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[-] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Anybody got a gripe? Wanna get anything off your chest? Confession perhaps? Let rip.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

I'm sick of working more or less the same hours every week for over 2 years and yet I'm a casual.

On a deeper level, I'm pissed off that I didn't make more of my life due to low self esteem and confidence and a lack of self belief. Any bright spark of confidence and independence of spirit I displayed as a child was vigorously and abusively snuffed out by my parents, who wanted obedience and servitude from me. I was the dux of my school but I never believed I was good enough for anything worthwhile. I was a perpetual doormat in my early relationships, and more than occasionally a punching bag. Now I'm working as a casual in manufacturing, 50 years old, physically tired and working my arse off.

I'm pissed off that my mother's sons from her first marriage (who she blatantly loved more than me) contested her Will for a greater share of my childhood home (that they never lived in) so I didn't get to inherit that house, and that was probably my only shot at home ownership.

I'm pissed off that I was such a wimp for much of my life, too scared to take risks, too worried about failure.. and that in itself is a failure.

Wow! 🥫🪱🪱🪱. Sorry guys! Well, you did ask..

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Oh hey, I was dux and recently working in manufacturing.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I did ask. I thought that after a certain amount of weeks (I think 26. Not sure) they have to offer you a permanent position?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

If the workplace has less than 15 employees they don't have to, according to the Fairwork Commission, unfortunately. At least I can access LSL after 7 years I guess.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm so tired of being stressed out and in constant pain. Not a fan of talking about it because it's such a bummer but every single day is a battle

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I don't blame you for being stressed out. I think most of us would. But we are here to listen. A bit like a free counselling service. And we care and wish you the very best.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Thanks. I just don't want to be whining all the time

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Mate there's nothing wrong with that. You've been dealt a shit hand.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

This is waay more serious than hot take thurs.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I don't mind hearing people's rants on here.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Yes! Sweeping involves under furniture and behind doors. Not bloody good enough!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Nah. Sweeping involves a vacuum and how far it can reach.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The opposite. I found the exact hedge clipper I was considering buying, in hard rubbish.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Dusted off the battery slot, wd-40'd the blades, I already had ozito batteries, clipped the hedge about 5x faster than the shears.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Not a gripe but I’m ashamed I’ve treated myself to way too much stuff in the last few days.

Also I snuck out from work early today to do shopping.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Don't be ashamed. It is what it is. Enjoy yourself while you can. When you're older you're not going to go "Well shit I spent to much back in November 2023". Regret is useless.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I don’t really gripe but thank you.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

If this letter from VicToads is another Fine I shall cancel Solstice

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago
[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not mine, so I shall just stew & gripe thanks

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Fuck. Have a few more drinks and steam that cunt open. Nah don't do that. 😉

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

getting the bacteria or virus or whatever it is off my upper respiratory tract 🦠

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

When I'm sick I just get a scoop of Vicks and smear it on the shower floor and stand in there and hack everything up.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This week I have come to the realisation my MIL is a bad person. I don't say that lightly. She's not stupid/unaware, she's not good , she's not evil, she's over the edge of neutral and into bad.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Mmm. I don't think she's a bad older person. I think she's always been bad. Probably always gotten her own way so she won't change. Stay true to you. You don't have to answer to anyone.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That you don't create playlists of your Friday nights and share them with us......!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
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[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

The challenge was: Songs that were popular in the day but you never hear again. I fulfilled the brief.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I want a 2nd cat so Gibson has a friend, but I don't have the time to spend to properly introduce them because I'm in office 5 days for the next couple of months.

A little ginger lad would really be great! We could pass the braincell back and forth lol

[-] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Maybe in a little while when you get some time off you could adopt another cat. Ginger cats are the best.

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