Every time I see these ridiculous solutions being proposed, I get so frustrated. My partner and I are trying to do the right thing, saving and not stealing from our future selves - but we’re competing against these insane policies that do nothing but drive up the price even further.
We just met our original goal, but the cost of a home in our regional area has pretty much doubled since we moved back after giving up on Sydney a few years back now, so we’re no further ahead.
I’m very happy for them to change the date, as long as they don’t remove it altogether.
Public holidays give me something to look forward to when I’m feeling burnt out with work.
It should probably be kept in summer because Aussies love a BBQ, but personally I wouldn’t mind winter as I love the cold.
We have to deal with them at the moment because we’re staying with an elderly relative and her house, her rules - fair - and she is worried about switching providers. If something did go wrong and she lost her number, it would be pretty awful. So we’re stuck with Telstra.
We’re on our third modem with them in a little over a year (had to get a decent one, working from home). The absolute shit fight to get it replaced each time only served to reinforce that we are entirely correct on our views of their business. They have made it as tangled a web as Centrelink (another org that we have luckily not had to deal with in some time), and their customer service is basically non existent.
To their credit, their store staff did their best to help but their hands were so incredibly bound by red tape that there wasn’t much to they could do. Also, the credit we were promised after the second go around was never applied to the account. Wasn’t worth our time to chase it, because we actually value our time and have wasted enough of it.
And that’s just one consumers experience.
The stuff they do on a national level is absolutely shameful. They need to be broken up.
What didn’t they do.
Or, what have they done that’s worthwhile.
Bunch of parasites.
Just assume they all are - I’d be willing to bet it would be the cheaper option than paying staff to sift through the reports then refunding the legit ones.
Burn it all down and start fresh.
I’m absolutely horrified that tipping is still as high as 8% for those who do tip.
Get that absolute nonsense out of our country. It benefits no one and will only do great harm in the long run. Just look at the mess that is American hospitality.
Yep, if it connects to an external audio device first - sometimes it does connect but then disconnect, but usually it works without issue!
I have mine set to go to Airplane mode when it pairs to my car’s Bluetooth.
It stops me being distracted by calls but allows me to listen to my music.
It’s two words, but we call them “bloody tourists” in Australia.
We called ourselves that when on our recent outback adventure.
I keep thinking of the monoblock as the monolith from 2001. But with water cooling tubes sticking out of it.
I don’t want to look it up because I like the picture in my imagination.
I’m so confused, I literally thought that the “what goes where” section headers were around the wrong way.
I also agree with your point about not being too strict when we’re wanting the community to grow.
You can switch to use the external browser in the app settings, however, at time it affects everything - including images. Once that’s fixed, I’ll probably move back from Sync to Connect!
And that’s the root issue, isn’t it.
They’re literally a household name.
I grew up poor in Australia, and no one really had pay TV around me - least of all the people I hung with. Over the years, you’d still learn through other TV shows and movies that HBO was the channel with the good stuff.
Why change that? Why lose such branding? Have they become associated with something that they don’t want to be? If not, leave great enough alone.
All I could think while reading this.
If they get away with it, what’s to stop them or their golf buddies in parallel industries from pulling the same type of stunt again.
I live outside of a tiny country town in Australia, and local shops literally do not carry many of the sorts of items I need or, yes, want.
I work from home and rarely go into town, so paying twice as much and taking a day out of my life just isn’t my bag.
If I can get local and it’s not urgent, I will put together a consolidated list and go in some weekend when I have enough to make it worthwhile.
Sure, it probably makes me the devil, but unless I go move to a cabin in the woods and life a self-sustainable lifestyle, I can’t realistically avoid supporting some amount of evil just by existing under capitalism.
I try to make good choices where I can, and vote for people who, ideally, could effect real change.
My upper manager always goes on about “empowerment” being part of the new direction for the business, but wouldn’t you know, we still get drawn and quartered for the smallest errors.
Yeah, I’m sorry, I had to stop reading when I read that they own not just one but TWO homes. I saw red.
Meanwhile, I’m relatively terrified that my retirement will be living in a cardboard box under a bridge after suffering from multiple strokes based on family history.