Welcome to the Melbourne Community Daily Discussion Thread.
Tonight’s dins:
Was beef in lemon and yogurt and stuff on a stick.
I’ll take half a dozen to start and keep’em coming.
Cheers
Lordy, Lordy, Lordy.
decadent as, what a feast!
My golly. I would die for those.
2 skewers please and 1 rice
Guys!! My other half won Powerball! He split the winnings with me and now I’m $10 richer. Drinks are on me!
I remember when I was about 10 years old, my mum gave me one of her scratchies and I won $20 bucks! I felt like a millionaire. I remember spending my winnings on a Monsters in my Pocket collectors set which had all the monsters in it. One of the best days of my life.
How cool is that?! $20 is a lot when you’re 10.
Wooo! 🥂
Thanks 🍺
🧃Thank you!
Hello, I am alive. Still. Heheheh
I am still trying to log in on my phone (jerboa app and chrome mobile browser), but I am not getting a reset password link. I also cannot reset my password on PC (where I am typing this from) without remembering my old password… which wouldn’t be necessary if I could remember my old password haha. I will keep trying, but if I am unable to reset my password so I can log in on my phone, I may set up a new, even more starchy, account.
Anyway, I am currently working from home, smashed out a busy day today, never once looked at my phone until after work, when I saw I was summoned by my good friend PeelerSheila :D <3
I will be available tonight on my PC :) I may need to work tomorrow, to help a colleague so I won’t be able to reply tomorrow (I need my monitors for work lol), but I am here now my fellow DTers, my favourite people. I truly love you all
Edit: sorry if my tone is off, im kinda still in work mode bleeeeheheeheheheheehe lol
I too have returned to our people. Regular Breakfast will resume tomorrow morning.
Hope that redacted went well :-)
thanks! it went so well! :D
This is awesome! I was busy making chicken nuggets from scratch and didn’t see this msg, great to have you back mate! Sounds like the job’s going well.
My daughter found an photo (hard copy) of my old old cat from when he was a kitten.
From memory this photo is exactly 30 years old.
Photo of a black and white kitten
The eyes! Surely this is a toy!
100% real. He was probably 4 or 5 weeks old in this
Kitty has seen some shit…
Later in his life he was missing a chunk of his ear and hospitalised a German Shepherd.
This was just first impressions.
Oh lord, that basically looks like a meme and not a kitten
Might have been his first day with us. Very intimidated but settled in quickly.
A black cat wishing you all a fangtastic Friday 13th
Marceline says hellooo.
🧠🧠🧠
Miss Meow says Friday 13th can bugger off and she’s not uncurling until the weather improves.
10/10 would bury face in mysterious void.
That’s such a cute photo!
I can’t do a fang photo as she is fangless, so I have to go with cute instead.
Oreo says try me. I did and got a swipe!
Fishcat!
That’s the other one. Who just stole a lump of galangal. He isn’t orange, I swear…
Great pic 😻🦇
Hello bat cat! That is a great photo!
Oh he cheezin’
Just realised it’s Friday the 13th! May the superstitions of this day help all your curses succeed! (Please use them for good not evil)
Mitts off my patch! Or face the consequences …
My iris is flowering 💐
Glorious! I love the way these flowers just dance in the breeze. Always looks choreographed to me.
Tonight I introduced the man to one of my favourite snacks. His beady little eyes lit up.
That is buttered simit, peanut butter and a cheese to cleanse the palate.
His words were “omg omg omg” (more than once) “I think you’re on to something” and “I need to buy some peanut butter to take to work”.
Well that looks effective
3 simits for $4. Ash cheese from aldi $4.50. Butter and peanut butter. A relatively cheap and full filling snack.
fantastisch!
Hi one plate for me please
I just impulse bought a large bar fridge. It is red.
Bar fridge? Nah beer fridge.
As I don’t drink beer that seems like it would be a bad selection for me to put in it.
I always knew them as a beer fridge. I think someone came along and said “No. That’s too bogan. We’ll call it a bar fridge”. Hahaha.
