Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
So like one in five desks at work have some sort of issue. Screens/docks not working. Chairs are missing or broken. Meeting rooms can’t connect to the network. Absolutely amazing.
Whoever is sabotaging this, I applaud you, you mad mad bastard.
I’m also being super vocal about stuff not working correctly, making sure the managers who really push for office days hear me.
We had a monitor nicked the other week. Local IT put on the trenchcoat and went investigating. Found it attached to a gaming rig 3 levels down. We’re not 100% sure what this person needs with a gaming rig, but apparently they have approval for it. Local IT called it an emotional support RTX 3080ti.
That is beyond amazing. Look, I’m guilty of grabbing the comfiest chair available when I get into the office. But i’d never consider appropriating IT hardware. That’s some balls
Do you work in my workplace, I’m having similar issues and am on a similar war path about it all.
It’s possible. VPS?
LMAO APS
Huh…Madame Brussel’s lane?
I start to suspect we might work in the same building LOL
Axil in lobby?
Well, we have a very direct shortcut to go to that Axil 🤪
I can’t say too much but formally, yeah.
I can’t say anything formally either, but ‘Hi neighbour’
Ya’ll need to get lunch together.
Oh, I mean I used to work there, but my department may or may not have recently vacated.
Hi Neighbour as well
- pruned my monstera. Decided to go with a minimalist/beetlejuice lookvery nice
I want to keep sleeping wah
My short holiday is over. Waiting to board the plane to come back to melb. Really don’t wanna go back to work tomorrow 😭
some winter orchids, the plants sit outside all year and I cut the flowers to bring inside
Beautiful!
I like this one, the petals when open are very white and white all the way to the centre. White flowers are really quite rare, most have a pink or green tinge.
Indeed. I don’t think I’ve seen an orchid that didn’t have at least a bit of pink or green. Cherish this beauty.
I own a plastic plant
I have some of those.😊
How are you posting a photo with the right orientation hahaha
Take the photo in landscape (sideways) instead of portrait.
I found that before posting, make an edit to a photo. Doesn’t even matter how minuscule the edit is. It always orients correctly when posting.
Oh wow it works
Crazy right?
I’m naive AF and I probably treat people with too much trust but I’ve recently seen some pretty ugly stuff at work. People who are nice to your face but will throw you under the bus as soon as you turn your back because you mean nothing to them. It’s disgusting and I’m losing faith in humanity.
One of life’s most important skills is learning to tell good people from cunts and then stay away from cunts.
So my faith is pretty intact, I just hate cunts. Problem is the stupids, too many stupids who follow cunts.
I’ve been burnt hard more than once so my faith in humanity is long gone.
What it is, see, is those people are dicks.
I had exactly the same experience. Gave so much of my time to my own detriment to help others feel safe and offer solidarity but was completely taken advantage of left to fend for myself once I needed some help and safety in return. My lesson learned, keep giving. Keep helping. Just be very selective of where and with whom. People I actually truly cared for were bitching about me and suggesting because I was trans I was having a hard time. Fuck that, it’s because they were a bunch of ungraetful bitches. They’re all on my resentment list. I’m getting over it but fuck it’s still annoying.
I helped a work colleague get their license by letting them drive my car a couple of time this week as practise and wondered if I was getting myself into a similar situation, but they are giving me some money for petrol, are very humbly thankful and it’s been incredibly well recieved by my superiors. The difference this time is sobriety. People say a lot of shit they think they mean when they’re drunk. I still have faith in humanity, but I have much stronger boundaries now of who I let in. First red flag and all bets are off.
It’s sad and disappointing when you think you could be nice and they’d reciprocate but really they can’t give a shit about you and maybe laugh at you behind your back for being naive. It’s also sad that these bad experiences leave you wondering if others are going to be the same and you just end up being less trusting.
Most people are selfish and enititled. They’ll say whatever bullshit they think will make them seem reasonable in order to gain some small pathetic, little, imagined benefit.
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So yesterday I bought 5 new calligraphy brushes, cost $70. I bring them home and start to prepare them for use, this means soaking in water to remove the starch from the bristles. I did this and 2 of the brush handles soaked up water and exploded. I looked at them carefully. They were made of particle wood, ie sawdust mixed with glue and moulded. ffs, I would prefer a cheap brush to a fake brush.
And this is why I usually buy plastic or bamboo brushes
ohhh that is so shit. The other day you were contemplating doing stuff around the house (?) versus going to buy brushes and I thought go buy the brushessss. How disappointing for you!
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It’s warm! Time to wash EVERYTHING
My family's favourite meal
Image of boring spaghetti bolognese or as I like to call it spag ‘n’ ease.
I’m not sure you’re allowed to use that bowl, are you?
it says SPAGHETTI so yes
Yes, but only on the provision that it is served with carbonara!
