Good news! Just got a phone call from work, the client found the missing $$$ (and from the sound of it it was $$$) so that’s a relief to say the least.
Change in the attitude of the carer lead was… a thing. But a cordial conversation was had and she’s taken me off that client, so all well there.
I’d put in an application to join a union this morning and I’ll keep on with it, as knowing aged care odds are that Something Will Happen.
But now I can do dinner tonight and really enjoy it, not just try and use it as a distraction!
Daily Discussion Thread: 🐈📦 Friday, September 20, 2024
Submitted 1 month ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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oztrin@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Eagle@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Working in the community can be great, it can also be shit. Glad the dollars were found, but it does make you feel like garbage to have your professional integrity questioned. Union protection is a good idea.
oztrin@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Exactly to all. I forget who said “I’m utterly and abjectly pissed off” but it summed up my state of mind!
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Just join your union anyway, it’s always a good thing and they need the support too, to advocate for you. Forget cmfuckup, and focus on your own union and the good things they can do for you. :)
I’m so glad this has worked out, and that they know you had nothing to do with it! Enjoy your day and all the beautiful things in your life, you deserve the relief and peace!
oztrin@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I did! I did want to join the UWU for a number of reasons but the guy I spoke to said they wouldn’t take me on with a pre existing situation so I went for the HWU… we’ll see how it works out.
Thank you - contemplating a nice beach walk and a cakey thing, and tonight is dumplings! 😁
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Fantastic news.
How does $$$ go missing anyway and I’m guessing they tried to blame you for it going missing?
I hope they issue an apology to you as it sounded like you weren’t going through a nice time if you’re also considering joining a union for protection.
I think you should treat yourself to something delicious tonight.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
- Old person hides cash away
- they forget where they left it and search other places
- they decide it was the carer who stole it
- they find it later and call back to say it was found
Old people do be forgetting things lol
oztrin@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Exactly what StudSpud said, though in this case it was a little older and with health issues. And it did look like I was at least under suspicion.
Anyway apology has been extended and an Uber eats voucher has been sent, so that’s something.
I was going out for dumplings tonight, so now I can go and enjoy myself rather than try and distract myself!
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I had an accident trimming my beard last night, the length attachment fell off while using and took a huge chunk of it out. Didn’t have any other option but to trim it all off. I kept the mo and some of the “soul patch” (had to look up what that’s called, strange name). I haven’t been cleanly trimmed like this for years, it’s an adjustment. Feeling wind on my cheeks this morning was weird and kinda nice. Maybe this was divine intervention to change it up.
bull@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’ve been there. That exact scenario. My condolences 💀
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
My husband’s been growing beards lately and he can’t get the trimming right near the top lip. Doesn’t matter how many you tube videos he’s watched he somehow makes it look weird so he shaves it all off and the growing process starts again.
I don’t care if he has a beard or not. I just don’t want to see food dangling off the mo.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I used to trim my own and it looked pretty bad each time. Started going to the local barbers, and they’re fantastic. I go every 6-8 weeks, and in between trim it myself a bit.
They’re worth it.
Pilk@aussie.zone 1 month ago
As a bearded man, this happening to me would break my heart. I’m so sorry.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Soul patch? I call it the crouton
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 month ago
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
This is some very good mood, I approve. Desktop background worthy
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Gozleme, gozleme, goooozleme
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Gozleyou
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
🎶Gozterday🎶
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
spring rolls
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 1 month ago
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 month ago
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Cheers supermum.🍻
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Iechyd da!
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Cheers witch 🍻
Aradina@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I got a Bundaberg mixed drinks mixed pack at Aldi. Really living the dream with this here ginger beer.
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Cheers Aradina ✊🍻
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I had the chance to be taken back to the op shop because there was a Led Zeppelin shirt I didn’t grab. You snooze you lose, probably snapped up 30 seconds after I left by a reseller.
But I did get some Buffy dvds and some art books. I went a little ham because things are getting scrubbed from the internet and I’m rediscovering the importance of physical media.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
this is really good, so happy for you and melbcat, you both need this 😽😻
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It’s so good. I think she’s got a slightly tender little tummy still but has started the fortiflora.
She’s now willing to eat her food with the regular meds mixed in which is so much less traumatic for both of us.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
*because things are getting scrubbed from the internet
Wait, what? I’m out of the loop on this one
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Pirate everything. For books:
Libgen.is
For everything else check out the megathread at reddit.com/r/piracy
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
This has been slowly happening for a long time without fanfare. A lot of stuff you used to be able to watch on YouTube is getting more aggressive copystrikes, probably to try and push us onto cable and streaming services.
Also the Internet Archive recently lost a copyright lawsuit that means access to 50, 000 books (and movies?) was lost.
Corporations are getting more aggressive about what gatekeeping what you can access for free and taking stuff down, so a lot of people are advocating for physical backups or copies of anything important to you.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It happens periodically. Streaming services don’t hold on to things forever, and even sites like the Internet Archive (which shares free access to books) periodically has to negotiate a changing landscape of access to materials.
We do not own things we get off Netflix, or even off Steam and such. Access can be revoked
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
All hands meeting. Executive verbally wanks himself about the company.