I always think of a beer fridge as being the old fridge that was still running when you upgraded, so it got moved to the garage and used for beer. Whereas a bar fridge is a tiny little fridge you buy with the intention of storing beer in, then discover the shelves are all the wrong heights to store most drink bottles and you can’t fit enough in to manage even a small party, so you end up using the sink full of ice anyway. Although it was surprisingly acceptable as the only refrigeration I had when I first moved out of home.
You should store your tequila in there. Tequila is lovely when it’s chilled.
The only alcohol I have is some Chinese cooking wine, which won’t benefit much from refrigeration.
And curvy too I hope
I’m so tired I almost want to cry
I am tired too and I’m blaming ze weather.
lets cry together
Hugs
Today’s shite
I second that motion.
Only meal I ate today: rice with furikake, soy sauce, fishy olive oil and hot sauce, with soft fried eggs, and Portuguese sardines.
this is roe lol
Volatile neighbours at it again. Seriously, fuck them
Maybe it’s just this bleary Friday but feeling in a definite work rut of late. So I apologise for probably the deepest/longest post I’ve ever made online.
I’ve been in my (IT/AV/technical) industry 25 years, and at my current job almost 10, but due to some SERIOUS imposter syndrome am still pretty much doing the same work now that I was doing back in the day.
Around 15-20 years ago I was doing much more technically complex work than I am now and climbed to some higher leadership levels, but HATAED managing people so quit that job and dropped right back to the coal face where I’ve been ever since, with pretty much zero progression.
My boss’ boss - we were both at the same level when I first started. My manager, I trained them when they joined as a junior, helped them rise up to a role at my level, and then eventually supported them to go higher and they’re now my boss.
I’ve been approached by other groups over the years to join/help out/move up, but I’ve pushed back every time because I can’t help but think “I can’t do that”, “they THINK I know more than I actually do”, “if they find out I’m actually crap I’ll be unemployed with a family to support”, “I’ve hit the limit of what I’m capable of”.
GAH. I wish I could just appreciate what I’ve got, but I come to work completely on autopilot, can’t remember the last time I actually had to use my brain for anything, and seem to just be the guy everyone turns to for help/advice, train new staff and to help further their own careers. Imposter syndrome blows. Wish I had the kind of personality that could fake it till I make it.
OK vent over, time for more coffee.
There’s a thing called The Peter Principle - where you rise in the organisation until you reach your level of incompetence. I have to congratulate you on avoiding this horrible fate. Horrible both for yourself and others. I’m not being ironic here - if more people had a realistic idea of their own competencies then the world would DEFINITELY be a better place.
So props to you for being honest with yourself about what you can AND are willing to do. It’s not strictly speaking imposter syndrome I think, unless you really want to play a competitive game of I’m better than you are, nyer nyer nyer. There is much to like about a regular and adequate for purpose pay packet.
Check out Dilbert syndrome online too, where incompetents are promoted to a level where they cannot impede production …It’s perfectly fine to not want to ‘move up’ to management. I do what I do because the hands on stuff is interesting. Why would I replace that with management bullshit for a smidge more money and no fun?!?! Yes, we end up with on paper senior people very much our junior. My issues about that are person specific not directly age based.
Oh I agree completely. My ‘junior’ manager is the best boss I’ve ever had! Totally cut out for it.
No way I’d ever want to take on a management role again, just wish I had the guts to push through to something at a “technically” higher level.
I don’t know anything about the industry but that actually seems like an important role and good job security. Seconding the point about not getting promoted into a position that’s a poor fit/stresses you out. If you’re financially secure and not hating it a job can just be a job.
But if it’s getting too stagnant you could ask for a side project or (lower pressure) take one up yourself? Do you have enough comfort with your boss that you can bring this up?
Ted Cat chirped again. He will be ok 😸😭
( I also opened Ted’s door, Bill ran in to steal his food. 🤬
That’s one way to get Bill to eat fish … Has Ted asked for snuggles/pats yet?
Ted kinda asks for pats sometimes.
