Daily Discussion Thread: 🚫🎁☀️🛍️ Friday, October 11, 2024

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• just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  LL has suddenly requested I remove all my plants from the balcony immediately because of alleged damage and complaints (currently unsubstantiated), and is going to do an inspection on Tuesday 22nd. This sounds like she’s on the warpath now and wants to force me out.

  Of course I can’t get any advice on what my rights are until Monday, but for now I’ve sent an email asking for some evidence. I’m not removing my plants just like that.

  I don’t feel safe or happy at all. I don’t really wanna go back to the apartment right now.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like some made up BS if you ask me.

    Maybe you’re right that she’s trying to force you out.

    Think it’s got anything to do with the VCAT application you’ve put inV

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well I haven’t even put in a VCAT application, just a CAV review of the rent increase - and I even told her it could very well end up being in her favour but I just needed to explore my options.

      At this stage it’s sounding retaliatory.

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Rough.

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Rough is understating it for sure. I’m not in a good headspace

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  • Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Oh no. hugs

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This might be relevant to your landlady’s situation. I think she may be panicking a bit. Hopefully she’ll see reason on Monday. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/…/104464504?utm_ca…

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    • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh it absolutely is. Land tax has gone up and the market rate has as well… It’s just that she suddenly withdrew the offer of negotiation - I would’ve thought keeping on a good tenant would be worth something. And I have every right to apply for a review. asking me to remove all my plants all of a sudden is rather unreasonable…

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They brought the meeting forward to today and I’ve been terminated. I’m just glad it’s over

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  • tone212_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like it was for the best. You’ll look back and think this was the best thing that could have happened.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This whole year sucked for me work wise. I had a stressful project at the start of the year. Then I was facing a redundancy, then I’ve been going through this for the past 9 weeks. It’s been so stressful, I’m just glad it’s over

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    performance plan is really just “Paid Job Hunting notice period” anyway. On to bigger and better things. And hey if you value your sanity dont come to my work. Shit is a dumpster fire.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That was my problem, I didn’t get on the job hunt seriously soon enough. I thought I could get through it, started looking at jobs, had some interviews that didn’t go anywhere, and didn’t pick it up as much until the last meeting. I’m getting the standard 2 weeks pay so if I can pick up an immediate start contract I might be able to coast for a bit

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  • Eagle@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No one is at their best with an axe hanging over them. It’s over, look up with freedom and move on. And get really drunk tonight.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m more excited to have my spring back. I started around this time last year and things were so much easier. I picked my kids up early from childcare and took them to a park before home. I’d like to do that again a few times before I start something else

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m really sorry this has happened mate.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll try make the most of it. I can go on centrelink through my business and I can go into job application overdrive now

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m sorry to hear that. I hope better things are just around the corner for you.

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    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      A recruiter I’ve worked with before has a contract role that’s the exact thing I’m looking for. These roles are always an immediate start so things may just work out. And to think how grateful I’ll be to the first place that takes me after all this

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  • just_kitten@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Fuck, it’s the day for bad news hey. I’m so sorry to hear about your work situation, it’s an awful feeling to be terminated and can set off so many bad thoughts. Vent here as much as you need. I’d like to think it’s an opportunity for you to move onto somewhere you’d be better appreciated - my hope for you is in a year’s time you’ll be able to look back on it all and laugh at how fucked up your workplace was

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• MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Day off

  Had a pedi earlier

  Stoned off my tits

  Hockey is on

  It’s gonna be a good day

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    whos playin?

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    • MeanElevator@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Leafs vs Devils

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My dog living the life of a cat

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• Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ⛏️⛏️⛏️⛏️

  summon lord kitchener i have news of the front

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wish I was as good with hoes as you are

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All about the edger’ing babyyy

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  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That do be some diggin’.

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then comes the geo and the gravel and the agi and more gravel and one area gets dirt but the others get mansfield pebbles and aluminium edging

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    that looks so awesome

    kudos

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The awesome comes with the backfill…

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nice job there.

