THEY DON’T FUCKING CARE!!!
FUUUUUUUUUUCK YESSSSSSSSSS
I start in a couple of weeks. Oh my fucking god.
Thank you everyone for all the support and listening to me whinge the last 6 months. It’s really, really appreciated ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
oh wow, congratulations mate - amazing news and a great end to a long journey
edit: or rather, what a great way to take the next steps
Best possible outcome! And validation that honesty still matters to people.
Congratulations!!
Yay! Cat treats and champagne all round!
GO SIMON FLUFFYBUTT!!!
Woooooo!
yay 😊🎆🎇
Congrats dude.
Onwards and upwards!!
🥳🥳🥳
YESSSSSSSS!!! We LOVE this kind of energy!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!
That is great news. I’m happy to hear it
Thank you for sticking your neck out mate. I’m incredibly appreciative ❤️
We’ve got our reference story figured out so feel free to get in touch if you need one again
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
WWWWOOOOOOHHHOOOOOOOO!!!
Congratulations!!!
YOU FUCKING LITTLE RIPPER!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🥂🍾
Woohoo!!! That’s fantastic ! I’m so happy for you!
YAAAAY!! So happy you finally got it 🎊
FUCK YESSS OMG OMG OMG!!!
YOU DID IT!
YOU DID IT!!!
AHHHHHHGHGGHGHGGDJDJDJDKD!
Amazing! Congrats!!!
WOOOOOO CONGRATULATIONS!
go celebrate 🥳 🎉
Homemade pizza for dinner lol
But next weekend, that’s the big night out!
Huzzah! 🎉
That’s so good!! Congrats! Your persistence has paid off.
That’s awesome news! So proud of you Gibsy!!! You will do really well and smash your new role!
(My autocorrect tried to change “gibsy” to “honey”, just thought you should know)
Given that we know Gibson is in fact a cat, Honey is probably more appropriate.
Thank goodnesss
So glad you landed the job and you never gave up!
Good going for you, it’s time to celebrate!
🎉
Congratulations!
I am relieved to hear this, I was concerned that teenage-you had stuffed you up for life. My work absolutely would have cared.I was prepared to have the contract withdrawn. It has happened twice already this year. I guess I got lucky with this place. And they appreciated that what happened was 9 years ago, and that I was honest and upfront about it.
Fuck yeah! Late to the party as usual but congratulations my dude! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Right on
I’m having inguinal hernia surgery tomorrow.
Have a feeling in my bones that you’ll be just fine and will enjoy a quick recovery.
Me too. It’s a simple operation. It’s the admin side of medicine that’s the problem.
Hope everything goes well ❤️
May you have a speedy recovery mate.
Ouch. Hope it goes well!
very gentle hugs
Thanks, I’ve spent the day getting things set up for at least two weeks of uselessness.
Allll the tv and snacks.
and the medical cannabis.
Noice.
She’ll be right. Quick little snip and patch and you’ll be good to go 💯
Exactly. I’ve patched clothing and done anatomy wet labs. I even helped the student doctor sew my fingertip back on.
Ooh hope you have a speedy recovery 🙏
Good luck, hope it goes well and you have an easy recovery
Ok, on further investigation, he managed to break into my spare room. He slashed up my bike seat, stole my MacBook, slashed a poster, destroyed a 3D Printer I got as a gift, and destroyed a resin 3D printer I also got as a gift. I’m going to call the police, but I want to wait for the locksmith to come let me into my spare room first because that’s where I kept most of my valuables
I’m really fucking sorry for what’s happened mate. I really am.
What an absolute piece of fucking shit.
This is also on the people running the house. Speak to your worker about being reimbursed for what’s been destroyed.
It’s their responsibility to provide a safe place for you and your stuff.
Don’t let them off the hook.
And I would be demanding someone stay at the house with you for the next few weeks at minimum. Your safety is their responsibility.
