Tried to make an appointment with my GP. On their website, they had a notice that they were moving to private billing only. And trying to pick a date- next appointment available is 27th May.
Things are very broken (apart from me)
Give them a ring, there are very often sooner appointments available, just not shown on the booking software.
Can you move to another provider? I’ve had to do that a few times and while I still pay a gap, at least they refund on the spot.
Ergh. Good morning.
No work for me today. I’m a wheezing snotty mess
Stay warm!! It took me a good two weeks but I got over it.
Morning or afternoon now.
I’m wheezing and rattling but stuck at work :/
My god this isn’t snot it’s cottage cheese
Have you been vaccinated against whooping cough? Because whooping cough is a total snot machine. The first week is the most snot you have ever seen in your life, then after that it’s coughing.
Yup i have. Is all juuust snot. I got hit with a rhinovirus shortly after / during a huge cleaning spree that set off a dust allergy
No it’s not. No it’s not. No it’s not. I eat cottage cheese so it can’t be.
No, it’s snot
🤢
You’re grossed out? You’re grossed out? My dear boy you don’t have to try and expel it. I HAD A LITERAL NOSTRIL OVERFLOW
Who are you calling ‘boy’? 😂
I’m a visual thinker: you describe snot like cottage cheese, I’m going to throw up in my mouth a little bit haha
Snot is the worst though, I’m sorry your nostrils have betrayed you
How about pulling multi inch strings out of your eyes?
Oh delish.
geebus it feels cold
I’m hugging a hot water bottle right now.
Massive day today. Worked non stop from 7:40 to 3:40 including a whole lot of new shit and new requirements to my job that, while making a lot of sense and genuinely good for service delivery, involve a level of mental load/energy that’s… not exactly what I signed up for. I need more training and preparation. It kind of happened so suddenly that I didn’t have time to formulate a response, and ask for reasonable accommodation/support. I’m definitely willing to give it a go and see if it improves things, but I just really didn’t need that extra burden this week 😣
Anyway… I then had to go help a friend out with some things and ended up having a long chat in the car, really was good to unload but I ended up really exhausted and emotional. Despite my pledge to cook more at home and save money I gave in and ordered the two-large-pizza-plus-garlic-bread special at my local for 37.50. I’m reminding myself that it’ll be enough for dinner tonight, brekkie tomorrow, dinner tomorrow and maybe even lunch the day after. Thankfully lunch is catered tomorrow at some training thing I gotta do. I’d really rather catch up with work but it’s mandatory training so oh well…
I’m thinking after I come back from my break I’m gonna have to ration out my energy a bit better at work in terms of in person interactions. Might need to start requesting one day from home even though I genuinely want to work away from home for the work/life separation - I’m just gonna be really exhausted with all the masking and social interaction.
Mickey has discovered the benefits of being inside my hoodie with me in it too.
aw, such a cat move 😻🔥
Mrs is channel surfing and skipped past “farmer wants a wife”, when a strange thought popped into my head: good on 7 for getting some farmers laid. Working a farm is tough as shit, it’s not like you can go to the pub every other night. Country towns are often small, people couple up quick outta school. So ignoring the reality tv show aspect I suppose it’s really a net positive hey.
I worked on a farm when I was 19 for about 2 years. No job has ever been as hard as that was. Not even house demolitions and that is brutal.
So what I’m hearing is not only do farmers deserve some love, but it’d be pretty… intense.
I really don’t care for running and I wonder how people enjoy it. It’s a lot of work for what seems like limited benefits.
I really do feel you get much more bang for your buck weight training if you had to choose between the two.
I don’t mind a light jog on the treadmill if I can watch something on the iPad.
I can hear someone singing and playing a harmonica, while a car alarm goes off.
Love Brunswick.
I have not cooked a roast anything in many, many years. But tonight WE ROAST!
Chicken is the beast of choice! With roast veg, cauliflower & cheese and peas.
I’m a boring, basic cook at best so this could go either way…
It’s very hard to stuff up a roast, you’ll do fine. If not, there’s always gravy to cover up the bad bits.
