Was feeling antsy about my job situation but just heard from my ex colleague about how ex-boss is continuing to be unreasonably snarky and critical to the point that he is pretty much just quiet quitting now despite being one of the most reliable and consistent people in the team. I feel relieved and vindicated in my decision to leave even though I didnât have anything lined up after for a while.
Daily discussion thread: đ¤ Monday, April 22, 2024
Submitted â¨â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago⊠by â¨Seagoon_@aussie.zone⊠to â¨melbourne@aussie.zoneâŠ
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just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oh trust me, when someone starts taking digs at you they donât stop. Theyâre often a really unpleasant person to others as well.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
You have always seemed to me to be someone with good judgement, even so, itâs always good to be vindicated.
hugs
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Financial uncertainty can really drive one to second guessing themselves. But I did save up a good cushion precisely so I could have the option I did and not regret it
oxyhyxo@mastodon.bsd.cafe â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
@just_kitten @Seagoon_ Iâve learned to trust my gut in those situations. If the vibes are shit, quit. Itâs always turned out to be the least worst option
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Had a pizza for lunch. Drying laundry in the sun.
Making a cup of coffee and just relaxing today.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm so annoyed right now⌠moved into a new role and workload is fucked. Itâs not going well. Management is ignoring it.
Also a massive massive thing has come about from a client I initially spoke with, spoke to a lawyer about (where another colleague didnât bother), itâs now turned into possibly a class action, or at least a shit tonne of work for our firm. Iâm getting no shout outs or anything for me recognising the potential. Not even from my direct management.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sorry to hear about the workload, that sucks. Iâm also over here cheering for you, re the other achievement. I think sometimes management feel threatened when someone lower down the tree does something great, so they downplay it. Iâve seen that happen at my work, at least.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thanks đ my colleague has actually told me a few times that she thinks I intimidate my direct manager because I kinda know my role better than they do, can answer more Qs etc. So that does kinda make sense
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
sending moral support over the ether đŞ
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thanks đ
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
You can leave a job in the probation period with like 2 days notice. Feel free to use that if something else comes up because your workplace will do it to you
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm not on a new probation period or anything, just a different role in the same department - which is actually quite different to what I had been doing. Iâm reluctant to pull the pin on the job because finding a new job is stressful and change is hard. if it remains like this for much longer Iâll need to start looking though đ
SituationCake@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I think it was ok for Arj Barker to ask the crying baby to leave. No hate for kids, but if you take your baby to a comedy show, or any theatre show, and itâs making noise please gracefully exit and let the performers do their craft and people watch the show uninterrupted. Hundreds of people paid for tickets to see a show, not listen to a grumbling baby.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I agree. Donât get me started on those barbarians who take calls on their phone during a performance. I could get really really nasty to such.
SituationCake@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
A couple of times Iâve been in an audience where someone starts doing stuff on their phone (not calls) and you see a glow emanating from their seat. Itâs infuriating.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
No one should be taking a 2 week old baby to anything like a show.
Babies need a nice quiet home. That poor baby. đ
sister_ratched@toot.community â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
@Seagoon_ @SituationCake She was none months old! Nine months!! đ¤ŻđĄ
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Weeeell, babysitters are expensive, and itâs difficult to find good ones, especially in a hurry. I can understand if someone didnât want to go through that hassle and cost of living pressure. But surely a pacifier and a small jar of honey would be standard operating procedure if you did bring a baby along.
frogglin@theblower.au â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
@SituationCake @Seagoon_ I keep seeing the comment "so drunk hecklers are gine but an innocent baby isn't??"
I've been to multiple shows where drunk hecklers were removed from the audience.
I appreciate that mums need a night out and all that, but maybe pick a better spot to go.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Bottoms log, star date 000002âŚ
The 1 month outta date lasagne use by was ruse likely pedalled by the Big Lasagne cartel.
All systems nominal.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I believe the Big Cheese cartel does something similar. Out of date cheese is usually perfectly good. And can be very very tasty. I got some past its useby date vintage cheddar once that was DELICIOUS - a vast improvement on the regular stuff. And not stinky at all - just mellow and nutty and a welcome bit of sharpness.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
100% I prefer getting soft cheese right on code and letting it ripen a bit more.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Bottoms log, star date 000002⌠Captains log of the USS Potential food poisoning.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Dunno what big manufacturers are like, but where I work our use by is fairly conservative. Past use by for us is past itâs optimal freshness but still ok.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I think the Christian name resume is working⌠Interesting.
