Yeah, I’m sorry, I had to stop reading when I read that they own not just one but TWO homes. I saw red.
Meanwhile, I’m relatively terrified that my retirement will be living in a cardboard box under a bridge after suffering from multiple strokes based on family history.
Every time I see these ridiculous solutions being proposed, I get so frustrated. My partner and I are trying to do the right thing, saving and not stealing from our future selves - but we’re competing against these insane policies that do nothing but drive up the price even further.
We just met our original goal, but the cost of a home in our regional area has pretty much doubled since we moved back after giving up on Sydney a few years back now, so we’re no further ahead.
I love horror films with terrifying vengeful spirits. I get sad when someone kills a harmless spider. I love running around the wasteland of Fallout games and blasting the baddies. I cried when a bird flew into the glass of my bedroom window and died.
We draw stock internationally via FedEx, with usually at least one shipment arriving per day.
If I have a particularly urgent order for my customer, I will of course be tracking the incoming shipment.
Every. Damn. Time. I visit their website, I get halted in my usual manic pace by their stupid, slow to load pop up. I haven’t even been able to figure out how to block it, and usually don’t have time when I’m working to figure these things out.
Our company gives you so much money, FedEx - why do you have to be so difficult to work with as thanks?!
Exactly. I wouldn’t be working in some office job; I’d be volunteering my time to give back to the community, keep me active, and maybe make some friends. All part of keeping from becoming a weird hermit, which is my natural instinct.
That completely stopped working for me a while ago, but Samsung’s Reminders app was able to do it well.
I started using it instead, and the other day, uninstalled the Google Assistant app - the only time I was opening it was by accident, when I’d drift off to sleep holding my phone, and he rudely awoken by the noise it made.
My mother was a registered nurse and has her head on fairly straight, but she worked with plenty of nutso people.
Being a part of the medical field does not automatically make you an expert in all things health related. In fact, it seems to give some of them a false sense of superiority.
I’ve seen some very small statured people working in big chains here. I don’t think Maccas and their ilk would be taking the risk of illegally employing children, at least not in countries like Australia.
Also, if this is a young child, is it not a bit wrong to be sharing their image around like this?..
I have taken up cross stitching and can spend an entire day just sitting and working on a one.
I want to watch ALL THE TV SHOWS AND MOVIES before I die (well the ones that interest me), but my hands get bored so usually I’ll play Switch games but then I’m often not really paying a lot of attention to either thing.
With cross stitching, I can get focused if it’s a difficult part or I’ve made a mistake, but mostly I can follow the plot of the show/film much better.
Plus I get a lovely physical “trophy” at the end, and have given a few as gifts.
We have to deal with them at the moment because we’re staying with an elderly relative and her house, her rules - fair - and she is worried about switching providers. If something did go wrong and she lost her number, it would be pretty awful. So we’re stuck with Telstra.
We’re on our third modem with them in a little over a year (had to get a decent one, working from home). The absolute shit fight to get it replaced each time only served to reinforce that we are entirely correct on our views of their business. They have made it as tangled a web as Centrelink (another org that we have luckily not had to deal with in some time), and their customer service is basically non existent.
To their credit, their store staff did their best to help but their hands were so incredibly bound by red tape that there wasn’t much to they could do. Also, the credit we were promised after the second go around was never applied to the account. Wasn’t worth our time to chase it, because we actually value our time and have wasted enough of it.
And that’s just one consumers experience.
The stuff they do on a national level is absolutely shameful. They need to be broken up.
Fatherly hazing (lemmy.world)
We compared the finances of 30-year-olds now, to 30-year-olds 30 years ago (www.abc.net.au)
Feels bad man
Draining entire superannuation savings wouldn’t cover most young couples’ home deposits, research finds (www.theguardian.com)
Research by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia casts doubt on the Coalition’s plan
Why I refuse to upgrade - 8 minutes video explaining why it's not that interesting to upgrade phones nowadays (www.youtube.com)
Small Phones are Dead and We Killed Them (www.youtube.com)
How many other businesses would we be fine with operating like this? (lemmy.world)
Better buy it now before they raise the price again for fun (lemmy.world)
Worth the risk (lemmy.world)
They want to be the vitims so bad (midwest.social)
Woman loses £650,000 injury claim after being seen tossing Christmas tree (www.theguardian.com)
Conscientious Objector Jailed After Being Outed As PUBG Player (kotaku.com)
Can't even buy chicken in peace (files.catbox.moe)
You wouldn’t download a chicken tender.
think of the shareholders (slrpnk.net)
Conservatives Are So Scared of Diversity They’re Starting to Boycott ‘Woke’ Airlines (www.rollingstone.com)
Right-wingers have convinced themselves that planes are unsafe because of diversity initiatives — and some have sworn off flying altogether
Sorry, Google: After Assistant's chaotic evolution, I can't believe in Bard (www.androidauthority.com)
Unbelievable (lemy.lol)
https://lemy.lol/pictrs/image/2f6493e5-631e-44f4-97de-c39822c82004.jpeg...
Conservative politicians stoking Australia Day debate online with paid ads, analysis finds (www.theguardian.com)
Conservative politicians are dominating Facebook advertising about changing the date of Australia Day, analysis shows....
My one true love (lemmy.world)
A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US (lemmy.world)
la pasión (lemmy.world)
Changes we’re making to Google Assistant (blog.google)
Looks like a bunch of features are being removed due to “underutilization”
Yeah I think I would prefer not to beat my wife (midwest.social)
Who is responsible for requesting/issuing cell phone coverage upgrades?
The city I live in, Port Macquarie, has awful cell phone reception basically everywhere (I’m on the Vodafone network)....