Submitted 9 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
I can say this honestly and without hyperbole: this place and the people in it have had a significant positive impact on my life. Thank you everyone for all your help, advice and care during the last 6 months.
I am so incredibly grateful that we have this place to hang out ❤️
And thank you for trusting us, for sharing your story and for sharing Gibson with us. 💖😘
Seconding goonsey here. Thanks!
Oh, wow. So last week I explained the situation with my current school to the lady from the TAFE. She asked around and has been able to organise for me to start before my unenrolment is officially processed. I have missed the intake date now which was yesterday evening.
But she just sent me the enrolment paperwork I need to sign, and once I’ve done that, she said I can just organise a phone call with the teacher to catch up on what I missed and can start next Tuesday!
Holy fucking shit, it’s wild how things go from 0-100 so quickly. I was about 75% expecting to not start until the next intake, but it’s going to finally happen…
Exciting! What will you be studying?
Yep! Cert III in community services
This is fantastic news!! You deserve all the good things, and this is such a great journey to start! You got this!
♥️ thank you studsy
So happy to hear of some good news and supportive organisations! Educational institutions can be surprisingly understanding about these things
Yeah, given how inflexible and unwilling most of my school’s have been, it’s been a major shock how understanding and open this new school is.
Crossing all bits for both! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Thanks Oz! I appreciate it!
After some awful sleep bathed in sweat and feeling like my brain was going to explode from overheating and headaches, I still feel sick so another day off work. Grumble mumble moan. Today I’m not going to do stupid shit like try and read academic articles to catch up on uni stuff, I am properly resting.
Sick in solidarity. I’ve ben sick since Saturday. In my case its some dry cough thing. I’ve reached the point where it hurts my abs to cough.
Ouch, that sounds awful. Hope it clears up soon for you - I hope it doesn’t get that bad for me. I rarely get respiratory problems. I’ve got a light dry cough/sore throat that seems to be on the mend, mostly moved back to headaches/congestion, which was what I started off with on Saturday, hopefully the worst is over…
Feel better soon :) take it easy
Loading up on breakfast in bed and some TV series!
Currently reading The Expanse. And not getting enough sleep as a result… First book(s) in ages that gets me saying just one more chapter at 2:30am…
Duuuuude that book DEFINES “One More Chapter” at 3am. DO NOT start the last book late at night, you’ll be up till 10am the next morning finishing it.
Noted. And also, sweet
One of my favourite book series ever. Enjoy!!!
I’ve read them twice. It’s probably better the second time. I picked up several small details that I missed the significance of the first time.
Do we do teams? I’m team Bobby!
I don’t wanna 😪😴🥱
Me neither ☹️
Same and I’m already in the office -curls up in the corner and cries-
I didn’t want to either as I was sitting in front of my heater.
I’ve forced myself to go to work.
ya’ll ever google yourself. I just googled my primary username and far out some of the public data is concerning. Including a linked in photo of my damn face! the cat is in it too, hes gonna be FURIOUS.
Before I became Simon, the only other person with my name killed a police officer…
I’d take that to having the same name as a celebrity tbh
I’m the only one in Aus who has my name. My surname is my families in Australia, so you’d be able to find my dad and uncle too.
same
I’m pretty much absent from the internets
My real name is out there unfortunately because I worked on a community project some years ago but you’d need specific information on what I worked on to find it.
I hope your cat will forgive you for your transgression.
I try to be invisible online under my real name. I mostly succeed. It helps that my name is common, so there are lots of hits and none of them are me. If I am ever suddenly a news story, the journos are going to have a hard time finding my Facebook photo (I don’t have Facebook) to steal and put on their sites. 😃
Yeah, unfortunately there’s lots because I have a unique name and was foolish about the internet many years ago. Intrigued by the guy who has me in his thesis thanks. Not a clue who he is!
Just an old scraped practitioner profile with the attached email being my_full_name@gmail.com. I hope we get right to be forgotten laws here.
That reminds me, I once got a really strange spam email that was addressed to (my first name)@aol.com with my primary Gmail address (which doesn’t and never has had my first name even listed in the name section, let alone in the username) CC’d in. I don’t even remember what it was spamming me with, just that it was in broken English and Gmail didn’t flag it as spam. It was really odd
Yes. I regularly check as I have a unique name so anything is traceable. Socials are locked down. Linked in is up for career purposes, but still relatively locked down.
I used that Google security function recently which goes off to see where you’re mentioned and it happily said nowhere. I have a blog out there with numerous photos of my face on it but there’s nothing linking my full name to it. I just Googled my name and found my Facebook profile though. This was using my shortened name which I generally use. Searching with my full name has nothing I can see. Weird… my Google account uses my name to post Google reviews and I’ve done a couple but they didn’t show up in a search.
Anyways… feeling pretty ok about my online presence. I know all of my email addresses have been compromised but there isn’t much I can do about that besides keep good MFA security and spam filters on those.
I used to google my name several times as a teen but not so much now (sounds like that old euphemism). I know my real name is on a couple of publicly available reports and LinkedIn. Never googled my username though, I only ever use this on reddit and Lemmy. I could do with a good purge though
My name is quite unique, and my last job put me and my photos on some online reporting sites, so yeh if you google me you find me!
I try not to publicly put my name anywhere I don’t have to, so my full name has no results. Baku seems to be a pretty common username, so not many personal results there, although I’ve definitely said more here/on Reddit than I should’ve. my Reddit username only has a couple of results, one from a shitty buzzfeed article that exploited my willingness to help a tourist for clicks, and the rest from dodgy reddit mirrors. And my discord username is, well, a discord username. there’s only a single result for it from outside Discord
eh…I’m old enough that social media wasn’t really around when I was young and doing stupid things more publicly. Now, my job makes me pretty public anyway, and there are very, very few people in the world with my exact name, so if you google it, only a few of us appear and the most public one is me. All professional pages, though.
