Hey Baku, if you’re reading this I hope you are okay. I’m sorry that you felt you had to delete your profile here; you are a valued member of this community, and I hope, when you are feeling better, that you return. But if you don’t, and are reading this, you are always welcome here. Always welcome to make another profile, and to return.
Sending you good vibes man, and I know you’re gonna smash your TAFE classes like a pro.
💜
I hope he’s doing alright. It sounded like TAFE was stressing him out. I look forward to Baku2 posting on here when he’s ready
Oh Baku deleted?? It’s sad to see that. Top young bloke who didn’t deserve the cards he was dealt but continues to play them bravely.
I wish I could have been more supportive, I’m not too good at it and don’t have a lot of bandwidth left in my own struggles. All I could do was make suggestions for dealing with rough co-tenants.
I hope he comes back or at least that he manages and life gets better for him.
Oh no poor Baku, I hope you’re OK 🥺
Just chiming in to hope Baku returns whenever he feels ready. He’s one of the leading lights of this little corner of the internet but also destined for amazing things ahead… if you choose not to come back buddy I hope you might dimly remember us when you’re 35 and running your own IT business mate.
Baku if you create a new fake account and want someone to just vent to and to listen you then DM me. I won’t ever tell another soul anything said to me in confidence.
We’re all here for you though when you come back properly!
Oh poo
Oh no! Why? ☹️
Dude I wanted to offer to make you a train cake for your 18! Practice ghost version will be up in a few days
oh man what did I miss this time?
Oh no, I thought he’d just deleted a comment, didn’t realise he’d deleted the whole profile. 😢
oh gees ☹️
Oh no! Baku is awesome and I always enjoyed reading his posts. Have such big admiration for him, just a genuinely good person. Hope all is ok. Hope he will rejoin us one day.
While his comments are still in my inbox the whole account is gone.
Whenever you’re ready to come back Baku, pop your head in and drop us a message.
Wait, what? WHAT? 🤯 Mate I cannot take my eyes off this group for one fucking day!
Hey mate,
You’re always welcome here, and everyone would love to see you back here.
This place is special because of the people here, and you’re one of those people :)
Take your time, but you’re always welcome here. And from someone who’s had a similar deal to yours, you’re making really good decisions!
Keep your chin up :)
Why work when you can smothered by a cat instead? Or have his claws in your neck because he needs skin contact. This animal is a lot.
I’ve taken to wearing a hoodie backwards when I’m studying at home. Put the smothering cat in the hood. Keeps the cat happy and off my workspace. And snuggles. Many snuggles.
Like a kangaroo pouch?
Yep, but higher.
Have you tried putting the JR in there?
I don’t think she’d like it, but I’ll try tomorrow, just for research purposes. I know I’ll end up with kisses 💋
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That’s so cute! I couldn’t do that with this demon, he’s way too big! But I like the idea!
oh Punkin was a 6kg ginger tom. Cats find a way.
Foxy is 5.5kg now. But he fits!
corner desk here, he used to sprawl on one arm while I had the other. Or sit in the box specifically there for feline purposes. Or sit in my lap.
Eyebrow love 🤍
Can’t be bothered setting up your RGB for your Corsair keyboard on your work machine? I can relate.
Fluffy!!!
I’m unironically suggesting a baby sling. He gets held while you have your arms free.
I’d do it with the Melbcat but am not strong enough to wear her without injury.
Well, I guess that justifies buying another pair of shoes.
Was accused of being drunk yesterday… 'My dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.'Not the best thing to say to your mum but I didn’t coin it.
That’s Churchill right?
The town in Gippsland with the giant cigar in the middle of it? Yeah, they’re all drunk :D
You’d have to be to live so close to the powerplants.
Not drunk, stoned or iced!
Went to uni there for 3 years (but didn’t live there) in the 90’s… can confirm…
Yea Churchill.
Named my old british blue cat Winston after him because he had a chubby face and used to attack the old man’s cigar smoke.
