• tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    19·
    10 days ago

    I’ve finally started at the new job. Let me know if you’re having trouble with your employer, I can send them an email that should scare them into shape.

    I’m working for the sort of government department departments wouldn’t want to hear from, as long as they don’t dig too deep and look at my job title

    • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
      10·
      10 days ago

      Nah. It’ll be alright. We don’t generally go backwards. We go at a snails pace forward unless it’s a pay rise for pollies then it’s all speed ahead.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
        12·
        10 days ago

        We don’t generally go backwards.

        This is generally true. Except for the destruction of medicare, loss of local manufacturing industry, no taxation on our mineral resources, expensive and half useless universities and no consequences for government corruption

        • just_kitten@aussie.zone
          7·
          10 days ago

          Was pretty fucked up how close the votes were on this matter in South Australia recently - I mean what the fuck, surely that isn’t representative of how Australians really view the matter, but I realise more and more how out of touch I am

    • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      I really ought to look into a hysterectomy. I don’t want kids anyway, but this is certainly an incentive to advocate better for myself lol

  • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
    14·
    10 days ago

    Jesus Christ I HATE watching this US news, but I cant look away! Some folks are already calling it and I think I might throw up. Thats not a joke or an exaggeration.

      • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
        8·
        10 days ago

        It is also how biased the US electoral system is to maintain the Status Quo.

        Every time the Republicans get in, the cripple democracy a little bit at a time. When the Democrats get in, they don’t do anything to roll back the damage.

        It has finally come to the Endgame for US Democracy.

        All we can do is make sure that our elected officials are aware that it is not something that we want in Australia.

        • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          Have a friend who studied world history throughout uni. His statement about this is ‘All empires must fall’. This is the fall.

          USA has been going down the toilet for some time, and the turds getting bigger.

          I’m gonna switch off the US crap and focus on our local (milder) shitshow.

      • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
        6·
        10 days ago

        thinking on it I am not surprised

        for 100 years the press and influencers have been making race an issue as a distraction to class , money and opportunity issues ( to stop the working class uniting , and yes, race is an issue )

        the working class have genuine grievances and want a voice, sadly trump says he is their voice ( even tho that’s a lie )

        they don’t want to hear more race issues

        we need unity

        • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
          7·
          10 days ago

          I don’t disagree, but the GOP and Trump have not been the voice of the working class. The fact that enough people have been convinced that they are, is just sad.

          This election was also about women issues, and that fell on deaf ears.

          The media has a lot of responsibility for this shit show.

          • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
            5·
            10 days ago

            but fairness!! S/

            the press are either cowards or love the money the drama of trump brings

            in the meantime the independent voices in the media are getting shut down

            just look at the drama of trying to bring this sub on lemmy under “control”

            • MeanElevator@aussie.zoneEnglish
              5·
              10 days ago

              Yeah the whole ‘fairness’ thing is a load of crap. With the election one side (generally the leftish leaning one) has to be perfect and spotless, meanwhile the other side might a slap on the wrist over something terrible.

              One reason I love the ABC and SBS here. The only reason they appear to lean ‘left’ is because they report facts and don’t favour either party, generally. It’s just one side of politics tends to be shittier than the other.

              • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
                5·
                10 days ago

                there was an attack on our mods last week because they weren’t towing a line, iow, they were being non partisan

                https://aussie.zone/post/15068055

                can I just say I love our mods , it’s due to their hard work and diligence and ideals that we have the freedom to post here , luv youse guys 😘😘🥹🥹

        • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          We just need to educate our electorate that we can”t “Throw away your vote” by preferencing a special-interest party above a Major party…

      • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
        6·
        10 days ago

        Like my gran used to say (she thought she was upper class)… “I deserve two votes” even though she never read any policy. I once flippantly said maybe charlie (her doggo pug) should get one too and she was thrilled at the idea.

    • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
      5·
      10 days ago

      Yeah I’m starting to get a bad feeling about it all. About to turn off notifcations and try to bury in work for a few hours

    • Dalek Thal@aussie.zone
      4·
      10 days ago

      It’s looking real ugly over there. People are talking about a red mirage, but…that seems more and more unlikely the longer this goes on.

    • Dalek Thal@aussie.zone
      3·
      10 days ago

      Just saw someone talk about a republican house, senate and presidency altogether as a good thing.

      Compared it to Obama. Obama had no interest in dictatorship. Republicans meanwhile keep getting real excited about Hitler.

      • Nath@aussie.zone
        4·
        10 days ago

        It is too early to be sure, but it took four days in 2020 to get a result and things looked a lot more purple than they do this time around.

  • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
    14·
    10 days ago

    Oh joy. Impending major restructuring at my workplace. No redundancies, more like the drive-the-people-remaining-to-breaking-point strategy.

    My 11th year may end up being my last, time to dust off the resume and get the hell out of here :| At least I hit my LSL eligibility beforehand… :\

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
      6·
      10 days ago

      have you taken LSL yet? I’d take it, disappear for a few months then take the redundancy they offer when you get back.

      • mysticgreg@aussie.zone
        3·
        10 days ago

        The LSL is banked with the intention of just taking the cash when I leave, on top of the 7 weeks annual leave I’ve also got sitting there.

        They’re adamant there will be no redundancies, without coming out and saying it they’re definitely trying for reduction through attrition.

        See what happens I guess.

        • Salvo@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          As @tinybreak infers, they may be trying to get people to leave so that they don’t have to payout redundancies.

          If you take your LSL and AL, you can bypass all the issues. When you come back you will either be invaluable to them and be able to get a payrise, or they would have decided to issue redundancies after all and you can cash-in again. It is a gamble though.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      3·
      10 days ago

      Oh noooo. Sorry to hear. Certainly brings up a lot of anxiety. What a shit way to restructure… I agree with taking your LSL as part of your plans. If they’re going to be merciless, so can you

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    13·
    10 days ago

    So there’s now literal children buying anti-aging products like retinol and there’s a hair disclosing spray so women can completely defuzz their whole faces?

    People are getting preventative Botox and giving themselves gastroparesis by using Ozempic and 20 year olds are either removing the fat from their cheeks or getting fillers? Celebrities with slightly crooked teeth are getting full veneers or caps?

    Earlier periods of history got a bad reputation for their rigid beauty standards and rightfully so but I feel like it’s all much more out of control now because internet. Modern beauty standards are insane.

    Screw that I’m crawling back under my rock

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    10 days ago

    So one of the clients I look after, is cracking the shits about something that I have no control over.

    I really hope I don’t get scapegoated over this.

    Fingers crossed.

    Edit: spoke to our GM, he said not to freak out and no one’s getting fired. The issues probs have very little to do with me.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    12·
    10 days ago

    I really cbf making this potato salad but I know future me will appreciate it when I hear “What’s for dinner?” And I get to answer “it’s in the fridge. Help yourself”.

  • underwatermagpies@aussie.zone
    12·
    10 days ago

    My cat’s heart isn’t working well and he doesn’t have a great prognosis, but he’s well and happy in himself and I’m focusing on that. We’ll be ok.

    I’ve just ordered takeaway for the first time in yonks. Fried goodness is now on the way to me and in the meantime I’ve poured a glass of wine. I will enjoy it and not wallow.

    And I’m putting my fingers in my ears and ignoring the news out of the US.

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    11·
    10 days ago

    World news aside, I’ve finished my first day at the new job. I think I need to get past induction and do some actual work, and start working from home, before I can decide if this was the right choice.

    I think it will be. I need to remember how shit my old work was, even before things for really bad. Once I get started I won’t wish I got things right in the old role, because even when things were working, they were just barely, and things were still shit