I’m officially Simon. Yay? Lol
Had an interview this morning which went ok I think. Will find out if I go to the next stage tomorrow.
Daily Discussion Thread: ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅰️🅱️ Edition (Wednesday, June 19, 2024)
Submitted 5 months ago by Baku@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Nath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I am both amused and irritated. Diversity is massive in IT. Until very recently, I was the only person in my team actually born in Australia. Now 2/13 of us were born here.
Whoever is hiring IT people should be able to cope with your name.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Simon rules 🤘
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Simon says “hire me” lol
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I suddenly want to watch Die Hard 3 now.
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
You got this Simon! I’m cheering for you!!! You should be so proud of yourself! 💜💜💜
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Thank you ❤️ Just finished one of those dumb aptitude tests for another job. So silly.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
"If you have one bucket that contains 2 gallons and another bucket that contains 7 gallons, how many buckets do you have?”
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
So apparently child protection have taken note of the troubles they caused and have decided I’ll be spending the next week at a hotel. Odd decision, seems cheaper to just move the new one out and then everyone would be better off, but I’m not going to complain. It seems like a flashy one and has an indoor gym.
I get to escape the chaos of this place and the weird workers they’ve put here (that’s a whole other rant, but some rando who refuses to talk to you sleeping on your couch is kind of uncomfortable). And if I put a water jug in my fridge, it won’t go missing!
SituationCake@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Maybe they see you are more responsible to be in a hotel than the other person? Bonus, you’ll hopefully get to enjoy better heating during this cold snap! Hope they sort it out and you can get back to your home soon.
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Most likely. I spent about a month on my own when the old LT went on holiday to Indonesia. And I’ve never caused intentional property damage and don’t smoke (they’d be worried about the bond) But they’re paying a lot of money for the 24/7 workers just for the other kid, I would’ve thought it’d have been cheaper to move him back to a Resi (which does also have 24/7 staffing, but is subsided by 3 other kids)
I was told that the regional manager is back (he was away and his replacement was a dick and didn’t raise his concerns about the new kid being placed here) and he’s not happy with the situation and agreed to represent the agency and push for the new kid to be moved out (they’re the ones paying for the workers, which ultimately comes from their profit margin, so they’re incentivised to move a lower maintenance person in anyway).
The program manager seems to think he will be moved out after I, the old LT and 2 people from my care team all wrote letters about the situation. But there’s no timeframe for that, could be a few days, or it could be a few weeks. But probably not more than a month if the department agrees he’s not suitable for lead tenant.
so...
So I’ve actually been kicked out of 1 Resi house before, and from the day the organisation decided they wanted nothing to do with me until I was somewhere else was about 17 days. I won’t get into it, but I was an angry kid placed in a bad situation
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 5 months ago
If it fits, I sits. If it’s too large, I sit anyway to prevent ANYONE ELSE from sitting there.
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
This describes the bed situation. Right in the middle. It’s like it’s intuitive to be in the way lol
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I love her peanut whiskered face 😍
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Am sad. Work getting worse. Procrastination for job seeking continues.
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I reckon I’m gonna use the peace and quiet to have an early night. Tomorrow’s DT is all yours goonsy 😉
(Or whoever else wants a chance in the spotlight)
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
sure :)
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Happy Dance. Fairy Wrens have returned to my little terrace garden. 🥰
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I ran a short story competition at some schools for the kids to win copies of my books and I’m reading through the entries today and man, kids are morbid. It’s kind of funny how wild their imaginations get.
And one of them had a genuinely sad and depressing ending. It was a story about a girl and her mum and it mentions she doesn’t know where he dad is and how she wishes she had a sister and then bed creatures attack her and kill her mum and she runs away but theres more monsters and she runs back into the house and lays on her bed ending it with ‘why should I save myself. I’ve lost everything I’ve loved.’
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Wowww that’s brutal. How old are the kids? That’s a cool competition though! How will you select a winner?
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Primary school age. I don’t have any details on them aside from name (for obvious reasons) but I’d say they’re grade 4 and up.
Well, picking winners was easy for 2 schools. There were going to be three winners from each school. One school submitted 3 stories and one submitted one so they win by default. I’m currently writing each a personal letter congratulating them and some thoughts and writing advice.
The other school submitted 10. I haven’t read them yet but I’m gonna feel bad for the ones who don’t win. I’m almost considering giving them all a copy.
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Oof, I remember writing some real grim stuff when I was in primary and highschool lol. Scared a couple of my English and Literature teachers.
