point. Alternatively; if dressing up more feminine is empowering (which I will understand), then you do have the option for a handbag. Or if dressing up feminine isn't important (you're a woman regardless), then just getting clothes for men is an option. Like just plain sweatpants, wouldn't that work?
@@Liggliluff the point is it shouldn't be necessary, shouldn't need to search in order to have pockets Shouldn't need to carry a handbag for every trip.
The fact that at school especially as you get older, in the holidays you are expected to work the whole time. Like I'm in yr 12 so im doing my a levels next yr and my Easter holidays and half terms and stuff we r full on expected to revise every day.
Going to work when sick is most definitely not just a US thing. It is prevalent in the lower paid sectors here in the UK which is ironic since those retail and hospitality workers are the ones who do it because they do not often have paid sick leave yet they are going to infect the most people while the well paid office workers are paid to stay at home to avoid infecting the 1 or 2 people they come into contact with each day.
“The UK will never win Eurovision again because everyone hates us.” Literally something Terry Wogan said in a drunken huff in 2003 that we somehow take as fact now, disregarding the fact the UK has put in zero effort since the 90s while so many other nations plough their entire music industry budget into their selection processes. The UK is so up itself it’s scary sometimes.
yes, and also: everyone knows what good UK music sounds like. We know when you don’t put effort into it, because we damn well know how it sounds like when you do - A German haha
He wasn't wrong though, the Eurovision voting is not about the music at all, it's purely political. Music taste and what makes "good music" is SO subjective even a single family won't agree with each other let alone an entire country, let alone a whole GROUP of countries (I personally think most if not all the entries sound like utter garbage) . There's really NO point in the competition even existing in the first place, let alone still be running in this day and age.
@@DavidStruveDesigns Nice to see you have such strong opinions on something you clearly have no interest in at all. I’m sure the millions of LGBT people who find refuge in the Contest would agree that it has no purpose.
I grew up in the UK but moved to Norway a couple of years ago for work. What I've found here is that almost all the workers rights issues are just not a thing! Entry-level professional positions offer good salaries, low-end workers earn an excellent liveable wage while executives generally earn far lower than in the UK, work-life balance is prioritised (so no calls or emails outside of office hours and overtime is discouraged entirely), tipping in any sense is simply not expected. I feel like my expat experience going from UK to Norway has been surprisingly similar to yours from the US to the UK in terms of realising how messed up our home countries are.
As a chronically ill kid (CRPS, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and a couple other things) I was made to feel so bad about my attendance and my school even threatened to take my mum to court (later found out the way my senior school treated me was super illegal) for not sending me to school when I was crying in pain. I was made to feel so bad for not being physically capable of going to school often and literally told to my face told I would fail my GCSEs because of it despite having passed my mocks. It really impacted how I thought about school and made it a source of high anxiety which didn't help my pain (PSA stress and tensing because you're anxious about something makes chronic pain worse) so even though I loved learning school became this hostile environment I couldn't wait to leave (did pass btw 6 Cs 2 Bs on 50% attendance my final year). I decided think less weight should be placed on 100% attendance and more on how can we help you get the most out of your school experience.
Schools stress the importance of regular attendance because there is a clear correlation between attendance and academic progress. Put simply, the more time you miss, on average, the lower marks you will achieve--which should not come as a surprise to anyone. As a former teacher, I would also observe that students missing lessons tends to affect the whole group as time spent explaining missed work is time that can't be spent supporting other students. However... I completely agree that that who are absent due to illness should not be shamed into attending when unfit nor unfairly treated on their return. Personally, I find the whole 'attendance culture' iniquitous whether in school or in the workplace. People work better when fit and are more likely to return to full fitness if given adequate time to recover.
@@MrPaulMorris I know attendance and marks generally correlate but for those of us not able we should just be given the best support possible (also about it taking time out of class to catch me up my teachers never once did that I missed what I missed) with maybe resources on missed topics sent home to read if you can or for chronically ill students like me the whole curriculum sent home at the start of the year for us to go through when we can. It wasn't the only way my school treated me badly (and sometimes illegally under the 2010 equalities act) but it was one of the most stressful for me and my family and I wasn't the only one they did it to. There was a girl in the year above me who they harassed into no longer bringing her wheelchair to school no matter that it made her schooling much more difficult and painful. A friend of mine who had haemophilia tripped and fell over a broken table and it took a year in a wheelchair and 6 months on crutches to recover, his mum wanted to sue but he convinced her not to. They spent the next 2 years until he left holding a grudge against him and taking any excuse to treat him badly. I had a few good teachers but the vast majority of that schools staff were terrible.
@@violetskies14 In regard to sending work and notes to students who are absent due to illness, in the past I have sometimes had very negative feedback both from students and parents when this has been done. They have told me that it seemed they were being pressed to study when illness made that difficult or impossible. I have read comments here on UA-cam expressing the same concerns. From a teacher's standpoint, it is not always easy to supply notes, even where they would be welcomed, as they often simply don't exist in a suitable form. While I don't claim to speak for all teachers, in most cases I worked from the briefest of outlines (the most optimistic might call them 'lesson plans') supported by a range of resources including text books, online resources (mainly local, ie on the school server rather than the internet), handwritten notes on the whiteboards, traditional 'talk and chalk', practical demonstrations and, most importantly in my own teaching style, directed questioning. Very little of this translates well into lesson hand-outs. I think that my original comment indicated that appropriate support should be offered to students returning from absence and I apologise if perhaps that wasn't clear enough.
All these workers rights posts make me think of the time i got into an accident, totalled my car, and still showed up to work my 8 hour shift on a saturday morning because i couldnt find coverage. My job didnt "let" you call out. It was crazy busy too and my back ached. I had to go to the hospital that night cause i couldnt physically move my neck or bend down by the end of my shift. turned out i was fine and it was just muscle spasms and tightness from the accident but i still think its ridiculous i genuinely thought i couldnt call out cause id be yelled at or lose my job?? Like i literally could of had a really serious injury and i was ready to work the next morning lmao, gotta pay for school somehow.
7:06 the fact that when you said "I'm getting" I actually said "ripped tonight" in my head while you were talking about social media addiction really illustrates something about me.
The problem with "if you want to contact me after hours then pay me more" Will turn into "hey we pay you more (probably 20p per hour) so we EXPECT you to answer your phone so you can't complain"
But that'll prevent it from longer storage which isn't good. At least if it had a lifespan of 2-3 years, that'll still be really good, but won't break down too quickly.
@@littlemontanalady Actually, that’s NOT a good point. So we just have to accept that the majority of bottles cannot be kept for years and years. Who needs that anyway? We really need alternatives for plastics, this is not going in the right direction.
@@hansc8433 You can solve a problem right or you can half ass it. My vote is to solve a problem the right way just not anyway. Then you just have more problems from a crappy solution. Not against hemp at all just not very practical for poorer countries or poorer people that maybe really on longer shelf life and cheaper commodities.
Social beauty standards The fact any kind of makeover is losing weight and gaining makeup instead of clothes you love and feeling happy and confident in yourself is a messed up widespread ideal
The only thing I can get behind is not being obese, since that is a health risk. But yes, beauty standards are way too high sometimes. For one; is there any female UA-camrs who isn't wearing makeup for example? Does Evan wear any makeup? It's kind of weird how wearing makeup is kind of a requirement for women if they have any public presence, otherwise people will complain in the content section / replies. But a lot of men don't wear any. It's kind of jarring when you look for it, when you watch a lot of different UA-camrs who are both men and women and show up on camera. But don't get me wrong. If you want to make yourself pretty, go ahead. But the thing is; most male UA-camrs don't seem to do more than say washing their face, while most female UA-camrs put on makeup. A beauty channel, obviously. But a Reddit reading channel? Why?
@@Liggliluff With the wearing make up thing on youtube... You kind of have to, because if you are filming yourself, lighting can only do so much, if you don't want to appear like a ghost fresh out of the grave or like super shiny on screen, you have to at least put some powder on your face. That is as far as I know a kind of standard. What I get from your comment is the whole "Eyelashes and Roughe" (is it spelled like that?) thing and I agree as a woman you are held to a higher standard in that regard.
@@Liggliluff actually something that a lot of people don't realize is that weight cycling, or the process of losing weight only to then gain it back, is much much more dangerous than just being overweight. Yet this is the kind of behavior that is encouraged as a matter of course. We basically encourage fat people to have anorexia and then disbelieve them because their fat, there's no way they have anorexia. In theory there is a case to be made that in some cases losing weight is necessary, but I would actually guess that it is not necessary in most cases and absolutely the shame is not necessary. You can not know what a person's medical history is just by looking at them. Weight is not a proxy for health, there are healthy fat people and unhealthy skinny people. I would say that people's perceptions about weight loss are so warped that like 90% of weight loss advice given is either misinformed or in bad faith. An example is my friend trying to lose 5 pounds a week - the only way she could be doing is basically by not eating at all which is not going to be healthy in any manner yet all she gets is congratulations
I currently have 1,909 unread emails. Even though I made a second email to use sign up for everything that isn’t important, I still get unimportant emails from businesses that are more important. There really is no escape
(This is all English stuff, I don’t know about other places) Another thing that I’ve come across is that people think that going to school is mandatory or that you have to be 16 to go to college. I went to primary school for three years, until I was seven, then I went to a Steiner school (kinda like a hippie school) until I was 9. I was then homeschooled for five years by my mother who trained as a primary school teacher. I then went to college at the age of 14. It is actually illegal to be a FULL TIME student at college in England until the age of 16. I was only allowed to do the main course and a single GCSE. Next year I will be doing a two year course which is the equivalent of three A-levels at the age of 15-17, alongside another GCSE. Also, all education in England (not sure about all of the uk) is free up until the age of 18
"Yes I feel like absolute garbage and I'm probably contagious but I literally can't afford a doctor's note, or to lose the hours" --Me several times before, and probably several times in the future.
The way they get around the hours thing: You're not an employee at all. You're an "independent contractor". Then they can work you however many hours they want and never have to give you benefits.
I'm gonna have to hard disagree with you on something here, which doesn't happen often. It's not a company level problem that sweatshops and slave labor are a thing. Its a country level problem. Even the worst of the worst employers in the US don't compare to the kind of hells you can find in China, southeast asia, and other developing countries. When it comes down to it, if theres no one who will tell a company no, you can't operate in that manner, you can't sit around and blame every individual scumbag who starts an unethical company like that, or the manager who runs the factory. The real root of the problem and the fault lies with the countries for prioritizing quick economic growth over human rights.
Well it’s also driven by the profit motive so it is also definitely companies as well; although I agree that they wouldn’t have the ability to exploit people in that way if it was illegal in the places they do it
@@mermaidismyname Well yes, a lot are american companies like apple who have factories in china. Why do you point this out, do you just want to remind us how moraly inferior America is compared to Europe? Good for you on your high horse. Or are you trying to say America should somehow control its companies' actions overseas? That seems like a terrible idea to me.
Talking on speakerphone in public sometimes is necessary for my mother, she’s very hard of hearing, so needs to use speaker phone to be able to hear people
So more like. "mobile phones that dont let you actually hear the person you're on a call with unless they're on speaker phone' - I'm not hard of hearing, and I actually do have that problem, the slightest movement goes from clear to mute, and I'm not talking about a mute button.
When I was first looking for a job after uni, I worked for 3 months unpaid and the company I was working for basically ran their operations through interns, hiring maybe 5/6 at a time and then leaving only management as paid workers 👀 when the internships ended they hired new ones so it was basically constant free work.
I remember when snap maps first came out snd everyone thought it was really weird to be able to track your friend's locations but now it's just normal.
@@karinland8533 You make a reasonable point that it's less common in many other countries, but it's about 75% in South Korea, just over 50% in the U.S., just over 30% in Canada, about 25% in Australia (was 80% a few decades ago), and 10-20% in the U.K., Germany, and France.
