Happens to all of us sometimes :). Japan is like that too round June/July.
Japan is surprisingly horrendous in summer. I was in Takatsuki a few years ago and the midsummer period was equivalent to the worst tropical north Queensland days, except with a lot more concrete to radiate the heat back up at you. 36C and 90% humidity for weeks on end was not what I signed up for :p
I think that's about 30C DS, which is on the slightly lower end of average this time of year for Sydney. The humidity more than makes up for it though
Yeah it's a pretty sticky, unpleasant day. Might get storms through later that may or may not make it better.
It's been a weird summer in that it's either been really really hot, or raining. Nott a lot of in between.
Normally this time of year we get 30ish and a lot of sunshine. Had a lot of days creep up into the 40s though (which is bullsh*t hot and the point where I stop functioning properly!)
I start work tomorrow. I'm starting to get nervous. I hope my brain doesn't betray me.
Go DS go! Go DS go!
I start work tomorrow. I'm starting to get nervous. I hope my brain doesn't betray me.
Best day to start. EVERYONE in the office will be sporting a Post Australia Day Hangover. The fact that you'll be there in the office will put you ahead of about half the regular people (even if they're in their chairs, some will still be *absent*).
Best of luck mate, and remember, enjoy it!
So how did it go? Or did everyone call in 'sick' lol?
No updates for a while - haven't been eaten by dropbears I hope?
Flying foxes? That's a thing? sh*t, maybe drop bears are real too!
On a serious note, maybe try a board game meetup? Having something to do means not having to be directly social, if that makes sense.
Depends on the workplace really. I work as a field service tech and usually if there is music on in an office it's just the radio or people listening through their own headphones while they work.
That sounds a little odd. I doubt anyone in my office would really want to be subjected to my music, nor would I really feel the need to inflict it (or my singing!) on them!
haha.. no I don't think that's a normal situation at all.
Yeah.... Not something I've come across before. You're in development, yeah? You should be able to shut that sh*t down without too much worry if it is really getting to you, otherwise I've never worked anywhere that doesn't allow headphones as an informal 'do not disturb' sign. Check with your line manager what the office policy is of course, but if speakers are allowed I'd say anything goes :p
I've worked in a few places where there was no avoiding having the radio on, but none of those were offices, and it was standard (s****y godawful commercial) radio stations, not someone's weirdo playlist with the same song five times.
Goo wrote:Depends on the workplace really. I work as a field service tech and usually if there is music on in an office it's just the radio or people listening through their own headphones while they work.
That sounds a little odd. I doubt anyone in my office would really want to be subjected to my music, nor would I really feel the need to inflict it (or my singing!) on them!
Okay. I just heard Queen's "Bicycle" about a dozen times. I wanted to make sure that wasn't something I should expect on the regular or that I couldn't ask if the person might not consider listening to that song with headphones.
You could look up Games Workshop stores? The WH40K guys will probably be into board games. There's also a City store downtown that sells a lot of board games (near cnr of Liverpool and Castlereagh St) and opposite that is a comic book store, Kings Comics. Might find similar people there?
That sounds hella weird. How many people are sharing the space?
What kind of work do you think they'll have you do? In consultancy work, basically what I was doing before I came here, you do have to sometimes be flexible based on the client site and needs. So, most of the time I was doing dev, but there was some admin, testing, support and preparing for contract bids in there as well. Of course, I eventually got fed up and quit so... But there were some good experiences along the way.
Consultancies in Australia tend to be very fuzzy about role. If you joined and have a generic title like 'Consultant' or even 'API Consultant', its quite likely you'll be thrown on a bunch of different projects under different capacities until you settle in to a longer engagement. It's weird, since it doesn't seem to matter an awful lot what you entered as... I know quite a few people across a number of outfits and most of the devs end up doing a lot of A) architecture & design B) functional & performance test automation or increasingly, C) devops work. It's a constant source of frustration since the muscles they really want to exercise slowly start atrophying but they don't get enough consecutive exposure to become true masters of any other domain either. The flip side is that the money can be pretty damn good, so I see a lot of people stay in it to build a nest egg, then go solo once they've built up a sufficient network of contacts.
I've worked in a few places where there was no avoiding having the radio on, but none of those were offices, and it was standard (s****y godawful commercial) radio stations, not someone's weirdo playlist with the same song five times.
This may mean little to a Mexican but when I worked at Compaq there was a standoff between the people who wanted to listen to 2DayFM and the people who wanted to listen to JJJ. This of course meant we had to listen to bloody MMM all day.
Sydneysiders know what I'm talking about.
Sounds like Hell to me. Pretty much all radio here drives me nuts.
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