This actually, sadly, makes sense to me. I require written communication at times due to my disability and it’s like pulling teeth trying to get it at all, let alone trying to get effective written communication.
This is a concerning issue for all kinds of reasons, one of them being accessibility.
I have three sets of grandparents. Only remember one of my granddads cooking, one of my granddads would bake.
Dad and granddad (his step dad) were the consistent, enjoyed cooking and playing with flavours cooks in the family 😅 none of the women in my family, including me, enjoy it other than my sister maybe!
Today is a little bit better than yesterday so far and I’ll take it! I hope everybody is doing alright and don’t forget to check in on each other 🥰
Damn that’s a really interesting point actually. I tend to be fact, logic and emotionally driven lol and I really struggle to understand when people aren’t grasping the facts of a matter. I know sometimes I can get emotional so sometimes I will take all the emotion out of my stance and focus on the logic and facts - thinking that will be more understood than injecting emotions into the argument but it still doesn’t work.
Disclosure; I’m autistic so I honestly just thought this was me not being able to communicate, which maybe it sort of is, but it also seems like a flaw to not be able to accept facts as facts and to see logic? I also think online is a terrible measurement of effective communication though.
So…how do you be persuasive? The only answers I can think of by what I observe are all very cynical but possibly accurate? That it basically has to be painted as something that directly benefits the person you are trying to convince? How else can you effectively persuade someone? Genuine questions here 😅
This is why I’m partially grateful for my perma ban 😅 so far it seems less explosive arguments on here and just slower so less opportunities to get into those kinds of time wasting, frustrating reddit back and forths.
Agreed. Always thought this, never understood why private schools get anything from government. How’re we funding private education but whingeing about stuff like the NDIS or the public school system suffering? I’m going to guess that public school teachers are leaving the job at a higher rate than private so maybe the money could help retain some good teachers and resources that support them to be able to stay in the job without burning out for the scummy public kids (/s)?
Thank you! Animal pictures always help ❤️ what is 😺 name?
Haha thank you, I did have ice cream. And an apple. Balance enough 🤷♀️
Hate calling in sick on a Monday but I am struggling mentally so trying not to beat myself up about it. Need to dive my head into a good book and eat something healthy and get through another day 📚 🍎 💪
Sooo at my workplace, disability, they like to keep floor workers low, the scum we are, and give us no training or time to learn anything about the background processes - despite several of us asking for years.
Just recently they put out an internal job call to us all that was basically all the shit we’ve been asking to learn but “must have at least 5 years experience with this program and that program”. Oh you mean the shit you’ve refused to let us stay on shift an extra hour to actually have non-client time to learn because “it’s not in the budget”? Well done management.
Disability care: there are 10 people here we care for, just like get to know them I guess and if you have any questions…umm… I’m not sure who you ask but I’ll ask my manager to ask their manager and maybe get back to you if you ask a dozen times.
I’m very lucky to work in a pretty good team now who are trying to rebuild a previously not great team and system but some are truly terrible. And management have no idea what their doing. Like as we try to build systems that should already absolutely exist (inductions, complaint systems, incident reporting, basic shit) and ask management they are scrambling for answers. Yet we have all the signs “encouraging” clients to make complaints because they legally have to display them 🤦♀️
Don’t even know what an “everyday Aussie” is anymore honestly.
You make some interesting points. I’m a millennial too and I remember my introduction as a late teen to our politics was in that stage of all the backstabbing shit. Rudd getting ousted by Gillard then the same in reverse. It was all pretty ridiculous and as a first time voter (would’ve been 2010 election) it all just felt like so this how politics works huh, they all tell at each other instead of discussing shit and they all turn on their own parties? Sooo I didn’t really just leave high school behind at all, the adult world is exactly the same 😅
It is interesting to see what different PMs are remembered for from different people though. Howard (I was so young) I just remember children overboard, “war on terror” and GST. Rudd - the sorry speech - I was in yr 11 and this was the first time we started to learn about indigenous history so I do give Rudd some credit for that, I think he also enacted NBN and withdrew troops from the middle east? Gillard - NDIS (obviously an emotive topic right now, disclosure I am on the NDIS myself), Royal commission into Institutional Child Abuse, Gonski and of course the misogyny speech, Abbott carbon tax, I thought it was him that screwed up the NBN but I see others saying that was Turnbull. Turnbull - plebescite - ultimate outcome great but what a bloody mess to get there. Not sure who did the royal commission into aged care and disability, I think I stopped following closely at some point because there was a lot of talk but very little action.
I think you’re right that it’s too easy for politicians (and even society) to claim that change is too hard or that change has to take an excessively long time. Change IS possible, not always easy but not as difficult as people believe.
Not necessarily “surprised” but your comment is interesting to me. Pauline has been around for a long time. I was a kid (like under 10) when I just remember her being the butt of a bunch of jokes (please explain) and that she was “bad” (simplistic kid perception).
As an adult, I obviously know a bit more but clearly not enough (I didn’t know she actually started in the liberal party!) so I would suspect a lot of people my age and younger are probably in the same boat. She was a figure that got mocked because she was “bad” (lol obviously this depends on your families political leanings) and then tbh, I don’t remember hearing much about her for quite a while. So for some, at least, it’s kinda like shit that please explain lady is still around and actually has a following and retroactively looking back on how this happened.
I’m not proud of it, by the way, but I clearly need to learn more about our political history to understand where we are currently.
Genuine question because I’ve never (knowingly) known anyone that supports one nation or Pauline Hanson generally, is there a strong demographic? I was surprised at the image of sweet little old ladies lol. Though how old is old?
I didn’t see her reach as just to little old people but again, historically, I’ve only ever known people who have always and still have a negative opinion on her. I’m mid 30s btw so I guess I’m talking about my parents (60s/70) and some of their friends.
I kinda thought her reach was just to…angry people, who are already or willing to be bigots. Similar to Trump, yeah he’s old but there are plenty of people younger than him that just bought into his shit because they were frustrated, angry people, regardless of age.
Two days of work to go then two days off, wheee
My doggo looking after me as I nap away another day of depression. It does bring me a small smile to look up and see her watching over me. 🥰
I can do my job that pays more than that and I can’t do this problem lol. 😂