While it is low in Europe, it's still weird that it still happens. Some say it's "better hygiene" but the 90% have no issue with hygiene; some say it must be done as a baby and can't be your own decision at 18+ since if you've had sex before circumcision, you'll notice it being less pleasurable; which I find to be a stupid argument, since it should still be a choice. The worst is someone who said they find circumcised penises to look nicer; yeah, let's force it on people just because some think it looks nicer. The final argument I've heard is because it's part of the religion; but we've outlawed other religious acts before, so the same can be done here.
It’s widely accepted y health professionals/ personal trainers that BMI isn’t an accurate assessment of someone’s physical health, yet we still teach young doctors this method of weight assessment. I had to do my weight and blood pressure for a tablet review and my BMI came back 26.5 ... technically overweight... but what that doesn’t account for is that I eat well, i strength train 5 times a week, walk EVERYWHERE and have a disability that makes my body composition different to everyone else. I know I’m going to go in to that appointment and get pressured to lose weight. I get that it’s important for those that have no concept of healthy eating or with other conditions, but I have been repeatedly ignored when I’ve explained why I don’t weigh myself and why it appears that I am overweight. Simply put: I can’t physically exercise any more than I already do, and I can’t eat any less without feeling faint & weak. I wish they would change to a different model of weight assessment, what we’ve got is arbitrary and inaccurate 😞
Also pressuring people to lose weight even if they need to is also unhealthy in itself because doctors do not give nutrition counseling most times they just kinda tell the person to do it and then the person turns to one of the thousands of fad diets online that don't work. Plus. Being overweight isn't even a good proxy for health
@@mermaidismyname the funny thing is that I've done an insane amount of research into nutrition for my specific conditions, but that's only because I have a genuine interest in fitness and health anyway. I have been both underweight and overweight and neither do me any good. I would probably wind up the nurse no end if I came in with articles on my conditons and research I've done :')
During my interview for my current job, I outright told the interviewer (now my boss) that I won't be checking my mail outside of my working hours. I also tood him that, in case of an emergency, he can call me. I also clarified what I meant with emergency, so he couldn't apply his own meaning to it, which would probably have been: "whenever I would've otherwise sent you a mail." He agreed. Haven't had a problem with it and he has never called me so far. My colleagues, who never told him they won't be checking their mail, are still required to check their mail. I sometimes tease them with it. I tell them: "Another quiet weekend with no mails." Because I know they've had to read and reply to a whole heap of mails.
Haha I had to do this with "work functions". We were expected to go have drinks and canapes with the heads of big companies our company had worked with, to try and keep them sweet. My co-workers were like "Well you have to go". I said "Its not in work hours and they aren't paying me. No I don't." and I'd make the same excuse every year - "Sorry, I have to go home straight after work, so I won't be there." And I wasn't. For some reason, everyone else still went, even though they complained about it endlessly. Just say no. If they aren't paying you, what can they do?
@@Liggliluff Maybe, but I also stand my ground during negotiations. Most people would just go along with whatever they're offered. I always try to get more out of it. Some interviewers and companies don't like that, they want their employees to be sheep. Whenever I get that vibe, I'm gone. I wouldn't last a week at such a company. There are also many interviewers who admire my attitude and see the value it can bring to the company.
I love the fact that I immediately thought of Bernadette, Karolina, Abbie & co at the mention of women's pockets and that you linked Bernadette's video on it. I was not expecting you to know her tbh, but it makes me so happy!
Finding out Evan is friends with Bernadette is such a lovely surprise. I’m now wondering whether a collab might be possible in the future now they’re both based in England 🤔
Just recently finished university and spent the last three months of it in mental health hell, I never tried to end stuff but I definitely thought about it. People only ever told me "its temporary and will be over soon" as if that was somehow helping
It annoys me so much that we keep getting told what we need to do to save the planet, yet the big companies keep using unnecessary plastic. I understand that we can choose more sustainable options, but if those options are not there, or are limited, or are a lot more expensive than the non-sustainable options, there's only so much we can do as individuals.
Why not do what we can as individuals? There's a reason Greta Thunberg eats a plant based diet. "According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.” “A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use. It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he explained, which would only reduce greenhouse gas“Avoiding consumption of animal products delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy,” he added.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford. Joseph Poore switched to a plant based diet after seeing the results of the study. Links at my channel under "About.
To reduce plastic use, I use my own shopping bags, buy from the bulk section, reuse produce bags, and reuse bags like bread bags for food storage to avoid buying more bags. I also recycle, but I hate the fact that most plastic doesn't get recycled after I put it in the recycle bin. I also carry a refillable water flask instead of using single use plastic bottles.
3:18 on the whole recycling thing: some more regulation would be very helpful. Limit everyday plastics that are used in large volumes to only a few recipes. Add a marker to the recipe, that allows a machine to easily sort the garbage. etc Would go a long way to making the recycling feedstock higher quality and more economically viable.
*It's pretty much for finding stuff.* Want trousers with pockets? Go to the men's section. Want to buy a skirt? Go to the women's section. Want a plain hoodie? Go to the men's section. *They're not saying that you can't wear things of the opposite gender*
@@Rain-np7tk They're already doing that in some cases for things like jeans, on top of labeling it as "women's" or "men's". Can you explain why you think gendered clothing is annoying to you? I don't really see the issue because you're allowed to shop in the women's and the men's section. The things about fashion/fashion culture that I find annoying; -fast fashion being unsustainable and exploiting workers -lack of pockets in women's wear -the fact that in many men's departments size 1~10 (not real sizes, just an example) are all in the same line so size 1 is the exact same design as size 10, but in the large majority of women's departments this size range is divided between the regular size line and the plus size line and in the large majority of the time you won't be able to get the same design in the plus sized line as in the regular size line. Common complaints from plus sized women are that many plus sized lines offer frumpy and shapeless designs. -vanity sizing -many western cultures have this idea that if you don't fit into off the rack clothing perfectly it means there's something wrong with your body instead of the garment. Common "solutions" for fitting issues that are recommended are weight loss, exercise, plastic surgery, padding. Nobody I know, whether they are slim or not, consistently fits into off the rack clothing perfectly. In the past it was the norm to buy either custom fit garments or to get standardized (which was never truly standardized) clothing altered to fit better, people did not consider themselves flawed for not fitting into off the rack stuff perfectly, people weren't chasing a specific number on the label either. Alterations were expected and normal. We need to normalize alterations again.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 yes, but WHY are they gendered then? It's pretty unnecessary and inconvenient. I never said I had a huge issue I said I found it ANNOYING.
That school one just brought back the time in my high school when the teachers outright shamed our whole year for attendance. They put a powerpoint up in front of THE WHOLE SCHOOL with everyone in each year who got 99% then 100%. Every other year was like 10-20 kids on each list then it reached 6th year and the 100% list was 1 person. We all started trying to hide giggles and the deputy head decided to give us a lecture on why we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
Speaking from experience in UK retail coming in while sick and blackmail of hours is most definitely not just a US thing, just a mistreating industry thing
The name is kind of confusing though. But if less focus was put on the non-sovereign regions will less autonomy than the German states, and more on the sovereign country of United Kingdom as a whole, then there wouldn't be much confusion. Another option is to just make Northern Ireland into north of Ireland.
@@Liggliluff I mean you say that, yet NI is a country in its own right, even competing at international sporting events under its own flag, yet these autonomous German regions are still just that regions of Germany, not their own countrys
I've not seen it being used like that in Swedish at least, and that's nice. Since it can then be used when something literary happened instead of something figuratively happened.
I worked part time seasonal, worked 40hours every week, after uni I worked 40hours every week and got two promotions... My contract was never once updated
5:20 this is for "full time employees". If you're seasonal, meaning you only work for the company for 9 months, then you can work 40 hours a week and not be full time.
In Turkey in school you can have 20 days of absence without an excuse and every single year except 1 I had 19,5 days of absence. That one year I miscalculated and had 18,5 of absences I felt so bad.
Without an excuse? That sounds a bit excessive to me even as a European. Though at my school you couldn't even have a single lesson unexcused without getting into trouble. Which lead to a lot of people finding doctors that would give them a note for nothing and then not come the whole day. But also your parents could write you a note for a few days if you weren't sick enough to go to the doctor or needed time off for other reasons.
In the Netherlands if you miss a single day without excuse your parents can get a HUGE fine. Do not extend your summer holiday, the school inspector WILL find you...
I wouldn't see it as that. Perhaps that's that it is in practice but surely the company need to actually see you doing the job before they can hire you otherwise you'll just end up fired if you mess up and gives you the opportunity to learn about how things work.
I did that once (a trial shift) and they ended up not hiring me because I didn't mesh well with the other employees on my shift, which ended up being for the best because I found a job I liked a lot better.
Recently I’ve been applying for a lot of different jobs and a lot of them aren’t even interviewing me they’re just offering trial shifts and then they never get in contact with me again even after saying they would I’m in the uk and I’ve never had a trial shift be paid
"I actually have things to do with my day" ... "I WAS PLAYING RUNESCAPE!" Cracked me up because I was also this person 😂 still mad that people would trick me into going into the wilderness and then kill me off though
In the UK part-time workers are legally entitled to holiday pay no matter how many hours they work. It might be only ten days a year on a 20 hour week but its something. An employer can't legally tell you to use a holiday if your sick and its defiantly not your reasonability to find a replacement if your sick. I was horrified that I found this was the norm in the US. In the UK and in hospitality if your sick or have diarrhoea you legally can't return back to work until 48 hours after the last time it happened.
You listed your pocket contents & mentioned your wallet & credit cards separately. Is that normal for guys? Cos the idea of my cards not being in my purse/wallet makes me deeply uncomfortable.
I keep mine in my wallet, why have yet another thing I have to remember to pick up when I go out? Took me a while to get used to adding face mask to the list this past year lol
In Germany calling in sick still is a problem, too. I once dragged myself to work while having the flu and told my boss that I'm feeling dizzy all the time. When his boss also showed up at the store I told him that I wouldn't greet him with a hand shake because I didn't want to get him sick, too. Like two days later I had to call in sick after almost fainting at a bus station. When I came back into work after my sick leave I got into trouble because apparently I sounded too happy when calling my boss and his boss to inform them that I wasn't coming to work because of the flu.
it's always really bothered me that i get yelled at for requesting off at my minimum wage/barely higher than minimum wage jobs. especially because it's not like i'm getting paid for those days off. my manager literally told me to quit my other job so i could make up for the days i requested off for my GRADUATION. i spent my whole senior year working 40 hour weeks on top of school i think that's enough
when you said 'not everything is an argument' OMFG YES! My dad's side of the family and my sister are so entrenched in that way of thinking and that everything is a competition. It's exhausting to talk to them! 13:33 also, video chatting in public
Productivity being what determines worth as a person. Which leads to us normalizing everyone having depression and anxiety because we all put work and school over mental health.
Oh my gosh the "recycling"!!!!! I realized that just a few years ago that all of our "recycled" garbage was just being shipped to countries that would "process it" by polluting their own environment. So much guilt, so much pain and sadness. I
Not discussing salary and knowing how much you're worth (and then also not wanting to feel greedy if you ask for a pay increase!). It's good to know what your colleagues are getting paid so you know if you're getting underpaid. My boyfriend got written up for discussing his salary with a coworker in the office and somebody complained?!
In college the teacher was looking at my attendance and she saw it was 98% and she was like 'Wow! That's really good. I suppose the only thing you could try and do is get it to 100%' then I explained to her that that would be mathematically impossible since I'd already missed days it would never reach 100%.
Minimum wage being below the cost of living. some people like to say minimum wage is for teens who need extra money but like, minimum wage in america was initially supposed to be the minimum amount of money required to support a family. like you were supposed to be able to live fairly comfortably on minimum wage, but then companies decided they didn't want to pay people that much, so they didn't raise it with inflation, and they've managed to get people to lie for them about that
5:02 yes, that is legal, I worked at M&S just before the pandemic and they tried to do this. They employ you part time/temporary for something like the Christmas season, and then call you every day or ask you if you can work more, and if you say yes you would be working over the full time hours threshold. Obviously you get paid for the extra hours but you are still employed on the part time/temporary contract so you don't get any of the benefits. Accepting all the extra hours is also incentive if you want to keep the job and have a renewed contract after the temporary one is up.
