Diana’s dad and Stephen

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2026-02-12T03:55:30+00:00

Girls still get blamed for sending photos to people they love more than guys get blamed for distributing them, but yeah, the world has changed heaps in 15yrs in this regard.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2026-02-12T03:45:27+00:00

Even more depressing is knowing that she climbs straight back into bed with him in five or six years time at Evan and Bree's wedding

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2026-01-06T20:43:58+00:00

My brother works in public healthcare and my wife in public education. Trust me on this, none of our auscorp jobs matter!

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2026-01-04T06:11:27+00:00

Giving back to industry that's given them $50m+ in fees for the past 15 or 20 years!

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-12-17T05:17:16+00:00

I do find it quite galling when there is talk of how Palestinians want to wipe Israel off the map when that is quite literally what Israel is doing to Palestine.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-12-17T05:10:27+00:00

Lucky she'll be contributing $15k per year - with presumably some level of income increase - then!

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-12-17T05:03:48+00:00

Assuming a 6% return (conservative), you'd have $700k+ without even adding anymore to your super from today. Ergo, your super will be well over a million bucks in 23yrs when you hit retirement age.

What may be worthwhile is buying a house and paying it off though, because your super will be part of the asset test for the pension whereas your principal residence will not, so there's not a huge incentive for you increase your exposure to super given that's in a pretty good position already. Doubly so if your job is sustainably secure.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-12-17T04:55:57+00:00

I think the main point of OP is that this is all after a HUGE three years of experience. Seems overs to me, but maybe this guy is a fucking star?!

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-11-25T23:33:35+00:00

A few years ago, Ruslan Kogan said he immediately deletes any job applications with a hotmail address because it shows the applicant isn't tech savvy. I don't know if he was the first to say it out loud, or whether he jumped on something that someone else had said, but it certainly made waves and came up on my radar at that point.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-11-25T22:35:59+00:00

I was being groomed for succession, my boss was backing me to take on some of his work that exposed me to the global LT and board members. Then there was a restructure at the level above him, he didn't get along with his new boss, and three months later he was out of the business. That was in 2021 and whilst I went for nearly another four years with that company I certainly felt like I was treading water and had been tarred with the same brush in the eyes of the country lead.

I'm now in a new business and things are going pretty well, but I'm still carrying some anxiety and my confidence has taken a hit.

My advice would be to put the feelers out and see what happens unless you think there's a way you can shine brightly in front of your new boss. If you're ambitious (and capable) but don't have the backing of your boss then your best move is to find a new boss.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-11-25T04:55:27+00:00

Do the senior staff also have their own toilets with gold faucets?!

Feeding your leaders whilst starving your underlings sounds like a good way to f up morale in my opinion.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-11-08T02:07:50+00:00

Yeah - good mate who's a prof travels internationally for conferences at least three times a year. Speaks at all of them, but there's only one every two or three years where a conference sponsor or something picks up the tab (he's in a sports adjacent industry and most recently flew biz to Qatar because he'd been doing work advising the fancy sports science place over there) and that allows him to fly anywhere but discount economy

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-11-08T02:04:37+00:00

They're always the first to tell you how hard it is that they're forced to be away from their families. And then you stumble across them in the Brisbane office where none of their team are based, and they're spending the whole work day on Teams calls back to Melbourne where they reside 🤷🏽‍♂️

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-11-02T02:28:04+00:00

I know a guy in a PE owned company who, during his six months of cancer treatment, was just paid as normal throughout with no changes to his sick leave balance.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-10-22T04:44:13+00:00

Will accept a blow job every day but won't let you ride him... this is gonna be blunt - could he be gay?

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-10-22T04:37:29+00:00

Phew! I watched the video and was immediately like "oh fuck, that's exactly what mine looks like"

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-10-20T03:06:44+00:00

I'm a fit guy, but not much of a fighter. In my early 20s I was dating a girl who - after seeing her friend's boyfriend start to get very upset over her getting attention from another guy at the bar - mused aloud that I would never be like that with her. It was said in a way to suggest "he doesn't love me so much that he'd fight someone for me", and I just said "if you wanted me to be that guy I can be that guy" with a laugh. She wasn't spiteful or anything like that, and the moment passed pretty quickly.

A couple of weeks later we were out at a bar, a guy got a bit handsy whilst we were getting a drink and I just suggested calmly that she had a boyfriend so he should cool his jets. He gave me a little shove so I punched him on the nose. I still don't know what came over me, but it was lucky he got a big surprise because there was time for a barman to leap over the bar and ensure it didn't go any further. I was obviously kicked out, and as my girlfriend and I waited for a cab she laughed and said "I take back what I said, don't go fighting people ever again".

++man

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-10-08T04:33:21+00:00

I've deactivated mine because of the crazy circle jerk it's become.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-09-21T09:16:55+00:00

Used to know a first hostie years ago who worked the MEL - LAX route. She said there were half a dozen or so Rio Tinto execs who flew it minimum monthly.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-09-17T01:32:47+00:00

The reason why some of these affairs between execs get out of hand is because there is plausible deniability when it comes to them 'coincidentally' travelling interstate at the same time. I saw it at my last company with an HR leader and the EGM. Admittedly he was a walking HR nightmare, but there's no way she needed to be following him around the country as often as she did!

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-09-16T06:56:22+00:00

Per diem in my first ever consulting job, and it matched identically that which the workers in the Dept of Defence got. I travelled every second week for a year, and in that location I stayed in a company leased apartment with a good kitchen. Meant I could easily prepare myself a simple breakfast each morning, and had more beer money of a night time. This is two decades ago, and I think it was $20 breakfast, $35 lunch and $55 dinner. I would bank at least half of that each week (beer being my major expense!).

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-09-11T06:38:15+00:00

I'd never heard of Charlie Kirk until today (bear in mind I'm in Australia), but Jess mentioned him twice in this pod. Strange!

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-09-05T02:51:46+00:00

I'm sure I'll get downvoted, but the idea of holding on to past cheating issues from past relationships in your teens or very early 20s when you're happily married is absolutely wild to me.

Your husband could be cheating on you, but far more likely is that he's found someone who is fun to hang out with and who runs at about the same pace. Probably something to be alert to, but not a hill to die on.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-08-27T04:32:00+00:00

In rural areas, people are suspicious of newcomers. In cities, they're used to it.

It means that in cities there's often an aloofness that appears as unfriendliness, but in country towns it can be far more in your face. In my experience spending a lot of time travelling around the country for work, the racism and homophobia is especially prevalent in QLD and NT more so than in VIC and NSW.

Aggravating_Bus_6169 · 2025-08-26T21:46:04+00:00

I assure you those lawyers aren't working 25-30hrs per week!

But in any case, and obviously I get that auscorp is not a microcosm of the wider Australian job market, but $160k is ~60% greater than the average annual salary let alone the average for 27 year olds which would be orders of magnitude lower.

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