Had to attend an emergency meeting with the CTO of a client and explain why we tucked up without any forewarning.
Good times lol
Daily Discussion Thread: 🪭🐈🫧🍽️ Wednesday 4 December
Submitted 1 month ago by melbaboutown@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yikes! As in your side of the fence didn’t give you any heads up? I’d be demanding an answer as to why that’s appropriate from your boss.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Bingo. And man, that guy was really fucking pissed off.
There’s no point getting accountability. Some people here have a halo and can do no wrong.
Fingers crossed for the new role.
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Meeting over! 2.5 hours later, I’m so exhausted. There was a few times I maybe wasn’t as clear as I could have been when I was put on the spot, and also being hyper concentrated for that long is pretty tough. But overall I think I presented and communicated well. Client seemed happy too so that’s what counts.
I think I deserve a takeaway pizza tonight and a night off any cooking.
Pilk@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Wait is it pizza night on the DT? Because I’m down to celebrate alongside you.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Literally just had left over pizza lol - I think it is pizza night!! 🤤
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
2.5 hours is a long time to be “on”.
have pizza, beer, stare at the wall and pat the cat
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Well done!! Treat yourself!!
Duenan@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yeah. That’s a super long meeting.
You definitely deserve something after a meeting of that magnitude.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Obviously! What a stud
tone212_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Big work meeting this afternoon. I mean BIG. I’m as prepared as I can be and a bit more prep this morning. I was feeling super nervous about it yesterday. Calmer on waking up this morning the nerves are coming back. Deep breaths help - I will be fine, it will go fine.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
🤞
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
it’ll be what it’ll be. Just put your best foot forward.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
🤞😘
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Good luck!
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I wanted to set up a mail redirection in case I forget to change my address for anything over, but wouldn’t you know it - not allowed to do that while you’re under. For “legal reasons”, they say
I'm really frustrated and disillusioned at the moment, and needed a rant. Open at your eyeballs' own risk
That actually made me really upset when I found out. Partially because by the time they bothered to tell me, I was already 3 quarters through the application and already sent in my ID, but also because it’s just such a stupid thing to age-gate, and seems like it was thought up by the mind of somebody who’s always lived a stereotypical upper class lifestyle I know it’s inconsequential, but it really reeks of the sort of restriction some rich private schooled arsehole would impose. The sort that grew up in a stock standard, white picket fence, 2 parent households - who’s only struggles as a child were figuring out which one of their thousand dollar outfits to wear to their 80k a year private school, and one who never had to move around At a surface glance, sure it seems logical to assume that every child will always move in sync with at least 1 of their parents, and can just be listed as a dependent on their parents redirection application. But in my situation, that just can’t happen. And it really isn’t just my situation that would necessitate redirecting your mail as a minor. Although less common than previous decades, some people do still get a job at 15/16 then move out. Some people move away for school or employment prospects. Some to escape violent home situations. Not everybody who moves out as a minor necessarily ends up in the child protection system But the 1% tasked with running these shit shows don’t think of that. They just assume that the luxuries they got to grow up with and took for granted are universal. They are very much not. I’m sure somebody will point out that parents want to know what mail and parcels their kids receive, and that’s fine, I’m not saying every minor should automatically have a right to redirect or hold their mail. But there are so many supporting documents I could provide them - I have court orders, tenancy agreements, a lease, rent trails, I could even have the person acting on behalf of my guardian (in this case, my case manager) go in with me and backup what I’m saying. We could even go get a stat Dec written up But even that isn’t an option. There’s no exemptions. No negotiations. It’s go be listed on a parents application, or go fuck yourself. Personal circumstances are irrelevant, and so is supporting evidence. I know I live in an edge case - every fucking company and governmental agency wants to make damn sure I know that. But it gets exhausting having to deal with this BS day in and day out. Actually, one of my earliest memories of dealing with the bureaucratic nightmare that has been my life was not long after I entered care, I dared to want a library card. They refused my application because I was a minor and couldn’t get a signatory at the time. Another one of my earliest memories is when I had knee troubles from an incident that occurred many years ago and went to a physio. 9 month waitlist. Finally get in. She needs a piece of paper signed giving her consent to provide medical care, or whatever the piece of paper would’ve said. The worker wouldn’t/couldn’t do it. I just had to go home. Then COVID hit, and after another 9 month waitlist, the physio was just telling me what to do over the phone I’m actually going to make a complaint about this to auspost, and when they inevitably come back in 2 business months to inform me they’ve investigated themselves and found their policies to be justified, I’m going to go to the postal industry ombudsman. And then I’m going to write angry letters to the ministers responsible for AP, and might even write another one to my federal MP. It has genuinely gotten me that riled up Again, I know it’s first world problems, and at that, probably the most minor problem in DT history. But it is making me really irrationally angry and I want to do something about it
Sorry for the rant, if anybody read it. With all the talk about these social media bans, on top of the issues with buying knives, and now trying to get a fricking mail redirection I’m really feeling like I keep slipping through the gaps and am getting left behind by half brained ideas thought up by privileged people
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
It’s not a small issue, you’ve been cheated of both the supports you should have had but also of the right to do necessary things for yourself.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I guess. It just feels weird and kinda self absorbed that I’m so angry about not being able to redirect my mail, while half the DT is just struggling to get by
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
depending on your spoons, if you’re a big enough pain in their arse and keep pestering them about it, they can and fucking will make exceptions.
