• just_kitten@aussie.zone
    15·
    2 days ago

    LL has suddenly requested I remove all my plants from the balcony immediately because of alleged damage and complaints (currently unsubstantiated), and is going to do an inspection in 11 days. This sounds like she’s on the warpath now and wants to force me out.

    Of course I can’t get any advice on what my rights are until Monday, but for now I’ve sent an email asking for some evidence. I’m not removing my plants just like that.

    I don’t feel safe or happy at all. I don’t really wanna go back to the apartment right now.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        1·
        20 hours ago

        Oh it absolutely is. Land tax has gone up and the market rate has as well… It’s just that she suddenly withdrew the offer of negotiation - I would’ve thought keeping on a good tenant would be worth something. And I have every right to apply for a review. asking me to remove all my plants all of a sudden is rather unreasonable…

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      6·
      2 days ago

      Sounds like some made up BS if you ask me.

      Maybe you’re right that she’s trying to force you out.

      Think it’s got anything to do with the VCAT application you’ve put inV

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        6·
        2 days ago

        Well I haven’t even put in a VCAT application, just a CAV review of the rent increase - and I even told her it could very well end up being in her favour but I just needed to explore my options.

        At this stage it’s sounding retaliatory.

        • Duenan@aussie.zone
          7·
          2 days ago

          I don’t think a LL is in a position to review the safety of the balcony unless it’s clearly showing signs of problems.

          They’d need an expert or something which would end up costing them.

          If the plants could do then it would have been unsafe if you were out there instead right?

          • just_kitten@aussie.zone
            7·
            2 days ago

            I admit I do have a fair few plants out there but yeah she hasn’t provided any proof so far. I don’t think she would have a leg to stand on in vcat but I most definitely don’t want to take it that far if I don’t have to. The fact that she told me to remove all of them, though, is just… what.

            • Duenan@aussie.zone
              7·
              2 days ago

              Is just petty if she’s being retaliatory about it all.

              I’m so sorry you have to go through off of this. It doesn’t feel right at all.

          • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
            5·
            2 days ago

            I can catch some clothes moths and bring them to kittens apartment just before they leave.

            Oh no… The LL must have tracked in clothes moths during the impromptu inspection. Whatever will they do?

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        4·
        1 day ago

        Then comes the geo and the gravel and the agi and more gravel and one area gets dirt but the others get mansfield pebbles and aluminium edging

      • Taleya@aussie.zone
        2·
        1 day ago

        Barring the one on the far left, they’re roughly the locations of original concrete and brick dividers in a garden bed i’ve been painstakingly prying out out and cleaning up over the past year (salvagable concrete chunks will become crazy paving, bricks a pathway). His Lordship liked the dividers, but they had to come out, they were falling apart, cracking and subsiding, plus i wanted to put in raised and wicking beds (getting old and i already broke my back).

        It also has a retaining wall around it, but no outlet for water (and at the bottom of a slope), so it bogs a bit…my solution was getting a hole punched in the side, dig agi in along the divider lines and when i backfill i’m gonna echo the original dividers by having channels of river pebbles famed by aluminium edging along the lines.

        like this but with mulch instead of grass

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    7·
    1 day ago

    What’s the etiquette around calling about a job after it closes? I put in for a job I really want and it closed today.

    I’ll bedamned if I leave it in god’s hands from here. Do I call on Monday mentioning I have some ideas I’d like to put in a presentation if I get an interview? Something to tease their curiosity a bit?

    • Seagoon_@aussie.zoneOP
      3·
      1 day ago

      I have no idea. Monday does seem a bit early to call, they might not have even processed all the applications yet.

    • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I would wait a few days. You don’t want to seem desperate. I know it’s stupid, but that’s the way it is.

      When you speak to HR, just ask if they have narrowed down the applicants.

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        2·
        23 hours ago

        I was thinking I’d call the contact person that would be the manager of the role. I’ll wait until the middle of the week and I can use that time to draft what I’d present to them

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    15·
    2 days ago

    They brought the meeting forward to today and I’ve been terminated. I’m just glad it’s over

    • tone212_@aussie.zone
      9·
      2 days ago

      Sounds like it was for the best to leave anyway, even if it feels crappy now. You’ll look back and think this was the best thing that could have happened

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        8·
        2 days ago

        This whole year sucked for me work wise. I had a stressful project at the start of the year. Then I was facing a redundancy, then I’ve been going through this for the past 9 weeks. It’s been so stressful, I’m just glad it’s over

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
      7·
      2 days ago

      performance plan is really just “Paid Job Hunting notice period” anyway. On to bigger and better things. And hey if you value your sanity dont come to my work. Shit is a dumpster fire.

