MADE IT TO ROUND 2!!!!!
Now I have a week to brush up on some tech stuff (active directory mainly), and we should be good!
I've found a good 6 hour tutorial on YouTube that'll do the trick.
Go go Simon!
Initial Assessment for Psych sessions done. Now on the wait-list for a bulk billed session.
Holy crap, I want to cry and laugh.
Looking forward to TAFE starting in July, too.
I can do this, I can do this. If not for me, then for him:
Well done! I know how hard it can be to get things sorted out. You should be really proud of yourself 🙂
Alrighty. Off to an interview as "Simon". Here we go.
Good luck Simon
Simple as Simon can be, he does well in interviews lol
Remember to talk about coffee, Bunnings sausages, your lawn and how you love the tv show MAFS if you really wanna sell the “white boring dude thing”.
Mate did you see the eagles get absolutely THRASHED by the pies yesterday?!
Saw little butters today for an mday event. Little man chooses his battles.
Butty booiiii ugh so handsome want to skritch. Wish his humans were nicer
It went ok I think. They didn't react negatively to "Simon". But we'll see how it plays out.
Was good practice anyway! Edit: managed to sort of organise a reference. It's a mate but it's the best I can do for the moment.
Took a pretty heavy call from a friend this afternoon that is going through a rough time. She had an altercation with some friends in our group which I think set her off into a spiral. I had no idea about any of this. It takes a lot of courage to reach out to someone.
I used to get affected by the same friends too, but then learned to stop putting disappointing people on a pedestal, thinking they do the same, and rely on them for emotional support and wellbeing which was always one way. I made some new friends. I discovered that healthy adult friendships actually exist and instead of being upset about certain behaviours from those people, I learned to pity that behaviour. I hope she learns this too.
I'm learning that lesson myself. It's tough, but good to know there's light at the end of the tunnel.
so many many hugs
it was a very sad day for me when I realised my family of origin would never be a support . I went non contact because of abuse, and my husband's family? I will do nothing for them anymore other than grunt oh noes when they tell sad tales. I am lucky to have a few people in my life I can rely on and I think that's what it's like. In life we only get a few people.
I used to get affected by the same friends too, but then learned to stop putting disappointing people on a pedestal, thinking they do the same, and rely on them for emotional support and wellbeing which was always one way.
Big hugs. Relate to that so very painfully. I still feel pangs of sadness over the loss of an entire friend circle over covid; I shared lots of values and experiences with them and we had lots of great times, but I could've kicked myself for being so reliant on them for that support/wellbeing when it turns out that they were supremely unwilling/unable to show up in the ways that mattered most when the chips were down.
It was impossible to have an honest conversation because they would beat themselves up in a show of contrition and shame but not actually acknowledge any issues and work on them (or anticipate them better). I know a lot of that is a trauma response from them but after a certain point it just wasn't healthy to be around any more and I couldn't handle continuing to be the only one willing to forgive and accommodate.
I'm still in the phase of not really having made any new friends on that level, though I certainly have strengthened my friendship with a couple of other rock-solid people in my life and it's made me so much more grateful for them.
What a frickin dumpster fire. The EBU f’ed up hard. Also so much for not politicising Eurovision, Israel got over 300 points with one of the worst songs of the night! in the same 24 hours it warns of inceasing its bombing campaign in Rafa. I just….. I don’t even have words here. What the f is going on in the world.
Ah but Eurovision isn't political. Those bombings? Not our problem. Oh, people are upset at Israel? We'Re NoT pOlItIcAl REEEEEEE!
There's also the CNN article on the Israeli whistleblowers. Massive trigger warnings for detainment and torture if you look that up. Cripes.
Still feeling wrecked. Am kind of wondering whether it's related to (an unpleasant road related incident)
spoiler
an accident yesterday. I was riding home and had to u-turn as there had been accident involving a motorcyclist just several minutes before. I didn't see anything, but I saw the bobbing of a head and I knew they were desperately doing CPR. A witness said they'd been trying for 5 mins and didn't know when the ambulance would arrive. They were on the way when I was riding back in the opposite direction. The news reported that he died at the scene. I'm trying not to think about it, but it's hard since I ride there almost weekly. I mean, I know that it can happen anywhere, but most people on the weekends are sort of chill. It is a winding 60km that increases to 80km, but most people on the weekends take it pretty easy. Hell, I rode Black Spur yesterday and one of the drivers was literally driving half the speed limit. sigh Just that constant reminder of life.
