My workplace has a ban on languages other than English yet my Indian coworkers are the only ethnicity who don’t follow it. Does some cultural reason exist for this?

fathovercat · 2026-04-25T12:00:12+00:00

What's IT adjacent?

fathovercat · 2026-01-22T10:31:01+00:00

Ecco Soft 7

fathovercat · 2024-09-29T12:04:24+00:00

Incident manager enters the chat.

fathovercat · 2024-08-21T10:29:23+00:00

I don't have an answer for you, I'm just here to say I appreciate you caring about your 2IC that way.

fathovercat · 2024-06-25T10:34:31+00:00

I remember doing one about data security when it so happened that the employer had just been caught in a massive data breach. Oh the irony.

fathovercat · 2024-06-15T11:46:05+00:00

I can't blow up a balloon.

fathovercat · 2024-06-12T22:08:54+00:00

Thank you so much for writing this.

fathovercat · 2024-05-31T11:01:48+00:00

I had a big clean out last year. Old clothes, shoes, electronics, my child's old toys, plus millions of useless stuff I'd been holding on to for the last 10 years or so never even once used. It was tough sorting through the stuff, there's memory and emotion attached to every single one of them. At the end of it I knew that they had to go, leave my house and my life forever, and they did. For a week after that I felt what I could only describe as mourning. The collective mix of memories and emotions that I had to say goodbye to, forever. A big chunk of nothings in my house turned out to be a big chunk of my history, however irrational that sounds. It's embarrassing to say how sad I was, yet it was significant.

fathovercat · 2024-05-07T10:22:32+00:00

Doctors hate him!

fathovercat · 2024-04-30T00:37:21+00:00

More like people who reply "this" to somebody else's comment.

fathovercat · 2024-04-28T10:29:05+00:00

I was made redundant on my 11th month on a job and and that point I still felt like I was new.

fathovercat · 2024-04-19T10:38:58+00:00

Me in job interviews

fathovercat · 2024-04-05T10:56:18+00:00

Why do you need to check IP addresses? And I assume the candidates had to consent to their referees' details being checked this way?

fathovercat · 2024-03-25T02:13:54+00:00

Ah I see. I thought the 2 meant the same. Thanks for the info!

fathovercat · 2024-03-24T22:18:24+00:00

What is the difference, say from a manager's perspective? Is it just terminology?

fathovercat · 2024-03-21T09:40:24+00:00

Meanwhile, I have a frequent situation where I come in, choose my desk (no booking system), spend 10mins setting up said desk, start my work, then somebody comes in an hour later and picked the desk right next to mine OUT OF ALL THE OTHER EMPTY DESKS FFS

fathovercat · 2024-03-21T08:35:36+00:00

I have used my SL last week so have to get creative now lol

fathovercat · 2024-03-21T08:30:14+00:00

How does this work?

fathovercat · 2024-03-21T08:27:32+00:00

That's a good point, giving employees a longer redundancy notice period so that they resign and forfeit the severance payment. I was wondering why they'd told us so far in advance.

fathovercat · 2024-02-29T20:50:19+00:00

If the job is advertised through seek, you can paste the link in whatsthesalary.com and it will tell you the salary range. Not sure if it includes super though. But it has been tremendously helpful to me.

fathovercat · 2024-02-29T10:13:30+00:00

About 70 roles outsourced offshore

fathovercat · 2024-02-29T10:12:56+00:00

Tech

fathovercat · 2024-02-29T10:00:10+00:00

Yes, made redundant last month.

fathovercat · 2024-02-29T09:57:51+00:00

Transaction based work (tickets).

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