At the place I used to live at one of the people in the other apartments actually took the bins in and out and a few times they were left out on the street for days. I reported it to the real estate agent before I realised it was another resident in the complex that did it each week. I felt really bad for reporting it.
If you live in an apartment block there should be at least one bin per apartment. I live in a complex of 8 apartments and there are probably 4 rubbish and 4 recycling bins which isn’t enough just need someone moving in or out for the bins to get overloaded.
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We definitely need more recycling bins here at my complex because these are usually filled up after 1 week and they’re only emptied every 2nd week
Every man, woman and child making the same Coldplay concert joke.
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Hotdesking.
Another excuse for entitled arseholes to pinch your shit. Just let people work from home Premier Minns.
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I am supposed to work from the office a few times a week but earlier on in the week you generally can’t get a desk on the level the rest of my team work out of. If I am on level 22 and everyone else is on level 26 what’s the point? May as well work from home. Not to mention the chairs in the office are uncomfortable. I prefer to go to the office earlier in week than on Fridays which annoyingly is the day my team go in. But at least you can get a desk on the same level.
Before covid I worked from home a few days a year. But I had my own desk at the office which is preferred. If I had to work from the office five days a week it would be quite a shock.
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For health and safety reasons I got reassigned to the regional office. There are certain desks that are allocated to us for said reasons. They are marked as such. Does that stop people from trying to pinch these desks, and more to the point, the chairs? Hell no. I had to ask the lady who pinched my chair can I have it back. She told me she couldn’t see herself using the other, normal chairs that were in abundance in the room.
Ever since Premier Minns ordered state employees back to offices, it’s turned to shit. People seem to think they can carry on like they’re back at home. We now have to book our desks, weeks in advance. And the worst thing, they can work anywhere they like in any office! Hotdesking does not work - it;s been proven. If you’re going to drag workers back to an office, you may as well go all out and be a prick about it - assign them a desk in one location, and tell them to stay there.
If you want the definition of the lunatics running the asylum, just try any NSW state government agency.
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Agree, if everyone is being told to return to the office, every one should have their own desk. End of story. Minns can’t have it both ways.
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And have enough desks for everyone to have their own desk. If they forced everyone back into the office 5 days a week where I work there would not be enough desks for everyone. They also decided to spend months renovating half of the office on the floor I usually used and kept it open the whole time. If they closed the whole floor for a month while they did their thing it would be available earlier and with less distruption. There are at least 5 other floors people can use in the same building. Sure the total number of available desks would be less. They were saying only work that didn’t make alot of noise would be done during business hours that didn’t happen most of the time with drilling and banging happening frequently.
Also, try and keep departments together. Not have some members in one office, some members in another. I am hearing multiple departments in our office - simply because people use speaker phones and we can hear them. They’re louder than me. That’s an effort.
At our office, there is nothing within cooee of us. If Minns wants people back in offices to stir up the local economy, he’s failing in this instance. The nearest cafe has closed, and they’ve had to book coffee vans and attempt to book the Munch Express truck.
Next point - the number of desks. There isn’t enough at our office. They didn’t plan for it. You have to book a desk. Even us who are required to sit at specific desks, and are reserved and signposted as such.
We have 4 meeting rooms, all of which are used for varying purposes and of varying sizes. All of them are being used for anything other than meetings, and closed off to everyone else because they think they have a right to privacy.
The whole forcing people back to the office hasn’t been thought through properly. Hotdesking can get stuffed.
My next door neighbour leaving rubbish outside his front door again,AND he’s taken one of the wheelie bins and put it outside his door.The bins go at the front of the complex only,and I’m not going to risk injuring myself dragging it down the stairs 
He’s not supposed to have it there👎
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The ongoing renovations at Brisbane Airport domestic terminal.You go in one entrance,where Jetstar has a temporary bag drop area,then you have to walk out than enter through another entrance.Then walk a long way it seems ,to get to security than to your airline boarding gate . It will be great when it’s finally completed I’m sure.
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Me vs Hotdesking Part 2
I come to my assigned desk this morning to see one person spread their crap across two desks that aren’t assigned to them. I try not to, but end giving the occupants of the nearby desks the death stare, and politely state to them, “this is an assigned desk for alternative duties”. The guilty party grabs theur gear and says “the computer doesn’t work”. I know - it does, but I unplugged the keyboard and mouse becuase I use a laptop and my own assigned laptop. They’ve sinced moved on but not before taking a personal phone call and hob-nobbing with their mates.
I think people have struggled to obey basic office ettiqutte since Premier Minns has ordered people back to offices. People yell across the floor, have calls where we can hear everything, look like they’ve rolled out of bed and into whatever they have the floor (there is a dress code), steal each others chairs, park like gronks (including one instance where I could not get into my car, beause they parked way over the line - I had to climb over the passengers seat), don’t put phones on silet/vibrate…
Again, if you are going to make people return to the office, get rid of hotdesking and assign them an location and a desk. Half of these people should be in Parramatta, or back home where they can gronk it up as much as they like.
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They changed where everyone sits in our office and also shortened how much in advance we can book desks from a month to just a week. We need to be in the office on a particular day which for me is Monday but we were told to come in another day with preference to our other site in Western Sydney which for me it’s an hour’s drive there and back. If we were to go to the main office on other days we cannot book a desk and need to use a drop in desks with some not having monitors and keyboards until 10am the if there is a vacant desk we can use it. I may as well work from home as the drop in desks are noisy as the level I’m on the bottom of 3 interconnected levels with our internal Cafe at the top and there are no walls so the sound of people talking and the coffee machine grinders is distracting and gives me a headache.
i hate hotdesking and open plan offices.
I’m lucky that although technically my desk is a hot desk, it’s only bookable by people in my role and in my office I’m the only one. I don’t bother to book, and its got my stuff everywhere - pics of the wife and kids for example so everyone knows its mine
That’s technically what our desks are. There are very noticeable green and red dots above the desks - green for everyone, and red is reserved for alternative duties. When I pointed this out, they were like “oh, I didn’t see that”. Really?
They’ve all been told to book, but I doubt they do it. I also doubt they look up to see if they can actually use the desk. They also take our chairs, and you can tell they are our chairs because we get the shifty ones. I’ve had to fix 2 up using electrical tape.
Anything open plan should be treated with suspicion. At my last school, they had open plan, flexible classrooms in the new block, and hoped all other schools would follow this plan. Everything about it failed. Kids could walk into the other classrooms easily, distract from that class, cause havoc. The little nooks they hoped kids would use for separate study were woefully inadequate, and the large video screens in each one were destroyed by gronks.
The staffrooms were shocking - 6 adults into one small room the size of a toilet, especially going into COVID. They’ve had to renovate the rooms and close off each room now, and expand the staffrooms, after massive complaints. Sadly, the principal and deputy responsible are still gainfully employed, and the deputy is now a principal. The Peter principle is well and truly in effect.
Your tax dollars at work. 
New members trying to put their stamp on the forum and make a loud entrance but just end up being everywhere and not actually contributing anything to meaningful discussion.
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Makes a change from old members being loud and everywhere but not actually contributing anything to meaningful discussion. 
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What classifies as new and old members 
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I guess some prefer performance to participation 
Let me guess…you’re referring to me? 
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