They brought the meeting forward to today and I’ve been terminated. I’m just glad it’s over
Sounds like it was for the best to leave anyway, even if it feels crappy now. You’ll look back and think this was the best thing that could have happened
This whole year sucked for me work wise. I had a stressful project at the start of the year. Then I was facing a redundancy, then I’ve been going through this for the past 9 weeks. It’s been so stressful, I’m just glad it’s over
No one is at their best with an axe hanging over them. It’s over, look up with freedom and move on. And get really drunk tonight.
I’m more excited to have my spring back. I started around this time last year and things were so much easier. I picked my kids up early from childcare and took them to a park before home. I’d like to do that again a few times before I start something else
performance plan is really just “Paid Job Hunting notice period” anyway. On to bigger and better things. And hey if you value your sanity dont come to my work. Shit is a dumpster fire.
That was my problem, I didn’t get on the job hunt seriously soon enough. I thought I could get through it, started looking at jobs, had some interviews that didn’t go anywhere, and didn’t pick it up as much until the last meeting. I’m getting the standard 2 weeks pay so if I can pick up an immediate start contract I might be able to coast for a bit
I’m really sorry this has happened mate.
I’ll try make the most of it. I can go on centrelink through my business and I can go into job application overdrive now
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope better things are just around the corner for you.
A recruiter I’ve worked with before has a contract role that’s the exact thing I’m looking for. These roles are always an immediate start so things may just work out. And to think how grateful I’ll be to the first place that takes me after all this
Fingers crossed for you mate 🤞
Fuck, it’s the day for bad news hey. I’m so sorry to hear about your work situation, it’s an awful feeling to be terminated and can set off so many bad thoughts. Vent here as much as you need. I’d like to think it’s an opportunity for you to move onto somewhere you’d be better appreciated - my hope for you is in a year’s time you’ll be able to look back on it all and laugh at how fucked up your workplace was
LL has suddenly requested I remove all my plants from the balcony immediately because of alleged damage and complaints (currently unsubstantiated), and is going to do an inspection in 11 days. This sounds like she’s on the warpath now and wants to force me out.
Of course I can’t get any advice on what my rights are until Monday, but for now I’ve sent an email asking for some evidence. I’m not removing my plants just like that.
I don’t feel safe or happy at all. I don’t really wanna go back to the apartment right now.
Sounds like some made up BS if you ask me.
Maybe you’re right that she’s trying to force you out.
Think it’s got anything to do with the VCAT application you’ve put inV
Well I haven’t even put in a VCAT application, just a CAV review of the rent increase - and I even told her it could very well end up being in her favour but I just needed to explore my options.
At this stage it’s sounding retaliatory.
I don’t think a LL is in a position to review the safety of the balcony unless it’s clearly showing signs of problems.
They’d need an expert or something which would end up costing them.
If the plants could do then it would have been unsafe if you were out there instead right?
I admit I do have a fair few plants out there but yeah she hasn’t provided any proof so far. I don’t think she would have a leg to stand on in vcat but I most definitely don’t want to take it that far if I don’t have to. The fact that she told me to remove all of them, though, is just… what.
Is just petty if she’s being retaliatory about it all.
I’m so sorry you have to go through off of this. It doesn’t feel right at all.
You can buy insects for your garden online now. Fancy that. Just be careful what kind you get. … 😊
I can catch some clothes moths and bring them to kittens apartment just before they leave.
Oh no… The LL must have tracked in clothes moths during the impromptu inspection. Whatever will they do?
Rough.
Rough is understating it for sure. I’m not in a good headspace
Oh no. hugs
This might be relevant to your landlady’s situation. I think she may be panicking a bit. Hopefully she’ll see reason on Monday. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-12/victoria-sharp-fall-in-rental-stock/104464504?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
Oh it absolutely is. Land tax has gone up and the market rate has as well… It’s just that she suddenly withdrew the offer of negotiation - I would’ve thought keeping on a good tenant would be worth something. And I have every right to apply for a review. asking me to remove all my plants all of a sudden is rather unreasonable…
Day off
Had a pedi earlier
Stoned off my tits
Hockey is on
It’s gonna be a good day
whos playin?
Leafs vs Devils
My dog living the life of a cat
The time has come to traumatize Mr Woof with a bath. Wish us luck.
Good luck. Hope you come back unscathed.
We have survived, and dried off with a post-bath Walkies.
Please take photos
Too late, but I have attached some photos from a previous bath.
Poor puppy! Mine wants in the bath, until she’s in it, then she wants out NOW! Slippery Jack Russell’s are hard to catch.
Mr Woof never wants in the bath. He stands there miserable the whole time. The bath I use has attachment points so I can keep him leashed the whole time and make sure he can’t try to jump out.
We just use the laundry trough, yours looks like a much better system. I’ve seen people spread peanut butter on the side of the bath, would this help Mr Woof?
I used to use the laundry trough, with the washing machine next to it for a grooming table. This does work better, because it is fully enclosed. I don’t think peanut butter would help Mr Woof, he is not very food oriented at all, expecially when he is a bit stressed.
Oh my goodness!
Aww he’s so cute! Mr floof
he’s so adorable 🥰
Oh buddy. Oh dear
Finished work. Going for walk. Shout out if you want me to bring you back a stick
Yes. Bring us a faggot please luv.
