How do you abbreviate ‘breakfast’? I’ve seen cafes offer a ‘big breaky’ which I read as break-y. Others do ‘Brekkie’ which I seem fine with. And one place I saw does ‘Breakki’ which annoys me to no end for some reason.
I use breaky 🤷♂️
Wrong.
I just get to break- and decide if I wanna commit to 1 or 4 more letters
As in Achy Breaky Heart? If so, then thou shalt be cast into the outer darkness and forced to listen to crap 80s and 90s pop sleaze until you reform your way of life, and (possibly) accept Jesus into your heart. I’m not fussed about the last bit. If it happens, it happens.
Brekkie. Using a y instead of ie just rubs wrong (like ozzy instead of aussie)
Yes.
And NEVER Breakki. That’s just wrong.
geebus it feels cold
I’m hugging a hot water bottle right now.
Nothing like some midnight floor mopping because you put it off all day and have an apartment inspection tomorrow while you’ll be in the office and you hate having people in your apartment while you’re not there but you have to go to work because you have to present a demonstration to the executive leadership team.
Meeeeeanwhile, I’m seriously considering moving out and just going to stay with my folks for a while. It’s not about money (although it would be nice to save a bunch of money quickly) it’s more about how unhealthy it is for me to sit alone in this shoebox. Plus I’ll have to house/dog sit for them for their upcoming US trip this year anyway.
Then once I’ve saved a bigger chunk of dough I’ll finally bite the bullet and buy something. Likely right before the housing bubble finally bursts after 30 years of people saying it’s going to but never does.
Dude, I had to do it, I quit work and went to uni as a mature age student - I lasted a couple of months with the parent, before renting again, but this was because covid etc. If you get along with your parents, they have a big enough house etc. and you’re single, do it. The money you’ll save is yuge. I know you love your road trips etc. But the freedom when you finally buy is life changing.
Good night and good luck for tomorrow.
@Seagoon_ ICYMI, the 7:30 Report had a story about why Melbourne’s Star Observation Wheel failed.
I mean, aside from the breathtaking views of Coode Island and the Docklands car parks, the fact it was barely ever working probably didn’t help…
I worked right near it. I probably would have had a go, but it was stupidly expensive - something like $50 a ride. Maybe it wasn’t that much ($50 might have been for two). But whatever it cost, it was far more than I was willing to pay.
@Seagoon_ Gosh, you create them at midnight! That’s temporally logical, but logistically challenging for you, i imagine.
I get to choose the emoji . 😃
Good bot
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Hmmmmm
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Two savoury things from breadtop please
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Something to help with a cold.
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You’ve got it too?
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I’ve been operating on a steady diet of these. At this point it is more whisky than tea.
Yeah, I’ve had it for about a week or something, doesn’t seem to want to go away and it’s causing me to cough a lot and cough up stuff a lot which sucks.
Coconut cream pie and a large martini please. There should be a law against mornings.
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Thank you very kindly.
Medicine
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A kebab and some idiot repellant please
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Oooh a vicious pet rock. I shall name Thalgor the Terrible
Ok I think I’m tired.
I nearly fell into a toilet.
It’s a sign.
From today’s wikipedia - I have to salute whoever wrote the article. Superb use of understatement.
Mad honey is also thought to help with erectile dysfunction[4] and increase sexual performance.[5] Most cases of mad honey poisoning are experienced by middle-aged men.[24]
Hahaha. I needed that laugh.
TIL > Mad honey
That feeling when you go through your 30+ year collection of buttons and find a replica of the one you need to replace. Better than ice cream.
How satisfying!
Ya gotta take the small wins.
I’ll say it’s a little bigger. I am the classic hoarder and then years later when I finally throw it out, a fortnight after I have a use for it. Happens. Every. Time.
So, BIG WIN! Hehe.
I wonder what happened to mum’s collection. She had a massive collection of buttons going back to the 50’s. Dad probably threw them all out. 🤷♂️
I have not cooked a roast anything in many, many years. But tonight WE ROAST!
Chicken is the beast of choice! With roast veg, cauliflower & cheese and peas.
I’m a boring, basic cook at best so this could go either way…
It’s very hard to stuff up a roast, you’ll do fine. If not, there’s always gravy to cover up the bad bits.
Have managed to do so in the past. Then I discovered oven bags. Seriously, I’ve found roasts take longer than the book says. particularly if adding in veg in the same tray. But that might just be my oven at the time which was on its last legs so to speak.
Fucking neighbour is doing my head in. This is the guy that cuts his lawn with hand shears and also known to sweep leaves around the block 300+m away.
This morning got yelled at for not cleaning up leaves on my side of the boundary. It’s fukin autumn find a new less stressful hobby.
Then he apologises later saying I caught him at a bad time.
Dude seriously has his moments and I respect that but not leaves… in… autumn.
