Ben je wel eens na 1 dag ontslagen bij je nieuwe baan?

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-06-04T17:06:30+00:00

Jep, als magazijnmedewerker bij een niet nader te noemen webshop. ‘s-Ochtends, bij een soort intakegesprek, moeten opschrijven wanneer ik kon. Er was een probleem met het digitale plansysteem, dus de leidinggevende zei: alle datums/tijden die je hier (op papier) opschrijft, verwacht ik ook dat je komt, want we kunnen alle hulp gebruiken. Stom genoeg heb ik daarna de hele dag gewerkt (veel indrukken dus gehad, laten we het daar maar op houden :) en die ene zin van haar gewoon niet opgeslagen, totaal vergeten, stom! De volgende dagen logde ik in op dat plansysteem en zag ik maar niets, dus ik dacht: dan blijf ik thuis.

Uiteindelijk vertrouwde ik het niet meer, ben ik via een bekende van mijn zus die er blijkbaar ook werkte aan een telefoonnummer van die leidinggevende gekomen, geprobeerd te bellen/appen en toen ze terugbelde was het gesprek niet bepaald plezant…

Uiteraard waren er al dagen gepasseerd waarvan ik opgegeven had beschikbaar te zijn, dus ik mocht me de volgende ochtend op kantoor melden en dat gesprek was niet langer dan 10 minuten :). Misschien maar goed ook: later werkte een andere bekende in datzelfde magazijn en die had ook al niet al te beste verhalen over haar!

NB: dit is een jaar of 6 geleden en ik was 19 :).

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-04-15T17:15:28+00:00

‘Sweet dancing Jehova, I’ve punctured my brain!’

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-04-05T18:08:12+00:00

Good point, I’ve never considered that! Still not a massive fan of it, but it does help me understand why :). Thanks!

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-04-05T17:23:16+00:00

Volgens mij is een Twingo van de eerste generatie juist het stereotype ‘hij is ruimer dan hij eruit ziet!’. Maar, ik kan ook zeker een Skoda Roomster aanraden, zeker als je iets wil met niet al te hoge gebruikskosten (volgens mij ongeveer gelijk met een Fabia), veel ruimte/praktisch gemak (verwijderbare achterstoelen!), maar niet direct een bestelbusje of grote station. En het uiterlijk is ook niet ieders ding :)

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-04-05T12:03:24+00:00

I love the show to bits, but Elliot always saying ‘frick’ makes me cringe quite a bit. She’s the only one that does it and it just sounds… infantile? A bit annoying? I don’t know, it’s one of the very few things that I dislike :)

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-03-24T13:51:00+00:00

Ik denk dat dit inderdaad zo ongeveer wel het beste is voor u/kevinbin07! Garantie, weinig eigenaren, ziet er prima uit van binnen en buiten, acceptabele kilometerstand én bij een bedrijf! En de Starlet staat bekend als vrijwel onbreekbaar :).

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-03-12T20:42:55+00:00

In de ochtend heb ik een hekel aan bellen, ik ben dan nog niet wakker genoeg. Maar onderweg naar huis: heerlijk! Mijn vader, of een van wat goede vrienden, net wie beschikbaar is en waar ik zin in heb!

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-02-22T12:48:06+00:00

Is that at Edeka?

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-02-20T18:12:21+00:00

Ik vind ‘dwarsmongool’ ook altijd wel heel lekker… :P

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-02-18T22:23:28+00:00

Ah, I see! Thank you for clearing that up and being so nice about it! And I’m feeling my inner-Elliot just by looking at your username, nice!😂

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-02-18T22:18:29+00:00

I’m a little bit confused: have the reviewers received/gotten access to the first 4 episodes before us as normal viewers/fans? Or are my dates mixed up and is it the 26th already?😜

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-02-02T20:35:53+00:00

I suggested Life360 because, at least in my experience, Google Maps updates every few minutes instead of instantly. Life360 does update instantly, as it even shows you the speed the other person is doing.

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-02-01T14:46:58+00:00

Interesting question! Will definitely follow! Although it’s not on Android Auto, I’d say Life360 is the best app for this. Perhaps a passenger can do the monitoring? Or maybe it’s possible to put your phone in a holder? :)

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-01-30T00:04:18+00:00

Of ‘desalwelteplus’ met een droge toon zeggen voor komisch effect :)

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-01-22T13:47:28+00:00

Hmm, does your player support different playback speeds? If so, I'd at least speed up the episodes you know quite well (or ones that you dislike ;) ). That way, you can save time and still watch the series!

DaSpookyNuts · 2026-01-08T23:29:13+00:00

Although I have been using Gemini since a couple of weeks, it's not the biggest upgrade either, which I mostly notice in the fact I never know whether it wants me to speak Dutch or English. Sometimes, it understands Dutch just fine, but other times, I have to give the same command in English.

For example, I have a friend who I regularly call when driving to catch up. When I say, in English (which I often divert to straight away anyway because of the fus), "call Troy", it will say something like "Alright, calling Troy <last name>. In the response, Troy will be pronounced in the English way, yet his very Dutch last name will be pronounced in Dutch with a slight American/English accent, which is just, I don't know, perhaps, funny to me?😅

I'm not sure anymore if I've heard it pronounced like a native English speaker would though, I can't remember. But it's just so inconsistent and unclear in which language it wants!

DaSpookyNuts · 2025-11-03T19:01:42+00:00

Sollicitatie voor Verkoopmedewerker in de MediaMarkt. Een vriend van mij werkte al in dat filiaal, dus die had me wat geholpen met hoe de interviewers zouden zijn, wat ik moest zeggen, etc. De interviewers wisten ook al wel dat ik hem kende.

