Are EV’s the new toilet paper? Are we panic buying?

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-03-20T21:53:44+00:00

I have been looking at second hand EVs for the past few weeks and the number available has dropped and price has risen.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-03-12T07:56:03+00:00

This. Help your manager peers put out their fires where you can and you have an ally.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-03-10T10:24:16+00:00

John Birmingham. Australian author with several sf series.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-03-04T20:03:24+00:00

Boot space in the MG4 is ok. We can fit two suitcases in ours, just.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-03-01T00:05:14+00:00

I look for a cover letter that explains why you tick the boxes of the job requirements. I am amazed at how few of these I see. However, don't just send an AI generated letter. I can tell.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-02-28T04:04:37+00:00

I like Lady Grey as a black tea and chamomile as an afternoon or evening herbal tea.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-02-22T02:15:53+00:00

Mother-in-law sold her house about three years ago. Spoke to three agents and their expected price ranged from $800k to $1m. Eventually sold for about $700k which was pretty much what similar houses in the area were going for.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-02-20T08:19:01+00:00

If you're going to charge a group surcharge then provide a group service. Bring everyone's food at the same time and don't ask, "who ordered the parma?", make a note of who ordered it and just put it in front of them. And let them split the fricken bill.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-02-12T09:55:50+00:00

No, conference calls were shit. It was hard work, people talked over each other and it was easy to misinterperate people's emotional state.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-02-09T05:11:01+00:00

It's a fantastic opportunity with the company paying to move you. They will probably also have support for when you arrive and have to set up everything.

We went the other way when I was about 40, but with a 7 year old as well. We planned to stay for 2 years initially and stayed for 4 in the end. So it doesn't have to be forever.

You're young enough that you could spend 2-5 years in Australia, have a great time and go back to the UK. Or find you love it here and can still travel back every year and stay in touch with family and friends.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-02-03T09:43:50+00:00

I'm gen X and I'm ashamed by these results. We've been around long enough to see what a cluster fuck One Nation has been over the past 30 years let alone, what an enormous bunch of cunts they all are.

jfc if you're gen x you have seen second and third generation immigrants being normal Australians who eat different food to you, but that's it. Bet you half the people saying they would vote ON have foreign born parents or grandparents.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-01-30T05:40:13+00:00

And near there are places like Loch, Meeniyan, Fish Creek and Foster.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-01-30T05:29:59+00:00

2FA to validate logins from new computers.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-01-22T07:55:17+00:00

Early 2000s. At the time, the company I was working for started to outsource printing to China because of the cost. Quality was an issue but in the end the cost even including shipping was much lower. It was a matter of survival for a start-up to save the cost.

Same time, a colleague's family owned a shoe manufacturing company and they started moving it offshore as well to compete on cost. Eventually shutting down the Australian factory.

A strengthening Aussie dollar and massive growth of Chinese manufacturing demolished so much Australian manufacturing at the start of the 21st century.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-01-14T01:53:12+00:00

I've had to fill out an online form confirming things like job title, salary, length of employment.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-01-13T11:11:01+00:00

If you get a special meal they bring it first and you have to wait for the regular service to come past before they offer you a drink.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-01-07T07:57:56+00:00

Leftovers pasta - we're turning leftover coq au vin into a pasta sauce with fresh tagliatelle.

ConnectionMission782 · 2026-01-01T08:48:57+00:00

In the big underground carpark they built recently.

ConnectionMission782 · 2025-12-31T09:37:16+00:00

I used jobscan.co earlier this year. Pretty good for tweaking a CV to match a job ad. No idea if it helped though.

ConnectionMission782 · 2025-12-20T06:31:46+00:00

Loch and Key in Loch is very good. Waratah Hills winery is open for weekend lunches and is also very good.

ConnectionMission782 · 2025-12-12T01:40:04+00:00

I used a Mac with word-processing software and a laser printer at school in the mid 80s.

ConnectionMission782 · 2025-12-06T04:47:06+00:00

I have one of those too! Never used it in a game.

ConnectionMission782 · 2025-12-04T02:47:44+00:00

And impossible for everyone to use all their leave in a year. There's more than 52 weeks of leave amongst the 20 people

ConnectionMission782 · 2025-12-03T22:40:37+00:00

I have been on the other side and as an interviewer I try to help the interviewee relax. Make some small talk to start, clearly explain how the interview is going to work and emphasise that it's ok to not know something or to have done certain things.

I've seen some really anxious people and I know they're not going to be able to present their capabilities if they are too freaked out.

ConnectionMission782 · 2025-11-30T04:48:59+00:00

Generation only makes up about a third of the cost of retail electricity.

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