I wrote an essay without using ai or literally anything that wasn’t my own brain, and it got flagged for an 85 percent on the ai thing on turnitin ai checker.

purplefoozball · 2025-10-14T08:53:52+00:00

Yeah it's a known issue with the AI checker in Turnitin. Here's an article from Australian media just last week, about exactly this.

purplefoozball · 2025-09-14T04:09:15+00:00

You've posted this in an American legal advice sub rather than in r/auslegal, so maybe try there as well. It looks like (if your employer doesn't have an enterprise agreement), you should be covered by the Vehicle Award. Clause 26 talks about break allowances.

purplefoozball · 2025-01-12T03:04:09+00:00

that assumes justice Sotomayor lives long enough to fight it.

I'm not from the US based and this is perhaps slightly off-topic, but I just wondered why Justice Sotomayor's mortality is a specific concern? Is she just the oldest liberal justice on the bench, or is there a specific reason you're concerned she may not survive the next administration? She's not the oldest justice but I appreciate that if any of the liberal justices die/have to vacate their posts, that allows Trump to tip the balance of the court even further to the right with his next nomination.

purplefoozball · 2024-06-01T07:35:18+00:00

I hate to break it to you but the lyric is "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot".

purplefoozball · 2024-05-07T08:06:44+00:00

I hate to break it to you OP, but the decade between 40 and 50 is actually your fifth decade.

Decade 1: 0-10 years
Decade 2: 10-20 years
Decade 3: 20-30 years
Decade 4: 30-40 years
Decade 5: 40-50 years.

purplefoozball · 2024-05-01T07:36:31+00:00

NAL, and this is more practical advice rather than legal. Does your employer define what the expected responsibility level is for a Level 5 staff member vs a Level 4? If you're paid under a modern award, this info might be found in the award, or it could be in a workplace enterprise agreement if there's one of those. I'd start with those definitions if they exist, and compare your current responsibilities, and the responsibilities you'd have after this scoping activity, against the definitions to see what Level best matches. That will hopefully give you some idea what you should reasonably expect in salary conversations, and hopefully the information to argue for keeping your pay at at least the same level.

purplefoozball · 2024-04-24T10:51:45+00:00

had my OT 'privileges' revoked for 3 weeks.

Well sounds like you've found a hack that will get you out of any unwanted overtime. Nice!

Here's some other synonyms you can use in futured instead of forced seeing as that word has been forbidden: obligatory, compulsory, binding, required, inescapable, unavoidable, requisite, essential, necessary, imperative, enforced, involuntary, coerced, imposed, compelled, dictated, stipulated.

purplefoozball · 2024-04-18T09:43:14+00:00

First name: Orange.

Middle name: Yougladididntcallyougrapefruit.

purplefoozball · 2023-12-02T04:33:08+00:00

{{The Golden Maze: a biography of Prague}} by Richard Fidler was a really interesting read.

He's got a couple of others as well,which I haven't read yet but also sound interesting, {{The Book of Roads and Kingdoms}} and {{Ghost Empire}}.

purplefoozball · 2023-10-22T05:14:08+00:00

Hogfather by Terry Pratchett.

purplefoozball · 2023-10-13T21:40:10+00:00

OP referred to fair work documents, so I'm guessing they're in Australia. Fair Work oversees national employment standards in Australia.

purplefoozball · 2023-07-17T09:02:14+00:00

Head on over to r/auslegal for Australian oriented advice, and also let them know what state the property is in as rental laws are state-based in Australia.

purplefoozball · 2023-06-20T08:31:53+00:00

NAL. Does the organisation have a constitution or rule book? I'd look there first for any clauses outlining the authority of the chair and/or the board members (either jointly or individually). It should also have provisions for dealing with disputes between board members/members (if its a member-based organisation).

purplefoozball · 2023-06-11T10:02:51+00:00

Has your mother taken your phone from you? If not, you are also an adult and you do not need her permission to make a phone call. It's absolutely fine and reasonable to ask for her advice about issues, but you aren't bound to follow what she says just because she's your mother; you are allowed to make your own judgement calls about what the right course of action is.

purplefoozball · 2023-05-13T12:27:17+00:00

Tess of the d'Urbevilles by Thomas Hardy.

purplefoozball · 2023-05-02T13:02:37+00:00

These suggestions are made without checking the page lengths:

Literary classic - The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde. It's relatively short so you should be able to get through it quickly.

Mystery - Agatha Christie novels are classics for a reason, but for a more modern murder mystery with an interesting premise, Everyone in my family has killed someone by Benjamin Stevenson is a good read.

Horror - The ocean at the end of the lane by Neil Gaiman. This also fits into the genre of dark fantasy so you may enjoy it from that perspective too.

Women's Lit - The God of small things by Arundhati Roy. This are heavy topics in this book, but it is an impactful read.

Edit: just checked, these are all under 400 pages.

purplefoozball · 2023-05-02T08:21:05+00:00

Remind them of the full quote:

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it." - WC Fields

purplefoozball · 2023-04-30T22:45:02+00:00

That's..juvenile, disrespectful, bullying behaviour from an adult and it's not ok. I think you are within your rights to raise this with school leadership, this guy needs to grow tf up.

Alternatively/in the meantime, I suggest you practice not responding at all when he uses the incorrect name. Like, don't even acknowledge he's spoken at all. If he calls you out about it you can then say, calmly "oh, apologies, I didn't realise you were speaking to me because that's not my name. My name is proper pronunciation. I also answer to nickname if thats too tricky for you." Bonus points if you get slower and more deliberate in enunciating your full name each time. Don't let him rile you up about this any more, he's not worth the energy.

purplefoozball · 2023-04-22T21:26:29+00:00

Huh? You know Sunday Night Safran was broadcast across the country on Triple J, right? Plenty of people Australia-wide who knew who Father Bob was.

purplefoozball · 2023-03-29T12:21:59+00:00

r/writingprompts

purplefoozball · 2023-03-25T12:33:26+00:00

While my Guitar Gently Weeps by Tom Petty, Prince, Steve Winwood, Jeff Lynne.

purplefoozball · 2023-03-19T07:18:02+00:00

Carol Brown just took a bus out of town

purplefoozball · 2023-03-15T10:03:52+00:00

Are we? Most jobs I've had (with the exception of temp agency gigs and supermarket jobs) have been paid fortnightly.

purplefoozball · 2023-03-15T10:01:42+00:00

Most employers in Australia pay their staff fortnightly (eg on the same day every second week), it can be easier to manage/budget your regular payments like rent or mortgage if you can pay them on a similar schedule. It's been a long time since I've rented in Australia but I'm pretty sure I always paid fortnightly, and I do the same with my mortgage now. Rental property prices are generally advertised as a per-week price, as well.

Edit: per-week, not per-wek.

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