We had a few people pull out of their booked windows 11 upgrade appointments. Told my team we should still push it as an update anyway and when they complain shrug and say "sorry, pulling out isnt always effective".
Had a great time in Melbourne. The Jurassic World exhibition was a lot of fun. Took little one into the city and the National Art Gallery which she enjoyed.
But more importantly, Slurpees were a hit and she is more convinced than ever to move back to Melbourne.
First day of the new job. I'm going to approach it with zero expectations.
One of the first things I'm going to do is login to everything on the work pc. Even if I'm just browsing aussie.zone, manager logic is I'm being productive if I'm on the computer, you're only slacking off on your phone
If anything they seem normie on the boring side. Every workplace likes to think they're a bit quirky and messed up but this is standard from what I've seen
It just feels a bit weird to get my head around this could be long term. Having just come out of a contract I keep approaching jobs like they're a temporary thing
Keep in mind that many IT departments can see everything you do on your computer. Your saved passwords will be stored in the Directory server.
I used to use Firefox for any personal stuff I was doing on my computer and I would use Edge and Chrome for work-related. (Firefox was also faster because it wasn’t being bogged down with AI bullshit).
I always keep that in mind with work computers. Whilst they can see everything you do, I also figure they need to be looking to know. So whilst your traffic is all being tracked, you need to be doing something dodgy to grab their attention as well
I mean we've all done a little happy food dance from time to time but these idiots were full on raging with a drumstick in hand. No one loves kfc that much.
Also it's always a drumstick. Never a shitty breast or micro wing.
There's that joke about a van load of kiwis going through the drive thru and the driver orders a bucket, a few sides and 1.25Lt Pepsi and then turns around in his seat and says "ok kids. What do you guys want"?
Getting assessed it a great idea! In my early 20s I had months of chronic exploding head migraines, auras, blindness, vomiting from pain. Had an MRI and CT scan with nothing there. Dr gave me a big fat script for codeine - I understand why people get addicted to it, let's put it that way.
Determined it was stress induced from living with my unmedicated schizophrenic mum 😂 haven't had them like that since I moved out and went NC. There so many factors that can cause migraines, so getting checked out is always a fantastic idea!
Good plan. I've had MRIs, CTs, a lumbar puncture and all sorts of fun. And regular eye tests are worthwhile- apparently weird eye pressure can manifest in interesting ways.
They've never found anything useful on all my tests but it's always good to know it's 'just' migraine and not a brain tumor or something exciting like that. And there are better migraine drugs coming out now.
Try using a short sentence that includes punctuation...eg. That 1 toy is mine! ... As long as you tick the boxes for required characters is should work...
First day on the new job was uneventful and went pretty much as expected. A bunch of long meetings, didn't get a laptop until 2, and then couldn't login anyway. So I really just hung out in the office for 8 hours.
I could see this job being alright as long as the day to day doesn't suck. I have a feeling it may be alright but I'll just have to give it more time
Back to work today....about 300 odd emails to get through, thankfully less than 25% will be pertinent.
An old colleague reached out to me over the weekend, regarding a role at his current work (large company, pretty cool project). Emailed their recruiting person to get some more details about it.
Good news is, clothes might actually dry today outside!!
on train
one guy singing what sounds like a prayer softly to himself
one woman on the phone in English but switches to demon beast growling occasionally
Holidays are officially over - just got my first debt collection call of the year.
Optus sold my debt to them, I never paid my last bill due to the Optus data leaks. Sorry not sorry.
I'm never gonna buy a house or anything, or take out a loan, so why should I care? Besides that, my only debts are HECS/HELP and my TAFE fee (which I pay in installments by DD every month).
I've got something outstanding (student union stuff) from latrobe uni from about 10 yrs ago. $111. they sent it to me 5 years after finishing the course lol. No letter, no email. Just sold it off to billchaser. 5 years! Get spammed every few days over sms. I should block the # but they make me feel loved. I ain't payin'.