I once got to de-gonad a Russian blue named Boris
Brand new sentence 🏆
I did y10 work experience at the local Vet 😁
😂😂
This is gold though
It’s midnight.
You’re sleeping peacefully, having a nice dream about being overseas.
Suddenly, someone starts choking in your dream.
You wake up.
The cat has hocked a hairball up on your doona.
You frantically clean and strip the doona. Your restful sleep is gone.
The end.
I had a dream that “we” (random people) were being hunted by a deep sea creature that would swallow people whole from below.
Then we figured out that it had been listening to Mariah Carey and “All I want for Christmas is you” had made it fall in love with people but it had interpreted it as literally needing to eat them to show its love. So then we were trying to escape while trying to brainstorm songs to play to convince the sea monster it could show its love by just waving from afar or something.
Woke up in a sweat but also WTF?? I can’t even blame a cat… :-/
Was giving me “Shia LaBeouf” shitpost vibes for a minute. I guess you’d have been happier to see Shia LaBeouf than hucked up hairball on the doona.
Landlord has suddenly withdrawn any option of negotiation - her accountant has apparently told her she “has” to up her rent to match market rates.
110/week extra. 21% increase. 550/week. This system is just not bearable any more. I’m going to seek advice… at least as to whether market rates include typical real estate agent fees or not
Oh biggest hugs. That is absolutely so wrong. Near me there’s a whole strip of shops that’s now half empty because it’s worth more to the landlords borrowing potential to have it on paper as “rental return potential is $x” even if that means it stands empty.
It’s criminal.
We keep waiting for the house of cards to fall but I don’t know when the heck that’s happening
vcat
It does appear that market rates are somewhat similar to what’s being proposed (though idk if they take into account age of property etc - huge variation in this suburb)
Key difference is there is no REA fee in my case, so I’m contacting Tenants Vic tomorrow on advice regarding whether that’s included when benchmarking rent increases. Because if the 550 benchmark includes REA fees of say 10%, I should only be paying 500/week
It looks like challenging a rent increase is free so I might just do it anyway. LL has taken the nuclear option so I might as well do the same
Look up the minimum standard laws Re heating, locks, insulation etc. send them a breach notice for everything
Nothing in breach I can see just yet, however I regret not breaching them when they gave me fucking less than 1hr notice for a tradie to access the unit because they sent it to the wrong email, and pleaded because he was already there and waiting and was gonna charge them a hefty callout and cancellation fee.
Will be applying the most stringent of standards going forward, also not replying to texts, emails only. I dunno how insulation works with apartments though
That’s nuts. It’s going to get to the point where wealth is so stratified that nobody can pay (ie anyone with money buys a house and the rest of us can’t even pay rent)
…Lemmy DT squat? I’m not ablebodied but can contribute to subsistence farming and patching up the communal abandoned shack between shifts at the workhouse
As a single person with no chance of an inheritance and no family support in Vic, and who probably can’t ever maintain a 5-day full time job for more than a few months at a stretch without burning out, I’m seriously wondering if I can afford to exist beyond being a financial conduit from my employer to the landlord
Not saving that much moving to the outermost suburbs as there’s less stock for singles and a jump in commuting costs and time. The only real future I have is to move interstate to live with family
I’m so sorry. This shit shouldn’t be happening.
. . .
Lol that dude’s had a hapsburg or two in his tree
Hugs.
Yes. Family is now one our most important assets. Hate to describe it like that but that’s what it is.
It honestly is. Financially and emotionally (isolation can be expensive). Which is all the more heartbreaking when you draw the short straw on that front.
We were notified our rent was going up $100/week. We requested it only go up by $75, and the landlord accepted. Small wins!
We’re paying well above $550 though. That’s a 1-bedroom apartment in my suburb. Even though we were paying that for a 4 bedroom house 18 months ago.
Insane. This is why the only way I can envisage catching my breath is to stay with family for a while… It’s absolutely unmanageable on one income let alone part time.