Kid’s imaginations are wild, untamed places lol
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
That’s incredibly sad for someone so young to feel.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Right! I’m hoping they are very creative and it’s not reflective of something going on in their lives.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 months ago
it's this kind of morning, apparently
Image (Pardon the mess, still working on th built in wardrobe so the linen’s and dross boxes are stored down my side)
Eagle@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Pinned by cats, what a terrible way to wake up. One of mine was even under the covers with me.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Punkin was an absolute “crawl under the doona” boy. And I don’t mean like the other two, who are “tent your legs peasant bitch and make me a yurt” he would literally spoon. Big or little, he didn’t care.
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 months ago
My tabby is under the doona most nights, and usually demands the middle. Greedy little bugger.
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
The winter solstice is in 2 days. On one hand, sad, but on the other, things will only be on the up and up for the next 6 months
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I can’t wait. The days have been too short. Its getting dark at 4:30 right now
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Seriously. It’s depressing.
Duenan@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Just going off topic a bit, you got the daily title code wrong Baku!
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Shhhhhhhh
neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
@Baku@aussie.zone swap the 🅰️ & 🅱️ around
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It’s too much of a bleah day, and the second night in a row I can’t use my shower because the landlord messed up their emails telling me it was gonna get re-caulked or something yesterday (and I just rolled over and said OK even though I had basically zero notice and can’t use my shower for 36 hours). Too peopled out to ask a friend to use theirs. Just retreating to bed with a cuppa and a pitiful mood and gonna have a yarn to my auntie interstate to feel a bit more at ease
wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’m going to bed tonight at 10:30 and I’m going to shut my eyes and not be tempted to use my phone.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Just got rid of a whole lotta concrete at the tip. Nearly died when they were trying to charge $151. Got it for $31.50 instead.
But that was very satisfying throwing it on the pile, loud noises breaking shit. Threw one bit up the top of the pile and caused an impressive concrete avalanche.
But jeez the matress disposal area… most of those were better than mine.
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 5 months ago
That is a wild difference in price, how did you get it so low?
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 months ago
The lady saw how much there was (not really a whole lot) and felt sorry for me heh.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Concrete…chunks?
cries i woulda taken them for free. Crazy paving
neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I have a few words to say
spoiler
HOW IS IT THIS COLD AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That is all.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Gotta love it when your children start making dinner. Almost seems worth it. Almost.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Let it be a lamb roast 🤞 Let it be a lamb roast 🤞
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Mac and cheese. From scratch though, no packet. 10/10.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
aargh, my local optician couldn’t fix my glasses, after half an hour of mild cussing seems rayban uses unique screws for their frames and they don’t stock rayban. Couldn’t even wire the hinge as it’s a concealed screw hole. These were fairly expensive.
from now on it’s cheap ass glasses and lots of them
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Go to a mister minute and get a second opinion.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Ugh, what a pain! I’m sorry they can’t be fixed. After an unfortunate incident with Versace specs (hence my advice yesterday to wire them together) I buy the cheap $40ish ones from Specsavers, and keep one for going out and one for work. I have to; the work ones get filthy with flour and passata and potato water lol, you can never 100% clean that gunk out of all the little grooves and nose pads so they just get thrown out every so often. The going out pair gets put to service as a work pair and a new going out pair is obtained.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Today’s society seems to consist of an awful lot of whinging over either current or historical matters.
At some point whinging needs to turn into action.
StudChud@aussie.zone 5 months ago
1 2 3
Action!
Listen up!
To your battlestations!
Time is now for climate action!
But we react to distractions
From capitalist corporations
And tyrannical nations,
Inciting a class war,
Bigotry we can’t ignore,
For a higher number
On the genocide score.
So we vocalise our protestations,
But we can’t walk the streets
With our slumlords to please;
Rent is still due, utilities too
So at work we spew:
We can’t go out to fight
When we have work that night,
Two kids, a dog, a cost of living blight;
It’s tight.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 months ago
So I’m watching YouTubers that are travelling in northern Australia. At one particular site they paid 80 dollars at a campsite for the privilege of pitching a tent.
In many SE Asia countries you could get a very nice 4 star hotel room for that price, usually with a nice breakfast included.
And people wonder why people don’t do tourism in Australia.
Cendana@aussie.zone 5 months ago
And nice food too.
Some of the best aren’t in touristy areas, but in somewhat remote villages.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Hmm I disagree. There’s many restaurants in tourist areas that have excellent food. Western food is of course more expensive than local food, but still a hell of a lot cheaper than AU.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
years ago i went with the fam and some friends up to the old station at mt mulligan, maybe cost 1000 for the week including all traditional aussie cooking meals
now it’s gone luxury units and would cost at least 10,000
wscholermann@aussie.zone 5 months ago
How many years ago we talking? (just curious).