People like that should just move into an apartment. I don’t understand why people buy a house, then hate the trees, put concrete and paving from edge to edge of the block or put artificial grass. If you don’t want a garden there’s better housing options where you don’t have to get furious if a neighbours leaf blows into your yard.
5am.
The art:
The artist:
Destruction by Gibson
It’s the look of “what’s your problem buddy?” That gets me.
@Gibsonisafluffybutt @Seagoon_ Lovely post-modern art piece by Gibson 😸
I have an interview for another volunteer position this Friday. I can’t believe I’m finally leaving call centres behind, and I’m actually on the path to something I want to do. For so long I’ve been forcing myself into jobs that ruin me, and then I wonder why I fail.
I won’t fail at this.
I’ve worked in call centres for 10-12 years, electricity, tax collection, salary packaging/sacrifice, and a small business that did home services. All sucked in their own unique ways. The only way to move “up” is to be toxic as fuck and throw your coworkers under the bus, which I couldn’t do. The abuse from management, the abuse from callers, caused me to abuse myself.
So done, 0/10, do not reccomend. Taking calls all day is a form of torture.
Gonna be doing animal care instead, cert III, and then I’ll move up to the cert IV in veterinary nursing. It’ll be hard, but I won’t be on the phones; I’ll be doing something that has been my dream.
I worked for an ISP help desk for years. I loved it.
I think my experience was a bit different to most phone work though. All the calls were initiated by customers. Even when I was calling outbound, it was as a follow up to someone who wanted to speak to me. Also, we were helping people, so they’d be happy and grateful at the end of the call.
Finally, it was the 90’s - the Internet users were far more technical than the average person today. I could walk most callers through their computer/modem settings pretty easily.
There might still be phone work out there that doesn’t crush your soul. I don’t think it’s the work itself that’s awful, rather the setting they do that work in and your coworkers/employer that are the problem.
I did four years ISS tech support and I think I’d eat out of bins before going back.
Same 100%
I wish it was just coworkers/management
I’ve had customers scream at me, threaten to unalive themselves or me, threaten to shoot me, masturbate on calls, speak to me like I was a phone sex worker, call me every name under the sun, tell me I’m a bad person and I should unalive myself, and threaten their own children.
Had some spout qanon stuff, and scream about 5g causing cancer while using their mobile to conduct the call. Scream that lefties are ruining the country.
Had people tell me that land tax is stupid and not know what it goes towards (roads, infrastructure, schools, were my answer), that it was just funding trans people to abuse children 🙄. Scream about having to sell their investment properties (not my fault). Some spoke down to me, or call me racist names because they though I was an immigrant (I’m not, not that it makes it okay).
Threaten to find me and rape me, wanted me to tell them my last name, tell them my home address, call me queer slurs. Ask me out, ask me to talk dirty to them, and demand I do something against company policy.
All this because I was just doing my job, or I was “taking too long”, or I told them they had to pay xyz bill, or tell them it would take X time for payment to be received/refund to land. Never told anyone my political leanings, never provoked them. I think you lucked out, because these days people have gotten worse and worse.
So by the end, I was a (middle) manager of the staff on the phones. I had the power to “fire” customers. I would not have hesitated to close the account of a customer, making them get a new Internet Provider/email address for any of this. Our people were worthy of respect and our customers knew it. Or they weren’t our customers any longer.
@Nath @StudChud Nath, it’s great you had a good job experience.
But not all call centre jobs are like that.
Many call centres are micro-micromanaged.
Adherence to work hours. Conformance to schedule. Call handling time. Calls per worked hour.
There’s often caller feedback forms, and those irrational or malicious customers basically decide if you keep your job.
The calls are recorded, and your team leader or dedicated contact centre staff listen in randomly.
In many commercial organisations, there’s a mandate to upsell or cross-sell, even if it’s an angry customer who wants to close their accounts.
In those cases, you also get judged on the average value of products you sell, and the percentage of calls you upsell on.
You have already angry people who have just been on hold for up to an hour, and have been transferred across different departments and teams.
And there are some men who are either creepy or misogynistic when dealing with women over the phone. And yes, clearly it’s a small minority of men. But that small minority exists, and they’re shitty.
I found people were more aggressive to me as a CSR than as a bouncer.
Please take care of yourself in animal care/vet nursing too! It’s a fast paced customer facing job that can be stressful as well, so don’t beat yourself up if you need breaks and try to have a good support network
That’s great news. I hope it works out for you
Thank you! I hope so too :D
Yaasss! You got this!
In office day. Yuck, people!
@Seagoon_ Overheard in the office…
Colleague one: “As you are aware, we’ve decided to postpone <event> until August or September. Can you change the dates on the website please?”
Colleague two: “No, I was not aware, thanks for letting me know. When was the decision made? I’ll update the website.”
Colleague one: “I am very sorry, I thought you were aware.”
The “Manager” strikes again.
