Grumpy Old Man
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My problem is that if I ever wake up during the night then I need a piss. So the combination of very loud Australian wildlife (possums fark em) and my son routinely coming home from a night out means Im woken multiple times and thus need to piss multiple times.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
the combination of very loud Australian wildlife (possums fark em) and my son routinely coming home from a night out
...but you repeat yourself
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for actual fucks sake, this dude is only casual so told him to give it a couple of days for the corporate machine to finish his onboarding, call back in today for the team meeting (9am) so i can introduce him to the rest of the team and then finish all his HSE stuff, came by my desk at 830 and said he wasnt sure if he should come in on call in so played it safe and came in, cool.....then i couldnt find him and i text him to ask where he was and he said he'd left his computer in his car.....just came back at 930...completely missed the team meeting...seemed to have no idea what i was talking about....
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@Kiwiwomble Is he an engineer? And if so, how on earth did he finish a degree?
If you're operating on a three strikes policy, then he's got one chance left...
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@antipodean he's an undergrad, works around study....where as most undergrad we kind of assume they'll graduate on time....im starting to wonder about this guy
literally what i just told him, you cant just miss appointments, you need to listen when i tell you there is a team meeting...but also clear your email/check your calendar
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
My son is in his third year of Uni so potentially he's in the workforce next year.... which reminds me: I need to grump about something else...
The Boy will be graduating Uni this year - the subject he failed might need to be made up between semesters
This is Sydney in the 21st century, so he's unlikely to move out any time soon because real estate here is mental. That's fine as he has a fairly decent space in our house, access to public transport, and no plans to get a gf by the looks. And his Mum would freak out if he left too
His degree is in Communications with his major streams in entertainment tech e.g. video editing, special effects, stage craft etc. so I don't know what the future holds. If he's working gigs etc. and maybe transporting gear, he's probably going to need a car.
I have the perfect candidate: my current 2012 X-Trail.
Economic to run or service. Stands up to punishment. Can get to locations that your average hatch back might struggle with. Serious transport capacity. And I've replaced the main stuff that needed replacing so it is about as roadworthy as anything out there with ~150,000 on the clock.
The strategy would be to make him save up for it and do a full purchase once he's got a job. I will even give him a discount on market rate
It's a win for everyone: I go get my Kia EV5. He gets a car, learns how to save, and my mortgage offset gets a little boost 
I/we also have a dirt-road capable vehicle in case I/we need to go camping 
Mrs TA thinks we should instead trade my car on the Kia EV5 and then go buy The Boy something for $12k-$15k.
Bah humbug.
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@barbarian said in Grumpy Old Man:
Sometimes I wish I was a farmer or a builder, someone who delivers real value to the world. But then I realise that would actually entail hard work, something I've steadfastly avoided for all of my 36 years on earth.
As the son of a farmer, let me say:
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You made the right decision on that.
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There is something primal and mentally very powerful about producing something physical. I rebuilt my garage shelving into something a lot better so I could fit a home gym, and it was very satisfying (except painting which is great for the first 55 minutes and/or serious mis-step with the roller). Same feeling I got when building my pool deck, even tho most chippies would laugh at it.
You can see why men's sheds exist.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
Can't say the same about the 50 plus year old "floaters" though. Not sure if they switched their brains off at 40 or whether they've always been like that and coasted the entire time.
A colleague and I - both in our 40s
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Anyway, we're having a coffee because we only see each other every couple of months, and we were talking about some of the mouth-breathers in the building, particularly the "ways of working" types and such. I quipped:
"I've noticed that most of these Agile Facilitators appear to be middle aged women with no discernible skills"
She snorted coffee.
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@NTA said in Working From Home:
Today's grump: finance people with what I'm calling undiagnosed Asperger's Syndrome.
Accountants?
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@antipodean said in Working From Home:
@NTA said in Working From Home:
Today's grump: finance people with what I'm calling undiagnosed Asperger's Syndrome.
Accountants?
One in particular, who has regularly thrown me and my team lead under the bus in front of senior leadership about the data we produce.
Four fucking years of working a system from the ground up, doing my absolute best to anticipate and correct the yawning chasm full of fuckups by every other fluffybunny in the building, and this prick just walks into meetings to vent his spleen.
"But surely, Nick" you enquire, astounded "SURELY he came to you or your boss with his concerns first?"
Nup. Just lobbed a hand grenade into a meeting full of people who assess my performance and then walked away. Multiple times.
And, surprise surprise, when he finally sent me examples of "incorrect or missing" data, I found that the retard wasn't even looking in the right place.
I've got the receipts you dickhead. Come at me.
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Still on workplace gripes........
Pronouns.
Thank FUCK I no longer work in an industry that "encourages" the use of them just to make others comfortable.
I'm tall. I have a beard and a deep voice. I'd mention that I lift weights but I might not be able to compete with some Eastern European women so I'll leave that out.......
I am ( hopefully ) obviously a "CIS" male ( yep the ones that cause all the crime aye Marama )
What possible fucken use is there for me to put "he/him" in my email signature just to make a tiny minority more comfortable ?
Identify as whatever the fuck you want, doesn't bother me ( and I mean that, go for gold, fill your boots....) just don't make me pander to your imaginary bullshit.
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@MN5 we had a global town hall yesterday, I turned it off after twenty minutes of sycophantic yanks on the chat backslapping the shit out of the leaders. The final straw was when they announced the launch of "BProud" in direct response to "global activities" to broadcast that everyone is welcome.
No one was feeling unwelcome.
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@Bones a couple of years back one of our KPIs was about doing something for the LGBTQI+ community. Like actually nominating it and then showing how we'd gone abut doing it.
I was already there; fully supportive of everyone's preferences as long as they got their work done.
I'll definitely call out any fuckwit behaviour around it. Do I have to make a flag as well?
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Setting the printer default to b&w.
Not in the mood to explain
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