Thanks gibsy, I appreciate it. Already in the process of doing all that. Apparently my org is trying to put the responsibility for my stuff onto child protection and their placement coordination unit for moving him in, since they said he wasn’t a good match. I don’t really give a shit who pays for it, as long as somebody does and in a reasonable timeframe. But tbh, my org has the ability to refuse referrals, the pathetic sponge of a man running the show was just too scared to say “no” to PCU and accepted the referral anyway.
I told them I don’t feel comfortable here on my own, they’ve said they’ll ask for supports. But I’m going to raise hell if they refuse. Completely agree with what you’ve written - they’ve screwed up not just once, but about a dozen times in a row. They’ve had so many opportunities to prevent this, but they kept making bad decision after bad decision and now I’m paying for it.
Good on you for standing up for yourself!
From everything you’ve written since I’ve been here, these people are happy to abdicate responsibility at the drop of a hat. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, and considering everything that’s happened ie: you having to live in a hotel, what this moron has done to your stuff and the house, it’s a very reasonable request to not only have everything replaced, but to have either a couple of workers, or in the least they could hire a security guard of some description.
I haven’t been through what you have, but I know how shitty government beuracracy can treat you when you’re young. How your needs can be ignored repeatedly.
They don’t get to get away with the incompetence that has led to these circumstances. Fuck all that.
That aside, I have to say, if I was in your shoes, at your age, I wouldn’t be handling this half as well as you are. I really mean that.
Good on you for keeping a level head and being systematic in how you’re going to resolve this!
What an absolute knob. I’m sorry this is happening to you mate
Can you report the macbook theft to apple?
I marked it as lost and sent a pin code. I don’t think you can report MacBooks as stolen to apple, but you can to the police who I think then contacted apple. It hasn’t been connected to the internet since I last used it, so the lock doesn’t help much if it’s already been wiped
I’m so sorry. What an awful thing to happen. I don’t know why people are like that. Do they feel good to trash someone stuff? Why??? Hopefully police will be helpful. Even if they aren’t, you’ll be doing the right thing to report it.
Ah, shit, mate. 🙁
Bloody hell. This is a nightmare. I hope it gets sorted for you quickly and they get the help they clearly need (and leave you alone)
Time to find out shortly. I’ll keep you posted 🙂
🤞
Crossing all of the fingers and toes for you!
Crossed fingers for you bro🍀🤞
You got it Simon
Psssst, past gibsy, don’t stress, it all went well. They don’t care, and you’re about to have a happy day :)
Source: am time traveller
🤞🤞
Fingers, toes and eyes crossed for you!!!
YASSS
💪🗿💪 you got this!
okay, chairs are done, phew, that was hard work
spoiler
Those are AWESOME! So much hard work but the results are soooo worth it.
I love your choice of materials and patterns 😍
The program leader has just left. I have 4 hours until the evening person will get here while I’ll be on my own
Although my deadbolt was still locked and I can’t see a way it could’ve been relocked if it was unlocked, I swear I’m missing things in my main room too. My echo dot, hard drive, and powerboard all aren’t where I remember leaving them within my room. I can’t actually find them at all. I specifically didn’t take them because I didn’t need to (and in the case of my hard drive, I forgot to take it with me). Also, an old phone I had lying in a drawer is a lot more smashed than it was before, and was also on the floor.
I’m hesitant to straight up say this is his doing and amend my police report because I sometimes forget that I’ve moved things around, but I can’t find those things anywhere, even in drawers, not that I really had any reason to move them at all. Also, nothing on this room is slashed up, which seems to be his trademark
I’m honestly terrified now though, and it’s not even dark yet. I’m once again keeping a knife very close and planning to hide in my room until backup arrives at 9. I don’t know whether it’s better to stay hidden and keep my curtain closed, or sit at my desk and open the curtain so I can sort of see out (although I’m sitting not much higher in the window so I couldn’t see much).
