You oughta be congratulated!
Anxiety today got me feeling like I’m being hunted by God himself while I write my silly little emails at work.
Thursday needs to come and go already, so I can move onto whatever’s next.
Mogwai is playing tonight, loudest and best concert I’d been to in the past. Take ear plugs.
WTF?! In a few weeks I will have been at this workplace for 25 years. They now want certified proof I’m not illegal. Some of this compliance stuff is bonkers…
The fuck did you get a role of that longevity in this day and age
Very specific skill set, sandstone institution
like liam neeson ? 🤐
I promise I am not, nor have I ever been Liam Neeson
Sounds like something Liam Neeson would say.
I’m in my 24th year. Same org, different roles. I’m too lazy to go elsewhere!
I need to find a new band. I’m writing all this music and I really want to perform it.
Like live? I’d definitely go to listen to that.
Mostly pain free now, just so very tired still. Still hurts a bit to walk.
Reading testimonials from sciatica sufferers I am surprised most are really young.
maybe all the old people have already had spine operations. 🥺
I’m honestly surprised Navalny stayed alive for as long as he did.
he was waiting until the right time, ie, when Trump and the GOP had to be scared into submission again
Power still out. Cat is sleeping in, still in bed. I’ve tried to hide the lack of sleep eye bags with make up. Not sure how to hide the “sleepy brain not working” tho…… today gonna be shitty.
Bugger, has it been out since last Tuesday?
Sure has. Latest incident update says “under construction” so doesn’t sound like a quick fix.
If it’s still out by tomorrow I would look into the government assistance package that you ma be entitled to for having no power for 1 week.
"The Victorian and Australian Governments will make available a Prolonged Power Outage Payment to households and small businesses without power for 7 days as a result of last Tuesday’s storms.
A payment of $1,920 per week will be extended to all eligible households (residential customers) that remain without power as of 12:01am Tuesday 20 February 2024.
Households who may be eligible will be proactively notified by their distribution business. Funding will be allocated through a payment application process, by which residential customers will be invited to apply for the payment. The payment will be administered by distribution businesses and will help families buy much-needed basic items and find alternative accommodation to get through this difficult period.
For small businesses (those with a Victorian payroll less than $10 million a year) who are affected, payments of $2,927 per week will be made.
Payments for households and businesses will be available for up to 3 weeks.
Distribution businesses will proactively message impacted customers, and publish information on their website on eligibility criteria, as well as information on how these payments will be applied."
Oh Mittens that’s rough. I hope your power comes back soon.
I think this makes you eligible for the rebate if it’s still out tonight?
Someone from work sent me am email last night.
I looked at it but decided not to respond to the request which they needed by 9am today.
I come in early to work so I can have a coffee and relax while I do things on my phone or read things online, not to work so from now I’m going to pull the breakfast card on people if they.
Anyway when I came back in from outside at 9am that person sent me an email came up to me as I’m taking my coat and stuff off and asked if I had gotten to their request and I played ignorant and said I hadn’t looked at my emails.
I’m finding people have reallly no respect for work boundaries and private personal time.
It’s the 4th time in 3 weeks this has happened.
Good approach. I generally don’t reply to anything that comes in after 4 pm. I might read it and prepare a reply, but not sending it till the following morning.
The overlap between work-private life has become a bit blurred since Covid and WFH becoming normalised. I’m clawing back my own time more and more cause I’ve become guilty of working longer hours.
Also, the absolute audacity of that person!!
Great work! Is it worth ditching email on the phone?
Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t.
I’ve turned off all notifications from my work emails so none of them pop up on screen or notifications because people have a bad habit of sending emails way after works or very early morning like at 5am - 6am waking me up.
Haven’t hard work email on the phone in over 5 years. Best decision ever.
This reminded me I needed to set Quiet time for mobile Teams and mobile Outlook on the new phone. Having work on my phone lets me be more free with my day where I can leave my PC/apartment and still keep on top of things, but everything goes night night between 6pm and 8am and all day Saturday & Sunday.
