Daily discussion thread: 👾 Tuesday, May 14, 2024

5am.

The art:

The artist:

@Gibsonisafluffybutt @Seagoon Lovely post-modern art piece by Gibson 😸

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.

Good night and good luck for tomorrow.

I have an interview for another volunteer position this Friday. I can't believe I'm finally leaving call centres behind, and I'm actually on the path to something I want to do. For so long I've been forcing myself into jobs that ruin me, and then I wonder why I fail.

I won't fail at this.

@StudChud @Seagoon Congratulations! 😊
Many years ago I worked in a call centre and it was utterly soul destroying.
You'll feel so much better once you're out of that toxic environment.
- I've worked in call centres for 10-12 years, electricity, tax collection, salary packaging/sacrifice, and a small business that did home services. All sucked in their own unique ways. The only way to move "up" is to be toxic as fuck and throw your coworkers under the bus, which I couldn't do. The abuse from management, the abuse from callers, caused me to abuse myself.
  So done, 0/10, do not reccomend. Taking calls all day is a form of torture.
  Gonna be doing animal care instead, cert III, and then I'll move up to the cert IV in veterinary nursing. It'll be hard, but I won't be on the phones; I'll be doing something that has been my dream.

So tech question Tuesday.... You know this 3g turn off thing? My MIL has a Moto G8 plus (which the specs say supports LTE), but Optus keep sending her emails through her account saying that it will not be supported going forward ... They list her phone specifically as one that will not be supported...so VoLTE is a different spec than LTE?

@calhoon2005 @Seagoon Sort of.
Basically, when the first 4G and 4G LTE networks were first being rolled out, the technology to make voice calls over 4G networks wasn't quite ready yet. So the earliest 4G phones dropped back to 3G for calls, but used faster 4G networks for internet and data.
Eventually, the telcos rolled out a technology upgrade that allowed calls to be made on 4G LTE mobile networks, called VoLTE (voice over LTE).
But it only worked on newer 4G/4G LTE phones that supported VoLTE for calls. Older models still dropped back to 3G for voice calls
Sounds to me like your MIL has an older 4G LTE phone that still falls back to 3G for calls, instead of making them over the 4G LTE network.
If that's the case, she'll no longer be able to make calls with that phone once Optus 3G shuts down.
Time for an upgrade.

@Seagoon Overheard in the office...

Colleague one: "As you are aware, we've decided to postpone event until August or September. Can you change the dates on the website please?"

Colleague two: "No, I was not aware, thanks for letting me know. When was the decision made? I'll update the website."

Colleague one: "I am very sorry, I thought you were aware."

The "Manager" strikes again.