Fern Helpline
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A heads up for anyone looking for work or for workers - Work and Income has a new employment website at https://www.jobs-during-covid.workandincome.govt.nz/hello
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@Bones said in Fern Helpline:
Outlook is driving me crazy. Keeps going to "not responding" anytime I click back to it, click on an email, try scroll, anything. Stays that way for about 2 minutes then lets me do about 20 seconds of stuff. You can help with that right?
Shit, it's taken it's cue from my boss!
That'll be your anti virus software. It scans the shit out of everything you do in Outlook. Get on the phone to IT and tell them to sort their shit out.
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@No-Quarter said in Fern Helpline:
@Bones said in Fern Helpline:
Outlook is driving me crazy. Keeps going to "not responding" anytime I click back to it, click on an email, try scroll, anything. Stays that way for about 2 minutes then lets me do about 20 seconds of stuff. You can help with that right?
Shit, it's taken it's cue from my boss!
That'll be your anti virus software. It scans the shit out of everything you do in Outlook. Get on the phone to IT and tell them to sort their shit out.
I ended up finding out Office 365 desktop was available so ditched 2016 and installed 365. Problem fixed! But thanks, I'll keep it in mind if it happens again (not sure I want to criticise McAfee though).
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For those in contact with Indian migrants caught between a rock and a hard place in the current environment, the Indian High Commission is very active and supportive - https://www.facebook.com/HighCommissionofIndiaNewZealand/
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@Machpants Yeah, seems like there is little development other than webmail these days. Most of the alternative desktop clients are just re-skins of Thunderbird.
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Eudora could be making a comeback.
The Eudora™ Email Client Source Code
Electronic mail is one of “killer apps” of networked computing. The ability to quickly send and receive messages without having to be online at the same time created a new form of human communication. By now billions of people have used email.
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@Bones said in Fern Helpline:
Right place for this then? I'm struggling to figure out how to deal with this one (not exactly major)....
So my boss - really nice guy, always means well and does fight my corner if it's required. But...I can't have a conversation with him about anything without getting one sentence in and then hearing a 5 minute (at least) personal anecdote from him on a same/similar topic. We have a weekly one-to-one and I've given up. There is no point me trying to raise anything anymore as I don't get a chance to say my piece AND I get regaled with a monologue about an experience I have no interest in.
I don't really know what to do about it - if I say something then I'm sure that would just make him completely shut down in future due to being so self conscious about it - or am I projecting?
Do you have access to his schedule? Why don't you catch him 5-10 minutes before his next meeting and only ask the priority question
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@Tim said in Fern Helpline:
@Machpants Yeah, seems like there is little development other than webmail these days. Most of the alternative desktop clients are just re-skins of Thunderbird.
I've not looked, but I'd guess that the only real active development of email clients would involve security/encryption clients. Not sure if there is anything good in that space.
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@dK said in Fern Helpline:
@Bones said in Fern Helpline:
Right place for this then? I'm struggling to figure out how to deal with this one (not exactly major)....
So my boss - really nice guy, always means well and does fight my corner if it's required. But...I can't have a conversation with him about anything without getting one sentence in and then hearing a 5 minute (at least) personal anecdote from him on a same/similar topic. We have a weekly one-to-one and I've given up. There is no point me trying to raise anything anymore as I don't get a chance to say my piece AND I get regaled with a monologue about an experience I have no interest in.
I don't really know what to do about it - if I say something then I'm sure that would just make him completely shut down in future due to being so self conscious about it - or am I projecting?
Do you have access to his schedule? Why don't you catch him 5-10 minutes before his next meeting and only ask the priority question
Yeah, @Bones what happened to this Honey?
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@voodoo yeah think I just need a new boss eh. It's been better since covid as all the bosses have been busier, but he was back to a bit of waffling this week including telling me some stuff he found out from another consultant that I'd already told him last week.
Things are on the improve slightly I guess.
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Any online businesses here? Amazon sellers etc? Can you really make a living online or extra cash? Anyone? No silly get rich schemes or anything, I'm not looking to "get rich" just have a better lifestyle.
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@R-L said in Fern Helpline:
Any online businesses here? Amazon sellers etc? Can you really make a living online or extra cash? Anyone? No silly get rich schemes or anything, I'm not looking to "get rich" just have a better lifestyle.
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@mariner4life very sweet of you to suggest that you would subscribe and support me....
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@mariner4life said in Fern Helpline:
@R-L said in Fern Helpline:
Any online businesses here? Amazon sellers etc? Can you really make a living online or extra cash? Anyone? No silly get rich schemes or anything, I'm not looking to "get rich" just have a better lifestyle.
A friend of mine has one of these pages and seems to do ok out of it. Still works an everyday job though but guess the extra $ at the cost of a little dignity is worth it to her
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@R-L said in Fern Helpline:
Any online businesses here? Amazon sellers etc? Can you really make a living online or extra cash? Anyone? No silly get rich schemes or anything, I'm not looking to "get rich" just have a better lifestyle.
I would look for a lot of other things if you want to make some side cash. Its not easy there is a lot of learning, trial and error and fake claims. Follow the Instagram page baller busters. They are constantly busting amazon coaches and others who are portraying a fake life.
If you want a little side income I would look at matched betting (search bonusmoney Australia...can do done with the TAB as well). Good start then if you want to continue from there check out the BF scalper (betfair scalper) course. More predictability than trying to get into FBA or anything like that.
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@R-L said in Fern Helpline:
Any online businesses here? Amazon sellers etc? Can you really make a living online or extra cash? Anyone? No silly get rich schemes or anything, I'm not looking to "get rich" just have a better lifestyle.
I'm going to sound really old school here, but my general principle in these sort of opportunities is if you think ' how hard can that be' the answer is usually 'really hard'.
Fundamentally, find something that you have knowledge and interest in, and that's where you'll carve out a niche. That may be buying and selling stuff on eBay (classic computer games, stamps, whatever) - but to be good at it you have to knwo your market, and find a way of sourcing stock so that you make money on it. Bad news: the easy stuff is probably already taken (that's what markets tend to do - grab the low hanging fruit).
If you're a people person, a side gig in a pub could be a thing, or doing some part time work selling (ice creams, cornish pastys, whatever), or in the UK markets (rather than online)
Bottom line - there's no easy way to making serious coin, but find something that you are engaged with and you'll find a way to make a difference, stand out and find a way of succeeding. Also, be realistic about this; the actual money you make is a function of all the time you spend at this, not just the revenue. If it's eBay, your time will be in researching stock, ordering, receiving, holding, repackaging, shipping and then fighting the inevitable arseholes who claim it never arrived or arrived damaged. Then you have to scale up to make money, which takes time and stops it being a side gig.
Good luck - no matter what, just start something. If you challenge yourself you will learn shedloads as you go, and it'll help you in many aspects of life. Have fun, but be realistic going into whatever you start doing.