I'm hard of hearing so I always used to have to use speakerphone, but now I have cochlear implants that have Bluetooth that connects to my phone so I don't have to use speakerphone unless the Bluetooth isn't working.
just reminded me of one. Some companies charge a thousand bucks/quid/'a months wage' to fix simple problems like screen replacements or battery replacements but only if you use the manufacturer because the original manufacturer thinks independant repair shops are the devil that will install tik tok and sell your data to china, even though the devices when you get them track what you do, the company sells that data to china, and often bundle other spyware that you can't uninstall too, and its all about replacing broken items with a full-price purchase of the newest device. And yet we're supposed to be responsible for... cooking our own food. with gas. in our own homes. And clean them. with bleach and other chemicals - the latter which, when improperly used, could combine with bleach to creat poisonous, toxic substances and the like. and that is totally fine.
@@AlMcpherson79 Oh 100%. I don't know if you meant to reply under my comment, but in terms of cochlear implants if they aren't covered by your insurance you have to pay hundreds of dollars just to get another rechargeable battery and thousands to get your implant upgraded to a new version. I'm lucky that the people who do the check up on my implants found a loop hole to let me get the newest upgrade whenever my warranty is up on one of them. Instead of putting them as hearing aids, they put it as a prosthetic since cochlear implants are technically an artificial device used to replace a body part.
@@rosesilburn9416 What? I don't understand. Are you saying that it's more helpful not to wear hearing aids? And that you can just listen to videos by putting it at max volume?
Worst thing for me? People with autism always have to be CLEARLY autistic to be treated well during meltdowns. Diagnosed autism, I have a meltdown and whoopdedoo I'm goddamn punished for it because I can't help it but scream or flat out book it out of school to TRY not to hurt people. Apparently tis a sin.
Kids trying to get perfect attendance. Me in school: :::Reads school Manual to find out how many days I can miss in a semester then used that information to full my full advantage:::
the way the education system (at least where i’m from) weaponises fear to ‘motivate’ students to study. doesn’t even work, just causes so much more stress that people get more creative at finding ways to not do the work
I can relate to the story about the perfect attendance issue. As a person who doesn't tend to get sick all that often, I found myself really annoyed in 8th grade when I had to miss a day for reasons not pertaining directly to my physical well-being (family emergency that had me staying at my aunt's for a couple days because my mom was in the hospital). I think it took me a few weeks to get over that. The family (and mental health, I believe that is why my aunt made me skip that day) is more important, but I had been conditioned to think that skipping school was only acceptable if one was violently ill.
Bring back pockets 😤
The fact that two of my favourite creators are apparently friends made my brain short circuit
@@empjepempje same here!
How about females stop wearing males' garments like trousers/pants and shorts and wear your OWN garment like dresses/gowns and skirts?
@@TedEhioghae no ❤️
@@Liggliluff a lot of women’s clothing isn’t made with pockets, and those few garments that are (like jeans) have very shallow pockets. Women can’t buy garments with pockets if they aren’t for sale. The market doesn’t care whether women want pockets; the industry decides what is fashionable, not the consumer. The only real solution is to sew your own pockets which isn’t that hard to do, just time consuming
this is a pretty minor thing but how we treat teenagers. they are too young to know what they're talking about too old to not be in the loop. they get told to go outside more, everywhere they go to hang around people asume they're up to somthing. people get to one day decide that NOW they're all grown up enough to take responsibility for everything and are expected to cope with that. obviously not all teens expirience this but enough do and it's just annoying to me.
This relates so much to a post I read some time ago which was something along the lines of “How do you expect new students to live independently when a few months ago they had to ask to use the restroom?”
OMG, the assuming teens are up to something when they’re just vibing in front of a store or something! As long as they’re not blocking the door or traffic and they don’t leave a huge mess, they should be allowed to be there. This is especially true considering that not all teens have the money to spend in the store/coffee shop/bowling alley/whatever, and their homes might not be hangout-friendly. Kids with bad home lives take as much time outside the house as possible. They just need a space to *be* without anyone picking at them.
Literally! I used to stay in and my mum would get at me to go out with my friends, I'd go out and shed guilt me into staying in! And because most things to do outside made for teenagers cost money, that teenagers dont often have, they end up just, hanging around and getting moved on by security or the owners of whatever is near them, where are they meant to go?
Another issue tied into this is how teenagers are shunned for their clothing style. So many teens are insecure, so they naturally wear baggy clothing and the like but then they get accused of being up to no good. You see a trouble maker in baggy clothing to steal something from a shop, when in actuality they're just trying to hang out whilst trying to not feel so insecure (especially in the current climate of social media)
I think about this often, I feel bad for teenagers growing up right now. They have no where they can go safely without spending money. When I was around 12-15 we hung out at the mall a lot and we able to see friends in a sort of safe environment without supervision and adult clubs had middle school and high school dance nights , but malls are basically dead now and idk if nights like that exist anymore.
A lot of places won’t hire people under 18 so less spending money for them, public transportation absolutely sucks in most places in the US so its hard to get around. Coronavirus made it worse. Yet, people get on their case for not being able to socialize or spending too much time socializing on social media. Even I near 30 get most of my social interaction online in the past year. Its like what exactly do you want them to do?
Needing experience for an entry level job.
Hint: you don't need work experience it can be volunteer, achievement, other things.
I agree- it took my friend almost 2 years of volunteering to get enough experience to get an entry level job as a countryside ranger (in the UK). Even after a year he was getting turned down for low paid entry level roles because someone else had more experience or had paid experience. Everyone he has met in the sector has done at least 1 year of full time volunteering before they got their first job. And they wonder why they lack diversity, so many people could not afford to do that!
@@catherinetyndale1734 so young people have to spend years working for free before they can start earning to support themselves. Expenses like bills and rent don't wait for you to build up enough experience so neither should your means of paying them.
@@catherinetyndale1734 still doesnt make it right.
@@catherinetyndale1734 its took my gf almost 3 years to get volunteer position manning the till in a charity shop bc they all wanted experience. You dont need it but they dont take u on if you dont have it
What totally wrong thing is not considered wrong anymore?:
Definitely sacrificing your mental health for success in school and crying because you are overwhelmed or even having panic attacks or developing mental illnesses. In my school my friends and I all had to sort of be forced to stay at home if we were sick because we didn’t want to miss class for the day. Also students kind of expecting teachers and parents to disagree with their dream jobs.
I always struggled between not wanting to miss class and oh thank god I can depression nap all day instead.... very confusing battle
@@jaybehkay2438 same here 😕
This reminds me of NHS. All my friends were in it but I've always been behind in math, its never made sense to me so it dragged my GPA down and when everyone started getting invitation letters to NHS or even NJHS It really made me feel stupid, and like I didn't try hard enough even though I took honors and AP classes, and genuinely tried hard.
Math really was awful to me emotionally, and senior year my counselor said I should drop Trig pre calc and take an easier math and I felt dumb and like a quitter but it was making my life a living hell, but dropping it was really the best decision I ever made.
Oh yeah this is a huge problem. Especially during the time we had to stay home from school because of covid, I struggled a lot with feeling super guilty for taking literally any breaks. I didn't get much done in class because of how stressed out I was (a lot of which was because of exacerbated mental illness) and because of that I more or less never ate breakfast or lunch on weekdays because taking those twenty minutes off from school would send me into a panic attack.
In-person, both pre- and post- stay at home, is just so incredibly stressful, especially for someone like me who is in a gifted and talented program and two years advanced math without issue in terms of understanding but struggles a lot with the work load (having a long-term research project for 3/4 of my core classes at the same time equals a lot of work after school, a lot of all-nighters, and no sick days because if you take a single day off you come back and suddenly you understand nothing). Plus the number of panic attacks I've had in the stairwell between classes is kind of ridiculous.
Also yeah, teachers and parents being so rude about dream jobs is annoying. Like, they're dream jobs. Most of the time the person who has them knows that they're unrealistic, but even so, it's good to have something to aim for! For instance, my dream job has always been to be an author. I love writing and it would be great to be able to do that as a career. Despite that, I am well aware that most authors don't make nearly enough to be able to support themselves full time and that even if I'm able to publish a book or two someday, I'll most likely have to have a day job as well. Having dreams doesn't make you dumb or pathetic or unrealistic, it just means you have something to shoot for!
Sorry for this lowkey essay and also messy sentence structure.
@@lania2246 What does NHS mean? I am German and don't really know much about the American school system. In my school it was generally expected to be be bad at math. In Germany you can leave school after 10 years instead of 12 if you want to work in a job that doesn't require you going to university or you can do the extra 2 years and after that go to university. Some people nearly couldn't graduate because they didn't pass our math class. I find it really interesting that there are different difficulties of classes that you can take because in my state in Germany when you do 11th and 12th grade you chose two courses that are advanced and all the other courses are on a basic level. I can just imagine how it must be if you could do advanced courses for every subject and were kinda expected to do so.
I find it weird how our generation (speaking as a millennial) does involve the dads more with their kids, but fathers saying they're "babysitting" their OWN children or how it's "mum's day off" is still really common.
Hopefully when gen y(?) grows up it will get better, I think it is something that will just take a long time unfortunately
to be fair children generally prefer to be hanging off of mom and if given a choice they'll choose mom almost every time this is especially true with daughters even when they're in a phase where they want to hang out with Dad, anything that happens they automatically gravitate to Mom if she's present. I think between toddler and puberty boys tend to gravitate more towards dad for a while after puberty it's kind of a toss-up that depends on the relationship. obviously there's exceptions to this, I tried to be one of those dads that it was all about equal time. I changed diapers did laundry stayed home with them when they were sick, but when I came to trying to take some of the stress away from their mother it was an uphill battle. if they woke up in the middle of the night from a nightmare they didn't come to me they went to their mother even when they were infants I'd be like honey you keep sleeping I'll take care of it and they wouldn't accept me at all, apparently I was chopped liver.
I have never heard of a father saying they are babysitting their own kids. I have however had people say too me on far too many occasions "Oh how nice are you babysitting today to give mum a break?" No, I'm raising my damn children!
@@janani1826 We're way past Gen Y at this point. Millenials are Gen Y (the oldest ones almost being in their 40s), the "current" one is Gen Z. Not sure what could come after it, alphabeitcally, maybe we'll give the umlauts are bit more love 😂 I'd love a Gen ä/ö/ü or something silly along these lines.
@@D0MiN0ChAn oops I meant gen alpha
Unfortunately the generation system isn't that interesting it just restarts 😂
Attendance certificates and the expectation that children attend no matter what is ableist and picks out the children that are already prone to bullying. It also teaches - very early on - that regardless of how you feel (physically and mentally) you must attend school/work
also the idea that if someone if off they should be able to go in the next day and keep up
like no if i was off being ill i have not yet caught up on your work thank you very much i was busy trying to get better i at the very least need to not be expected to know what you taught the day before
Yes! I attended physiotherapy when I was younger so never got those certificates 😪
Me and my daughter both have EDS. Due to this my daughter will never have an 100% attendance, and the fact she is punished because she's sick isn't fair on her
@@bananasplit6048 yeah, while I was rarely ever sick I still hated those teachers who were all "You spend a week at home, you should've been studying". And especially because they just expected someone to bring you all the notes and homework and inform you on everything you were supposed to do like daily, when best case scenario would be one of your friends giving you limited info just before you came back to school.
Its really interesting now to see the same thing happening with both schools and workplaces regarding working from home. When it was just chronically ill/disabled people that needed it, it was apparently impossible - suddenly when all the able bodied people needed it, they worked it out. I'm really hoping we're about to see a revolution in how we treat being unable to physically get to a school/workplace (provided they are actually well enough to concentrate of course).
Heres my answer: we accept the whole "the customer is always right" quote as law in retail and hospitality. When in reality the quote is misunderstood, it merely means the customer knows what they want more than you, not that they in every situation are in the right.
