I'm sick to death of being treated like a potential thief at self service.
I hate pulling the race card, but it's noticeable how different I'm treated. And it's gotten much worse since the cost of living issues.
They will come and literally stand behind me watching me scan everything. Im not dressed in rags or anything. Even when I'm on business work clothes.
Some of those checkout people seem to have gone crazy with the modicum of perceived power they have over people.
/Rant
So you guys remember that FOI request to AmbVic I was considering last month? Well I decided to go ahead and make it. They seemed a little, um, unsure about what I was asking for. They misspelt my name, deemed my request invalid because they thought I was requesting information about an ambulance attendance so they wanted ID, a phone number, and more information. Then 12 minutes later they sent me another email stating they realised I was not requesting that information (but nothing else) then an hour later sent a third email apologising stating they realised I was not requesting information about an ambulance attendance, I didn't need to provide ID, and I did not need to provide a phone number.
Well, they finally processed it and provided a list of all the branch locations and their addresses today. But they sent it as an encrypted excel workbook thing that they didn't provide me permission to open...
Also, I don't want to rag on them too much, but their emails have had so many typos and grammatical errors I found it kind of concerning.
Got home late today and just cannot be buggered moving all my plants around in the cold and dark. I know my landlord lives ages away so I'll just do it tomorrow. I'll definitely be leaving work at 4pm tomoz. Gotta head in early, so I'm leaving on time...
This week's off to a much better start, less overwhelming, more under control. Much more even-keeled having regular hot non caffienated drinks through the day. Meantime I'm so immensely grateful I made all that food last week. Ripper lunch today and tomorrow, and more goodness for dinner. Gonna do a bittergourd and tvp stir fry tomorrow night I reckon.
Think I'll have a go at trying to sleep without the phone tonight. I have a library book on ADHD I've been wanting to go through...
So I was at supermarket the other day, low key jamming out to Coles Radio as you do in your 30s apparently. Then they play a new taylor swift song. And something inside me just... snaps. Previously I was like "Ok, talented artist but getting a bit over the hype". Now I think i actually hate her. Like I cant even do some shopping without having to hear her shit? The song sucked. It was all mopey and shit and felt like 0 effort, but its somehow still getting air time? I hate even posting this cause I feel like its just giving more air time, but I need to vent my frustrations. cant we all (myself included) just move on!?
The Booktopia website is an absolute nightmare to use when you run a couple of privacy extensions. I am trying to browse the website to give you my money
Does it feel unusually warm tonight? Feel like I'm boiling.
Meanwhile why are we still filling out paper customs declarations cards in Australia? Surely it's the kind of thing that could be made available online (where it could be translated in multiple languages).
I know there's data security to consider but they are probably already storing all sorts of data about departures and arrivals.
Beautiful Melbourne day out there. 🙂
Kiddo had a great weekend. We caught up with the folks from Mrs's mums group and it was great to see all his little mates. They are all within similar age as each other, but they were all so different. A few were walking, a few had a couple more words, a few were a lot bigger. Tinyest has probably 50% of his teeth and a full head of hair so he probably looked the most "non baby" of the bunch. He's currently trying to say "Dog" but has only gotten as far as "Duh" which is so damn cute.
@Seagoon_ I've got a flight coming up soon.
It's not this week, it's not next week, but it is the week after.
Too early to start packing?
Can say this round of COVID is not as bad as the first. Popped some codral, waiting for it to take effect. 😱💀
the moon is so beautiful this morning 🌙
It is at this time, that I wish I could rip my nose off and burn it. So swollen is the tissue up there, not snot, just enflamed. Sat within my hoodie with a bowl of hot water to decongest or whatever, which provided temporary relief.
I can't breathe through it, but I am loathe to breathe through my mouth as it gets so dry. Everything fucking hurts.
Le Whinge
I think I might go and impulse buy one of these and step up my blended drinks game. I have a blender but I only ever use it when I'm making frozen margs and it's heavy and annoying to clean.
Wilhelm scream