Ripped my boardies riding back from the beach last night. The bum seam from sitting on the seat. They're very old. So with a bit of poor sewing, some stitchofix fabric adhesive stuff and some duct tape (lol) we're going to see if it holds tonight. Should probably bin them but i just want to see if it works.
I have the best taste in music, all the songs I like are the best songs ever made, every other artist or track I don't like is objectively bad. Just so we're clear.
Now there's only 2 of us in a team of what should be 4 people. I'm the high performer of the 2 of us. Significantly.
I have the most difficult clients and have the most responsibility.
Next Thursday my probation ends.
I am underpaid 25-30k compared to the same role elsewhere.
Should I attempt a negotiation of salary?
I'm crowd sourcing opinions. I've never done this before. I'm in a really strong position as I will no doubt be training any new staff, and will get the most difficult client of the guy who just quit.
You could broach it as expectations of the role/output given you’ve lost a team member. Their response should give you a pretty good indication of whether they’ll come to the party.
You'll probably have the most leverage now with 2 of 4 in your team remaining, once they replace the other two they might start to think you are easily replaceable too if you decide to leave. Right now, it sounds like they cannot afford to lose you.
Staff turnover has a business cost too - rehiring, retraining, slower service to clients in the meantime which may cause business losses etc, if they're smart they will factor that into your pay request.
They can't afford to have a go at me. If I leave, or they try to push me out, they're utterly screwed. I have very strong relationships with my clients and they will be very upset if I leave.
I'm not sure what it's about, seems to be someone drifting through place, time, experience, people and emotions . The only time he spoke of his life was when he spoke of the experience of a loving relationship.
An hour each way is bearable I think, but does depend on a few things.
If I'm driving for an hour, I want to be driving. Not sitting in traffic. Used to work in Geelong and it was like an hour door to door. It was great, but also going against traffic.
Depends on how many days in the office. I gottta commute into town ends up being ~1.5 hours door to door 1 way. Fine twice a week, but any more than that starts to become pretty unfeasible.
It’s completely personal. For me a 45 min drive twice a week would be completely ok, especially for the right job. Easy actually. Lots of people do this or more everyday. I wouldn’t do the 1.5hr PT, double the commute time isn’t appealing since I have car and don’t mind driving. But if I didn’t have the car option might be ok for twice a week. 1.5hrs each way 5 days a week would probably be a no for me at this point in my work life. But entirely depends on how good this opportunity is for you. Is it something not easily found, or good pay, chance to progress your career etc?
It's doable. As long as there's parking you can make the drive work for yourself and it's good to know you can get there by public transport if necessary.
If you were doing that trip more than 2 days it would suck
That would be my limit personally (if that driving is not stop start). I did 2 days /week with a similar driving commute except it was 45 min peak, I was able to handle it but I absolutely wouldn't have done an extra day - did turn that down when it was offered. Eventually left it in favour of a job with a 5-15 min commute and I wouldn't trade it for the world...
Watching a bit of the tennis. Don’t follow it except for when the AO is on, and then I have instant options on the commentators, court fashions, audience, tv coverage, player attitudes, and weather.
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IT People: not really big on small-talk. 😀
Ha! I don’t work in IT and I need one of those 😂
Love it!!!
We had a few people pull out of their booked windows 11 upgrade appointments. Told my team we should still push it as an update anyway and when they complain shrug and say "sorry, pulling out isnt always effective".
😂
Hahaha do it.
🤭
Had a great time in Melbourne. The Jurassic World exhibition was a lot of fun. Took little one into the city and the National Art Gallery which she enjoyed.
But more importantly, Slurpees were a hit and she is more convinced than ever to move back to Melbourne.
shoulda sold her on the aldi middle isle. thats what gets my inlaws haha
First day of the new job. I'm going to approach it with zero expectations.
One of the first things I'm going to do is login to everything on the work pc. Even if I'm just browsing aussie.zone, manager logic is I'm being productive if I'm on the computer, you're only slacking off on your phone
Good luck! Hope they're nice and not too obviously crazy.
If anything they seem normie on the boring side. Every workplace likes to think they're a bit quirky and messed up but this is standard from what I've seen
Hope it goes well!
It just feels a bit weird to get my head around this could be long term. Having just come out of a contract I keep approaching jobs like they're a temporary thing
Good luck mate!
My initial impression is I could see myself working here long term as long as the day to day doesn't suck. And it may not be too bad
Keep in mind that many IT departments can see everything you do on your computer. Your saved passwords will be stored in the Directory server.
I used to use Firefox for any personal stuff I was doing on my computer and I would use Edge and Chrome for work-related. (Firefox was also faster because it wasn’t being bogged down with AI bullshit).
Our IT department remotely uninstalled Firefox.
I always keep that in mind with work computers. Whilst they can see everything you do, I also figure they need to be looking to know. So whilst your traffic is all being tracked, you need to be doing something dodgy to grab their attention as well
Oh man it's weird logging back into the work laptop. Will take a few days to get back into the swing of things I reckon
I'm struggling to navigate outlook and SharePoint😁
took me halfa to remember which app was chat and which was email the other week.
I was tempted to log in last night to get a head start, but then quickly slapped myself back to reality
Hour and half into my day and it's brutal. Logging in makes me feel like I never had a break.
My Monday is going to be Wednesday and I'm mildly dreading it - even though I was back last week for two days it's like they never happened.
What I'm dreading more is getting myself ready for uni fieldwork and writing up parts of the paper... brain has totally switched off from that.
The kid's gone away for 3 nights and ngl I'm actually excited.
naked drunk pizza party!
All the good things rolled into one there!
There's a kfc ad where the party goers are dancing and eating at the same time. I've never done that even while pissed. Not that I'm aware of anyway.
I do a GREAT awkward shuffle with a doughnut in my hand as I discovered at the last wedding I attended.
😂
I mean we've all done a little happy food dance from time to time but these idiots were full on raging with a drumstick in hand. No one loves kfc that much.
Also it's always a drumstick. Never a shitty breast or micro wing.
I dunno. I train with some islander lads, that would dance with food. Not stereotyping, they're just happy party people that like to eat.
😂
There's that joke about a van load of kiwis going through the drive thru and the driver orders a bucket, a few sides and 1.25Lt Pepsi and then turns around in his seat and says "ok kids. What do you guys want"?
Turns out it's actually true.
The Samoan guys I worked with called a Maccas family meal a Samoan Happy meal.
Moon pretty
I noticed it tonight too, it’s huge!
Boardies bum seam repair survived (to my surpise)! No moons, and the tape didn't stick to the no no region.
Guessing the salt water won't be good for the adhesive though.
And yet another wave:
I think it’s time to thank the boardies for their service and retire them. Duct tape sounds like it will not end well!
:( they did good, but you're right.
Hot tea being spilled left and right at work today, I love hearing the drama when I'm not a part of it!
☕💅🏼
Alright, doctor booked for this stupid migraine thing. Gonna get the physio to take a look as well.
Mine came from a shoulder injury.
thats just it, no new injury or anything like that I'm aware of. So I figured getting assessed isnt a bad idea.
That's definitely a good idea mate. Also I would press for an MRI as well. For peace of mind.
Getting assessed it a great idea! In my early 20s I had months of chronic exploding head migraines, auras, blindness, vomiting from pain. Had an MRI and CT scan with nothing there. Dr gave me a big fat script for codeine - I understand why people get addicted to it, let's put it that way.
Determined it was stress induced from living with my unmedicated schizophrenic mum 😂 haven't had them like that since I moved out and went NC. There so many factors that can cause migraines, so getting checked out is always a fantastic idea!
Fingers crossed it's nothing serious!! 💜💜
Good plan. I've had MRIs, CTs, a lumbar puncture and all sorts of fun. And regular eye tests are worthwhile- apparently weird eye pressure can manifest in interesting ways.
They've never found anything useful on all my tests but it's always good to know it's 'just' migraine and not a brain tumor or something exciting like that. And there are better migraine drugs coming out now.
So here's the gossip.
