They brought the meeting forward to today and Iâve been terminated. Iâm just glad itâs over
Daily Discussion Thread: đŤđâď¸đď¸ Friday, October 11, 2024
Submitted â¨â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago⊠by â¨Seagoon_@aussie.zone⊠to â¨melbourne@aussie.zoneâŠ
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tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
tone212_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sounds like it was for the best. Youâll look back and think this was the best thing that could have happened.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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 Iâve been going through this for the past 9 weeks. Itâs been so stressful, Iâm just glad itâs over
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
performance plan is really just âPaid Job Hunting notice periodâ anyway. On to bigger and better things. And hey if you value your sanity dont come to my work. Shit is a dumpster fire.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
That was my problem, I didnât get on the job hunt seriously soon enough. I thought I could get through it, started looking at jobs, had some interviews that didnât go anywhere, and didnât pick it up as much until the last meeting. Iâm 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
Eagle@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
No one is at their best with an axe hanging over them. Itâs over, look up with freedom and move on. And get really drunk tonight.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm 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. Iâd like to do that again a few times before I start something else
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm really sorry this has happened mate.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâll try make the most of it. I can go on centrelink through my business and I can go into job application overdrive now
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm sorry to hear that. I hope better things are just around the corner for you.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
A recruiter Iâve worked with before has a contract role thatâs the exact thing Iâm looking for. These roles are always an immediate start so things may just work out. And to think how grateful Iâll be to the first place that takes me after all this
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Fuck, itâs the day for bad news hey. Iâm so sorry to hear about your work situation, itâs an awful feeling to be terminated and can set off so many bad thoughts. Vent here as much as you need. Iâd like to think itâs an opportunity for you to move onto somewhere youâd be better appreciated - my hope for you is in a yearâs time youâll be able to look back on it all and laugh at how fucked up your workplace was
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Day off
Had a pedi earlier
Stoned off my tits
Hockey is on
Itâs gonna be a good day
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
whos playin?
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Leafs vs Devils
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Wish I was as good with hoes as you are
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
All about the edgerâing babyyy
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
That do be some digginâ.
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
that looks so awesome
kudos
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
The awesome comes with the backfillâŚ
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Nice job there.
What are you going to be planting there?
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Drainage pipe
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
That looks good. I am green with envy
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Barring the one on the far left, theyâre roughly the locations of original concrete and brick dividers in a garden bed iâve 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 bitâŚmy solution was getting a hole punched in the side, dig agi in along the divider lines and when i backfill iâm 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
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
ooh that looks like it is taking serious shape.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Finished work. Going for walk. Shout out if you want me to bring you back a stick
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yes. Bring us a faggot please luv.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
3 for 50?
Alamutjones@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
đł bulk deal
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
will it be a stick worthy of a huge plot line in an Amazon series?
Alamutjones@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I have some nice ones. Chook will be pleased
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
The time has come to traumatize Mr Woof with a bath. Wish us luck.
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Good luck. Hope you come back unscathed.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
We have survived, and dried off with a post-bath Walkies.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Please take photos
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Ok. Who have you buried?
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
just kittenâs landlord/lady?
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
whoever they were the tomatoes should be kicking it this year. :)
(in case Iâm now on a list I swear it was a veggie patch).
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I feel like Iâve had a big backslide in terms or physical and mental health. And my sleep patterns.
Fucksticks.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yeah, itâs a party! Oh well. Onwards.
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
So far it seems better then chrome but thanks , Iâll add librewolf to the trial
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I had a little adventure. I had to drive the Kruger home. Iâve only driven an auto once in 20 years. Anyway I got home and realised I didnât 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 itâs 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 đş
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thanks. I got in it, adjusted the seat, put my seatbelt on, looked down and said âis there a button I have to press to put it in driveâ? Apparently the answer is yes as the man showed me.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
look it up on youtube, n/k or write out a question on google
#1, itâs a kluger
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I donât need to, it goes back tomorrow and stupid autocorrect.
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Ok. Iâm in the process of treating myself to this.
One half is the size of my hand closed out flat.
12 bucks!
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Omg that looks amazing!!! And great value
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
It was insane, I havenât 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 couldnât 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.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Drool!
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
One prac assessment completed and submitted, all the work done yesterday and checked by teacher.
All is well, I can do this!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
The culprit was sulphites in the fruit
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
bloody hell
iâve 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.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Due to the 2% pay rise fiasco, theyâve given everyone 3 days wfh instead of 2.
wscholermann@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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.
Catfish@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
There will be no miniature ghost train cake. Too crumbly and disintegrated when I tried to ice it đż
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
I ordered some regular baby items from Chemist Warehouse online. Iâm hoping they track the transaction on my account and send me emails when they stuff goes on sale again. Youâve got to use surveillance capitalism to your benefit sometimes.
Alamutjones@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Fire alarm. Again, for the second time in a week. Yaaaaaay.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Whatâs the etiquette around calling about a job after it closes? I put in for a job I really want and it closed today.
Iâll bedamned if I leave it in godâs hands from here. Do I call on Monday mentioning I have some ideas Iâd like to put in a presentation if I get an interview? Something to tease their curiosity a bit?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâm excited Iâm getting new glasses next week!!! A friend came to help pick them out and theyâre a totally different style than normal.
Admittedly a bit sad, but damn it Iâm excited lol
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
So, BIG project due end of year (wasnât 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 Iâm finding the phrase âDo it yourselves motherfuckersâ 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.
StudChud@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Animal Biology fuck yeahhhh!!
Alamutjones@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Off to start my workday. Meeting in a cafe, which is nice
melbaboutown@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Went looking for more horror movies only to see the Internet Archives has been hacked.
I wasnât a member but if you were make sure all your passwords are unique
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
was kinda invited ( a plus 1 ) to fam bâday 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 bâday girl, she tries hard to be a good person ( tho she never contacts me , i never contact her )
donât want to go, wonât 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
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Time to find out if my work allows volunteers to finish early without pay if availability allows
dumblederp@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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 canât tell it apart from other blackbirds, aside from itâs female/brown. I read that patting a birds head is a bit sexy for them, maybe Iâve got a blackbird admirer, she probably only wants me for me bread/cheese crumbs.
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠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 sheâs on the warpath now and wants to force me out.
Of course I canât get any advice on what my rights are until Monday, but for now Iâve sent an email asking for some evidence. Iâm not removing my plants just like that.
I donât feel safe or happy at all. I donât really wanna go back to the apartment right now.
Duenan@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sounds like some made up BS if you ask me.
Maybe youâre right that sheâs trying to force you out.
Think itâs got anything to do with the VCAT application youâve put inV
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Well I havenât 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 itâs sounding retaliatory.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Rough.
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Rough is understating it for sure. Iâm not in a good headspace
Llabyrinthine@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oh no. hugs
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
This might be relevant to your landladyâs situation. I think she may be panicking a bit. Hopefully sheâll see reason on Monday. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/âŚ/104464504?utm_caâŚ
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨8⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oh it absolutely is. Land tax has gone up and the market rate has as well⌠Itâs just that she suddenly withdrew the offer of negotiation - I wouldâve 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 unreasonableâŚ