Yay, I got the new house rental. Just got to sign the lease and I;m in.
here comes beach living 🥹
Daily Discussion Thread: Monday, 24 February 2025
Submitted 6 months ago by briongloid@aussie.zone to melbourne@aussie.zone
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Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Congrats 🎉🥂
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Congrats!
Beach is good for the soul :)
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Grats!
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Yay, that’s so exciting!! Beach life is so good!
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Wow that was quick! Congrats.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Head of security resigned. They now have no security team lol
What a shit show
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
🤯
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Ordered 3 got 4 🙃
I think that’s the trick… go on a Monday. So lucky to have a view like that just opposite the place.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Oh yum! 😍
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Ahhh how the stress just disappears.
Bliss.
For the moment lol
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
SpinMeAround@aussie.zone 6 months ago
All of the fucks have fucked off.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’m impressed you had fucks to begin with
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
the fuck fountain runneth dry
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 6 months ago
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 6 months ago
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I love how the flat text on these mugs breaks my brain. It’s amazing what a bit of curve and proportion does for your sanity
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 6 months ago
😂same!
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Thanks Brion 🙂
Good night everyone, have good dreams 😘
StudChud@aussie.zone 6 months ago
[deleted]anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Oh no! What have you done? Can your OH help? That’s what I do with injuries that involve blood, being a big wuss myself
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Today I simply can’t. That is all.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Dear My Brain,
Please stop awakening me at 3:50am on the dot every night.
Sincerely,
Me.
tone212_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Same, but around 5 - 5:30am for me. I’ve been researching why I keep having interrupted sleep and I’ve put it down to stress. But my life has a baseline level of stress so I don’t know how to reduce it below that to stop this from happening.
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
We’re gettin old
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
it depends how hungry Ted Cat is
the meowing and then the pawing can start about 5
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
smashes paint
Aht
I put down some of the Born olive green and tried to match it with a limited palette of Anko paints. It’s not identical but if you look at the palette knife (used to mix) and the centre colour put directly on the swatch it’s kinda close
I should wait and see if it darkens when it dries.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
looking good 🙂
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
The colour dried way darker than it looked when wet so I don’t know what I’m gonna do about trying to match :( I’m not really going through anything in an organised way. Just figured I’d give it a go.
That looks really neat
just_kitten@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Hot water fixed, yay. Now running through the usual “yes, I already tried that, as I mentioned in 3 separate emails” gauntlet to get dishwasher people to get someone out to fix it or organise a replacement… can’t be arsed going back into the office after working from home while the plumber was here. I had lunch and don’t feel like talking to anyone. Too late in the day to do any local site visits either. mehhhh
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Manager knows that I’m waiting for a job offer and has indicated that I should take leave before the new role.
Currently on secondment and he’s kind of said to plan on not coming back.
Apparently I have excess leave and this solves a problem for him.
Okay then.
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
nah fam, make him pay that shit out when you leave
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I get leave loading when I take leave, so end up getting a bit more. And I’m moving to another gov dept, so all my entitlements carry over.
Considering I’ve got shit ton of leave, it works in everyone’s favour.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone 6 months ago
as in they dont want you back? or as in the role wont exist?
Are people taking Dutons DOGE threats seriously?
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 6 months ago
They’re looking at cutting roles regardless. Our programme is coming to an end, so if anyone leaves before their contract ends, they just won’t replace them.
With the announcement last week, there is a bit of a scramble. My vacant role can be canned, meaning someone else won’t be made redundant.
In my team there are three others doing similar work to mine, so my workload can easily be spread amongst them.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 6 months ago
D’ya reckon you could make a successful pea and ham soup with sliced ham rather than ham hock?
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I actually use smoked sausage called rookwurst. I put the whole sausage in ( shut up ) , it swells up, ( shut up ) then drag it out and slice it to have with the soup .
I also put a tiny bit of maggi seasoning in my bowl of soup.
iow, why not, there are many different recipes and they all taste good
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Pilk@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’m not much of a chef, so my instinct is that you’d end up with a soggy sausage, but what you’re saying is it’s quite firm at the end?
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
🤣
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I reckon you’d need to make the base stock with a ham bone - they’re cheap at butchers shops. With the pease, onion, carrot and bay leaf as per usual but cook it for longer. A slow cooker would be perfect for the job. Then add the chopped sliced ham to the soup at the end. No need to add salt then, the sliced ham will have enough. Just using the sliced ham only you’ll lose out on the glorious gelatinous mouthfeel of a proper pea & ham soup, and it won’t set to a jelly like a ham bone/ham hock soup would.