    What are you going to be planting there?

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Drainage pipe

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  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That looks good. I am green with envy

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    • Taleya@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Barring the one on the far left, they’re roughly the locations of original concrete and brick dividers in a garden bed i’ve been painstakingly prying out out and cleaning up over the past year (salvagable concrete chunks will become crazy paving, bricks a pathway). His Lordship liked the dividers, but they had to come out, they were falling apart, cracking and subsiding, plus i wanted to put in raised and wicking beds (getting old and i already broke my back).

      It also has a retaining wall around it, but no outlet for water (and at the bottom of a slope), so it bogs a bit…my solution was getting a hole punched in the side, dig agi in along the divider lines and when i backfill i’m gonna echo the original dividers by having channels of river pebbles famed by aluminium edging along the lines.

      like this but with mulch instead of grass

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  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ooh that looks like it is taking serious shape.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Finished work. Going for walk. Shout out if you want me to bring you back a stick

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  • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes. Bring us a faggot please luv.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    3 for 50?

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    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      🌳 bulk deal

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      😂

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can I upgrade to a leaf please?

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    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      🍃

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    will it be a stick worthy of a huge plot line in an Amazon series?

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    • Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I have some nice ones. Chook will be pleased

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• RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The time has come to traumatize Mr Woof with a bath. Wish us luck.

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  • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Good luck. Hope you come back unscathed.

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We have survived, and dried off with a post-bath Walkies.

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  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please take photos

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    • RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Too late, but I have attached some photos from a previous bath.

      Rusty in the bath

      After the bath

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• Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Flatpacked raised veggie patch arrived today. SO MANY FUCKING BOLTS that took me 3hrs and of course a few were missing. Happy to at least visualise it now though.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ok. Who have you buried?

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    • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      just kitten’s landlord/lady?

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    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      whoever they were the tomatoes should be kicking it this year. :)

      (in case I’m now on a list I swear it was a veggie patch).

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like I’ve had a big backslide in terms or physical and mental health. And my sleep patterns.

  Fucksticks.

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That sucks to hear, and it sucks all three of those are kind of tied together so when one gets worse they all do

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    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s a party! Oh well. Onwards.

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• imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I rage-installed Brave browser today. Been a firefox user for a long time but its getting resource hungrier and performance-worser on my laptop (linux). So far so good. Brave is fast but otherwise similar to Chrome.

  This has been Friday night geek chat with Oldgreeeeeg.

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  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Omg me too I can’t relate.

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Haha

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  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Brave is Chromium based so it might be resource hungry as well. Librewolf is Firefox based with more privacy built in, you might be able to get some mileage out of that

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    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So far it seems better then chrome but thanks , I’ll add librewolf to the trial

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• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had a little adventure. I had to drive the Kruger home. I’ve only driven an auto once in 20 years. Anyway I got home and realised I didn’t know how to turn it off. A phone call later sorted that out. I then took the little doolackey out of the console and locked it. I checked to make sure it’s locked by the door handle and it beeped at me and the mirrors opened up. Did it again. Same. Shamefully I did it again. Same. So I spent 20 minutes outside babysitting an unlocked car. Technology hates me and i hate technology.

  Anyway cheers you smarter more competent tech people 🍺

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  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I got a mate who brought a new car recently. It was an auto and his old car was a manual. he had to go back into the showroom and ask them how to take off cause the electric handbreak wouldnt disengage, all he had to do was shift to Drive from park, but they didnt tell him that and he had no idea. So dont feel too bad.

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Thanks. I got in it, adjusted the seat, put my seatbelt on, looked down and said “is there a button I have to press to put it in drive”? Apparently the answer is yes as the man showed me.

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  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    look it up on youtube, n/k or write out a question on google

    #1, it’s a kluger

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    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t need to, it goes back tomorrow and stupid autocorrect.

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• Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ok. I’m in the process of treating myself to this.

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  One half is the size of my hand closed out flat.

  12 bucks!

