TinyCat is off to the vet. He chucked again this morning, that makes it 4 times in a week. He’s also alternates between velcro-kitty and antagonist way more than usual. Suspect something is going on with him.
yay, I got lactose free milk and have been able to have coffee without effects , it was a bad week … lol
Your porcelain throne will be grateful lol
stomach aches were keeping me awake 😣
Aldi have long life lactose free full cream and Lite milk.
Oat milk goes great with coffee if you can have it.
@Seagoon_ Feeling really annoyed at an acting middle manager at our workplace right now.
He’s terrible at communicating. He refuses to listen to people. He makes decisions and orders people to do stuff without asking anyone if the thing he wants to do is even possible.
There’s a whole string of bad decisions as a result, and everyone else is left to clean up his mess afterwards.
For example, there’s an event that was scheduled on a particular date. An email was sent out to the people (outside the organisation) who are likely to attend.
Before that email was sent, he decided to postpone it. Just he didn’t let anyone know until after the emails were sent.
Another example. One of my colleagues was told she had to drop everything to find leads for a new product that he decided to launch in two weeks. He then blamed her for not coming up with enough leads.
He’s decided the IT team needs to roll out a new automated reporting system right now. The IT department has already said it’s not adding any features to that system because they’re getting rid of it in the next year or so. They don’t answer to him, and will just refuse to do it. So there’s a whole series of meetings now planned because he’s insisting that it has to happen.
There’s also a whole marketing campaign that the marketing team thinks is a stupid idea that won’t work, because they tried it last year and it didn’t work. He’s insisting they do it anyway.
And there’s a whole string of decisions like this.
The thing is, I’m not sure he’s aware at just how demotivating his unique management style is to those around him.
hugs
keep a diary and look for other work while you are there
Sounds like he’s trying to justify his own job/position. Absolute wanker
@StudChud Even though I’m not directly in his department (thankfully!), I am affected by his decisions.
I mentioned to a colleague today: “Have you noticed <manager> has a habit of springing decisions on people, and not taking things into consideration even if they have been explained to him?”
She said yes, and gave me some of her own examples.
So it has been noticed by people — although unfortunately the people who he answers up to are new in the role as well.
Earlier today, I was in a meeting with <Manager> and some people from the business sales team.
Marketing had wanted to run an end of financial year promotion for business customers.
<Manager> overruled them and decided that they should instead run a discount campaign aimed at consumers. (It’s a small team that doesn’t have the resources to do both.)
(This despite the fact that he said himself a couple of months ago that he wanted to focus more on business sales.)
I explained to the sales team that because the consumer discount campaign was happening — the one marketing doesn’t want to do — there wouldn’t be a promotional campaign for business.
This apparently hadn’t occurred to <Manager>, even though it was clearly explained to him. (I was in the meeting when it happened.)
“Well, ummmm, maybe we can do both?”
And then this afternoon I had a meeting with a colleague. One of <Manager’s> brilliant ideas is for her to cross-promote a product from <Manager’s> division with a product from another division.
“Okay, well before you go too deep into this, you might just want to be aware that the IT systems in <Manager’s division> aren’t integrated with the systems from the other division.”
She gives me a mildly horrified look. What do you mean not integrated, she asks?
"Many years ago, <Manager’s division> used to be a completely separate organisation. So it has its own separate IT systems. That means its own customer database, its own accounting package, its own content management system. Many of the platforms are different to the ones the rest of the organisation uses.
"*Nothing* is integrated.
"IT is planning to eventually move everything across to the same systems, but in the meantime any data that you want to move from one system to the other has to be done manually.
Her face dropped as she realised her workload was now at least triple what she had expected. Why didn’t <Manager> tell me any of this?
And that’s a very good question…
<Manager> sounds like a relic from the old organisation… this is the problem when mergers/takeovers/restructures happen and there’s too much autonomy left in the wrong places.
What a frickin dumpster fire. The EBU f’ed up hard. Also so much for not politicising Eurovision, Israel got over 300 points with one of the worst songs of the night! in the same 24 hours it warns of inceasing its bombing campaign in Rafa. I just…… I don’t even have words here. What the f is going on in the world.
There’s also the CNN article on the Israeli whistleblowers. Massive trigger warnings for detainment and torture if you look that up. Cripes.
And yet still in the Un. Still invited to Eurovision. Netanyahu Could behead a baby on national tv and so long as he says it was a “terrorist” Biden would still suck his dick.
UN won’t kick you out for being a genocidal dick, you want dicks to retain UN membership so everyone can yell at them - it’s a place where everyone uses their words instead of nukes
UN won’t kick you out for being a genocidal dick, you want dicks to retain UN membership so everyone can yell at them - it’s a place where everyone uses their words instead of nukes
With respect, if thats the plan its a shit one. Sure, no one has dropped the hammer yet, but aint done shit all for the suffering.
The purpose of the UN is to get people talking in a room, as opposed to standing on opposite sides of the battlefield. To try and talk it out.
It’s not perfect. nothing involving humans is. People seem to think it’s like World Police but it’s not.