I have work to do. Kindly fuck off.
Eagle@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Look at you embracing employment again! In to the swing of it all already.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Hahaha indeed.
I actually love my direct managers and some of the senior leadership team. But not this guy and his little band of yes men.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Just patted a beautiful Greyhound on the way to work. I love their big emotional googly eyes 😍
eatham@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Been on school camp for 4 days anything happen here?
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Sneezing. Lots and lots of sneezing.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 month ago
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Better.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Aussie.zone
I think?
Also what has Kitty been playing with? I can see a cord under her paw.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Cheers! Oh it’s one of the many, many wand toys I’ve bought over the years lol
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’m using Jerboa. I saw it on F-droid and that’s actually how I found out about Lemmy
stepchook@mastodon.au 1 month ago
@tombruzzo @Gibsonhasafluffybutt
A dually there are five apps on Google play 'FOR LEMMY'
Not sure I get why?
I thought interoperability was the draw for the fediverse, but MASTODON is unable to see the lemmy daily threads.
Is Jerboa any better or does it also have limitations?stepchook@mastodon.au 1 month ago
@tombruzzo @Gibsonhasafluffybutt
Quickly looking it up.
Of course!
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Ugh, I really wanted to take PT and the Skybus to the airport and save $30 on an uber but… in this weather, I don’t trust PT to get me to the city on time, and fuck schlepping it in the wet. I got paid today, I’m taking the uber. AND treating myself to a schnacko at the airport if I get peckish. I can take the Skybus on the way back.
Off we go! No panic and anxiety. There are some things I appreciate having a job that pays money for
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Did you manage to get to the airport in time?
I hope you have a wonderful trip!
Weather wasn’t so great and you should get there early. I was hearing on the radio all morning that there are some sort of works going on and to get there 30 mins earlier than usual.
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yep, got here about 50 minutes before boarding, plenty of time for a burrito and unwinding before I board. I’m glad I wasn’t dying of anxiety trying to will the Skybus to go faster. I actually missed my flight back to Qld because of Skybus delays way back in 2011 or so and have never trusted it since…
Aradina@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Hey Centrelink, if my appointment is booked for 2:30pm, that means it’s at 2:30pm and you shouldn’t call twice at 9:23 and 9:36 and get pissy that I’m not available. “Be sure to be ready at the time it’s scheduled for.” THAT TIME ISN’T FOR FIVE HOURS GO AWAY.
Also Astro Bot is an amazing game. Strong recommend.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I always hated that whole “one rule for me and another for thee” aspect to dealing with C’link.
Aradina@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It’s total horseshit.
And it was for a participation appointment that’s literally just someone reading a participation plan I’m already aware of and asking if I want to change anything. It’s something I could easily do in the app and save an operator for someone trying to call.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I absolute despise catching Ubers, but sometimes it’s my only choice for a work thing.
Why the fuck do they drive with that whole “go fast, sudden stop, go fast, sudden stop”.
Literally makes me car sick.
/rant
Pilk@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I remember catching an Uber early morning in Paris. 130km/h speed limit to the airport, which additionally was treated as a mere suggestion. I was temporarily religious.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I have never caught an Uber.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
same
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Buses do that too, gives me the irrits. Dude, you’re braced against the steering wheel and pedals, we aren’t.
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Oi… Thought I’d start a playlist thread. Maybe I’ll do it weekly, maybe I won’t…who knows…
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Ted Cat has a problem. The crunchies are not good enough and he’s protesting.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Goodnight everyone. 😘 Sweet dreams.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Mr Woof has decided to try and steal an onion, I have no idea why. The onions have now been moved to higher ground for safety. Maybe Miss Meow put him up to it?
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Wooohooo weekend! Early dinner with a couple friends tonight then nothing on and I will veg out to my heart’s content. Big week. Finally fully signed off and soon my job proper. Now just getting better and quicker and doing more as the weeks pile up. I got this!
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I forgot how much of a groove Beck’s entire Odelay album is.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I currently have an annoying bit of string stuck in my teeth, and I can’t remove it because it’s the end of my disolving stitches and is tied into my gums. I do not like this situation.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Well that’s one biscuit recipe I won’t be trying again! utter FAIL biscuits
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Blood donation done
New outdoor light installed
Bottles and can returned, cash collected
It’s not even noon!!
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Last day of school for the term.
I could have sworn traffic was lighter today as I was driving to work today.
Hopefully it’ll be the same on the way home.
Also I’ve been granted some luck and reprieve and I’m going shopping for burger materials this afternoon after work. Yay!!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I don’t think this usb optical drive is working to play my dvd.
Also an update has put this ai Copilot bullshit on my computer. Keep it up Microsoft… Perhaps one day I’ll finally get it together and become one of those Linux people.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Cooking up a bowl o’ pasta. Misc veg will be ensauced
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
There seems to be something on at the sportsball stadium. Lots of echoey bellowing. Bit early isn’t it?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Going to the park before I go to the shops, I will wear a raincoat to keep the rain away 👍
bull@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Forgot to post last night but I arrived in Mollymook yesterday afternoon. I’m here until tomorrow then I start heading home 🏖️
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danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I have no idea where Mollymook is but it looks lovely.