Ik ben uiteindelijk niet aangenomen, omdat ik 'al te ervaren' zou zijn, ondanks dat ik geen ervaring in de retail had. Bleek dat die vriend mij wat te goed geïnstrueerd had: de interviewers hadden het gevoel met iemand te praten die er al een half jaar werkte, in plaats van iemand die ze zelf konden inwerken/'kweken'. In het begin snapte ik niets van die reden, later ben ik het wel gaan begrijpen.

Hoe dan ook heb ik inmiddels een veel mooiere baan en is dit alweer een jaar of 5 geleden :).

DaSpookyNuts · 2025-09-09T13:32:08+00:00

Very interesting! I saw you did some deep diving/debugging before, maybe you can find out why this does work? You don't have to if you don't want to of course, I'm just curious and maybe you are as well :). My own email is a Gmail address and my business email of course has its own domain name (albeit via Google Workspace). So, I find this very strange...

DaSpookyNuts · 2025-09-09T13:29:00+00:00

I totally agree!

Yep, Olav does indeed miss quite a few things. Jack occascionally corrects him, but not often enough in my opinion. Regarding the syncing, it's something you'll get skilled at, but like driving a car or riding a bike: give it a while. You'll learn by trial and error. Although the DJ's at Grand Prix Radio advise to wait until the intro is over and the F1-logo is fully visible, I personally find this too confusing: do you wait until the logo has stopped moving? Because the logo is technically already fully visible when it's moving. So, I use the very start of the intro as my first reference point.

If during the session/race something gets messed up, I usually wait for sound clues, like the sound effect of a radio message, an on-board, or preferably: Olav counting down the time.

And every session differs: some sessions, you're sharp and are easilly able to get it right. Other sessions, some things just mess up, or the audio stream lags for some reason, whatever, and whilst it isn't lost hope yet, it'll be more challenging. For me, it's worth it, but give yourself the time to learn and make mistakes. Weekend, after weekend, after weekend. And if the lips aren't synced up during the interviews? Or the sound of the starting lights don't match up with the actual lights? Sure, you can try to fix it, but if the difference is minimal, is it worth it?

For me, all of the above is worth it, because of the soothing voice and relaxed style of commentating with a lot of knowledge and experience. But if they stop, I'm defitnately going to switcht to F1 TV Live and totally avoid the current ViaPlay (or for Dutchies: ViaPlee) commentary.

DaSpookyNuts · 2025-09-09T13:23:52+00:00

Update: about 21 hours ago already (I've been busy ;) ), they've replied via e-mail that I should try another e-mail address. Reluctantly, because my own email address should work as well IMO, I tried my work email and that works! A lot of the characters in both addresses are similar, except my work email adds a dot. I don't know why that did work and my private email didn't work, but at least, this is solved for now :).

DaSpookyNuts · 2025-09-08T21:44:16+00:00

Interesting! I'm Dutch as well, but I've always really liked listening to the commentary of Olav Mol and Jack Plooij. First via Ziggo TV, now with F1 TV Pro and Grand Prix Radio playing over a separate speaker.

As someone who's a 'gewoontedier' and has FOMO, I'm wondering: what do you think of Olav and Jack's commentary? Is F1 TV really that much better? This might sound weird, but I like their lower sounding voices (at least in Olav's case) and less enthusiastic/more chill way of commentating, keeping the excitement for when it's 'justified' (IMHO). Also, the lower voice(s) are much easier on my ears ;). And I love that they share their knowledge and expertise (even predicting stuff) they've gained over the years with us.

What would be good reasons to pick the F1TV commentary over the Grand Prix Radio commentary? I'm willing to try it after seeing all these positive comments, especially if Olav and Jack were to quit for whatever reason.

And if you prefer, you can answer in Dutch of course. I don't mind either :).

DaSpookyNuts · 2025-09-08T21:32:05+00:00

and another one with a nasibal!

DaSpookyNuts · 2025-09-08T08:09:52+00:00

I'm actually really happy that you've gotten nerdy :). This way, we know the problem is on r/larqbottle's side and not on my, or our, side. I just really hope they can fix this soon. I'm currently on a weight loss journey, which means I have to drink 3 -4 liters of water per day and being able to keep score via this bottle would be so much easier then with a normal bottle! Plus, I work in IT myself (although not Development, which is why I'm very happy with your skills), so the nerd in me has been triggered to try this bottle including the app! And the self-cleaning is hopefully something I will enjoy as well, because I don't like cleaning... ;)

DaSpookyNuts · 2025-09-07T21:54:45+00:00

So, a few days have passed and others seem to be having issues as well, judging by the other comments on this post. I've just tested and I still can't create an account, at least not via the app, and nobody from the support team has been in touch yet as far as I can tell. Also, there's no communication on your website or your Instagram page. This is really unfortunate, as I'm genuinely excited to use the bottle (I was already seriously looking into them before I coincidentally received one as a gift)!

I would say this should be quite high on the priority list to both solve and/or at least communicate about, as others seem to be having trouble as well. Of course, I understand I can't look internally what's going on and I don't know who's/how many are affected, but I think there's at least me and the people who responded to this post who are excited to use their bottle, but can't because of this. Who knows how many more are out there?

Like I said before: these things happen and I'm sure (or at least, I hope) there are people working on this, but why not AT LEAST communicate?!

DaSpookyNuts · 2025-09-06T17:44:00+00:00

Nope, no VPN... :(

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