It National Dog Day today
Inherited doggie from my mum after she was put into a home.
Been awhile now so no longer with us.
A blanket fort! Very cute!
This was a few weeks after we adopted her, but here’s my old dog Ruby. She loves with my ex now. Happy National Dog Day!
Ruby
Sleepy dogs are so cute!
Doggo in cat hammock being guard. If I can get the photo to load…
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He’s very cute and also the same name of my dog.
Dogs bring smiles to people faces. ☺
I think I love Toby.
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Oh my. I’m in love with his little grumpy face!
Hey! that’s not a koala!
He’s actually a thieving little bastard but I love him.
With a face like that though all you can do is forgive the little guy.
I haven6got a dog but there are 3 dogs important to me. One is this guy and the other was this guy. Both dogs helped my son get over his fear of dogs. And then there was Rook, the 2ish year old jet black great Dane, who is a great big baby who lived down the road from me. Unfortunately his owners were evicted so the landlord could do extensive renovations and I don’t see him anymore 😢
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I’m glad to hear she’s feeling better ❤️
First day of new job 😬 hoping to not have a napkin-sneeze moment
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Hey good luck, 🤞🏼
Good luck!
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Have a great day!
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I’m having an unbelievably hard time of life. I’m just not getting a break.
Melbcat is feeling more comfortable with adequate pain relief though, ate some wet food and is cuddling. I’m waiting for Tuesday and counting down to receiving the antibiotics
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many hugs and kisses
and if you ever need anything just drop a line
Went to check out a school with/for the eldest minipeeler. It seems like such a great fit for him. So hard to get a school that can help him with his anxiety, school refusal and need for re-engagement. It’s a tiny school though and they have such limited places. I’m not the praying kind but I’m praying for him to get accepted. We will formally begin the application process tomorrow for next year 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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So many hugs and kisses for eldest mini and hugs for you too for helping him find a good school.
Payday today!! I’m trying to get the enthusiasm levels up like all you Wednesday pay people from last week, but when you have a strict budget it’s all divided up and spent before you get it anyway.
It is nice seeing the car money creeping higher though - I’ve gone from “could buy another car the same as mine if I crash it” level to being able to get something that’s a bit nicer. Slowly moving towards the point I can buy a car I would actually choose to buy without being forced by the death of my current one.
Monday pay people represent! The boss does our payslip in the morning but our pays sometime during the afternoon, so it’s a small “yay” when I get the email and a bigger more relieved “YAY” when the bread is in the bag.
We used to get the pay slip available on the pay system some random time during the day, but there is no email or any notification so you just have to keep checking if it is there. Recently they started doing it earlier so it is there over the weekend which is much better. We have a stupidly complicated pay structure with varying penalty rates so we always have to go through and double check everything for errors (although not everyone’s math skills are up to the task, so they probably get away with a lot of mistakes).
My bank now notifies me when the actual money goes into the bank, so that is always nice to see.
my pay doesn’t land until Thursday night, dammit. I much preferred a previous job where it would arrive on a Tuesday afternoon. somehow that feels much more civilised.
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Fingers crossed it comes back online!
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Aye I’m glad the ways of the elders have trickled down to the youth.
I’ve fixed many an old box TV by smacking it on the side.
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I have a laptop I use as a seedbox whose fan will just randomly start freaking out. Sounds like a jet plane.
I kick it.
It stops freaking out.
We have an understanding.
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Yay. Day 1 down with no embarrassing moments to report. New place is nice. They have cold soda water water on tap 😍
Awesome. 🥤
This week’s shit weather is brought to you by my annual leave. Not. Happy. Jan.
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You wish they could just tell you what’s going on.
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so many gentle hugs and good wishes
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works gone to complete and utter shit. We’re being forced into this project that we all know is gonna end in a complete dumpster fire, but we (as in everyone in my department, managers included) cant do anything to stop it. Gonna chat to my boss and just say “look I cant reconcile this shit, you want it done? Fine, but I dont want to talk about it for a second more than we have to”. The greater department has this habit of turning their meetings into therapy/bitching sessions and I’m just not here for it.
