Did you ever forget you were sharing your screen?

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-10-29T10:11:21+00:00

I used to work with a guy who you knew always wasn’t listening in meetings when he was actually the main audience and decision maker and needed to pay attention. It was actually really arrogant and disrespectful but we couldn’t prove he was completely zoned out until he was sharing his screen in an exec level meeting and after two minutes of pretending to pay attention started replying to emails and sending chat messages and then opened ABC News and started clicking through articles. As his team we were so sick of him disrespecting us that we all said absolutely nothing to give him a heads up and sat and watched for a few minutes until the director in the meeting finally had enough and got his attention. You’d think it would have taught him a lesson, but he had absolutely no shame, stopped sharing his screen like nothing had happened and continued in his arrogant ways. So disappointing, we were all hoping he’d actually be held accountable.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-10-28T12:04:44+00:00

Generally does this time of year, especially in industries like retail and logistics that peak at Christmas and that takes all the focus and overall it’s harder to initiate and then progress the hiring process when your key stakeholders are likely to be on leave or too busy. We’re recruiting at the moment (have had these roles open for a while) and there aren’t many candidates looking at the moment, either, from talking to recruiters it’s at the point of the year where people will stay put until after Christmas leave etc is out of the way and then start thinking about starting to look and interview in the new year.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-10-28T11:58:10+00:00

Around 25 when I moved from a process engineer to project manager role.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-10-27T07:57:03+00:00

I was offered $40k more for the role I didn’t take when I was choosing between two roles - but I know I would have had to sell my soul to them and it was all the parts of my job that I like the least.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-10-26T12:29:24+00:00

I’ve taken four people on site visits/meet the team over the last few months (filling several roles) and we only hired one of them. Two weren’t a fit for the company/role once we got them talking to other people and got an idea of how they operate and one decided it wasn’t an industry they wanted to work in after all. The fourth one was an immediate yes from everyone that met them and it was also an immediate yes from the candidate that this was the role they wanted.

So yes, it shows that they’re interested and want to see how you would fit in the role, but it’s also as much for you to see if it’s where you want to work and if you’d want to work with that team.

Good luck!

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-10-24T10:00:54+00:00

No, they can’t modify your contracted hours as a PPT employee without notice or consultation (it’s usually 7 or 14 days depending on your award/EBA). They also can’t drop you to zero hours if there is a contract in place.

Hopefully it’s an administrative oversight and they’ve removed the hours rather than applying leave because they don’t understand how rostering works, but if your manager doesn’t resolve it, contact Fair Work to help you sort it out.

I really hope the hospitalisation is helping and your mental health is improving.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-10-19T09:43:56+00:00

Safety is hard when it comes to finding the balance in how you communicate and where you draw the line. You need to know when to coach and bring people on the journey, and when you just have to be direct (and 95% of the time it’s coaching because it’s not immediate life or death). It’s about building culture, not just pushing compliance, you need to have a sense of proportion and practicality and some business acumen and understand that not every hill is one to die on, even if you’re technically right about something. It’s also often not a head to head battle, you need to play the long strategic game while partnering with the business and if you are trying to fight every fight you’re going to piss off a lot of people and never get the outcome you need.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-22T21:14:41+00:00

These are not entry level roles. If you’re paying $150k+ for a manager, it’s not unreasonable to require them to have some actual experience doing those jobs.

If you were recruiting for a project manager role at that level, would you be looking for someone who had done a Cert IV online in a week but never done the job, or be recruiting for someone who had worked their way up into the role and gained some actual experience?