Drop your recipe please boss
For a very basic one. Fry up a diced onion. Add garlic. Add mince. Add tomato paste. Add a can of diced tomatoes. Add a can full of water and a beef stock cube. Add dried herbs. Add chilli flakes. Bring it to the boil then simmer for atleast 20 minutes.
🤤🤤🤤
Edit: 💾
Nice. That’s pretty much what I’d do I think. People out there bitching and moaning about wine and celery and carrot but come on. I think you nailed it!
I am a bitchin’ person out there.
If I want to get rid of some veg it goes in. Fennel seeds are a nice addition. Sometimes bacon, sometimes mushrooms, sometimes paprika.
nothing boring about good food that tastes yum
Mmmm one of my most favourite meals.
Not boring at all.
Video interview done, back to sleep I go
Good night.
Anyone remember reading Cloudstreet in school? My friend and their family are trying to move, and I’m gearing up to do the same soon, so I joked that with this economy we should start our own Cloudstreet. They missed the reference though, and now I’m asking others and they’re also not getting the reference.
Me neither. What is an ‘own Cloudstreet’? I’m actually serious here - I’ve never read the book as it postdates my own schooling and I have limited tolerance for Tim Winton’s prose.
omg,I thought I was the only one who didn’t like Tim Winton.
I was underwhelmed by his prose, and seriously turned off by all the adulation and hagiography. I put him in the same basket as Patrick White, another author I can only tolerate in very small doses.
Cloudstreet is a book based on two very different families who decide to move from the country to the city, where they end up cohabitating in a big house called “Cloudstreet”. It follows the two families’ trials and tribulations over the next 20 years as they all live in Cloudstreet.
Thanks, appreciate that.
I never read it but I did watch the series.
I seem to remember catching bits of it, but like most Australian telly once it’s aired it disappears into the ether forever gone.
It was on foxtel
Oh… I absolutely didn’t catch it then, must be remembering something else.
Pretty sure Cloudstreet was practically mandatory reading in all Perth schools when I was growing up!
I remember! It was a bit of a slog at the time but I reread it and loved it. I love some other of Tim Winton’s too ☺️
I still read it every year!
Just bought a copy to see if the nostalgia I have for it holds up.
It’s a very different story as a 40 something year old than when I was a teenager. But u still enjoy it.
Haven’t read it, but I remember reading a book about two immigrant pearl divers based in WA, one of them was called Jesus (pronounced Hey-zeus) and somehow involved a movie theatre - i think it was set in the 1930s? Or 20s? I’ve been trying to remember the name of it for years but it eludes me.
It was not The Pearl Divers Daughter or whatever - forget the author too lol
Edit: after an hour and a half of googling, I have found it!!
Nights in the Sun by Colin Bowles!! Holy fucking shit lol
I sent a resume in to a pearl dive company once(Paspaley). They never responded. Probably for the best, though because even though it’s a “tick the box” type experience, I have a feeling it’s nowhere near as glamorous as it sounds. Probably work you like a dog too…
Well, that was wild start to finish! I’m glad you found your book though, absolutely hate forgetting a title.
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Ooof. This ‘holiday’ is brutal. I need a holiday from it
(Family funeral abruptly happened on Tuesday, extended family are down from every where including a lot of people i deliberately do not associate with )
That’s really, really tough. Sending you hugs and strength.
*hugs*
Thanks
Had a competition pop up on Facebook advertising you could “win a chance to feed your whole family for free for a year”. The prize is a $2000 gift card. Just over $38 a week. Yeah it would be nice to win, but the false advertising with this sort of ad is bullshit.
I don’t enter competitions these days because they’re mostly personal info harvesting exercises.
$38 a week is technically doable on rice and beans. Corporate overlords say you need to bootstrap harder.
Feeding a family of any size (even one person really) on that seems extra unlikely if it is a gift card that stops you from using it anywhere except at a major supermarket!
What were they trying to get you to do to be allowed to enter?
It was the standard answering some “market research” type questions, opt in to get marketing spam, and agree if you win that you can be used for publicity stuff. It’s fairly standard, and would be fine if they just phrased it better - Win a $2000 gift card to help feed your family. Valid for one year. Works perfectly without misleading anyone.
There was one time I actually went through with a marketing thing I saw online and it actually went pretty well. It was a market research company who wanted people to come into their London office and I happened to be in London at the time. Said they’d give me 150 pounds for I think 90 minutes of my time. Went there, they gave me an envelope with 150 pounds cash in it and then we had a chat about advertising for airbnb. I was shocked that there were no ‘gotchas’ in this modern world of bullshit and scams! It was even nice and early in the morning so it didn’t even interrupt my day!
