#You're wasting so so so so so so fucking much storage space on apps

[fragglerockopinions]

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[no-terfs-no-swerfs-no-fascists]

Someone's been stealing money from the petty cash at work for a year now, and I haven't been able to find out who or how.

I've covered, from my own money, close to €4000 by now, and my salary is only €500/month, which means that I've been living on scraps trying to pay rent, bills, cat stuff, and all the unexpected expenses that hobble me once or twice a month, such as having to buy a new vacuum cleaner, fixing the water heater, fixing the plumbing in the bathroom (twice), and buying a new washing machine, to name some. I've been eating nothing but plain congee since November of last year except for the holidays and my birthday, I've started buying lower quality cat food, and I've denied myself everything from buying new socks to getting new headphones just to keep myself in the black.

And finally - finally! - thanks to a friend's help, I could get my hands on a small wireless camera to set up in the office where I keep the petty cash till so I can catch the thief. I couldn't report any of the missing cash because after the first time it happened, I got told the next time it happens I will lose my job, and I can't afford that, but if I had proof that the cash was missing not because I was irresponsible at my work but because someone was stealing, then I could finally do it.

And the camera DOESN'T FUCKING WORK.

I've done everything right, followed the manual step by step, and the goddamned thing won't work!

You can only look through the camera if you're actively using the application that connects the camera to your phone. The motion sensor doesn't work despite changing all the settings to turn it on. The app recognizes the micro SD card I put in, but only in the sense that it recognizes there's an SD card there and how much free memory there is on it - it won't format it (as per instructions) and it won't use it as storage. Eventually, after about five hours of trying to get the camera to accept the micro SD card, I caved in an bought the app's Cloud storage space... but the camera won't accept it as storage either! So the only way for the camera to record anything is for me to actively use the app, go to the camera screen tab, click Record... and then stay on that window because the second I leave that tab (not even the whole app, just the tab!), the recording stops automatically 🤬

I was so happy when the camera arrived, so hopeful that this nightmare will finally be over and I'll finally be able to breathe a little easier, but nooo.

Not me.

Not with my luck.

So I've wasted €100 I couldn't afford to spend, and with the way things are going, I won't be surprised if the thief steals more money this weekend, and I'll just have to cover it again, and all for no better reason than because fuck me, that's why.

And then people DARE chastise me for being suicidal.

You fucking come live my life and then tell me I'm not justified in wanting all of this to be over and not caring how it happens anymore as long as it fucking STOPS.