I think we've accepted far too much that we have to as employees we are to cater to every damn need of people, your needs are just as Important as dear old Deborah's who's shown up at your store 10 mins to closing time with no regard for you because she felt she needed to search for grapes at this time.
Basically it means don't argue with customers note
"the customer is always right" has never meant anything. it started as an advertisement tagline for Selfridge's department store. that's all. It's like going into any clothing store and demanding they follow the "I like the way you look" guarantee even though it's both not a real guarantee and not even the tagline for their store.
When Karen's stop getting what when want by being Karens they will stop acting like that.
You don't reward a toddler that threw a tantrum about not getting a toy by giving them a toy.
Yep, the guy who came up with it was telling those who were buying the stock for their shops that irrespective of what _you_ would like to sell, what is "right" for the shop is what the customer wants to buy. So you supply what they want or go under. From the stories I've heard, mainly via reddit readings, about the lengths shops will go to in the USA for customer service (above and beyond is an understatement - the customers are taking the piss and the shops let them do it!), I keep wanting to scream at the managers and tell them why they are so wrong! TBH, I think that at least in part (and it's a big part), this 'give the customer what they want' attitude has encouraged the rise of "The Karen". Fortunately, most shops here in the UK aren't quite so ready to cut their own throats to please those who don't deserve it, but as in all things, when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. It's creeping over here and as a customer, I don't like it!
actually it should be considered part of the "ideology" of sales. it's not really supposed to be taken literally, and you'd be hard-pressed to find any business that actually does, because if they did they wouldn't make any money and they would just go out of business. other concepts that are included in that "ideology" are: "you catch more flies with honey than vinegar", "upsell upsell upsell", "talk to the husband but sell to the wife", "Greet every customer as they come through the door", "ABC = always be selling|always be cleaning|always be smiling" "recover as you go" ... and many more. and I know all this without ever having worked in sales or at a retail job, although I do work a job that's on the periphery of retail... essentially it's just a series of phrases from backroom sales posters designed to help keep you from aggroing a herd of Karen's and instead get them to spend money on things. or at least get them to spend money on things whether you aggro them or not
The fact that many fathers are so uninvolved in their children's lives to the point they don't even know what school their children go to, their birthdays, or even their age and we just say "that's how dads are" or that mothers are shamed way more than fathers for being a "bad parent"
My daughters biological father (in also her father but I'm trans) isn't involved in her life, and he tells everyone it's because I told him to stay away being a bitch. I was actually groomed by him. I was 14, he was 21/22, he sexually assaulted me, I have extrem ptsd due to this. I keep him away from her because he's dangerous and she's a young girl (his prime pray)
Yet I get told I'm a bad parent because I keep him away from her. For both of our safety, because of rumors he's spread, people I don't know tell me I'm a bad parent when they have only herd his side of the story, I have a damn restraining order against him, yet yeah... I'm the bad one for keeping a dangerous dirty man away from my child
Tell me about it. They try to act like they don’t have to know. They ask the same question. I get so annoyed they don’t make an effort when I tell them. It’s like why bother telling them when they’re going to forget.
what parents are like that though? you must have terrible parents if they don’t know your age, bday, etc.
@@wolfzmusic9706 Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Sounds more like the generation my parents grew up in (= early/mid-60s), where the mother was at home 24/7 and the father hustled his butt off working and being too tired to do literally anything after he came home from work (maybe pop open a beer). My dad was super involved in my life even though he worked a rough, physically demanding job. That's never an excuse to be a shitty/ignorant parent and I naively hope that there're many more good fathers out there than bad ones nowadays.
@@wolfzmusic9706 when my dad was ordering my new birth certificate he asked me "what year were you born, when is your birthday, and what hospital were you born in" some parents just don't gaf
Lecturers are allowed to take 3+ months to mark a single paper but if work is submitted 10 seconds after the deadline = mark deductions 🙄
@my AP Lang teacher who gave us one essay all of second semester and didn’t give it back until 3 months later 3 days before the AP test with no feedback who also wouldn’t accept work that was due at the beginning of class one day that students hadn’t been able to print because the school printer was broken.
@L My sister is a teacher and she has mentioned that exact issue as well. Plus that works brought in late can mess with the piles and folders.
@L so what you’re saying is that capitalism is the problem. doesn’t matter if the work is good or not because you’re basically getting graded on whether it abides by the office system
Yeah! How are you supposed to learn from the paper/test/hw if you don't even know how you did on it
At my uni in the UK the deadline for assignments that counted towards our final grade was 3 weeks from the final submission time, that seems like a fairer system.
I think they did still have to get checked after to ensure the grading was accurate but none of my grades were ever changed.
Neglect of women's health issues, from specific ones like endometriosis to more general ones like how some disorders present differently in women.
I'm an ASD woman who wasn't diagnosed until age 28, & have an online friend with endometriosis who took at least ten years to get a diagnosis, because the medical profession has disregarded women's health for so long. Meanwhile I've lost count of the amount of women (check out the subreddit AutismInWomen) who have been misdiagnosed or not diagnosed until their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s etc, while most boys are diagnosed in childhood. This sorely needs to change
I'm a guy, and when I was diagnosed with autism around age 6ish, my parents got briefed on what autism was, how it would affect me, and all that.
My dad supposedly said to my mum "You know, [my sister] is a lot like these symptoms too... She probably has this as well", but mum refused to have her assessed (sis was about 11). Sure enough she is now looking to get diagnosed in her late 20s because it's disrupting her life in noticable ways.
That said, there were quite a few other kids in my school's "Learning support" department, around my age, who were girls with ADHD/ASD. So maybe the gradient of change was already well underway back then.
This!! I had a very difficult time carrying kids and only found out after my third miscarriage (which almost killed me) that I had a fibroid. At least two OBGYNs knew about it but didn't say anything. The third just shrugged and said, "It's fine. Just keep trying." I saw a specialist who said the last was full of shit and if I had conceived again, my widower would have grounds to sue. (So that was fun.)
I am lucky that I’ve never had anything severe but have noticed that also a hell of a lot of physical symptoms are blamed on periods before the doctor will take anything seriously. Took the doctors forever to acknowledge my dizzy spells took fainting and breaking my front teeth before they took anything seriously.
And lymphedema
I feel I was so neglected when I got my diagnosis for ASD. I was what, 15? The psychologist assigned to my case got me the diagnosis, then shrugged and said "Oh, well, it's too late to help you now. If you were younger we could have worked with correcting your development, but it's too late now. Good luck kiddo!" She also ignored my attempts at saying things weren't too good at home. I'm now 24, without any work experience, and only barely scraping through university, I have dystymia and depression and anxiety, and probably trauma-related plurality too, seeing as I never got to be myself in a healthy environment for me. On a brighter note, I have a wonderful boyfriend who's giving me all the love and support I never knew I sorely missed in my childhood. I'm slowly getting better.
as a student on half term who's exams start as soon as we go back
teachers expecting/requiring us to work over the holidays
especially those who refuse to work over holidays because they need a break then give us loads of work to do over the holidays
I totally agree! They should be promoting a healthy work life balance instead of expecting us to work all the time.
I personally think homework should be abolished. There should be an extra hour of independent study at school instead so that students keep and are taught to have a healthy work life balance without lacking anything in their education. We shouldn't need to think about school or work once we come home.
Yep. Homework is also such a wildly different experience depending on the family situation. The rich kid who can afford a tutor, the poor kid who's parents aren't around to help them because they're working, the kid who has younger siblings to look after before they do their work, the kid who's parents didn't get much of an education themselves, or the one who's parents actively get in the way of their work through neglect or abuse. We can't expect every kid to be able to do any work at home at all, or to be able to devote the same time and effort to it, when we know that a significant number of kids don't even get reliable _meals_ at home, let alone quiet, productive homework time.
@@ChickenOfAwesome i don’t feel like the solution is to abolish homework though. The issues that make doing work at home difficult need to be addressed; give kids access to healthy meals through schools, lift families out of poverty etc. The value that kids get out of contact hours at school could also be increased. There are some subjects that kids will just never learn without revising at home; 30 hours of school a week (much of it not spent learning) just isn’t enough, and time with teachers should be used for learning the new and clarifying the old. Otherwise kids waste a lot of time in class doing the manual repetitive work that would be assigned for homework.
Agree, my school didn't do this but they did cram most of our exams into three weeks and then left a week long gap between then and our last exam for no reason
Yeah, I’m doing exams when I go back, I have tons of exam practice, (thankfully we don’t normally have homework.)
On the school attendance thing, I remember having exactly the same conversation with my teachers. I have a periodic paralysis disability, namely Andersen Tawil Syndrome, it it meant that - on occasions - my mobility would be impaired, or non-existent, and I would be unable to attend school. One particular year had more bout of extreme muscle weakness than normal, and my end of year report showed an attendance rating of 79%. Now, my school considered an attendance rating below 80%, as mine was, to be a cause for concern, and this meant I had to have a meeting with one of the teachers. By meeting, they - effectively - meant a detention.
I explained, rather eloquently for the 15 year old I was at the time, that to punish me for low attendance, to punish me for something beyond my control, to punish me when I had a freaking disability, was wrong, and technically discriminatory. The teacher conceded the point, and we sat in silence for the rest of the 1/2 hour 'meeting'. I had hoped that, even if the teacher wasn't going to let me go, they'd understanding enough to relay my concerns to a higher authority. No such luck. The next year I was more fortunate, I scraped an 81% attendance rating, so no detention, but my end of year report still reflected my lower attendance.
Now, let me make it absolutely clear that on each occasion of absence, one of my parents - as the school couldn't trust a student to know if they were unwell - had called in, and made it known that I was incapacitated, Even on one occasion when I had to go to hospital, when a sickness during a weak period meant that I was unable to medicate my weakness - I was unable to ingest anything orally - and I had to be placed on a drip to be able to recover, my mother rang in from my hospital-bed-side. Despite all this, despite the fact that these were all authorised absences, and so not illegal, the school recorded each occasion as a black mark on my report.
Also, point of fact, this all happened in a UK school, which - I gather - meant to be more understanding of that sort of thing than schools in other countries. So yeah, the school system's obsession with attendance, and absence, is rather problematic.
That's fucked up of the school.
Not everything about my countries education is good but before Your comment I thought it common in other countries as well.
We have 3 different types of absences in school (parents need to call them in (in most cases)): Sick - when student is sick; Other - completely different reason than sick but all authorised (like a competition), and Unauthorised - all absences that have not been given a real reason for absence and only these are cause for concerns, only about these are, firstly, parents informed, then school administration and, if it is really needed, police.
@@alisealmalesina685 same in my country,on the world cup barely anyone goes to school
Asses in seats means money. That's why they care.
In what world is a 80% attendance alright? My parents would get a call from school if I missed 1 hour! Which they should, of course. But if you had a legitimate reason to be absent, nobody would count the attendance... if you had the marks to pass, you passed. It's that simple.
That's so true about the perfect attendance thing. I remember when I was 8, I had tonsilitis and then got a reaction to the medication so I spent a week or 2 off school and because of that I could only have 1 go on the bouncy castle at the end of the school year while almost everyone else had multiple turns. For a kid, that's really upsetting. It's not like you choose to be sick.
As a kid who had a very unstable home life and was chronically ill due to what they eventually figured out was an anxiety disorder causing physical illness. I totally agree! I didn’t choose the life I was given!
In high school, my school auto failed us if we missed more than three days of school per term.
The worst example I can think of for the work experience is when a company demanded five years of experience in a programming language that came out three years prior. Can’t remember the exact one.
Was it the same company that demanded 10 years of experience in Swift? (Which only came out in 2014)
@@thenamesleon3723 Actually I think it may be swift (but I don’t know if it was the same company). So this must have been in 2017.
Or the company who said that the person who literally invented the language the company used wasn't qualified enough in that language
The OP's comment literally sounds like some BS investing banking nonsense they force on applicants. Then I see SWIFT comments and I'm like, "yup, called it."
As much as I can imagine you were happy receiving a perfect attendance reward, it is effectively saying "congratulations on having a better immune system than someone else" which is not something you can control and it's just kind of icky and bad.
