Why do we have such a toxic culture of making work "fun"?? What the hell is wrong with people? Why can't we just do work, go home and have your own kind of fun with other people you enjoy being around???
Because your corporate overlords believe that if you can build a connection to your workplace and colleagues, they can guilt you into producing more value for less pay out of some misguided sense of loyalty. A job is a transaction. They don't give a shit about you, you don't need to give a shit about them.
I fucking hate it. I dont get it. Its a JOB. It means nothing to me. Just middle management and HR trying to justify their existance. Just cause they dont have personal lives.
An idea was floated by HR that each team should make a video (to put on our intranet) explaining what we do and how we fit into the organisation.
The kicker - it should have been a music video!!! Everyone loves to sing on camera!!
Thankfully upper management put an end to it quickly, but it went way further than it should have.
After last night's successful posting, I have moved the bot onto learning the days of the week. Either I have been successful, or all future posts will be labeled as Wednesday.
My dudes... ๐ธ
Time for bed. Anxious about the bot, but it has worked once, I must have faith. I have instructed it to make a post at midnight given all the test posts worked last night. I think it will take a few more successful posts before I can really trust it is working.
Up just before 6 am to hit the gym...fuck yeah!!!!
Got some energy, ready to fucking lift.
Do my stretches, light warm ups, first rep of the first exercise and something tweaked in my back.
Off to the physio I go!!!
Yay!!
Hey Midnight Bot you showed up tonight. Great to see you. Thanks @RustyRaven@aussie.zone you've made my day.
It's my daughter's first birthday today! Mum's at work so it's just me and her celebrating until she gets home. Is it stupid to take a baby to NGV during school holidays?
In no way does age determine exposure to the arts ๐
One of my friends was just talking about Heartstopper and while I haven't watched it because I just don't really care for a show with a cast of teens, it got me thinking about how lucky young LGBT people are these days in terms of content they can watch and see themselves in. When myself and my generation were coming out and looking for media that represented us it was all very full on, and stuffed to the brim with sexual content, a lot of it truly dubious. My friends and I at the time just didn't understand how incredibly damaging watching that stuff could be for us as teens. I don't know, just got me deep into thinking about how not just myself but my friends maybe wouldn't have engaging in some risky shit had we had shows and movies that showed healthy age appropriate stuff.
Related off note, but I thought about the OG UK Queer as Folk, and how I thought 15 year old Nathan banging grown arse Stuart wasn't that bad. Adult me is mortified, but I think about how those old shows were all my friends and I had so of course we thought yeah that's how it is, that's what we should want and how we should behave.
I dont usually get deep on here, but I just can't stop thinking about it now.
So I'm on a bus and I'm reflecting on the fact that while seatbelts are compulsory in cars, on a bus you've really only got your prayers ๐.
On a bus, your prayers are for the cars that get in the way. f=M.A sorta translates to big bus fucks little cars.
cw: mention of possible dog passing away
I'm scared that I won't even have six months with my dog... It never gets easier.
they are here for a good time. Not a long time. But that never makes it any easier. I had a dog get suddenly diagnosed with cancer a couple of years back. They gave us some meds to buy us some time before we said goodbye. It brought us a month. In some respects it was fucking horrific. Absolutely bloody horrific. And in some respects, it was a gift from god himself and I'll be forever thankful for it.
I've just realized why I'm over this job. This was supposed to be exciting. Managing shit. Helping people. Fixing things. But I'm so busy filling in god damn spreadsheets and checking off things on a list to do anything about actually fixing or improving things.. Its basically just become an admin assistant. What the hell am I even doing here?! Booked myself in for an Azure fundamentals course next week. I'm pretty adept at Azure already, but I tried to study for the bigger certificate and got a bit overwhelmed so im gonna try get the basic certification and then build momentum from there.
My partner and I are starting to talk about marriage beyond just a conceptual thing ๐ณ
Someone's posted pics of the fake seizure guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/14qdgum/psa_fake_seizure_guy_tried_it_on_just_now/
Do you think its a requirement that to work for Linkt you have to get a lobotomy? Or do they exclusively hire people with single digit IQ? I traveled early June, noticed my tag didn't beep so I got home, logged a replacement tag, they go "No worries, we wont charge you for any tolls for the proceeding couple of days and until your new tag is confirmed received". Want to guess what I just received in the mail? If you guessed a toll invoice I have bad news for you: You are clearly too smart to work for Linkt. I try to be patient with call center staff, its not their fault they work for soul sucking corporations. But man we are 35 minutes in and they are still trying to tell me it is a valid invoice.
