Didn’t get the job, most likely due to my TAFE schedule not aligning with their work hours. Which is fair, but I am sad about it.
I channelled the disappointment into more job applications so there’s that I guess.
Commiserations mate.
If I can give you one bit of advice it would be to get your drivers licence. That was gold 30 years ago and it’s still up there today.
Drivers licence and my cert IV will be what I’ll work towards for sure! Both would earn me amazing opportunities! 💜
For sure. 👍
Oh I’m so disappointed for you. As reasons go that’s a not personally painful one.
Ikr! Like, it’s not because I didn’t interview well, they said I did! Lol.
But I found a few other animal-related jobs and applied for those so fingers crossed!
Oh, sorry to hear that. Its good to get your name out there, though, and you never know what opportunities might come up in future (even a different job at the same place, when your availability changes)
so many hugs, just keep working at it 😘
Thank you!!! 🙏🏼💜
I think I’m in trouble. I used a box to post my coffee grinder and Miss Meow has noticed it missing. It’s better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, right?
You monster!
I’m considering cutting some window holes in Gibson’s current favourite box, but am worried she won’t like it lol
OK ive done 2 hours work today.
Now it’s chill out time.
You and me both!
Though I am at home and have been for awhile now.
Not quite sure how to read his body language
He’s clearly about to die of starvation and is pointing to the bowl where the food should be but is not
I know that look, definitely dying of hunger
It means he’s relaxed but alert just in case you open the fridge door.
Peter. Russel. Clark. WHERE’S THE CHEESE!?
for a few years that guy’s mug was everywhere
Did he have something to do with eggs? That’s what I remember.
I can’t remember.
G’day
He’s trying to decide if he would prefer to paint the walls a sage or a mint green.
I very much dislike being the door person where I work. It’s company policy to check receipts, so of course I’m going to ask to see yours.
People have the freedom to say no, but to be rude is another thing. Some of us are getting paid minimum wage and don’t want to lose our jobs because we didn’t do what the company wants us to do. Fuck capitalism and fuck entitled people.
That job would suck balls, man. I swear I’m that person who’s got their bags open and receipt handy 3 metre from you to save the hassle from you asking. I always add in “have a great day mate”.
Amen, more people should be like you :)
I can’t wait to quit even though I’m hardly ever the door person these days.
Don’t worry. I’ve got shit stuffed down my undies. Not in my bags.
Just joking.
This is the way.
not me
I dislike the presumption of guilt. It’s insulting.
Tho of course I would never be rude to a shop assistant. I just politely refuse.
It’s insulting if you give a shit. I don’t. It’s not personal. It’s the poor bastard’s job. I like to make it easier for them.
It’s the owners , not the staff, who have the bad attitude.
The older staff don’t give a shit. The poor teenager/young adult on the door is ordered to man it. Them thinking “why didn’t they show me their bag?”. “Was I rude?”. “Was I assertive enough?”. “Were my bosses watching”. Then going home neally in tears thinking they will get a lecture next time they’re rostered.
It’s good and all to say no but how many people actually take it up with management and say “putting young people on the door is wrong” . Not many.
Amen 🙌🏼🙌🏼
I don’t like the presumption of guilt either, but what about places like Costco where they go through all the items on the receipt? Would you stop then?
Be angry at c-suite corpos for making the rules then, not the min-wage workers at the door. Min-wage workers have no say in the rules of the store/company.
I’ve always gone with “no thank you” and keep walking. No need to comply but no need to be a dick either. I’ve done that job too fwiw.
Interesting. I always just show my receipt because if I say no, they’ll probably think I’m stealing. But props to you for not complying.
Back in the day, the register was the exit for the store. There wasn’t a buy and keep wandering around option, you got your stuff paid and left. I’ve never appreciated adding the extra stage of a bag/receipt checker.
It should go back to being that way. I think most stores have the door person just to be a first point of call for finding things on the shop floor, but checking receipts is a bit of a waste of money and time. Could be saving lives ffs.
I don’t give a fuck what they think about me personally.
It’s the attrition of an important societal ethos that I dislike intensely, the attrition of presumption of innocence.
Customer service sucks ass. C-suite corpo asslickers making up rules that min-wage workers have to abide by or they lose their slave-wage. Rules that piss customers off, and because the customers don’t see or know the c-suite they take their frustrations out on the slave-wage earner, as if they had any say in it.
It’s demoralising, and shows how utterly unempathetic and uncaring the common customer is, that they think being rude and angry is appropriate behaviour, when they should be writing in a complaint to c-suite cocksuckers instead.
I’m mad on your behalf lol
Exactly! The C-suite people are SO far removed from what it’s like to be a min wage slave. I hope that if I ever work my way up into a leadership position, I’m not so out-of-touch.
But then again, what can they do to prevent theft?
in the old days there were many more shop workers and there was very little self serve, it was all customer assistance. So the solution to theft is they can employ more staff.
But the money the owners don’t pay in wages by having very few staff is far less than what they ever lose in theft.
Therefore I do not care. I don’t steal but I do not care.
