Grumpy Old Man
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I look forward to the rants to come!
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in Grumpy Old Man:
Pixels are utter shit. Had similar problems. The battery indicator also paused at 7% and therefore couldn't update or do shit. Dude at the mobile place said they were notoriously bad. Glad I did my due diligence 🤦♂️.
Was that the Pixel, the Pro, or the "a"? I've heard differeing reports about the reliability of each.
Have had a Pixel 4a and now a 6a and besides the odd quirk, no issues with the hardware or OS.
I buy the cheapest Google phone possible because it does the job for me and I don't need a ton of storage or a camera that can see atoms.
I fucking hate things like SamsungUI or whatever they call it now.
Samsung's UI shat me to tears. So I went to the Pixel 4 Pro and then the Pixel 6. I really like it. So much that after dropping one and cracking the screen, I bought another. Then replaced the screen so now I have a spare.
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@Bovidae said in Grumpy Old Man:
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
Why is there always some fucknuckle in every Airport Lounge talking on their phone at the top of their voice.
Really not interested 'mate'.
The worst are people who always use the speaker to have a conversation on their phone - anywhere. Then you hear two people talking at the top of their voice!
And hold it to their ear.
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@nzzp said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Bovidae said in Grumpy Old Man:
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
Why is there always some fucknuckle in every Airport Lounge talking on their phone at the top of their voice.
Really not interested 'mate'.
The worst are people who always use the speaker to have a conversation on their phone - anywhere. Then you hear two people talking at the top of their voice!
it's the bloody older people who think it's OK. PIsses me off mightily.
Show some bloody respect for the thread and the old buggers who don't ya...
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
and the old buggers who don't ya...
Is this an Amsterdam Red Light District expression or from the selective George Michael years? Goes straight into my GOM urban dictionary.
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@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
I look forward to the rants to come!
As you asked.....
We're raising money for a new roof on the Village Hall as the costs of repairs are uneconomic, the leaks are causing serious internal damage and so are applying for grants for match-funding. The private foundations are generally great - helpful, un-bureaucratic and quick to give decisions. The government-run schemes? Well, fuck me.....
They want a 13 month project roll-out cashflow, a 3 year P&L for the Hall to assess viability and a copy of our latest accounts. No problems with that except we then get queried as to why the amounts don't match. Well, possibly because there's a difference between a year, 13 months and a charity's Financial Year end date, you morons.
Onward....we fill in a 10 page application form, explaining that unless the roof is replaced, the Hall will become damaged to the point of being unusable. These fuckknuckles (note the correct spelling) then want to know what improvement the new roof would bring to the village hall. Well, clearly none at all - a leaking roof which shorts out the electrics and causes ceilings to collapse is a standard architectural features on buildings and is de riguer in rural areas...
Someone find these twats a whelk stall to run.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
then want to know what improvement the new roof would bring to the village hall. Well, clearly none at all - a leaking roof which shorts out the electrics and causes ceilings to collapse is a standard architectural features on buildings and is de riguer in rural areas...
Every year I apply for the same set of state government grants for our Rugby club.
Every year I open the PDF of last year's successful grant, add a few members to the tally, and resubmit.
The only thing that changes is the amount I receive. As long as they can see growth, they're meeting their KPI
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@NTA said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
then want to know what improvement the new roof would bring to the village hall. Well, clearly none at all - a leaking roof which shorts out the electrics and causes ceilings to collapse is a standard architectural features on buildings and is de riguer in rural areas...
Every year I apply for the same set of state government grants for our Rugby club.
Every year I open the PDF of last year's successful grant, add a few members to the tally, and resubmit.
The only thing that changes is the amount I receive. As long as they can see growth, they're meeting their KPI
Well, this is one-off capital grant so it's probably a bit different. Point is this whole application process has been designed by a committee of the clueless.
Edit: We get a grant every year from a business donor and they pop by and have a pint in the bar to make sure the Hall is still there...
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@Victor-Meldrew you spelt fucknuckle wrong
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Ok, here goes, time for me to presumably piss off a few people.
Smokers.
Across the board the most selfish and inconsiderate people on the planet.
They don't care that their habit negatively impacts on other people. Smokers know that if they're walking down a crowded street smoking that everyone behind them is smoking too.
They all litter, even the ones who claim they don't will often flick a butt. With no other habit is it ok to just throw your shit on the ground. Fizzy drinkers aren't just throwing empties on the ground as a habit.
Not a day goes by where I don't go past a smoker smoking right in front of a no smoking sign or a doorway. piston wristed gibbons.
You always meet the ones saying they're considerate just as they light up in front of you and then make an exaggerated effort to exhale away from you. Nope, you're not considerate, you know your smoke is going everywhere just from it being lit even when you put in your Oscar winning performance of blowing it away.
NSW has fucking stupid pub smoking laws. They can have tiny little open areas inside a pub and that counts and then that pub is essentially a smoking pub.
I'm particularly pissed off at the moment because I live in a non smoking apartment building, it's one of the reasons I live here, it's clearly spelt out in the by-laws and all residents are advised of it before moving in, yet for the last two days my apartment has been riddled with smoker via the internal fan system in the bathroom. Just go out to the street you fuckwit.
All of the above goes for vape people and public pot smokers too (which seems to be increasing in Sydney).
I have no shame in saying that when I'm supreme dictator I will be building camps, lets call them concentration camps, for smokers to live in. They have two options, one they can work beautifying the roads so that they can amend for their inconsiderateness, or two they can have a group shower ...
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@Nepia Almost everything you've described shat me to tears about smokers, when I was one.
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@antipodean said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Nepia Almost everything you've described shat me to tears about smokers, when I was one.
What used to shit me to tears was when I'd stand far away from someone because I was smoking, and the fuckers would move closer.
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Could go in a number of threads, but this is probably the most apt.
So I've been building this business (within a business) for 5 years now, and due to various things, it's got off to a very very slow start. Took us 3 years to launch (should have been 1, but Covid delayed us 2) and then since then growth has been hamstrung by beauracratic stuff. Fine, I knew it when I signed up so accepted it.
Anyway, around a month ago, we got in two good sized clients in quick time & our business went from 0-10 transactions per day to 400-600. Exactly what we've been after and things work exactly as expected. Of course there has been a few hiccups / issues that we've had to solve, but I would honestly say there have been less than what I predicted. So I'm pretty happy.
Naturally, this means I've been working some not so social hours (TSF time has really suffered) and had to deal with a lot of crap. But I'd still say the longest day I've done is probably 12 hours & I've consistently shouldered the load and been happy to be held to account. It's all good.
We've just lost a junior staff member to stress leave.
Sometime's you've just got to laugh.
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@MajorRage said in Grumpy Old Man:
We've just lost a junior staff member to stress leave.
fuck i could go on a long and spittle-flecked rant about stress leave
the people that seem to take it never seem to be the ones that should actually be stressed (the exact fucking situation you describe) or it's used when they are being disciplined for performance.
And it always results in more stress for management, more work for everyone else, and then if they go for workcover, time spend defending it as bullshit
fuck your stress leave
And the new workplace legislation here that has is taking in to consideration an employees circumstances outside of work is just fucked.
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
taking in to consideration an employees circumstances outside of work
I think that's a great idea. I wonder if I can convince my boss to take into account the twin facts that
- after long decades of 60+ hours / week, I'm pretty much over it
- the DM beer fund still needs to be supported
a nice cushy little sinecure would be very much appreciated Mr Boss Man
What's that you say? Hired? Yes of course I'm hired....
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