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  #3039404 20-Feb-2023 13:57
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networkn:

 

Unsolicited employment enquiries via email when the person can't even spell our company name properly. 

 

Hardly instills confidence if you can't copy and paste in an IT role. 

 

Deleted.

 

 

To this day, I still receive unsolicited recruitment opportunities from a company that insists on referring to me by my surname. Despite the fact that my email is firstname.surname, and I have replied to them before with the aforementioned Firstname Surname as my display name, and this one time I increased the font size of my name.

 

Plus they also keep sending me "No Remote Work" opportunities in Sydney, a place you could not pay me enough to move anywhere near.


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  #3039405 20-Feb-2023 13:59
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Geektastic:
Handsomedan:

 

Getting home from a long day of muddy mountain biking, completely shattered and having to hose down, thoroughly clean and lube the bikes and then also hose down the clothes I was wearing before being able to put them in the wash! 

 

 

 

 

 



Were your domestic staff unavailable?

 

The domestic staff told me I was NOT putting that crap in the washing machine until the worst of the mud and muck was off it. 

 

I complied as I wish to remain married to said domestic staff...





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Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

 

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale 

 

 

 

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  #3039408 20-Feb-2023 14:05
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Geektastic: Dear Cur or Madman

I wood like two have a job with you.

I wont to stay in bed until about nine then go for brekfarst. I could prolly hit the office four about lunch if that’s ok.

Wicked.

 

 

You forgot the last line:

 

 

 

(She/it/them).

 


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  #3039409 20-Feb-2023 14:07
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Handsomedan:

The domestic staff told me I was NOT putting that crap in the washing machine until the worst of the mud and muck was off it. 

 

I complied as I wish to remain married to said domestic staff...

 

 

C|N>K.

 

 

(Used on another board, "caffeine piped through nose onto keyboard").

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  #3039452 20-Feb-2023 15:31
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Getting a text from Sky TV telling me I have to pay -$88 today or set up regular payments. Not sure how to pay negative money


  #3039483 20-Feb-2023 15:39
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People (sometimes quite a few) applying for government sector jobs clearly marked "Must have the right to live and work in NZ", when they and their family for countless generations have lived their entire life on the Subcontinent* and the applicant's sole qualification is a bachelor's degree issued last week by an obscure institution.

 

Screening them out is about the only Use Case where I have found an HR department to be of some minor use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* For non-cricketers, the "Subcontinent" is shorthand for "Pakistan + India + Bangladesh + Sri Lanka"


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  #3039487 20-Feb-2023 15:49
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PolicyGuy:

 

* For non-cricketers, the "Subcontinent" is shorthand for "Pakistan + India + Bangladesh + Sri Lanka"

 

 

So not including Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal (and depending on definition, Afghanistan)?πŸ˜‰





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  #3039493 20-Feb-2023 15:58
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Gurezaemon:

 

PolicyGuy:

 

* For non-cricketers, the "Subcontinent" is shorthand for "Pakistan + India + Bangladesh + Sri Lanka"

 

 

So not including Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal (and depending on definition, Afghanistan)?πŸ˜‰

 

 

Also not including Tasmania - you know, because it's sub-Australia, which is technically a continent. 





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  #3039503 20-Feb-2023 16:21
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Handsomedan:

 

Also not including Tasmania - you know, because it's sub-Australia, which is technically a continent. 

 

 

It's not as removed from the rest of Australia as many people think - Tasmania actually has a land border with Victoria.





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  #3039520 20-Feb-2023 16:53
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Gurezaemon:

 

PolicyGuy:

 

* For non-cricketers, the "Subcontinent" is shorthand for "Pakistan + India + Bangladesh + Sri Lanka"

 

 

So not including Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal (and depending on definition, Afghanistan)?πŸ˜‰

 

 

Absolutely not not including Bhutan, Maldives or Nepal: they aren't ICC nations

 

Afghanistan is an interesting case, as they are becoming a cricket-playing nation largely because a significant proportion of their population spent years and years in refugee camps in cricket-mad Pakistan. If they continue to progress on the path towards ICC Test Nation status (unfortunately unlikely under the Taliban), they may too I suppose become part of the Subcontinent
πŸ˜€


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  #3039537 20-Feb-2023 17:41
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PolicyGuy:

 

Gurezaemon:

 

So not including Bhutan, Maldives, and Nepal (and depending on definition, Afghanistan)?

 

 

Absolutely not not including Bhutan, Maldives or Nepal: they aren't ICC nations

 

Afghanistan is an interesting case, as they are becoming a cricket-playing nation largely because a significant proportion of their population spent years and years in refugee camps in cricket-mad Pakistan. If they continue to progress on the path towards ICC Test Nation status (unfortunately unlikely under the Taliban), they may too I suppose become part of the Subcontinent
πŸ˜€

 

 

Interesting. I always thought that 'Sub-continent' was a geographical or cultural term, not a sporting one.

 

Also, as I neither know anything about cricket, nor have any interest in it, I had to look up 'ICC.' 😜





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  #3039551 20-Feb-2023 18:00
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Gurezaemon:

Also, as I neither know anything about cricket, nor have any interest in it, I had to look up 'ICC.' 😜

 

 

International Criminal Court. Some of those umpires decisions, I tell you...

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Buying something online, I take it out of the box and realise I bought the wrong product and have to return it.
Then I try to get it back in the box and it won't fit.
Even giving it to the kids as a puzzle no one can get it back in and close it.


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  #3040201 21-Feb-2023 17:11
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Go to YouTube and look for an unboxing video (a godsend when I was selling a phone!).


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  #3040270 21-Feb-2023 18:23
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paulgr:

 

Buying something online, I take it out of the box and realise I bought the wrong product and have to return it.
Then I try to get it back in the box and it won't fit.
Even giving it to the kids as a puzzle no one can get it back in and close it.

 

 

Thats because as soon as you open it ,it rehydrates, making it "that much" (Channeling Maxwell Smart) too big.


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