• Force_majeure1234@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    So apparently I did actually smash my interview yesterday, today I got a request for my reference - which is just a formality I’m quite sure as it’s an internal move. I just need to wait for my manager to get back from leave which isn’t for another week and a bit. My colleague who interviewed for the same role a week before me hasn’t had a request for her reference so I’m pretty sure I got it! (Sorry colleague)

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Thanks everyone for the kind words :)

    Today has been great! 3 final interviews next week which is good, but otherwise I enjoyed doing the simple things.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    no beach and it just might be too stormy to go out

    I have stuff to do at home of course but I feel the need to walk

    also, has anyone seen Melba, is she ok?

  • Miss Cellophane@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    First interview in my new job search and it was soooo bad. Too many red flags to accept of an offer was made. Bit sad, but also hopeful it pushes me in the right direction!

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      I am so impressed that you know red flags in employers and employment offers and are confident enough to reject. 👍😊

      Husband got sucked in a few times , hopefully he’s better at that now. 😐

    • TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      To which I would add Jared Diamond’s book : Collapse - how societies choose to fail or survive. Some of which shocked me on first reading. Diamond is known to cherrypick data, but his examples are compelling. And pretty close to home here in Australia.

  • Catfish@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Currently ready to chew bricks. Council web portal broken, phone hold messages include whistles and crowing roosters! Fuck the hell off with your sensory bullshit 🤯

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      phone hold messages include whistles and crowing roosters!

      seriously?

      who thought that was a good idea?

      • Catfish@aussie.zone
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        5 months ago

        Combine those with ‘be respectful to our staff’ messages and there’s a vast level of not having a clue going on.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago
    spoiler

    I’ve made the choice to give up the black cat to ensure that he has someone reliable to care for him. He deserves every bit of the same love and effort Melbcat got but it’s such a big commitment to foster or adopt right now and I don’t have it left in my tank.

    It breaks my heart. I was picking out names for him, trying to think how I’d make it through the long repetitive work of ringworm treatment and planning to buy him a funny mushroom themed scratcher to celebrate when it was over. But I really can’t take a new pet on right now and need to make sure he goes to someone who is reliably able to care for him.

    I hung out with him under cover feeding him and patting him during the storm, and he was asking to come in the house… Poor little man :( I hope he finds somewhere absolutely perfect for him and experiences all the joys of inside there. I love him too. I’m just not ready for him (or anyone) to take Melbcat’s place.

    I’m definitely going to second guess this and fret about how he’s doing, whether he’s going to be adopted, wishing things had been different. I’m scared because shelters and rescues are so full and he has a few things going against him for adoptability. I won’t know where he is or be able to protect him.

    But there’s a chance that this way he’ll end up getting a much better life than living on scraps of food and affection outside or living with someone who is so completely overwhelmed and not coping. I’m just trying to remember that the rescuers love cats to the point of going the extra mile like I do, and trust that his future owner sees how sweet and friendly he is the way I did.

    Rescuers are coming either tonight or tomorrow to get him. I just hope he’s around.

      • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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        5 months ago

        I hate this. But colder weather is coming and I don’t want him out there for another winter with his bad chest. Either I take him in or allow someone else to 💔

  • bacon@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

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  • tone212_@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    Holy crap just had a loud BANG out of nowhere after it had been raining and storming in the distance for 30 mins, flash warning only seconds before, my entire house vibrated. I jumped like I was watching a horror movie.

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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    5 months ago

    what do youse guys do when cats get under your feet and you’re carrying something really hot , like a kettle or fry pan or are walking up/down stairs?

    i firmly tell the guys to move and I feel guilty doing it

    • Catfish@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      Firmly/loudly tell off and foot shove. Never had an actual accident with hot things, but one with a can of beetroot demonstrated just how nasty that might be.

    • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      I was lucky with my old cat. If in the kitchen she’d be on the kitchen bench just watching. She always wanted higher ground (as abbys do). Stairs she’d race to the top / bottom. Only issue were the ambushes around corners. Got a few accidental kicks there but she kept ambushing so obviously didn’t mind.

    • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I don’t think I have ever carried hot items on stairs…BUT if that happened, the cat would get pushed away with my foot (not a kick).

      Love cats, but love not having burns even more.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
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        5 months ago

        I try to do the pushing with foot, sometimes they do not move. I just think it’s dangerous and I try to train them not to.

        • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          5 months ago

          My experience with cats has always been that they have very little situational awareness unless it impacts them directly.

          Love them to bits, but at times they can be super frustrating.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
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      5 months ago

      I have my feet flat on the ground and slowly shuffle to put it down, or stop in place until they move (I also tell them to move)

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      5 months ago

      “Move it, furball”.

      Punkin and Cerys started playing chicken with me when they were kittens. I stopped looking where I was stepping and started swinging my feet. They learned.

      • TheWitchofThornbury2@aussie.zone
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        5 months ago

        One of my fab faves. The brie goes gooey in the hot soup and the spicy smooooothness of the tomato soup is just perfeck with it. Dab the toast soldier in the melty cheeee and swoosh it through the soup and then GOBBLE! Messy but so so yum. This is what home grown tomatoes were invented for. And brie I reckon.