The kids and I went to some lady’s house a few weeks ago chasing those Woolies Disney cards. She had loads of spares. It turned out she was a single mum who worked at Woolies. I’ve been thinking about her since. I have no idea how she manages to live on that wage. She has to be on better rent than we are, our rent alone is about what a full-time Woolies worker would be paid.
Inheritance, family support, maybe a little windfall from insurance…
I know someone who will be coming out of 6 years prison soon and his parents will buy him a place so it’s okay even if he takes a lower wage job… Another dude who had a breakdown maybe 12 years ago and never worked for a wage since, his parents have offered to cough up for a deposit after supporting his rent and treatment for years (I’m thinking there’s a workplace payout involved as well)… There’s a regular on the reddit DT who seemingly hasn’t worked in many years, gets the DSP, but doesn’t have to worry a cent about rent - presumably gifted the house by family…
Otherwise yeah. Rent is now easily a normal person’s entire wage. Impossible on a single income
@Nath @just_kitten there a few compassionate landlords around, but they are few and far between.
Personally I don’t get the cards, though I got a stupid amount of the bricks farm bricks a couple of years back and stored them, waiting for my daughter to be old enough to get excited by them, which is finally happening now she is 3, and we’ve been opening a few a day for a week or so. Much more fun than cards!
I’m sick as a dog and His Lordship is in full pantshit mode over his ADHD assessment. Fun times in the haus today
Oh, that’s no good. Hope you’re feeling better soon and he feels calmer. Stress can be catching. Is he doing the assessment today?
it’s kinda a multi stage process, there’s a test, then a psych, then another test, then there’s things for me to fill out for the outsider perspective, he’s digging up old report cards, all that fun stuff.
All that stuff is why I don’t have a formal Dx Re ASD. No, you cannot speak to anyone who knew me as a kid, they are dead, demented, or persona non.
well they’re added weight, but they’re not specifically required. The biggest roadblock is the fucking expense, jesus.
Same re ASD. And I don’t feel like forking out the $3k or so for testing, either
E: not that I don’t think getting a diagnosis would be valuable, I’m just over drs appointments etc
yeah I didn’t bother because 1) wont change shit and 2) anyone I mention being ASD to universally goes DUUUUUUHHHHHHHH
ADHD test is required for His Lordship though because it’s hit a point where its started doing damage. He doesn’t have to put up with that nonsense.
As someone who has been through the ADHD process. HelloGP are cheap and refer you to their cheap remote psychiatrists. Super easy process.
TIL Woolies don’t have prawn crackers and some people don’t know what they are.
whaaaat, it’s 2024 and you don’t have prawn crackers?. When I said that I may have been joking but also serious.
you mean the ones in the big blue box that look kinda like giant toenails and you deep fry them? Moorabbin does.
you mean krupuk ?
They’re the ones
Coles have them.
Yeah that’s where I ended up getting them from
I just checked: confirmed. Woolies doesn’t have them. They’re in aisle 7 or my local Coles, though!
Looooooong fucking day. Just left the office now.
Guess all the people and culture stuff came back to bite me in the ass lol
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Thank you :)
The Company cares about you.
Favourite rose is going. Just joey:
My favourite too! The fragrance is just awesome!
Someone brought home cannoli !!
it was me. I brought it home.
nice 🙂
…i like this
I also like this because:
a) PACKIDGE!
ii) It’s the first screenshot from a phone I’ve seen in ages where the battery isn’t at 4% remaining and I’m silently anxiously screaming CHARGE YOUR DAMN PHONE! 😆
Most morning screenshots will have decent battery charge. It’s the late night posts with 5% battery.
I’m now annoyed that your torch button says “Torch”. I’ve always been mildly annoyed that mine says “Flashlight”. At least Google noticed that millions of people obviously had “Lumos” shortcuts and just baked that into default Assistant.
I’m going to devote braincells to getting my button to say “Torch” now I just know it.
