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 😂
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
had the senior PM come
Albo?
LOL!!!
Cherries are all pitted and in the freezer.
Why have someone else meet your physical touch needs when you can buy a hammock?
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I want a hammock so bad! One day!
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
Oh it’s just dawning on me, maybe this is my punishment for refusing too many bag checks
I don’t remember the lady that was standing over me, and am always polite when I say no, but maybe all that facial recognition stuff they have now sets off an alarm every time I walk in 😂
I’ve never been accused of stealing anything though, which makes sense, considering I don’t steal
I always refuse bag checks.
Same
I also walk through the cattle gate things they’ve put up in Coles if they try and lock me in. I probably really am on some robot’s naughty list 😂
Blame the managers lol, one server?? Yeah okay.
It’s a shit experience for a customer, but it’s management’s fault 100%.
Absolutely - where I work, they didn’t roster enough people on for the longest time because the zone manager said they were spending too much money on wages. Justifiable because we did make less money in the middle of the year. Yet the store manager spent over $50 on an ergonomic mouse with company money, and they probably all get bonuses.
Fucking scumbag! Being a manager is just such a power trip for some 🤮
Most people don’t get it if they’ve never worked a customer facing or customer service job 😔
There’s a reason the correct term for the majority of managers (and cops and authos) is “class traitor”
100% I can’t agree more!!!
I absolutely do lol.
Oh yeah! Sorry my comment came off as a tad antagonistic lol!
I mean, I blame the managers lol! And I didn’t mean to imply you didn’t 😬
Ah you’re right chud. We all sound antagonistic sometimes lol
FWIW though, I do blame management, but also wonder what part Wesfarmers has to play in it. Staff cuts seem to be across the board at all of their businesses, at least Coles and Kmart. Even Coles now has 1 person dealing with the cigarette kiosk as well as the register next to it, or if that is closed, they also wear the self checkout assistant hat. I reckon there’s more to it than scummy store management - probably scummy middle and upper management (though I suppose that’s implied)
I don’t think I’ve seen all the registers manned anywhere, no matter how busy it is. A supermarket or Kmart can have people lining up and there will still be lanes closed
Meeting over! 2.5 hours later, I’m so exhausted. There was a few times I felt like I was giving garbled answers to questions asked on the spot, and also being in full focus 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.
Well done!! Treat yourself!!
Yeesh. That’s a super long meeting.
You definitely deserve something after a meeting of that magnitude.
2.5 hours is a long time to be “on”.
have pizza, beer, stare at the wall and pat the cat
Obviously! What a stud
Wait is it pizza night on the DT? Because I’m down to celebrate alongside you.
Literally just had left over pizza lol - I think it is pizza night!! 🤤
Big work meeting this afternoon. I mean BIG, there’s a lot on the line. 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 but the nerves are coming back. Deep breaths help - I will be fine, it will go fine.
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🤞😘
it’ll be what it’ll be. Just put your best foot forward.
Good luck!
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
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.
so many hugs
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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.
I’m sure gonna give it a try
did a bit of digging and they absolutely have special dispensation for DV, deceased estates and victims of natural disaster, but it must be a “special request”
might have to actually call them, or go to the GPO - lpo are franchisees, I don’t see them having the authority to kick it up.
As a child that 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.
…you’ve got time to turn things around.
This feels uncomfortably close to a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality… 😔
Certainly wasn’t intended as such. You usually need help to turn things around and even more help is definitely needed if you aren’t at a great starting point. Was just saying that while it will take time they at least have time!!
It’s just that you keep putting it on them, as if they need to be the one to “turn things around” when their rant was specifically about external systems prejudicing them. They can’t “turn around” AusPost’s decision to deny them the ability to redirect their mail?
Basically, they are trying to ask these systems for help, and are being denied. So why put it on their shoulders? Why not be outraged that someone is falling through the gaps, through no fault of their own?
I get that you have good intentions here, but I feel like you’re kind of missing the point in a big way…
Because at my age I’ve ran out of energy to be outraged after having to face many of the same things myself.
You don’t know my life so back off and stop attacking me. Thanks.