Also, he has an illegal motorbike, so I know he has a way to get here on his own if he wanted to. Of course that means every motorbike I hear makes me jump. I could also walk down to the bus stop and then spend the night at a 24 hour shop or something. But the worker won’t be here til 9, and the bus finishes before then, so I can’t really just leave until the worker gets here, unless I walk home which seems worse.
I’m only just catching up on your saga now and holy hell. Your nightmare experience puts most of us sheltered plebs’ complaints about shitty neighbours and housemates to shame - I can’t believe that deeply fucked cockhead got away with so much cruel, wanton damage and you’re left in such a heightened state. I’m so sorry. It’s unbelievable that the State is exposing an underage person to levels of danger that would be unacceptable on so many fronts.
You write well and are level-headed Baku - I sincerely hope that helps you escalate this outrageous situation to the highest level and get some appropriate compensation and protection. I hope you never ever have to experience this sort of thing again.
I’ve had similar experiences and saw this little fuckwit coming a mile away.
I hope he ruins his own life irreparably and has nobody else left to blame
More stuff to put in the report to the minister. Sucks to have to go through it now though.
Tidy up.
Then take photos of all your stuff and your rooms. That way you can tell if someone has been there touching your stuff.
Brace your door with a wedge so it can’t be entered.
I actually think the most likely way somebody would get into my room (at least while I’m in it) is through the window. The window is a tall climb up off the ground, but easily doable with a ladder, or maybe a chair and some good upper body strength
Can you put a cupboard or something up against the window just in case?
Unfortunately not because the window is about a metre, maybe a bit more off the floor in my room. Even my dresser (tallest furniture in my room) only goes about 5cm above the window.
My main concern is that he may sneak into the back yard and come in through the window in his old bedroom. Not much I can do about that I don’t think. My main bedroom door should be safe though. The locksmith reinforced the lock and the thing the lock bolt goes into by upgrading to longer nails and installing a couple extra
Put empty glass bottles around where the window is, that way any intruder will make a noise.
That’s a good suggestion, thanks goonsy. I don’t have any glass jars, so I might try and adapt it by using cups or mugs or something. Unfortunately there is no window sill, so they’ll have to be on my desk, which isn’t wide enough to completely avoid jumping over. He would make enough of a thud that I should wake up though
I’ve thought about it some more, and I don’t actually think his goal is to hurt or kill me, I think he just wants to get revenge on me by breaking my stuff, since he blames me for being kicked out. But he seems kind of unstable, so I’m not sure I’d rely on that alone to keep me safe.
When I get my tax refund, I think I’ll invest in some home security stuff, like those little alarms that make that horrific noise if you open a door or window and maybe a couple of cameras. Really that should probably be the orgs responsibility, but if I go through them I can probably expect them to be purchased in late 2025, maybe 2026 at the earliest
Another suggestion that may help. Smear vaseline or similar all over the outside windowsill (if any). Anyone attempting to get in will not be able to get a grip on it to raise themselves up to that level. They’ll have to bring a ladder or whatever which appears to be a level of forward planning that this nincompoop is not capable of. And bringing equipment makes noise. One very old trick is to attach a rattly thing or a small bell to the window at the top where it can’t be seen from outside but will make noise if the window is opened unexpectedlike. Enough noise to alert you and get your phone up and recording if someone does break in. Like a shop bell - the old fashioned sort on a spring that tinkles when the door is opened.
Doggo walk noir…
You take some great photos!
Hey thanks.
This would be the perfect album cover. May I borrow this pic if I promise to credit you?
Sure, I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Police report submitted. I received a “notice to the victim” and she said that somebody will call me within 48 hours and I should avoid contaminating the area in case crime scene services decide to attend. Spooky. I’m going to see if I can convince my org to submit a property damage report for the broken walls, doors, and locks, but I doubt they will (they don’t like pressing charges as a general rule of thumb, I’ve seen kids damage 3x3m sections of wall, kick doors in, and try to torch houses and they still don’t call police.
