Horrible Smutbeast posted:

OP the problem is you and your brother are being selfish and trying to treat your parents like they're landlords when really you're grown rear end children still living at home. You have never moved out and been on your own, then got invited back to live with them when things got too tough. You never got laid off or divorced and just needed a place to stay until you got back on your feet. You've never left so there's no reason why they'd treat you like adults.

You're still children and your parents are sick of it. How much time do you spend a week cooking and cleaning for your parents because they're not charging you rent? How many times have your parents asked to respect their basic rules while you live there (don't look at porn/naughty stuff) and you ignored them? Not only that, but they're going through financial troubles and the two of you are still attached to their teats and spending their money. Seriously, you keep saying your brother and you are trying oh so hard to get jobs and move out but your brother is racking up credit card debt under their name?

Your parents might be abusive. They might be sick and tired of your poo poo and at the breaking point. Nobody will know until you get the hell out on your own. Why don't you pack up your collections of comic books and childish nerd poo poo, put them in a paid storage locker until you can move out and start taking actual steps to leaving. If you want the internet so badly tell your mom to put it in your name and you'll take care of it. Hell, cancel the internet and get one of those usb wireless sticks or walk down to the mcdonalds and use their internet. You want cable tv? Pay for it. If you want to be treated like an adult you need to start acting like one, and using what little money you have to buy comic books every month while your mother supports you all while trying to go to school is not it. Sure, you can say it's only $X a month but at the end of the day your mother is still seeing you come home with nerd poo poo while she's busting her rear end for you.

Agro ver Haus doom posted:

How much money do you spend a month on weed and comics?

Quixotic posted:

Being the owner of the house doesn't mean that you're allowed to be a bigoted poo poo. The expectations for what makes a good person remain exactly the same. Morality and decency is not defined by property ownership.

Quixotic posted:

Who said it was against the law? It means it's wrong. Immoral. The act of a bad person. Something that someone should be criticized for, something that disqualifies their opinions on many things, something that casts their judgement into severe question, and generally makes them wrong. But not illegal.

Benny the Snake posted:

Another concern is that by applying for fast food/warehouse work, I'm essentially fishing in an over-crowded pond. Sure I could jump right in to either handling packages or making fries but there's much more people reguardless of education status that I'd have to compete with for the same job. Besides I just got an response from a customer service position I applied to-they want to do an interview. I think my prospects are looking up.

StrangersInTheNight posted:

Eh, this isn't really the issue...nowadays, you need to have a sense for when to follow up and when to let it go - non-response is very much a response. If they like you and your resume, they know where to find you. Hiring managers can sometimes remember the guy who was too much of a pest, and then you get remembered in a bad way. It's not like it was back in the day where following up showed proactivity and spunk - this advice to follow up more often comes from and older generation, from before electronic media dominated job hiring and before it became so much easier to reach out. Now over-bumping and over-following up can be as much of an issue for losing jobs as never following up.

StrangersInTheNight posted: