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???
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I have absolutely no idea 🤣 Whatever it was I think the packet manager has fixed it, as it is designed to run programs continuously. Or possibly the successful post was an amazing fluke and no post in the future will ever work again. But I'm hoping not.
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.
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 🤦🏼♀️
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?
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 friends maybe wouldn't have engaging in some risking 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.
I would be a considered a somewhat older gay now but I can't watch shows like heartstopper. I just can't relate at all, and I'm too cynical to suspend disbelief 🫢
I'm in that weird section where being LGBTQIA+ was accepted but still sort of looked down upon (like I grew up learning to say "that's gay" whenever something bad happened or something I didn't like happen, if that helps put a stamp on when I grew up). And I love Heartstopper, I actually just finished reading the first two volumes of it and I watched the show when it came out. But admittedly, I am slightly jealous that kids nowdays can see representation on tv, and not just gay and straight people, but bisexual characters, pansexual, trans and nonbinary. If I had the language I have now that would've helped me as a kid.
But ultimately, I am so happy that kids are now getting tv shows and movies where they can see themselves. I just hope that for us 25+ and older can get some representation. I want to see more elder LGBTQIA+ folks on my screens. Because, I mean as you would know, so many of our elder died unnecessarily because the government didn't care about us. We've lost so much history. And being able to see old LGBTQIA+ folks means that we're here. And that we can grow old and beautiful.
I've felt weird about how I'm not even 30 and my hair is greying, but I watched some TikToks where elder queers have said "Grey means you're here". And as a queer person with depression, I take that to heart.
We must be a similar age, growing up (especially in Brisbane) I still had bullies and things weren't great but for the most part people left me alone.
I do enjoy seeing so many of the letters present these days, at the time I was coming to terms with being bisexual it was still very much a pick a side mentality from both sides.
I also agree some more content with older LGBT for would be great, especially as my friends and I transition into the next phase of settling in life.
Good but like antsy in that "it's something new and I don't like change" kind of way? Also it's like a decision and an important one, so there's all that additional anxious excited feeling attached too!
But all positive. This is just me going through the 'omg change' phase I think. Just need to sit and get used to the idea for a little bit 😅
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.
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.
Do you think its a requirement that to work for Linkt you have to get a lobotomy? Or do they exclusively hire people with single digit IQ?
I traveled early June, noticed my tag didn't beep so I got home, logged a replacement tag, they go "No worries, we wont charge you for any tolls for the proceeding couple of days and until your new tag is confirmed received". Want to guess what I just received in the mail? If you guessed a toll invoice I have bad news for you: You are clearly too smart to work for Linkt.
I try to be patient with call center staff, its not their fault they work for soul sucking corporations. But man we are 35 minutes in and they are still trying to tell me it is a valid invoice.
Heheh, they're smashing their heads against their desk because they prolly agree with you it's stupid, but they can't say that and have to keep repeating that's it's valid.
Escalate politely, and if speaking to a senior/TL doesnt work, there should be an ombudsman you can report to (though im not sure who in this case)
I lived in Melbourne for about a decade solid, and have split time between Melbourne and Sydney for over a decade since then, and am also lucky enough not to have encountered him. If he pulls this sexual assault stunt somewhat regularly, why hasn’t he been put away?
It seems like its true, but I don't think alleging crimes on reddit then putting someone through a trial by fire is legal. It's for sure a PSA but it still a bit creepy. For all anyone knows he's stopped doing it. I'm a survivor too and this triggers me to even think about but I don't know. On reddit I'd be downvoted to hell and I seem to have found some here too, this isn't playing devil's advocate I'm specifically talking about the legality. Those using reddit to threaten violence and suggest he suffer violence are not a lot better than him imo.
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.
I have two twitter accounts that I linked a thousand years ago. I never ended up using twitter so the accounts just sit there. I went to go delete them, as my little 'fuck you' to Muck, but it wants my password... as if I'm going to remember a password I used 10 years ago.
Anyway, I changed my usernames to variations of 'elon suck my dick' and now I'm going to troll his tweets until I get banned. Stupid fuck.
