Notices by Killa Koala (dshan@mastodon.au)

@anon_opin It's just arse-covering and blame-spreading. Everyone interviewed them, multiple times, and agreed they were fine. So if they turn out not fine then no one can be blamed.

Also, if they put up with this insane process and still want the job then they'll put up with the crap that goes on here every day without complaint.

@joeress I got an email from Google recently saying they'd switched off/on certain things in my account because they couldn't confirm that I was "an adult" (things like setting on safe search, etc.). Thing is, I've had that Google account for about 20 years now ... 🙄

Instead of going through their age verification bs routine I logged into my Google account and switched off/on the things they'd changed. Seems to have worked.

@georgetakei Now they look like utter clowns.

@georgetakei Subconsciously Mike must be feeling the heat and smelling the sulphur every night as he falls asleep.

@georgetakei Why don't they worry about real threats to children, like measles, for a change?

@fesshole Hmm, I'm going to swim against the tide on this one and say you're probably a man. Yeah the buying a wedding dress thing is somewhat unusual, but the falling in love with a good saleswoman and screwing up your whole life in the process is such a male thing.

@fesshole Your greatest achievement? That would explain why you're working for a rich bloke instead of being a rich bloke.

@Remittancegirl Columbia University are a bunch of cowards. They may as well rename the institution Trump University. Utterly shameful that a supposedly world-class university would fail to stand up for the most basic principals of liberal democracy, their nation's constitution and cave when they feel fascism's first breath upon them.

This is what happens when you turn higher education into a business and abandon all moral, ethical and educational standards as a result.

@fesshole Why do people (apparently quite a few) leave towels on the floor in hotels? It's the weirdest habit. Why do something like this that you'd presumably not do at home in a hotel? What do you get out of it? Why create a trip hazard? How hard is it to hang them up like a normal human being?

@georgetakei This makes more sense than the real definition.

@WarnerCrocker These billionaires are supposed to be the most powerful people on earth, towering above mere governments and earthly concerns, they supposedly stand astride the planet like the colossus of Rhodes while reaching for the stars; yet in reality they cower, scrape and worship a two-bit real estate conman, a rapist and felon like the poorest of peasants faced with a mighty king.

What utter jokes they are, what weak little men, with the backbones of jellyfish.

@fesshole In the early 1980s I worked at a company that used telex to communicate with head office overseas. Our boss made us all learn how to use it, bugger around with paper tapes, send messages and so forth. And then faxes came along and it became useless knowledge overnight.

@fesshole Could be that they just didn't want to open their eyes to see you in the morning.

@fesshole Maybe try, you know, talking to your wife about it?

@garius Amazing that all this happened between Zip2 sale in early 1999 and Sep 2000. Wow.