I remember feeling bad as a kid that I couldn’t get the perfect attendance award because I had to go to eye and orthodontist appointments every once and a while. The fact that they would make me feel bad for having bad teeth and eyes is kind of fucked up.
I know people with parents who unless they were throwing up or had at least a 100 degree fever they couldn’t stay home.
it literally makes no sense especially with young kids bc it’s not even like they can independently get to school??? it’s nothing to do with them it’s up to their parents.
I think trying to achieve that perfect attendance award can also create some unhealthy behaviors later in life such as showing up to work when you really aren't fit to be there that particular day but it's been a habit all your life to "be there" physically. In light of a recent pandemic, this has only painted a darker picture.
Yeah, that's horrible. I was a sick kid. I had a heart condition that was discovered during winter holidays in first grade. The grade you learn to read and write in essentially. Good thing I knew how to read already. I literally didn't attend school at all the entire second semester. The teacher created an exam for me and I made 1 mistake in it. So I went to grade 2 with the rest of the class. I literally missed an entire semester of school and went on to be the best student every year of my studies until Uni. I'm pretty sure the kids will be ok missing a day here and there. Like I continued to do for the rest of my education. I would have lost my mind if my country had such a thing as attendance awards.
So with the showing your kids on camera thing I tend to be on the side of it's ok providing it's done with care, moderation, at the child's wishes (never forcing them to be on camera) and with thought to their future wishes. No one wants their childhood tantrum online forever but I don't see harm in say a fun video doing crafts together every few months. Ultimately it should be up to the individual parent unless they cross the line into harming their child by it.
Yeah, I think there is no clear line when it comes to this. But a lot of family vloggers seem to have 90% of their content just be filming their kids all day long and it's not like they have the vlogs alongside any regular content where they talk to the camera on certain topics. It's all just filming the family all day every day. If filming yourself like that is a job, then filming your kids means it's their job. Your pre-schooler shouldn't have a job.
@@tinnie75 yeah that's crossing a line for me. The UK has child labour laws about how many hours a child can work in a row, be on set ect and I think a similar set should apply to youtubers. A cameo, one video every few months ect should be OK but for anything more than that there should be a defined set of rules and laws in place to protect children from exploitation and there should be rules within UA-cam and other platforms about what they can and post. Like none of those cruel "prank" videos where they make their children cry or anything else that could be classed as emotionally disturbing.
I view with the scale that if you would find it cute, embarrassing or horrifying if it was you in the video. Like crafts cool, tantrum depending on age not so cool and things that could impact jobs or my future horrrifying
I don't know, I've heard so many stories about kids being abused because they didn't perform correctly for their UA-camr parents that I'm suspicious of any activity like that.
I think a, "Here's my baby, isn't she cute" and going on to something else is way more acceptable than "My kids are now going to do this activity for the camera"
@@elaexplorer I think it depends on how it's done. I follow a UA-camr with kids and sometimes her eldest helps her with crafts or comes in to say hello mid video and that sort of thing because she likes to pretend she's mommy but the younger one doesn't like being on camera most of the time so we don't see him. She always asks if she wants to and if she doesn't or she gets bored and leaves she says ok so I think that's an ok way to have your kids on camera. Any "family" UA-camr or anyone who has a set schedule for when their kids have to be on camera and that sort of thing are automatically bad in my opinion though.
When you are answering a question on a test and you loose marks for PHRASING AN ANSWER DIFFERENTLY THAN THE TEACHER WANTED. This has happened to me so many times. I answered the question correctly and the answer made perfect sense yet I didn’t get marks for it
Oof i feel this one so much, even if the teacher understands what you are trying to say they are like it doesn't match the testing scheme i can't give you the marks.
@@ANTSEMUT1 Exactly!!
Teacher’s ego trip sometimes 😒
I'm glad that the more complex maths stuff always gave a maximum of 3 points.
- one for the right answer
- one for the right calculation (to show that you understand the subject and actually did the calculations)
- and one for wrapping that result into a sentence.
And that gets super annoying when it happens to be that one topic you can do in your head and basically got the right answer on your brain's short dial.
Ooh yeah and badly written questions that arent actually asking what they think they are. Nobody proof reads this stuff apparently.
Thanks for reminding me I do not need to reply to emails outside of work hours because I got an email on Friday evening that I did not reply to and I have felt bad about it all weekend (but not bad enough to actually reply)
Having to study over weekends
Like I understand it for exceptional circumstances, or exams etc, but I'm in my final year at uni in the UK and it's to the point where some of my friends and I genuinely get anxiety when we decide to take like a couple hours off on a Saturday to sit in the sun. My friend had a full on panic attack once because she "didn't do enough work" on a Sunday.
Like
It's all just bullshit
This is the skillset we're sent into the working world with? How to burn yourself out? No thank you.
I get hw is necessary etc but there has to be a better way to learn than to have it on your mind 24/7 for the majority of the first 21 years of your life
I'm a second year law student and I've decided just to study in the weekends if I can help it. My grades might suffer but my mental health needs a break more
Well, it kinda comes down to the way you manage your time and to how reasonably your uni estimates the hours of work you need to put in for your courses (usually the estimate is 8 hours a week per course), however, I do not understand why they are allowed to have exams on the weekends
Went to a school with a 40h+ school week, around 6 different subjects a day, and homework in about half of them, not including possible projects of the other half of subjects. We also had 1-3 grade defining tests/exams per week for months, and yet still every teacher felt obligated to throw as much stuff as us students over the weekend as possible.
Homework didn't do anything for those that already understood everything, and didn't help those that actually needed help.
My school sends out emails and sets homework with out telling us sometimes. if i’m on my weekend break, i’m not gonna check my homework assignments unless u wanna give me less homework because that is just wasted time.
Mine does the same! A few weeks ago my science teacher litrally set an assignment at 9:45pm DUE FOR THE NEXT DAY. I understand setting them at like 4:30pm but like why would I check my school email after around 6pm?
@@isabellerosling138 ik it’s ridiculous!!
@@isabellerosling138 That's wild 😲 You should refuse to complete assignments that are not given a reasonable time frame!
Or when teachers mention it in passing in the lesson, forget to put it on whenever they set your homework, and then shout at you for not doing it. I'm lucky as my mum will always defend me if a teacher tries to call her to tell me off
the affect school has on mental health. Currently studying for my mocks (not even actual gcses) and three of my friends have messaged me today in tears - and I myself have been constantly on the verge of tears for the past 4 days now. How is this ok? How is this normalised??
Its amazing the pressure they put on GCSEs at school - I remember being so stressed about them as a teenager... and now I'm an adult and literally no one could care any less what GCSE results I got. Its so cruel what they do to you at that age for a qualification that is so meaningless later on!
I was so stressed about mocks this year but my cousin (a year older) has left school and has been accepted into college with her highest grade being a 5 or 6, lowest a 4. My predicted grades are always above 5 so that's good, except my teachers are always trying to stres us out as our school is always top of the exam board
GCSEs don't mean much when you get older. My partner got onto a degree with 2 C grade GCSEs and an E. I wish I had someone tell me this when I was younger. If I have children I'll tell them - Get maths, get English lang and lit, and get 2 more all above whatever C grade is now and you'll be fine. Unless you want to get into academics then they get a little more important then. But in a normal life they don't mean that much over the age of about 18.
@@awkwardlykim I knowww but schools pressure kids so much it's not fair. I have diagnosed anxiety and depression yet theyre always stressing me to do well cause I'm a 'good student'. Why aren't we allowed to enjoy education for what it is? Knowledge is amazing but the exam and school system ruins ir
I know you've already got a bunch of replies to this but I'll add to them. It's shit you stress about your GCSEs, I did too. Mocks were actually worse for me as I got super low grades and was convinced I wouldn't pass the core subjects (somehow I did)
As has already been commented below, the only ones that really matter are english and maths, even then your sixth form/college should offer you the chance to retake them. I went to a college and a bunch of people there were able to retake their maths and english (people of all ages from 16 to those in their 30s and 40s)
No idea if this is of any comfort to you and your mates! Also good luck with your exams, mocks and the real stuff
s a student: the fact that at least one person will end up in tears EVERY SINGLE EXAM SEASON in every year
and tbh 1 student is a very low amount usually more but as an absolute bare minimum
One good thing about teacher assessment has been way fewer exams (I know year 11s this year did assessments but they were less informal than GCSEs). Unfortunately, I’ll probably have my exams next year
Yes, I also wrote a comment about that. You are basically meant to make good grades your only life goal and people crying and being overwhelmed with the work are nothing new at this point.
And it is so annoying that as year 10s we are expected to not only catch up (and revise at home) all the work we missed in lockdown, but to also sit through exams even though we've been through the same thing as year 11s. It also sucks for the teachers, in history we had to cover weimar Germany in 4 lessons
@@Lee.Smells Bear in mind that, when it comes to your exams next year (as, indeed, in every year) the results are normalised across the whole cohort. What that means is that the examiners know that papers will vary in difficulty from year to year but expect that each cohort (group of students taking the exam) will have roughly the same spread of ability. Therefore, to be fair, the grade boundaries are adjusted to give the same grade distribution.
In the case of cohorts affected by the impact of school closures and lockdowns, the raw marks may be lower but the grade boundaries will also move downwards, thus not disadvantaging the group as a whole. It is arguable that there may be some long term disadvantage as students will have a less secure foundation going on to colleges or universities but as this affects the whole group the establishments should be able to adjust to offer additional support where required.
Bottom line: don't stress about it! Teachers and examiners know there has been disruption and will do everything possible to compensate.
@@MrPaulMorris As someone who comes from a poorer part of the country and is currently studying in year 10, it is very clear that people from families in more secure financial situations have not been disrupted anywhere near as badly as those from lower income households. This means that the spread will be much greater which many fear will cause them to get unfairly low grades. As well as this, having a good or bad teacher in a particular subject has caused an even greater disparity in knowledge as being out of the classroom meant that the resources provided were often lacking of a teacher couldn’t (for any reason) provide as good teaching as another teacher
How about that a handful of huge companies that we have no say in, now have more power than most countries in the world, and there's apparently nothing we can do about it?
The individually wrapped fruit that's presliced is for people with dexterity issues. People got so angry about it a few years ago that some stores stopped selling it, taking away some didabled people's ability to indeependantly get tgeur own fruit. Annie elainey has a good video on it.
Definitely; having pre-peeled oranges is great for those people who can't exactly peel them. But I don't get why they have to stock up so much on it, like they expect everyone to having issues peeling oranges.
@@Liggliluff Or people just don't like pealing oranges
They stopped selling, because it was discovered that there are more prone to get lots of bacteria on this
whoa, seriously? i had no idea!
Just adding on that thoose conveniences are useful for people with invisible illness and disability as well. It can also be useful for lots of mental illness where you just don't have that kind of energy.
I'd also add really useful if you have to work a lot and this sort of convenience can still add some health to your diet!
"cost of higher eduction" - those €15 I spent on tuition for 5 years at uni (bachelors + masters) sure weren't easy to find. Got to love continental Europe.
And then there's sad old me in the US paying $100,000 for a bachelors.
Cries at my 15000 a year… not including textbooks or rent or groceries or any else
@@toroallin5734 When in France I never had to buy textbooks, we were given a "workbook" for each module at the beginning of each semester (written by the module head professor and printed by the university). Spent a semester in Canada, fees were covered by my French uni, but textbooks were really expensive.
At my school that’s not even enough to be able to use a music practice room for one semester
Scottish person here! If a Scottish resident goes to a Scottish University then we get free tuition (if we go to one in the rest of the UK it's around 10000 a year. English and welsh students attending pay around that too. Irish and European students pay less, I think, will have to check)
Textbooks are expensive, but nowhere near as bad as in the US. I think it cost around £150 for all of mine.
Accommodation you pay for, but there is opportunities for bursarys (money you don't pay back) for lower income/disadvantaged households
Color grading is looking exceptional as always! I’m loving the lighting and how it looks warm and inviting without being dark and dingy! Great work👏
Thanks! I switched it up again a little bit today if you can believe it haha
So cool for you to shout out bernadette banner! She makes great informational content for anyone who is interesting in clothing history. Love when I see favs supporting favs
The ads that try and trick you into thinking it’s a demo but it just takes you straight to the App Store 😐
And then the actual app/game is NOTHING like the ad!