One of the remaining 3 (of which i am one) account managers resigned.
So his clients get divided up between me and the other one.
Yay.
can you decline?
Nope. Not with my probation 10 days away.
So what happens after your probation ends in 10 days?
What options do you have at that point?
I have a better position to negotiate as they can't just fire me on the spot.
And now that I'm one of only 2 account managers it strengthens my bargaining position. This team should have 4 people. Not 2.
Ah ok. Will you stay or look for another place?
Seems like the place is being gutted at the moment.
I need to stay long enough to move house. It's near impossible to be approved for a rental whilst on probation.
Please tell me they are at least openly looking for another?! You're already stretched so thin!
Who knows. I only found out because my co worker told me. Nothing from management about it.
Of course not! Just keep breathing, probation is nearly up!
I found emails from a director here to customers advising that someone had left the business 2 hours before it was announced to staff.
This happened in December and they haven't said anything to us. Which is pretty bad...
That's so shit!
Welcome back to the Office. Change your password this instant! 15 attempts to think of something suitable later...
thank gates/jobs for a fingerprint login.
Try using a short sentence that includes punctuation...eg. That 1 toy is mine! ... As long as you tick the boxes for required characters is should work...
lovely day here, think I might go to bunnings and get some orchid mix :)
I have stuff to do but I might take a break for a few days
Could you grab me a roll of fallopian tubing and a metric adjustable spanner?
First day on the new job was uneventful and went pretty much as expected. A bunch of long meetings, didn't get a laptop until 2, and then couldn't login anyway. So I really just hung out in the office for 8 hours.
I could see this job being alright as long as the day to day doesn't suck. I have a feeling it may be alright but I'll just have to give it more time
Back to work today....about 300 odd emails to get through, thankfully less than 25% will be pertinent.
An old colleague reached out to me over the weekend, regarding a role at his current work (large company, pretty cool project). Emailed their recruiting person to get some more details about it.
Good news is, clothes might actually dry today outside!!
Managed 5 hours in a row of sleep again! Hell yeah.
I fell asleep at at about 930, and my buildings fire alarm went off at 1130 ☠️
Fuuuuuuuck that!
on train
one guy singing what sounds like a prayer softly to himself
one woman on the phone in English but switches to demon beast growling occasionally
Maybe there are no words in English to express what she needs to say. Or there’s a demon beast in the other end…
You could have said Hello. I'd have stopped growling then.
I was trying to learn demonic speech.
Lessons could potentially be made available. Some sacrifices may be necessary.
Holidays are officially over - just got my first debt collection call of the year.
Optus sold my debt to them, I never paid my last bill due to the Optus data leaks. Sorry not sorry.
I'm never gonna buy a house or anything, or take out a loan, so why should I care? Besides that, my only debts are HECS/HELP and my TAFE fee (which I pay in installments by DD every month).
YOLO 🤷🏼♀️
I've got something outstanding (student union stuff) from latrobe uni from about 10 yrs ago. $111. they sent it to me 5 years after finishing the course lol. No letter, no email. Just sold it off to billchaser. 5 years! Get spammed every few days over sms. I should block the # but they make me feel loved. I ain't payin'.
Defs automated. Latrobe has had its financial struggles over the years so no surprise they're selling debt.
Ripped my boardies riding back from the beach last night. The bum seam from sitting on the seat. They're very old. So with a bit of poor sewing, some stitchofix fabric adhesive stuff and some duct tape (lol) we're going to see if it holds tonight. Should probably bin them but i just want to see if it works.
people standing on the beach "My, there's a lovely moon out!"
When his cheeks hit your eye
From board shorts gone awry
That's a moon, ey?
🌝🙌🏼
Just so long as the duct tape doesn’t go awry and get stuck to your nethers…
"Worst wax job ever, 0/10 recommend"
Wasn't that the jock's backstory in Breakfast Club?
Thank you Seagoon! 🙌🏼💜🙌🏼
Just met my new manager. Seems like a nice guy. Let's see how nice he is next week when I ask for a raise.