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I somewhat get it. I moved out as a minor and had some of this nonsense. Difference was I had a lawyer for a father who could hand over a business card and mostly make the shit go away. Sorry.
wscholermann@aussie.zone 1 month ago
As a child that had met not quite all but most ACE criteria, I understand perfectly well your point of view. While the issue at hand seems small, all the problems that lead to this are not.
Unfortunately the government reluctantly and sparingly offers social assistance mainly to stop a riots in the street from the disaffected, but mostly don’t GAF.
The only hope I can give you is that you are still young and you’ve got time to turn things around.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
…you’ve got time to turn things around.
This feels uncomfortably close to a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality… 😔
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 month ago
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Howzat!
calhoon2005@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Gridiron ball. It’s brilliant. I could never really throw a proper size one, but this flies like rocket!
just_kitten@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Gorgeous evening light. Today was a corker of a day.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I laugh everytime I see a post on AustralianSpiders, where OP posts a picture of a black spider with a red stripe and asks “iS tHiS a ReDbAcK???”
The clue is in the name, my guy 😂😂😂
And yes, it was, and she’s gravid - enjoy OP! 😂😂
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I like the ones where OP will show a bit of leg skin with a small welt and ask What bit me?
Um definitely something small and bitey 🤷♀️
Then you get the replies such as: Go and see a GP to Get to the Emergency Room immediately because my best friends dentist’s next door neighbour had that same bite and their leg fell off. This is no joke.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
And it could be that nothing bit then! They could have just grazed their leg slightly and it raised a welt 😂
Why ask Reddit? They’re not psychic time travelling detectives looking to solve the mystery of your minor injury 😂
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
chances are you have been bitten by a redback and dismissed it. Generally it’s just swelling and feeling seedy af
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Fuck yeah!
useless_modern_god@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Nice one. You are a person of high culture.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
oooh thank you for reminding me!
bacon@aussie.zone 1 month ago
while you slept the south korea did a failed coup
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Sleepy coups are the best kind of coups.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 1 month ago
yeah that was not news i was expecting to wake up to.
chingatello@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Didn’t even ask his own party!
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Yeah lasted like 2 hours?
Aradina@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
And blamed the north for it
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
was it a real failed coup? Cos I remember Erdogan did a fake failed coup to make a pretense to bring in authoritarian laws and to purge the public service
bacon@aussie.zone 1 month ago
yup he is done his own party doesn’t support him, the military left too
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 month ago
While I struggled to sleep*
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Wha
Context pls
All I can see is something about martial law. Is that what you mean?
Aradina@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The president accused the opposition of being north Korean agents (They’re not) and declared martial law. Police tried to prevent MPs from entering parliament to vote to end martial law but failed and it voted 190-0 in favour of ending it. The military initially sided with the president and said they’d wait for him and ignore parliament, but then changed their mind and stood down.
People are calling for the president to resign. His party isnt even om his side. It was a failed coup attempt
bacon@aussie.zone 1 month ago
yeah and it’s already over
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
If nobody’ll be up at midnight, or particularly cares who does what, I’ll post tonight’s at midnight. I’ll still be up
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
About 6kg of cherries have now been picked. Probably that much again left on the tree if I was feeling enthusiastic enough to pick them.
Now I need to work out what to do with them - they are cooking cherries (morello), not sweet eating cherries. I’ll probably just pit & freeze them for now and do some baking later.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Try drying them. Pit a trayful and put them on a lined baking tray in a very low oven - 30-50 deg - basically the defrost function if your oven has one - with the fan on. Stir them about every hour or so until they dry to snapping point. Or stop at the shrivelled but still bendy stage and freeze them in a vacuum bag. I’ve heard of people drying them in a microwave but I’ve never done that and don’t know how. Dried cherries are a wonderful snack and really add something to cakes, mince pies etc. I’ve put them in chook stuffing too. Use them anywhere that calls for sultanas or currants or raisins.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’ve dried cherries before and didn’t really use them. I might do a few to go in the next fruit cake I make - I have a dehydrator, which makes it much easier than the oven method. Although it is currently filled with chicken scraps destined for dog food, I really need to get onto packing that away too.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I’m just fucking exhausted. That’s all. I go to bed exhausted, wake up too early, exhausted.