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  • Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Omg that looks amazing!!! And great value

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    • Duenan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      @Catfish@aussie.zone

      It was insane, I haven’t eaten something like that packed in so densely full of meat.

      I could have meat poisoning now. I counted at least 30 layers of various meats and one of them was heavily smoked or salted.

      I felt like I almost couldn’t finish it all but it was certainly great value for money.

      I could have entered a food coma right there and then. I struggled to get home.

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  • Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Drool!

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One prac assessment completed and submitted, all the work done yesterday and checked by teacher.

  All is well, I can do this!

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The culprit was sulphites in the fruit

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  bloody hell

  i’ve got a yucky intolerance response to some fruit yoghurt, ( yes, I had a lacteeze ) lips on fire, eyes burning. Extra lactose in the recipe perhaps? Not too pleased about it.

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Due to the 2% pay rise fiasco, they’ve given everyone 3 days wfh instead of 2.

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• wscholermann@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just so sad when I see how people are permanently damaged by bad parenting and bad jobs. In many cases a complete come back is not possible due to ongoing chronic health issues.

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• Catfish@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There will be no miniature ghost train cake. Too crumbly and disintegrated when I tried to ice it 😿

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I ordered some regular baby items from Chemist Warehouse online. I’m hoping they track the transaction on my account and send me emails when they stuff goes on sale again. You’ve got to use surveillance capitalism to your benefit sometimes.

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fire alarm. Again, for the second time in a week. Yaaaaaay.

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• tombruzzo@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What’s the etiquette around calling about a job after it closes? I put in for a job I really want and it closed today.

  I’ll bedamned if I leave it in god’s hands from here. Do I call on Monday mentioning I have some ideas I’d like to put in a presentation if I get an interview? Something to tease their curiosity a bit?

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• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’m excited I’m getting new glasses next week!!! A friend came to help pick them out and they’re a totally different style than normal.

  Admittedly a bit sad, but damn it I’m excited lol

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• useless_modern_god@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cheers for real and proper 🍻

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• TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, BIG project due end of year (wasn’t enough time in the first place) has had a sudden and abrupt change of course. Because of course it has. All our comms and training material need to be completely redone. And I’m finding the phrase “Do it yourselves motherfuckers” is rolling around in my head, but not yet my lips.

  The Project manager is an idiot who couldnt manage a shit in a bathroom if his life depended on it. The Head of IT shoots from the hip and makes promises with 0 understanding, compromises his own project plan and seems just just drift in whatever direction the wind blows. Infra is an agro tool who communicates through yelling. Security couldnt take a stance on something if you paid them to (oh right, we bloody DO pay them!) and My team is so over it we dont know which way is up.

  And the only thing we all have in common is we think the project is unrealistic, deliverable and the head of IT is an idiot.

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• StudChud@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Animal Biology fuck yeahhhh!!

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• Alamutjones@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Off to start my workday. Meeting in a cafe, which is nice

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• melbaboutown@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Went looking for more horror movies only to see the Internet Archives has been hacked.

  I wasn’t a member but if you were make sure all your passwords are unique

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• Seagoon_@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  was kinda invited ( a plus 1 ) to fam b’day party

  but near everyone there hates me, even had people shun me or call me names. mil constantly disses and baits me with hate , and many are raging bigots/haters

  but I kinda understand and like the b’day girl, she tries hard to be a good person ( tho she never contacts me , i never contact her )

  don’t want to go, won’t go, but will send gifts because maybe one day they will learn to look at how people behave and learn to not listen to gossip

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• Force_majeure123@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Time to find out if my work allows volunteers to finish early without pay if availability allows

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• dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A blackbird flew in the other week. I caught it before it hurt itself or my stuff and tossed it back outside. Now I swear I keep catching it inside the doorway a little. It sounds kinda bird racist but I can’t tell it apart from other blackbirds, aside from it’s female/brown. I read that patting a birds head is a bit sexy for them, maybe I’ve got a blackbird admirer, she probably only wants me for me bread/cheese crumbs.

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