Huh. My crimson tide has synced with the full moon.
No one tell my mum 😂😂
That explains a lot!
Goodnight everybody . Sweet dreams 😘
wheres the property manager in all this?
Still so humid 🥵
I have the best taste in music, all the songs I like are the best songs ever made, every other artist or track I don't like is objectively bad. Just so we're clear.
What's your opinions on JOYRIDE by Kesha?
Fucking BANGER
FUCK YESSSSS 🏎️💜
I need your advice guys:
Now there's only 2 of us in a team of what should be 4 people. I'm the high performer of the 2 of us. Significantly.
I have the most difficult clients and have the most responsibility.
Next Thursday my probation ends.
I am underpaid 25-30k compared to the same role elsewhere.
Should I attempt a negotiation of salary?
I'm crowd sourcing opinions. I've never done this before. I'm in a really strong position as I will no doubt be training any new staff, and will get the most difficult client of the guy who just quit.
You totally should.
You could broach it as expectations of the role/output given you’ve lost a team member. Their response should give you a pretty good indication of whether they’ll come to the party.
You'll probably have the most leverage now with 2 of 4 in your team remaining, once they replace the other two they might start to think you are easily replaceable too if you decide to leave. Right now, it sounds like they cannot afford to lose you.
Staff turnover has a business cost too - rehiring, retraining, slower service to clients in the meantime which may cause business losses etc, if they're smart they will factor that into your pay request.
That's my train of thought pretty much.
Now is the time to strike.
Do it. Ask A Manager has some good advice on how.
Do it, do it, do it.
it's often easier to get a new position than get a raise
and what happens if the boss says no? will there be repercussions against you?
They can't afford to have a go at me. If I leave, or they try to push me out, they're utterly screwed. I have very strong relationships with my clients and they will be very upset if I leave.
it's always easier to negotiate during the start and middle of a client job, not near the end.
Loving this music from the movie, Knight of Cups. Exodus, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qYBw2zf0Kg
it's a 4 hobbit movie, so beautiful,
I'm not sure what it's about, seems to be someone drifting through place, time, experience, people and emotions . The only time he spoke of his life was when he spoke of the experience of a loving relationship.
Beep Beep 🚚
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Potato, please. And a cupcake... if you have a passionfruit flavoured one, thank you!
🥔❤️🔥🍊🧁
Thank you!
An hour each way is bearable I think, but does depend on a few things.
If I'm driving for an hour, I want to be driving. Not sitting in traffic. Used to work in Geelong and it was like an hour door to door. It was great, but also going against traffic.
Depends on how many days in the office. I gottta commute into town ends up being ~1.5 hours door to door 1 way. Fine twice a week, but any more than that starts to become pretty unfeasible.
It’s completely personal. For me a 45 min drive twice a week would be completely ok, especially for the right job. Easy actually. Lots of people do this or more everyday. I wouldn’t do the 1.5hr PT, double the commute time isn’t appealing since I have car and don’t mind driving. But if I didn’t have the car option might be ok for twice a week. 1.5hrs each way 5 days a week would probably be a no for me at this point in my work life. But entirely depends on how good this opportunity is for you. Is it something not easily found, or good pay, chance to progress your career etc?
It's doable. As long as there's parking you can make the drive work for yourself and it's good to know you can get there by public transport if necessary.
If you were doing that trip more than 2 days it would suck
That would be my limit personally (if that driving is not stop start). I did 2 days /week with a similar driving commute except it was 45 min peak, I was able to handle it but I absolutely wouldn't have done an extra day - did turn that down when it was offered. Eventually left it in favour of a job with a 5-15 min commute and I wouldn't trade it for the world...
Only something you can answer for yourself.
I’ve known people who have driven from point cook to get into work though admittedly it wasn’t the best logistically.
It’s what you can tolerate and how badly you want the job or need the money.
More than 30 mins by vehicle.
Watching a bit of the tennis. Don’t follow it except for when the AO is on, and then I have instant options on the commentators, court fashions, audience, tv coverage, player attitudes, and weather.