Morning! Woke up because too hot. Now window is open but the night is so noisy. Good time to catch up on deleting emails.
Daily Discussion Thread: đ đ„ đ Thursday, July 11, 2024
Submitted âšâš10â© âšmonthsâ© agoâ© by âšSeagoon_@aussie.zoneâ© to âšmelbourne@aussie.zoneâ©
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PeelerSheila@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
melbourne_wanderer@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
nobody else still up?
dumblederp@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Fucking noisy hospital.
Duenan@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Bugger. Having trouble getting to sleep there?
bacon@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
đ„
Duenan@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
I could use some hot milo. Really need to add that to my shopping list.
wscholermann@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
God this shitty weather just sucks the life right out of you, and it doesnât look to be going away anytime soon.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Product review. Found this honey in the pantry:
It. Is. Amazing.
Bougie honey ($22 according to the lid I have no idea how it got there or when I think it was a gift).
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Should go nicely with your kukri methinks.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Iâve ordered some more trackies while I look for the other ones. Pakige.
I also need to get the next bag of Melbcatâs biccies that have been sitting at the post office for at least a week
TinyBreak@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
what did you order? Iâve somehow burnt my hurley ones and the AS colour Iâve gotta admit hasnt lasted as long as Iâd like.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Straight up Kmart, sorry. Nothing flash
tombruzzo@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Been sick all this week. I should have taken more than one day off but there are meetings I want to get out of the way. My sense of taste hasnât been the best so I think Iâll do a COVID test and if it comes back positive Iâll take the rest of the week off
melbaboutown@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
I packed clothing away when winter came around and now I canât find my other pairs of trackies. Moral of the story, donât tidy up or youâll lose your pants
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Sky angry. Reminds me of old paintings of ships at sea during a storm.
Baku@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
I got an email from the regional manager in response to the complaint that I lodged last night. He wants to organise to meet with me tomorrow. Unfortunately Iâm not available on Fridays so Iâll have to meet him next week.
Iâm not super keen about meeting people in person or discussing things over the phone, to be honest. Sort of get that way when people do that and promise the world and then donât follow through with it. Plus I feel like I am able to better articulate my points through email, but I seem to be in a very exclusive club with that.
Iâll probably have to meet him in person, but Iâll try and organise for someone else whoâs on my side to come so I have another advocate and a witness in case he tries to get out of whatever promises he makes. But then again I did that when I had a meeting with the former acting regional manager and he still refused to uphold his end of the agreement, so maybe itâs all pointless
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
The whole point about formal minutes of a meeting is JUST EXACTLY THIS. So the participants canât wriggle out of undertakings given and recorded.
Baku, let me introduce you to the ancient and uncivilised practice of writing the minutes of a meeting BEFORE the meeting.
Start with the agenda of the meeting - a bullet point list of items to be discussed. These should be few in number. Ideally less than 6. You might like to send this bullet point list to the regional manager before the meeting so he knows what topics you want to discuss. For example :
- return/repair/replacement/compensation of stolen/damaged goods
- living arrangements going forward including repairs to locks etc.
- what happens if someone else is moved in to your house without consulting you
- personal safety
- maybe another item that you consider necessary
These can be in any order - I usually put the most important one at the top but you might like to start with something that the manager can agree with as this can be a useful way to get co-operation on the other items.
Then, (not sending this bit to the manager) expand on each bullet point by adding 3 short paragraphs/sentences describing and/or discussing 1) What if you get everything you want when you want it AND who is responsible for seeing that you get it, 2) If you get something, but not all of what you want and who is responsible for each/what etc, and 3) You donât get anything, and wonât get it in the future either.
Print this out (or save on your phone screen) and take to the meeting. As each bullet point is discussed, you strike out whichever of 1) 2) or 3) above that doesnât apply - for each bullet point. At the end, youâll have a list of what was discussed and what was agreed, and who is going to action each item agreed to.
At the end of the meeting you make the person read the document, and sign off on it if at all possible. If you like, give them a copy so that they have a record available too.
This is standard corporate practice, and will do a lot to concentrate their mind on doing things properly.
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Iâm in that club as well. Let him know while itâs okay to meet face to face, youâd like to be able to send him an email prior to the meeting with your points laid out and ask that he sends you a follow up email after the meeting with what was discussed. Heck, write him one afterwards with what was discussed and get your advocate to read over it.
Catfish@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Seconding Spin. Written or recorded. Donât trust verbal anything
TinyBreak@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Iâd be replying with a polite âIâd prefer to have this conversation in writing thanksâ.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
If I might add more unasked for advice - itâs a good idea to get anything said in writing so they canât lie and bs later
Baku@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
My pikag was going from tullamarine to Essendon fields, but then ended up in Dandenong South. That always seems to happen. Every time Iâve seen a parcel go from melb airport to Essendon airport, it always goes via Dandenong South for⊠Reasons
I also did an in transit redirection thingo to a random post office in the south east just for the fun of it, and tulla seems to be their only facility that applies the labels. So it will probably look something like Melbourne airport > dandy south > Essendon fields > Melbourne airport > held for redirection > Dandenong South > Essendon fields > cranbourne
bull@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
meanwhile I have one which was shipped yesterday from somewhere over the east side, I forget where exactly, went through Tullamarine last night and should be arriving at my front door of my parents place out in Melton any moment now (status is onboard for delivery as of 30 minutes ago)
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Mines on there too. Letâs see who gets theirs first.
