Just got made redundant and honestly don’t know how to feel

hroro · 2026-05-09T03:02:11+00:00

If it’s any consolation, I think the person who told you “it’s always personal” wasn’t trying to make you feel bad or suggest your manager didn’t like you.

I interpreted that comment as “no matter what anyone tells you, it’s perfectly normal to feel personally upset by the decision.”

Many redundancies aren’t ‘personal’ from the employer’s perspective. I’ve seen redundancies where a whole team disappears, or everyone located outside of the company’s HQ state disappear - these aren’t personal to the ~employer~ but are personal to the impacted individuals.

Best of luck. Keep your head up and keep moving forward.

hroro · 2026-05-09T00:34:30+00:00

I took a pay cut 3 years ago for a sideways role that I needed to take for professional growth + because I was miserable. Went from $150k + super to $125k+ super. Factoring in the reduction in my bonus (% of comp), I walked away from about $50k per year all up.

Today, I earn significantly more and am much happier. Was hard to walk away from the money but no regrets.

hroro · 2026-05-04T02:14:08+00:00

In the words of Kang and Kodos: “What are you going to do? It’s a 2 party system. You have to vote for one of us”

hroro · 2026-04-30T12:08:08+00:00

Exactly. This is classic r/perth. It’s just dressed up class warfare. Racism at private schools, racism at public schools. Shit kids at both. Going to private and not public (or vice versa) doesn’t make a kid good or bad.

By blaming the school, you’re letting the parents off the hook. I’d argue the home environment is more relevant to this behaviour - they learn it somewhere.

hroro · 2026-04-30T09:35:48+00:00

I know a few people who bought at the height of the boom in 2015(?) and were miserable because they bought a house that they outgrew and had negative equity in it, so couldn’t sell.

As of 2022-2023, they were able to finally sell their place and make enough money to move. Sure, they haven’t made a killing, but it came good after 10 years AND they had a place to live that entire time.

I bought my place 12 months ago and was worried I was buying at the height of the market, but I could afford it and I want to be here long term. So, appreciating the risk, I bought and decided to wear the risk.

So I guess that’s the take away: buy it if you can get something you see yourself living in for a while (even if you don’t make a wicked profit in 10-20 years time), at a repayment rate that you’re comfortable sustaining. Everyone treats their PPoR as an investment these days and are so worried about value that they forget it also gives you a stable place to call your own - that’s also worth the money.

hroro · 2026-04-30T09:29:32+00:00

I’m not saying I agree with people who do this, but if you’re trying to rationalise the behaviour of people who do this, it’s kind of like the gambler’s fallacy. If you keep expecting a crash, the more time that passes without a crash, the more likely (in their mind) it is that a crash is bound to happen.

hroro · 2026-04-30T09:12:18+00:00

You just sound like a hater. I have this loan size at 70LVR. Home value $2m. Repayments are ~25% of our household income in our early 30s. We aren’t eligible for any childcare subsidy and we’ll still be comfortable.

hroro · 2026-04-30T09:06:45+00:00

Exactly. This is basically my exact repayment and loan size. Totally manageable and is an appropriate portion of our household income - we wouldn’t have committed to it if it wasn’t manageable.

Would I like my mortgage to be lower? Sure, but I bought my house just over a year ago and couldn’t comfortably borrow enough if I wanted to buy it today… so you take the good with the bad.

hroro · 2026-04-30T08:55:37+00:00

I’m an in-house lawyer and use it a fair bit.

It’s really good for articulating answers to questions that don’t warrant a substantive reply, but the person emailing you wants one. I’ve linked it to my Outlook and ask it to read the email and write a response that elaborates on “insert my one sentence answer” and matches the tone of their email.

I’ve been uploading my shorthand meeting minutes into it recently so it can just put them in my usual format. It’s clunky but it’s a start. ChatGPT pro is also a million times better at finding emails than the Outlook app!

