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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Good to see breakfast is on in the thread already
Quick update on where I've disappeared to lately: I have been living in a bubble since starting my new job almost 5 weeks back.
The days are INTENSE but rewarding. Found my passion in what I'm doing. The days fly by from how busy I am.
2 weeks in my manager went on annual leave so I've been running HR/WHS on my own. Talk about trial by fire.
But I've proven to myself and the company that I can hold my own.
Got a message from my manager regarding a minor complaint made against me. Apparently I use big words in emails and some people find it intimidating.
We had a good chuckle about it. I was hoping he'd tell me who it was so I could send that person a link to a dictionary/thesaurus page.
Straight to hr for being smart. We only want dumb people working at this company.
Fabulous to get up and see a new daily thread. This manual setup for everything instead of midnight magic will take some getting used to.
In hindsight, I really wish I'd just posted this yesterday:
All of my best responses are well after I've already sent them.
Once upon a time there was a pretty cool nightclub. It was quite a swanky place. It had its regulars, drop ins and lurkers. It was open to everyone 24 hours 7 days a week. But one day the owners decided that the management wasn't that important so management organised a mutiny. They closed the main dance floor and kept the VIP area open but still that wasn't enough. So they closed the place baracading themselves in. Some patrons were confused as to why they weren't allowed access anymore. Where's everybody gone? Where do I go now?
Then some bright spark said "I know a place. Follow me". Now this new place wasn't as flash as the last (I think it was an old factory in the back streets of the industrial area in Footscray) but it was free and it was safe. At first a few trickled in to have a look around. Then word got around and more and more turned up. The old lurkers turned up to cause a stir but generally everyone's been happy to have a regular place to meet again.
P.s.There's always that dodgy looking guy in the corner with a leather jacket on chewing his gum and selling shit.
I’m so grateful the DT lives on. I don’t have a large social circle and it really helps seeing friendly faces/ usernames with lil chats & updates. 🖤
Me too! My social circle could fit around my pinky finger, but the DT became my home away from home. This place might be different, but at least the company is the same <3
Had to make a decision to fire someone today. Haven't actioned it yet, but got approved by one of the big dogs.
Tried so hard to give them a chance with written warning and performance improvement plan, but they think everyone else is the problem, they're carrying their department, and that everyone around them is too sensitive.
Hard decision to make in this climate but I've got a whole team to look after that don't deserve being bullied.
Feel more confident than ever in this job when my tough calls are backed like this.
You can make it fun by singing
If you work here and you know it, clap your hands
And when everyone is about to clap, turn to the person who's getting sacked and just say Not you, though
Hello DT, happy housewarming for the new residence. This platform is going to take me a bit of getting used to. But nice to see so many familiar names. Thankyou very much to @[email protected] and anyone else who did the work to make this happen. I appreciate your tech skills and initiative!
Edit: I have no idea how to tag people properly, hope that was it.
You stay off the internet for a couple days and everyone dissappears.......
Cheers @[email protected] for pointing me here
Guys/gals/others/all, gotta say, having been here a week or so, it's neat seeing you all turn up.
I looked at it Monday I think and was a bit put off by the lack of numbers. But Tuesday morning, it became apparent the writing on the Wall and figured I may as well help get started or build the numbers. Rome wasn’t built in a day and all that.
My husband has come home with a lemon meringue pie slice just to cheer me up and because he's been using my car. I don't mind receiving payments in the form of dessert.
My workplace has recently reduced our mandatory office days from 3 to 2 🤯
Just bummed that on my cake day I lost the community that got me through a looooot. But hi new peeps! :)
just as a PSA, if you're thinking 'a smoothie with a not quite ripe banana will still be ok', you need to go to the nearest mirror and say to yourself 'no, no it will not be ok'
Guess who's starting a new job today but lying in bed sick right now?
This is f---ed.
Heard back from jaybberwocky and dressedlike. They might pop their heads in when they have time. Pinged lemon as well. I think that’s almost everyone yeah? We should established migration buddies haha
It's officially been a week since I decided to learn Dutch, and my ability to introduce myself now rivals that of a toddler. I will say I am having so much fun with it! Also, I've found focusing on direct translation has really helped me with recognising word order and the patterns that come with that. Although I sometimes still get "en" and "een" mixed up, especially when I'm practising writing.
Gonna take me a while to get used to this format but I'm lubed up and ready.
Also the weather is so shitty today.
It's weird seeing total downvotes again. It seems I'm not as witty as I thought I was.
In other news - still absolutely buzzing from the BABYMETAL gig on the weekend. There's something to be said about three Jyoshi's singing about unification and becoming one with a single source, while the words WALL OF DEATH flash up on the screens behind them. The crowd parted like the Red Sea before Moses before complete chaos ensued. 10/10 - easily top five gigs of all time for me.
Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🥪🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥫🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙🥠🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉
Got final practice tonight for my dance troupe performance next Wednesday night, things are feeling pretty good and im looking forward to performing :)
I’ve decided I don’t like work emails. so I won’t be looking at them anymore.
I had a really proud moment today where I actually demonstrated to myself that I am capable of my new role. I really do need to stop doubting myself.
The whole blackout things feels like a kid trying to hold their breath until they get their own way. Reddit corp doesn't care and I expect the moderation of major subs to get handed over to people willing to work with their system.
Today's challenge: trying to figure out how to make a bot. I can find some great examples of what coding to use, but I am still trying to find anything to tell me where to actually put that code. Hopefully I can work it out and get an automated Daily Thread set up in the near future. If anyone can point me in the right direction I would greatly appreciate it!
Have to say with how abrupt the DT went it reminds me of a naughty audio software torrent site called audiofarm I was a member over a decade ago. Was the biggest audio private tracker. One morning wake up and it gone without a trace. The freakout was real. All that knowledge, the ratio..
A few days later and a new tracker started and all was well.
This feels like that.
I really hate past me right now. Stupid cow decided to volunteer to do overtime tomorrow, so now I'm sitting here contemplating the fact I have to get up stupidly early tomorrow morning.☹️
You know when you fantasise of saying it like it is to your employer? Well, I did that today (within reason). Nothing insulting or anything, but some very stern feedback given. Communicating various issues with my role and management decisions that another person would have probably just resigned over. It felt SO GOOD. Adrenaline was flowing. Let's see if things improve from this, if not I'm done. I am trying to salvage the situation.
Lol theres a guy in my tea community who veers from good to bad and every time ive blocked him hes becomes better and then ive unblocked him and he gets worse so im just leaving him blocked this time
Lasagne is ready. Happy days.
I can't help myself but go and check out Hot posts in /r/all occasionally. Quality and variety has dropped off massively since shutdown, pretty interesting to see.
Glad to see there's already a Melbourne sub going strong on Lemmy!
exodus
twas an exodus of redditors leaving the platform,
many subs are restricted, many more are private.
the protest continues, a desperate cry for reform,
with the DT closed down, r/melbourne went quiet.
some went to discord, others flocked here
to vent, to query, to share, and commiserate
thank you to those who set up this sphere,
though new to me, to all of you I appreciate.
I did a favour for a Terry White chemist today and repaired a digital lockset door handle. The owner gave me a bottle of multivitamin for it🥴
Now I’m thinking to myself, do I appear vitamin deficient ?
I want to quit my job and start a totally different career but I don't know what else I would do. I don't really have hobbies that I can monetise. Booo.
I should stop working. It's been hours and nobody has asked me to do anything so I've just started to decipher code that's written by a colleague. What is wrong with me.