I’m impressed with the police assistance line, the people I spoke to were very nice and understanding. I don’t have a very high impression of police, generally (although I don’t hate them). But every time I’ve called the PAL they’ve always been respectful and polite. Such a good service.
Is there any avenue for you to replace the high value items via insurance or something like that?
I’m sorry you’ve had to return to all the chaos but in the end as much as it hurts to lose material items, as long as you’re safe, that’s what’s most important.
My stuff is covered under their insurance, but that’s more of a behind the scenes process I won’t need to be involved in. I’ve asked for workers here overnight (even though I wanted to avoid that, it seems better than the alternative), so that at least I can sleep peacefully knowing somebody else is here to help if things go south and he comes back angry
Living in fear sucks hard. I’m sorry. I hope things get better soon.
It was four months ago I wished you a happy birthday. Quick maths tells me you’ll age out of the system in another eight months. I hope you’re able to find your own place with some stability and safety to it.
Good memory! Though unfortunately because I don’t have anywhere to go yet, I won’t be leaving right when I turn 18. I can stay here until I’m 19, so I’ll leave sometime before then
Christ, so you’re only 17 and dealing with this stuff? Wow. You’re mature as heck dude. I’m sorry this is all happening to you.
Not good memory, I searched my old posts because Lemmy is set up good like that.
Oh, righto. Cheater!
Update on the situation:
A lovely bloke from my orgs after hours came to check if I was alright. We had a good chat, and I used the confidence I gained from it to check all the rooms to make sure the windows are all locked. I noticed his window in his room was opened about half way, which is concerning because I don’t remember noticing it when I had a peak before. But of course I might just not have paid enough attention. Also locked his other spare bedroom and the spare LT bedroom windows. Now if he did come back, he won’t be able to get in. He could try the windows on my side of the house, but they’re a few metres off the ground and would definitely make noise trying to get into.
The worker will be here in an hour, so I’ve almost made it to safety. I’ll give him a mini handover and explain the situation to him and sight ID before letting him in. Unless he just uses his key (there’s a lockbox with a front door key which he’ll have a code to).
Thanks for all the advice and well wishes everyone, I do really appreciate it. I’ll probably be on edge for a week or two, but after that I should hopefully start to relax and settle back in. The overnight workers will stay for the foreseeable future, although I do have the power to say I don’t want them anymore if I wish.
I don’t think I need to fear for my safety, I think this kid is more the type to threaten and intimidate but not necessarily assault or actually go through with anything. But he seems to think I’m personally responsible for ruining his whole life, and seems to be kind of unstable so I’m still going to take full safety precautions.
I pay more tax than I need to, so I’ll get a nice refund whenever they finish processing it (probably in a couple of weeks). I’m definitely going to buy some of those alarms you stick on doors with command strips that set off the alarms, and I’ve also talked with the program leader about organising to have some security cameras installed. I offered to manage their installation personally, to both save on costs and for a cool project to do (in case you lot haven’t noticed, I am a bit of a computer nerd).
I also haven’t had anything critical stolen or damaged, which is good. Nothing I can’t live without. I don’t have high hopes he’ll be arrested or charged, but even if he doesn’t, I’m covered under my orgs insurance, so they’ll be replacing/fixing everything that’s been lost or stolen.
(Although on a bad note, I realised about 4 other things have gone missing, all mostly low value things from my main room. I think this happened last week when they had to fix my lock for an unrelated reason, I think somebody left my room unsupervised and he took the opportunity to nick a few things that were in sight. Nothing super valuable, just my diffuser, a powerboard, an echo dot, and some cheap earbuds).
Tinyest can now clap to the parts of “if your happy and you know it” which is pretty awesome. He’s also waving “Hello” after being able to wave bye bye for a while now. He does both at random though, and occasionally wants a high 5 or clap in between a waves. Still, progress. Scrubs was right, it really is like having a dog that slowly learns to talk.