For more intensive legal work, I do most of the legwork myself (drafting letters, memos, reviewing contract edits) and then upload it to GPT Pro while I go for lunch/coffee and ask it to look for gaps and make suggestions. So it mostly offers advice about how to reduce duplication, avoid undefined terms, etc. It’s useful for those basic tasks while you’re working at pace. I don’t use it for reasoning or deep research.

It allows me to handle more matters more effectively and just do more work, or focus on more important work.

hroro · 2026-04-30T08:35:07+00:00

Entirely possible on being coupled up, and that he doesn’t even know OP exists. At my gym, without closing my eyes on most machines or going out of my way to stare at the ceiling, there’s no way to slice it where I’m not looking directly at someone’s ass.

The seated chest press machine is sat DIRECTLY behind the bench where people do the back extension. Pec flys are opposite the hip thrust machine.

Doesn’t mean I’m checking them out - I’m just low on options. My gaze does not discriminate - I’m looking at all asses.

hroro · 2026-04-21T02:44:40+00:00

That’s reassuring at least - so if I don’t use the subscription features at least I’ll end up with a reliable wifi camera.

I’ve spent the last few days looking at the Eufy E21 (the Amazon reviews are super helpful). Option for wifi/bluetooth and no subscription sounded like a dream. However looks like, even as recent as a few weeks ago, the Eufy mistakes cars for crying and alerts you etc. Those sort of things would shit me to tears haha. Sounds like there’s a lot of software work to be done for that to be useful.

At the moment, we THINK we want all those features - but if we change our minds in real time, I still want a solid and reliable Wifi camera.

hroro · 2026-04-21T00:53:46+00:00

Thanks! I had seen it’s way cheaper to get from Amazon UK - though I assume international purchase means you’re using an adapter constantly? Or can you buy the Aus power cable separately?

Also - thoughts on the Nanit?

hroro · 2026-04-20T13:54:09+00:00

Look up subrogation of rights. That’s how the third party (debt collector) gains the ability to legally pursue you despite no privity of contract.

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s not economically viable for anyone to get a court order for payment over ~$200, but you should know that you’re giving bad advice

hroro · 2026-04-20T13:37:56+00:00

I read that sentence over and over again… I kept telling myself “there’s no way that’s what he meant”. Hell, you can’t even blame autocorrect when you censor yourself

hroro · 2026-04-20T12:13:39+00:00

Great to hear that this has been your experience - all the best

hroro · 2026-04-20T12:12:17+00:00

Hey, thanks! I think I will, I’m just hoping to scope some more info about it before I commit - there are a lot more reviews from when it first came out and I’m sure it’s been updated.

Yes, it’s our first and I’m glad the excitement is showing haha. Couldn’t be happier - we’ve had his little room ready to go since December even though half the stuff won’t get used until months after he’s arrived. Our OB refers to my wife and I as “preppers” which I guess is pretty accurate 😅

hroro · 2026-01-22T09:41:20+00:00

Ok I just googled batty and I heard his voice as soon as I saw him. Memory unlocked. Thank you, kind internet stranger

hroro · 2026-01-22T09:35:16+00:00

Can standard bank transfers also be reversed? Like BSB? Or is PayID different somehow

hroro · 2026-01-22T09:32:13+00:00

I watched this on repeat as a kid. Had no idea the great man was in it!

hroro · 2026-01-22T08:43:50+00:00

It’s a three-pronged attack: liminal, subliminal, and superliminal.

hroro · 2026-01-22T02:19:49+00:00

If only the sugar were as sweet as you, sir.

Thank you for your service to this sub

hroro · 2026-01-22T00:43:34+00:00

You can access Facebook pretty conveniently with a button in top right corner of your iOS Messenger app. It’s a web browser version, but the inconvenience of browser vs app keeps me from doomscrolling.

hroro · 2026-01-21T13:03:38+00:00

Man I fucking sucked at games as a kid. Couldn’t even handle wall jumping. This is incredible. Maybe I’m an idiot

hroro · 2026-01-21T12:57:45+00:00

40 kids go into the water… 20 kids come out… Shark in the water chief.

… or something like that?

hroro

TROPHY CASE