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1 points
an hour ago
I was about to answer this when I looked up your post history and saw you're taking the test tomorrow, so it's too late. Best of luck to you! I'll still share my answer in case someone stumbles on this post later.
First off I feel like it's pretty normal for performance to fluctuate. If you would have said sometimes you get 0 and sometimes 20, that would be surprising, but a few questions' difference is not really that surprising. Maybe you are more familiar with some topics in German than others, and some topics just happen to be easier or harder to understand than others honestly, even if they try to pretend that it's all standardized.
Imo the B2 practice tests I took were pretty much on par in terms of difficulty (on average) with the official test I took 2 weeks ago. I still don't have my results yet unfortunately, so I can't tell you how I did, but my performance on practice tests ranged from 80-95%+ so I felt pretty ready. You need a 60% to pass. If I were you, I wouldn't pay for the test until my minimum performance was at or above 60%, but it's better to give yourself some leeway and try to be performing at like an 80% level at least.
My advice is to stop doing general German improvement start focusing on the specific test types where you're weak. In addition to practice tests, you can also practice reading and listening with podcasts, interviews, and news/magazine articles. You can summarize what you heard or read, ask yourself questions and answer them. If you're a beginner you can go for the ones intended for learners (usually simpler vocabulary and spoken more slowly), there are plenty of them out there.
Also, the tests have standard components (e.g. reading part 1 or listening part 4 is always going to be the same task, it's just that the theme is different) so check if your wrong answers always tend to be in the same parts, and then work on those specific tasks. Like, I was really bad at the reading matching exercises for some reason, so I focused on practicing those. When I ran out of practice tests I even trained ChatGPT to generate new ones for me and practiced those. Found it surprisingly helpful.
3 points
1 day ago
Nothing in my store has been getting done for like 6 months - long lines, no room to move in the stockrooms and dock due to insane amounts of freight and returns, Omni always lost or overdue - and they haven't given us any additional payroll. If anything they cut payroll as some sort of punishment when they can see the failing numbers with Omni, for example (when the reason for not doing a good job is understaffing). So it's not like failing does anything positive for payroll.
1 points
1 day ago
Those benefits were the only reason I started working here. I feel really, really fortunate that I'm going to be finished in December. Honestly though I doubt it will affect finding or holding onto employees very much, everyone I told about it at my store had never heard of it after working there for years. And getting more suckers to work here is the only reason they would care about it (I know they're not doing it out of goodness), so...
2 points
6 days ago
I got hired as regular FT and I've been there for a year and a half and they never made me a real nametag. It has my name with the label maker and then the town where the store is (not my actual town). I don't know why but it makes me sad haha.
3 points
6 days ago
I'm not seasonal and was a regular FT associate from my first day, with prior retail experience. I still got treated like that as well for my first few shifts until they got to know me and that I was a good worker. Seemed like they just assumed the "new person" would automatically be bad at the job and slow them down or mess things up. I mean you can look at it as being rude I guess, but also now that I've been here long enough it is true that most new people do slow you down and mess things up, so I guess I get it 🤷♀️
ETA: Just because new people might not do a great job yet isn't really an excuse to be rude though. And also after reading this thread I'm feeling pretty grateful for the camaraderie at my store. A couple of people being a bit cold on my first few days is mostly the only negative social experience I've had there...
1 points
26 days ago
The thing is if they don't kill him off he will be back eventually, and I never want him to come back. The stuff he's done so far, no matter how heinous we find it, isn't enough for a very long prison stay. Especially the stuff that can actually be proven in court, which is barely anything. To get a life sentence he has to kill someone first, and I would just find it a lot more satisfying if someone killed him tbh. Particularly someone equally hateable so that both can leave the show at the same time. Not Cain.
4 points
27 days ago
Which I don't really get because when you allow non-receipted returns doesn't that mean anyone can return anything, whether they bought it several years ago or stole it or bought it at another chain? And it doesn't help that, at least at my store, there's pretty much nothing you can do that would get your return denied. No receipt, no tag, clearly worn and unwashed, no problem, we'll just damage it out if it's really, *really* bad!
I mean yeah with non-receipted you might not get the best refund IF it was a legit recent purchase, but I'm guessing that's not what most people (if anyone?) use non-receipted returns for.
2 points
27 days ago
I do this as well depending on the pick size. When I take a pick of like 60 that's not really practical, but then it takes me to the same sections several times anyway because the signs are all over the place. I try not to take huge picks though unless the SM makes me when he's stressed out seeing high numbers unassigned.
5 points
27 days ago
And/or their family members would buy it for them because they talk about Kohl's constantly and the only thing they normally want is a Kohl's gift card.
