Lockdown/Covid Check In
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
this is another reason why work is way better than home
i have that at home...
My friend has one and we are talking about making the change from Nespresso to one of those. Is it worth it?
Is the cleaning a bitch (my friends moans about that with his but its a few years old)?
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@gt12 said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
this is another reason why work is way better than home
i have that at home...
My friend has one and we are talking about making the change from Nespresso to one of those. Is it worth it?
Is the cleaning a bitch (my friends moans about that with his but its a few years old)?
ah, is it? i haven't cleaned it yet. It cleans itself out before and after use. i have to clean the milk system once a week or so but that's an automated process.
it's a fucking great machine. the cold brew is excellent
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@mariner4life our one gets a hammering at work (20+ in our office) the milk clean is done daily and there is a dude that comes in weekly to do a full clean (the company we hire it from) we have the little fridge for the milk too....on looking ours is a slightly bigger and different model than that pic.
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
this is another reason why work is way better than home
i have that at home...
Look at moneybags here. I'd be shot if I spent that for coffee at home, and that from a woman who started a business exporting coffee from PNG.
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@antipodean said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
this is another reason why work is way better than home
i have that at home...
Look at moneybags here. I'd be shot if I spent that for coffee at home, and that from a woman who started a business exporting coffee from PNG.
she bought it, not me
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@gt12 said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
this is another reason why work is way better than home
i have that at home...
My friend has one and we are talking about making the change from Nespresso to one of those. Is it worth it?
Is the cleaning a bitch (my friends moans about that with his but its a few years old)?
ah, is it? i haven't cleaned it yet. It cleans itself out before and after use. i have to clean the milk system once a week or so but that's an automated process.
it's a fucking great machine. the cold brew is excellent
We had a very similar one in the office in London. Worked out that if you ran one shot then topped it with what they called a latte and stopped the milk flow part way through you got a quite drinkable approximation of a FW.
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@antipodean said in Lockdown Check In:
One element I have noticed (especially as Mrs Antipodean is contracting to a govt dept) is the wasted time with needless meetings hasn't changed. In fact it seems that Zoom/ Teams meetings have proliferated so people can waste other people's times.
Working for a global company it seems the Board has decided Pandemic = strategy meeting time. I spend around 3 hours / week in the evenings in Teams meetings.
My PB is 4 in a week totally 11 hours. Once / month the meeting starts at 00:30!
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FWIW, my advice to you guys (coming from someone at the bum end of his career) is you should switch to contracting for yourself if at all possible. I have 2 contracts on the go right now, a SAP installation that will take another year that I WFH for 3 days a week. I’m working another 2 days a week managing a programme for a different organisation where I go into the office and work with a crew I know well and love working with. The social interaction is really important to me as I’m very aware of (and if I’m honest worried about) the fact that in another couple of years that will likely be gone for good.
But the best part about working for yourself is you can largely dictate the terms of your engagement. I was able to say right up which days I would be working and where. Anything mandatory on their part that inconvenienced me, we negotiated, which was pretty much me increasing the rate to compensate.
The best part is I go home / log off at 5pm and I’m done. After decades of 60 hour weeks it is amazing what a difference that makes to the quality of my life. I reckon I’m honestly healthier and happier than I was when I was in my 40s. It has made such a difference in my case that Mrs JC has resolved to pull the pin next year and start contracting herself.
At the moment if you’ve got any talent it's a real seller’s market out there. I’m sure it would be different if I wasn’t financially secure or had dependents but right now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
But get a shit-hot accountant!
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@jc said in Lockdown Check In:
FWIW, my advice to you guys (coming from someone at the bum end of his career) is you should switch to contracting for yourself if at all possible. I have 2 contracts on the go right now, a SAP installation that will take another year that I WFH for 3 days a week. I’m working another 2 days a week managing a programme for a different organisation where I go into the office and work with a crew I know well and love working with. The social interaction is really important to me as I’m very aware of (and if I’m honest worried about) the fact that in another couple of years that will likely be gone for good.
But the best part about working for yourself is you can largely dictate the terms of your engagement. I was able to say right up which days I would be working and where. Anything mandatory on their part that inconvenienced me, we negotiated, which was pretty much me increasing the rate to compensate.
The best part is I go home / log off at 5pm and I’m done. After decades of 60 hour weeks it is amazing what a difference that makes to the quality of my life. I reckon I’m honestly healthier and happier than I was when I was in my 40s. It has made such a difference in my case that Mrs JC has resolved to pull the pin next year and start contracting herself.
At the moment if you’ve got any talent it's a real seller’s market out there. I’m sure it would be different if I wasn’t financially secure or had dependents but right now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
But get a shit-hot accountant!
Here I was, getting all excited, and you just had to go and ruin it for me didn't you?
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@voodoo said in Lockdown Check In:
@jc said in Lockdown Check In:
FWIW, my advice to you guys (coming from someone at the bum end of his career) is you should switch to contracting for yourself if at all possible. I have 2 contracts on the go right now, a SAP installation that will take another year that I WFH for 3 days a week. I’m working another 2 days a week managing a programme for a different organisation where I go into the office and work with a crew I know well and love working with. The social interaction is really important to me as I’m very aware of (and if I’m honest worried about) the fact that in another couple of years that will likely be gone for good.
But the best part about working for yourself is you can largely dictate the terms of your engagement. I was able to say right up which days I would be working and where. Anything mandatory on their part that inconvenienced me, we negotiated, which was pretty much me increasing the rate to compensate.
The best part is I go home / log off at 5pm and I’m done. After decades of 60 hour weeks it is amazing what a difference that makes to the quality of my life. I reckon I’m honestly healthier and happier than I was when I was in my 40s. It has made such a difference in my case that Mrs JC has resolved to pull the pin next year and start contracting herself.
