I'm mentally calculating the "Hours left" for 2024 and the "Hours of work" to do in my head. I'm not going to get it all done. I'm left trying to decide who I have to let down.
Failing that you could script it to buy the gift card at the time you want, maybe even sell that as a service to other users?
Alas, the promotion I was making use of ends on Dec 20. So that method won't work. It's a good idea, though.
Not sure how such a site would handle payments for the gift cards, though? I sure wouldn't want to be collecting credit card details and passing them through to Woolies via some API. Any API they have (if they have one) is unlikely to accept payments. It sounds like it'd be less work to make a competing egift card site.
Buying an eGift Card for Christmas: Nath: 'Hey Woolies, I wish to purchase a gift card on your site, but want to delay the gift until Christmas morning. Can this be done?' Woolies: 'Of course not. If you buy a gift card at 2am, we send a text message to your recipient at 2am. They clearly want this gift right now!'
I'm not going crazy, right? It's a super obvious thing when buying a gift card that the person buying the gift would want to specify a delivery date/time as well as a recipient yeah? I told my work colleague and he reckons I'm an edge case. Most customers would want the gift sent immediately. Even if I wanted it same-day, I'd want the option to send it during waking hours.
Our story is the same as most people: We can afford to rent; but we can't afford to buy.
We aren't in danger of being put on the streets, but we are under a different sort of crisis where a combined household income of over $200k is somehow not enough to buy a house these days.
Not that long ago, you could buy a 4-bedroom house for $200k. House prices have gone stupid.
Ooh - I have first-hand experience with this! I had green, but needed to stop because a pedestrian was crossing the intersection illegally somewhere in Hawthorn. I was over the line, but not 100% over the line. When the pedestrian cleared the way, I continued and the camera went off. Your whole car needs to be over the line when the light turns red. The flash goes off the same millisecond, there is zero grace on that.
I challenged, and had to go to court. Explained what happened and the magistrate and he agreed that I was not breaking the law. I can't find the outcome term online now - I'm at work and don't have time to research it. I can explain what happened in layman's terms though:
When you challenge the offense, you are saying the police made a mistake. That you shouldn't have been issued an infringement. The police will fight you in court over that.
In my case, I was given a verdict that basically meant "person is guilty but there are extenuating circumstances", and I didn't need to pay the fine etc. It did cost me a day off work, though
If you are saying your front tyres were over the line, so you're not guilty, I don't think that'll fly. Your whole car has to be over the line when it turns red. In my case, they could see I was doing like 5-10km/h when the light turned red, I obviously wasn't zooming through. So while the photo didn't show the pedestrian, they believed me.
Semi freeze. Stuff that is already approved/scheduled is ok. Stuff in lower environments is ok. Nothing in UAT or Prod except emergency changes with manager approval this week.
I did have one change I was meant to implement on Friday, that now has to wait four weeks. But it is just to delete some old VMs that have been powered off for a couple of weeks. They can totally wait until 2025.
Total change freeze for three weeks starts Monday; but I have those three weeks off (so does half the office) anyway.
For whatever it's worth, I bought my iPad at David Jones 3 years ago. At the time, stock was very limited - with a 2-week wait time even at the Apple Store. But because nobody thought of David Jones as an Apple seller, they had stock. They charged the same price for Apple stuff as everyone else.
So we get far more hot days in Perth than in Melbourne. If you ever get a Perthy telling you to harden up: Melbourne's heat is worse than Perth's. Perth's weather comes from the west and every afternoon we have a sea breeze come in (Fun fact: The sea breeze used to be called the "Fremantle Docker" because it brought the ships in to dock) to take the heat away. The evenings are far nicer. In Melbourne, that heat tends to come from the north. It moves down into Melbourne and just settles over the city. You can get days where the minimum is still around 30.
Perth doesn't have that. Even on 40 degree days, our minimum temperatures tend to be in the low-20's. We can still sleep. Remind anyone from here of that sea breeze if they ever get smug about Melbourne's hot spells.
Not now, the kids need space to run around outside and an apartment isn't going to give them that. Before I had a family, quite probably. Assuming there was good public transport (Train station?) as well. We are a one-car family, and even when I lived alone I never quite managed to live car-free. The biggest hurdle to car free life was that I couldn't carry a week's worth of groceries on the bike.
In fairness, Uber and home delivery are good options these days - those weren't a thing 15-20 years ago. It'd probably be easier to go car free these days.
A couple of weeks ago, they closed off one side of a dual carriageway in Perth for a horse race. No, the horses weren't on the road, but the approach to the racecourse was open only to VIP members of the racecourse who had special parking permits. Hundreds of cars stuck using a lane each of the other side of the road. While I sat in that traffic for 20 minutes, exactly zero VIPs came along to use that other side of the road. At least half a dozen people holding half of a main road closed just in case a VIP driver comes along. It does your head in.
Nah, it makes perfect sense. People who are introverted or have issues relating to people are usually fine for this sort of work. The customer comes to you, and the list of things that they will require is manageable. There's a formula to it. I thought of it as playing tracks on a CD to the customer. Your job is to know which track to play to them. Far easier than being required to think up conversation topics on people you need to approach in a social setting.
I'm one of those weirdo types who loved customer service. I miss retail work. I could see myself doing it again, only you can't live off the pay. I liked this time of year: Yes it was super busy, but people were mostly pretty positive and the days flew by.
Not working with a Bluetooth headset is weird. That's a completely independent microphone. Doesn't sound like a hardware issue if two different microphones are affected, and particularly if the phone microphone works otherwise.
Where is this coming from? Is it related to the arson attack on that synagogue, recently? Has there been a swathe of protests against places of worship I missed?
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I'm mentally calculating the "Hours left" for 2024 and the "Hours of work" to do in my head. I'm not going to get it all done. I'm left trying to decide who I have to let down.