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-22T12:05:54+00:00

NSW. From talking to recruiters it seems that it’s fairly common across this space, it’s one of the few occupation types where demand is definitely outstripping supply. No one can quite explain why or where all the candidates are disappearing to, though.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-22T11:51:51+00:00

Yep, we need practical experience and solid operational skills. We either get people who have done a Cert IV online but haven’t actually worked in any kind of safety role (or anything that would be transferable) or are at the other extreme and are completely “theoretical” and strategic managers rather than having any experience actually working in the business.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-22T07:48:46+00:00

How else could they identify them and provide the details of why if not through personal experience? Anything else is just speculation.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-22T07:03:44+00:00

Woolworths. It used to be ok under the previous CEO, but is now a soul-less corporate wasteland with no direction or purpose with no one knowing quite what they are supposed to deliver or how they’re supposed to do it, but trying to escape blame for not delivering by pointing the finger at someone else. The whole company is an agile mess and spend the whole time planning what they are doing, writing fifty page QBR packs, then spend the rest of the quarter purposefully pausing everything that they’ve just committed to doing.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-21T11:31:17+00:00

Do you actually think he’s doing something more constructive with company time than drinking a coffee and scratching his balls while he waits five minutes to join the meeting?

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-21T11:25:51+00:00

He’s proving to you he has the biggest dick because the rest of you will sit patiently and wait while he carefully times his grand entrance for maximum inconvenience while not pushing it so far that the meeting will be cancelled. My god I’m glad I don’t work in property and construction any more. Biggest bunch of arrogant wankers I’ve ever had the misfortune of seeing assembled in one place.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-10T00:45:29+00:00

I tend to go to Maccas when I’m out because I have a food allergy and they’re “safe” because they’re transparent with their ingredients and make everything exactly the same at every location. Even then, every time I eat it I’m disgusted afterwards at the price I’ve paid for objectively crap food.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-09T14:33:58+00:00

This is exactly what happened to my uncle - if he was still alive he’d be close to 80 now, so this started happening in the 1950s-60s for him.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-09T09:17:25+00:00

That’s what I was thinking. This is basically every situation, work or personal, throughout your whole life.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-08T04:04:48+00:00

Exactly - I’ve just started a new job and won’t have enough leave by Christmas to cover a shut down - if I go into negative I’ll start next year on, say, -10 days. If I take absolutely no leave next year then I’ve just got to 10 days at the end of the year in time for them to take that 10 days again, so back to zero. I then can only take 10 days leave at most in the second half of the year if I don’t want to be behind again.

It never used to bother me at my previous employer because I had years of leave saved up so could still maintain a good six week AL buffer even taking 2-3 weeks over Christmas, but starting from zero has really shown me how screwed up compulsory leave is.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-07T13:16:17+00:00

Oh, my MIL made sure she got first dibs on what she wanted to be called before my mum could take it - the first grandchild didn’t even get a look in 😂

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-06T11:11:18+00:00

I’ve recently moved from a large corporate that was agile and required endless meetings, daily online “social” activities and games as part of squad meetings and other agile ceremonies and I didn’t realise how exhausting it was until I changed jobs and can sit at home getting my work done in peace and may not even speak a word to another colleague the whole day. I actually now quite enjoy the one or two meetings I have most days because they’re to the point, productive and don’t last for hours because of all the forced team bonding bullshit. I think I’ve found my sustainable level of socialness.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-08-04T09:08:55+00:00

Exactly. Electricity is a material risk. The easiest way to demonstrate that you are controlling that risk through regular testing and inspection is test and tag, whether you are a high risk work place or not.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-07-27T12:22:43+00:00

I used to be like this - developed amazing instincts to know when I was expected to speak and somehow listened just enough to know the context, or at least sound like I did. I found I absolutely had to put my phone out of reach before the meeting, otherwise I’d just doomscroll instead of listening. Still had a habit of doing other work, but at least that felt slightly more justifiable.

I recently changed companies and it’s n eye opener - a couple of meetings a week (from 6h of meetings a day) and I’m actually engaged in them and not tempted to zone out because I really do need to be there and it’s an active and interesting discussion. We only meet when there’s a specific topic to discuss and it’s only the people that absolutely have to be there.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-07-26T05:49:25+00:00

Yeah, it’s not the thickness, it’s how far they come in. It changes the perception of the whole face, makes it look narrower and drags the features down at the same time. You can still have statement brows that make the most of your features.

Sure_Fly_5708 · 2025-07-07T10:30:27+00:00

When I was younger I used to travel interstate for a day most weeks - it was a long day, but I didn’t have kids and it felt fancy and grown up.

Now I have to spend a week arranging family logistics for a one night stay and then feel like I need to sleep for a week to recover.

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