• StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    13·
    2 个月前

    Didn’t get the job, most likely due to my TAFE schedule not aligning with their work hours. Which is fair, but I am sad about it.

    I channelled the disappointment into more job applications so there’s that I guess.

  • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
    13·
    2 个月前

    Looking after hambam this w/e.

    Little cousin’s car was stolen when she was looking after him recently and the place next door was done too. They entered the place (she was alone) and demanded keys. So none of aunt’s grandkids are (very understandably) keen on looking after him so doggo is stuck with me again.

    These little thieving cunts are just in it for joyriding completely unaware (or are they) of the trauma they leave.

    • dumblederp@aussie.zone
      7·
      2 个月前

      A friend is trying to get rid of his manual lancer but doesn’t want to deal with the sales process.

      I just replaced my car door lock after some cunt snapped a scissor tip off in it.

    • Duenan@aussie.zone
      6·
      2 个月前

      It sucks and I’m sorry to hear that.

      It’s getting worse and worse and I don’t know if the changes they made or going to make are going to make anything better.

      Nothing worse than not feeling safe at home.

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        5·
        2 个月前

        I doubt the changes they are making will make anything better, if anything it will make the problem worse.

        The problem seems to be kids, and its pretty rare to get kids from decent homes & upbringings doing that type of stuff. Almost always they will have their own history of trauma and it is likely that feeling safe in their own home is something they have never experienced for themselves. They get dumped into underfunded child protection system that often exacerbates the problems instead of really helping, and puts them in contact with other troubled kids where they band together into gangs that may be the closest thing to family and safety they can get. Putting them in juvenile detention just makes that issue worse and solidifies criminal activity as a life course instead of a life phase they may be able to get over.

        In a lot of ways this sort of offending is the canary in the coal mine for problems in society as a whole. There will always be some dodgy individuals that choose to do the wrong thing, but when it is a rising tide like this you really need to look at how your whole society is working and make changes there if you want to fix things. Unfortunately part of the social problems that cause this (in my opinion) is a general callousness towards individuals and unwillingness to pay for “soft” solutions like improving education, access to food and housing, counselling services etc. Instead we want “hard on crime” options of locking people up (generally at much greater expense) and then we wonder why we end up with hardened criminals.

        • dumblederp@aussie.zone
          4·
          2 个月前

          Plenty of rich kids with heaps of opportunities wind up being absolute criminal shits with no respect for society. It may skew towards the ignored kids of meth heads but it’s far from exclusive.

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
            2·
            2 个月前

            There are always going to be some people who choose to do the wrong thing no matter what, but there are a far larger number that could go either way.

            It’s also not just a matter of rich or poor - rich parents can be shit, poor parents can be great. And no matter what your own parents are like the wider society has a massive impact - that ignored kid of meth heads could have extended family that care for them and support from the wider community to make better choices themselves and that will make a huge difference. Or you might have a decent family, who have some sort of bad luck - maybe a disabilty or death in the family - and without social support that situation can snowball. Maybe the parent can’t work, so they lose housing, which leads to the kids being taken off them and put in foster care, with all the problems associated with that, broken schooling etc.

            I used to work for Legal Aid in the Children’s Court section and there were almost no kids that had criminal issues without having child protection issues first.

            • dumblederp@aussie.zone
              1·
              2 个月前

              I’d argue that the rich kids don’t wind up at legal aid. My grandfather got my dad out of so many court cases when in fact my father should’ve faced some sort of punishment for multiple cases of theft, domestic abuse and dealing. As he always got away with it he never had to face any consequences which may have encouraged him to consider the type of person he was.

              • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
                1·
                2 个月前

                True, they probably don’t. But the reality is that over half the kids in custody have had child protection orders.

                There have always been some people who do the wrong thing regardless of their circumstances and there always will be, but how we structure our society has a big impact on how many of the people that could choose differntly choose to break the law. And that’s not just poor people vs. rich. Allowing the rich to get away with doing the wrong thing without consequence is as much a part of the problem as how many poor people there are and the way they are treated. A dysfunctional society creates dysfunctional people, and any solution that only looks at the individuals and not the whole society won’t be very effective in creating change.

    • Eagle@aussie.zone
      5·
      2 个月前

      My bro was broken into earlier this week. Took the bowl of keys that was on the bench, and two of their cars while they slept. The violation of their home as their safe space has me feeling all kinds of things.

      • Bottom_racer@aussie.zone
        3·
        2 个月前

        Jeez that’s rough.

        I suppose it’s whether you just leave the keys out or hide them but risk confrontation. Still not sure about that one.

        • Eagle@aussie.zone
          2·
          2 个月前

          We’re going with the thoughts that they’re just cars and at the end of the day the people and pets are safe. The cars may not be seen again (just because of what they are) and everything else has been re-keyed and coded. But the weekend plans are off, and the adult teenager doesn’t want to be home alone, even though his is the only car that’s left on the property. Sort of grateful that their dog didn’t wake up or bark at the time, because who knows what may have been.

  • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    13·
    2 个月前

    Cheers everyone 🍺 May youse have a rockin’ good night!

    *This post was proudly brought to you by The more comfortable weather

  • Seagoon_@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 个月前

    I’m starting to get excited about the move, thinking of all the things I can do. I have a note book with all my ideas and plans. :) Do some courses. Go for walks that don’t have shopping involved.

    I will have my own office /work area which is a huge thing. 🙂

  • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
    9·
    2 个月前

    I think I’m in trouble. I used a box to post my coffee grinder and Miss Meow has noticed it missing. It’s better to beg forgiveness than ask permission, right?

  • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
    9·
    2 个月前

    I’m feeling so emotionally unhappy and so physically sick.

    I wish I could distract myself by doing art but for some reason I just can’t art

  • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
    8·
    2 个月前

    After telling myself I’d have an early night, I ended up making a breakthrough on website styles. So instead of staying up trying to figure out how to change a button, I was up doing all this formatting work I’d been stuck on for the first half of the week.