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    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???

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      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.

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        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

        But I’m afraid they’ve been wildly misinformed by the HR overlords or whomever on ‘how to get employees to build a connection to the workplace and colleagues’ cringe

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      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.

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        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.

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          it should have been a music video!!! Everyone loves to sing on camera!!

          have these people not heard of the Geneva Convention?

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            We’re talking about HR here, so definitely not.

            I should note that there were a few teams that very actually disappointed that this didn’t eventuate.

            Those team members have been reported to ASIO as potential spies

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              Report?! No no no. Execute them now. Clearly they are shapeshifting aliens! I’d say robots but I think even robots would shy away from an artsy idea like that.

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                In the context of this particular team it makes sense. They’re ‘those’ kind of people.

                Super keen and excited for anything and everything.

                Fuckers

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          Oh man that is the worse. Also cue music The Human Beinz - Nobody but me song from The Office where they all film a music video and mime together.

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        I’m just not sold on the effectiveness…the best cultures I’ve worked in I feel like it all comes quite organically because you like the people they get you and you get along well together. No amount of forcing people to party in a room will achieve that.

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        I shall review footage as I don’t remember a thing from it (or if I had indeed watched it). But no absolutely no team viewing.

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      It’s becoming a big thing in government (my area of work at least). Heavily encouraged ‘fun activities’ for all!!!

      I’ve been slightly shunned as I refuse to participate but fuck’em.

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        The worst is when they do this after cutting headcount and stuff thinking this will help but it’s just really cringe.

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      I like to make work fun for myself because I have to spend so much time on it. But forcing it to be fun for the whole team is just small minded groupthink. Especially when it comes from the minds of soulless and cynical HR departments

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        Same. Like I actually enjoy what I do and this whole let’s make work fun vibe is just completely contrived and unnecessary.

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      if it’s fun then you won’t ask for more money

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        I think they sometimes miss the point that fun is in the eye of the beholder…

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      While I sometimes can motivate myself at work to make things fun or funny for some reason there’s always a natural and ugly resistance when it’s suggested by people higher up in the chain.

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        It’s cringy when it’s disingenuous which it almost always is.

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      I like work to be fun but not if it’s forced. Then it’s just more work of a different and more annoying kind.

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        Exactly! The socialising and activities just become another thing to do!

  • Rusty Raven M
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    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.

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    Lmao didn’t get the job I waited three months to hear back from.

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      3 months to tell someone is plain rude…you’ve dodged a bullet. Onwards and upwards to better things!

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      I mean if they’re that crap at their job you probably don’t want to work there anyway.

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        It’s government, unfortunately that wait can be pretty standard.

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          And even if you are successful after 3 months it’s like another 2 months for paperwork and onboarding 💀

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    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.

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    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!!

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          I don’t find cycling to be very good exercise for me. I lived inner city and rode a bike everywhere for years. I don’t have access to enough consistent bike path before I have to stop for crossroads (Djerring Trail). I like running because it gets my heart rate up and I can do it at the local footy oval. I could take my bike to Malvern velodrome but it makes exercise a three hour job with getting there and back.

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            Oh bugger. I can’t run cause everything below the equator is sore for days on after. I’m guessing the answer is yes, but have you looked into knee support braces? One of the dudes at my gym swears by one (I’ll find out the brand) cause he run again without discomfort.

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              Thanks but don’t stress the brand. I feel braces are a bit like chiro, it really does work for some people but the science is weak.

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      Now that’s motivation! By the way, I always thought of your username as being like a nasty lift… it only just occurred to me that it might be mean as in median/average 🤦🏼‍♀️

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        The username was suggested by Reddit when I signed up and kind of liked it. It has no meaning whatsoever 😁

  • Zane
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    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?

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      Do it. The NGV is great. You can always take a rest break lying on the floor looking at the stained glass ceiling if it’s too busy.

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      Love this. Please post more such delightful sightings when you come across them. 💚

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    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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      Good luck mate. I’m sure you’ll land something more interesting. There’s a fair bit out there for the time being.

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    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 engaged 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.

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    My partner and I are starting to talk about marriage beyond just a conceptual thing 😳

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    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 🙏.

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      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.

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        Unless a truck hits the bus and T bones it like in Mornington Peninsula today. The Truck won that round.

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      If it makes you feel better, busses have more mass so are inherently safer. The no seatbelts thing is so you don’t have to fiddle with it in a panic and delay evacuating the bus.

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        Uncanny that a truck T boned a Bus today in Mornington Peninsula. One kid on the bus had lots of teeth knocked out.