Submitted 5 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
I’m sick to death of being treated like a potential thief at self service.
I hate pulling the race card, but it’s noticeable how different I’m treated. And it’s gotten much worse since the cost of living issues.
They will come and literally stand behind me watching me scan everything. Im not dressed in rags or anything. Even when I’m on business work clothes.
Some of those checkout people seem to have gone crazy with the modicum of perceived power they have over people.
/Rant
I live near an Aldi, but its soo fucking good having a self serve that doesn’t accuse you of theft.
The staff are also rostered on at the same times, so you also get to know the stores staff.
Your aldi has self serve? I’ve never seen that before
If we add up how much we spend at out usual shops, many thousands a year, it’s shameful how we are treated, absolutely shameful.
And the reason they do it is so that we forget the customer shop relationship, that we have a valid expectation to be treated with respect and politeness and that we have rights.
Maybe we should start shoppers associations. The problem is in a duopoly what kind of power can we exercise?
And the racism? I suggest take videos and post about the racism.
nah, just steal shit to even it up. Silent protest.
Some great leftist thinker must have a chapter in a book about how the corporations are thrusting more of the responsibility onto us whilst also treating us as a criminal for doing so
I’m personally really looking forward to them installing those self closing gates at my local coles. If it closes on me I’m gunna wear a face mask and shout “Cant hold someone captive you profiting fucks” as I kick it down. I obviously wont be acting like that if there is young kids around.
I really love nice thick boots for kicking in stuff.
Ditto having blue hair
I live next to an Aldi, but its soo fucking good because not only does the self serve not accuse you of theft, you also get to know the staff as they are always rostered on during the same time.
After months of snap send solve for a mattress dumped in the park, someone spray painted “Handjob Club. Thursdays 9pm. Kids Welcome.” on it and stood it up next to the scout hall entrance. Mattress gone the next day.
Chaotic Good cleaning up the streets
Tactical Urbanism.
What council, if you don’t mind me asking?
Dandy.
A lesson in incentivisation.
Very few photos are more humbling then the passport photo as someone who doesn’t ware makeup. Being forced to remove your glasses when they’re something I use to detract from the ugly also doesn’t help🫠
Even makeup goes wrong, too. Mine looks like a complete mug shot. Seriously. Everytime I look at it I immediately can see it being splashed across some US channel. LOL.
I won’t even look at mine :shudder:
Well bugger. I think I’ve eaten some mouldy food today.
Two mini cupcakes in the morning and just now a bunch of stale biscuits that I didn’t look too hard at.
Pray for me.
You might be surprised by what you can tolerate. Fingers crossed you don’t suffer too long!
I’m still alive!
Tummy was a bit funny before but I wonder if that was anxiety causing it.
Just ate some other stuff and I’m feeling ok now.
The stale biscuits won’t hurt you but the mouldy cupcakes might. I’ll pray for you anyway 🙏
Biscuits could have been mouldy too.
I had them stored in the same container :(
You’ll probably be fone
I’m not sure but I think we are the only ape that doesn’t eat mould or mouldy food . It’s why we don’t have a blue food group. The only reason is that we are so good at finding food we don’t need to eat mouldy stuff. We can digest it, we just don’t have any appetite for it.
Off foods, such as dairy or meats are different and you shouldn’t eat those.
Does cheese count as mouldy food?
I don’t understand why people still approach you when wearing headphones…
Why?
To warn you you are about to walk in the path of a tram. ( I have even had to grab people )
I get that, but mine is never drastic.
Is always to ask me a question. All these people around without headphones… and I still get asked!
So you guys remember that FOI request to AmbVic I was considering last month? Well I decided to go ahead and make it. They seemed a little, um, unsure about what I was asking for. They misspelt my name, deemed my request invalid because they thought I was requesting information about an ambulance attendance so they wanted ID, a phone number, and more information. Then 12 minutes later they sent me another email stating they realised I was not requesting that information (but nothing else) then an hour later sent a third email apologising stating they realised I was not requesting information about an ambulance attendance, I didn’t need to provide ID, and I did not need to provide a phone number.
Well, they finally processed it and provided a list of all the branch locations and their addresses today. But they sent it as an encrypted excel workbook thing that they didn’t provide me permission to open…
Also, I don’t want to rag on them too much, but their emails have had so many typos and grammatical errors I found it kind of concerning.
@Baku @Seagoon_
First up, congratulations ☺️
A lot of FoI requests come from the media (Josh Taylor from The Guardian is notorious for them), or from industry groups, businesses, and parliamentary staff.
They're probably not used to media requests that have come through from the customer service team, rather than their media relations team.
Typos in internal emails are not that surprising.
Did you end up finding out anything interesting from the documents you got?
Ted has been attacking Bill so I held Ted for 20 seconds just to show him he’s not so tough. He did not like it.
Love/Hate when you gotta remind the bully they are NOT the top of the food chain.
Got home late today and just cannot be buggered moving all my plants around in the cold and dark. I know my landlord lives ages away so I’ll just do it tomorrow. I’ll definitely be leaving work at 4pm tomoz. Gotta head in early, so I’m leaving on time…
This week’s off to a much better start, less overwhelming, more under control. Much more even-keeled having regular hot non caffienated drinks through the day. Meantime I’m so immensely grateful I made all that food last week. Ripper lunch today and tomorrow, and more goodness for dinner. Gonna do a bittergourd and tvp stir fry tomorrow night I reckon.
