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Brionglóid is one word.

  • @[email protected]
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    163 months ago

    5 year old would not sleep at all last night.

    Exhausted.

    Work is utter hell, I want to go home already.

    World is going to shit.

    The light at the end of the tunnel is a train.

    -screaming intensifies-

  • @[email protected]
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    163 months ago

    One of the most important members of the technical team rang me on my mobile (im on sick leave) and told me she’s quitting.

    She is one of the most amazing and intelligent people i have ever met. She is the companies knowledge base, and they are doing to her what they’re doing to me. The work overload.

    They pay her poorly. Very poorly. And knocked back raises in the past.

    I told her what I did, and she’s going to give it a last shot.

    Rome is burning.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 months ago

      Telltale signs of shitty management. If this isn’t addressed quickly and effectively, time to leave. Good luck with the job search :)

      • @[email protected]
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        83 months ago

        You assume that business owners and management want to have a thriving and growing business. To too many owners and management a business is just a vehicle from which to extract money and or power/benefits.

        The sad bit is that the workers believe in the work.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          Well I can’t figure out the exact plan of they’re planning. You take over a business to gut it and kill it?

          Sounds like a a lot of people have left at his workplace.

  • @[email protected]
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    163 months ago

    You ever have a day where you have action paralysis, struggle against the brick wall of zero motivation, waste time on rubbish, and then think fck it, I’ve wasted so much of the day anyway I don’t want to even try for the remainder of the day. It’s one of those.

  • @[email protected]
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    123 months ago

    It’s escaped my attention until now, but next Monday is a public holiday. We have a long weekend coming up!!! Yippee!

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      Yeah, I meant to swap that one for a less problematic day but forgot how much notice is required to do so. Oops.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      I have a couple days overtime accrued already, so i’m taking tomorrow off too :D

      Good thing we all have monday off, 37c forecast yikes

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      Is everyone Celebrating Australia Day/ Commiserating Invasion Day on Sunday or Monday?

      I need to get the Lamb Chops for the BBQ, but don’t know exactly when I will be having them for Lunch.

  • @[email protected]
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    123 months ago

    I’ve been reeking of garlic (and, embarrassingly, sweat) all morning and lolling around in bed shamelessly avoiding uni obligations. House is a dumpster. Well, I’m done with being gross now… time to start with the mountain of chores to bring this place back to sanity.

    • CEOofmyhouse56
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      113 months ago

      Lol. I’ve got stuff on the floor in every room but I have tidy cupboards and drawers. Throwing out a heap of shit. I found napisan that expired in 2014. Everytime I mark something off my list I add another 2 things to it. I feel ya. 💜

      • @[email protected]
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        63 months ago

        We’ve had a clear out of the child’s room… 5 trips to the op shop and I still have 2 boxes to take, and filling up a 3rd. And I’m about to tackle the plastics drawer and that dreaded 3rd cutlery drawer…

        • @[email protected]
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          The active ingredient degrades slowly over time. Nothing bad will happen if it’s used, it just won’t be effective in whitening clothes. So the manufacturer puts an expiry date, mostly so people don’t complain ‘it didn’t work’

          • Mert
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            13 months ago

            The expiry date also ‘helps’ people to buy the product more often.

        • CEOofmyhouse56
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          23 months ago

          Ah ha and it’s 3 kgs and it’s still half full because I don’t use it except for the occasional pillowcase.

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      Must be the day for it. I’ve been putting stuff off and now need to just bite the bullet and get it done

  • CEOofmyhouse56
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    123 months ago

    Look what I found. My sister knitted them for my daughter years ago. I’m not throwing them out. They’re heirlooms now.

    spoiler

  • @[email protected]
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    3 months ago

    Once a little sugar ant made up his mind to roam -

    To fare away far away, far away from home.

    He had eaten all his breakfast, and he had his Ma’s consent

    To see what he should chance to see; and here’s the way he went -

    Up and down a fern frond, round and round a stone,

    Down a gloomy gully where he loathed to be alone,

    Up a mighty mountain range, seven inches high,

    Through the fearful forest grass that nearly hid the sky,

    Out along a bracken bridge, bending in the moss,

    Till he reached a dreadful desert that was feet and feet across.

    'Twas a dry, deserted desert, and a trackless land to tread,

    He wished that he was home again and tucked-up tight in bed.

    His little legs were wobbly, his strength was nearly spent,

    And so he turned around again and here’s the way he went -

    Back away from desert lands, feet and feet across,

    Back along the bracken bridge bending in the moss,

    Through the fearful forest grass, shutting out the sky,

    Up a mighty mountain range seven inches high,

    Down a gloomy gully, where he loathed to be alone,

    Up and down a fern frond and round and round a stone.

    A dreary ant, a weary ant, resolved no more to roam,

    He staggered up the garden path and popped back home.