Sorry, just needed to offload it.
Edit: Oh no. The spoiler isn’t working on mobile? I’m so sorry. 😔
Currently trying to organise a redundancy reference. Can't risk getting to the last stage and having someone drop out.
Also, we are a chicken household:
To whom it may concern:
Simon is good. Please hire him.
Yours sincerely,
Melbourne DT
In answer to your enquiry, Sir, I am happy to see that you've had the good sense to hire Mr Fluffybutt. He is and will be an excellent employee.
@Thornburywitch @bacon To all whom this may concern,
I am writing to express my strong and sincere recommendation for Mr. Simon Fluffybutt as a candidate for this position.
In his previous role, Simon unlocked substantial value, leading both directly and indirectly to a strengthening of the sales pipeline, while leveraging and fully capitalising on synergistic new opportunities for revenue growth.
In a dynamic, fast-paced, lean, and agile environment, Simon demonstrates a natural flair for delivering outcomes while expertly liaising across multiple internal and external stakeholder groups with divergent expectations, while diligently managing competing priorities.
He is both a dynamic self-starter who thrives when taking ownership of projects to drive strategic results, as well as a collaborative team player who works efficiently towards shared goals and KPIs.
I have full confidence in Simon's extensive expertise, knowledge, and skillset, which will contribute meaningfully and substantively to the long-term growth of your organisation going forward.
If you have any questions in regards to this letter, please don't hesitate to reach out.
Kindest regards,
AJ
@ajsadauskas @Thornburywitch @bacon 😆 🤣 😆 🤣
I was growing increasingly alarmed that THE two most important buzzwords might have been grievously omitted, but happily we got there near the end...
going forward
💯✅👍
I endorse this message
Does Gibson know you as Simon yet?
That actually made me laugh out loud. Thank you! Sadly she still calls me "meow"
With the right candidate the furry approach might work. If "Simon" fails, "Mr Mittens" might be worth a shot.
Got some pretty cool shots of the aurora on Saturday night, hand held with my phone, standing in my partners backyard in Reservoir!!! What a crazy experience :)
Mimi is such a brave little kitty.
Yesterday, wifey noticed that Mimi seemed to be winking a lot. After some further inspection, she noticed that one of Mimi's eyelids was swollen.
So today, Mimi went on a big trip to the vets to see Dr Paul.
Dr Paul took a look at her eye, and thankfully there's no scratches on her eyeball.
Because it's one eye that was swollen, it's unlikely to be an allergic reaction, and our babies are all indoor cats.
Most likely, it was that some individual — who may or may not be named Spunky or Snowy — got a little rough while playing with Mimi overnight.
After an anti-inflammatory injection and some eyedrops, Miss Mimi was sent home.
She's now happily playing in a box.
I told you there would be fisticuffs over that box.
Best $7 ever spent. Doggo can no longer disappear into the night...
Edit - now in the market for a similarly priced glow-in-the-dark ball for throwing....and not losing
TinyCat is off to the vet. He chucked again this morning, that makes it 4 times in a week. He's also alternates between velcro-kitty and antagonist way more than usual. Suspect something is going on with him.
TinyCat was a model patient. Bloods, worming, vaccines and we will see what we see. Still weighs the same, still eating and going to the litter box ok so they are not sure but not super worried.
First 40 minutes of work today really soured my tone for the week. Had a chat with my boss and he felt the same.
Reason - we have some team members who are getting a bit too big for their britches, and causing a bit of friction. One particular person cannot stop themselves from interrupting others when talking. Happens daily, they have been reprimanded and it still happens. I think we're getting close to an HR chat or a director telling them to pull their heads in.
Talk to them like a four year old and say its rude to interrupt you need to wait your turn?
Make an office talking stick thing. When they interrupt the person holding the stick gets to shake it at them, something tambourine-esque.
