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Savings Hack Rule (slrpnk.net)
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[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 117 points 2 months ago

That moment when you Capitalism your social group.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 101 points 2 months ago

few people know this but there is actually quite a lot of money to be made from scamming your friends

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago

There's an entire MLM industry built upon it!

[-] Thteven@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago

Friends? I prefer the term 'rubes'

[-] FundMECFSResearch 1 points 2 months ago

“friends”? you mean “potential customers”.

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 85 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You do this to me once, shame on you. You do this to me twice, I'm on to you douchebag and I won't bring it up but I'll avoid situations where I pay for you or I'll just tell you it cost £2 more than it does.

I always throw an extra buck onto whatever I owe someone - try this instead. It will make them smile and its a sign of appreciation for covering my cost even if only momentarily. I've found that when I'm paying for multiple people and then trying to collect up, it's not uncommon to get screwed over a bit or not have a fee or a tip or something covered. Be the guy that goes out of the way to show some appreciation. I've probably lost $100 over the past 5 years doing this, but I have enough issues to feel douchy about. I don't need something else.

[-] kboy101222@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago

All fair points

This guy is a parody account in case you didn't know btw

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 months ago

one can phrase it like this for the terminally finance brained: an investment in friends and community is the best investment you can make; humans need other humans to be happy, and a strong community will get through basically anything alive.

[-] isaaclw@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

When somene pays for me, I dont quibble about splitting it even. I use it as a bench mark, but I assume somsone else wont pay.

Also I know theres times I've screwed up and didn't give the fair amount (moatly due to not thinking or being aware of costs), so I try to bump it up and do a bit extra from now on.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago

this is satire.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 65 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This guy definitely fucks

...his "friends" over.

[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 62 points 2 months ago

They obviously do not have any German friends

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 19 points 2 months ago

Am German, can confirm that I am not friends with this person.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 16 points 2 months ago

I absolutely call out inaccuracies like this.

Am I German? 👀

[-] Johanno@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago

You might be. Germans will sometimes fight over cents for the sake of principle.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 months ago

dunno if germany has this but in sweden we have the tradition that knives cannot be gifted, you must always pay a token amount lest the knife "cut" your relationship.

[-] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I don't feel it makes sense to drink the principal sake. Am I Japanese?

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

Not anymore

[-] Mohaim 62 points 2 months ago

I'm getting Ass Pennies energy

[-] hactar42@lemmy.ml 46 points 2 months ago

In the US Air Force they use US currency at all overseas facilities and shops on the base. But they don't ship pennies because it's not worth the cost, so they round up or down to the nearest 5. I worked with a guy who was so cheap that when it would round down he would pay with cash and when it would round up he would write a check (this was before debit cards, yes I'm that old).

[-] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 21 points 2 months ago

5c is our smallest coin in Australia so all transactions work this way.

If I have to use up some cash at a self serve machine but I don't have enough to cover the whole thing, when I do the debit card portion of my split payment I make sure to leave 2c extra.

So if it's $12 and I have to use up a $5 note I'll split pay $6.98 on my debit, the machine will ask for the other $5.02 and will round down when I put in the $5 note.

No I don't actually care about the 2c but I'm having to type in a split pay number regardless so figure why not.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

That's how it works everywhere here. But no one uses cash and all use card/contactless.

[-] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 months ago

hilariously this is just how things are in all of sweden, we got rid of our equivalent to the penny and now it only remains in a vestigial decimal at the end of prices.

i have no fucking clue why we don't just force all costs to be rounded to the actual smallest unit of currency, all it does is allow people to set dumb prices like 14.95

[-] Cassa 43 points 2 months ago
[-] Dave2 77 points 2 months ago

Don't worry, it is a joke account.

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Jokes are meant to be funny.

[-] TherapyGary 57 points 2 months ago

Part of the joke is that he posts this kind of stuff on LinkedIn to make fun of 'grindset' douchebags

[-] theUwUhugger@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago

Oh welp, turns out an entire classification is based on on a randos personal preference! You learn new things every day…

[-] Dave2 24 points 2 months ago

I mean, it was absurd enough to be funny for me. So maybe it just isn't funny to you?

[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 41 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There aren’t many good reasons to ghost someone but you do bring up a good one.

[-] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

yeah, always round up. owe 17.89? you send $20 and call it interest for covering for you to begin with.

[-] iceonfire1@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago
[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago

Is Ken Cheng the new Ken M?

[-] Kacarott@aussie.zone 39 points 2 months ago

He's the Ken M of linked in

[-] Randelung@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

It's sad that satire like this isn't obvious anymore. 100 bucks over 5 years should have been a giveaway, but linkedinlunatics is a thing, so.

[-] Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 2 months ago

God I feel like some people really are like this and wonder why they don't have any friends who are actually decent people.

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago

Save some pence for the rest of us, bezos.

[-] ShareMySims@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Ah yes, crabs in a bucket, doing yet another of the capitalist's jobs for them.. 🙄

[-] Nfamwap@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I think he's joking

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Sounds like a cover story for someone with dyslexia tbh

[-] RandomVideos@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

Dyslexia doesnt exist

It was just a cover so people can steal fractions of dollars from other people "by accident"

[-] Barzaria@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

This reminds me of LinkedIn lunatics. Funny

[-] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Conversely, this also means you value your honor that little.

[-] Fortatech@gregtech.eu 2 points 2 months ago

So the grindset begins...

[-] LostNetizen@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I don't use LinkedIn. But most of the screenshots I see of posts on linkedin on other platforms are stuff like this.

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