StudChud@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Haha having MC delivered feels like Iâm doing something illegal. Even when I go to Prahan to pick it up at the pharmacy, I still feel so judged. Like the po-po are gonna rush in and arrest me as part of a sting. Which is dumb, I have TGA approval lol.
But MC being delivered to your door - we truly are living in the future
Catfish@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Reliable sources report that Sunhine is semi sane and Tullamarine is utterly cooked.
StudChud@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Can confirm
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
My only thought is,
âWhy?â
Catfish@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Ahem : Agency workers who donât
Baku@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Well the cynical part of me says they do it to add extra time and make express post a better option. When I was sick I ordered some stuff from chemist warehouse (box hill) through the express post and it didnât do this. It went from box hill to Melbourne airport and then from Melbourne airport to my house. Although it did get scanned a lot at the airport.
The optimist in me says⊠Actually fuck it, thereâs no optimism when it comes to auspost, only cynicism.
StudChud@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Thereâs an auspost sorting facility down in Dandenong South, so I imagine itâs just being sorted for distribution. Thought, anecdotally, thereâs been parcels getting stuck in sorting facilities for weeks. I imagine their packages fell off the conveyor lol
Iâll have a chat with my aunt about it, she worked for auspost. (Apparently posties/couriers can be very emotional and resistant to change lol love her stories)
Baku@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Yeah, itâs just always struck me as a bit funny that Tullamarine to Essendon fields is like 5km, but they send it on a 122km detour to Dandenong South and back to Essendon fields.
Also on Monday (before it processed at tulla) I lodged the in transit redirection thingy to a random post office somewhere near Cranbourne (I donât know the area very well), and eventually when it scans it gets held for a person to come and manually put a new address label on it. Iâve only seen this happen at tulla, never anywhere else, which is why I think once it gets to Essendon fields itâll be sent back to tulla again. Also, I imagine Dandenong South would be the local sorting centre for the post office I chose, so after itâs redirected itâll probably be bounced back over there. Terribly inefficient
SituationCake@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Had a stuffy nose last night, couldnât sleep so put an extra pillow to keep head a bit elevated, and then woke up with sore neck. The irony of treatment for one ailment causing another.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
lovely morning out there, the clouds are tinged with red and purple and the birds are chirping đ
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
It was beautiful otw to work, even with the crazy wind on the freeway.
Aradina@lemmy.ml âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
That wind is looooud
bull@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Just found salt and pepper in my parents pantry with best before dates of 2015.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
The good news is that salt does not actually go off. Although I expect by this age the pepper is more of a placebo spice than anything.
Catfish@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Fuck this mortgage person! If you want all new paperwork when July arrives just fucking say wait. Doing everything twice is Brain garbage.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
got a giant to do list, thinking I can spread it out over two days
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Sky pretty
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
So nice this morning!
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Went out to a mutual friendâs birthday, and holy shit, she knows so many people. She met people from uni, from dating apps that she befriended, from high school, through friends, it was actually crazy. I spoke to so many people.
My friendâs partner told me that he keeps feeling like he needs to ask me if Iâm okay? Not sure why, maybe I just give off that shy and quiet vibe? I wanna know how I can stop that.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
I always feel warmer after dinner. ( spaghetti and meat tomato sauce )
oztrin@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Not long home from work - the yiayia isnât happy with the admin side of the agency either.
Thatâs up to half of the clients or their next of kin who are pissed off with them.
Well, well.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Back from opshop with some finds. Iâm listening to another Peter and Dudley LP and found an old book, Seven Years in New Guinea about some weird guy who was sent to PNG in the 50s-60s to do ethnographic studies for the Aust, gov. They didnât eat him, as is evidenced by the fact he wrote this book.
teaching ravens to fly underwater www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhS35f015SQ
Duenan@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Just listened to the last chapter, Grey Havens, of LOTR, đ every single time
Catfish@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
âI shall defeat a bajillion ninjas with a box of pop tartsâ
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
Train lines PSA
Stony point line FTW!! looks like itâs clearing / getting back to normal but double check Image
Baku@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
âloss of signalling controlâ theyâre calling it. Thatâs freaky. How do you just lose control of all your signals?
TinyBreak@aussie.zone âš10â© âšmonthsâ© ago
there was a comment on reddit the other day about how ww3 could break out and they allys would ride in on the stony point line to save is culminating in the first battle of Frankston. I pondered how ride of the valkyries would sound on a stolen 90âs WRXâs ruined sound system.