Wish me luck!
Edit: give me some more people to insult on twitter, I'm trying to nuke these. Im on that moron Jordan Petersons twitter atm
Hard day. Baby hasn’t been well. I keep getting irrationally angry at my partner too because I’m freaked out and projecting. I have managed to not actually say anything and just keep my emotions to myself but I’m exhausted from managing myself too. Baby will be okay but it’s hard when he’s screaming in pain 😭
Reports of my demise have me SLIGHTLY exaggerated. I'm feeling heaps better, but my god that was the worst I've ever felt whilst not actually being sick.
Nightshade just like the to-mate,
Oh, po-tay-to, po-tah-to, po-tate!
Colours red gold, blue, purple majesty
La Ratte, Jewel Yam, please, French Fingerling
I want them scalloped and baked,
Friiiiiiied, driiiiied, and potato-caked!
OH POTATO!!
WHO MADE YOU
SO DELICIOUS!?
OH POTATO!
YOU'RE THE FIRE
FROM PROMETHEUS
Boiled and bubbled in a big pot
Stirred till the 'tates are steaming hot
Smash 'em, mash 'em, butter and milk
Whipped up smooth, starchy-white silk
Cleaned up and chopped, wedges or chips
Salty and sauce-y upon my hungry lips
OH POTATO!!
WHO MADE YOU
SO DELICIOUS!?
OH POTATO!!
YOU'RE THE FIRE
FROM PROMETHEUS!
thank you, ReadEverything; your comment about licking the potato-masher inspired me
Day 11 of exercise program. I discovered today that my program has a water drinking tracker and reminder, which is grouse because I've always been bad at keeping up my water intake. It also has a calorie burn counter on the pedometer bit. I like to have a low sugar alcoholic ginger beer when I've finished work, and it was interesting to note that even though it's low sugar it would take me half a day of walking to burn it off!
I've got 80kg of spuds again today💪
Have a great day everyone!
Yay! Good on you! I love quick routines because they're so much easier to make the time for, as opposed to me trying to carve time out of my day for a gym session or something.
Take those calorie burn things with a grain of salt, they are way over simplified and dont really mean much. You can calculate your base metabolical rate with online calculators which take your exercise etc into account and that will give you a rough calorie amount that you can aim for each day for maintenance. Then you just need to adjust down or up a few 100 calories depending on if you want to gain or lose weight. Thats obviously a simple way to look at things but it will be significantly more accurate than a calorie burn function on a pedometer
Cool, thanks for the tip, might give it a look tonight. Always wondered about the whole "steps" thing anyway. Like a leisurely meandering stroll at a Sunday market and a "shit I'm late for work" walk are both counted the same, but to me it'd seem obvious that one will burn more fat than the other.
Apparently Mr Woof's ears are finely attuned to the sound of a spoon hitting the bottom of the bowl. He was at the other end of the house but managed to rock up just in time as I finished the last of my porridge.
Weird thing happened in Coles Richmond Traders this morning when I was buying my lunch. The exit gate for the self-serve lane didn't open. Had to show the receipt to the attendant to get the gates open to leave. I think this is Coles' response to grab it & run 'customers'. Might be a good idea to keep your receipt handy until safely out of there in future.
Reminds me, I had to go to target yesterday for the first time in 6 years lol and they didn't have a single human register, every single cashier register had been replaced with self serve and 1 lady manning all 20. Felt kinda dystopian
I start sweating at the self serve like I've stolen something but really I'm just over exerting myself because I have a trolley full of shit, no register is open so i have to do it myself and I want to get out of there.
I swear to Alanis Morissette that if I don't get this frackin' job I'm going to eat my cat's dryfood.
Please offer me the job
And I'll be your phone monkey,
I'll upsell,
Cross-sell,
Side-sell,
Slide into hell,
If you pay me,
Fortnightly
Please tell me you like me...
Last session with the Really Good Short Term Psych. It went so well even though I was procrastinating in bed until half an hour before the appointment. I feel a good sense of closure and clarity and appreciation. It feels good in my bones.
