The totally off-topic thread

[RooFlyer]

The hardest part of sending your laptop for repair is reorganising your life for a month around not having it.

A month? Even in Hobart a week is as long as I'll tolerate (other than for availability of parts).

What - you don't have a low spec spare? With files backed up in "the cloud"?

My spare is always the previous laptop. From time to time its hauled out, updated and synched with the NAS and of course when its pressed into duty it synchs again, and I'm up and running. (Cloud back-up not practicable with ~0.75 MBps internet speeds )

 

[serfty]

I keep files on USB and up load to cloud at least once per week.

My backup is indeed my previous one although it would not work with w10 ... so w7 it stayed.

I found it interesting to come to terms with retiring my 12 yo XP workhorse, w7 not possible ... I had upspecced to 4G and added 500GB drive but when Dropbox stopped supporting the OS it was "time".

At least I was able to move the DVD burner to the replacement.

 

[deejo77]

What - you don't have a low spec spare? With files backed up in "the cloud"?

I am a little technology challenged (partner and BIL both IT educated) but had the need for "the cloud" this week. It was devastating - hours of tears and nothing but getting the data back was going to make it any better. I ended up doing a mad dash in my PJ's in the middle of the night after being advised to switch the device into flight mode and not to touch ANYTHING. Got told the device would need to be wiped as it appeared to have been backed up to the cloud two days prior. They still backed up all my stuff to a desktop computer. Wiped it and reinstalled everything. I only got it back last night and haven't checked my stuff on it but the tears and upset that my 6yr old had stopped as he was able to locate the Minecraft world he had accidentally deleted on Wednesday night.

 

[blackcat20]

No point in thieves frequenting a non-affluent suburb - there's not much worth knocking off..

Well id expect people to be able to afford their own broccoli if they can afford a $3m house.

 

[wandering_fred]

No point in thieves frequenting a non-affluent suburb - there's not much worth knocking off..

Something about the absence of surveillance cameras and alarm systems in the "cheaper" suburbs? And perhaps the long time (ie older) residents being more experienced in growing parts of their dinners?

Just wandering

Fred

 

[drron]

RIP Michael "Jimmy" Delligatti.
Who is he you may ask.
Well he came up with the idea for a Big Mac.Maccas put it on the menu in 1968.
Jimmy had at least one a week from that time and lived to 98.

 

[GarrettM]

RIP Michael "Jimmy" Delligatti.
Who is he you may ask.
Well he came up with the idea for a Big Mac.Maccas put it on the menu in 1968.
Jimmy had at least one a week from that time and lived to 98.

I reckon I've eaten one Big Mac in my lifetime. I reckon I'll only eat one in my lifetime.

 

[Pushka]

I reckon I've eaten one Big Mac in my lifetime. I reckon I'll only eat one in my lifetime.

That's one more than me.

 

[jukebox333]

RIP Michael "Jimmy" Delligatti.
Who is he you may ask.
Well he came up with the idea for a Big Mac.Maccas put it on the menu in 1968.
Jimmy had at least one a week from that time and lived to 98.

All the chemicals probably preserved him from the inside out...

 

[jsd]

Have really hit the straw that broke the camel's back with one of my employers today. Have been blamed for not passing on information relating to dietary requirements (I did, twice, I'm not going to forget a nut allergy in a hurry), then rostered to work both Christmas and New Year after specifically asking for them off as I had family plans and worked both last year (fair is fair). The roster was eventually changed but apparently sending an email wanting to know why was childish and immature (said email was sent to two others to read before it was sent, and they both okay'ed it). Have also been passed over for a promotion which I'd been gunning for for three years.

I know its the absolute worst thing you should do but they are unlikely to give me reference anyway seeing as though the entire business seems hell bent on getting rid of me. Formal Grievances have failed to bring about any workable result (managers will always side with other managers), but has anybody waited for their last payslip to clear and not returned? I don't have any leave left so I'm not at any financial loss but the stress and anxiety of fearing whats going to happen each day I go in there is just too much and I can't go on neglecting my health anymore.

 

[suze2000]

Get a doctor's certificate so they'll have to pay out your notice period as sick leave?

 

[jsd]

Get a doctor's certificate so they'll have to pay out your notice period as sick leave?

Alas, not an option

As I have another job a sick leave certificate would prohibit me from working there over the period that the cert. was valid for, and I don't want to mess them about as they have been nothing but good to me.

 

[JessicaTam]

Alas, not an option

As I have another job a sick leave certificate would prohibit me from working there over the period that the cert. was valid for, and I don't want to mess them about as they have been nothing but good to me.

Option 1. If it is stress leave then it is a Workcover matter. Your employers will then have to answer to them. And it won't come out of your sick leave, nor affect your other workplaces.

