Daily discussion. 💨🍃🦊 Thursday, 25 July, 2024

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• Ntcc661@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve had my Mum’s vegetable soup since I moved out of home permanently at age 22. 28 years ago.

  Today I finally made it.

  Couldn’t fit in the pumpkin and I know I won’t get any rice in at the end but it’s ok. Added some minced garlic but stuck to the recipe otherwise.

  Not exciting but warm and familiar and chunky.

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  • Ntcc661@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Added bonus: my 9yo son is eating it! He can be ultra cautious with anything new. So watching him scoff it down is pretty heartwarming.

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If i may ask - why are you a foot

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• Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Melbourne has had its face washed, and the sunshine is glorious!

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• Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I got the dirt on my new client.

  Very high maintenance and will argue down to the hour for project work.

  Everyone I mentioned it to yesterday gave me this look and laughed lol. And word travelled really quickly around the office.

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Document everything.

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    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Absolutely. Calls are followed up in writing to get agreement to points of discussion. Extreme, but need a paper trail.

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  • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I look forward to the inevitable malicious compliance post

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  • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    will argue down to the hour for project work.

    I swear by Grindstone for time tracking. I’ve been using it for many years.

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    • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That looks really interesting. Cheers!

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  New corporate buzzword I absolutely despise - Journey

  It’s not a fucking journey. It’s a process.

  Stop trying to make boring shit appeal interesting. It’s boring, but that’s a how it is. Changing the label doesn’t make it exciting.

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d put that on the backburner but to shy away from jargon like that is a paradigm shift.

    We could loop in and should probably table it. It is low hanging fruit but still requires a deep dive.

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    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It might be worth circling back at a later date, to see what stakeholder uptake is like. Don’t forget it’s important to view these things through an organisational lens to ensure maximum buy-in.

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You deserve a kick to the throat for that.

      With all due respect of course.

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    “We are mapping out the customer experience journey” is such a dramatic way to describe designing a form …

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    • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Everything at my work is viewed through a ‘lens’ atm - it’s driving me nuts. we are not photographers!!

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      😂

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  • stepchook@mastodon.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @MeanElevator @Seagoon_
    A manager might say your statement is reason to enter a conversation.

    Conversation, my aching foot! That's corporate speak for performance management.

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No one will be entering me under any circumstances 😁

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Wellbeing and mindfulness riles me up when it gets mentioned at work because it generally isn’t thought of and cared for and often at odds with people’s actions no matter how much they scream they’re looking out for people.

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Add holistic to that as well.

      As much I hate those words and phrases, I hate the wankers that lap it up.

      Grrrrr

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    • stepchook@mastodon.au ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      @Duenan @MeanElevator
      I am grateful I can practise heartfulness.
      It's really important for me to engage with others at an emotional level. Too much mind interferes with the flow of feelings, so I try not to think while I'm at work.

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• Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You ever feel like you made a wrong turn somewhere, but now you’ve started on a career pathway, have a stupid fuck off hecs debt, can’t afford therapy, and feel like it’s too late to go back? That you’re struggling with your job, don’t have any real reference point as to whether it’s normal, and just kinda wish you had another option?

  Today was not a good day.

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  • dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Two wrong turns at least.

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    • Dalek_Thal@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      True, I had to choose my degree at some point

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes. I’d completed most of my first uni course before realising what I really wanted to do.

    No choice but to finish the course.

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  • PeelerSheila@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I started a BA because I didn’t get into the course I wanted to and didn’t know what else to do, then had a breakdown and didn’t finish it anyway. Waste of time and I’ve never earned enough to pay it back :(

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  • SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been in existential crisis for decades. So I reckon normal.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  💀

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  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Image

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    💕

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ☕

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  • Gibsonisafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hope it went well ❤️

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🙊

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  • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🤺

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🎶

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🐕

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  • anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    🥱

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    💪

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  International shipping to Australia is so fucking expensive, even for small things. We really are at the ass end of the world.

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  • danwritesbooks@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It is ridiculous.

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  • Baku@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I looked at having a small 100g roll of tape from a Japanese video game company I really liked forwarded from Japan once. Fucking 40 bucks for shipping. The tape itself is only the equivalent of 6 bucks. I asked why, and apparently it’s because FedEx have a large minimum shipment size and weight or something. They refused to use Japan Post, which would’ve been like a 40th of the price.

    Also paid 15 bucks in postage to get more melatonin from the states. Not that bad, relative, but the entire package, including box, is less than 100g.

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    • wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When shipping costs more than the goods itself, you start to question, hmm do I need it that bad?

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can’t sleep, am lung hacking snot monster. Don’t know if allergy thing or a bug. Gross either way.

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  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why not both ? I got floored by hayfever on top of the tail end of a bad head cold. Bless the flying spaghetti monster for antihistamines!

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You may well be correct. I don’t like taking them as they make me feel weird, but breathing is kind of important.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    allergy, even Bill Cat is suffering with it

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    • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Poor Bill Cat. Don’t know if cats are allowed Phenergan but it’s helping considerably. Still feel like shit though.

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• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Still radio silence from potential new company. Sent a follow up email this morning. Nothing

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  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It always takes longer than you think. Don’t panic yet.