I am also infinitely grateful and relieved that he will write a letter summarising findings and recommendations to my GP and the psychiatrist I have an appointment with next week, because we covered so much and I feel he really got to the crux of what I've been having difficulties with my whole life. It'll save me a lot of exhausting explanation and rehashing and will come with professional recommendations that might finally get me the help I need.
BTW although Laksa King still makes a damn good laksa, pleaser reconsider whether you want to support them after how they treated their staff during COVID detention.
I think the instances that cater to a niche have been largely spared the fediverse breakdown. ttrpg.network seems to be chugging along fine. Probably wasn't a good idea to attempt to recreate reddit on a single instance. Would've been smarter to have lots of smaller instances catering to broad topics of interest.
I signed up through Lemmy world and there's been lots of issues with some of the apps...(I also signed up through Aussie zone too cos I was confused, but have mainly used the Lemmy world one to comment). I think you're right and it probs has alot to do with the large influx of users...
(& I also have 'pending subscriptions...)
My kid is angry with me because I asked her to clean up her make up in the bathroom or I'm going to use my arm as a croupier's stick and swipe everything into the bin. I don't think I'm getting a cup of tea now.
The other week, after almost tripping for the millionth time, I told my kids that if they kept leaving their notebook computer chargers where they're liable to get trodden on, I'd confiscate them. Sure enough, the next day nothing's changed, so I confiscated one. I did return it after a while. But since then, they've kept the chargers and cables neatly out of the way.
I can understand it, to be honest. Kids don't get a lot of money and makeup's expensive. Sure, you're right in that she should clean the damn stuff up, but like... kids're irrational and jump to anger responses a lot.
(Does she have a caddy type thing to put it in? I got some extra shelving and caddies in my bathroom and now it stays organised. Feels good.)
I saw that! I was actually about to point it out but I didn't know when exactly the accident happened and thought perhaps it'd happened before you posted and I just heard about it today
We have bots! The first of many, but bots nonetheless.
And good bots too, not the spambots that things have been riddled with for a while.
That aside, is there a good solution to stop an electric toothbrush going all mouldy and horrible inside? Luckily, it's mostly only on the bit that you're meant to replace every three months or so, but it's still unpleasant.
Not sure if it's just a design flaw with the Oral-B ones, where they have a lot of holes to let water inside the head, but the gaps aren't large enough for it to be able to dry out properly (or the air is too humid, not sure).
In today's instance of messed up dreams, I had a very vivid and lengthy one about an insane weather event where BOM predicted it would go down to -26 and -28 in Melbourne over the weekend (just the weekend!) and the forecast recommended in the strongest terms that everybody stay indoors as much as possible. Then in the dream I went to the DT and everyone was losing their shit and people were sharing info of which supermarkets still had stock of anything and locations of official "cold shelters" operated by councils for people to take refuge in if needed. The Alps were being evacuated and there was talk of crop failures and potential deaths in the thousands. It was very real in my head.
Environments that cold need really well insulated spaces, and a lot of Melbourne homes are really poorly insulated. The apartment has one advantage, in that it would be small and therefore relatively easy to heat through even improvised means, but holding on to that heat for any length of time would be difficult
Maybe with a group of people huddled together in a blanket fort? I've never experienced temperatures like that myself but I remember a whole lot of advice going around during last year (?) power blackouts over winter in the US. People camping in their living room and staying in the one room to concentrate heat sources. That said, I don't think it went down to -20 C though. Wouldn't water pipes freeze and stuff as well? I suspect maybe it won't be survivable. 🤔
I wouldn't mind if they were windows to the outside world! But they're just windows into the warehouse. I'm constantly making awkward eye contact with people 😅
ffs, I thought the swishing sound I could hear was part of the music, but then I noticed the music was over ( listening to Interstellar ) and it was just the bloody dishwasher making noises
.😂😂😂 what does this say about the music I listen to , what does it say about my discernment
lol. reminds me of 'Airplane'...aka Flying High here.