…I can’t remember it ever not being torch. Screenshot is from a pixel so maybe it’s a manufacturer thing?
You know what would be nice?
some chocolate bikkies, some dinosaur lollies, endless cups of tea
and a one month holiday in venice or naples where I can sleep as much as i want, take baths, read books and not cook, sandwiches in my room is perfectly ok cos looking for restaurants can get fucked . maybe after a week i’ll go for a walk to a museum
I’d settle for a weekend camping by the beach tbh.
that would also be nice 🙂
re restaurants, i do not care if i go to the same cafe on the corner every day for a month and i do not care if it aint haute cuisine, i just want good/edible tucker without food poisoning
I’ve been cafe homeless ever since the owner sold it off and the entire staff was replaced.
Gave them a shot and the coffee was yucky so I never went back.
Shame too because it was so close to home.
Tenacity Tuesday is here! Free pizza (one (1) slice per person) for those who stay overtime and work at least Ten hours today!
I quit.
HR would like to remind you about the state of the economy.
HR can bite my shiny metal… hang on a sec, gotta check this email… ahh crap car rego… umm… they can bite this super awesome cake I bought them!
Phew that was close.
HR thanks you for the gluten lactose animalproducts free cake.
They totally deserve it :|
I’m a lactose free, gluten free, keto vegetarian who’s allergic to water - could you point me to the HR approved table of sadness for my slice?
You kid, but that pretty much was reality at the last catered work thing I had to attend.
Oh I am GF for reals and I know the horror that the table of sad foods can be
My whinge the past few days isn’t about any one person, it’s the mixture that makes for the headache. 1 person this, another person, that, so almost nothing can be prepped in a single go. My no allium friend is the biggest pain honestly. Those hide in everything!
📉📉Can your teeth shred confidential documents?
People and Culture would like to remind you how important you are to the organisation.
We value all of our team members, because without you, there would be no company.
As such, we are granting a company wide 10% raise effective immediately.
Also, we have added an extra week to everyone’s annual leave balance.
We thank you so much for all your hard work, and hope these measures demonstrate our appreciation of your commitment to our organisation!
And now you awaken to reality…,
Then I realise the cat threw up on my bed
We expect our team members to demonstrate their loyalty in return by working overtime for at least one hour daily, and for six days a week as needed.
That sounds like the meal allowance clause in my EBA!
Except we do actually get enough to cover a decent meal, so it is a nice little bonus if you stay back.
I was surprised to see the meal allowance when I did overtime. It is indeed enough to cover a sandwich and a drink from the company pantry.
You have a company pantry ?! We have one shop within walking distance and a food truck that visits on weekdays. The meal allowance is actually pretty good, a bit over $20 I think. It tends to only be something we get if we come in for a short OT shift and it gets extended. If I’m open to doing that I generally take food in so I can pocket the meal allowance instead of spending it 🙂💰
Meal allowance is half hour pay. Pantry may or may not be stocked with proper food but there are always drinks and milk.
Is it a giant lactose free 10m diameter pizza?
A standard large pepperoni pizza with regular cheese. The Company is very generous.
What? No Hawaiian pizza? I feel ripped off!
Hawaiian pizza is for those who work 12+ hours today.
I require the sweet pineapple… What tasks are on offer?
Edit: If you give me a slice that isn’t lactose free I’ll also provide many containers of natural gas. Completely renewable resource. Don’t ask how
same
we are magic
For your service to the company’s energy bill, you will be given one (1) slice of Hawaiian pizza extra cheese after working eleven hours, instead of twelve.
I have a funny feeling I’ll be spending that ‘free’ hour hooked up to the gas bottle…
Guess I might have to put in some extra hours today :(
Hustle!
Grind Culture
Sounds delicious. 🙂
Mission Pet Rock achieved:
Tyrannosaurus Rocks!
What’s its name?
I shall report back on Thursday
But that’s too far away 😔
Pre-naming pet gifts is rude
But mummmm…