Think I’ll have a go at trying to sleep without the phone tonight. I have a library book on ADHD I’ve been wanting to go through…
So I was at supermarket the other day, low key jamming out to Coles Radio as you do in your 30s apparently. Then they play a new taylor swift song. And something inside me just… snaps. Previously I was like “Ok, talented artist but getting a bit over the hype”. Now I think i actually hate her. Like I cant even do some shopping without having to hear her shit? The song sucked. It was all mopey and shit and felt like 0 effort, but its somehow still getting air time? I hate even posting this cause I feel like its just giving more air time, but I need to vent my frustrations. cant we all (myself included) just move on!?
Temperamental car is in for a service (a waaaay overdue service, so I don’t really blame her for being temperamental!) and I’m at my desk just wishing I could have worked from home today. Was awake at stupid hours having imaginary arguments with work people.
Issa gorgeous morning though!
Does it feel unusually warm tonight? Feel like I’m boiling.
Meanwhile why are we still filling out paper customs declarations cards in Australia? Surely it’s the kind of thing that could be made available online (where it could be made available in multiple languages).
I know there’s data security to consider but they are probably already storing all sorts of data about departures and arrivals.
Arise, arise, riders of Rohan!
Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered!
A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now, ride to Gondor!
The Booktopia website is an absolute nightmare to use when you run a couple of privacy extensions. I am trying to browse the website to give you my money
Countdown to the next public holiday…. And to winter solstice.
And I have destroyed my body clock, again. Ackcheew!
Beautiful Melbourne day out there. 🙂
Kiddo had a great weekend. We caught up with the folks from Mrs’s mums group and it was great to see all his little mates. They are all within similar age as each other, but they were all so different. A few were walking, a few had a couple more words, a few were a lot bigger. Tinyest has probably 50% of his teeth and a full head of hair so he probably looked the most “non baby” of the bunch. He’s currently trying to say “Dog” but has only gotten as far as “Duh” which is so damn cute.
Just gave myself a nasty cut on my thumb opening a can… How do you know if you need stitches 🤔
It is at this time, that I wish I could rip my nose off and burn it. So swollen is the tissue up there, not snot, just enflamed. Sat within my hoodie with a bowl of hot water to decongest or whatever, which provided temporary relief.
I can’t breath through it, but I am loathe to breath through my mouth as it gets so dry. Everything fucking hurts.
Le Whinge
RIP anyone with a Thuraya Satellite phone. Their satellite targeting Australia failed, and now all their phones are paperweights.
Can say this round of COVID is not as bad as the first. Popped some codral, waiting for it to take effect. 😱💀
the moon is so beautiful this morning 🌙
I think I might go and impulse buy one of these and step up my blended drinks game. I have a blender but I only ever use it when I’m making frozen margs and it’s heavy and annoying to clean.
Wilhelm scream
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Relationship officially over.
He didn’t even want to talk it out. Just said we are done over text and blocked me everywhere.
This is going to be a time of growth for me. Only up from here!
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Skimming through your comment history…and yikes.
You’ll be better off in the long run.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 5 months ago
this was from the dude with the disgusting valentines card yeah? First up, I’m sorry. Second of all, and again sorry if this sounds rough, but I am CERTAIN you’re gonna look back on this relationship and be glad its over. Probably not today or tomorrow, but that day is coming. Take a deep breath in and out, cause you’re free of that asshole.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 5 months ago
You deserve wayyyyyy better than that guy was giving you!
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Ooh rough.
Over text is a bit fucked tbh you might have dodged a bullet there
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’m sorry for the pain he has caused you, but the trash took itself out. Block them back, just in case they get drunk and weird, and leave them in the past.
You got this!
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’m also sorry to hear but probably for the better that you’re not with him.
You deserve someone way better than that.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’m so sorry.
lots of hugs
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Ah man. I remember how giddy and excited you were when first meeting the guy. But it sounds like it’s all for the best now (what a dropkick breaking up with you via text). And you’re very much ready to move on yourself.
You’re better off without the guy, and I think this experience will be a great one to take note of what worked + what didn’t. Pay attention to what you felt you needed from him (that kept you in the relationship) and try to find other sources for that, or interrogate the quality of what you were getting, so as to avoid going back to him in a moment of loneliness and/or inebriation ;)
You got this!!! 💪
ajsadauskas@aus.social 5 months ago
@LowExperience2368 @Seagoon_ Lots of hugs.
I've been there before.
Breakups are the worst — even if he's a complete and utter jerk (and from the sounds of it, he definitely is).
Know that it's natural to cry, it's natural to mourn.
And if you have a sleepless night, no-one will begrudge you if you take a day off work or cancel your plans for tomorrow.
There's no rush. Give yourself time to grieve.
It might take time, but know things will get better.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’m sorry. That sounds devastating.
He was no prize though. He was noncommittal, self centred, and consistently treated you like an option. I agree with the advice to block him everywhere in case he comes back sniffing around again.
I hope these offer some comfort
www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2-IQpyqEQM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qanl1s7K2Kc