Have managed to do so in the past. Then I discovered oven bags. Seriously, I’ve found roasts take longer than the book says. particularly if adding in veg in the same tray. But that might just be my oven at the time which was on its last legs so to speak.
IT guys are very busy. They should give me access to the website to update this form myself so I can just get it out of the way. I know what I’m doing, I’ve managed Wordpress websites before
IT guys love bribes…
Is it possible to attach a carton of cigarettes to a Jira ticket?
They should give me access … so I can just get it out of the way. I know what I’m doing
With the utmost respect, the amount of times i’ve heard this over the last 15 years followed a couple of months later by “Heyyyyyy so I kind of stuffed up, can you please spend the next 2 days unfucking whatever I stuffed up” is the problem.
Not saying your not an expert. I’m saying the people who CLAIMED to be an expert but were in fact not ruined it for the people who actually are experts.
Have seen this plenty of times too. Sure there’s lots of untapped skills and knowledge in organisations where people genuinely could step up, but there’s even more people who severely overestimate their abilities and their bravado can leave a ginormous mess which now someone else has to clean up. IT has no way of knowing which one you are based on ‘I say so’
As frustrating as it is, I understand why bigger places do this. That being said, I want to fix up something IT configured incorrectly in the first place
@tombruzzo @SituationCake The other thing is to keep in mind is that it’s not necessarily IT that is the “business owner” of the website.
Sure, IT might be responsible for keeping it online. But the main decisions about it, and the responsibility for maintaining the content, belong to a different person/team/department.
Depending on where I’ve worked, that’s been operations, content, comms/PR, and marketing.
Even in small orgs, it’s often the CEO rather than IT who has the final say.
And sometimes different parts of the website are managed by different people/teams/departments.
The second thing to be mindful of is it’s not just about whether you have the WordPress skills.
There’s often a lot of office politics in many organisations.
People quite rightly don’t enjoy feeling like their jobs or responsibilities are being undermined.
And they don’t want changes made in an area they’re ultimately responsible for without them knowing.
That’s where business processes and procedures come into play.
It might be as simple as emailing a particular person to get their sign off on you making a particular update, or notifying them afterwards.
You also need to think about what the benefits to them are of granting you this access. Perhaps it frees up their resources for more meaningful tasks?
And the third thing to be prepared for is if you get the admin privileges you want, suddenly other people might ask you to make changes as a shortcut around IT. You might want to push back against that.
If I were in your position, I’d plan out the case for:
* What the problem you want to solve is.
* Your proposed solution. That’s not just gaining access, but also the approvals or notifications around it.
* Restrictions and safeguards. You are only to have this level of privileges and make updates in situations x, y, and z. This helps you push back if someone else wants you to make other changes — I’m not authorised to do that.
* The benefits to the business, including improved productivity, or customer experience.I’d have a chat with your boss to get them on board.
I’d find out who the business owner(s) of the website are.
I’d organise either an informal chat (maybe buy them coffee one day?) or a meeting to talk through the case with them.
And finally, I’d be prepared for the answer to be a no. That’s ultimately their call. If that’s the case, your decision is whether you stick with your current job, or find a different one that makes better use of your skills.
I know Marketing aren’t responsible for the website because that’s the team I’m in. This issue isn’t worth getting everything setup for, but I might try get access overall soon.
I think it’s that I feel hamstrung by not being able to make the change myself. I’m just bumping against the contradictions of businesses needing everything done now, but also needing everyone’s input and approval.
I’ll see if they let me in, even if it’s just to put on my own resume.
@tombruzzo Out of curiosity, roughly how large is this organisation? Is it closer to 10 staff, 50 staff, or 1000?
Also, you mentioned something I found interesting.
You said the business wants everything done now, but also everyone needs to give their input and approval.
Is that an issue just with the website? Or is it across the board in your business?
Unless you are in a very small business, it isn’t the IT guys making this call. Present your case to your manager, explain your experience and how it helps the business for you to have the access. Let your manager take it from there. You never know, you might get access.
