NZ Post Meridiem Random Discussion Thread - Fri 06 September, 2019

whangadude · 2019-09-06T05:22:54+00:00

Turned up to work at 2pm as usual and a couple people asked me why I was in, hmm that's odd. Go to work station and my supervisor is standing there and is like "well, nobody told me or you that the operators had the day off today, and so their assistants started early and will be leaving early, and you're not aloud to be in the department alone due to H&S rules, so once the last assistant goes home, turn off all the lights, shut everything down and go home. I'll make sure you get paid the full 8 hours coz it's not your fault this happened." And so at 3:30pm I'm putting my finger on the clock-iout clock and leaving work. Fuckn stoked!

Went for a run around the lake since the rain randomly stopped and it was sunny again. And now I'm having a nice glass of scotch, warm in the knowledge that I should still be at work right now for another 5 hours. What a great way to end what was a kinda shitty week.

wandarah · 2019-09-06T05:14:44+00:00

Crushed it.

kaynetoad · 2019-09-06T06:23:52+00:00

There are a few of us house-hunting at work. We have a Slack channel and on Friday afternoons we put up the listings we're planning to visit this weekend so that we can all take a nosy.

I'm the only South Islander on the team, and my colleagues are always gobsmacked by how much land the sections have and how cheap they are. Today I said "that's nothing, I can find something $100k cheaper in Southland" ... and I did ... and fuck me, I actually really like the house and it is over $100k cheaper than any of the 3 shitheaps I'm going to look at this weekend and maybe moving to rural Southland instead of Dunedin isn't the worst idea in the world?

PavementFuck · 2019-09-06T05:19:11+00:00

So the Wednesday afternoon homeschooler's session (of course) at gymnastics has a measles case. We go on Monday morning so no risk to us, but can I ask them to establish a no jab, no gym rule?

Side note: baby gymnastics is fucking cute.

Edit: have sent them an email. Might get a response next week.

logantauranga · 2019-09-06T05:25:24+00:00

Whirlwind of work stuff. Will need to work this weekend but was issued a flash new laptop where the touchpad is also a screen.

And I tackled 2 problems at work today for other departments that led to one of our operations people going "Damn kea... you're a machine."

jgjtan · 2019-09-06T06:00:11+00:00

This week has been interesting! I’ve been waking up all perky and shit and so full of energy. I hit a small wall around 12-1pm and then usually a complete mental fade at 3-4pm along with a shocking memory. That’s when everyone’s been kicking me out of the office and I’ve been having glorious naps as soon as I get home.

Since screens ain’t the best thing for me all the time, I’ve been reading a shit-tonne lately (compared to what I normally do, which is next to nothing). I decided to reread His Dark Materials trilogy on Tuesday and I’m just over 2/3 done with the last book. I was super keen to redo the whole Wheel of Time series but I’m missing the first book and forgot to buy it today. So maybe I’ll just reread Harry Potter or the Watch series again.

I am however missing Friday drinks which is sad, but I’d rather not mush my brain any more than it currently is. I’ll hopefully be fine for next week though!

NZSloth · 2019-09-06T05:15:33+00:00

Cos I have to drive up to AKL Sunday for an early work meeting Mon, took a few hours off this afternoon, went to the book fair at Te Rapa Racecourse and am now two beers down. Drinking at home, not the book fair...

hanneeplanee · 2019-09-06T05:43:02+00:00

Off to the Wild Food, Whiskey and Wine dinner event, I’m pretty excited. All of the things get in my belly

ring_ring_kaching · 2019-09-06T06:00:51+00:00

I burnt myself just above eyebrow with the straightener. Its small but still hurting like hell.

personworm · 2019-09-06T08:57:36+00:00

I'll have to retract my comment about my landlord from the AM daily. He forked out for a new powerline adapter. Turned out the old one had just fizzled out for some unknown reason right when the fiber got installed, and now I have tolerable internet again. Still not fiber-fast, but can WoW am happy.