Heheh, they're smashing their heads against their desk because they prolly agree with you it's stupid, but they can't say that and have to keep repeating that's it's valid.
Escalate politely, and if speaking to a senior/TL doesnt work, there should be an ombudsman you can report to (though im not sure who in this case)
Fuck tollways.
Reports of my demise have me SLIGHTLY exaggerated. I'm feeling heaps better, but my god that was the worst I've ever felt whilst not actually being sick.
I have two twitter accounts that I linked a thousand years ago. I never ended up using twitter so the accounts just sit there. I went to go delete them, as my little 'fuck you' to Muck, but it wants my password... as if I'm going to remember a password I used 10 years ago.
Anyway, I changed my usernames to variations of 'elon suck my dick' and now I'm going to troll his tweets until I get banned. Stupid fuck.
Wish me luck!
Edit: give me some more people to insult on twitter, I'm trying to nuke these. Im on that moron Jordan Petersons twitter atm
Hullo kids
Hard day. Baby hasnโt been well. I keep getting irrationally angry at my partner too because Iโm freaked out and projecting. I have managed to not actually say anything and just keep my emotions to myself but Iโm exhausted from managing myself too. Baby will be okay but itโs hard when heโs screaming in pain ๐ญ
Arghhhh God dammit barbie, i wanted big dumb fun not fucking Chinese propaganda
Last session with the Really Good Short Term Psych. It went so well even though I was procrastinating in bed until half an hour before the appointment. I feel a good sense of closure and clarity and appreciation. It feels good in my bones.
I am also infinitely grateful and relieved that he will write a letter summarising findings and recommendations to my GP and the psychiatrist I have an appointment with next week, because we covered so much and I feel he really got to the crux of what I've been having difficulties with my whole life. It'll save me a lot of exhausting explanation and rehashing and will come with professional recommendations that might finally get me the help I need.
Weird thing happened in Coles Richmond Traders this morning when I was buying my lunch. The exit gate for the self-serve lane didn't open. Had to show the receipt to the attendant to get the gates open to leave. I think this is Coles' response to grab it & run 'customers'. Might be a good idea to keep your receipt handy until safely out of there in future.
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So apparently there was a magnitude 2.4 earthquake in Pakenham at around 1:25am this morning.
Day 11 of exercise program. I discovered today that my program has a water drinking tracker and reminder, which is grouse because I've always been bad at keeping up my water intake. It also has a calorie burn counter on the pedometer bit. I like to have a low sugar alcoholic ginger beer when I've finished work, and it was interesting to note that even though it's low sugar it would take me half a day of walking to burn it off!
I've got 80kg of spuds again today๐ช Have a great day everyone!
Apparently Mr Woof's ears are finely attuned to the sound of a spoon hitting the bottom of the bowl. He was at the other end of the house but managed to rock up just in time as I finished the last of my porridge.
Hahaha. If little dog hears a container opening he's there waiting for cheese or kabana. Apparently all containers contain cheese or kabana.
I swear to Alanis Morissette that if I don't get this frackin' job I'm going to eat my cat's dryfood.
Please offer me the job
And I'll be your phone monkey,
I'll upsell,
Cross-sell,
Side-sell,
Slide into hell,
If you pay me,
Fortnightly
Please tell me you like me...
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P O T A T O L O V E
Nightshade just like the to-mate,
Oh, po-tay-to, po-tah-to, po-tate!
Colours red gold, blue, purple majesty
La Ratte, Jewel Yam, please, French Fingerling
I want them scalloped and baked,
Friiiiiiied, driiiiied, and potato-caked!
OH POTATO!!
WHO MADE YOU
SO DELICIOUS!?
OH POTATO!
YOU'RE THE FIRE
FROM PROMETHEUS
Boiled and bubbled in a big pot
Stirred till the 'tates are steaming hot
Smash 'em, mash 'em, butter and milk
Whipped up smooth, starchy-white silk
Cleaned up and chopped, wedges or chips
Salty and sauce-y upon my hungry lips
OH POTATO!!
WHO MADE YOU
SO DELICIOUS!?
OH POTATO!!
YOU'RE THE FIRE
FROM PROMETHEUS!
thank you, ReadEverything; your comment about licking the potato-masher inspired me
Anyone else lick the potato masher like youโre 5 years old and your mum gave you the beaters with cake batter on them? Itโs so delicious ๐ฅ ๐ฅ
My mum felt the Earthquake, apparently woke her up. I didn't feel it at all.
Aha good bot! @RustyRaven@aussie.zone can rest easy now. Kudos to your mucking around getting this thing to work :)
There has been a pretty big bus crash near Safety Beach. Truck carrying scaffolding t-boned a bus.
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