Thanks for the advice everyone. Will request further clarification in writing. Once obtained will go to fair work.
Other than that, feeling pretty chill.
I log on whenever I wake up, log off when I’ve had enough.
3 seeks weeks to go!
Check your employment contract too - it should say when they agree to pay your salary and when they can withhold payment.
Dinner had, very full but had a minor disaster cooking.
Went to crack an egg on the fry pan and instead of it cracking a bit the whole thing exploded all over the place.
Also mistiming the cooking of everything, some of the stuff went cold and wasn’t as lightly cooked as I thought I’d be.
Oh well try again tomorrow and hope for better results.
Hey funny you mention it, I’ve had that a bit with eggs lately. I crack a lot of eggs for work when I’m pasta making, and I’ve had some batches that with a light tap just completely fragment and deposit the egg where I didn’t want it. Also some I had recently were oddly hard to crack with a super strong shell.
I’m only lucky for some odd reason that I didn’t have any bits of shell in whatever bits of the egg that managed to make it into the frying pan.
It was so weird how the shell basically just crumbled and collapsed on itself.
I think it’s from a very young chicken, I may be wrong.
Possibly the egg producers were skimping on the oyster grit that the chickens need for the calcium to build strong shells, or the chickens didn’t get enough access to the grit. Given the current state of affairs with bird flu etc., I can’t really blame the egg producers for occasionally getting the feed mix a bit wrong.
News from on high is that we’re back in office from Monday.
It’s fine for me - I can walk to work! I sometimes go in just because it’s cooler and my VPN isn’t working - but this doesn’t feel like a lot of notice for anyone who isn’t me
5 days or hybrid?
We’ve gone from one day per week expected in office to a minimum of three, preferably all.
I only work three days, so…
I assume those that set those new rules can still work from home whenever they like.
Just sent a pretty forceful sounding / legally threatening email to a client that still owes me a couple of grand. 4 months overdue invoice, all kindly worded follow up emails totally ignored. Spoke to him on the phone a few weeks back, said he’d pay by the following week but never did. Just taking the piss now, and I’m angry.
Give me my money, then they’re getting blacklisted for good. There’s more work to be done for this client (and I’m letting them think things will continue) but I’ve decided I won’t be doing it. I don’t want to work with people that have zero respect for what I do. I have the authority to say no, take your business with maybe payment elsewhere, and I plan to use it.
I have so much experience debt collecting, lemme know if you’d like me to freelance for you 😂 I got legislation and regulations burned into my neurons.
That is the right call tho, no more work for them!
When I did mobile therapy, I had some many people get lax with their payments. This was before OSKO and payID. I had someone I’d been to visit four times take another six weeks after that to pay me. I think they only got their shit together when I started calling every second day to ask when payment was. THEY got pissy at me for pestering them for work done. We dropped each other after that.
TIL Amway is still a thing
Down with that sort of thing
Cory Doctorow wrote about Amway on his blog this month. His podcast is worth listening to. One of those obsessive writers who always has something to say about current events and how they relate to history.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/05/power-of-positive-thinking/
I didn’t see your reply till just now. Thanks for that 👍
This diet means I do one quarter the cooking I used to do. It has freed up so much time and is def less stressful. 🙂 This is a totes unexpected bonus.
I agree, food takes so much time. Shopping, putting away, cooking, dishes, put away dishes, repeat. And the headspace used in deciding what to cook can get tiring.
Interesting, since I quit my diet, I’m cooking so much more… but it’s just trash. Trying to find the balance. I think meal kits helped!
meal kits are good
I was annoyed for no real reason most of today, but then I got to keep the leftover cheese from a work function and all is well.
Shitty photo of work cheese:
spoiler
Some of the best cheese I ever had was work leftovers. Stinky enough to get me funny looks on the tram.
The one time an airline lost my luggage I had some frozen blue cheese in it. When I informed customer service of it they found that bag fast as fuck. Soo if anyone is ever dealing with a lost bag situation and wants to put some priority on it…
“Do you have anything to declare?”
“Yeah I’ve got smelly bags!”
Yes, but do you have anything in your luggage to declare?
Never leaving the west past 2:30 pm ever again. Dust and heat aside, I think I feel physically sick from all the traffic and driving, especially the shitty Hoppers Crossing roundabout and 40 mins of crawling along the m1 to power st. And my measurements from later in the day seemed sus to boot :/
Nice surprise is I snagged an appt with the dishwasher tech for tomorrow itself so a perfect excuse to fuck off fieldwork and recover. Fingers bloody crossed they can fix it. Next week starts off with two big days of fieldwork in the southeast for work but at least I’m getting paid for it!!!
