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Cake day: August 2nd, 2023

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  • It’s a short sighted argument to say baddies don’t follow the rules so your only restricting honest people.

    In Australia assault rifles and automatics are just outright banned. You need a licence to own any type of gun, which takes 6 months waiting for background checks to be done. Guns must be kept in Safes etc.

    So whilst a baddie might want to get an assault rifle and go on a kill rampage he can’t. There just aren’t any around. You can’t break in to a house and steal one.

    Can organised crime get them? Sure. But that’s not what this is trying to stop. It’s preventing the impulsive bat shit crazy person going on a rampage.

    It absolutely helps, as proven by Australias lack of mass shootings.

    People who want to go hunting still can.



  • My employer told us all the rumours were true. Layoffs were happening. They called it “difficult conversations” instead of firings.

    About 1/5th of a team of 1000 people.

    Apparently they hadn’t decided who yet.

    Meanwhile we just received the biggest bonus in the companies history due to historic profits.

    Then the CEO told investors that they expect a big pickup early next year and will need to hire a bunch of people to handle the demand.

    So they are firing a bunch of people for 6 months to hit financial targets in the back half of the year before hiring people again.

    Everyone that is to be fired is still waiting to find out who will be axed.


  • All the renter’s calling for the heads of the upper middle class property owners.

    Stop coming after us. We already pay the most tax and get the least benefits from the tax.

    We don’t get all the offsets the millionaires get, and we don’t get the handouts the poor get.

    We just get gouged everywhere. We don’t know enough to invest in anything other than housing.

    Stop coming after us. We aren’t the problem.



  • I work a 9 day week. It’s shit. 4 day work week only works if you don’t have to do a 38hr week crammed into the remaining days.

    I have to do 9 hr days to get that day off. The Friday I have to work is only a 4 hr day.

    I often dream about just working all 7 days just so each day is shorter. If I did 4 hrs on Saturday and Sunday I could just do 7 hr days.

    I fucking hate 9 hr days. I’m completely over it by 6 hrs.

    I also consider just cutting back my hours to 24hrs, but then I think about my retirement. I don’t want to be super poor when I’m old so I need to work as much as possible for the next 10 years atleast before dialing back a bit until retirement.


  • I can. Have a meeting in Citrix and I happily work while people yabber on in the background.

    The real killer is the face to face meetings. My group supervisor now demands anyone in the office on a particular day go into his office for the team meeting. That’s a real time waster.

    People online can’t hear us properly standing around in his office. Can’t get work done while standing in there.

    Just let me work from home so I don’t have a bunch of people wander over to me to ask stupid questions during the day.

    If you want something send me an email and I’ll get to it when I have time. Walking into my space, making me take my noise cancelling headphones off so you can yabber at me and break my concentration is so annoying.

    I’m untouchable at home. I work until I need a break, then quickly sort questions and queries, then get back into my groove for another hour or two.