No cancer!!!! Woooooooooooooo!!!!!!!
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was that a issue π©
you mean fluffybutt?
Nah me lol
I did mean you
Ah my bad Iβm somewhat intoxicated with joy lol
it's good, happy dance π₯°π₯°π₯°
God, that's some good news on top of everything else you're dealing with
Man Iβm over the fucking moon. That was in the background stressing me the fuck out.
Maybe Iβll be daring and order a pizza to celebrate lol
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I've embarked upon a fitness journey again. I got reasonably fit and lost weight a couple of years back (actually not sure how long ago it was) but let it all go for some reason/s (tiredness? The lure of cakes?) I downloaded an app called FitOn and have been doing short low impact routines from there for the past 4 days, sometimes twice a day. I already feel better (altruism?) and I think my balance and strength has improved, so I've got that going for me at least.
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It's 7ish am here in Munich. So far so good with DIL. Introduced the lil one to fingerpainting yesterday - so cute. Have to food shop today, so wish me luck.
All good news β€οΈ
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My presentation went so well! Got really great feedback from the people who attended, small group but all really engaged. Hopefully I get some new clients out of it. I think I'll get to roll it out at another co-working location too.
I catered too and ordered waaaay too much food. I'll be eating sushi and sashimi for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the next few days.
I gave Gibson a bit more gabapentin and sheβs staring at the wall licking her cone lol
Wouldn't be the first time someone had a cone and stared at the wall lol
π€£π€£π€£π€£π€£ takes me back to high school lol
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If you got sent this before an interview for a low paying role, what would you think:
βJust a quick heads-up β this role will report directly to β some guyβ our new Victorian Call Centre Manager and myself, so I thought Iβd give you a quick intro before we chat.
Iβm a proud father of two beautiful girls (ages 2 and 5), originally from Sydney, and have spent the last 20 years leading high-performing sales teams. I bought my first property at 21, and while Iβm not a micromanager, I do have high standards. Iβm naturally competitive (ex-athlete mindset!) and love surrounding myself with people who are driven to be the best β and I expect the same from my team.β
Honestly curious what you guys think working under this person would be like.
Run. Say you have a better offer or something, do not mention the βsome guyβ, as your reason, because you donβt want to give HR a heads up to remove it. Best leave it there for other people to be warned too.
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Email back to cancel the interview.
I'd be running far far away, slowly as I'm not an athlete. Not saying I'm not very good at what I do, and I am driven but he sounds like a flog.
Thanks for the perspective. I thought it was just me. The house at 21 thing sounds like someone born on third base who thinks he hit a home run.
That level of entitlement sets off my old bouncer habit of keeping an eye on cokey sales guys who were the type to get a girl drunk. They'd be a shit of a person who thought they could do no wrong. I'd still take the interview as practice but take it knowing they've likely already failed from your side. Even call the guy out on his shit saying that all nice for him but not how you work.
Your workplace is not a family situation and your job is not a competition.
These are giant red flags.
Do not go , or go just to see what these potential abusers are like.
I physically recoiled reading that. I'd cancel so fast.
Would love to know what he believes separates his management style from that of a micromanager. Asked directly, I don't think he'd have an answer.
A high performance manager would be sitting in on that interview, too. I bet he's got more important things to do.
I suspect this is some kind of ploy to filter out people who can detect he's a dickhead.
Also, you'd have two people to report to? Does not sound fun.
Person sounds completely insufferable and probably narcissistic. They would be 100% a micromanager who look at long (unpaid) hours as a badge of honour.
His family situation, property achievements and ex-athlete status are completely unrelated to work but they make it part of their personality.
At the start he'd all friendly and cheery, give it a few weeks and the nightmare would start.
Also, he seems like the type who would call people 'champ' and mean it.
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He's gonna ask you what you got up to every single weekend because we're like a family here.
Run. They have a huge ego about stuff that has nothing to do with work. You'll have no privacy and be treated like a slave.
Why are the children relevant? Why is the property at 21 relevant? Honestly a completely tone deaf thing to send to a candidate.
I find it very weird they're so willing to share things like this over email ahead of an interview. It wouldn't make me enthused to work for the company or under this guy
Geez I'd be worried about that.
Personally I'd go just to see how up himself the dude is lol (probably not good advice).
Patient is a bit wobbly but doing ok!
"Dear Nath & wifey,
In lines with 'jus coz policies, we're increasing your rent to $800/week starting somedate soon.
lots of love,
Real estate agent on behalf of boomer landlord who has at least three other properties with us."
So much for the raise my wife just earned through her awesomeness. π
$41,600 per year in just rent.
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Random street find: strip of stickers of exotic chickens π€
I gave my mum a roll of 500 of them from Temu!
Love finding some flamboyant, exotic cocks while wandering the streets
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Despite the fact I overheard "we should have ice cream for dinner" the fam ate pretty healthy while I was recuperating. No dishes to be done and no eggs left.
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Work is just under 14km away and the bike says it can do 15km on the lowest assist setting and 8 on the highest. Lets see if i have to do some manual pedalling on the way to work today
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Huzzah got the soundcard and HDDs. Place I got the HDDs from threw in a tiny (9g) packet of jelly babies lol which was a nice touch.
Will finally have a functional studio again. Can't wait to make some glorified synthesised fart noises with 2.5ms latency.
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Yesterday I was falling asleep in the waiting room. Came home completely exhausted and slept. The glands are really swollen in my neck and under my arm so either Iβm sick or have a quietly simmering infection.
In the (daylight) morning Iβm just going to shove everything into the other room and do a quick sweep. Crack the door for some fresh air, put dishes to soak in hot soapy water, change bedding. Clean litterboxes.
lots of hugs, just do what you can and rest
and tomorrow see if you can get home help from the council or state gov
It's great being able to play Silksong on a laptop as I can do it in the bedroom when the kids don't settle properly, but I think I should save some of the harder stuff for the big computer. Silksong has an uncapped framerate so maybe the extra responsiveness of the big monitor might make a difference. Plus, the game looks gorgeous in 4k
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