That’s very true. They’re still making millions in profit, so they’ll make up for what people steal anyway.
I want to know how many people door-workers stop from stealing tbh. People are gonna steal and that should be accounted for at a company level. Do door-workers really stop people from stealing? I’d be interested to see unbiased studies lol.
Isnt this what security guards are for?
But yes, the c-suite are so far removed, so out of touch, and don’t get any flak for poor decisions. It’s always the slave wager who cops it which is disgusting.
I think it takes a special kind of person to be successful at the c-suite level, and I think a prerequisite for those roles is either putting on an amazing mask, or lacking any traits that make them human lol
I did security, there’s very little legal power to actually address shop theft.
C-suite are lizard people in human skin.
From what I’ve been told, the company has insurance for losses, and I don’t think many reports go to the police.
We never had a door person until we got a new manager who makes sure we are in view of the cameras when standing at the door. Apparently it was because there was too much theft going on. Maybe having a door person does deter people from stealing, and the company seems to think that it drives sales to have someone greet you. Hmm…
I think personally, I’d be more likely to steal if someone wasn’t standing at the door, but who knows about other people.
Cheers everyone 🍺 May youse have a rockin’ good night!
*This post was proudly brought to you by The more comfortable weather
Happy Friday!!!
Cheers 🍺
Someone’s about to head to the park and jump in puddles (and probably need a bath).
Go Ham Bam!
He is just so effortlessly hambsome that it’s not fair. Especially with your picture perfect beachside patio.
I’m starting to get excited about the move, thinking of all the things I can do. I have a note book with all my ideas and plans. :) Do some courses. Go for walks that don’t have shopping involved.
I will have my own office /work area which is a huge thing. 🙂
Do I play toilet paper chicken or go to the store before the proper shop in the morning?
Depends on how many tissues, serviettes and paper towel you have to take up the slack.
never risk it
How close is the toilet to the shower? 😂
Close, but there is carpet…
TIL what c-suite is.
Also known as the bunch of C’s.
and they have numbers
C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4, regarding what level they are in the suite, C-1 being CEO and there is only 1. Below them are the C-2s, the heads of departments, etc And above the C is the board. My husband used to be a C-3/4 at a big company. He didn’t have say so, only the CEO and the board have say so in policy and major decisions.
smaller and medium size companies have owners and managers.
C-suite, y’know:
CEO - chief excrement orifice CFO - chief fuckup operator COO - chief offensive odourator
And so on
Oi. Some of us like to keep a fair but tight ship.
You’re the exception!
I’m a bit different, yes.
I always knew it as The Suits as in the suits upstairs. Times have changed.
PC was Poor Cunt before Political Correct.
Or ELT (executive leadership team) or SLT (Senior leadership team)
can't get up. So sad
This is so challenging for you. Thoughts and prayers
So cute!!! Ears look so soft!
Such a pretty puss! 😍😍😍
Looking after hambam this w/e.
Little cousin’s car was stolen when she was looking after him recently and the place next door was done too. They entered the place (she was alone) and demanded keys. So none of aunt’s grandkids are (very understandably) keen on looking after him so doggo is stuck with me again.
These little thieving cunts are just in it for joyriding completely unaware (or are they) of the trauma they leave.
A friend is trying to get rid of his manual lancer but doesn’t want to deal with the sales process.
I just replaced my car door lock after some cunt snapped a scissor tip off in it.
It sucks and I’m sorry to hear that.
It’s getting worse and worse and I don’t know if the changes they made or going to make are going to make anything better.
Nothing worse than not feeling safe at home.
I doubt the changes they are making will make anything better, if anything it will make the problem worse.
The problem seems to be kids, and its pretty rare to get kids from decent homes & upbringings doing that type of stuff. Almost always they will have their own history of trauma and it is likely that feeling safe in their own home is something they have never experienced for themselves. They get dumped into underfunded child protection system that often exacerbates the problems instead of really helping, and puts them in contact with other troubled kids where they band together into gangs that may be the closest thing to family and safety they can get. Putting them in juvenile detention just makes that issue worse and solidifies criminal activity as a life course instead of a life phase they may be able to get over.
In a lot of ways this sort of offending is the canary in the coal mine for problems in society as a whole. There will always be some dodgy individuals that choose to do the wrong thing, but when it is a rising tide like this you really need to look at how your whole society is working and make changes there if you want to fix things. Unfortunately part of the social problems that cause this (in my opinion) is a general callousness towards individuals and unwillingness to pay for “soft” solutions like improving education, access to food and housing, counselling services etc. Instead we want “hard on crime” options of locking people up (generally at much greater expense) and then we wonder why we end up with hardened criminals.
Plenty of rich kids with heaps of opportunities wind up being absolute criminal shits with no respect for society. It may skew towards the ignored kids of meth heads but it’s far from exclusive.
There are always going to be some people who choose to do the wrong thing no matter what, but there are a far larger number that could go either way.
