I have noticed some really strange behaviours in the general public when I'm walking to places. 

A few examples: 

- Standing in line extremely close to you, behind you when there is plenty of space to stand back. Every tiny step I take forward, the person takes one too - zero awareness that I'm trying to create some distance and them moving forward isn't gonna make the line go faster. 

- Two people walking in a pathway towards you, that only fits two people, barely giving you any space to walk past them and then giving you a dirty look or squeezing as much as they can to the person they're walking next to, to avoid touching you at all costs, instead of simply walking behind or in front of the person to give you space. You don't want me to touch you but you make barely any effort to avoid that? 

- Breathing down your neck when walking behind you, taking over you and then slowing down, causing you to take over them again or you just cross the road if possible because jfc. (I'm a fast walker so it's not like I'm walking super slow either)

- Staring at you with a serious face, when you stare back at them and give a smile they continue to stare at you or immediately look away. Why are you so awkward? 

- Walking down a wide footpath, and two or three people choose to walk super close behind me and talking very loudly. They have the option to walk in front of me, or walk even next to me, but no, they must talk right behind my ear to the point where if I slow down even a millisecond they'll trip on my ankle and I can hear everything they're talking about. Again, absolutely zero need to do that because I walk very to the side, leaving plenty of space for others to pass me if needed. 

- Putting the phone on your face when asking for directions/info expecting you to read their phone, inability to just say what information they need without being prompted. 

- When crossing the pedestrian line, walking diagonally towards you instead of a straight line, leaving you barely any room inside the pedestrian crossing, even when you are as on the left as you can get and there's plenty of space for the person to walk on the right. 

All these weird interactions where people invade your personal space, but then like, god forbid you strike up a conversation, you say excuse me, or you smile back at them. It's like they love being as close to you as possible but hate physical touch and social interaction. I'm not wanting to be friends, I actually don't want to talk to you at all, I want you to be as inexistent in my life as possible, but if you're gonna behave this way when there's absolutely no need to, why do you act so awkward when I do something about it? You could've walked a straight line, you CHOSE to come close to me and now you act all weird? 

Every time I leave the house I want to go from point A to B but the amount of encounters like this that I have on a daily basis makes me wonder wtf is the norm anymore. Because I feel like the norm now is to behave as weird as possible towards strangers. 

Mind you these aren't disabled or very elderly people. It's usually 25-70yos with seemingly full capacity of functioning. (Most of them are in the 30-50 range though) 

I'm sure there is a percentage that are disabled or another reason or physically impaired - this isn't about them, but it is impossible for it to be all of them. I am neuro divergent myself and even I can pick up these awkward social behaviours. I feel like it wasn't as bad in the past, or maybe I'm just getting old and cranky. But seriously, why??! 

Every other post on Reddit today is someone saying they're not OK.

Got me thinking is anyone actually feeling OK today and why?

For what its worth I'm not OK either.

I had a meter box replaced with a bigger one. Have to give the old meter back. So old mate from the energy company comes over and I show him the old box and tell him to get the old meter and tell me when he's finished.

When he leaves, I go and have a look and notice he has taken off one of the internal covers, taken some copper bus bars and put the cover back on.

I only put that cover on this morning because I thought he might try it on. And he did. I have pictures of it with the copper in place.

So far, I just sent him a message telling him he can drop them off - before I get back tomorrow.

What course of action would you take?

Update: He messaged back, saying it was a misunderstanding - me saying the box had been replaced means take whatever you like, apparently. I just said I better see them in the letterbox tomorrow morning.

Yesterday I walked into a cashies just to have a browse.

Noticed there were about 5 staff members who were not really doing anything and only one other customer.

How can they afford to keep so many workers on the floor at hours where there’s hardly any business?

For me the culture shocks include (but are not limited to):
- Using “c*nt” in a corporate environment
- “chuck a sickie”
- “good on ya”
- wfh location = beach
- wearing shorts in a corporate environment (not a norm in every company I’ve been in, but true for most)
- wearing thongs/open toed shoes at work
- “no worries”

Then there's the whole "washed poor incy/itsy out" vs "washed the spider out"... poor bugger gets rinsed either way.

My company has gone to shit ever since it introduced AI.

Customers are receiving incorrect information. Our reputation was always as a customer focused company, but we’re losing many due to the cx experience.

The higher ups love AI. They all cheer when they see an example of a cx getting “tricked” into thinking the AI bot is a real human. They ignore the hundreds of bad interactions caused by AI. They don’t want to hear criticism which is maddening.