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    • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My 30 day notice period goes to 29 days to the job starts date after tomorrow, and they know this

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  • bacon@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    maybe person in charge is off sick?

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• underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have a sample of Lancome moisturiser that’s too rich for my skin, so I used it as hand cream since I’d run out out, and my hands feel lovely.

  I looked this stuff up out of idle interest, with no intention of ever purchasing it:

  It’s $575. For a 60ml tub of moisturiser.

  I’m horrified. Are there really people out there who pay that much just for moisturiser? When so many can barely afford food? I’m spiralling a bit. But wow.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I use either savlon or a cheap lanolin. Lanolin in nearly exactly the same as our natural skin oils and works very well.

    expensive doesn’t necessarily means awesome

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  • LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Surely there’s a dupe.

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    • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll stick to my cheapo Cetaphil from the chemist for now I reckon.

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• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s gotta be today

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• LowExperience2368@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Gratitude thread :)

  Grateful for Stardew Valley (even though I did spend three hours playing tonight). It helps me take my mind off of bullshit thoughts.

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What would your made up Olympic sport be?

  Mine would be: Carrying 2 six packs of beer and a phone through 4 rooms, opening and closing 2 doors along the way and placing them safely in the fridge in 15 seconds flat without incident. I’ve had years of training.

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• Thornburywitch@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I burnt the gozleme I made for dinner cos distracted.

  Side note : bits of burnt gozleme in the sink look exactly like baby cockroaches.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate my handbag again, it’s black and very practical but it’s looking uglier everyday. Time for a new one.

  so I was looking at what bags people have , I would say 80% of the people around carlton have a black bag. 🫥

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• danwritesbooks@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No spoilers, but enjoyed Deadpool and Wolverine. It was pretty funny and entertaining.

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  peers out window

  …what a wonderful day to finally get around to reimaging that old Qualys to pfsense.

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• indisin@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Big wind make doors go bang bang. Sleep no.

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• fullkitwanker@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People that wear their backpacks on a packed PT can go shit themselves 😡

  (I should also do a better job at posting in the correct thread)

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Listening to music at work on my laptop.

  Can’t connect Bluetooth devices to my work laptop l so using an audio cable with my headphones. Got the cable from Amazon for like $5.

  Something is fucky cause the audio crackles a bit, except I’m enjoying it somehow. Gives it an analog LP feel almost.

  The big is definitely a feature

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• tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Knocked the coffee on my desk over while on a work call, said “fuck” very low as the other person was speaking but don’t think they heard me. Had to frantically clean the spill up while talking as coffee was dripping onto my carpet. A fair amount went onto the carpet… I’ve got this carpet stain remover that I will try out and hopefully it does the trick.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Good night everyone. Stay warm. 😘

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I bought some sour worm lollies. I can’t stop eating them ☹️

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The fact that I’ve used my split system more for heating than I ever have for cooling really says a lot about Melbourne’s climate.

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• Baku@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Bloody hell, these courier please people have anger issues. I heard skidding tyre noises while I was in the shower, just chalked it up to an odd midday hoon. Whatever. Then a minute later I heard somebody absolutely pounding on the door, bloody dodgy, I didn’t know who TF it was (my mind went straight to the old kid) so I got out of the shower and checked the camera, and a bloke in a high vis shirt was running away from the door. Then I get an email: “CourierPlease: we’ve successfully delivered your parcel”

  Ran across the road, in front of a car, got beeped at by the person he ran in front of, then floored it just about the second he got in his little van. Wouldn’t have even had enough time to put a seatbelt on. I suppose that’s what happens when you put people on very strict quotas and treat them as glorified doordash drivers but for parcels, but it’s fricking ridiculous!

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m going to have to have a word with the MIL about taking the kids out during the day.

  The point is to get them to sleep. One only slept when they got back, and the other didn’t sleep at all and had a nap from 5-8, meaning I only got the two of them down now.

  Not to mention driving all over Melbourne with them and getting toys they don’t need from op shops. I’d be fine with that but they’re always cheap remote control cars without the remote,so they don’t work properly and are full of tiny parts if they ever break

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• bacon@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  giant rat at the tram station

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• SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  With the olympics coming up thought I’d check what time the opening ceremony is. 3:30am Saturday. Yeah nah. I’ll catch the highlights on the news.

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  yay, Robot Dreams is on tonight. 🤖🐶😊

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• bull@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  God damn it… I’m actually liking using the iPhone. This is unacceptable.

  Turns out they’ve come a long way in the 11 years since I used one. Face ID for auth inside apps (not just for unlocking the phone) is a game changer. Plus app devs have clearly put just a little more love into iOS apps then their Android counterparts. It’s nothing major, just little things but they’re noticeable. I also love the haptics. The screen and sound seem better too.

  My 2 annoyances so far are that it’s a regular iPhone 15 which feels a bit small in my bear-paw and I fumble with it and CarPlay (which does look excellent in my car) doesn’t have the ability to have media controls on the screen at the same time as full screen Waze like Android Auto does. Having both on the screen at the same time uses way too much screen to show the media controls but that might because my screen is portrait rather than landscape. Probably looks fine in landscape on those wide screens you get in new cars.

  Anyway ffs I wasn’t supposed to almost prefer it over my Android phone.

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