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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (15 children)

Contract has been signed. Resignation letter is being drafted.

Woooo fucking hooooo.

Theres literally no one to replace me. Fuck these people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Congrats!!!

I'm sure they're not worried about disgruntled employees at least, they've got a great security team to protect things!

Oh wait...

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's great news. I'm so lad you're out of there

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

No longer your circus, no longer your monkeys!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Congrats dude. Onwards and upwards.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Maybe I could get a job there and just faff about for a few weeks of pay until they realise I've no idea what I'm doing.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't worry, they'll just transfer the workload to one of the few remaining staff they have left and let them handle it all for no extra pay. What could go wrong?!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

👌🏻 nice

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Woo! 🎉🎊🥂

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yay, I got the new house rental. Just got to sign the lease and I;m in.

here comes beach living 🥹

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Congrats!

Beach is good for the soul :)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Head of security resigned. They now have no security team lol

What a shit show

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ordered 3 got 4 🙃

I think that's the trick.. go on a Monday. So lucky to have a view like that just opposite the place.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Ahhh how the stress just disappears.

Shame they won't give me garden leave. I think I'll have another day in the city tomorrow lol

Was nice being out and about around people. Just sat down every hour or so and took out the laptop to check for any messages.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Thanks Brion 🙂

Good night everyone, have good dreams 😘

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

All of the fucks have fucked off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I'm impressed you had fucks to begin with

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Bit early but this is my dinner.

See you after my coma.

It’s burger time

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love how the flat text on these mugs breaks my brain. It's amazing what a bit of curve and proportion does for your sanity

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Today I simply can't. That is all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

smashes paint

Aht

https://youtu.be/TNB3XY67Q-I

I put down some of the Born olive green and tried to match it with a limited palette of Anko paints. It’s not identical but if you look at the palette knife (used to mix) and the centre colour put directly on the swatch it’s kinda close

I should wait and see if it darkens when it dries.

Edit: I had cleaned the knife but scraped from the rapidly drying pile for a better comparison. It looks a little cooler (and like a gross paste) but not miles off

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Manager knows that I'm waiting for a job offer and has indicated that I should take leave before the new role.

Currently on secondment and he's kind of said to plan on not coming back.

Apparently I have excess leave and this solves a problem for him.

Okay then.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Dear My Brain,

Please stop awakening me at 3:50am on the dot every night.

Sincerely,

Me.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Hot water fixed, yay. Now running through the usual "yes, I already tried that, as I mentioned in 3 separate emails" gauntlet to get dishwasher people to get someone out to fix it or organise a replacement... can't be arsed going back into the office after working from home while the plumber was here. I had lunch and don't feel like talking to anyone. Too late in the day to do any local site visits either. mehhhh

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (14 children)

D'ya reckon you could make a successful pea and ham soup with sliced ham rather than ham hock? EDIT: Because savemore supermarket has a lot of cheap ham, often.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Such a slow start today. These antibiotics are harsh and I don’t feel good

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Tackling mount washmore and had a mini rant about how putting his lordship's stuff away FIFO so he gets even rotation was having a particularly trying battle today with my ASD "organise by textual feel so I can find on high sensitivity days". And of course in swoops Le Dipshit going "Shouldn't he be putting his own washing away??" like it's some goddamn revelation previously unknown to man and a Great Strike For Equality.

aight, but he has raging ADHD so that part of his brain literally malfunctions. We've tried it. It don't work. You gonna tell a fucking cripple to take the stairs ya fucken walnut?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One room worth of blinds hung. No murders committed.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

now that you have blinds you can do more murders with privacy 👍

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

5am the supposedly fresh batteries put in the smoke detector in December clearly were not. Dodgy cunts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (12 children)

After taking the boys grocery shopping yesterday I'm glad I get most of my groceries delivered. I remember spending Saturday mornings with my Mum at Coles where it takes 1-2 hours to do all the shopping. It feels like a quarter of your weekend is taken up with buying the things you need to survive work for the next week instead of enjoying your free time.

We would maybe go see one of the sets of grandparents whilst out, but that's not something the boys have to worry about here. The only grandparent they could regularly visit lives with them.

The only possible thing is you can go do your groceries at a larger shopping centre here. But I don't know when I'd let them roam free, and even those places lose their novelty pretty quick when they don't change and you have no money to buy anything.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The face of "overstimulated from too many pats".

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Cafe breakfast or a whopper with cheese meal hmmmm
Winner:

spoiler

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