Clever boy!
I’ve been taking the dog outside on a retractable lead. I encourage him to do pee-pees but he’s shy even though I know he’s a dirty little boy.
So I put some newspaper down in the kitchen and explained nicely that in times of an emergency could he please use the facilities provided and NOT on my fucking carpet. 🤞
I’ve had a similar conversation with Gibson about hairballs.
We’re still in negotiations…
Doing my part to get to 300 comments.
Also time for a rainy walk. Absolutely love walking in the rain, even without an umbrella.
Maybe I have a genetic predisposition to loving the rain considering where I’m from…
The Last Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
I would like to offer this to you instead, our faithful chef of the last four years:
🍩
and a 😘
😳
Oh my, thank you!
Toasted cheese and champagne please Bacon. The cheese for hunger, and the champers to celebrate your distinguished service.
🔥🧀🍾🥂
It has been Our pleasure.
Thank you bacon for your patience and dedication to these sometimes difficult customers. May you always remain crispy. ♥
Our pleasure. From tomorrow onwards, look for the Truck
eh? last breakfast?
Bacon is starting a new job, I think!
lunch chef?
something to supplement the after eight income
Will be replaced by food truck
yum, breakfast tacos
🥓🍳🧀🌯
offers a donut in respect and thanks 🍩🫡
Oh yes doughnut. Thank you so much, and it has been Our pleasure.
Thank you Bacon for all these yummy treats ❤️
It’s Our pleasure
Thank you for all the breakfasts! 🎁
A teleporter for my truck! Oh my, you shouldn’t have!!!
Praise to the Chef 🙌
and to my staff
Something decadent, please. Cake! Champers! Hot dog! Thanks for all the breakky smiles!! Looking forward to your truck!
🍰🍾🌭🦞
Thank you for your service these past few years - the breakfast has put a smile on my face on days when there wasn’t much to smile about.
A🍹and a 🍩 for you.Oh another doughnut. I am spoiled 🤤
One of those big deli sandwiches with a comical amount of sliced meats, salad and sauce. Half for me half for you
🥓🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🥩🍗🍖🥗🍯🥪
oh thank you!
Thank you for all the breakfasts bacon! I will have a chef’s choice spread so you can clear out anything that won’t fit on the TRUCK
🐘🥩🍄👽🌳🍲 Oh yes thank you
🍰 A special cake for you, to thank you for your service!
Delicious thank you
Chicken and champagne please chef, on account of it being your last breakfast and all.
🍗🥚🍾
Bacon for the bacon god!
🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓
I’m here for the last supper 💋
🥓🧃
Was just reminded that at my previous job, the 33f supervisor and the 40m appointment setter called each other “work husband/wife”. She has a long-term boyfriend, and he is married to his husband…
I’ve given myself the ick again. I hate those terms. Like, we don’t have to reduce every male/female friendship into “wife/husband”, just with the “work” qualifier.
Men and women can be friends at the workplace, and it is entirely appropriate to call each other “friends”. My hot take is that “work husband/wife” is gross and inappropriate.
I used to call my boss work dad… his boss was work grandad
Not quite the same as what you’re talking about but this brought up the memory. I made him a “worlds goodest work dad” mug once.
Fully support this. Its a term that feels like it belongs from an early 2010s buzzfeed list. Gross.
Thank you! You get it!
I wouldn’t say it’s gross or inappropriate just weird.
Gross and inappropriate to dismiss male/female platonic friendships, and instead label it “work husband/wife”.
Especially when both are already in serious relationships. I think I’m just sick of the lie that men and women can’t be friends. Prolly from my own experience of being accused of cheating every time I spoke about work to my ex and mentioned a male colleague, now that I think about it 👀 Why do we have to add romantic undertones to a opposite sex friendship?