100% agree on the creepy family vlogging situation. I think tom daley has done a really good job on his channel with his and lance’s son robbie. Robbie’s face is never on camera and he is talked about/ shown when something interesting happens but isn’t the main point of any videos.
With the attendance certificates thing:
I feel like getting a reward for attendance and punctuality is fine so long as children who don't get it aren't made to feel bad about their attendance. What I think should be done to make this fairer is not count sick days towards children's attendance. This is what happened at my college when students had to self isolate because of coronavirus-you are preventing others from getting sick and you can't work properly when you are sick. Also I think it is wrong for students who have a medical condition for their attendance to be affected because they HAVE to go to the doctors or are too sick to come in.
Also talking on speakerphone is necessary for those who are hard of hearing like my nana.
I once had a letter from my school when I had 83% attendance because my grandmother had passed away and so I'd had a week off after she died and then her funeral off and I had then also been ill for a few days where I was throwing up and that letter said that because I had below 95% attendance, my grades would suffer as I was clearly unproductive and didn't care. Oh yeah? Tell that to the 1 A* 4 As, 9 Bs and 2 Cs I got in my GCSEs in Year 11. I also forgot to mention, when I was sick and had a few days off, maybe like a week maximum, we got a letter on the third day saying I had to send proof that I was ill. So they wanted me to waste the doctor's time and make him give me a sick note for throwing up? Or did they want me to send them a bag of vomit in the post?
@@mackenziemaybarraclough1207 That's why I say it's unfair for sicknesses or even things like funerals to count towards attendance percentages. There are ways to monitor whether students are genuinely ill or if they're skiving. Parents will usually verify a students story if they don't turn up to class.
I really hated the attendence awards. I have a chronic illness. I had about 30% attendence (can’t remember exactly but it was around 30) for years 9-11. It was even lower for year 7 and 8 where I would be off school for months at a time. I still managed to get 8 GCSEs with some A*s and As so it wasn’t like I wasn’t learning. Just I was having to do a lot of it from home or try to catch up on things I missed when I was back in school. I knew it was out of my control that I was sick and no one purposely made me feel bad about it. But the attendance awards very much felt like other kids were getting praise for being healthy and like I could never be quite as good as them because I would never be able to do that. A decade later, I still feel like I’m not good enough because of my chronic illness. That insecurity is mostly because of bullying that went on because I was the disabled kid and because of my inability to work a full time job in a society built around productivity. So maybe I was just projecting my own insecurities onto the awards but I hated them so much. I would purposely zone out and daydream through them if I was actually in school on award day so I didn’t have to hear about them.
Looking back, I don’t really see the point of the awards. Anyone who cares enough about school to care if they get an attendence award is going to be in school whenever they can be anyway. I know they have to monitor attendence to make sure kids aren’t skiving but why the awards?
As a trans girl, I'm hating the pockets situation. I always used to carry my phone and stuff in trouser pockets, but now I can't, so I've transitioned to just wearing hoodies everywhere and carrying my phone in their pockets. What's odd though is that all the pyjamas I've bought in the last few years (excepting short ones) have had pockets big enough for my phone. Why do I need pockets when I sleep?
Definitely more pockets everywhere but I acc love pockets in PJ's! I wear my pyjamas around the house so find pockets very useful.
My pyjamas never have pockets, just like everey other clothes. So anoiing
I love my PJ pockets but now you point it out that is super wierd. I would assume the reason is that people like pockets but on tight fitting clothing the pockets ruin the sillouette and when it comes to PJs tight fitting with good sillouette doesn't really matter so we get the pockets we all wanted on our regular jeans.
Well you can; because there are women's clothing with pockets. You'll have to look for it, and also ensure it sells so that having pockets is a selling point.
Alternatively; if dressing up more feminine is empowering (which I will understand), then you do have the option for a handbag. Or if dressing up feminine isn't important (you're a woman regardless), then just getting clothes for men is an option. Like just plain sweatpants, wouldn't that work?
@@Liggliluff the point is it shouldn't be necessary, shouldn't need to search in order to have pockets
Shouldn't need to carry a handbag for every trip.
The fact that at school especially as you get older, in the holidays you are expected to work the whole time. Like I'm in yr 12 so im doing my a levels next yr and my Easter holidays and half terms and stuff we r full on expected to revise every day.
"I could care less," it's "I couldN'T care less."
yeah well I could care less what you think
@@evan if you could care less then that means you care a fair bit. It makes no sense to say it like that
@@randomness051 I could care less
@@evan arghhhh Evan!!
@@randomness051 One version is literal the other is ironic 🙂
Going to work when sick is most definitely not just a US thing. It is prevalent in the lower paid sectors here in the UK which is ironic since those retail and hospitality workers are the ones who do it because they do not often have paid sick leave yet they are going to infect the most people while the well paid office workers are paid to stay at home to avoid infecting the 1 or 2 people they come into contact with each day.
“The UK will never win Eurovision again because everyone hates us.”
Literally something Terry Wogan said in a drunken huff in 2003 that we somehow take as fact now, disregarding the fact the UK has put in zero effort since the 90s while so many other nations plough their entire music industry budget into their selection processes.
The UK is so up itself it’s scary sometimes.
yes, and also: everyone knows what good UK music sounds like. We know when you don’t put effort into it, because we damn well know how it sounds like when you do - A German haha
A Brit here… yes
He wasn't wrong though, the Eurovision voting is not about the music at all, it's purely political. Music taste and what makes "good music" is SO subjective even a single family won't agree with each other let alone an entire country, let alone a whole GROUP of countries (I personally think most if not all the entries sound like utter garbage) . There's really NO point in the competition even existing in the first place, let alone still be running in this day and age.
It's true that we don't put effort in but to suggest that voting in Eurovision isn't politicised is incredibly naive.
@@DavidStruveDesigns Nice to see you have such strong opinions on something you clearly have no interest in at all.
I’m sure the millions of LGBT people who find refuge in the Contest would agree that it has no purpose.
I grew up in the UK but moved to Norway a couple of years ago for work. What I've found here is that almost all the workers rights issues are just not a thing! Entry-level professional positions offer good salaries, low-end workers earn an excellent liveable wage while executives generally earn far lower than in the UK, work-life balance is prioritised (so no calls or emails outside of office hours and overtime is discouraged entirely), tipping in any sense is simply not expected.
I feel like my expat experience going from UK to Norway has been surprisingly similar to yours from the US to the UK in terms of realising how messed up our home countries are.
As a chronically ill kid (CRPS, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and a couple other things) I was made to feel so bad about my attendance and my school even threatened to take my mum to court (later found out the way my senior school treated me was super illegal) for not sending me to school when I was crying in pain. I was made to feel so bad for not being physically capable of going to school often and literally told to my face told I would fail my GCSEs because of it despite having passed my mocks. It really impacted how I thought about school and made it a source of high anxiety which didn't help my pain (PSA stress and tensing because you're anxious about something makes chronic pain worse) so even though I loved learning school became this hostile environment I couldn't wait to leave (did pass btw 6 Cs 2 Bs on 50% attendance my final year). I decided think less weight should be placed on 100% attendance and more on how can we help you get the most out of your school experience.
I'm so sorry you had to go through that, that seriously sucks
@@nat2057 thanks it really did.
Schools stress the importance of regular attendance because there is a clear correlation between attendance and academic progress. Put simply, the more time you miss, on average, the lower marks you will achieve--which should not come as a surprise to anyone. As a former teacher, I would also observe that students missing lessons tends to affect the whole group as time spent explaining missed work is time that can't be spent supporting other students.
However... I completely agree that that who are absent due to illness should not be shamed into attending when unfit nor unfairly treated on their return. Personally, I find the whole 'attendance culture' iniquitous whether in school or in the workplace. People work better when fit and are more likely to return to full fitness if given adequate time to recover.
@@MrPaulMorris I know attendance and marks generally correlate but for those of us not able we should just be given the best support possible (also about it taking time out of class to catch me up my teachers never once did that I missed what I missed) with maybe resources on missed topics sent home to read if you can or for chronically ill students like me the whole curriculum sent home at the start of the year for us to go through when we can. It wasn't the only way my school treated me badly (and sometimes illegally under the 2010 equalities act) but it was one of the most stressful for me and my family and I wasn't the only one they did it to. There was a girl in the year above me who they harassed into no longer bringing her wheelchair to school no matter that it made her schooling much more difficult and painful. A friend of mine who had haemophilia tripped and fell over a broken table and it took a year in a wheelchair and 6 months on crutches to recover, his mum wanted to sue but he convinced her not to. They spent the next 2 years until he left holding a grudge against him and taking any excuse to treat him badly. I had a few good teachers but the vast majority of that schools staff were terrible.
@@violetskies14 In regard to sending work and notes to students who are absent due to illness, in the past I have sometimes had very negative feedback both from students and parents when this has been done. They have told me that it seemed they were being pressed to study when illness made that difficult or impossible. I have read comments here on UA-cam expressing the same concerns.
From a teacher's standpoint, it is not always easy to supply notes, even where they would be welcomed, as they often simply don't exist in a suitable form. While I don't claim to speak for all teachers, in most cases I worked from the briefest of outlines (the most optimistic might call them 'lesson plans') supported by a range of resources including text books, online resources (mainly local, ie on the school server rather than the internet), handwritten notes on the whiteboards, traditional 'talk and chalk', practical demonstrations and, most importantly in my own teaching style, directed questioning. Very little of this translates well into lesson hand-outs.
I think that my original comment indicated that appropriate support should be offered to students returning from absence and I apologise if perhaps that wasn't clear enough.
All these workers rights posts make me think of the time i got into an accident, totalled my car, and still showed up to work my 8 hour shift on a saturday morning because i couldnt find coverage. My job didnt "let" you call out. It was crazy busy too and my back ached. I had to go to the hospital that night cause i couldnt physically move my neck or bend down by the end of my shift. turned out i was fine and it was just muscle spasms and tightness from the accident but i still think its ridiculous i genuinely thought i couldnt call out cause id be yelled at or lose my job?? Like i literally could of had a really serious injury and i was ready to work the next morning lmao, gotta pay for school somehow.
The USA is insane... you simply call in sick and the company has a problem, not you!
7:06 the fact that when you said "I'm getting" I actually said "ripped tonight" in my head while you were talking about social media addiction really illustrates something about me.
The problem with "if you want to contact me after hours then pay me more"
Will turn into "hey we pay you more (probably 20p per hour) so we EXPECT you to answer your phone so you can't complain"
That's called being on call though at that point, pretty sure you couldn't pay someone on call that low?
@@mermaidismyname an extra 20p per hour on top of minimum wage.
You know what's wrong but considered not: 18 years old is an adult.
I'm 29 and I barely feel like an adult.
🙌🙌🙌🙌 Same. Im turning 29 this yr but i still feel [and look] very young
Do you want your parents to be able to make decisions for you til you're like 30 though?
42 here, still waiting on that feeling.
Im going to be 18 in about 4 months and I don't feel like I'm ready to be an adult
I'm 30 and I've never felt more like a child 🤣
Solution to plastic problems: Hemp Plastic
Time it takes to break down:
Regular plastic bottle: 450 years
Hemp plastic bottle: 6 months
But that'll prevent it from longer storage which isn't good. At least if it had a lifespan of 2-3 years, that'll still be really good, but won't break down too quickly.
@@Liggliluff Good point.
Also hemp grows quicker than cotton and bamboo, and requires less water, so it’s an ideal substitute material, including for clothing.
@@littlemontanalady Actually, that’s NOT a good point. So we just have to accept that the majority of bottles cannot be kept for years and years. Who needs that anyway? We really need alternatives for plastics, this is not going in the right direction.
