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WCDT Strips 3261-3265 (11-15 July 2016)

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Thrillho:

--- Quote from: jheartney on 11 Jul 2016, 06:14 ---She'll need proof of employment to look for rentals, so the job hunt has to start first. She could do the address forwarding thing online, I believe.

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Do they not have guarantors in the US?

themacnut:
Guarantors? Please explain.

And since as I'm not sure what you mean, there's a good chance that Brun doesn't know about this any more than she knew about insurance for her phone. So, yeah, she'll need proof of employment to get a new place of residence, which means getting a job first. Renee will just have to deal with calls to her phone for Brun until then.

 

oddtail:

--- Quote from: blue5 on 11 Jul 2016, 07:00 ---Depending on the employer, some are not allowed to have their cells on them. Leads to the question, how did that fire spread so quickly?

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Building fires can actually spread much, much quicker than people realise. If some furniture, or something else that is highly flammable, in a room is on fire, in some cases you might have less than a minute to leave before you pass out from the rising air temperature. If there's a fire in a building that cannot be put out instantly and people don't leave in a short few minutes, their lives are in immediate danger, either from heat, toxic gases, or oxygen deprivation.

A random video from a Google search that illustrates how rapidly fire can spread:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsaLCdC3iWw

There are similar videos to be found online, and in general the time between something large catching fire and a huge flame appearing (hot enough to be harmful from radiated heat alone) is no more than a minute or so. The whole room can be ablaze within 2-3 minutes.

And in a bar, I'd wager there are a lot of flammable objects to catch fire quickly.

Thrillho:
In the UK, if you have no salary or a salary too low to qualify for the lease you want, someone you know can act as a guarantor - someone who does fit the profile and takes responsibility for the rent if you default on it.

Random832:
Renee clearly didn't think this through. Most people would have asked about the phone and pointed out the problem with expecting her to fill out job applications with her own phone number before getting a replacement phone. Brun just solves the problem. Much more efficient.

And, "I don't think you're supposed to" what? Nobody actually cares about your living arrangements (unless there are tax implications I guess which really is a later stage than an online job application), they just care that you can get mail.

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