Once again, big thank you to a couple of posters here that have helped me out of a bad situation.
I haven’t named them in case they prefer to stay anonymous, but guys, you are absolute bloody legends!!! I never heard back from that reference guy. He legit just disappeared off the face of the earth…
Are you in the clear yet as far as references go?
Not cool that your previous reference guy disappeared :(
Thankfully a poster has offered to speak to the recruiter for me tomorrow 🙂
In fact a couple of posters offered to lend a hand, for which I am incredibly grateful and quite honestly humbled. Without the help of some of the people in this forum, I would not even be in consideration to start work next week.
I’m sure people here won’t let you down but if there is an emergency I can try to help though I’m not in the field of IT and I’ve never been a reference for anyone before so I’d need some help or coaching.
Please let us know what happens, we would all love to see everything work out for you.
Thank you ❤️ I genuinely appreciate that 🙂 Same goes in return. If yourself or anyone needs a reference, I’m happy to help!
I was actually considering reaching out for you, but I’ve never referenced anyone before. I’m somewhat good at bullshitting, but probably not very good at sounding like a boss dog
I can say this honestly and without hyperbole: this place and the people in it have had a significant positive impact on my life. Thank you everyone for all your help, advice and care during the last 6 months.
I am so incredibly grateful that we have this place to hang out ❤️
And thank you for trusting us, for sharing your story and for sharing Gibson with us. 💖😘
Seconding goonsey here. Thanks!
Oh, wow. So last week I explained the situation with my current school to the lady from the TAFE. She asked around and has been able to organise for me to start before my unenrolment is officially processed. I have missed the intake date now which was yesterday evening.
But she just sent me the enrolment paperwork I need to sign, and once I’ve done that, she said I can just organise a phone call with the teacher to catch up on what I missed and can start next Tuesday!
Holy fucking shit, it’s wild how things go from 0-100 so quickly. I was about 75% expecting to not start until the next intake, but it’s going to finally happen…
Edit: bloody hell, today must be the day of things happening because I just got a call from the police about the report I made 8 days ago
Exciting! What will you be studying?
Yep! Cert III in community services
This is fantastic news!! You deserve all the good things, and this is such a great journey to start! You got this!
♥️ thank you studsy
good luck 🤞🤗
Thanks Goonsy!
So happy to hear of some good news and supportive organisations! Educational institutions can be surprisingly understanding about these things
Yeah, given how inflexible and unwilling most of my school’s have been, it’s been a major shock how understanding and open this new school is.
Crossing all bits for both! 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
Thanks Oz! I appreciate it!
After some awful sleep bathed in sweat and feeling like my brain was going to explode from overheating and headaches, I still feel sick so another day off work. Grumble mumble moan. Today I’m not going to do stupid shit like try and read academic articles to catch up on uni stuff, I am properly resting.
Sick in solidarity. I’ve ben sick since Saturday. In my case its some dry cough thing. I’ve reached the point where it hurts my abs to cough.
Ouch, that sounds awful. Hope it clears up soon for you - I hope it doesn’t get that bad for me. I rarely get respiratory problems. I’ve got a light dry cough/sore throat that seems to be on the mend, mostly moved back to headaches/congestion, which was what I started off with on Saturday, hopefully the worst is over…
I’m so grateful that the kids can get themselves up, make their own breakfasts and lunches and get themselves off to school without me. Even as recently as a year ago, I would have needed to get up and facilitate that.
Small wins. Almost belongs in the gratitude thread. 😃
Gosh yes. Whenever I feel sorry for myself being sick while living alone, I have to remind myself how much worse it would be if I had young kids to look after as well! I can barely attend to my own needs.
Feel better soon :) take it easy
Loading up on breakfast in bed and some TV series!
I don’t wanna 😪😴🥱
Me neither ☹️
Same and I’m already in the office -curls up in the corner and cries-
That’s so early 😭
7am start and a 1-hour drive to get there… yay me! At least it only takes me 1.5-2 hours to get home when I finish at 4pm so that’s good i guess… :\ FML
That’s disgusting
Putrid, even
It’s stable work, pays very well, and my wife works VERY close to home so it’s tolerable… for now.
Would be nice if PT didn’t add an hour to my morning commute though (and still involve a decent amount of driving!)
I didn’t want to either as I was sitting in front of my heater.
I’ve forced myself to go to work.
Currently reading The Expanse. And not getting enough sleep as a result… First book(s) in ages that gets me saying just one more chapter at 2:30am…
Duuuuude that book DEFINES “One More Chapter” at 3am. DO NOT start the last book late at night, you’ll be up till 10am the next morning finishing it.
Noted. And also, sweet
Don’t skip the side novels.