" Ladies and gentlemen, this is your stewardess speaking... We regret any inconvenience the sudden cabin movement might have caused, this is due to periodic air pockets we encountered, there's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you enjoy the rest of your flight... By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
I’m teaching a class that involves the students having to watch a movie each week to accompany the content being taught. I’ve watched a lot of the prescribed films in the past, but I need to brush up on them before the semester starts. So I have 10 to watch in a few weeks.
Getting started with the first one. Made a cuppa and put on Harakiri.
No thanks I rather not live in endless darkness. Remember the Sun produces warmth. Do you want to live in never ending dark and cold? Where nothing grows? 😢
Funny sort of an evening. Started with, I think I’ll finish that little bit of cleaning… Next thing I know I’m behind the bloody washing machine. Late dinner out and now it’s past my bedtime and I’m still out… Thank goodness tomorrow is my Friday…
On the final leg of my trip home! Flight delayed 40 mins, then took 40 mins to get my bag. Far out there’s some nonsense with our airlines at the moment!
I'm hoping I don't feel as shit about work tomorrow. I have some big thinking and planning to do for myself I feel like I could really use a week off. I've written down a list of stuff that I need to do including routine medical checkups that I've been procrastinating on. I don't know how so many things have crept up on me. Adult life I guess. Just as you feel like you got life sorted, another bunch of problems or life admin stuff comes up. Sigh.
day 5, had to drive with the corset; let's just say the loaner car is too low.... but yea excited to get the dashcam and boot protector installed, my cupboard didn;t turn up today....
williamstown enterance to the west gate this morning was shit. the car was moving around 1km an hour, turns out becos it was a one-lane-only entrance everyone has using the second lane to cut in. best part was I used a side road to exit and there is a "keep clear" box outside this side road, had to loudly horn at someone who was cutting in. smh
The pain is better today took a nice afternoon sleep. yea, these days I've been sleeping a lot, resting a lot. some said no housework but having both of us having back issues, someone has to do it lol, but really taking it easy. might attempt t go to the city on Friday for the footy as well as on Saturday to go to the finders market with a friend. definitely weaning myself off endone. will attempt med-free sleep tonight.
A simple toasted egg sandwich with margarine. Actually is sitting a lot heavier that I remembered and coffee is made.
Had a strange dream after I turned off my snooze alarm this morning.
A workmate was my late mum and I were sitting at a table I guess for coffee and my workmate tells my mum that she needs to stop stressing because it’s affecting me and causing me to stress.
The my mum gets really angry and throws her out of the house and I walk outside and leave all the commotion waiting for my workmate to come out with me so we can both walk away from it all.
Instead my brother comes out and tells me everyone’s on their way (mum and family) and I get fed up and sigh heavily and walk away.
Then I wake up.
Weird dream, not particularly close with this workmate either.
i've been doing so many reCaptchas over the years and I have noticed there are far too many people in tropical places who wear thongs while riding a motorcycle
You can set a default sorting for your lemmy feed in your profile settings, which will be persistent between desktop and the application.
I have been using NewComments for a while, but now that the lemmyverse is more active I'm giving Hot another go.
Whether or not you default your feed to Subscribed or Local depends on how many communities you've found, perhaps leaving it on local for a while will help you find new communities that you can build up your subscriptions.
This was just for your homepage feed, I don't know if we have the ability to set default sorting of comments in a thread yet, only manual each post that I can see.
It's been a long time since I've had fennel bulbs but damn I'd forgotten how unbelievably good they are roasted. The air fryer is far too filthy to use right now but I'd love to try it in there
A lot of Melbourne isn’t served very well by public transport
Melbourne public transport largely assumes you’re travelling to or from the CBD – if you aren’t, it can be effectively useless
Standard business hours a thing so that you know other businesses will be open around the same time, facilitating communication, so everyone needs to get to work in a relatively short time window
I hear what you are saying but even so, I still think a lot of cars on the road really don't need to be there and they could have taken PT especially if it was just into the city and back.
I think there were heaps of accidents this afternoon.