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        3·
        1 day ago

        That was my problem, I didn’t get on the job hunt seriously soon enough. I thought I could get through it, started looking at jobs, had some interviews that didn’t go anywhere, and didn’t pick it up as much until the last meeting. I’m getting the standard 2 weeks pay so if I can pick up an immediate start contract I might be able to coast for a bit

    • Eagle@aussie.zone
      7·
      2 days ago

      No one is at their best with an axe hanging over them. It’s over, look up with freedom and move on. And get really drunk tonight.

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        4·
        1 day ago

        I’m more excited to have my spring back. I started around this time last year and things were so much easier. I picked my kids up early from childcare and took them to a park before home. I’d like to do that again a few times before I start something else

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        8·
        2 days ago

        I’ll try make the most of it. I can go on centrelink through my business and I can go into job application overdrive now

      • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
        13·
        2 days ago

        A recruiter I’ve worked with before has a contract role that’s the exact thing I’m looking for. These roles are always an immediate start so things may just work out. And to think how grateful I’ll be to the first place that takes me after all this

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      4·
      2 days ago

      Fuck, it’s the day for bad news hey. I’m so sorry to hear about your work situation, it’s an awful feeling to be terminated and can set off so many bad thoughts. Vent here as much as you need. I’d like to think it’s an opportunity for you to move onto somewhere you’d be better appreciated - my hope for you is in a year’s time you’ll be able to look back on it all and laugh at how fucked up your workplace was

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    Bought a lil indie game called Tiny Glade. Super fucking chill, no management, no quests, no objectives. Just some basic tools, cute, tilt-shifted graphics, and you build a tiny lil town. It’s adorable and so so relaxing. I was worried for a moment about it being perhaps too barebones, but I’ve built a main street, a lil castle, raised some land and made a flower hill with a lake, and made a silo. There’s a lot they could add, but it’s a bit procedural in a way (increasing/decreasing the size and shape of a building causes it to generate to make sense). Coloured everything I could colour. I have so much more to build for my little hamlet

  • Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    I’m excited I’m getting new glasses next week!!! A friend came to help pick them out and they’re a totally different style than normal.

    Admittedly a bit sad, but damn it I’m excited lol

  • Catfish@aussie.zoneEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    Help! Party tomorrow and he has the vapours or might caught have something! NO NO nO!

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 days ago

    Flatpacked raised veggie patch arrived today. SO MANY FUCKING BOLTS that took me 3hrs and of course a few were missing. Happy to at least visualise it now though.

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 days ago

    I feel like I’ve had a big backslide in terms of physical and mental health. And my sleep patterns.

    Fucksticks.

  • imoldgreeeg@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 days ago

    I rage-installed Brave browser today. Been a firefox user for a long time but its getting resource hungrier and performance-worser on my laptop (linux). So far so good. Brave is fast but otherwise similar to Chrome.

    This has been Friday night geek chat with Oldgreeeeeg.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 days ago

    I had a little adventure. I had to drive the Kluger home. I’ve only driven an auto once in 20 years. Anyway I got home and realised I didn’t know how to turn it off. A phone call later sorted that out. I then took the little doolackey out of the console and locked it. I checked to make sure it’s locked by the door handle and it beeped at me and the mirrors opened up. Did it again. Same. Shamefully I did it again. Same. So I spent 20 minutes outside babysitting an unlocked car. Technology hates me and i hate technology.

    Anyway cheers you smarter more competent tech people 🍺

    • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
      6·
      2 days ago

      I got a mate who brought a new car recently. It was an auto and his old car was a manual. he had to go back into the showroom and ask them how to take off cause the electric handbreak wouldnt disengage, all he had to do was shift to Drive from park, but they didnt tell him that and he had no idea. So dont feel too bad.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        4·
        2 days ago

        Thanks. I got in it, adjusted the seat, put my seatbelt on, looked down and said “is there a button I have to press to put it in drive”? Apparently the answer is yes as the man showed me.

        • TinyBreak@aussie.zone
          4·
          2 days ago

          Yeah they really dont show you shit. My dad was driving the twin of my car the other week as a rental and I was staggered they didnt show him anything about the car. I had to show him how to stop it from beeping every 20 seconds.