Till this Project Doom is completed we’re sticking to facts any talking about it as little as possible.
thats fair enough isnt it? Honestly sat in the meeting where it was announced on seek, and I dont reckon I was alone in that.
I’m wary of places where meetings become therapy/bitch sessions. I never know how much that stuff is gonna get twisted, taken out of context, used against you etc. Risky overflow into unprofessional behaviour.
What’s the project? I’m incredibly curious. Is it a migration of some sort?
You guessed it. I cant say too much publicly, but imagine a migration you wouldn’t wanna touch with a 10 foot pole and your probably thinking of it.
8.5 hours straight with no lunch break (by my own choice because I didn’t want to spend even longer outside). Ugh, I had hoped it would be a short day today - it was easy at least, mostly support for someone else and driving - but just a lot of time standing around not working on my assignment, while my brain and guts are in stress overdrive again. I’m glad that my work now ends when I leave, but whose bright idea was it to reintroduce ongoing stress with uni!!!
I’m going to just eat and lie down for a bit before I attempt to do any uni stuff. I’m 70% of the way there. Just need to skim through enough articles to cite them appropriately…
I just saw this. I haven’t used Zotero but the Lemmy nerds recommend it https://mander.xyz/post/17175983
as an academic, zotero is absolutely the way to go.
Endnote does a job, but is comparatively slow, clunky and huge as a program - not to mention expensive, if you don’t have institutional access.
Even WITH institutional access to endnote, I use zotero and pay for syncing myself.
This whole CFMEU saga is equally entertaining and concerning.
When unlawful power is called out and given a good smacking? Always entertaining to watch from a safe distance. Unions are not per se bad, but when the power inherent in them is abused it’s good to know that there are some ways to rein them in. You may be too young to remember the whole Painters & Dockers Union stuff, but they did things like murder people. As well as run-of-the-mill corruption and stuff. No-one was surprised when that union was forcibly de-registered - except maybe the members of the union. Seems like the CFMEU have forgotten that lesson.
My biggest concern about this whole saga is how long it’s taken to get to this point. I worked on CFMEU sites for a decade or so (non union role) and thought it was bad then. Like absolutely transparent corruption and no one seemed to care.
Also disappointing that unions are meant to protect workers against shit conditions and bad management. Now they’re becoming the monster they were suppose to slay.
The cultist mentality is pretty messed up too. Glad it’s being taken care of, but I don’t trust either gov party to act as administrators.
Yeah, the whole power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely thing. Unfortunately inevitable, unless there is robust pushback from the rank & file. Same thing happens with political parties. The point of short electoral cycles is that the bad apples can be booted out before they’ve done much damage. Variable election dates also help with the booting process. What gets really nasty is a fixed election cycle like in the USA - where the last 2 years of an election cycle is spent getting re-elected instead of actually accomplishing anything. The appointment of a ‘king’ with no pre-specified end date for power works quite well if the ‘king’ is sensible, but if a bad apple gets power …
Pushback from union members would be something, but unfortunately there was very visible intimidation from Setka’s supporters. The more I look at our Federal 3 year terms the more I appreciate it. Also having 8-10 weeks for an election is perfect.
To be fair there are plenty of non-evil unions. I’ve found the Australian Services Union pretty good.
Yeah for real. The CFMEU is just the most prolific and loud. I’m with CPSU and they’re kind of a toothless dog, but do help out when needed.
I found CPSU to be entirely useless when needed, Sadly.
I’ve heard they can be shit. So far they’ve been okay mostly for us. Hopefully I won’t have to lean on them for anything.
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In summary, years of corruption and criminal infiltration on work sites are finally coming to light and heads are rolling.
Colour me surprised
100% agree. Love watching people get their just deserts.