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Made it to Kmart today and filled up a trolley with various things
Set for most of it now. Still need a vacuum and (indoor) bins though
It was a fucked fucking experience. Lines were long as, but in their infinite wisdom, they only put 1 poor woman on the checkouts
She was standing over us the whole time, apparently if you have too much, you can’t be trusted to scan your own things, and they either need to scan half of it for you, or stand over you watching you scan shit. We were trying to go methodically so we could organize a trolley and wouldn’t end dup setting a frying pan on the top of an upside down coffee cup. She was not happy about that and said (verbatim) “gimme gimme gimme now! we’re going to be here all day! Gimme!” And then snatched the scanning thing out of my hand and started going turbo mode
I don’t really blame her, she was seemingly expected to supervise a dozen self serves, and man the 1 assisted register while also helping old people navigate the self serve during probably the busiest time of year. But geez. A dog shit experience as a customer. And ffs snatching the scanner and rushing us didn’t actually do shit, it just meant she had to awkwardly stand there while we started repacking the trolley
Also feel like I should mention this was Kmart. I didn’t accidentally walk into Aldi. They don’t have packing benches - the alternative would’ve been throwing everything in the trolley, probably breaking and losing shit, then tipping it all out after paying to repack things sensibly
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Nooooooo
Kmart took almost a week processing my damn order, and now they’ve run out of abba vinyls
I ordered it at 8:08am on Thursday morning, 8 minutes after their black Friday bs (which the vinyl was a part of) opened up. They evidently didn’t put one aside quickly enough, so they just cancelled my order
I just want abba vinyl 😭😭😭
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Today is the day I’m gonna have a zillion coffees and get shit done cos it’s gonna be hot the next 3 days. Just have to get off the couch now.
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 1 month ago
My manager said I’m good to work from home this week until my ankle heals up. It’s the sort of thing that puts you in that weird spot where I can work but I can’t deal with the hassle of getting to the office.
I’ll arrange a tele-appointment to get an x-ray referral just to make sure nothing’s wrong as it still hurts
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I bought two punnets of lettuce seedlings. They seem to do well for me and we eat them up. Other garden stuff is doing well too. Mostly tidying really.
and the young Seagoons will be coming to Australia in 10 days to stay with us 🙂 I better get everything ready. So excite.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Cherries are all pitted and in the freezer.
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 1 month ago
::: spoiler The patch Image Image Image Image
:::
Seems like being away for a month didn’t impact shit too heavily. No ferts in the last month either and the watering seems alright with no drama / edema. Phew.
That piece of mind the watering sys. gives is priceless.
Also saw about a dozen ladybugs so aphids are a non issue (for now).
Lots of smaller self sown chilli plants from last year just popping up now was a nice surprise.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Basil has been trimmed and moved into it’s new pots. The one at the front doesn’t look to have a good root system, which is why it is trimmed so much - I won’t be surprised if it just dies anyway. The other two had good healthy roots, so I expect big things from them! The trimmed leaves have been chopped up and frozen in oil in ice cube trays.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Finished S3 of the Taskmaster Australia. Really grown fond of the show was looking forward towards S4. Found out that David Hughes will be on it, and it’s completely killed my excitement for it.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Might try to angle going home at lunch due to not feeling well… Barely slept last night
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Some good points in this video about the social media ban aussie.zone/post/15770886
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Family and I are playing Whamageddon this year, and three people have already ascended to Whamhalla, 4 days in 😂
I just want to thank the Woolies strikers for the lack of stock, because I’ve been going to Aldi’s instead - they don’t play music 😂😂
Catfish@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Many extremely nervous presenters at this conference. Buck up people you have really interesting things to say!!
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 month ago
ahahah oh god.
Client: YOU NEVER SENT US IP DATA FOR THIS UNIT. HOW DARE. WE *DEMAND *THE DATA.
Dude. It was configured according to the ip addresses you sent us
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Morning plans: mow grass. remove excessive amount of fennel from the front garden. plant some volunteer cherry tomato seedlings along the front fence. pot up some basil plants from the supermarket in the hope they can regrow. somewhere in there I should do washing too.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 month ago
My zucchini have two fullblown flowers now, they’re both male flowers but more are budding.
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Inspection went fine! Actually had the senior PM come, instead of the newbie from last time. Senior PM said newbie was wrong about the law regarding downlights, lol, and that it does in fact require an electrician that the RE will send out to change 😂 newbie told us it’s the tenants responsibility, but didn’t realise the difference between a screw in bulb and downlights LOL!
so after a year of not having kitchen lights, and six months of not having a normal bathroom one, the RE is gonna get that fixed for us. Senior PM apologised profusely and said we weren’t the only tenants that were given the incorrect info either.
I couldn’t stop laughing! I’m not even mad 😂
danwritesbooks@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Albo?
StudChud@aussie.zone 1 month ago
LOL!!!
Baku@aussie.zone 1 month ago
Glad it went well for you!
My new house has had about half the lights changed out for those energy efficient LED light things. On the one hand, I was a bit disappointed about that, because I wanted to put my own energy saver smart bulbs in, but on the other, because they’re directly wired into the mains and there’s no fitting, it’s not my responsibility to change them when they go kaput
But on the third, my experience with those style of lights is that they’re lucky to last a year before they start developing a purple hue and flickering ever so slightly (enough to piss me the fuck off though), but I’m doubtful they’ll change them until they’re completely dead