I’ve finally started at the new job. Let me know if you’re having trouble with your employer, I can send them an email that should scare them into shape.
I’m working for the sort of government department departments wouldn’t want to hear from, as long as they don’t dig too deep and look at my job title
scary Halloween costume
Holy shit that’s perfect 😂😂😂
shudders
Auditing!
Congrats man!
someone’s got to be the tea lady, eh
( tax, everyone is scared of tax )
to help with the mood, here is my son being adorable
This is the only good social media, right here. Thanks
Anytime! My camera roll is just pictures of Mickey and screenshots of ptv timetables 😅
oh my god I would die for those crossed paws. And that “heheh” look with the slanted eyes and uplifted mouth
He just sleeps like that when it gets a bit warm, he always does a little “rah rah” to say hello when we walk past, and will roll over he gets his belly kisses. So spoiled… I brush him and fur just keeps coming and coming. I wonder if he is a medium haired cat, rather than a short haired one 😂
I want a Mickey in my life ;_; What a sweet and beautiful creature. Maybe he is a medium haired cat! Sox was the same with the fur (and she was obviously medium haired from her tail - but the rest of her could’ve looked like Mickey)
Oh my God!
He looks like he’s giggling
He certainly was having a great time munching my knees today, when I was wearing just my boxers 😭 he’s very pleased with himself I think
Oh my goodness, look at those paws!
“Why yes, I do apologise to my cat when she meows at me for not brushing her exactly the way she likes. Don’t you?”
I get a bite and a hiss . Tomorrow Ted will be held down by the vet while I brush out his knots. I have kevlar gloves.
Calling me ouuuut lol
Look at her sweet face 😍 I love her
Jesus christ.
Oh he ain’t saving them at this point!
If there is a God, where is he now, hmm? Riddle me that, batman
the parallels with Weimar are chilling
Jesus Christ I HATE watching this US news, but I cant look away! Some folks are already calling it and I think I might throw up. Thats not a joke or an exaggeration.
The fact that it’s this close speaks volumes of the US population.
It is also how biased the US electoral system is to maintain the Status Quo.
Every time the Republicans get in, the cripple democracy a little bit at a time. When the Democrats get in, they don’t do anything to roll back the damage.
It has finally come to the Endgame for US Democracy.
All we can do is make sure that our elected officials are aware that it is not something that we want in Australia.
Have a friend who studied world history throughout uni. His statement about this is ‘All empires must fall’. This is the fall.
USA has been going down the toilet for some time, and the turds getting bigger.
I’m gonna switch off the US crap and focus on our local (milder) shitshow.
thinking on it I am not surprised
for 100 years the press and influencers have been making race an issue as a distraction to class , money and opportunity issues ( to stop the working class uniting , and yes, race is an issue )
the working class have genuine grievances and want a voice, sadly trump says he is their voice ( even tho that’s a lie )
they don’t want to hear more race issues
we need unity
I don’t disagree, but the GOP and Trump have not been the voice of the working class. The fact that enough people have been convinced that they are, is just sad.
This election was also about women issues, and that fell on deaf ears.
The media has a lot of responsibility for this shit show.
but fairness!! S/
the press are either cowards or love the money the drama of trump brings
in the meantime the independent voices in the media are getting shut down
just look at the drama of trying to bring this sub on lemmy under “control”
Yeah the whole ‘fairness’ thing is a load of crap. With the election one side (generally the leftish leaning one) has to be perfect and spotless, meanwhile the other side might a slap on the wrist over something terrible.
One reason I love the ABC and SBS here. The only reason they appear to lean ‘left’ is because they report facts and don’t favour either party, generally. It’s just one side of politics tends to be shittier than the other.
What do you mean about this sub and lemmy?
there was an attack on our mods last week because they weren’t towing a line, iow, they were being non partisan
https://aussie.zone/post/15068055
can I just say I love our mods , it’s due to their hard work and diligence and ideals that we have the freedom to post here , luv youse guys 😘😘🥹🥹
They need mandatory voting, at the very least
I’m very thankful for our electoral system.
We just need to educate our electorate that we can”t “Throw away your vote” by preferencing a special-interest party above a Major party…
Like my gran used to say (she thought she was upper class)… “I deserve two votes” even though she never read any policy. I once flippantly said maybe charlie (her doggo pug) should get one too and she was thrilled at the idea.
Yeah I’m starting to get a bad feeling about it all. About to turn off notifcations and try to bury in work for a few hours
It’s looking real ugly over there. People are talking about a red mirage, but…that seems more and more unlikely the longer this goes on.
I have friends in the US 😭
Just saw someone talk about a republican house, senate and presidency altogether as a good thing.
Compared it to Obama. Obama had no interest in dictatorship. Republicans meanwhile keep getting real excited about Hitler.
It’s too early to tell
It is too early to be sure, but it took four days in 2020 to get a result and things looked a lot more purple than they do this time around.