Unless you are in a very small business, it isn’t the IT guys making this call.
God I’m just imagining my security managers face when I tell him “But X staff member says they’ve managed Y before so I’m sure its fine lets give full admin access!”
Author access is not admin access.
I just want to fix this one thing. If they give me access to the website I might be responsible for maintaining it. I’m not that busy but I don’t want more work
You still havnt said the magic word that makes me believe you are a good actor yet. Have you logged a “……”?
Jira ticket?
bingo!
"Thank you everyone for all the kind words 😽
"Mum is still giving me eyedrops today, and it’s really uncomfortable 😿
"But my eye feels a lot better today 😸
“Now excuse me, I have some chicken to eat for dinner. It’s my favourite! Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom”
— Miss Mimi
I looooove tuxedo cats. That photo perfectly encapsulates how cute yet elegant they are. Please give Miss Mimi a little bop on her precious little head from me.
Ah sweet Mimi!!! ☺️💜💜
Cat update: He is fine. Bloods came back great. He hasnt pooped out any worms or anything, but he also hasnt vomited so… dunno.
Glad kitty is okay. Ours had a bit of vomiting episode Saturday…came home to a bit of a mess. I’m assuming she chewed on her blanket and couldn’t digest it.
After a couple of years of self-imposed junk food ban I decided to stop for KFC on the way home. The electronic order board thingy had to be poked a few times before it deigned to take my order but otherwise worked well. But I noticed no one else that came in after me used them and just ordered at the counter. Was I doing the weird thing, or were they?
The wrap seemed smaller than I remember and much more cabbagey. The chips were undersalted and lacking even a hint of crunch. A bit underwhelming and I’ll be happy to abstain from fast food for another few years I think.
I’m always so utterly disappointed when I “treat myself” to some fast food. Never tasted as good as I hoped.
I’ll pick at Boyo’s chips but otherwise don’t touch the stuff. The abomination they call gravy is so salty you might as well suck stock cubes.
Ditto. So damned salty you can’t actually taste the ingredients. This may be a good thing …
If there is an ingredient in it that isn’t a Number I shall be astonished.
Haven’t had KFC in many years. I remember it being rubbish and don’t imagine it’s improved. Local chicken shops are so much better, and many of them do wraps and burgers as well as the standard rotisserie chicken. And chips are always fresh cooked. They can take my money instead.
There was something in ozbargain today about a large snack pack and I gotta be honest I’ve never been more sold on anything in my life for under 10 bucks!
I only get wicked wings from there now. They heat up so well in the airfryer.
I did not know wings (wicked or not) were a thing at KFC. I am afraid my menu knowledge is limited and I just looked for a picture of something that looked vaguely familiar🤣
https://www.kfc.com.au/menu/chicken/3-wicked-wings
I wait until they are on special and buy up big. I make my own chips and potato & gravy that way they are always hot.
Nothing like some midnight floor mopping because you put it off all day and have an apartment inspection tomorrow while you’ll be in the office and you hate having people in your apartment while you’re not there but you have to go to work because you have to present a demonstration to the executive leadership team.
Meeeeeanwhile, I’m seriously considering moving out and just going to stay with my folks for a while. It’s not about money (although it would be nice to save a bunch of money quickly) it’s more about how unhealthy it is for me to sit alone in this shoebox. Plus I’ll have to house/dog sit for them for their upcoming US trip this year anyway.
Then once I’ve saved a bigger chunk of dough I’ll finally bite the bullet and buy something. Likely right before the housing bubble finally bursts after 30 years of people saying it’s going to but never does.
Dude, I had to do it, I quit work and went to uni as a mature age student - I lasted a couple of months with the parent, before renting again, but this was because covid etc. If you get along with your parents, they have a big enough house etc. and you’re single, do it. The money you’ll save is yuge. I know you love your road trips etc. But the freedom when you finally buy is life changing.
Good night and good luck for tomorrow.