At the moment if you’ve got any talent it's a real seller’s market out there. I’m sure it would be different if I wasn’t financially secure or had dependents but right now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
But get a shit-hot accountant!
Here I was, getting all excited, and you just had to go and ruin it for me didn't you?
i smashed in to that roadblock too
and the shit hot accountant part
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@voodoo said in Lockdown Check In:
@jc said in Lockdown Check In:
FWIW, my advice to you guys (coming from someone at the bum end of his career) is you should switch to contracting for yourself if at all possible. I have 2 contracts on the go right now, a SAP installation that will take another year that I WFH for 3 days a week. I’m working another 2 days a week managing a programme for a different organisation where I go into the office and work with a crew I know well and love working with. The social interaction is really important to me as I’m very aware of (and if I’m honest worried about) the fact that in another couple of years that will likely be gone for good.
But the best part about working for yourself is you can largely dictate the terms of your engagement. I was able to say right up which days I would be working and where. Anything mandatory on their part that inconvenienced me, we negotiated, which was pretty much me increasing the rate to compensate.
The best part is I go home / log off at 5pm and I’m done. After decades of 60 hour weeks it is amazing what a difference that makes to the quality of my life. I reckon I’m honestly healthier and happier than I was when I was in my 40s. It has made such a difference in my case that Mrs JC has resolved to pull the pin next year and start contracting herself.
At the moment if you’ve got any talent it's a real seller’s market out there. I’m sure it would be different if I wasn’t financially secure or had dependents but right now I wouldn’t have it any other way.
But get a shit-hot accountant!
Here I was, getting all excited, and you just had to go and ruin it for me didn't you?
i smashed in to that roadblock too
and the shit hot accountant partWe have one those lurking around here I think, though the lazy git only seems to work part-time at best
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We have a hot accountant lurking!!?
oh wait. Shit hot.
Boooooo
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@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
this is another reason why work is way better than home
i have that at home...
Fuck you you fucking fuck.
Sorry... triggered. I have one of those also, exact model, but it's sitting in a mate's basement in London, probably not covered coz he doesn't realise how pricy it is; with all the rest of my shit.
By the time I either head back there, or finally give in and get all my shit shipped back here... it'll be fucked. Actually, I'm sure it is already... I don't imagine anybody thought to run it through the cleaning process before packing it away for 2 years.Oh - and the cleaning is one big reason why I bought that rather than the other options... it's a piece of piss. Give it some water, pop in a cleaning tablet... let it run.
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@crucial said in Lockdown Check In:
We had a very similar one in the office in London. Worked out that if you ran one shot then topped it with what they called a latte and stopped the milk flow part way through you got a quite drinkable approximation of a FW.
Everybody loves the guy who fucks around with the coffee machine holding everybody up in order get something they deem as drinkable ….
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@kruse said in Lockdown Check In:
@mariner4life said in Lockdown Check In:
@taniwharugby said in Lockdown Check In:
this is another reason why work is way better than home
i have that at home...
Fuck you you fucking fuck.
Sorry... triggered. I have one of those also, exact model, but it's sitting in a mate's basement in London, probably not covered coz he doesn't realise how pricy it is; with all the rest of my shit.
By the time I either head back there, or finally give in and get all my shit shipped back here... it'll be fucked. Actually, I'm sure it is already... I don't imagine anybody thought to run it through the cleaning process before packing it away for 2 years.Oh - and the cleaning is one big reason why I bought that rather than the other options... it's a piece of piss. Give it some water, pop in a cleaning tablet... let it run.
Happy to pick it up and maintain it for you.
Dead serious.
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FNM tour down under cancelled.
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well shit
so, a friend of ours met a dude on tinder during lockdown and for all the common reasons things accelerated very quickly, pretty much living at her house
and its been like something from a movie, he claims he only started taking drugs because of lockdown, no idea how true that is but he'd used them since the day we met, lines of coke on the coffee table around her 7 year old daughter
We only learnt this about six months ago after the first time he got taken by the cops for threatening to kill them and then himself...so that happened 3 times, most recently only a couple of months ago
Over the weekend we learnt shed taken him back, even though theyve only been seeing each this year she saw herself as his partner and so she needed to support him through recovery...even after holding a knife to her throat
Just learnt he's committed suicide, real mixed feelings, obviously not keen on anyone dying or feeling so depressed they kill themselves but relieved he didn't take her or her daughter too
he was a primary school head teacher, this is the most stark example of how fake social media can be, just on sunday night they posted a whole story about going and buying a xmas tree, getting it in the little car, setting it up and decorating and how great xmas was going to be.....and then this the next morning
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@kiwiwomble said in Lockdown Check In:
well shit
so, a friend of ours met a dude on tinder during lockdown and for all the common reasons things accelerated very quickly, pretty much living at her house
and its been like something from a movie, he claims he only started taking drugs because of lockdown, no idea how true that is but he'd used them since the day we met, lines of coke on the coffee table around her 7 year old daughter
We only learnt this about six months ago after the first time he got taken by the cops for threatening to kill them and then himself...so that happened 3 times, most recently only a couple of months ago
Over the weekend we learnt shed taken him back, even though theyve only been seeing each this year she saw herself as his partner and so she needed to support him through recovery...even after holding a knife to her throat
Just learnt he's committed suicide, real mixed feelings, obviously not keen on anyone dying or feeling so depressed they kill themselves but relieved he didn't take her or her daughter too
he was a primary school head teacher, this is the most stark example of how fake social media can be, just on sunday night they posted a whole story about going and buying a xmas tree, getting it in the little car, setting it up and decorating and how great xmas was going to be.....and then this the next morning
Shit that is tough. Lucky for her she is still alive. You just don't know about people behind closed doors