Comics are good too
TV series is… actually, all things considered, better than expected.
Better than expected?! I… I’m sorry. you said better than expected!!! inyalowda!
Being it’s a sci-fi TV show that got cancelled/resurrected part way through my expectations going in were quite low, we’re starting from a low base here, but it definitely wasn’t bad.
TV show that got cancelled/resurrected
it just met some strange dogs. not a big deal.
and THAT gang will be my finest reference for the year!
One of my favourite book series ever. Enjoy!!!
I’ve read them twice. It’s probably better the second time. I picked up several small details that I missed the significance of the first time.
Do we do teams? I’m team Bobby!
I know it’s late, but I think I’ll read a bit of Master and Commander before bed. I heard on a podcast the series is actually a good read so I picked up the book and read a couple of pages at lunch.
Go live your best life tom
Oh, enjoy.
it’s an excellent book and movie, enjoy . :) ( I cheated, I listened to an audiobook years ago )
ya’ll ever google yourself. I just googled my primary username and far out some of the public data is concerning. Including a linked in photo of my damn face! the cat is in it too, hes gonna be FURIOUS.
Before I became Simon, the only other person with my name killed a police officer…
I’d take that to having the same name as a celebrity tbh
I’m the only one in Aus who has my name. My surname is my families in Australia, so you’d be able to find my dad and uncle too.
same
My real name is out there unfortunately because I worked on a community project some years ago but you’d need specific information on what I worked on to find it.
I hope your cat will forgive you for your transgression.
I’m pretty much absent from the internets
I try to be invisible online under my real name. I mostly succeed. It helps that my name is common, so there are lots of hits and none of them are me. If I am ever suddenly a news story, the journos are going to have a hard time finding my Facebook photo (I don’t have Facebook) to steal and put on their sites. 😃
Yeah, unfortunately there’s lots because I have a unique name and was foolish about the internet many years ago. Intrigued by the guy who has me in his thesis thanks. Not a clue who he is!
Just an old scraped practitioner profile with the attached email being [email protected]. I hope we get right to be forgotten laws here.
That reminds me, I once got a really strange spam email that was addressed to (my first name)@aol.com with my primary Gmail address (which doesn’t and never has had my first name even listed in the name section, let alone in the username) CC’d in. I don’t even remember what it was spamming me with, just that it was in broken English and Gmail didn’t flag it as spam. It was really odd
Yes. I regularly check as I have a unique name so anything is traceable. Socials are locked down. Linked in is up for career purposes, but still relatively locked down. Don’t mind sports results.
I used that Google security function recently which goes off to see where you’re mentioned and it happily said nowhere. I have a blog out there with numerous photos of my face on it but there’s nothing linking my full name to it. I just Googled my name and found my Facebook profile though. This was using my shortened name which I generally use. Searching with my full name has nothing I can see. Weird… my Google account uses my name to post Google reviews and I’ve done a couple but they didn’t show up in a search.
Anyways… feeling pretty ok about my online presence. I know all of my email addresses have been compromised but there isn’t much I can do about that besides keep good MFA security and spam filters on those.
My name is quite unique, and my last job put me and my photos on some online reporting sites, so yeh if you google me you find me!
I used to google my name several times as a teen but not so much now (sounds like that old euphemism). I know my real name is on a couple of publicly available reports and LinkedIn. Never googled my username though, I only ever use this on reddit and Lemmy. I could do with a good purge though
I try not to publicly put my name anywhere I don’t have to, so my full name has no results. Baku seems to be a pretty common username, so not many personal results there, although I’ve definitely said more here/on Reddit than I should’ve. my Reddit username only has a couple of results, one from a shitty buzzfeed article that exploited my willingness to help a tourist for clicks, and the rest from dodgy reddit mirrors. And my discord username is, well, a discord username. there’s only a single result for it from outside Discord
eh…I’m old enough that social media wasn’t really around when I was young and doing stupid things more publicly. Now, my job makes me pretty public anyway, and there are very, very few people in the world with my exact name, so if you google it, only a few of us appear and the most public one is me. All professional pages, though.
Yep. Mostly comes up with product reviews and a few letters to the editor.
I’ve never done it but just did for shits and giggles. I wouldn’t call my name common, but there are social media profiles with the same name but not me. And my name twin is also a nurse but in the UK by the looks of it. Weird.
I’ve been fairly vicious since the early days so the only thing that shows up that is actually me is an old ABN record. Unique name combination too (Jewish first name + scottish surname and a rare scottish surname at that)
Work is approximately 6 meters away. I don’t think I can make it.
I tried to make it the 6m. I am going to get a coffee and try again
You… can… do… it…
So I did my tax online last night. I owe money. Seems like HECs debt is the reason.