If they can’t fix it or it still breaks down maybe push for a return and replacement or something?
I hated living out there, I felt so far away from everything.
The young Seagoons lived out past Melton for about 4 months. Miss Seagoon said it doesn’t look far on the map but the roads and access to the city is slow. They both couldn’t wait to get back to the city.
Bathroom and kitchen cleaned. Who am I!?
Someone who is welcome to clean mine. 👍
Haha ahhh nah lol! I can’t even do it for myself, I was only motivated because I have an electrician coming tomorrow morning (between 7am and 9am 💀). The REA has finally put in the job for the dead downlights and the stovetop (where only 2/4 burners work). It’s only taken since October 🙄
Good work! I had to do a frantic house inspection clean last night.
Never again lol
Good on you! The other day I just turned in a slow circle in my flat and actually said out loud, “Jesus Christ where do I start?” I mean, I know how to do that stuff but it was just feeling overwhelming at that time.
They’re withholding this months pay until next month. Because my last day is the 25th, they want me to return the laptop etc which is fine.
But now I won’t be paid for 6 weeks!!!
If you call fairwork or an employment lawyer you might get your gardening leave…
That doesn’t sound right. You might need to contact the Fair work about this.
If you were living week to week this would be devastating.
exactly
that an employer would do this is shameful
workers need their pay
and employers should be thinking of worst case scenarios where food needs to be bought for children, vital medicine, etc etc.
call fairwork asap
that doesn’t sound legal.
Next month starts on Saturday. This is also highly dodgy. Call Fairwork asap tomorrow. They would have to have a really convincing excuse to not pay you out in accordance with your regular pay schedule. And that’s about as far as they can delay payment. Also you would have accumulated at least some leave entitlement also even if only a few days.
Thank you will do so :)
Um…is that even legal?
I’d be withholding work in that case. “Here’s the laptop. Shove it up your ass and if I don’t see the pay next month I’m going to fair work and contacting every client to say you screwed me!”
Damn good point. Tbh I’m doing Jack shit at the moment anyway lol
go have a wank, do a couple of missions on Final Fantasy and do some washing. What are they gonna do, fire you?
I’m done. Smashed through the reporting
When you get it use some of that pay for a bottle of bubbly. You know, for when they go under. If they last that long that is
Classic Herbal Essences is discounted right now at Coles and silicone free. 🤔 Finding it a bit hard to rinse the Dove bar out sometimes so maybe I’ll try just the shampoo in whatever type looks least smelly. Edit: Actually looking at the descriptions I might go smell it first. I’d go for the Moisture Milks but they seem to be gone.
The zucchini are sending up more male flowers. I thought they were done. The mildew and heat have left them looking a bit rough.
There’s progress on the string bag. It’s mind numbing and I’m trying to nail the way to hold the yarn but soon I’ll be to the next stage.
TW Spiders
There’s also a baby huntsman who’s been here a few days. I hope he stays out of Melbcat’s reach
These daily discussion threads are great for tracking what day it is. Sometimes I need a moment of pause to remember which thread is the current one
You mean, today is Thursday, not Wednesday?!
dammit, you made me double check …lol
Feeling a bit grumpy tonight, mostly in just not being happy with me, but I went for a stroll around the block, indulging in some gaming and now I’m just appreciating how good my chest is while winding down for sleep by watching a Kdrama. Anyone here seen It’s Okay Not To Be Okay? Fucking batshit, I tells ya.
Movers have been and gone, those guys deserved a bigger tip. Not everything fit. Guess the location of “the most important box in the house”?
The sex dungeon™
Ya’ll have a dungeon? I just stash stuff under the bed!
I have enough stuff to equip one, but not a dedicated space
If that were true I’d at least know where it was
hrmm…
The booze cupboard?
We used to have a special box for remotes, cables. furniture screws and final odds and ends. Sometimes when we did containers from England, they’d’ve packed tea cups, tea and the kettle in there.
This special box is all the fixings for the extensive shelving system. Without it we’re fucked.
I wanna know if the air mattress survived?
Because those things can be iffy.
Yes. Neither the cats nor I punctured it.
garage
Cutting paper, laminating said paper, low key arvo. 1 hour to go!