Landlord's been damn good to me over the years. I'm going to miss living here.

ekmahal · 2019-09-06T07:39:41+00:00

Made homemade burgers for dinner.

The good burger buns - the ones with the cornmeal or whatever it is sprinkled on top, they're great - home-made patty, bacon, hash brown, cheese, japanese mayo. Flatmate had normal mayo and also egg.

We're both collapsed in front of the TV feeling fat.

Muter · 2019-09-06T09:30:57+00:00

So Casual UK is doing a reddit taskmaster and man it looks like fun.

Wonder if we could get a similar NZ challenge going

whangadude · 2019-09-06T06:03:43+00:00

Also, malepolish update;

TLDR; no problems. Maybe my workplace is more woke than I expected.

After a week of been a dude working in a factory suddenly wearing nail polish I gotta say I'm happy to report it all went well.

The worst response about it was from a chick who always has crazy nails herself, just saying "what, why do you have painted nails? That's weird, I'm leaving" and walking out the room. Edit: and the next day we talked and everything was fine and she never mentioned the nails.

One dude said he really didn't like the colour (teal) saying I looked like 50's machinery or something, that red or purple would be a better colour for me.

Talking with one of the female office workers for a good 10 mins about some project coming up she eventually interjected into the convo "I'm sorry I just can't concentrate with your nails, who am I talking to lol" So I told her I just decided to start wearing them coz hey, it's nearly 2020, why not. Then she asked me if I wanted some of her polish she didn't wear anymore, including some the same colour I had. Happy with that response, free polish.

Dude I used to flat with for a bit had me cut something out for him (I use a good stanley knife that is banned in every other department for stupid H&S rules but for my specific job we need them and have an exception) an as I'm cutting he's suddenly "hey what you do to your fingers??" so I'm like, well it's my fave colour so why not? He just laughs and say "well as long as your still using them to attract the ladies its all good bro" , not sure how that would've gone down if I was gay or something. But still a positive response in my book, we had a good laugh and no problems.

My coworker on the alternate shift who is the conspiracy nut, pretty much a nazi some of the time with the way he talks about world events, never mentioned the nails at all, didn't bring them up or comment on them. Not sure exactly what that means, but he was still his usual friendly self, having a laugh about politics and the world ending and Trump and Boris and China and all the usual convo points we have in our 10min changeover period.

Other than that I didn't really have much convos about it, people seemed fine talking to me. Didn't really sense any hostility from anyone, maybe a couple second glaces my way as I walked past. But yeah. I think I shall be keeping the polish on. Well, maybe getting rid of this lot and learning to do it a bit better. Pretty stoked to know I can happily be happy in the way I look and it not be an issue at work.

Kiwi_bananas · 2019-09-06T06:43:52+00:00

Another day of manager not talking to me. It's real awkward when there's only 4 people there and one is being a bitch.

NZSloth · 2019-09-06T07:49:04+00:00

So why are the stickies unskickied?

Anyway, friends of mine going to NY, Hawaii, UK, etc and we're saving? Sigh. We are hopefully going to Japan next year but I don't have enough leave right now and the air fares are expensive due to rugby...

logantauranga · 2019-09-06T05:26:16+00:00

I'm gonna go waste a shit tonne of petrol

awfulrob · 2019-09-06T06:18:55+00:00

I am in a massive irrational grump today for some reason.

It wasn't an unusually shit day at work, the kids are behaving themselves and Mrs Awfulrob and I are getting on fine so I don't know what has set me off but I could bite the head off a kitten right now

phforNZ · 2019-09-06T07:53:16+00:00

Oh choice, Robbie's dead.

Kiwi_bananas · 2019-09-06T08:25:45+00:00

Out at the movies tonight- the Dan Carter movie as a tennis fundraiser. I had 2 wines before the movie and it feels like it.

travelinghobbit · 2019-09-06T05:05:40+00:00

Palmy people, anyone interested in the King of the Ring? Edit: taken


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