AKA: Daily random thread: Baku doing the posting cuz nobody has invented automoderator for Lemmy yet
Edit: words
Good to see breakfast is on in the thread already
Quick update on where I’ve disappeared to lately: I have been living in a bubble since starting my new job almost 5 weeks back.
The days are INTENSE but rewarding. Found my passion in what I’m doing. The days fly by from how busy I am.
2 weeks in my manager went on annual leave so I’ve been running HR/WHS on my own. Talk about trial by fire.
But I’ve proven to myself and the company that I can hold my own.
Got a message from my manager regarding a minor complaint made against me. Apparently I use big words in emails and some people find it intimidating.
We had a good chuckle about it. I was hoping he’d tell me who it was so I could send that person a link to a dictionary/thesaurus page.
Straight to hr for being smart. We only want dumb people working at this company.
Offer to meet the complainant in the thunderdome; or tell your manager that scary is a better word than intimidating.
I like this idea. In reality I’ll just use bigger and more obscure words (definitely throwing cromulent in there soon).
Give them something to really complain about.
Consider writing like an aggrieved Victorian aristocrat, or a protagonist in a Jane Austen novel.
My dearest Human resources department,
I am writing forthwith, to complain about the insinuation that I am to be considered intimidating with my extensive use of longer vocabulary. To wit, I should also like to raise a complaint of mine, such as is within my allowance, that there is an intimidating lack of long words used in workplace communications.
Good day,
Mean Elevator
Fabulous to get up and see a new daily thread. This manual setup for everything instead of midnight magic will take some getting used to.
I think for now it’s fine with whoever is up around midnight. I was a big supporter of the midnight smile club :D, starting a new thread is a similar thing. No need to bust your chops over it at the moment.
But learning to create a bot to post a new thread automatically is just the first step in my cunning plan. I will then be able to move on to creating my own personal bot army. First we will take over the Aussie Zone, then all of Lemmy World will be mine!!! I will throw all the people off and have pristine communities filled entirely with perfect, rule-following robots. Oh, wait, did I say that bit out loud 🤐
Maybe we need a ‘create daily thread’ roster? I’ll do a day, if someone explains how
Instead of a roster everyone on the old DT at midnight could vote for someone to do it. It is just a new post so doesn’t require anything special to do, although I think it needs a mod to actually pin it which can be done later.
Once upon a time there was a pretty cool nightclub. It was quite a swanky place. It had its regulars, drop ins and lurkers. It was open to everyone 24 hours 7 days a week. But one day the owners decided that the management wasn’t that important so management organised a mutiny. They closed the main dance floor and kept the VIP area open but still that wasn’t enough. So they closed the place baracading themselves in. Some patrons were confused as to why they weren’t allowed access anymore. Where’s everybody gone? Where do I go now?
Then some bright spark said “I know a place. Follow me”. Now this new place wasn’t as flash as the last (I think it was an old factory in the back streets of the industrial area in Footscray) but it was free and it was safe. At first a few trickled in to have a look around. Then word got around and more and more turned up. The old lurkers turned up to cause a stir but generally everyone’s been happy to have a regular place to meet again.
P.s.There’s always that dodgy looking guy in the corner with a leather jacket on chewing his gum and selling shit.
I’m so grateful the DT lives on. I don’t have a large social circle and it really helps seeing friendly faces/ usernames with lil chats & updates. 🖤