@@hansc8433 You can solve a problem right or you can half ass it. My vote is to solve a problem the right way just not anyway. Then you just have more problems from a crappy solution. Not against hemp at all just not very practical for poorer countries or poorer people that maybe really on longer shelf life and cheaper commodities.
Social beauty standards
The fact any kind of makeover is losing weight and gaining makeup instead of clothes you love and feeling happy and confident in yourself is a messed up widespread ideal
The only thing I can get behind is not being obese, since that is a health risk. But yes, beauty standards are way too high sometimes. For one; is there any female UA-camrs who isn't wearing makeup for example? Does Evan wear any makeup? It's kind of weird how wearing makeup is kind of a requirement for women if they have any public presence, otherwise people will complain in the content section / replies. But a lot of men don't wear any.
It's kind of jarring when you look for it, when you watch a lot of different UA-camrs who are both men and women and show up on camera.
But don't get me wrong. If you want to make yourself pretty, go ahead. But the thing is; most male UA-camrs don't seem to do more than say washing their face, while most female UA-camrs put on makeup. A beauty channel, obviously. But a Reddit reading channel? Why?
@@Liggliluff With the wearing make up thing on youtube... You kind of have to, because if you are filming yourself, lighting can only do so much, if you don't want to appear like a ghost fresh out of the grave or like super shiny on screen, you have to at least put some powder on your face. That is as far as I know a kind of standard. What I get from your comment is the whole "Eyelashes and Roughe" (is it spelled like that?) thing and I agree as a woman you are held to a higher standard in that regard.
@@Liggliluff actually something that a lot of people don't realize is that weight cycling, or the process of losing weight only to then gain it back, is much much more dangerous than just being overweight. Yet this is the kind of behavior that is encouraged as a matter of course. We basically encourage fat people to have anorexia and then disbelieve them because their fat, there's no way they have anorexia. In theory there is a case to be made that in some cases losing weight is necessary, but I would actually guess that it is not necessary in most cases and absolutely the shame is not necessary. You can not know what a person's medical history is just by looking at them. Weight is not a proxy for health, there are healthy fat people and unhealthy skinny people. I would say that people's perceptions about weight loss are so warped that like 90% of weight loss advice given is either misinformed or in bad faith. An example is my friend trying to lose 5 pounds a week - the only way she could be doing is basically by not eating at all which is not going to be healthy in any manner yet all she gets is congratulations
I currently have 1,909 unread emails. Even though I made a second email to use sign up for everything that isn’t important, I still get unimportant emails from businesses that are more important. There really is no escape
(This is all English stuff, I don’t know about other places) Another thing that I’ve come across is that people think that going to school is mandatory or that you have to be 16 to go to college.
I went to primary school for three years, until I was seven, then I went to a Steiner school (kinda like a hippie school) until I was 9. I was then homeschooled for five years by my mother who trained as a primary school teacher.
I then went to college at the age of 14.
It is actually illegal to be a FULL TIME student at college in England until the age of 16. I was only allowed to do the main course and a single GCSE. Next year I will be doing a two year course which is the equivalent of three A-levels at the age of 15-17, alongside another GCSE.
Also, all education in England (not sure about all of the uk) is free up until the age of 18
No pop-ups on websites? What about all the single women in my area?
Oh no! They all disappeared! 😱😱
😂😂😂 Yeah but you still get advertising boxes on web pages, those are annoying.
"Yes I feel like absolute garbage and I'm probably contagious but I literally can't afford a doctor's note, or to lose the hours" --Me several times before, and probably several times in the future.
That's so dangerous though. You could develop a heart disease. Please take care of yourself when you're sick!
Oof.
@@caroe9062 Not always possible, sadly.
This is why we need strong socialist policies in our world.
This is honestly how corona spread so rapidly in the US... Or at least a major component of it
The way they get around the hours thing: You're not an employee at all. You're an "independent contractor". Then they can work you however many hours they want and never have to give you benefits.
I'm gonna have to hard disagree with you on something here, which doesn't happen often. It's not a company level problem that sweatshops and slave labor are a thing. Its a country level problem. Even the worst of the worst employers in the US don't compare to the kind of hells you can find in China, southeast asia, and other developing countries. When it comes down to it, if theres no one who will tell a company no, you can't operate in that manner, you can't sit around and blame every individual scumbag who starts an unethical company like that, or the manager who runs the factory. The real root of the problem and the fault lies with the countries for prioritizing quick economic growth over human rights.
Well it’s also driven by the profit motive so it is also definitely companies as well; although I agree that they wouldn’t have the ability to exploit people in that way if it was illegal in the places they do it
But companies like apple have the option to move their manufacturing to non-sweatshop factories, thus removing incentive to operate at such low cost.
welp I guess unionise
I mean most of the companies that are most to blame are American companies
@@mermaidismyname Well yes, a lot are american companies like apple who have factories in china. Why do you point this out, do you just want to remind us how moraly inferior America is compared to Europe? Good for you on your high horse. Or are you trying to say America should somehow control its companies' actions overseas? That seems like a terrible idea to me.
Never thought I’d hear Evan edinger talking about Bernadette banner! Two worlds colliding
ever heard of a reverse intership? where you pay the company to work for them rather than them paying you?
🥲 dietetic internships often cost between like 9-15 thousand
Talking on speakerphone in public sometimes is necessary for my mother, she’s very hard of hearing, so needs to use speaker phone to be able to hear people
So more like. "mobile phones that dont let you actually hear the person you're on a call with unless they're on speaker phone' - I'm not hard of hearing, and I actually do have that problem, the slightest movement goes from clear to mute, and I'm not talking about a mute button.
When I was first looking for a job after uni, I worked for 3 months unpaid and the company I was working for basically ran their operations through interns, hiring maybe 5/6 at a time and then leaving only management as paid workers 👀 when the internships ended they hired new ones so it was basically constant free work.
I remember when snap maps first came out snd everyone thought it was really weird to be able to track your friend's locations but now it's just normal.
Circumcision is so widespread that it's just done routinely now, which is horrifying.
In the US only...
I was not expecting that. But yea it’s weird. The US is just weird.
@@karinland8533 You make a reasonable point that it's less common in many other countries, but it's about 75% in South Korea, just over 50% in the U.S., just over 30% in Canada, about 25% in Australia (was 80% a few decades ago), and 10-20% in the U.K., Germany, and France.
@@MathAndComputers it's now less than 20% in Australia and still falling
While it is low in Europe, it's still weird that it still happens. Some say it's "better hygiene" but the 90% have no issue with hygiene; some say it must be done as a baby and can't be your own decision at 18+ since if you've had sex before circumcision, you'll notice it being less pleasurable; which I find to be a stupid argument, since it should still be a choice. The worst is someone who said they find circumcised penises to look nicer; yeah, let's force it on people just because some think it looks nicer. The final argument I've heard is because it's part of the religion; but we've outlawed other religious acts before, so the same can be done here.
Welcome back to a man who made a job off talking about living in a second country that speaks the same language and is in the same hemisphere
Sheesh
It’s widely accepted y health professionals/ personal trainers that BMI isn’t an accurate assessment of someone’s physical health, yet we still teach young doctors this method of weight assessment.
I had to do my weight and blood pressure for a tablet review and my BMI came back 26.5 ... technically overweight... but what that doesn’t account for is that I eat well, i strength train 5 times a week, walk EVERYWHERE and have a disability that makes my body composition different to everyone else.
I know I’m going to go in to that appointment and get pressured to lose weight. I get that it’s important for those that have no concept of healthy eating or with other conditions, but I have been repeatedly ignored when I’ve explained why I don’t weigh myself and why it appears that I am overweight. Simply put: I can’t physically exercise any more than I already do, and I can’t eat any less without feeling faint & weak. I wish they would change to a different model of weight assessment, what we’ve got is arbitrary and inaccurate 😞
Also pressuring people to lose weight even if they need to is also unhealthy in itself because doctors do not give nutrition counseling most times they just kinda tell the person to do it and then the person turns to one of the thousands of fad diets online that don't work. Plus. Being overweight isn't even a good proxy for health
@@mermaidismyname the funny thing is that I've done an insane amount of research into nutrition for my specific conditions, but that's only because I have a genuine interest in fitness and health anyway. I have been both underweight and overweight and neither do me any good. I would probably wind up the nurse no end if I came in with articles on my conditons and research I've done :')
Perfect attendance seems to train the young ones for feeling bad for not going to work because they're sick. :P
During my interview for my current job, I outright told the interviewer (now my boss) that I won't be checking my mail outside of my working hours. I also tood him that, in case of an emergency, he can call me. I also clarified what I meant with emergency, so he couldn't apply his own meaning to it, which would probably have been: "whenever I would've otherwise sent you a mail."
He agreed. Haven't had a problem with it and he has never called me so far. My colleagues, who never told him they won't be checking their mail, are still required to check their mail. I sometimes tease them with it. I tell them: "Another quiet weekend with no mails." Because I know they've had to read and reply to a whole heap of mails.
Haha I had to do this with "work functions". We were expected to go have drinks and canapes with the heads of big companies our company had worked with, to try and keep them sweet. My co-workers were like "Well you have to go". I said "Its not in work hours and they aren't paying me. No I don't." and I'd make the same excuse every year - "Sorry, I have to go home straight after work, so I won't be there." And I wasn't.
For some reason, everyone else still went, even though they complained about it endlessly. Just say no. If they aren't paying you, what can they do?
Seems like you were a desired employee, and you got a nice deal. Not everyone has that opportunity.
@@Liggliluff Maybe, but I also stand my ground during negotiations. Most people would just go along with whatever they're offered. I always try to get more out of it. Some interviewers and companies don't like that, they want their employees to be sheep. Whenever I get that vibe, I'm gone. I wouldn't last a week at such a company.
There are also many interviewers who admire my attitude and see the value it can bring to the company.
@@davey2487 Just wanna know, what would you say is an emergency?
@@PissyPants111 If it's a real emergency I would respond accordingly. I'd offer my help if and where needed.
I love the fact that I immediately thought of Bernadette, Karolina, Abbie & co at the mention of women's pockets and that you linked Bernadette's video on it. I was not expecting you to know her tbh, but it makes me so happy!
Finding out Evan is friends with Bernadette is such a lovely surprise. I’m now wondering whether a collab might be possible in the future now they’re both based in England 🤔
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Just recently finished university and spent the last three months of it in mental health hell, I never tried to end stuff but I definitely thought about it. People only ever told me "its temporary and will be over soon" as if that was somehow helping
It annoys me so much that we keep getting told what we need to do to save the planet, yet the big companies keep using unnecessary plastic. I understand that we can choose more sustainable options, but if those options are not there, or are limited, or are a lot more expensive than the non-sustainable options, there's only so much we can do as individuals.
Widespread thing that is totally wrong? Paying people to needlessly kill farm animals.
Go vegan!
Why not do what we can as individuals?
There's a reason Greta Thunberg eats a plant based diet.
"According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.”
“A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use. It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he explained, which would only reduce greenhouse gas“Avoiding consumption of animal products delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy,” he added.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford.
Joseph Poore switched to a plant based diet after seeing the results of the study.
Links at my channel under "About.
To reduce plastic use, I use my own shopping bags, buy from the bulk section, reuse produce bags, and reuse bags like bread bags for food storage to avoid buying more bags. I also recycle, but I hate the fact that most plastic doesn't get recycled after I put it in the recycle bin. I also carry a refillable water flask instead of using single use plastic bottles.
3:18 on the whole recycling thing: some more regulation would be very helpful. Limit everyday plastics that are used in large volumes to only a few recipes. Add a marker to the recipe, that allows a machine to easily sort the garbage. etc Would go a long way to making the recycling feedstock higher quality and more economically viable.
Gendered clothing is annoying to me, it's literally a piece (or pieces) of fabric
Yh but for some items the figures of the wearer is made for one specific gender like jeans tops ect
*It's pretty much for finding stuff.* Want trousers with pockets? Go to the men's section. Want to buy a skirt? Go to the women's section. Want a plain hoodie? Go to the men's section. *They're not saying that you can't wear things of the opposite gender*
@@ginnymarch why not separate it by figure and cut then?