SituationCake@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Do what you need to do, zero guilt. Corporations donât have any interest about anyoneâs success but their own. Itâs a job not a friend. Do the same, and do what you need to do to get yourself employment and income. No one will care what your name is once you in the door and they are happy with your work.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
itâs been like that here for as long I remember
my own father had a weird European name, non British, and it was Anglicanised when he came here . I can kinda understand in his case, the name is barely pronounceable.
and itâs not just English names, there is classism at work here too. Posh English names work best. đ
Kanzar@sh.itjust.works â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
www.sciencedirect.com/âŚ/S1048984322000583?via%3DiâŚ
There was some other study done way earlier which compared ethnic first and last, western first and ethnic last, and western first and last.
The results are as you can expectâŚ
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve fallen into the trap of giving Melbcat a treat any time I eat a peppermint or a cracker⌠she now tells me when itâs time for a treat and is trying to get me to feed her the whole bag. I donât think I run this house anymoreâŚ
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm not allowed to walk past the linen cupboard without being viciously confronted lol
Eagle@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I have three cats. Every time I open the pantry or a crinkly packet I get at least one and sometimes itâs a trifecta. It makes it easy to do a headcount too. Oh and the dog is trained too, and will often beat the cats to the bench. Itâs their house,I just live here and refill the treat container.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Eagle@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Rub the belly!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
he ran away đš
bull@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
thatâs the earliest ever
oztrin@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Got removalists arranged. Phew.
Attempts to sell extra furniture are proving futile thus far - one secondhand place fiddled me around for ages before saying no and am waiting on another. A couple more avenues of enquiry⌠argh. Also hard rubbish has been rearranged, partly because I didnât leave enough room for the bins and partly because itâd been messed up when people rummaged through it. grumbleSpinMeAround@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
One of those days where it feels like the universe is just having a good laugh at me!
tone212_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
My private health insurance (with extras) keeps on going up and up to the point where I donât get enough value out of it anymore. Looking at options for just having basic hospital/ambulance cover and itâs still so expensive. Almost $100 a month.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
It is expensive, but donât forget to take into account the cost of the Medicare levy surcharge you pay in tax if you donât have it - depending on income it can cost you more not to have it, or at least take a large chunk of what you save. Itâs also worth considering the future - if you anticipate increased salary in the future that might put you into the category where you will need to pay the surcharge you may be better off paying a bit more now to avoid the age surcharge when you get to that point. Once you get older the insurance is also better value as you have more medical problems, so you need to try to balance the benefits of saving money now compared to the amount it will cost you in the future if you delay getting it and decide you need it later.
When thinking about the value of the hospital component of the insurance itâs worth keeping in mind that whilst Medicare will cover you for life-threatening issues it is not great for things that just reduce the quality of life, and you can be forced to wait until problems become life threatening before they are dealt with. I have a friend who currently needs a hip replacement. The waiting list for public hospital is so long she has signed up for private insurance to pay for it once the one year waiting period is up as that will be quicker. In the meantime she has trouble walking and is in constant pain to the extent that she sometimes has to take time off work. Google tells me the cost of a hip replacement privately is around $25k - thatâs a lot of years of insurance premiums you need to save, and many surgeries can be even more expensive.
Extras are often not worth the cost unless you use a lot of things like physio on an ongoing basis. Iâve bought a full pair of multi-focal glasses, had a dental checkup and clean plus four fillings this year and have still not received enough back in rebates to cover a yearâs premiums. A lot of the big items for extras like dental implants are not urgent and you can sign up and get the work done once the waiting period is over.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Why is there no basket in this picture?
bacon@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
out all day yesterday and dehydration headache was not fun
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Mrs has got the car fixed. Damage wasnât as bad as it looked apparently, it was the material of the chair disintegrating on the panel itself thank god. Carâs looking brand new again. I thought maybe weâd learnt out lesson, then she almost took out a cupboard in the garage. Far out man.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Pool noodles on any edge or surface that can be impacted âŚ
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I reckon Iâll just give her a pool noodle and let her take it out on me, not the bloody car.
mysticgreg@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
đ¤Ś
Time to cover the car in Nerf.
bacon@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
screaming plastic chicken
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Nah. Go the bubble wrap.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
đ¨đ¨alert! Unauthorised facial hair deletion. Who is this weird teenager?! Stranger Danger! đ¨đ¨
Eagle@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
It feels like youâre having an affair for the first few days!
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oh câmon, I thought to new mustache was alrightâŚ
Baku@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I was just about to go to sleep and I got another one of those Medicare phishing messages. Just like last time I reported it through phish.report. pretty much a carbon copy of the last one on friday. With a bit of luck it will probably either be moved into client hold or blocked by safe browsing before all the normies start waking up.