The purpose of the UN is to get people talking in a room,
till one of the permanent members of the security council use their veto anyway.
People seem to think it’s like World Police but it’s not.
But hear me out, what if it was? Syria. Ukraine. Palestine/Israel. Georgia. Somalia. Civilians dead under the current system. I get nothings perfect, but fuck man we gotta do better than this.
The veto only applies to security council, not geberal assembly and is a bit of a two edged sword.
But in regards to world police? You’re trying to use a drill as a hammer. It’s not designed for that.
Ok, UN as a world police. How does that work? What actions do they take now?
Ah but Eurovision isn’t political. Those bombings? Not our problem. Oh, people are upset at Israel? We’Re NoT pOlItIcAl REEEEEEE!
Ah but Eurovision isn’t political. Those bombings? Not our problem. Oh, people are upset at Israel? We’Re NoT pOlItIcAl REEEEEEE!
Palestine isn’t a participant. So I guess in a sense “not their problem”? but booting out the Dutch…? Maaaaan.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the Dutch didn’t participate next year. Joost was my pick too 😭
Interesting! I wanted Croatia or Austria.
Nah, I reckon they’ll just send him again. Given the EBU the real middle finger. Tipping theres gonna be some pretty damning interviews given over the next couple of weeks against the EBU anyway.
Saw little butters today for an mday event. Little man chooses his battles.
Butty booiiii ugh so handsome want to skritch. Wish his humans were nicer
How has Butters been?
😍He is beautiful!
For fucks sake. Our fire alarms randomly went off. I was on the dunny half asleep. Nothing’s on fire. There are cobewebs around the fire alarm that’s going off, so my guess is that something’s moved in to it and is triggering the sensor. This actually happened at my last place, although at a much more reasonable hour.
Our alarms are a lot worse than regular alarms in regular houses. They’re all wired in series, so once one goes off, they all go off. It is controlled by a commercial style Pannell, but the best that can do for us is making it shut up for 8 minutes. After that it can be retriggered. We can’t just take it off the roof, A because we’d be in a fair bit of shit, but B because it’s bolted onto the roof and has several wires feeding into it anyways.
We can call the fire alarm company to replace it, but they won’t get here for several hours. Several hours while we’re meant to be asleep…
E: We tried vacuuming out any dust, in case that’s what was causing it but no dice. Fire panel people have been called. No clue how long they’ll be
E2: fire people reckon they’ll be here within an hour
E3: they came out quite quickly to fix it, which honestly wasn’t my experience in the past. Apparently nothing moved in, it just happened to go faulty. I blame the sun farts. In any case he took it off the roof and somebody will come tomorrow to replace it. A bit under 2 hours from it going off til it was fixed, which was honestly a good response time. Lovely bloke they sent too. He’s on call so we pulled him out of his slumber, so at least we aren’t alone in our suffering 😂
E4: also he called me back at 12:59, so he was here in under an hour
It’s too late, the snot has me now
The Boogeyman got ya
Boogerman got me good.
Best part of wfh i’m huddled on couch with doona, cats and comfort tv and a loose eye on work emails with volume turned up so i can nap.
For historical reasons unimportant here, i have a large number of cheap cotton face-washers in various colours. Prior to today, eight of these were sky-blue coloured. Today however, there’s only five that i can find [of that colour]. I am getting so fed up with that blasted backyard #bunyip coming in at night whilst i sleep & helping herself to my linen cupboard. She’s only got one warning left now, after which i feed her to the #yowie. I might even give her a bit of light fanging myself on the way thru, just to be going on with. Honestly, tis just beyond the pale; you’d think we mythical creatures would stick together, ffs! What is she, channelling her inner #bowerbird or something? 🤷♀️
I missed the aurora the first time, going out briefly and too late, then forgot last night. Oh well. It’s not really safe to hang around outside at night and I wouldn’t have been able to see much.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Leftovers with some extra cheese thanks
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I wish to order a cure for Mondays
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Took a pretty heavy call from a friend this afternoon that is going through a rough time. She had an altercation with some friends in our group which I think set her off into a spiral. I had no idea about any of this. It takes a lot of courage to reach out to someone.
I used to get affected by the same friends too, but then learned to stop putting disappointing people on a pedestal, thinking they do the same, and rely on them for emotional support and wellbeing which was always one way. I made some new friends. I discovered that healthy adult friendships actually exist and instead of being upset about certain behaviours from those people, I learned to pity that behaviour. I hope she learns this too.
so many many hugs
it was a very sad day for me when I realised my family of origin would never be a support . I went non contact because of abuse, and my husband’s family? I will do nothing for them anymore other than grunt oh noes when they tell sad tales. I am lucky to have a few people in my life I can rely on and I think that’s what it’s like. In life we only get a few people.
I’m learning that lesson myself. It’s tough, but good to know there’s light at the end of the tunnel.
I used to get affected by the same friends too, but then learned to stop putting disappointing people on a pedestal, thinking they do the same, and rely on them for emotional support and wellbeing which was always one way.