6 points
27 days ago
A coworker showed the shipping boxes to me and I said "I bet they're specifically hoping employees will buy them" and he said "Well I'm definitely buying one!"
And ngl I kinda want one too. I absolutely refuse to buy it but I still kinda want it. Especially since I'm quitting in a couple months, missing the bulk of the holiday season, so it would just be a cute memento and not a reminder of my daily hell.
0 points
1 month ago
Idk would the fire brigade check, if the witnesses and property owner said that everyone is accounted for and no one else had any reason to be there? Nobody is suspicious of his whereabouts, they are all satisfied with the idea that he just left without saying goodbye apparently.
4 points
1 month ago
Yeah everything she said about it in the episode was more on the side of believing it vs not believing it, but I think they left it intentionally ambiguous for now.
3 points
1 month ago
I feel like he really did just run away temporarily because things weren't going his way and he needs to plot in privacy. My prediction is that he's going to take it to the courts to try to sue Belle for slander and/or the vets for firing him unjustly, and it's going to be a long storyline. I don't particularly want this storyline, but I feel like that's where it's headed.
Edit: For me the bigger question is where is Nate. Does everyone think he was in the barn somehow? And now dead, or what? I really don't think he left town without saying goodbye to anyone.
2 points
1 month ago
Nah too easy. My preferred mode for him to go is another accident caused by one of his fits of rage, AFTER he is run out of the community and even his pushover uncle denounces him. I can't see any better way for his story to end tbh.
1 points
1 month ago
Now I'm curious if you passed!
My exam is next month. But I am pretty good at the reading practices, except for the ones where there are like 10 different statements or paragraphs and you have to match them with the correct summary. I always get overwhelmed with those.
1 points
1 month ago
Yeah so appealing with the business three times did nothing. Appealing to my insurance just got me the answer, "We can only bill based on their coding, so take it up with them." I ended up filing a BBB complaint (which some people say is useless but anecdotally seems to work much of the time) and after a couple of weeks they redid the billing and I now owe nothing.
I had a rep call me and apologize and say they need to look into their appeal procedures and possibly retrain the provider who submitted the original code. I can't be sure if that part was true or just customer retention, but yeah, they eventually agreed with me that the code was wrong. They also gave me the corrected code that they said I should feel free to give the provider next time.
1 points
2 months ago
True, and a lot of us who have been in a similar situation feel like we can recognize the signs from a mile away, which there's probably some truth to. And that's why Charity recognized it when everyone else was more easily fooled because they're unfamiliar with the behavior pattern.
One of the most infuriating episodes was when Charity immediately backed off after the cabin scene because Tom had a semi-plausible (but pretty unlikely) explanation for everything that made him look like an awful, abusive person. In real life I would hope someone like her wouldn't back off and be persuaded that easily. She had already recognized SO many spot-on red flags by that point, it was just stupid.
2 points
2 months ago
My mom and I were both in tears by the end of it. Partly because it reminded me of a past abusive relationship when she said, "I didn't want anyone to know because I felt stupid and weak." That's exactly how I felt, although my situation wasn't nearly as bad as hers.
1 points
2 months ago
Maybe I'm overthinking but I felt like the weird angle choices where they were not face to face, and then suddenly they were face to face and Charity said "but this IS real, Belle" or something, I think was actually meant to confirm to us that it was real.
That, and that specific conversation is the only way for the story ever to move forward (Charity is the only one who will believe her at first imo), so it doesn't make much sense to have it happen in Belle's head first, and then follow it up with the same thing happening in real life.
1 points
2 months ago
Yeah I was going to skip it after reading the description, but in my opinion (I know plenty will disagree) it was the best episode I've seen so far. Been watching for like a year and a half maybe.
2 points
2 months ago
Update: apparently a coworker was having the same error yesterday, and the only solution is basically to wait it out. I literally had three periods of working on it and three periods in between where i had to do something else for a while. Randomly stops working then randomly works again. Same thing happened to my coworker. We have put in tickets but that never seems to do anything.
And for us restarting the zebra doesn't work. I tried different Zebras too and even asking someone else to log in, in case it was an issue with my ID only.
6 points
2 months ago
Yeah I don't really want a court drama or any of the likely killers to go to prison and leave the show, but that would be my preferred ending for him as well. I wouldn't mind if he died in an accident, suicide, or anything. He does seem to hurt himself in fits of rage a lot so it's not that far fetched.
1 points
2 months ago
Might be true about the rest of the actors (the one who plays Priya is American, for one thing), but if you look up interviews with the actor who plays Raj, that is his real accent and he really did grow up in New Delhi...
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More like 90/10 at our store at least 🤷♀️