• Gibsonhasafluffybutt@aussie.zoneEnglish
    15·
    29 days ago

    Normally I love putting stuff together, like Ikea furniture etc etc

    I’m now in a room with the door locked trying to build this cat tower and there’s a monster on the other side of the door who is DEMANDING to be let in.

    Edit: She realised if she jumps high enough she can pull the door handle down and open the door.

  • just_kitten@aussie.zone
    12·
    30 days ago

    At my second inspection. Crusty old dude rocks up and talks only to me and asks if I’m viewing the apartment, then asks if I’m single and gives me this creepy grin and says he’d prefer a single to move into the apartment. Oh and of course he’s the owner. Shakes my hand and encourages me to apply. Completely ignores the other attendees (male).

    I might’ve seriously considered this apartment despite the very dated kitchen and bathroom and no fly screens, it’s pricey but in a very quiet green location and has a sunlit balcony… But after the above interaction I am definitely not applying wtf

    E: I am meant to be cleaning the house but our purritude has other ideas. Purrhaps she has sensed my overall distress. I’ll miss this lil sweetie when she leaves on Monday

    little nugget on my lap

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        7·
        30 days ago

        Sucks because I really might’ve seriously considered it for the quietness and the cleanliness. Light filled and still convenient for work. I was sat in the park wondering if I stuck on my own fly screens and everything else worked okay, could I still stick it out since there’s a REA intermediary… Esp as this is probably one of the few times I have an advantage (??) as a single renter. But it’s for entirely the wrong reasons

        • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
          6·
          30 days ago

          Yeah. That’s not the sort of advantage you’d want for sure, it’s creepy and puts you in danger I’d say as well.

    • tone212_@aussie.zone
      7·
      30 days ago

      I find it odd the LL is at the inspection if he has a REA managing the property? And the whole interaction, yikes. The LL will probably have keys. Stay the hell away!

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        5·
        30 days ago

        Yeah it smacked of over-involvement. No thanks! Luckily I’m not being made to vacate so I don’t have as much pressure, I’ll keep looking.

      • just_kitten@aussie.zone
        8·
        30 days ago

        Yeah he seems like the kind of guy who lives nearby and might get… too involved in a bad way. He told the REA to send him a report of all the applicants immediately for his review, within earshot of us all. I can’t think of any reason why a LL would prefer a single tenant over a couple except that a single person is easier to bully/manipulate. I think I’m going with my gut on this one

        • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
          4·
          29 days ago

          Yep. More than that he might have keys and could randomly let himself in when you’re not home, place hidden cameras, invite himself over when you are there and push boundaries…

          He dived to try and create a situation where he could have a massive power differential with/access to a single woman. Which is not a safe situation.

          And being a single isolated person does make you easier to bully/manipulate.

          He seems like a massive creep and a danger

          • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
            4·
            29 days ago

            Letting himself in when you are not home is probably a best case scenario. When I used to work at Legal Aid they had a case where they were doing an urgent Intervention Order for a woman who had woken up in the middle of the night to find the landlord and his son in the bedroom.

            • melbaboutown@aussie.zone
              3·
              29 days ago

              Yeah. It seems fucked up and extreme that women have to consider these possibilities but yeah.

              Whether this guy “only” planned to become overfamiliar and harass a lone female tenant or he planned to push the boundaries in another way, this guy very obviously didn’t have good intentions.

              Kind of stressed out for any woman who can’t find somewhere else before her lease ends or if he learns to be less obviously creepy upfront

    • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
      5·
      30 days ago

      There’s something about the eyes of Soxcats that always stand out.

      Don’t know if it’s the colour and the shape but Soxcat always looks so serious.

  • TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zoneEnglish
    12·
    29 days ago

    Breaking news - Rossmoyne Street in Thornbury is having a collective garage sale tomorrow at 10 am to 3 pm - lots of people are all coming together to put excess stoff out for sale. Just got told. See you there.

  • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
    11·
    29 days ago

    Of thank F…!

    Commbank finally reversed the duplicate transaction that put my account into the negative by a large margin.

    Spent the whole day stressing about it. I hope that’s the end of the ordeal and nothing else happens.

    Might actually think about getting a 2nd bank account somewhere else just as a backup sometime.

    Now I finally concentrate on doing other things other than worrying about things.

      • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
        2·
        29 days ago

        They did maintenance last night and when it came back live it started duplicating transactions I made on Thursday, which happened to be when I had some payments to make.

        It really sucked and just shows if something like that happens the bank won’t be there to cover you.

    • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
      3·
      29 days ago

      That’s a relief for you!

      I have accounts with a couple of banks for that reason. I’ve considered starting an additional one too, but I’m not sure if that’s overkill.

      • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
        3·
        29 days ago

        Yeah so it doesn’t leave me in a bind like this even though it’s exceptionally rare.

        Anyway I’m going to destress tonight if I can. I’ve wasted basically all day monitoring it all.

  • Duenan@aussie.zoneOP
    11·
    29 days ago

    Woke up in a massive panic this morning to an overdrawn back account message.