My brother recently had an issue with a co-worker who would send an email at 4 am, then follow up at 6 am with a phone call asking why my brother was being so lazy and using very abusive language. On weekends. Issue was referred to Fair Work and after much drama was resolved by the sacking of the co-worker for being unprofessional (well that’s what it amounted to). Keep records of this shit if you feel inclined. Took my brother about 7 months to amass enough evidence of the co-worker’s abusive work habits to convince Fair work. The co-worker was doing it to others too. Not the public service - a non-govt service provider. Co-worker had to pay triple time per hour for the weekend calls/work as a fine to each person he was doing this to, and double time for calls during the week but out of normal business hours as specified in the work contracts. Added up to a nice large sum over the 7 months. I understand the abuser had to sell his house to pay all the fines.
Good on you for pushing back. Where I come from that kind of request is typical and educators especially are somehow required to be perpetually available. It’s abhorrent and it only takes a few to have loose boundaries before it becomes a norm
I actually got a little bit annoyed last night so I had some time to think about how I’d go about it. I really wanted to show that I don’t look at my emails outside of work hours, especially weekends and that I actually have others things to do when I arrive in the morning that take priority. IE. my coffee and socialising.
They’re also knew that I get into work early since we arrive roughly at around the same time so I don’t know if they were trying to take advantage of me like that but I’d be damned if I was going to do any work before 8am.
Loewhaley on instagram has great videos addressing these types of issues…
Watching a video on the history of floppy disks and some comment says kids would probably be asking “why is this man pulling out weird DVDs from a 3D-printed Save icon”
In ten years time even that wouldn’t make sense any more…
I was there 3000 years ago.
When we used cassette tapes
reel to reel tapes.
punch cards
cabinet of alphabetically ordered index cards
Not at home
I don’t think anyone who used punch cards professionally is still working. we had to do a cobol assignment in the early 90’s with cards, and even then they were ancient history. I doubt anyone was still using cards after about the mid-80’s.
Do not recommend. But they really do give you an appreciation for a keyboard and monitor. Kids these days honestly take them for granted.
7th night without power.
That’s tough. Although at this point I’d be hoping it stays off until after midnight so you can get your $1920.
Fingers crossed for you that it won’t be too much longer.
I can’t help thinking you should be paid a daily rate.
Thanks RustyRaven. A friend has lent me a generator so I can get some work done during the day. And grab a hot shower. The things we take for granted…until they are taken away.
Jesus Christ that must suck. Sorry you’re having such a shit time dude.
Dude! That’s insane. I gather you aren’t within the metro area?
Up in the Dandenongs, with Puffing Billy, which hasn’t been running either.
Back down the bellarine. excellent swim.
water is warm as it gets. Don’t even have to get used to it.
Now it is time for a shitty mcains supreme pizza.
Why do people get on trains as slowly as possible? Fucks sake.
It is very important to step over the gap slowly and deliberately to make sure you don’t accidentally stumble and get trapped between the train and platform. Once you have ascertained you are safely aboard it is then necessary to survey all available seating and standing options in order to select the most advantageous position. It is only once the selection has been made and the most direct route to that location has been calculated that it is appropriate to move further into the carriage.
I have a job interview in a few hours and I’m still lolling around in bed pretending it’s not happening… zero engagement with life. Ugh. I better try and freshen up at least
There is much to be said, for reading in bed. A cat asleep by your feet.
Almost a poem
There is much to be said,
For reading in bed;
A cat asleep by your feet,
The coolness of the sheets.Like the phloem
Kitty transporting the goods.
Stopping the brood
Sleuthing the feet
No attempt to be discreet
First fully caffeine free day. I am feeling very flat and lethargic. Miss Meow considers this to be a good thing as it leads to more lap time.
@RustyRaven @CEOofmyhouse56 I’m 49 and heavily addicted to caffeine but take a few months break every 12-18 months. My time from decaf to more energized is 5 weeks.