Yep. Mostly comes up with product reviews and a few letters to the editor.
I’ve been fairly vicious since the early days so the only thing that shows up that is actually me is an old ABN record. Unique name combination too (Jewish first name + scottish surname and a rare scottish surname at that)
So I did my tax online last night. I owe money. Seems like HECs debt is the reason.
Can I go back to being a kid?
Work is approximately 6 meters away. I don’t think I can make it.
I know it’s late, but I think I’ll read a bit of Master and Commander before bed. I heard on a podcast the series is actually a good read so I picked up the book and read a couple of pages at lunch.
“Smooth 91.5” can fuck off. I’ve developed retail rage toward hearing the same fucking songs every Wednesday
She emailed me to tell me he hasn’t called her.
He’s not answering my texts or calls either.
All he had to do was make 1 phonecall for 10 minutes and because he’s gone AWOL, I won’t be able to start my job.
Fucking hell.
I’m buying some new slippers and have to make the difficult decision between pink or purple.
So the RE has forwarding the call fee invoice to us from the plumber. I expected it, because it was my washing machine.
It’s $500. FIVE HUNDRED! For the guy to diagnose the issue in less than half an hour.
Lucky I got my tax return today, paid it in full and did some ass-kissing in the email back to the RE. Like, plumbers have to do a lot of gross things, of course they should be compensated appropriately, but he just moved my fridge and washing machine and walked around with his detector device. Lol. He made bank.
Feeling terrible that it took me so long to notice Melbcat was still sick. When she was fussy about food I thought she was just sick of the usual, and when she was wiggly I thought she was jealous of the computer or bored.
I’ve been wrapped up in my own struggles, getting overwhelmed by literally everything, and didn’t pay as close attention as usual.
Guzman y Gomez is, hands down, the best fast food joint.
One opened on Sydney Rd and I’ve been there 5 times already lol, it’s too good!!
Husband gave me pissface last night, but this one had overtones of contempt I’m still mad scuntch about
Morning
I have woken up with a proper sore throat. This is not ideal ( but explains the anxiety and nightmares the last couple of days…)
mrrrow
Coffee blend ordered today while on special from a cafe in Hurstbridge.
Heard due to their special there might be delays but I hope my order is ready for pickup before Sunday so my friend can pick it up for me.
What did I order? A coffee blend of Guava, apricot, pineapple and mango.
I can’t wait to try it but nervous it won’t be ready for me in time.
Today’s been a productive day. I sorted out the meeting with my current school to unenrol, that’s happening next Thursday. I sorted out the situation with my new TAFE school, and although it’s not officially processed and I’m not enrolled yet, she said there shouldn’t be any issues. The program manager ordered one of the replacement phones, and said she’ll organise the replacement MacBook before the end of the day (though she seems busy so I’m not holding my breath). I called the police man back (I only had 5 minutes before a GP appointment when he rang so I said I’d call back). He wanted me to send him an email with photos of all the damage as well as an itemised list of everything that’s damaged or stolen.
I thought it may be an issue that I’ve been finding more things missing every day since the police report, so the police report doesn’t have a complete list, but he said it’s no problem and that tends to happen to most people. So I sent him that email. And then I went and made a psychologist appointment I’ve been putting off for a while.
Also the DT is at 178 comments and it’s only 3pm. Guess I’m not the only one having a productive day!
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Just waiting on my other reference to contact the recruiter.
He’s a good guy but can be a bit forgetful.
Come on buddy, just call her.
I hurt all over. Today is a busy day. Bah.
Worried about my health too. Been feeling not great
Gratitude thread!
I’m grateful for the good cardio session I had last night. Wasn’t super exhausted after and was kind of buzzing, but still helped the anxiety die down.
Moved to new apartment. Landlord proactively warned us that the oven, stove, the bathroom heater and hot water are on one circuit and to avoid using them all together.
Breaker for this outside of our internal switchboard and is only accessible by OC (not the landlord nor agent). From the message, feels like the landlord might have copped 3 days without power.
Friend just told it’s unacceptable. Going to email agent to get this fixed, any good references I can use during this argument?
Pet shop won’t let me place an order until I create a pet profile with my cat’s name, breed, birthdate and gender. What the actual fuck
My underdesk treadmill arrived today. Not easy to type on the keybord while using it but happy to be getting some exercise
Feeling better after getting out of bed and making myself some tacos with the last five tortillas and bits and pieces. Still have leftover pickled onions (orange and vinegar), from two weeks ago and I’m sold on having a jar of these going on at all times - just a little transforms any taco or sandwich
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Once again, big thank you to a couple of posters here that have helped me out of a bad situation.
I haven’t named them in case they prefer to stay anonymous, but guys, you are absolute bloody legends!!! I never heard back from that reference guy. He legit just disappeared off the face of the earth…
Duenan@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Are you in the clear yet as far as references go?
Not cool that your previous reference guy disappeared :(
Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Thankfully a poster has offered to speak to the recruiter for me tomorrow 🙂
In fact a couple of posters offered to lend a hand, for which I am incredibly grateful and quite honestly humbled. Without the help of some of the people in this forum, I would not even be in consideration to start work next week.
Baku@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I was actually considering reaching out for you, but I’ve never referenced anyone before. I’m somewhat good at bullshitting, but probably not very good at sounding like a boss dog