It’s pretty poor form to call any criticism against you out as “attacking”.
Because at my age…
I guess I shouldn’t expect much from someone your age though. Have a good night mate 🫡
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.
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
My many new plant friends arrived in the mail today. It was almost a disaster - I received the notification they had been delivered, but there was no sign of them. Fortunately I eventually found them in the carport behind my car.
They have had a tough journey, but they are now relaxing in my seed raising area under the grow lights. Hopefully the basil makes them feel welcome.
It might be a challenge to identify all of them as some of the writing has rubbed off the pots.
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 😂😂
Ooh ooh ooh I’m in. I don’t go to colesworth much and have done all the kmart shopping I need for this place (hopefully), and won’t be taking any taxis/ubers this month, so I THINK I might have a crack at surviving this one.
Join us!!! More are always welcome to join in this Christmas Horror 😂😂
Remember! You gotta call it out if you get got!!!
Fingers crossed we both make it to the 24th 😂😂
Omg. I didn’t know this was a thing. 😂
Last year we did Whamageddon and whatever Mariah’s one is, but all of us have heard Mariah in the last week before December started, so we vetoed that one 😂😂
Edit: the rules
Some good points in this video about the social media ban https://aussie.zone/post/15770886
I could really rant for hours and hours, probably even write an essay about how strongly I disagree with both the legislation, and how the legislation was enacted, but I doubt I’ll bring anything new to the conversation though, and the moment for debate has kinda passed now anyway
But what I will say, is that somebody I know (older man, late 50s) was telling me about how much he agrees with it, before going on a little mini boomer rant about how the world nowadays (especially young people, he wanted to point out) is so addicted to phones, and how much better it was in the olden days. An hour earlier, he nearly drifted off the road texting and driving. That’s basically what I think of when I think of this law; hypocrisy from scared old people that are out of touch with the world
E: grammar
Hard agree.
I’d also note that the excuse for the gambling reform delays “Oh we need to get this legislation and reform right and that will take time” does not at all match the embarrassing rush to get the Social Media ban passed.
Guess Meta should have spent more money advertising on Free to Air huh?
Might try to angle going home at lunch due to not feeling well… Barely slept last night
while you slept the south korea president did a failed coup
Didn’t even ask his own party!
Wha
Context pls
All I can see is something about martial law. Is that what you mean?
yeah and it’s already over
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
Yeah lasted like 2 hours?
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
yup he is done his own party doesn’t support him, the military left too
yeah that was not news i was expecting to wake up to.
Sleepy coups are the best kind of coups.
And blamed the north for it
While I struggled to sleep*
My zucchini have two fullblown flowers now, they’re both male flowers but more are budding.
They always start with a few boys, just in case there is already another plant around with the resources to produce fruit. They tend to do the same when they start dying off - as far as zucchini are concerned men are cheap!
I found with only a couple of plants that having a male and female flower at the same time could be difficult You can put the stamen of a male flower into a plastic bag in the fridge for a day or two and use it to pollinate a female flower later. If you don’t have enough bee action around you might need to hand pollinate even when you can get the flowers synchronised.
I haven’t planted zucchini this year as I’m winding the garden down in anticipation of the place being sold next year, but I did pick up a bunch of zucchini at the food cupboard this morning. I can probably count it as a return on the zucchini I donated last year when my plants were producing.
I have four plants and some male and female flowers seem to be budding up at the same time 🤞
I plan to use a cotton bud or a cheap paintbrush to ensure pollination
I just pulled the male flower off and applied the stamen directly. Works well & less fuss.
Like those male anglerfish that attach themselves to a female and just turn into gonads lol! That’s all males are good for, their gonads 😂 Jk jk
We’re all just a reproduction tool for our DNA. Some of use get to live interesting and meaningful lives whilst engaged in that reproduction, others are just gonads.
The fruits will both be male too 🍆
New ball. Long throws and crazy bounce.
Sunset gallahs
Howzat!
I thought it was a chewed tennis ball. Zoomed in and it is not.
Gridiron ball. It’s brilliant. I could never really throw a proper size one, but this flies like rocket!
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.
