Mike Funnell

The BOM also catastrophises: they’ve been criticised for not predicting things (though they have, at low probability) so they now (IMO deliberately) overstate likelihood of the worst case to avoid criticism afterwards.

Yeah, right 🙄

Way too much of this is luck of the draw. I’ve been lucky, unlucky, lucky .. on repeat.

I was just lucky that I was on the upswing when I (at least partly) was able to (somewhat) step off.

It doesn’t always swing that way 😢

You’ll be great. Again. 👍

And it is shit.

It happened to me only twice - but both were feckin’ bad. 🤬💩🤬

Do read the book though. It is a good book.

As her Mum explained it, she stood up for herself - and her crew stood with her (she’s about the most junior member).

“We could always stop work, and picket, if you’d prefer. Your call.” 🤔

I doubt head office would have approved if the centre manager called it the wrong way 🤣

Glad you clarified that 😂

I was 🤯 trying to make statements and timelines add up 🤣

Hell yeah! Yum 😋

Both my friends are very much still working so need city and transport access - which gets a bit more expensive. That said: they’re still liking living there.

I have friends who did that and are very happy.

FWIW

Another sad part of our chat was that my colleague recently completed a G.Dip in cybersecurity and was cornered by the Uni Vice Chancellor at graduation.

Q: why did you do this? Did you need it for work?

A: no, I just wanted to learn about it and understand it.

Q: but why?

A: Learning.

Q: huh?

All too true 😡😢

Also and for the record: my colleague is ferociously proud of this daughter (and her other children): this one (unlike her Mum) isn’t academically inclined but is apparently very bright - just prefers a different type of work (which she’s seemingly doing well at).

👍👏👍👏👍

That - very sadly - was my first thought 😡

My colleague (and her electrical trades daughter) have similar suspicions 😬😢

She said worse (and her daughter worse than that 😂).

(Greater) Melbourne is a big place these days with lots of microclimates across its spread.

(I know Melbourne pretty well - and it’s same-but-different here in Sydney too.)

Quite the report card.

I like it 😃👏

She really is! 😃👏👏👏👏👏

Nasty thing a colleague told me today:

Her daughter is in a crew installing solar panels at a shopping mall outside Melbourne.

Apparently there are complaints about tradies in the ladies 🙄

As if women can’t be workers, FFS! 🤯🤬

A book! A book!! Please 🙏

I hate it when that happens ☹️

(TBF: most of ‘em are OK to good, so the shit ones stand out.)

Western leaders don’t believe anything they themselves say. How could they?

You cannot hope
to bribe or twist,
thank God! the
British journalist.
But, seeing what
the man will do
unbribed, there's
no occasion to.

- Humbert Wolfe, The Uncelestial City, 1930

My worry would be a diversion airfield in US jurisdiction - Hawaii, US west coast ==> El Salvador

That one was a few weeks ago (they’ve backed off considerably since I called ‘em out on this) but most days are tougher than they’re supposed to be right now.

Too much work with me as single point of failure (which I’ve tried desperately to *not* be - but nobody seems to want to learn this 💩 .. 🙄☹️)

This is my pick (from many): bsky.app/profile/mike...

#AUKUS

Lots of other ways - but that is the biggest, fattest, stupidest way.

In some ways the cause of many others.

(We can’t afford *that* because we must pay $bazillions for subs we’ll never get 🙄😡)

I can believe this. Easily.

When I did *not* restrain myself, I was far more specific: identifying actual failure points in planning and individuals.

If they want to blame me (they tried) they’d better have receipts (they don’t) because if pushed, well, I have plenty.