3 for 50?
🌳 bulk deal
😂
Can I upgrade to a leaf please?
🍃
Thanks
will it be a stick worthy of a huge plot line in an Amazon series?
I have some nice ones. Chook will be pleased
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summon lord kitchener i have news of the front
Wish I was as good with hoes as you are
All about the edger’ing babyyy
that looks so awesome
kudos
The awesome comes with the backfill…
That do be some diggin’.
Then comes the geo and the gravel and the agi and more gravel and one area gets dirt but the others get mansfield pebbles and aluminium edging
Nice job there.
What are you going to be planting there?
Drainage pipe
That looks good. I am green with envy
Barring the one on the far left, they’re roughly the locations of original concrete and brick dividers in a garden bed i’ve been painstakingly prying out out and cleaning up over the past year (salvagable concrete chunks will become crazy paving, bricks a pathway). His Lordship liked the dividers, but they had to come out, they were falling apart, cracking and subsiding, plus i wanted to put in raised and wicking beds (getting old and i already broke my back).
It also has a retaining wall around it, but no outlet for water (and at the bottom of a slope), so it bogs a bit…my solution was getting a hole punched in the side, dig agi in along the divider lines and when i backfill i’m gonna echo the original dividers by having channels of river pebbles famed by aluminium edging along the lines.
like this but with mulch instead of grass
ooh that looks like it is taking serious shape.
Flatpacked raised veggie patch arrived today. SO MANY FUCKING BOLTS that took me 3hrs and of course a few were missing. Happy to at least visualise it now though.
Ok. Who have you buried?
just kitten’s landlord/lady?
Oh gees. And here I thought Bottom racer was a lovely fella. You never know some people.
No, for maximum efficiency she has been taken to the Hamazon kitchen for processing and allocation.
There is a protocol for landlords and the Company frowns on waste
Just so long as the hide isn’t wasted - I believe donkey skin is preferred for drum tops due to its toughness and resonance and durability.
Perfect. LL’s are mostly ass.
Well they sure are being an ass 🫸💥🫷
whoever they were the tomatoes should be kicking it this year. :)
(in case I’m now on a list I swear it was a veggie patch).
Ok. I’m in the process of treating myself to this.
One half is the size of my hand closed out flat.
12 bucks!
Omg that looks amazing!!! And great value
It was insane, I haven’t eaten something like that packed in so densely full of meat.
I could have meat poisoning now. I counted at least 30 layers of various meats and one of them was heavily smoked or salted.
I felt like I almost couldn’t finish it all but it was certainly great value for money.
I could have entered a food coma right there and then. I struggled to get home.
I long for meat poisoning
Drool!
bloody hell
i’ve got a yucky intolerance response to some fruit yoghurt, ( yes, I had a lacteeze ) lips on fire, eyes burning. Extra lactose in the recipe perhaps? Not too pleased about it.
That’s concerning and doesn’t seem typical for lactose intolerance. Are you sure you haven’t developed an allergy to the milk protein?
it’s just two products I have trouble with, this fruit yoghurt and bulla choc icecreams
The culprit was sulphites in the fruit
I had a little adventure. I had to drive the Kluger home. I’ve only driven an auto once in 20 years. Anyway I got home and realised I didn’t know how to turn it off. A phone call later sorted that out. I then took the little doolackey out of the console and locked it. I checked to make sure it’s locked by the door handle and it beeped at me and the mirrors opened up. Did it again. Same. Shamefully I did it again. Same. So I spent 20 minutes outside babysitting an unlocked car. Technology hates me and i hate technology.
Anyway cheers you smarter more competent tech people 🍺
I got a mate who brought a new car recently. It was an auto and his old car was a manual. he had to go back into the showroom and ask them how to take off cause the electric handbreak wouldnt disengage, all he had to do was shift to Drive from park, but they didnt tell him that and he had no idea. So dont feel too bad.
Thanks. I got in it, adjusted the seat, put my seatbelt on, looked down and said “is there a button I have to press to put it in drive”? Apparently the answer is yes as the man showed me.
Yeah they really dont show you shit. My dad was driving the twin of my car the other week as a rental and I was staggered they didnt show him anything about the car. I had to show him how to stop it from beeping every 20 seconds.
look it up on youtube, n/k or write out a question on google
#1, it’s a kluger
I don’t need to, it goes back tomorrow and stupid autocorrect.
I rage-installed Brave browser today. Been a firefox user for a long time but its getting resource hungrier and performance-worser on my laptop (linux). So far so good. Brave is fast but otherwise similar to Chrome.
This has been Friday night geek chat with Oldgreeeeeg.
Omg
me tooI can’t relate.Haha
I’m told Edge is better
Brave is Chromium based so it might be resource hungry as well. Librewolf is Firefox based with more privacy built in, you might be able to get some mileage out of that
So far it seems better then chrome but thanks , I’ll add librewolf to the trial
One prac assessment completed and submitted, all the work done yesterday and checked by teacher.
All is well, I can do this!
I feel like I’ve had a big backslide in terms of physical and mental health. And my sleep patterns.
Fucksticks.
That sucks to hear, and it sucks all three of those are kind of tied together so when one gets worse they all do
Yeah, it’s a party! Oh well. Onwards.