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Tackling mount washmore and had a mini rant about how putting his lordship’s stuff away FIFO so he gets even rotation was having a particularly trying battle today with my ASD “organise by textual feel so I can find on high sensitivity days”. And of course in swoops Le Dipshit going “Shouldn’t he be putting his own washing away??” like it’s some goddamn revelation previously unknown to man and a Great Strike For Equality.
aight, but he has raging ADHD so that part of his brain literally malfunctions. We’ve tried it. It don’t work. You gonna tell a fucking cripple to take the stairs ya fucken walnut?
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
One room worth of blinds hung. No murders committed.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Such a slow start today. These antibiotics are harsh and I don’t feel good
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 months ago
After taking the boys grocery shopping yesterday I’m glad I get most of my groceries delivered. I remember spending Saturday mornings with my Mum at Coles where it takes 1-2 hours to do all the shopping. It feels like a quarter of your weekend is taken up with buying the things you need to survive work for the next week instead of enjoying your free time.
We would maybe go see one of the sets of grandparents whilst out, but that’s not something the boys have to worry about here. The only grandparent they could regularly visit lives with them.
The only possible thing is you can go do your groceries at a larger shopping centre here. But I don’t know when I’d let them roam free, and even those places lose their novelty pretty quick when they don’t change and you have no money to buy anything.
Catfish@aussie.zone 6 months ago
5am the supposedly fresh batteries put in the smoke detector in December clearly were not. Dodgy cunts.
melbaboutown@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Melbcat has been poked and prodded. Her blood pressure is really good! (I think like 125-130?) The medicine is working.
Unfortunately I’m struggling to get the phosphate binder into her. I’ll either need to do a second oral syringe with it dissolved or get it compounded.
Force_majeure123@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Cafe breakfast or a whopper with cheese meal hmmmm
dumblederp@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Does anyone here know about grading collectible cards? I’ve got a bunch of old magic cards that I should sell and it seems getting them graded will improve my sale chances, but it looks like $40/card. I’ve got about 20 cards that’d be worth over $100 but that’s $800 worth of grading.
bacon@aussie.zone 6 months ago
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Some gripes:
Business restructure for a couple of my suppliers has made them utterly awful to deal with.
When the “benefits & perks” section of a job ad actually have zero benefits or perks listed.
Some good things:
Blueberry pocky.
Sparkly lip gloss.
Think I’ll take a life admin day this week.
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Zzzzzz
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’m helping a woman at the retirement village and I thought I’d ask here first:
Are there apps that can boost audio during calls? Just through the phone and not just putting the phone on speaker.
This woman was a hearing aid, it uses bluetooth but apparently the app only works on IOS. I’ll look into this and confirm if that’s the case or not.
This means she can’t really use headphones because she already has things in her ears, and she doesn’t want to put her phone on speaker all the time.
Has anyone used anything that works and is decent? I’ll look into her hearing aid brand and see what options there are as well.
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Contract has been signed. Resignation letter is being drafted.
Woooo fucking hooooo.
Theres literally no one to replace me. Fuck these people.
mysticgreg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Congrats!!!
I’m sure they’re not worried about disgruntled employees at least, they’ve got a great security team to protect things!
Oh wait…
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Hahaha well, I’m sure all the medical clients we have are going to be thrilled.
Taleya@aussie.zone 6 months ago
No longer your circus, no longer your monkeys!
dumblederp@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Maybe I could get a job there and just faff about for a few weeks of pay until they realise I’ve no idea what I’m doing.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Don’t worry, they’ll just transfer the workload to one of the few remaining staff they have left and let them handle it all for no extra pay. What could go wrong?!
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 6 months ago
DT Takes Fluffy Butt’s Former Workplace
I’m so down
tombruzzo@aussie.zone 6 months ago
That’s great news. I’m so lad you’re out of there
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Thanks heaps mate :)
MeanElevator@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Congrats dude. Onwards and upwards.
PeelerSheila@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Woo! 🎉🎊🥂
imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone 6 months ago
👌🏻 nice
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Yay. 🍾
just_kitten@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Late reply but congrats!! Let’s hope the next place is reasonably sane although it’ll be hard to beat the chaos this place has fallen into. Pretty sad how quickly it went down there gurgler compared to when you first started!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
I’m genuinely sad that this is how it’s played out. I’ve never seen this happen before.
They’ve now had 6 resignations this month.
Unreal.
anotherspringchicken@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Yay!!🥳
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone 6 months ago
YES
burn 'em to the ground
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Damn straight!
The utter hubris is beguiling.
Duenan@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Woo hoo. Good going! So happy for you!
Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zone 6 months ago
Thanks mate :)