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― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Sunday, 17 July 2005 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Seriously, if it's been driving you to drink and causing you to cry into your pillow for a solid length of time, GET THE FUCK OUTTA THERE. There are other jobs for you out there, Trayce, which don't involve such insane working hours.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Sunday, 17 July 2005 03:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Believe me, Im looking into that. They do keep promising things are gonna change soon and if they change in a particular way I want, I will stay, but only on my specific terms hours-wise (I want a contract for eg). The company is pretty useless, no one has contracts, I'm being made to do work and hours I never signed on for and so is everyone else. Even the head network architect guy is pissed off and going to quit soon if things dont shape up - and they;re fucked if me, dom and that guy up and resign.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:04 (eighteen years ago) link

Sounds pretty bad. What are the consequences for you of the org going belly up suddenly? Is it worth getting out sooner rather than later?

― moley, Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link

If the company went bellyup, i'd merely be out of a job, and as I havent been there long its no loss really (tho I spose I'd lose whatever super contribs have been taken off me in the 3 or 4 months Ive been there). I cant knock the fact I've gotten invaluable experience from the job - I knew nuttin' about satellite broadband before now - but the big problem is most places that'd hire me in a flash for my skills would all have rotating shiftwork :(

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:30 (eighteen years ago) link

That said I'm going to start keeping a keen eye on Seek et al from now on, and start making "change this or I am leaving" noises at work. The worst that can happen is they let me go, and that'd be a relief to be honest. If I worked that right I might even be able to get dole for a few months to tide me over with my savings.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:32 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah.

― moley, Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:45 (eighteen years ago) link

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 July 2005 04:49 (eighteen years ago) link

'sup, Adam?

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I was :(ing Trayce...

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:32 (eighteen years ago) link

No, I'm acknowledging your existence and enquiring as to how the last few days have treated you.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Sunday, 17 July 2005 05:46 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh. You're lovely. We went to a wedding in the middle of nowhere, I had to listen to some woman [who's so obsessively [and offensively] clean she makes Howard Hughes look like Steptoe & Son] talk nonstop for four days, I got hit on by a granny and eyed off by a 14-year-old, I'm so cold my nuts have fallen off and my wife has gone to a funeral in Queensland. How was your weekend?

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 July 2005 09:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah dawg, I'm aiiight. Slacked off most mercilessly. A couple of brief periods of work. Had a go at designing a tattoo. Braved a bookstore to get Harry Potter. Listened to Lady Sovereign and danced around our garrett.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Yay! Harry Potter any good? [I know the answer already: no]

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 July 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, not too interested in the plot, enjoying the periphery, the exposition quite a bit.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I should probably try one. I read the first one, was shit. Saw the first film, was equally shit. Lost interest.

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Nah, persist, each gets better - this one's actually quite dark! The world gets quite intricate around Book 4, Goblet of Fire.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Hate the fans, though.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I just watched the "ARIA Icons Hall Of Fame" thingo on vh1!

― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link

you am I + BARNESY totally slaughtered "good times" by the easybeats, it was hilarious!

― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Barnesy slaughters everything.

Cool that the Enz won the prize thingo, despite not being Australian.

― Hotman Paris Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:27 (eighteen years ago) link

you am I + TEX doing "st. louis" pwned though. also mark seymour's voice was sounding RUFF when the hunnas did their two tracks.

teh enz performance was a touch boring I thought. could've done with "I see red" or something a bit more lively.

I spent last night having a minor breakdown and sobbing hysterically into my teddy bear and pillow for about 20 minutes without letup.

trayce, I did this about two months ago and got my new job the next day, maybe it's a good omen! ;)

― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 17 July 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

Hooray! Hehe.

I'm still working at the mo - ok, sure, im sat in bed with the laptop but Ive been on the phone to dubai, bagdad and some other one horse town in iraq in the last 2 hours (man i dont wanna see the work mobile's phone bill) trying to sort out a prob that turned out to be A STUPID DATA ENTRY MISTAKE AT OUR END. Not one I did, I might add. Ah well.

As for Harry Potter.. grr. A good friend of mine, who is a writer I admire muchly, would have laughed in derision at me 12 months ago for even mentioning slashfic or Harry Potter and now shes obsessively writing nothing BUT gay harry slash, anb getting WAY to obsessed over Snape/Alan Rickman. Its a bit alarming, but whatever floats ones wossname. I Dont Get Fanfic.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 July 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link

i didn't even realize that a new hp book was coming out until i saw several references to it in various places the day before. it sounds like it might be entertaining. i wasn't too impressed by the first hp, but really enjoyed the ones after, though the bit of a movie i saw was shit imo, and fandom is a bit scary.

hi, i lurk here sometimes.

― juliaaa, Sunday, 17 July 2005 16:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi Jules, my new Livejournal contact.

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Sunday, 17 July 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Good Morning Mongrels! Happy Monday!

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Sunday, 17 July 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I am violently bigoted against slash fanfiction, hell fanfiction in general.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

Morning all! Can you plz help...?

Attn: Mongfuxors

― moley, Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link

welcome jules!

― moley, Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

xp hi moley! :)

kate, i saw your comment on an entry of trayce's (about liz) and could really relate, so i clicked on your journal, and was like, ooo, kate of the cool pictures.

fanfic is not only creepy, it's just so so badly written from what i've seen.

― juliaaa, Sunday, 17 July 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

That's me! :)

― In the springtime of the year / Kate (papa november), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:13 (eighteen years ago) link

I think I have gallstones :( *clutches side in agony*

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

Either that, or my liver's finally given out on me. Someting's Very Amiss. Gonna go to a doctor after work.

Oh yeah, I just love working til 1am, getting paged at 4.30am and again at 6.30 am, when I have to be up at 6.45am to be at work at 8 :(

*unhinged giggling*

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 July 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

I cried for five minutes when I got to school this morning.

Gotta find new job too!

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:02 (eighteen years ago) link

cheer up, ~~emo~~ mongrel kids!

― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:07 (eighteen years ago) link

congratulate me. i'm a tafe teacher

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Huh? When? What? Details please.

― moley, Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:19 (eighteen years ago) link

i'm shitting bricks moley. thems the details. i got three classes.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:20 (eighteen years ago) link

'grats!

― haitch (haitch), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Hey way to go gaz! :)

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link

one is how to use windows! so i'll be asking you all a few questions.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:29 (eighteen years ago) link

does the tafe building have any windows?

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:36 (eighteen years ago) link

the trick is to open them before putting your head through

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:37 (eighteen years ago) link

TAFE teaching! Well done gaz, it shall be fruitful and profitable for you. I think the rule goes that the older people get the better they are to teach, with the exception of those between 12 and 14 who are worse than pre-schoolers OBVIOUSLY, because they are not really human.

How'd and where'd you apply?

Today: phlegm is the most disgusting thing in the world.

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:39 (eighteen years ago) link

oh yes well done gaz too!

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link

it was just suggested to me by the supervisor of a work exp student we had. i made contact, sent cv - next thing ya know.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Maybe I should teach tafe or CAE, I could teach internet and networking basics or something. How to use your DSL properly.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Trayce, you need to help me get all the computers connected through my router to talk to each other :(

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:51 (eighteen years ago) link

trayce i am told - find a tafe that teaches Admin services - admin services teaches like
how to use word, simple databases

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Sunday, 17 July 2005 23:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Congrats Mully, I'm sure you'll have a rewarding experience.

I'm doing the whole SEEK thing today.

― Mike Stuchbery (Mike Stuchbery), Monday, 18 July 2005 00:41 (eighteen years ago) link

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