Things that sh*t me the seventeenth

[MC Extra Dollop]

Sounds like they just outsource the payroll to some other campaigners to me. Someone in Manilla probably does it on a 7 day SLA.

As if you would ever pay for it though.

Yeah I think I'd be more inclined to take the enormous red flag as a signal and get the heck out of there. If they think something like that is fine, it's a fair bet that it's just the tip of the iceberg. It shouldn't be that hard: anything related to your salary actually coming into your account on time or similar should be treated as urgent. Other requests, like "can you send me through a copy of my June 2023 payslips?" can probably wait a couple of days.

I remember when I was working in the VPS and took up a secondment for another organisation in the same department. By and large I had the same employer: their details on my payslip were identical. And yet, on the day I started, the following wasn't ready for me:
a security pass
a laptop
an email address
access to the HR system
access to the desk booking system

It was literally weeks until I had any of those things. To make matters worse, I was paid by both organisations for my first pay cycle and after one of the payroll teams angrily contacted me (as if it was somehow my fault) and demanded I pay back the extra pay by a bank transfer ASAP.

It was absolutely mindblowing to me, coming to that from an environment where all managers went above and beyond to make new starters' first days as smooth as possible: double checking all systems, security access and hardware were organised, to the extent that you'd raid the stationary cupboard to ensure they had plenty of everything sitting on their desk, ready for them on the first day.

In the grand scheme, it probably seems like a pretty minor thing when considering your job in totality. But it absolutely got me off on the wrong foot, it was a permanent source of irritation and I ended the secondment to go back to my original role as soon as humanly possible.

 

[Over The Post]

No problem with Ad(vertisement)Blocker Ultimate and youtube.

I don't believe it. I've ****ing jinxed it. Less than two hours after posting the above, youtube is now delivering ads on firefox.

Lets hope an update to the browser plugin is forthcoming ASAP.

Edit: It updated automatically while I was having dinner, they have obviously broken something.

 

[Gavin Excell]

I only knew about poor old Johnny Ray from this Dexys Midnight Runners song from back in 1982.

He moved a million hearts in mono

 

[Gough]

When the Dexys played Jackie Wilson Says on Top of the Pops the BBC helpfully put a picture of Scottish darts player Jockie Wilson on the screen behind them as they played.

 

[Gough]

I haven't seen an ad on youtube for years, I only use youtube on my laptops at home though I don't use it on my phone.



They are awful, I don't know how some teenagers today have never heard of well known songs like Bohemian Rhapsody before.

When I was a teenager in the 80s/early 90s I knew about Bohemian Rhapsody and most other big songs from the 60s and 70s.

You would have had to have been living in a cave not to have heard of the well known songs that they react to for the first time.

Music from fifty years ago when we were teens was Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington.

 

[Xtreme]

If you're going to get angry over someone responding to a "Hello" message with a "is it me you're looking for ?" reply, then you get blocked. Plain and simple!

 

[raskolnikov]

People insisting that Australia is an island.

It's a continent you morons.

 

[Xtreme]

People insisting that Australia is an island.

It's a continent you morons.

Maybe its a continent island!

 

[Gough]

People insisting that Australia is an island.

It's a continent you morons.

No man is an island unless he pisses then urination.

 

[eddiesmith]

Dear real estate agents.

Stop with the ads with no prices!
Please do “offers over” or a price range.
If it says contact agent, i skip

We have had disrupters come with hotels (air bnb) and taxis (uber) - for crying out loud we need a disrupter to come for the real estate industry!
You guys are not celebrities. We don’t want to see your faces and names in lights. Just tell us the price that will get the sale done.

Shits me

Mum tried selling her place 10 years ago, agent flat out refused to put a price on the listing.

Ended up with **** all interest, no bids at auction and he tried to get her to take an offer after the auction of well under asking price.

Still lives there today.

 

[eddiesmith]

... which would royally **** you when you try renting from elsewhere. Estate agent shitlists are a real thing.

My last rental I nearly spent the equivalent of the bond on cleaning and fixing holes to get the bond back but too stay a wanted tenant with no black marks if needing to rent again in future.

 

[cats_09]

People insisting that Australia is an island.

It's a continent you morons.

Has this come from a Twitter thread about Australia being larger than Greenland and thus should be of more interest in Trump?

 

[cats_09]

Maybe its a continent island!

I remember being taught that in school but from a geographical point, the definitions for what constitutes an island & a continent changed a few years ago

Geographers define an island & a continent as two separate things - an island is a mass of land that is both “entirely surrounded by water” and also “smaller than a continent.”


That's why Greenland is now recognised as the largest island in the world

 

[Xtreme]

I remember being taught that in school but from a geographical point, the definitions for what constitutes an island & a continent changed a few years ago

Geographers define an island & a continent as two separate things - an island is a mass of land that is both “entirely surrounded by water” and also “smaller than a continent.”


That's why Greenland is now recognised as the largest island in the world

I was kinda joking

 

[Plugger35]

Music from fifty years ago when we were teens was Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington.

The Beatles felt like they were from fifty years ago in the 80s because most of their clips were in black and white, ancient stuff.

In reality they were only 20 years ago back then, 20 years ago from now I was listening to The Strokes, Bloc Party and Gorillaz.

 

[GreyCrow]

Has this come from a Twitter thread about Australia being larger than Greenland and thus should be of more interest in Trump?

 

[Frank Bunn]

Has this come from a Twitter thread about Australia being larger than Greenland and thus should be of more interest in Trump?

Greenland isn't as big as it appears on maps. It gets distorted on flat maps that try to represent the round world. WA is bigger than Greenland.

 

[Plugger35]

Greenland isn't as big as it appears on maps. It gets distorted on flat maps that try to represent the round world. WA is bigger than Greenland.

WA is similar to Greenland, it is big but only the South West of WA is habitable only the FIFO morons go north of Perth for money.

I've lived in WA lor most of my life and the furthest north I have been was to Yanchep or Two Rocks when Atlamtis was there.

 

[Dogs_R_Us]

Has this come from a Twitter thread about Australia being larger than Greenland and thus should be of more interest in Trump?

Trump’s interest in Greenland is strategic. Russia and China are interested too.

 

[Gavin Excell]

Maybe its a continent island!

Anyone will tell you it's a prisoner island
Hidden in the summer for a million years

 

[Xtreme]

Anyone will tell you it's a prisoner island
Hidden in the summer for a million years

Should replace John Farnham's "you're the voice" as Australia'a (unofficial) national anthem!

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Been clenching my jaw so hard that my face aches

 

[Billy ray]

Head cold
Lingering wheezing from pneumonia months ago

 

[RedmanWasHere]

YouTube algorithms and their dumb ads.
Yeh I know I'm over 40 now so I'm "old" but STOP recommending those cringe nostalgia videos about "90s kids will only understand".
And also, no I do not want to learn how to do a chair workout or sign up to Temu.

This could be in the "Things that make you old" thread too I guess.

And get the FKCU off my screen unskippable ads.

 

[Gough]

Should replace John Farnham's "you're the voice" as Australia'a (unofficial) national anthem!

That was music your middle aged mum liked when it came out and I'd argue age hasn't done much for it.