Start interruption tipping, where everyone goes into a draw for how far into the meeting until this person will interrupt, when the condition goes off, everyone slaps $5 on the table and says who won. Danny had three minutes, everyone hands Danny a fiver.
Move to zoom meetings and mute them.
Sponsor everyone in the office to learn sign language except them.
Crud has spiralled into feeling Actually Awful.
I’ve held it together for long enough to go to the supermarket and call in sick for work tomorrow, but now I’m going to bed
My head is so sore from last night. Those damn smoke alarms. I am pretty sure the ones we have are loud enough to cause hearing damage, at least my tinnitus thinks so. I guess it gave the neighbour with the car alarm a taste of his own medicine though, so there's that
Have awoken to a kitchen covered in stir fry. Unwisely thought the lid would be enough to stop FishyCat getting into it. Hopefully he doesn’t end up peeing rocks from that snack.
yay, I got lactose free milk and have been able to have coffee without effects , it was a bad week ... lol
For fucks sake. Our fire alarms randomly went off. I was on the dunny half asleep. Nothing's on fire. There are cobewebs around the fire alarm that's going off, so my guess is that something's moved in to it and is triggering the sensor. This actually happened at my last place, although at a much more reasonable hour.
Our alarms are a lot worse than regular alarms in regular houses. They're all wired in series, so once one goes off, they all go off. It is controlled by a commercial style Pannell, but the best that can do for us is making it shut up for 8 minutes. After that it can be retriggered. We can't just take it off the roof, A because we'd be in a fair bit of shit, but B because it's bolted onto the roof and has several wires feeding into it anyways.
We can call the fire alarm company to replace it, but they won't get here for several hours. Several hours while we're meant to be asleep...
E: We tried vacuuming out any dust, in case that's what was causing it but no dice. Fire panel people have been called. No clue how long they'll be
E2: fire people reckon they'll be here within an hour
E3: they came out quite quickly to fix it, which honestly wasn't my experience in the past. Apparently nothing moved in, it just happened to go faulty. I blame the sun farts. In any case he took it off the roof and somebody will come tomorrow to replace it. A bit under 2 hours from it going off til it was fixed, which was honestly a good response time. Lovely bloke they sent too. He's on call so we pulled him out of his slumber, so at least we aren't alone in our suffering 😂
E4: also he called me back at 12:59, so he was here in under an hour
@Seagoon_ Feeling really annoyed at an acting middle manager at our workplace right now.
He's terrible at communicating. He refuses to listen to people. He makes decisions and orders people to do stuff without asking anyone if the thing he wants to do is even possible.
There's a whole string of bad decisions as a result, and everyone else is left to clean up his mess afterwards.
For example, there's an event that was scheduled on a particular date. An email was sent out to the people (outside the organisation) who are likely to attend.
Before that email was sent, he decided to postpone it. Just he didn't let anyone know until after the emails were sent.
Another example. One of my colleagues was told she had to drop everything to find leads for a new product that he decided to launch in two weeks. He then blamed her for not coming up with enough leads.
He's decided the IT team needs to roll out a new automated reporting system right now. The IT department has already said it's not adding any features to that system because they're getting rid of it in the next year or so. They don't answer to him, and will just refuse to do it. So there's a whole series of meetings now planned because he's insisting that it has to happen.
There's also a whole marketing campaign that the marketing team thinks is a stupid idea that won't work, because they tried it last year and it didn't work. He's insisting they do it anyway.
And there's a whole string of decisions like this.
The thing is, I'm not sure he's aware at just how demotivating his unique management style is to those around him.
Sorry for the rant, I'm just feeling really frustrated right now.
Spent more time in bed than usual this morning and the app says I slept well... Annnnd I still feel like a sack of ripe old. I feel soooo tired.
Dragged myself out of the cave upon realising there was gorgeous sunshine to be had and in 15 mins it was gone! Melbourne weather, aye.
I've woken up and come to work and forgot my ID pass, hopefully I don't get locked out of the building today.
Also my body is broken from the weekend furniture moving.
5 mins to have coffee and enjoy it before I have to be outside, argh!
Love getting into work and there's a mystery bottle of vodka waiting on my desk. Sign of the week to come?
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