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Weather has cleared to a beautiful day but it’s doing very little to dent my absolute disdain for humankind today. Greedy, shortsighted, self-absorbed, no thoughts for anything other than their own convenience and comfort. So many of our species don’t deserve planet Earth. I truly wish I could send a good chunk of people off to another planet with no pesky insects, grass, trees, water courses, and other such outrageously offensive items, and they can live surrounded entirely in man made constructs and sheer rock.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 5 months ago
and they can live surrounded entirely in man made constructs and sheer rock.
and many would be happy like that
SituationCake@aussie.zone 5 months ago
No, they would not. They want to live on their own house blocks, but if a leaf from a neighbours tree should fall in their yard, they will throw a raged fit. They will install nothing but concrete and fake grass in their own yards, and spend their evenings kicking over any saplings the council tries to plant in nature strips or parks. Probably because ‘leaves’ and ‘birds’.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Times like this I just want to retreat to a hidey hole in the countryside and spend time with birds and possums and let the whingers of mass destruction live in their moonscapes so neither of us have to deal with each other…
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’m blaming the cold for why I went back to bed at 7:30. This non insulated house sucks ☹️
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It’s a shame your shit music isn’t enough to pay for a taxi, Justin.
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I dropped a 1kg tub of greek yoghurt onto the kitchen tiles. So much yoghurt. Should’ve stayed in bed.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I think the worst I’ve done was a glass jar of honey…very hard to clean up. A few months ago though on a Saturday morning, I woke to a crash and then my 8 year old coming in a minute later or so…“now you’re going to be upset, but… there’s been a terrible accident”… (can’t be upset with that sorry of honesty)…She takes me out to the kitchen and there’s a smashed Meredith goats cheese jar (one of those super sized ones) on the floor near the fridge…“the lid wasn’t on properly and when I picked it up I dropped it…”… So so messy. And then slippery for a while because we couldn’t seem to get all the oil up…
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I’ve found washing powder to be really good with oil spills and similar. Cap of washing powder with warm water, or if that doesn’t work, washing powder on the spill and a wet cloth
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 months ago
but I bet the sound effect was fantastic
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I did this sort of thing the other day.
Went to press a bowl of Japanese curry against myself to hold it better, ended up flipping it onto me then dropping it. Most of it stayed in the bowl but I made a mess of my robe and the kitchen floor
Nath@aussie.zone 5 months ago
At least if wasn’t one of those 2kg buckets. Take the small wins. 😃
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I once dropped an opened tiin of beetroot on a white cat who ran in offended circles around the white kitchen
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It can always be worse 🙃
underwatermagpies@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It’s -1.9 here. Feels like -3.8. No thank you. The cat has jumped into bed with me and neither of us are moving any time soon.
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
-1.9 here
The 2° we got are starting to feel appealing…
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 5 months ago
When I’m alone upstairs at work and so can crunch on my food as loudly as I like without feeling guilty, yisssss. Eating pork crackle, so not hard to get a very loud crunch happening.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 5 months ago
My brown fat is generating so much heat this morning but I’m still putting 2 sheets of toilet paper on the toilet seat before jumping on to ease the pain. I know it’s wasteful but we must do what we can to survive this icy blast.
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
We have those cheap plastic seats which never seem to get that cold. But this would be so hellish if we had ceramic ones (my bathroom is completely uninsulated, has a skylight, and is generally the same temperature as outside)
SituationCake@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Cheaper than heating the bathroom.
Aradina@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
So so cold. So cold. I have to go outside todaaaay. Whyyyy
dumblederp@aussie.zone 5 months ago
God dam there were a lot of sirens and ambulances on the morning dog walk. Like a dozen different background wails, I saw three ambulances with lights on down Police rd.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 5 months ago
It’s 0.4 degrees here ❄️
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 months ago
ok all you mofos stuck in horrible cold shitty rentals come over here where there’s whole house heating to 20c and there’s cats and beanbags and I’m making muffins and we’re on a hill so we can buy rifles and snipe your slumlord bastards.
Baku@aussie.zone 5 months ago
You better be careful making these offers, because you had me at “cats”. If your house has a good view of train tracks, I’d never leave!
Catfish@aussie.zone 5 months ago
Sounds like a plan. Ventured out into the sun for a bit and it’s kinda nice out there. Now back to work wearing a doona.
Taleya@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I realised this morning that this is the first time I’ve ever spent a cold snap in a house that didn’t completely fuck me up. I’m fuckin’ 45