Can I go back to being a kid?
“Smooth 91.5” can fuck off. I’ve developed retail rage toward hearing the same fucking songs every Wednesday
Smooo-ooooth
Ninetay wuh-hun point fiiiive
You’ve both made an enemy today! Only for today though, so 2:54 remaining.
But it’s smooth :(
So the RE has forwarded the call fee invoice to us from the plumber. I expected it, because it was my washing machine.
It’s $500. FIVE HUNDRED! For the guy to diagnose the issue in less than half an hour.
Lucky I got my tax return today, paid it in full and did some ass-kissing in the email back to the RE. Like, plumbers have to do a lot of gross things, of course they should be compensated appropriately, but he just moved my fridge and washing machine and walked around with his detector device. Lol. He made bank.
It might be worth calling and letting the plumber know that the RE has passed the charge to you - sometimes they charge crazy fees because they know they can. Total shit practice, but maybe it’s worth a try?
plumber is RE’s brother in law*
I don’t know this but knowing the ethical nature of RE’s it would not surprise me
Haha nah not this time. Definitely the case at my old Epping place, but not here. This plumber is from a company, seems rather large when I googled.
I already paid it this morning and I cannot be bothered asking about it tbh. I could probably negotiate it down, but I just want it to be done and to focus on drying out the carpet and skirting board to assess repairs.
It’s a $500 lesson to not freak out and check my own appliances before calling anyone lol!
Ouch.
Charged like a wounded bull.
¡Olé!
🚩🐂
Toro toro!
Feeling terrible that it took me so long to notice Melbcat was still sick. When she was fussy about food I thought she was just tired of the usual flavour, and when she was wiggly I thought she was jealous of the computer or bored. She hides it well.
I’ve been wrapped up in my own struggles, getting overwhelmed by literally everything, and didn’t pay attention as closely as usual.
Edit: Yeah… I’m giving these socks one chance to come good in the wash and then if they’re still too tight they’re getting donated. The point of buying new clothes and lip balm was to be more comfortable and if something is not doing that then it’s just clutter.
Too sick and in too much pain to stuff around anymore or tolerate anything that makes me feel worse. Also fuck how I look
Oh melbsy. Don’t beat yourself up about it. Cats evolved to hide their pain and injuries as best as they can. It’s one of their basic instincts. Cats also have off days just like humans, and some days they just don’t want to be held even when they’re perfectly fine. You did the best you could given the situation, and that’s all you can be expected to do
It’s okay about melbcat, like you said they hide it well. Just the way cats are. Try not to beat yourself up, you’re taking care of her and getting her help so I think you’re doing great for her!
I know what you mean, I have so many clothes I don’t wear. So much clutter 😭
I usually spot and sort things sooner… I just thought the last antibiotics were successful.
Yeah I think I need to overhaul everything. I might not get rid of a lot until replacements are sorted but there’s stuff I no longer wear
She emailed me to tell me he hasn’t called her.
He’s not answering my texts or calls either.
All he had to do was make 1 phonecall for 10 minutes and because he’s gone AWOL, I won’t be able to start my job.
Fucking hell.
Argh! I’m not in IT but I could pretend if you need a backup?
Will send you a DM :)
happy to be a backup to the backup.
Thanks man :) Will send a DM
Stressful. Fingers crossed for you.
Thank you. It’s incredibly stressful. I’m scrambling trying to find someone else but it’s not looking good right now…
Would a colleague or someone who knows you well from outside work do? When I needed referees I used my hairdresser and my GPs practice manager as I hadn’t been in paid employment since 2009.
I’m buying some new slippers and have to make the difficult decision between pink or purple.
Edit: I’ve gone with purple, which looks to be a popular choice!
Purple
pink shows the dirt way worse than a dark purple. moccasins are where its at.
Feeling seen…
Now I want your slippers! They look so comfy and beautiful to boot
UGG Australian Sheppard have a bunch of colours. Seem to last 12 months of HEAVY wear. Any more is pushing it though.
Mine are from the Dandenong market. I get around 12 months of reasonably heavy wear. Then they become my ‘run outside and grab wood/mail/nothing too strenuous pair’.
Thanks for the rec! I an actually looking for a new pair of slippers so I might check these out
They’re well worn! Nearly due for a new pair.
I can definitley attest to that - my current slippers were originally pink but are now more of a pinkish brown colour.
mine were navy, now also brown haha
I had one of those big fluffy tv dressing gown jumper things which was pink. I loved it! Eventually it got a bit brown though, and never recovered even with a few cycles through the washing machine and some stain remover
Voting for purple as well.
pimple
Purple