    Panicked like hell to try and work out what happened.

    Commbank have really stuffed up and duplicated transactions and now has left me overdrawn and unable to get anything today.

    They better fix this up. The duplicated transaction was the biggest thing I had to pay, why couldn’t it have been an 8 dollar transaction?

  • Orange1@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    29 days ago

    Figured I’d make a new comment for visibility - for anyone trying to comment/make a post from lemmy.world instance - it isn’t visible to anyone on Aussie.zone for 7 days (if it even syncs at all) There was a post explaining it months ago, seems like it still isn’t fixed. https://feddit.org/post/3524876

  • StudSpud The Starchy@aussie.zoneEnglish
    10·
    29 days ago

    Bailed and went home, while partner and his dad go to dinner. My everything hurts, and for the first time Macca’s has made me feel better rather than worse.

    Thank you nuggets and fries 👌🏼

      • useless_modern_god@aussie.zone
        6·
        30 days ago

        I’ve had that exact issue when subscribing to new communities but obviously not the same in this case.

        In is a known issue though

      • Rusty Raven @aussie.zoneM
        6·
        30 days ago

        I think Orange1 is on another lemmy instance, so maybe something has gone wrong and it’s gone through the process to try and create a new account elsewhere.

        Maybe try logging out and making sure to be signing in as Seagoon_ on the aussie-zone page?

        Edit: maybe need to clear cookies in the browser too?

        • Orange1@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          30 days ago

          Yep I made a new account on Aussie zone to reply to this. I was previously on lemmy world and there was a post months ago saying sync between world and Aussie instance could take 7 days (if it did at all) I think seagoon misunderstood when I was trying to explain. Early days it seemed to work fine, then I noticed no one replying and realised due to the post explaining the delay. I was too lazy to make a new account and just stopped commenting!

      • 🇦🇺Baku@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        29 days ago

        I was just lurking and seeing if anyone else got screwed over with the CommBank kerfuffle this morning and saw this. Figured I should try and help

        I have no clue what happened or why she isn’t on her Aussie zone account anymore, but she made a new account on Lemmy.world called lady_seagoon (which I think she’s deleted now). Lemmy.world is currently suffering from ~7 day delays (i.e: nothing posted from a lemmy.world account will be visible here for a week or more). So nobody was replying to her posts or comments. This is because of the way Lemmy is built and Nath/lodion not wanting to invest the effort implement a fix, but that’s a separate discussion

        She then tried to subscribe from this community from her Lemmy World account, but when you subscribe to a community on another instance (in this case an Aussie zone community from an LW account), it will sometimes show subscribe pending. Why it does that isn’t really important, but it’s not because of an approval system or anything like that. It’s just trying send that subscription confirmation if you will, over to AZ (which remember has a 7 day transit time before it arrives and processes)

        She’s best off logging back into her main account, but I’m guessing she forgot her password and didn’t provide an email or something, in which case she can just choose a new username. Maybe “Seagoon__” or something, and all will be well. She’ll have to be approved by Nath or lodion (because new accounts on AZ require approval by an admin). She could make an account on another instance (that is NOT LW), but it’s really just easiest to make one on AZ.

        To simplify what’s happening, since Aussie zone is based in Australia, and Lemmy World is in Finland, you could think of it as Lemmy World sending every comment in a letter via boat. It’s gonna take a while to arrive, a week in this case. Now we don’t have the same issues, so you could think of us as sending comments and things by plane. The net result is that from LW you can see what’s happening on Aussie zone in real time, but they can’t see your responses, upvotes, comments, posts, etc for a week.

        (It’s caused by issues in Lemmy’s code, not actually because we have a faster connection or anything. It was requested that Nath or lodion implement a fix in the meantime, but they didn’t want to, so it’s going to be like this until that bug is remedied, hopefully soon)

        • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
          3·
          29 days ago

          I don’t know why she’s unable to use her original account. Maybe you could contact her through reddit to see if you could help.

        • Orange1@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          29 days ago

          Welcome back? I did edit my earlier posts with a post that explains in more detail - I think you also made a post a long time ago highlighting the issue.

    • Nath@aussie.zone
      1·
      28 days ago

      Alas, no. I’m actually pretty quick on those usually. Much quicker than normal Lemmy usage.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        1·
        28 days ago

        Thank you for checking. Can you please do me a favour? Can you type out the exact instructions on how to sign up for aussie.zone and I will copy and paste your words to Seagoon. I know she uses a browser and not an app. I have run out of ideas. Thank you.

        • Nath@aussie.zone
          2·
          28 days ago

          There are two pathways:

          Option 1: Sign up for a new account

          Go to https://aussie.zone/signup and fill out the form. I’ll see that and approve it lickity-split!

          Option 2: Change the password to Seagoon_

          Go to https://aussie.zone/login_reset and enter your email address. If it is on record, the site will email a link to you which will take you to a page where you can change your password.
          Note: We’re having trouble with Google/Gmail email addresses. Google keeps blocking aussie.zone emails. If Seagoon_'s email is at Google, we may run into extra dramas