Big hugs. Relate to that so very painfully. I still feel pangs of sadness over the loss of an entire friend circle over covid; I shared lots of values and experiences with them and we had lots of great times, but I could’ve kicked myself for being so reliant on them for that support/wellbeing when it turns out that they were supremely unwilling/unable to show up in the ways that mattered most when the chips were down.
It was impossible to have an honest conversation because they would beat themselves up in a show of contrition and shame but not actually acknowledge any issues and work on them (or anticipate them better). I know a lot of that is a trauma response from them but after a certain point it just wasn’t healthy to be around any more and I couldn’t handle continuing to be the only one willing to forgive and accommodate.
I’m still in the phase of not really having made any new friends on that level, though I certainly have strengthened my friendship with a couple of other rock-solid people in my life and it’s made me so much more grateful for them.
Hard relate. I’ve learned to try and be happy in my own company rather than deal with that, but humans are a social animal and those behaviours are so pervasive
Have awoken to a kitchen covered in stir fry. Unwisely thought the lid would be enough to stop FishyCat getting into it. Hopefully he doesn’t end up peeing rocks from that snack.
A true hunter in your midst
He was a street cat before we got him, so fuck knows what he was hunting up to eat. Needs to stick to his prescription biscuits now! Wish you could explain to them.
Mine “accidentally” stole a small of piece of chicken off my plate that was seasoned with garlic and now she’s nuts for it.
No Gibson, garlic will kill you. Doesn’t seem to sink in
I recommend getting 1/4 chicken and chips. Skin and chips for thee, rest tithed to the lord
Er, in my experience the Vet saying buy the cat a rotisserie chicken translates to ‘it’s terminal’.
I am listening to Magic Pill for the second time ( book about ozempic weight loss drug )
here’s what I think after listening one time, it’s a great drug that actually works and it’s best used short term as an aid to tackling the psychology of eating and resetting eating habits.
I would totes take it if it were available here but it being Australia drug companies can’t be bothered and we have an over cautious government . I would even considering going to Canada to get it if possible.
Why is it good? It actually helps people regain health and reduces risks of age and weight related illnesses. This is proven .
One of the scary things I learnt in the book is how fake nearly all manufactured food is.
eg, bought cheese cake is just emulsified milk products, added oils, sugars and thickeners and flavour. Home made I used ricotta and eggs and real lemons or cherries. Real pastry base too.
One is fake food with practically no positive nutritional value, the other is real food that has some nutrition but should still be eaten sparingly as it’s high in calories.
The other sad thing is that the author’s parents worked so hard they were too tired to cook healthy meals. They ate premade meals zapped in the microwave. I will not fault the parents, that fault is in the work that tired them out and the food they bought being misrepresented as being healthy .
Be careful with the food chain details, they vary wildly from country to countey.
US food manufacturing is insane at the best of times.
I thought about ozempic. I decided to do it the hard way, but those extra benefits for heart health etc are really interesting.
I’d be keen just for those secondary effects.
Most people use it for ever because they also don’t change their diet , they still eat the same crap just less of it, and don’t exercise. Once they stop using ozempic they go back to eating more bad food.
I think using it as an aid to help develope new good habits or reset your body signals is the way.
80% of my diet calories are very good, home cooked food using real basic ingredients, I eat fresh fruit and vegetables everyday. It’s that 20% of junk that’s bad, bikkies, lollies, occasional desserts, fried food.
And the side effects, absolutely minimal and unproven . The side effects of obesity are guaranteed, debilitating and often fatal .
That makes sense. About 5 years ago I did the whole body transformation thing and it was great. But! It was too extreme and I ended up (also due to lockdown) putting back about 40% of what I lost. It can be really easy to get carried away with the whole gym/eating/aesthetics thing, almost to the point of giving oneself an eating disroder. This time I’m trying to be smart by offsetting the junk I eat with healthy main meals and not religeously counting calories.
Spent more time in bed than usual this morning and the app says I slept well… Annnnd I still feel like a sack of ripe old. I feel soooo tired.
Dragged myself out of the cave upon realising there was gorgeous sunshine to be had and in 15 mins it was gone! Melbourne weather, aye.
First 40 minutes of work today really soured my tone for the week. Had a chat with my boss and he felt the same.
Reason - we have some team members who are getting a bit too big for their britches, and causing a bit of friction. One particular person cannot stop themselves from interrupting others when talking. Happens daily, they have been reprimanded and it still happens. I think we’re getting close to an HR chat or a director telling them to pull their heads in.
Talk to them like a four year old and say its rude to interrupt you need to wait your turn?
Make an office talking stick thing. When they interrupt the person holding the stick gets to shake it at them, something tambourine-esque.
Start interruption tipping, where everyone goes into a draw for how far into the meeting until this person will interrupt, when the condition goes off, everyone slaps $5 on the table and says who won. Danny had three minutes, everyone hands Danny a fiver.
Move to zoom meetings and mute them.
Sponsor everyone in the office to learn sign language except them.
They have been reminded not to do it numerous times. Falls on deaf (or just stupid) ears. I have muted them on virtual meetings and will continue to do so