  • @[email protected]
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    3 months ago
    Mildly touchy recent topic

    Fuckkk, Spud was being forced to withdraw cold turkey due to not being able to afford nicotine therapy and barely having money for food.

    @[email protected] When you see this if you can get to one of the places you can get some food for Mickey https://secondchanceanimalrescue.com.au/resources/outreach-program/scar-pet-food-pantry/

    There are food banks around that might have relaxed eligibility

    And there might be bulk billed consults or reduced cost/free nicotine therapy

    Ps. Sorry if this is none of my business

    • @[email protected]
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      63 months ago

      I don’t check here every day so I missed all that info. But, if they’re reading this and struggling with nicotine withdrawal and not wanting to quit or cold turkey, DM me.

    • BriongloidOPM
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      33 months ago

      Ps. Sorry if this is none of my business

      You’re free to speak about it, you can also disagree if you feel differently about anything.

  • @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    Yet another wave.

    Also got into a barking contest apparently with an elderly St. Bernard doggo. This thing was huuge. They’re gentle giants but I lost that one had to yield.

  • @[email protected]
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    113 months ago

    I do not know what I want for dinner. Sorely tempted to load a baked potato up to fuck and just eat that

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    103 months ago

    Lovely day update - bliss has been interrupted my multiple mowers and power tools. Neighbours really hate silence.

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    Jesus christ, giveacrap just keep digging that hole.

    • failed delivery due to shitty delivery company - i bring it to their attention - they resend with same company and driver. Rinse and repeat six friggin’ times

    • I look up our order history and realise this shit has been going on with every single order for the past year. F this. I cancel everything. Ain’t got time for that shit. Especially since the guys who deliver my cat litter do tp now.

    • Leave a review on productreview under the usual nick telling them they used to be great, but now they’re not and they need to stop using the cheapest, shittiest couriers and callcentres they can get their hands on, and they’ve lost a loyal customer.

    • This <censored> from their staff doesn’t pm me on productreview, but instead runs my nick through their database, matches my email and emails me directly asking ‘did you leave this review?’ Not looking to resolve the issues or regain a customer, nope, just wants the bad pr to go away.

    He’s about to become extremely fucking acquainted with the word ‘inappropriate’

    • Kudra :maybe_verified:
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      63 months ago

      @Taleya @briongloid had it with them about a year ago, just awful couriers, failed at least 3 delivery attempts in a row and I told them to go jump. Switched to Yarn’n, who so far haven’t fucked up once, but I’m kindof waiting for it to happen, it just seems almost inevitable.

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      Oh! I’ve not had trouble with them aside from couriers who literally throw and run. What is knocking? Possibly because we are so close to the main DC?

    • @[email protected]
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      43 months ago

      Yikes. That sounds awful… I haven’t had a new delivery in well over a year because I forgot to delay one before and I’ve still got a whole unopened box to use. Did the company get bought over or something?! Why must even WGAC fall to enshittification -_- although it is perhaps ironically fitting that they do. Ugh.

      Feels really unsettling, all the brands you felt good about and safe with ending up like this, like all your friends turning into dropkicks and your old life is no more.

      The other day I read about Kogan having an energy plan (wtf to even that) and really horrible service - apparently it’s white labelled Powershop. Jesus, anyone remember when Powershop were the energy brand of choice for us greenies before they got inexplicably sold to Shell…

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        I’m finding it the same, all the things I used to be ok with and rely on suddenly aren’t working well

      • Kudra :maybe_verified:
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        33 months ago

        @just_kitten @Taleya the other thing that sucks about WGAC is the toilet paper is coming all the way from China. We DO NOT need to ship bum roll from effing China, it’s one of the least sensible things to buy from there, srsly.

        • @[email protected]
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          13 months ago

          we haven’t opened the rolls yet, but eco247 sell them now, so hoping they’re good! These are the guys we get our whopping great refill wheelie bins of cat litter delivered from, so having them do both the cats and us in regards to poop tickets tickles me wonderfully

      • @[email protected]
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        23 months ago

        In my case it’s them partnering with a shitty courier and having customer service mishandle it to the point of cancellation. But the mishandling to the point of a federal complaint is a new one for me…

        The courier issue is a fucking mind boggle because it’s ANC. And i use pet circle. Who very fucking famously use ANC and i have had ZERO delivery issues. Ever. Different tiers and SLAs i guess

    • PeelerSheila
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      33 months ago

      I had a lot of trouble with them in the past before I eventually cancelled my subscription, like delivering the wrong things when I varied the order, missing orders, customer service that was friendly but incompetent, incorrect billing.

      • Rusty Raven M
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        23 months ago

        That’s who I get mine from last time, after WGAC annoyed me by reducing the minimum time for their subscription. The paper is ok but not great quality, probably equivalent to the WGAC standard recycled stuff. The wrapping for each roll has lots of animal pictures on it, which I consider to be a good feature.