The terms are just weird. Like, it’s not hard to say “my friend from work”, “work friend”, “James/Jessie/Meowth from accounting and I had a nice lunch together”
Got some news for you - now it seems that ANY platonic friendship gets sexualised in some people’s minds. For me, I think someone that thinks that way is severely limited by their own expectations that ALL relationships MUST be sexual. And we all know that that just isn’t the case.
It’s almost as if people are attracted to everyone they ever meet / talk to.
I caught up with a friend of the opposite gender a while ago, and these two women sitting next to us asked if we were on a Tinder date.
Oh I getcha now.
The term doesn’t imply any sexual relationship. It means they are close colleagues and got each others backs at work, and can safely talk shit about the workplace with each other. I don’t think it’s gross but probably there could be a better term, maybe workplace besties?
Edit: I will add, that if it’s a manager/team member or some other connection that is leading to favouritism or unfairness in the team that needs to be addressed. But other than that I really wouldn’t care what people like to call their friendships.
Good news: nothing from my main room is missing. My main room has a deadbolt, so he couldn’t get in. My spare room isn’t so lucky, it isn’t a deadbolt, so he was able to get a screwdriver into the lock and push it open. For my main room though, he drilled a screw inside the lock hole and went mental kicking the door, but it didn’t work. Honestly impressed. Our front door isn’t a deadbolt though, which is a bit nerve wracking. I now know how easy it is to push the type of lock on my spare room open
Bad news: my MacBook isn’t in my main room which means it has definitely been stolen. I actually grabbed it before but then decided I wouldn’t need it so it wasn’t worth carrying. I thought I left it on my bed, but I actually left it on my desk, so it’s gone.
I’m really pissed about the poster. It was a nice canvas poster thing that I got as a Christmas present with the Tokyo train map on it. Completely slashed. Right through the middle. End to end. It’s not irreplaceable, but it had sentimentality. The MacBook is almost a decade old, missing screws, has shitty battery life, and has deep gouges marks in the top from when another kid at a previous place got shitty at me and scratched it up.
I asked about the threats he made over the phone to someone else, but apparently that was a misphrasing on their part. He didn’t threaten me, he was just abusive towards me. That makes me feel ever so slightly better about it, but
I’d be chasing a new macbook from them then. Also it WASNT old and missing screws. It was an M3, top of the line and needs to be replaced like for like!
You could hit up the Minister for Children with a rundown of your bullshit experience.
https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/members/lizzie-blandthorn/Fun fact: I actually did meet her once. After the last bloke Luke Donnellan or whatever his name was got sacked (or probably resigned), she wanted to come do a tour of a Resi house. She hit up my old org and asked to get a tour of some houses, and they chose mine because it was settled at the time and she wasn’t too likely to be attacked. She seemed alright, I always imagined if a minister ever came to a Resi house they’d bring bodyguards and bulletproof vests (keep in mind I first entered Resi when I was 11, hardly had experience with ministerial visits). She only brought 1 dude, James, her personal assistant or something I guess, and the ceo of the last organisation. I gave her a brief rundown of my worst experiences and she seemed to listen, I also offered I’d be happy to share more with her another day, but she never took me up on that
They were never going to drop a minister into a shit situation, it’d make them look terrible. Here look Minister, a bunch of well behaved and settled kids, the system works, gib money.
I’ve had a few friends work in resicare, they said that there’s basically either kids taken out of bad situations or kids who are the bad situation. They felt it was bullshit that both types got mixed up in the houses.
If you’ve met her before, mention it if you make contact.
If the poster is canvas backed, you might be able to take it to a picture framing place, and get the tear(s) mended at the back with light canvas or paper tape. A canvas backed map is worth the bother. You might even think about getting the mended map laminated to protect and preserve it. The line will be still be visible from the front but the structural integrity will be nearly as good as new. Basically, they’ll flatten the map and then tape it from behind. You could do this yourself on a large tabletop I think - press it flat with a cool iron and then stick it together on the back. Please don’t use duct tape - that could ruin it.