It’s also not just a matter of rich or poor - rich parents can be shit, poor parents can be great. And no matter what your own parents are like the wider society has a massive impact - that ignored kid of meth heads could have extended family that care for them and support from the wider community to make better choices themselves and that will make a huge difference. Or you might have a decent family, who have some sort of bad luck - maybe a disabilty or death in the family - and without social support that situation can snowball. Maybe the parent can’t work, so they lose housing, which leads to the kids being taken off them and put in foster care, with all the problems associated with that, broken schooling etc.
I used to work for Legal Aid in the Children’s Court section and there were almost no kids that had criminal issues without having child protection issues first.
I’d argue that the rich kids don’t wind up at legal aid. My grandfather got my dad out of so many court cases when in fact my father should’ve faced some sort of punishment for multiple cases of theft, domestic abuse and dealing. As he always got away with it he never had to face any consequences which may have encouraged him to consider the type of person he was.
True, they probably don’t. But the reality is that over half the kids in custody have had child protection orders.
There have always been some people who do the wrong thing regardless of their circumstances and there always will be, but how we structure our society has a big impact on how many of the people that could choose differntly choose to break the law. And that’s not just poor people vs. rich. Allowing the rich to get away with doing the wrong thing without consequence is as much a part of the problem as how many poor people there are and the way they are treated. A dysfunctional society creates dysfunctional people, and any solution that only looks at the individuals and not the whole society won’t be very effective in creating change.
My bro was broken into earlier this week. Took the bowl of keys that was on the bench, and two of their cars while they slept. The violation of their home as their safe space has me feeling all kinds of things.
Jeez that’s rough.
I suppose it’s whether you just leave the keys out or hide them but risk confrontation. Still not sure about that one.
We’re going with the thoughts that they’re just cars and at the end of the day the people and pets are safe. The cars may not be seen again (just because of what they are) and everything else has been re-keyed and coded. But the weekend plans are off, and the adult teenager doesn’t want to be home alone, even though his is the only car that’s left on the property. Sort of grateful that their dog didn’t wake up or bark at the time, because who knows what may have been.
wow I’ve had a few tonight after an awesome work event (love that these guys are so much more sociable with our client). Pretty tipsy but this is the good thing about having easy PT close to home. Everyone looks pretty attractive through these wine goggles.
Gonna catch up on the Severence finale shortly and maybe The Pitt and then catch up with an old school friend Sat night and Sun. ☺️ Times like today I feel a bit like less of a loser and more of a part of Melbourne
I finished the Severance finale. My only question is why doesn’t this place have more security.
my main thought
MAMMALIANS NURTURABLE!! Fuck yeah protect those goats Gwendolyn!
But my own theory about the lack of people l is that this is a remote outpost like some little Fargo like place in Alaska or some Nordic country where this big company can do their super evil stuffs. Hence there are not many people, but big facilities because they.are hoping when this thing is proven it will kick off as a big production.
spoiler
I cannot begin to say HOW RELIEVED I was that they did not kill that goat on-screen. Way to bring them back in!
I don’t know what to think about the ending. It’s all so insane and the next season - if there is one - will be at least two years away so I’m like okay whatever. Yay Gemma was rescued! But where do you go from here without coming up with more outlandish scenarios that let the innies protest without Lumon just shutting them down like they conveniently did with Irving who by the way has had the most unsatisfying exit from the show…
Hence my question why there aren’t more guards. If they really wanted to make a meaningful comment on real-world class solidarity there wouldn’t be such a comical dearth of muscle imo.
It was all very cinematic but like… I dunno. I feel a bit flat now. Reintegration didn’t even mean anything after all!
not a spoiler
innies have no resources other than their intellect, their bodies and their lives, and each other
at work they have no private space, no home, no bed, no belongings, no access to information or education, no food, no clothes, no people outside of work, no society, and it seems no government oversight
they have the emotional experience of children and are easily exploited and abused
it’s a terrible situation
that makes sense
Same. That was wild.
Health
Yeah, my health has just suddenly deteriorated again. Bummer. I really don’t want to get as sick as I used to be.
I’m taking another crack at this string bag and worked out what I did wrong last time.
The future is not knowable. You’ve had ups and downs before, maybe the up will start sooner than you think. Hang in there and look after yourself.
Thanks. I really hope so. Things feel like a bit of a merry go round.
I am so sorry to hear. I hope you can get some solutions and that Melbcat is looking after you.
Thanks, hopefully I can.
Melbcat is often beside me or checking up on me, she’s a very good nurse
Crocheted bags are my thing if you have any questions.
I worked out that I had been crocheting into the same ch2 hole after joining the round, which meant increasing asymmetrically on one side and growing the stitch count!
Crochet seems a lot more free form than knitting so it was easy for me to get off track. But seeing the results gave me a lot of clarity on where I mistook the written directions.
Yeah the last stitch is always into the chain. You’ll know it’s going well when you see the chain go diagonal.
When beginning a new round it looked like I was ‘skipping’ a ch2 space at the start so I’d DC in there but in reality it was the same space I’d just slip stitched into and so I was accidentally making a V increase after I was meant to stop increasing.
But yeah, it’s nicely on track now. Looks like \
I’m trying to get the efficient motion and tension/yarn holding finger down next and it’s coming along