@@Rain-np7tk They're already doing that in some cases for things like jeans, on top of labeling it as "women's" or "men's". Can you explain why you think gendered clothing is annoying to you? I don't really see the issue because you're allowed to shop in the women's and the men's section.
The things about fashion/fashion culture that I find annoying;
-fast fashion being unsustainable and exploiting workers
-lack of pockets in women's wear
-the fact that in many men's departments size 1~10 (not real sizes, just an example) are all in the same line so size 1 is the exact same design as size 10, but in the large majority of women's departments this size range is divided between the regular size line and the plus size line and in the large majority of the time you won't be able to get the same design in the plus sized line as in the regular size line.
Common complaints from plus sized women are that many plus sized lines offer frumpy and shapeless designs.
-vanity sizing
-many western cultures have this idea that if you don't fit into off the rack clothing perfectly it means there's something wrong with your body instead of the garment. Common "solutions" for fitting issues that are recommended are weight loss, exercise, plastic surgery, padding.
Nobody I know, whether they are slim or not, consistently fits into off the rack clothing perfectly.
In the past it was the norm to buy either custom fit garments or to get standardized (which was never truly standardized) clothing altered to fit better, people did not consider themselves flawed for not fitting into off the rack stuff perfectly, people weren't chasing a specific number on the label either. Alterations were expected and normal.
We need to normalize alterations again.
@@itsalwayshalloweenexceptwh5118 yes, but WHY are they gendered then? It's pretty unnecessary and inconvenient. I never said I had a huge issue I said I found it ANNOYING.
That school one just brought back the time in my high school when the teachers outright shamed our whole year for attendance. They put a powerpoint up in front of THE WHOLE SCHOOL with everyone in each year who got 99% then 100%. Every other year was like 10-20 kids on each list then it reached 6th year and the 100% list was 1 person. We all started trying to hide giggles and the deputy head decided to give us a lecture on why we should all be ashamed of ourselves.
I had perfect attendance throughout primary. And in the 6 years of secondary i only missed 2 days, my dads 50th and my granddads 80th
Needing +5 years experience in some technology framework that was invented 3 years ago.
Speaking from experience in UK retail coming in while sick and blackmail of hours is most definitely not just a US thing, just a mistreating industry thing
Hello and welcome back to a man who sponsors his own videos more often than he breathes.
Literally everyone outside the UK just assuming that Northen Ireland just refers to the North part of the ROI
Heck even a shocking number of people IN the UK don't even know this
Flashback to "Team GB"
Sorry guysxx
The name is kind of confusing though.
But if less focus was put on the non-sovereign regions will less autonomy than the German states, and more on the sovereign country of United Kingdom as a whole, then there wouldn't be much confusion.
Another option is to just make Northern Ireland into north of Ireland.
@@Liggliluff I mean you say that, yet NI is a country in its own right, even competing at international sporting events under its own flag, yet these autonomous German regions are still just that regions of Germany, not their own countrys
The use of "literally" in literally every context. But that's actually what I love about languages.
I've not seen it being used like that in Swedish at least, and that's nice. Since it can then be used when something literary happened instead of something figuratively happened.
Does that happen in any other language?
@@Liggliluff the way literally is used in the aforementioned context seems like people are using it to emphasise something like giving it extra oomph.
"Literal bullshit" is what peeves me the most.
It's almost never literal bovine manure. Why do people keep saying that.
I worked part time seasonal, worked 40hours every week, after uni I worked 40hours every week and got two promotions... My contract was never once updated
5:20 this is for "full time employees". If you're seasonal, meaning you only work for the company for 9 months, then you can work 40 hours a week and not be full time.
The colour grading really is top notch!
In Turkey in school you can have 20 days of absence without an excuse and every single year except 1 I had 19,5 days of absence. That one year I miscalculated and had 18,5 of absences I felt so bad.
That's so cool!
Without an excuse? That sounds a bit excessive to me even as a European. Though at my school you couldn't even have a single lesson unexcused without getting into trouble. Which lead to a lot of people finding doctors that would give them a note for nothing and then not come the whole day. But also your parents could write you a note for a few days if you weren't sick enough to go to the doctor or needed time off for other reasons.
In the Netherlands if you miss a single day without excuse your parents can get a HUGE fine. Do not extend your summer holiday, the school inspector WILL find you...
When applying for a job you get invited for a “trial shift” that’s just the company wanting an extra member of staff for free on a busy day
I wouldn't see it as that. Perhaps that's that it is in practice but surely the company need to actually see you doing the job before they can hire you otherwise you'll just end up fired if you mess up and gives you the opportunity to learn about how things work.
I did that once (a trial shift) and they ended up not hiring me because I didn't mesh well with the other employees on my shift, which ended up being for the best because I found a job I liked a lot better.
Recently I’ve been applying for a lot of different jobs and a lot of them aren’t even interviewing me they’re just offering trial shifts and then they never get in contact with me again even after saying they would
I’m in the uk and I’ve never had a trial shift be paid
@@davidlisteresq I have never had a trial shift be paid and none of my friends or family have either
Jeez they should just say it's temp work and pay accordingly, bloody hell that's dodgy as hell to come up with a weaselly word like that.
5:45 I'm glad sb else feeling like this. My friends think I'm paranoid, probably, because I don't like uploading photos online.
"I actually have things to do with my day" ...
"I WAS PLAYING RUNESCAPE!"
Cracked me up because I was also this person 😂 still mad that people would trick me into going into the wilderness and then kill me off though
In the UK part-time workers are legally entitled to holiday pay no matter how many hours they work. It might be only ten days a year on a 20 hour week but its something.
An employer can't legally tell you to use a holiday if your sick and its defiantly not your reasonability to find a replacement if your sick. I was horrified that I found this was the norm in the US. In the UK and in hospitality if your sick or have diarrhoea you legally can't return back to work until 48 hours after the last time it happened.
You listed your pocket contents & mentioned your wallet & credit cards separately. Is that normal for guys? Cos the idea of my cards not being in my purse/wallet makes me deeply uncomfortable.
I keep mine in my wallet, why have yet another thing I have to remember to pick up when I go out? Took me a while to get used to adding face mask to the list this past year lol
@@partariothe5th Precisely! People think I'm organised but I'm really just so forgetful that I decided to keep all my essentials in one place.
I used to keep my ID in a seperate wallet when I had a military /government job just because I had to show it or use it all the time.
In Germany calling in sick still is a problem, too. I once dragged myself to work while having the flu and told my boss that I'm feeling dizzy all the time. When his boss also showed up at the store I told him that I wouldn't greet him with a hand shake because I didn't want to get him sick, too. Like two days later I had to call in sick after almost fainting at a bus station. When I came back into work after my sick leave I got into trouble because apparently I sounded too happy when calling my boss and his boss to inform them that I wasn't coming to work because of the flu.
it's always really bothered me that i get yelled at for requesting off at my minimum wage/barely higher than minimum wage jobs. especially because it's not like i'm getting paid for those days off. my manager literally told me to quit my other job so i could make up for the days i requested off for my GRADUATION. i spent my whole senior year working 40 hour weeks on top of school i think that's enough
when you said 'not everything is an argument' OMFG YES! My dad's side of the family and my sister are so entrenched in that way of thinking and that everything is a competition. It's exhausting to talk to them!
13:33 also, video chatting in public
I love when my UA-cam worlds collide. Bernadette and Evan should have been obvious though.
Productivity being what determines worth as a person. Which leads to us normalizing everyone having depression and anxiety because we all put work and school over mental health.
Hey evan i was wondering what camera do you use when you go out taking pictures?
Oh my gosh the "recycling"!!!!! I realized that just a few years ago that all of our "recycled" garbage was just being shipped to countries that would "process it" by polluting their own environment. So much guilt, so much pain and sadness. I
Apples are wrapped in some countries,in most EU countries they are usually in a cardboard box same with cans.
Not discussing salary and knowing how much you're worth (and then also not wanting to feel greedy if you ask for a pay increase!). It's good to know what your colleagues are getting paid so you know if you're getting underpaid. My boyfriend got written up for discussing his salary with a coworker in the office and somebody complained?!
In college the teacher was looking at my attendance and she saw it was 98% and she was like 'Wow! That's really good. I suppose the only thing you could try and do is get it to 100%' then I explained to her that that would be mathematically impossible since I'd already missed days it would never reach 100%.
Minimum wage being below the cost of living.
some people like to say minimum wage is for teens who need extra money but like, minimum wage in america was initially supposed to be the minimum amount of money required to support a family. like you were supposed to be able to live fairly comfortably on minimum wage, but then companies decided they didn't want to pay people that much, so they didn't raise it with inflation, and they've managed to get people to lie for them about that
Boris Johnson not knowing how many kids he has. Now that is a wrong thing that shouldn't be so normal.
wait, for real? O.o
@@D0MiN0ChAn yeah. If you ask Google it says at least 6 and in an interview he wouldn't answer the question. To think he is the PM.
5:02 yes, that is legal, I worked at M&S just before the pandemic and they tried to do this. They employ you part time/temporary for something like the Christmas season, and then call you every day or ask you if you can work more, and if you say yes you would be working over the full time hours threshold. Obviously you get paid for the extra hours but you are still employed on the part time/temporary contract so you don't get any of the benefits. Accepting all the extra hours is also incentive if you want to keep the job and have a renewed contract after the temporary one is up.
I'm hard of hearing so I always used to have to use speakerphone, but now I have cochlear implants that have Bluetooth that connects to my phone so I don't have to use speakerphone unless the Bluetooth isn't working.
just reminded me of one.
Some companies charge a thousand bucks/quid/'a months wage' to fix simple problems like screen replacements or battery replacements but only if you use the manufacturer because the original manufacturer thinks independant repair shops are the devil that will install tik tok and sell your data to china, even though the devices when you get them track what you do, the company sells that data to china, and often bundle other spyware that you can't uninstall too, and its all about replacing broken items with a full-price purchase of the newest device.
And yet we're supposed to be responsible for... cooking our own food. with gas. in our own homes. And clean them. with bleach and other chemicals - the latter which, when improperly used, could combine with bleach to creat poisonous, toxic substances and the like. and that is totally fine.
@@AlMcpherson79 Oh 100%. I don't know if you meant to reply under my comment, but in terms of cochlear implants if they aren't covered by your insurance you have to pay hundreds of dollars just to get another rechargeable battery and thousands to get your implant upgraded to a new version. I'm lucky that the people who do the check up on my implants found a loop hole to let me get the newest upgrade whenever my warranty is up on one of them. Instead of putting them as hearing aids, they put it as a prosthetic since cochlear implants are technically an artificial device used to replace a body part.
Same but with hearing aid so much more helpful without them I end up having the volume on max
@@rosesilburn9416 What? I don't understand. Are you saying that it's more helpful not to wear hearing aids? And that you can just listen to videos by putting it at max volume?
Worst thing for me? People with autism always have to be CLEARLY autistic to be treated well during meltdowns. Diagnosed autism, I have a meltdown and whoopdedoo I'm goddamn punished for it because I can't help it but scream or flat out book it out of school to TRY not to hurt people. Apparently tis a sin.
Kids trying to get perfect attendance.
Me in school: :::Reads school Manual to find out how many days I can miss in a semester then used that information to full my full advantage:::
the way the education system (at least where i’m from) weaponises fear to ‘motivate’ students to study. doesn’t even work, just causes so much more stress that people get more creative at finding ways to not do the work
Hello everybody and welcome back to that American guy with the Russian cat (apparently).
can confirm, I'm the cat
@@governmentissuedrestrainin4750 huh interesting
I can relate to the story about the perfect attendance issue. As a person who doesn't tend to get sick all that often, I found myself really annoyed in 8th grade when I had to miss a day for reasons not pertaining directly to my physical well-being (family emergency that had me staying at my aunt's for a couple days because my mom was in the hospital). I think it took me a few weeks to get over that. The family (and mental health, I believe that is why my aunt made me skip that day) is more important, but I had been conditioned to think that skipping school was only acceptable if one was violently ill.