I have a favourite work mate. But today he came to work sick and now I'm feeling a bit shit.
I really wish people wouldn't do that.
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Sky nice pink colour. Tree branches lashing out at passers by.
Cheesed off today having to be in the office and overhear some dumb shit opinions ...
workplace rant
...from one member of my team around the Australian flag not being featured alongside lgbti/atsi flags and making fun of Aboriginal words. I get that a lot of corporate virtue signalling is BS but this bloke absolutely has had the whole "true blue Aussies" thing going based off prior conversations as well, and worst of all getting approval from other people in the office (mainly an old fogie).
It's a very working class part of the org and I'm the odd one out here, dude is absolutely friendly enough here and a vital part of the team... and it doesn't really impact me that much personally, but it's enough to sour the rest of the day and feel acutely aware of being an outsider. Hard to brush off because this guy is a long term fixture and popular with many of the other long timers.
Now this is not new to me over my adult life and I kind of feel like I'm overreacting a bit because I've been tired/stressed/uncentred lately.
Plus I don't actually work with this person (and the people I do immediately work with are really lovely), and because of my recent wfh days our in office time rarely overlaps. I could easily put on headphones and ignore the guy. I'm also extremely part time here so honestly, it's not that big a deal.
..but it's enough to make a lot of my warning flags go up and it really, really impacted my productivity today. I absolutely don't care for it.
So I've decided I'll speak to my supervisors next week, and ask for ongoing WFH on the day our office time would overlap, and just generally mention that these sorts of conversations are a factor without naming names.
Is that fair? I'm not trying to be all cancel culture and newspeak and thought control (incidentally another favourite topic of this person), and I don't care to change the culture at this place, but I think this is a reasonable middle ground where I feel heard and can move forward without attracting unnecessary attention.
I wouldn't say anything unless it's directed at me. I'd keep my head down and think about the pay cheque.
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Does this office have the sort of training programs that make those sort of remarks explicitly wrong?
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I'd be concerned that this would label you as a troublesome employee
Which it shouldnโt!
No argument there
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Magpie update : 2 chicks in the nest, both about a week old. So far the nest has survived the wild weather, but tonight will be a real test. Mrs maggie is very very hungry - she took food from my hand for the first time today. Have strewn some rolled oats around on the grass so she's got dinner once she's fed the chicks with the mince rolled in magpie supplement that she took directly from me. Young male maggie is fucking useless. Not doing his job of feeding Mrs, and is near constantly begging food from her cos he's too lazy to scrounge for his own food. Bloody teenager. I'm not giving him any mince until Mrs is properly fed at the moment. I'm really looking forward to the moment when the chicks start begging food from him. I think this will be a gamechanger moment in his developing sense of responsibility. I hope.
I'm not sure what happened to the magpie family that lives in the trees around my house. I haven't seen them all day. I hope they're okay though, they're a nice little family, and I've never seen them aggressive or swoopy. But it is just about time to chuck some oats out as the yearly "hey man, I'm chill" sacrifice
Today is a good day for skirt weights
Messing up all the salt circles
You could also embrace it
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Tom Ewell looks damn happy there.
This happened more than once on the way home. Luckily I wear petticoats.
Had an attempted break in last night while doing dins. Door was locked. Back door handle (which you can see from the kitchen) started shaking violently for a few secs then stopped. Went out to see what was going on and sure enough there's someone running away through the garage, security lights tripped.
Don't usually lock doors until bedtime.
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Shit. That'd jangle your nerves. Drugs? Normally wouldn't expect someone to be so brazen
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omg
and how odd
Well fuck.
anyone know what time the weather is supposed to hit tonight? Wondering if I'm better off leaving the city a little early.
I would if you can. I think it's pretty much here now (in the north anyway), just more of this wind for hours, but you want to be off the roads ASAP if trees/limbs start dropping or power goes out.
So walking home, a gate swung out and almost took me out. The gate usually ties up to another gate with a bike lock thingy and blocks the driveway into a construction site. Seems the tradies ordered a tools down to go protest but decided not to close the gates.
I mean I don't really care about that, pretty sure it's being built by one of those dodgy developers that buys thousands of homes, demolishes them all, builds 48 units per sqm and then sells each one for the same price they bought the entire land for, I hardly care if somebody comes and smashes up the tool site. But the issue is, it's really fucking windy, and the gates are swinging with no warning onto the footpath. That's dangerous for a.normal person, bit I can't help but wonder what's gonna happen if somebody in a wheelchair or a walker tries to go past. Their options are either wheel/walk on the uneven grass, or get hit by the fence
Just got catcalled by fucking ten year olds. Strong urge to find their parents and beat the shit outta them
That's Mental, and I'm sorry to hear that, Taleya. I am a fairly large dude and am honestly scared by those types of children. I've never been cat-called, but if I'm ever randomly abused while walking on the street, it seems to be a 50/50 chance as to whether it's a random crackhead, or a 10-12 year old
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Ew wtf
well thats fucking gross. Yeah if you know the parents deffo go knock on the door.
Yes, beating the shit out of the parents is definitely the way to go.