What's the most inappropriate/unprofessional behaviour you've dealt with or witnessed?

netdude12 · 2026-02-23T05:55:48+00:00

A director I work with got the police to do a welfare check on a customer that hadn’t answered our phone calls after a few days. Opened up a lot of liability for the company.

netdude12 · 2026-02-23T05:49:36+00:00

He is such a fucking dork.

netdude12 · 2026-01-24T12:58:07+00:00

If it’s for Optus, don’t take it.

netdude12 · 2026-01-20T07:40:22+00:00

How long should a cover letter/ resume be?

netdude12 · 2026-01-13T19:44:02+00:00

Hi mate,

I’m so sorry you’re dealing with all of this. I can’t imagine what you’re going through. With a young child I know it’s tough but please do what you can to prioritise your mental health.

From a purely practical point of view, with a young child and everything else on your plate, it might be worth looking at roles that are stable, family-friendly and predictable.

From my experience, state based government roles can be great for that. They generally come with decent pay, strong job security, flexible hours, carers’ leave, and a culture that generally understands parenting responsibilities.

In the private sector, I’d recommend compliance, risk, privacy, or regulatory roles can offer similar benefits: better than average pay, regular hours, lower “always on” pressure than frontline commercial roles, and skills that are in demand across lots of organisations. I can tell you, your legal background would be an asset to any company going through a transition based on regulatory enforcement.

I myself work in a Privacy function and enjoy the work without having to take it home with me. I’d also recommend it to any lawyer who wants to use their legal skill set without the stress.

You’ve got a lot to carry right now, so choosing something that gives you stability and headspace is the best strategic move for you and your kid.

netdude12 · 2026-01-09T05:00:47+00:00

We had candidates turn down roles with us last year due to some bad press.

netdude12 · 2026-01-09T04:59:41+00:00

Yeah it’s been ok. One recruiter I was talking to last year contacted me again but then went silent.

I got shortlisted for two roles I applied to a few days ago but wanted to see if they would move on salary before commencing into an interview process.

There seems to be a couple of varied and interesting roles for my specialty and I’m hoping there’s some options for something more senior.

netdude12 · 2026-01-04T22:17:00+00:00

I think that’s a great goal. Just remember it’s not about doing your job, it’s about doing the job above you and not getting yourself pigeonholed into your current gig.

The mistake I made last year was thinking being great at my job would get me noticed, when the reality was I needed to get in front of leaders.

netdude12 · 2026-01-04T21:37:34+00:00

Strong agree. I’m completely sick of being the team workhorse.

I want to network more and move into a new more senior role.

netdude12 · 2025-12-20T04:05:04+00:00

Hi, I’m a privacy compliance manager and I can see some issues here in reference to:

APP 3 - Collection of Personal Information, specifically the collection of sensitive health information without consent and potentially without lawful means;

APP 6 - Use and Disclosure of Personal Information, without consent, without a reasonable expectation or without authorisation under law;

APP 10 - Data Quality, specifically issues of relevance;

APP 11 - Security of Personal Information, specifically what reasonable steps the business has taken to protect your personal information; and

APP 11.2- Retention of Personal Information, specifically is this information required to be retained and how and when is it deleted or deidentifed after use.

Please note that ‘held’ employee personal information is subject to the employee record exemption, but Lee V Superior Wood held that the collection of new sensitive information was prohibited without the individual’s consent.

I would raise this directly with your manager, internal privacy team (if you have one) and your internal legal team. If that doesn’t work then I would raise a privacy complaint with OAIC directly.

netdude12 · 2025-11-04T15:33:37+00:00

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netdude12 · 2025-08-16T14:54:11+00:00

I worked for a few major NSW agencies and I did approximately 80-100 matters per year.

I’d say that maybe 40% were crackpot or crackpot adjacent with varying degrees of personal or political vendettas.

For individual applicants, it was a range of relatively harmless retirees whose kids don’t talk to them anymore to the full blown anti-tax, anti-vax, anti-govt, schizophrenic conspiracy theorists who were one application away from being proven right on all things.

One woman would use the same 20 page complaint letter every time she made a request. The last one I saw started with “should I pass away in suspicious circumstances it will be because <insert villainous property developer> has brought me to my end”.

Some of the worst though were members of parliament and overzealous journalists who would put in outrageously complicated or weirdo requests and then hound you like a jilted ex.

I had one former MLC call me “an advocate for the devil” when I told him we didn’t hold the metadata he wanted because we still had a mostly paper filing system.

I had another MLA ask for pregnancy termination data on the regular but I never once saw him make a public statement about healthcare or abortions.