I really wish there was something done about phone number spoofing. I imagine it would become substantially harder for them if these drongos had to actually be A. Within Australia, B. Provide ID, and C. Be subject to the same limits as everyone else
Nath@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Our favourite air freshener appears to be out of stock everywhere. Woolies and Coles list it as unavailable at all the stores. Bunnings are saying itâs deleted. The website is still up, but I think theyâre going out of business.
This is devastating. Iâve been using this brand since I met my wife, no idea how long sheâs been using it. Iâm at the point where Iâll buy every bottle a store has - 5 yearâs supply if I must rather than trying to find something else.
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
The Organic Choice website says theyâve been acquired by Tempo Group?
I use Orange Power a lot when doing big clean ups.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Ah! Thatâs promising. Havenât been able to find the laundry stuff for ages. Hopefully a supply restart wonât be too long.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Confirmation. Out of business in Jan. Organic Choice, OrangePower, Trix, and Aware Sensitive are all gone. Grab what remnants you can scrounge up đż
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oh damn, the Organic Choice hand and dish wash was really nice. Havenât used it in years as I now get bulk stuff but still. RIP.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Noooo! Their Shower cleaner is the best. Hope this isnât true.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
No way. Thatâs the best one out there because it doesnât make me sneeze.
Railison@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Would NQR sell remaining stock maybe
bull@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I had no idea they made air fresheners. I have a bottle of the goo remover under my sink.
Which flavour air freshener did you like?
Nath@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Orange. Though Iâd buy the lime one if it was all I could get my hands on.
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I very rarely go on the train. Had to change trains at Richmond en route to the Car on the other side of town. Got to see a lovely contrast of technology, a shiny and quiet new HCMT gliding in like itâs the shit, a doddery old diesel V/Line on the next platform, and my train is an old Alstom that looks like a cheap tin can on the outside (I hate the corrugated look) and doesnât sound nearly as quiet as Shiny New TrainâŚ
Anyway, this might be the last time I take the train in quite a while. Itâs pretty cool people watching. There is a guy whose hair is a messy, matted nest, with uneven facial hair and oily skin, dead eyes and a defiant scowl, but heâs wearing a clean, fresh, neatly pressed suit and tie! Iâm going to guess IT.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
So the other day I was trying to find a song I was pretty sure was in the hottest 100 of 90-something. Hit the wrong playlist (99) but found a song I liked the song of, but accidentally skipped and ended up on Army by Ben Folds. i got really into to, decided to look it up on youtube and then youtube auto played this Ben Folds - Exhausting Lover
Anyway thatâs how a series of fuckups have allowed this song to play on repeat 100 times today! Join me tomorrow for livetweeting finding the laundry: Spoiler alert Iâve almost certainly left a tissue in the pockets again.
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I swear Mrs Fieldâs cookies are just depressing now. I used to love their standard choc chip one. They were so sadly pathetic, small, mis-shapenedâŚ
I couldnât bring myself to buy one. What happened? đ
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve got my kidsâ laptop to auto login to their user and got Gcompris to startup as a default program. I should put an ad on marketplace to convert peopleâs old laptops into learning centres for their kids
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm watching Mr Inbetween again because the man hasnât seen it and I canât stop saying âvagankleâ.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
đžđˇđˇđˇđˇ đĽ´đ¤
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oh god, I just watched Baby Reindeer
two things, no three,
you just canât tell who is going to become a stalker, I had one, a guy I had never met and didnât know asked me out, I kindly declined, he got nasty immediately and then stalked for months.
Iâm so self conscious and unsure that half the time I think Iâm a bad guy. Watching that show , omg, not one thing the abuser did would ever cross my mind.
and lastly, and the most important thing, what this series is about, is male sexual abuse. đ
Another things in the show, friends and family, people who love us, will help us. Abuse makes people feel alone, donât let it.
Just watch the show.
5 hobbits
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I keep hurting my bad shoulder again. First while pulling the doona up from behind me last night. Then today I pulled a big bag of kitty litter down from a high shelf, lifted it to refill a litter tray, and tore some junk up for the bin
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
going to be a beautiful day again đ
and question
Just watched another apocalypse movie, this time The Quiet Place. Makes me wonder, how come we donât get movies where there has been some massive overnight worldwide change that makes everyoneâs life better, why is it always bad?
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I have seriously been sucked into these Chinese feudal multi-verse dramas.
Me and YT need to go on a break⌠BUT itâs soooo hard!
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Tunnel progress.
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
So brave. đ¤
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I believe the tunnel has now been fully accepted.
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She spent a bit of time stalking and attacking the hanging balls with bells at one end, and is now lying in it like itâs a sleeping bag and occassionally chomping the edges.