I’m definitely concerned, but I don’t think I pay attention to it till tomorrow. It’s really wracking my nerves.
Oh joy. Impending major restructuring at my workplace. No redundancies, more like the drive-the-people-remaining-to-breaking-point strategy.
My 11th year may end up being my last, time to dust off the resume and get the hell out of here :| At least I hit my LSL eligibility beforehand… :\
have you taken LSL yet? I’d take it, disappear for a few months then take the redundancy they offer when you get back.
The LSL is banked with the intention of just taking the cash when I leave, on top of the 7 weeks annual leave I’ve also got sitting there.
They’re adamant there will be no redundancies, without coming out and saying it they’re definitely trying for reduction through attrition.
See what happens I guess.
As @tinybreak infers, they may be trying to get people to leave so that they don’t have to payout redundancies.
If you take your LSL and AL, you can bypass all the issues. When you come back you will either be invaluable to them and be able to get a payrise, or they would have decided to issue redundancies after all and you can cash-in again. It is a gamble though.
Aww, that sucks, but hopefully another door opening…
Oh noooo. Sorry to hear. Certainly brings up a lot of anxiety. What a shit way to restructure… I agree with taking your LSL as part of your plans. If they’re going to be merciless, so can you
ah feck
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I did see what you posted, just chiming in to say this is really putting a pin in my plans to visit my brother in the US next year after I finish uni :/
otoh he probably needs some cheering up…
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Ugh, that smug dipshit Elon Putzk will be positively gloating… ugh, the thought is personally repulsive. How could they not love Tim Walz? Did they really want to not vote for a coloured woman so hard that they voted for a racist rapist delusional carny sheisty pathological liar instead‽ Jesus Christmas cookie Christ.
Real talk, they didn’t vote for Trump because Harris is a POC woman, the reasoning seems to be much simpler, and dumber
- The economy isn’t great
- It was better under Trump (any thoughts revolving around why it was better cough covid price gouging and shit trump repealed don’t exist)
- Vote trump
My words were a little more x rated but yeah.
Round the twist again
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Indeed
Please no.
I’m now afraid for reproductive rights in Australia.
Nah. It’ll be alright. We don’t generally go backwards. We go at a snails pace forward unless it’s a pay rise for pollies then it’s all speed ahead.
We don’t generally go backwards.
This is generally true. Except for the destruction of medicare, loss of local manufacturing industry, no taxation on our mineral resources, expensive and half useless universities and no consequences for government corruption
I wish I could know it would be ok. We have our own fundies here so things could get dicey
Was pretty fucked up how close the votes were on this matter in South Australia recently - I mean what the fuck, surely that isn’t representative of how Australians really view the matter, but I realise more and more how out of touch I am
I really ought to look into a hysterectomy. I don’t want kids anyway, but this is certainly an incentive to advocate better for myself lol
My old family dog I used to look after.
So adorable 💖
So there’s now literal children buying anti-aging products like retinol and there’s a hair disclosing spray so women can completely defuzz their whole faces?
People are getting preventative Botox and giving themselves gastroparesis by using Ozempic and 20 year olds are either removing the fat from their cheeks or getting fillers? Celebrities with slightly crooked teeth are getting full veneers or caps?
Earlier periods of history got a bad reputation for their rigid beauty standards and rightfully so but I feel like it’s all much more out of control now because internet. Modern beauty standards are insane.
Screw that I’m crawling back under my rock
there’s celebrities and then there is insta and tiktok celebrity. Insta and tiktok is freaky.
I feel like TikTok is weirdly disconnected from reality
western tiktok has an anti-social algorithm ,
So one of the clients I look after, is cracking the shits about something that I have no control over.
I really hope I don’t get scapegoated over this.
Fingers crossed.
Edit: spoke to our GM, he said not to freak out and no one’s getting fired. The issues probs have very little to do with me.
I don’t like this reality can we reset the simulation pls.
I really cbf making this potato salad but I know future me will appreciate it when I hear “What’s for dinner?” And I get to answer “it’s in the fridge. Help yourself”.
I might go the meatball sub tonight. Maybe a bit of side salad to give the illusion of health
Lettuce and cucumber is what keeps my family healthy.
My cat’s heart isn’t working well and he doesn’t have a great prognosis, but he’s well and happy in himself and I’m focusing on that. We’ll be ok.
I’ve just ordered takeaway for the first time in yonks. Fried goodness is now on the way to me and in the meantime I’ve poured a glass of wine. I will enjoy it and not wallow.
And I’m putting my fingers in my ears and ignoring the news out of the US.
Many hugs to you and puss. ❤️
I’m sorry. I’m hoping he has some more good days and can soak up the love for as long as possible
World news aside, I’ve finished my first day at the new job. I think I need to get past induction and do some actual work, and start working from home, before I can decide if this was the right choice.
I think it will be. I need to remember how shit my old work was, even before things for really bad. Once I get started I won’t wish I got things right in the old role, because even when things were working, they were just barely, and things were still shit