Maps was telling me 1hr30 by the westgate and 1hr10 through essendon. Ended up taking me 1hr 30 through essendon anyway. Can't imagine how much worse the westgate would of been
Monday it only took 1 hr.
I've been driving due to bus replacements and I imagine heaps of people are too. School holiday peaks are usually pretty good otherwise.
Between the drive to the station, train, bus replacement and then final train/walk it would of taken me over 2 hours otherwise.
Is this a replacement bus? The shutting down of various train lines in the west will be adding to the traffic woes. I believe Dynon Road is closed too, another way to cross the river.
Now that I'm a rich investor (with a whole $500 invested in an ETF) I won't get all the information until mid August. ETF's pass on some capital gains & taxes and it takes them a while to put all the information together, something I didn't realise was a thing, so last year I ended up having to ammend my tax return after that arrived. I ended up having to pay the tax office 17c back 🤣
Yeah... I think it's a really big hit to a huge chunk of the population to NOT have it. Imagine if they'd just tax the fucking rich for that amount instead.
Oh Jesus Christ I decided to give it a go and I get back $250??????????? I've gotten back 4 figure amounts before in past years. This is fucked. I have nothing to look forward to
Well today's stew has become more of a chunky soup. Chick peas sweet potato and cauliflower. Chilli overpowers the curry and other spices, but it's freaking tasty. Looks like sick, but luckily it's been a long time since I was sick.
Already dropped at least an inch of my waist since stopping drinking. Go metabolism and keeping kinda busy. Could also be the atrophy as well of course. I only really know because this skirt I got a fortnight ago fits a lot better and this boys 16 minecraft tshirt I bought isn't skin tight like it was back in April. Smaller and smaller, and no, I don't have an eating disorder. Thanks for checking in with me though I appreciate it friends.
For the first time in 12 months I feel like I can stop wondering how things are going to turn out. I finally put the finishing touches on the music setup, the tape deck is online. Now I can play stuff I have on tape from bandcamp artists with added hiss and less dynamic range and can't skip tunes. All speakers in their right place and everything is patched. Oh no, I forgot something, one thing left to do dammit. After my journal post I guess.
Again, thx for reading. I'm in such a fucking good place today I'm going to cry now.
Image contains: large pot of brownish vegetable soup with sweet potato chick peas and cauliflower, on a stove.
well, i got a short notice REA inspection tomorrow but the good side of that is i cleaned the fuck out of my apartment and set up the new computer properly. was going for one cable but had to settle for two.
one them routine inspections. i actually hate it but hey renting what can you do, last one was over 6 months ago. the agents/landlords are mostly very hands off.
Trying really hard and struggling immensely to write an introductory paragraph or two for my LinkedIn as I begin my campaign to reshape people's perspective of neurodiversity and neurodiverse children in ECEC.
Today was 'The Man Who Killed Don Quixote". I can answer this. The men who killed this movie were all the guys/editors who were too gutless to tell Gilliam that the movie needed to be cut by one hour. The trope of the stupid director was stale, already done in Tropic Thunder and such an unusual plot device shouldn't be repeated. And wtf with the terrorists, too easy, too lame.
You know what would have been better, a Spanish Literature professor going mad , the tutor being Poncho, the prof imagining his students as the characters in the book. The dean etc etc ( this is my original work, no idea if it's been done before. I'm registering this today using registered mail )
A Walter Mitty day dreamer type story ( but not the modern movie which was awesome!! , but the old original short stories )
I downloaded a browser so I can keep the bot account logged in there in case I need to access it (the logout function seems a bit dodgy) and it seems to be running a bit smoother. I'm wondering how much difference it makes which browser you use to how Lemmy runs? I mostly use Chrome, and the one I just downloaded is Midori Lite (I picked it cause the icon was pretty!) which is obviously designed to be light and fast.
Decided to play Pillars of Eternity 2 again. An hour and a bit later I'm still trying to decide which godlike I want to play, I love character customisation lol
Is this post on Imgur marked 18+ for anyone else? https://imgur.com/a/Hotu1fh I didn't mark it as mature, but it shows up as being NSFW when I tried to archive it