stupid first world problems you're dealing with

  On 7/12/2014 at 9:47 AM, delet... said:

move out of the inner city or wherever broken down bumville that is.

sorry, that's sounds a bit harsh, i didn't mean it that way. I just thought maybe you were living somewhere busy cause of all the advantages that that offers, so are willing to compromise over the noise thing. So i put a negative spin out there to make these lovely burbs seem a better option.

  On 7/12/2014 at 11:44 AM, lala said:

I got roped into using British telecom as it was installed in my bar and i cant ever log in or get passed security as they:

 

spelled my name wrong

spelled my email wrong

spelled my security question wrong

 

coupled with the fact that you cant even speak to anyone without your account number, which i never have when staff phone me to tell me the internets gone off, and the other fact of them using people with the worst english i have ever heard from someone supposed to be dealing with people who speak english adds up to the most frustrating experience ever. i like indian call centre people - they are really pleasant, polite, well mannered - but not BT. they employ the lowest common denominator when it comes to english language skills.

 

the bar up the road actually give one of their staff AN HOUR OFF every time something goes wrong with their BT because THATS HOW LONG IT TAKES.

 

 

 

 

and I have to phone them now

 

 

holy crap. Time to send them a long letter. Also, if you log all the time you've wasted you should be able to take this to the ombudsman that covers that industry, they have them in australia for dealing with complaints that never get resolved, products and services that don't meet certain levels or standards.

nwae, sorry you have to deal with that, sounds like hell.

Ha it's funny. Anyone in UK will understand I'm kinda tongue in cheek.

But so so so boring :)

Oh guys, when taking dmt, please do it with someone chilled & knowledgeable.

And lie down, close eyes & relax.

Having someone shake you because he's a dick which results in your entire existence exploding into pieces != fun

not a fwp but rather an update on a fwp I posted before.

there is finally a cheque in the mail from my ma in the states, I've tracked it and it should be here Thurs/Fri of next week.

No legal needed =)

edit: this has been ongoing since March, glad to have some closure.

as to call centres, some companies started advertising that they had moved their centres back to australia, because the indian call centre people were so useless. In english/cultural comprehension/problem at hand comprehension, as well as probably not actually giving a fuck/under pressure to deliver throughput instead of resolution. So you can blame the process designed by the contractors that they have to conform to as part of the problem as well. Some companies have transferred their outsourced call centres to the Philippines, which still confronts the caller with the same issues i mentioned apparently. They wouldn't have done this to solve anything, probably just get a better deal from Manilla. Offshoring can go to hell in my opinion. I want my money to stay in australia and pay australian wages, so they can in turn pay me by being able to afford to use the business i work for. But that would be logical.

  On 7/12/2014 at 9:47 AM, delet... said:

move out of the inner city or wherever broken down bumville that is.

I'm house-sitting in the city ATM, but I live out in the country, where it's almost like a sanctuary in comparison.

  On 7/12/2014 at 4:25 PM, StephenG said:

not a fwp but rather an update on a fwp I posted before.

 

there is finally a cheque in the mail from my ma in the states, I've tracked it and it should be here Thurs/Fri of next week.

 

No legal needed =)

 

edit: this has been ongoing since March, glad to have some closure.

Cool. Glad to hear things are looking up man.

I need to pee but I'm too lazy to get out of bed.

  On 7/13/2014 at 1:02 AM, usagi said:

I need to pee but I'm too lazy to get out of bed.

ha! i read this as "pee in my butt"

  On 7/13/2014 at 2:38 AM, yek said:

 

  On 7/13/2014 at 1:02 AM, usagi said:

I need to pee but I'm too lazy to get out of bed.

 

ha! i read this as "pee in my butt"

 

epic LEL

my most expensive, cherished, coolest synth has developed a problem where the filter tracking causes the synth to go out of tune. but it sounds really cool i dont know if i should fix it or not

also my x0xbox (my main analogue sequencer) needs fixing too but everyone ive asked are too busy

Caught a cold. I knew it was coming too, after having a soar throat the last couple of days. But at least I'm not on an airplane. Being sick with sinus congestion on a flight is fucking miserable.

Paperwork

I'm pretty sure I just got a hacked spam email from johnnyhawk@gmail.com

The news is freaking me out right now, might have to avoid the internet for a while. :(

debilitating violent diarrhoea

I thought I was working until 11 tonight, turns out I'm working until 11:30, this is literally worse than slavery.

half an hour more money.

Fuck that noise. The whole $5 I make for working that extra half hour I would happily give up to get home earlier.

Also rear park assist is for the mentally challenged.

i agree. Also, i didn't realise the minimum wage in canada was so fucked. You should have moved here to do a PHD or something, we need to balance out all the no hopers that are coming here, with a bit of chen.

I don't think I'm gonna have the amount of money I want to have for my America trip in September.

  On 7/15/2014 at 9:28 AM, delet... said:

i agree. Also, i didn't realise the minimum wage in canada was so fucked. You should have moved here to do a PHD or something, we need to balance out all the no hopers that are coming here, with a bit of chen.

Our min wages are quite high when compared to the rest of the world. Every province is over $10/hr except for Alberta (where there is an exception for food service people) and it is $9.95.

=)

that's pretty shithouse stephen. Our minimum wage is $16.90 aud an hour. Then you have loading on top of that for working past 6pm and having a casual job which chen would have. So he'd probably get about $19 aud p/h for the casual job and then another $14 per shift for working after hours. Our dollar is at 94 usd and the canadian at 93. Australia has over the past ten years become one of the most expensive places to live though, but that's got nothing to do with the cost of labour which has fallen if you factor in inflation, rather it has everything to do with price gouging by newly privatized utilities, and a monopolized retail sector doing the same, a huge bubble in the housing market and so forth.

I got something in my eye while out jogging earlier and now it feels all scratchy when I blink like something's still in there but I can't find it.

  On 7/15/2014 at 6:32 PM, delet... said:

that's pretty shithouse stephen. Our minimum wage is $16.90 aud an hour. Then you have loading on top of that for working past 6pm and having a casual job which chen would have. So he'd probably get about $19 aud p/h for the casual job and then another $14 per shift for working after hours. Our dollar is at 94 usd and the canadian at 93. Australia has over the past ten years become one of the most expensive places to live though, but that's got nothing to do with the cost of labour which has fallen if you factor in inflation, rather it has everything to do with price gouging by newly privatized utilities, and a monopolized retail sector doing the same, a huge bubble in the housing market and so forth.

Consumer Prices in Canada are 22.03% lower than in Australia

Consumer Prices Including Rent in Canada are 27.78% lower than in Australia

Rent Prices in Canada are 39.40% lower than in Australia

Restaurant Prices in Canada are 22.56% lower than in Australia

Groceries Prices in Canada are 13.37% lower than in Australia

Local Purchasing Power in Canada is 1.25% higher than in Australia

lol

Also when you start to look at average and median incomes in Canada it quickly becomes apparent that hardly anyone makes minimum wage.

http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/famil21a-eng.htm

Edit: the average incomes in australia are also quite high.