Option 2. Resign giving them as much notice as you can. Check your EBA for this. If you have been there a while it might be 4-6 weeks. If they are keen to get rid of you they may just pay you out.

 

[cove]

Jsd you showed us that you have event planning abilities with the recent AFF Perth get together. I do hope you can overcome the difficulty of getting treated poorly at your workplace. Hobart would not be an easy place for work as far as I have ever seen. Sydney seems to have the most jobs but the rental market is still a bit ugly price wise.

 

[whatmeworry]

Jsd you showed us that you have event planning abilities with the recent AFF Perth get together. I do hope you can overcome the difficulty of getting treated poorly at your workplace. Hobart would not be an easy place for work as far as I have ever seen. Sydney seems to have the most jobs but the rental market is still a bit ugly price wise.

Perth looks like a better rental market...

 

[cove]

With the redundancies coming thick and fast in Perth you would find an easier place to get a job in Sydney or Melbourne.
Now if you are not needing to work the Perth rental market has many empty houses and apartments and some rentals are $100 to $200 a week less than 3 years ago.
One of my retired friends rented a lovely apartment down at Cottesloe beach and he loved the relaxed lifestyle.

 

[Milboo]

Playing some catch up and going back to the feijoa tree discussion! We used to have 2 massive trees and was always told that you needed a male and a female tree to get fruit. I think they've progressed the technology now so you only need one tree but ours were 20 plus years old and gave us feijoas by the bucket load daily!

 

[anat0l]

A month? Even in Hobart a week is as long as I'll tolerate (other than for availability of parts).


My spare is always the previous laptop. From time to time its hauled out, updated and synched with the NAS and of course when its pressed into duty it synchs again, and I'm up and running. (Cloud back-up not practicable with ~0.75 MBps internet speeds )

Come to repairs, parts are always the killer on time....as well as transportation. At least the latter can be expedited, at extortionate costs (that may be different depending on your business rationale).

Me and computers works almost like airlines and planes - if it isn't being used.... I use my computers pretty much to the death, or at least until I can no longer stretch out the time that I can actually on-sell the unit (some things you can't even give away). That explains the fate of a few of my previous systems; some others were put to pasture due to untimely demises (one motherboard was fried).

For a business which relies on a computer system, that's a different kettle of fish and a second system (plus a flexible mobile system of keeping data files in sync between them) is perfectly sound... although that can get hairy if one relies on very specific software which are either exorbitant or near impossible to obtain more than one licence.

I'm actually wondering if I could purchase a Mac system next year as a teacher and claim / salary package it under the guise of using it for teaching IT / developing resources for IT (e.g. only Mac systems are able to develop apps for iOS; need it for testing compatibility of teaching resources with possible student systems, or maybe the entire school is a Mac school). Then again, sounds way too dodgy, especially since even the cheapest Mac laptop would be nuts expensive to justify convincingly on a deductions audit.

 

[JessicaTam]

Come to repairs, parts are always the killer on time....as well as transportation. At least the latter can be expedited, at extortionate costs (that may be different depending on your business rationale).

Me and computers works almost like airlines and planes - if it isn't being used.... I use my computers pretty much to the death, or at least until I can no longer stretch out the time that I can actually on-sell the unit (some things you can't even give away). That explains the fate of a few of my previous systems; some others were put to pasture due to untimely demises (one motherboard was fried).

For a business which relies on a computer system, that's a different kettle of fish and a second system (plus a flexible mobile system of keeping data files in sync between them) is perfectly sound... although that can get hairy if one relies on very specific software which are either exorbitant or near impossible to obtain more than one licence.

I'm actually wondering if I could purchase a Mac system next year as a teacher and claim / salary package it under the guise of using it for teaching IT / developing resources for IT (e.g. only Mac systems are able to develop apps for iOS; need it for testing compatibility of teaching resources with possible student systems, or maybe the entire school is a Mac school). Then again, sounds way too dodgy, especially since even the cheapest Mac laptop would be nuts expensive to justify convincingly on a deductions audit.

I don't see why. I have claimed my last 3 MacBooks with no issue. All said and done, you are claiming a computer - What that computer is is up to you.

 

[anat0l]

I don't see why. I have claimed my last 3 MacBooks with no issue. All said and done, you are claiming a computer - What that computer is is up to you.

I take it though you claimed each of those MacBooks one at a time, not that you bought 3 MacBooks at once and claimed on all of them (unless you happen to be a business that absolutely required 3 systems to be run at a time for some reason).

There are limits in place as to what people can claim on deductions, otherwise of course that could get out of control. And yes, of course, it doesn't really "matter" unless you are unluckily audited (any chance in 7 years), but then you need to have a good reason why you're depreciating two systems at the same time.

Come to think of it, if a system is fully depreciated and thus written off (e.g. after its nominated useful life), you could veritably buy another system and start claiming that, with no funny business.......