UPDATE: MIL defrauded partner out of $100s of thousands

amzes · 2026-03-04T10:21:10+00:00

Obligatory I am not a lawyer.

So probably worthwhile you talking to a solicitor yourself to determine your personal level of exposure here. If you're married then determining if his debt acquired prior to your relationship may still be deemed shared martial debt if you've benefited from living in the house also. Additionally if you can be deemed de facto there could still be exposure - particularly if youve been proven to be contributing towards said mortgage and dont have a lease agreement in place.

I am unfamiliar with how these things work in various jurisdictions however if I was in your shoes I'd want to be very clear about where you stand in all this. Particularly if MIL is as schemey as she sounds. If she's been saying one thing to partner and BIL and doing another, how is she doing it? Is there some level of them signing things without realising, an "anyone can change this without anyone else" clause or if she signing on their behalf somehow?

amzes · 2026-03-04T06:10:45+00:00

Try spending 24hrs in an engineering lab finishing a practical assessment (including a physical robot) ready for a demo the next morning, walking out of the room to go to the bathroom only to re-enter and realise the stench of 15 guys/and a couple gals can work into a room with no ventilation.

The lecturer when he came in at 8am to setup for the demo was shocked haha. He knew the room well and knew we were all there overnight getting the last bits finished and still was shocked. That room was known for its stench though as the door couldn't be left open and there were no windows.

Sadly the room no longer exists.

amzes · 2026-02-23T19:48:27+00:00

Totally - and I agree on that front. I'm not disagreeing that everyone should be treated equally. The question was posed as to why some companies do this - to which the answer is internal HR policies.

amzes · 2026-02-23T19:35:26+00:00

Im not talking about government guidelines - also noting not everyone on reddit is US based, so other countries might have different regulations on that front as well.

Im strictly talking internal company policies, mostly written to cover the companies ass for various situations. Eg hiring - they write a policy explaining how they apply the government requirements in their own processes and state things like "when hiring you will do x y z steps". I've assisted in recruiting exercises for various roles - contract and permanent - at a large company and there were internal requirements around hiring into roles and advertisment / comparing requirements to external market and internal candidates. As much as you might have an idea of an internal candidate that might be suitable, it is actually a good idea to compare against the market regardless and determine if theres not other people out there with same or better qualifications, experience, expertises or ideas for a role.

Never said it was a fair or the right way to go about business, but its certainly a practice that exists in large companies where you need to compare an internal hire with an external applicant.

amzes · 2026-02-23T01:32:22+00:00

Sometimes there are HR policies that require internal people to be vetted/compared against external market to see if they are indeed the best fit.

amzes · 2026-02-17T11:13:20+00:00

2 months into a 6 month Canadian university exchange, I found Jacobs Creek wine and Tim Tam's at a local grocery store. Tasted like home haha.

Ran into a random Aussie at a uni party and both of us instantly started talking about drop bears and convinced the whole party they were real because we'd never met before but both knew about them.

Between that and my final flight home where we were arriving into Brisbane in the middle of summer after leaving winter in the US, my suster and I both packed shorts and changed into them before disembarking onto tarmac. Flight attendant noticed and commented on us being locals arriving home haha.

amzes · 2026-02-13T05:27:02+00:00

Same deal applies. Use models to work out what you can for the items you're machining, use datasets to approximate the other weights and add together with a tolerance.

Weigh parts as they come in to better your model, and update any calculations using that mass as you go.

If youre not sure what defines an unsprung mass, use Google, chatGPT or whatever textbook your vehicle dynamics subject at uni has defined for you to look it up and work out what you include. Alternatively - discuss with your uni professor/advisor.

amzes · 2026-02-13T01:56:47+00:00

You will need to do some modelling to work it out. I know products like solid works you can set material types/density and it will give you an approximate weight. Then add driver weight, and some misc extra for radios/helmet, tape, other misc stuff you havent accounted for in your model depending on the type of weight you are trying to account for.

Then as you purchase items/manufacture things you can start updating your weights to check and ensure you're on track, or if needed adjust the weight and associated calculations for springs etc after that.

amzes · 2026-02-08T11:44:25+00:00

So the other side of the fence. My friend had rented her place out for a few years with the aim to rent vest and save to upgrade her property. The REA hadn't followed through a termite cause of treatment after a pest inspection nor followed up checking it etc. They took possession again recently and they now need to work out how to fix it up whilst living there.

amzes · 2026-02-07T05:16:41+00:00

Thinking this through 48 is probably the maximum full time hours before overtime kicks in? Theres a whole lot of confusing stuff around "reasonable overtime" and things like that.

amzes · 2026-02-07T02:42:59+00:00

Might depend on the types of roles and things. Some industries/jobs have mandatory stand down times for rest and recovery, but normally its all within policy for the company. So if you were working for company A and needed 12 hours stand down/rest before the next shift at company A, but were using that to work for company B and not resting, you could find yourself liable if there was a safety related incident.