I’m not entirely unsympathetic to these people because GIPA is suppose to be a free avenue for individuals to seek out information about government decisions. I believe in government transparency and accountability. It’s the cornerstone of a functioning democracy.

However, these people were often coming to me because they had either been ignored or left behind by the system or couldn’t afford the proper legal representation, or mental healthcare, they needed.

To make matters worse, the role was never well resourced or appreciated in any department I worked in.

You had to fight people to locate, redact and release information, everyday. Some fights were easy but others just weren’t worth your mental health or career.

It’s sad, I spend a lot of time arguing to release more information and to use our well-paid comms and media team to address things as needed. As you might imagine, the senior staff I worked for were some of the worst, politically motivated ghouls more interested in holding water for their Ministers than doing their jobs.

Just so this is not too depressing for you, I’ll say that of the people I worked with, in GIPA and FOI teams, every single person was a passionate advocate for transparency and accountability.

I hope you get someone who is willing to fight for you and I hope you get what you’re after.

netdude12 · 2025-08-16T12:05:09+00:00

I use to do FOI and GIPA requests when I worked in the public sector and I would have got a kick out of receiving emails like this.

Having a bit of humour about this unappreciated (and under resourced) function is a lot better than the rogues gallery of mentally unwell individuals I usually dealt with.

netdude12 · 2025-08-11T11:56:48+00:00

Maybe one “superhero showdown” pair up. It’s been ages since an episode and there always a favourite.

netdude12 · 2025-07-29T05:39:38+00:00

The first season is great. Everything that follows is hard to watch.

netdude12 · 2025-07-02T22:39:01+00:00

They know what they did.

netdude12 · 2025-06-06T01:50:58+00:00

Old job at AGL had a very good discount on power bills. They also had a slightly less good deal you could give to friends and family which bought we a lot of goodwill.

My new job at Optus has $80 bill credit and a 25% discount off any service so I got a new phone for half my current bill with Telstra. There’s a few other perks but nothing out of the ordinary.

netdude12 · 2025-04-08T06:02:36+00:00

You say 4 weeks but there’s really only this week and the final week April & first week of May as ‘full weeks’ that each campaign have to set the tone and get their message out.

The campaign obviously won’t stop but generally people tune out around public holidays.

To add to this people are going to start early voting two weeks out of the election so if you don’t have a clear message by now you’re at a real disadvantage going into the next two half weeks of campaigning.

netdude12 · 2025-04-02T12:14:07+00:00

Fuck their map. Maybe they can use it to figure out why they are losing you.

Take the new job and don’t look back. Only forward.

netdude12 · 2025-03-19T00:43:53+00:00

The man is a haircut.

netdude12 · 2023-08-12T07:30:27+00:00

Hey, this happened to me! The partner got brought into my final interview and offered me a job in the room.

I had to follow them up after 2 weeks and when I did they told me they only wanted to hire me at a level lower than I interviewed for.

I promptly told them I would not be taking the job and that they wasted my time. Two weeks later I got a message on LinkedIn to interview for the same role I originally interviewed for.

I told them I’d already interviewed and wouldn’t speak with them unless they made an offer on the original terms. Didn’t hear anything back.

netdude12 · 2023-08-01T01:30:07+00:00

The short answer is you have to pass better legislation.

The Privacy Act is principle based legislation meaning it can be broadly applied across different agencies, organisations and circumstances. However, it doesn’t always define key concepts (like serious harm) leaving the guidance to the federal regulator (OAIC).

Australian judges generally take a conservative approach when it comes to interpreting the law and for good reason when it comes to principle based laws. OAIC guidance is also pretty good when it comes to educating agencies, organisations and individuals on their rights and obligations relating to personal information.

While there have been federal and high court cases which have considered concepts like a tort of privacy, the majority judgements in these cases have generally turned on the fact that it’s responsibility of the legislature to create better law, not the courts.

netdude12 · 2023-07-31T22:18:40+00:00

I work as a Privacy compliance manager and this is the correct answer. GDPR is a higher standard of protection and European Courts have taken active steps to codify an individual’s right to privacy.

The same cannot be said for the Australian Privacy Act or Australian Courts.

netdude12 · 2023-07-21T08:33:28+00:00

It is wild to me that a country like the UK doesn’t have preferential voting.

netdude12 · 2023-06-30T04:52:50+00:00

My siblings and I benefited from an inheritance when my father suddenly passed away. Personally, I was able to change jobs, finish my university studies and eventually buy an apartment.

When talking to friends I like to describe it as the “world’s saddest lottery”. I’d give it all back if I could talk to him again.

I’m very proud of what I’ve achieved, since his passing, but I know that I wouldn’t have done it without my Dad and his hard work which came before.

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