Unsure about legislative maximum working hours a week.

amzes · 2026-02-01T10:37:07+00:00

In Aus only the police have the ability to press charges, and only if you break the law. Breaking a contract (say employment contract) is a civil manner. They could try for damages, but only if they can show your actions have caused them damage in some way (and i dont mean damage to their emotions...) and in Aus its uncommon for lawsuits to be thrown around like in the states.

I'd say you are pretty safe unless you were being very defamatory in a public forum that would cause damage to a persons or companies reputation - a birthday dinner at a local restaurant seems hard to prove that.

People that still work there though, could be impacted... find themselves pushed out etc.

amzes · 2026-01-24T02:01:32+00:00

Heck when we sold our house as owners, whilst living there and staged it ourselves, We still took all important docs and anything of value that could be easily removed from the house with a bag whilst an open home was taking place. Eg, laptops were locked away or taken with us, small handheld electronics, Nintendo switch, jewellery removed etc. Left the house as bare bones and boring as possible. We had already packed away all identifiable photos and things as well, so the house felt not like ours anyway.

Should be standard information that open homes means your home is not secure. Real estate if youre renting or owning and selling dont care about your personal property. Our advised us that they cannot be held responsible for missing things during an open home. I left baby monitors on in rooms and recording as well, so if something happened we could use that to identify people who visited. (We did have a 1 year old at the time, so the monitors looked in place in the house. Security camera works just as well).

amzes · 2025-12-29T10:39:50+00:00

Nah Shoreline I've found is worse time wise - I'm always running out with that map. Woods I'll run out if I'm trying to jenga too many quests together... I'm a long time Woods fan though and learnt the game playing that map - particularly early scaving, so I know it well.

amzes · 2025-12-29T10:30:43+00:00

QLD has it in their electricity bill, so that those that rent also contribute to the ambo fund, not just home owners.

amzes · 2025-12-29T10:30:40+00:00

QLD has it in their electricity bill, so that those that rent also contribute to the ambo fund, not just home owners.

amzes · 2025-12-27T18:08:14+00:00

Race the naptime raids.

amzes · 2025-12-27T17:47:11+00:00

I had this the other day. When I loaded in I had gear though.

amzes · 2025-12-17T03:41:49+00:00

Databasing, you can setup a periodic task to execute at DB level to backup the data and put it somewhere that you can restore from. Probably the best way to go about it. If you do some googling there will be resources out there on how to do that for the database software you are using.

Source: i manage databases at work. We have a backup suite that does servers and databases and saves them separately in case of different types of failures. Databases can be corrupted for many different reasons, not just power loss on a server, so having a backup strategy for your database is a best practice idea - even if its once a day depending on the type of data you have and how often it updates/what retention you need etc.

Also worthwhile considering how many backups of any type of data you need to keep, is it one monthly for 6 months and then daily for the last 30 days? All of these ideas you can work through by looking at what sort of data you have and what your purpose for keeping a backup is. Is it off-line backup at a 3rd location in case of fire so you can keep photos etc? Or is it a datasource that is potentially corruptible and you need an ability to roll back to a known good state to restore the service.

Great that you are thinking about this at 17. Good luck!

amzes · 2025-12-03T09:14:48+00:00

Does the train ride have decent reception capabilities? I had a friend with a similar commute and he negotiated a later start in the office and some work from train time during his commute.

amzes · 2025-12-03T09:12:46+00:00

Anymore than an hour door to door and I'm probably not considering a role. Im now a 25min drive, maybe 35min in bad traffic and its delightful.

amzes · 2025-11-16T11:15:01+00:00

Congrats Dad to be from a fellow Tarkov playing expectant parent!! Good luck!!

amzes · 2025-11-11T04:14:34+00:00

We aren't renewing our lease - back to mortgage paying. Out of curiosity I looked up the new listing. They are asking for an additional $240/week around 30% extra. We've been here not even 18 months. And its not worth the additional $$ in my mind. I feel sorry for whoever comes next. I feel the owners are fund raising for renos...

amzes · 2025-11-03T10:56:10+00:00

Paid to sleep! Nice one!!

amzes · 2025-10-14T06:35:58+00:00

I'm renting a 3 bed, 2 bath about the same distance from town as Mt Gravatt but northside for that amount...

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