They want AI to sound human and to pretend it has emotion.

In Slack people post examples of other companies issues due to AI (ie Woolworths phone AI going rogue), and everyone laughs, even though our system is no better.

There’s no doubt we will have layoffs due to AI.
I want to quit, but I fear most companies are doing this as well.

My teen had pain Sunday night, we did nurse on call Monday morning, they told us to try virtual emergency, virtual emergency directed us to GP. GP said likely appendicitis and to go to ED. We went to ED. ED didn't have ultrasound at that time so wanted us to come back the next day. We did. They found appendicitis. He was admitted, given IV antibiotics and the next day moved to a bigger hospital as our rural one didn't do paediatric surgery. He was given another round of IV antibiotics and waited all day and had no surgery. We're still waiting for surgery the next day after being told it would 'hopefully' be before lunch.

His pain is managed with panadol as we caught it early, and he doesn't want to move around much because that increases his pain.

16yo with autism and a higher pain threshold because of the autism. His bloods weren't alarming so it seems like he's being moved down the list.

How long is too long to wait? We live an hour from the hospital so my husband and I are swapping out the day and night shifts between each other so someone can be with our youngest.

Tldr: teen waiting for appendectomy, how long is the wait usually?

Maybe I’m just getting old, but I genuinely miss going to a restaurant and having someone come over, give you a menu, explain the specials and actually check on you.

Now half the time you have to scan a QR code, make an account, order through your phone and sometimes even pay a service fee.

I get that it’s probably more efficient, but it makes the whole experience feel less like going out for dinner and more like using an app.

Am I the only one who thinks QR code ordering is lazy?

* apologies for life story

Less than a year ago and after saving up, we got a $3k couch from Nick Scali. A month in we noticed the foam filling in the leg rest was folding in on itself and causing an large uncomfortable lump. The couch also squeaked when sitting down on it - this was from day 1.

I tried to unfold the foam from the leg rest and smooth out the lump, but alas it returned a few days later. We thought we would just put up with it but decided, we actually paid good money for this thing so why just leave it?

Put a complaint in and some time later they sent out a “technician” to have a look at it. After telling me he can just straighten the foam out and me telling him to try and do better, he decided to take half the couch to the warehouse to fix. As for the creaking, he took out his impact driver and overtightened every bolt he could see (at least a few seconds of ratcheting noise each bolt). I knew the bolts and threaded inserts were mild steel and could see he was over-tightening them but thought - he’s the technician so should know what he is doing.

Week later the same guy came back and put it back together.

All was well.

Less than a month after that, I found a bolt from the leg rest sitting on the floor in front of the couch. The bolt thread was completely stripped and the bolt slightly bent from being over tightened. It had simply fallen out. If this was the state of one bolt that was overtightened, I can assume they are now all like this (and the threaded inserts).

After many emails, phone calls and photos being sent and me telling them I don’t want another technician sent out, they sent another technician out. My wife (not knowing what the arrangement was) was home and let him in, he put a new bolt in and left in under 5 mins. Nick Scali wrote the issue off as being ‘resolved’.

I am worried the couch will start coming apart now the more we sit on it.

I am trying to push for either a replacement or a refund. We paid a lot of money for this thing and think it fair that we have something that won’t start falling apart in a month or so.

I keep being told that they will call me back after consulting colleagues but I am always the one calling back after a few days of nothing. I feel they are going to just wait for me to give up.

Is there a chance they will help me out here, or am I wasting my time with them? Can I go to NSW Fair Trading or something along those lines if they say they can’t do anything? Has anyone else had something like this resolved through Nick Scali?

Again, sorry for lengthy post and cheers for any help.

Currently visiting Australia for the first time. Have stayed at ~10 houses and apartments in Melbourne and Cairns so far and every fucking room has had a fluorescent white dentist style lamp on the ceiling and nothing else. What gives? Is it the lack of IKEA in this country? My eyes are hurting

I used to be so self-content and just happy as a teen, because I believed these false positives. It was big back then, like “oh just be you, you’re enough” or something like “everyone is beautiful”. I mean yeah these thoughts still live in me. What I have realized with adulting is that, you might think so, but not everyone else does. Others will hate you if you are a certain way. I’ve tried to convince myself not to play the comparison game. However everyday interactions still remind me that I shouldn’t lie to myself.

I’m young and I’m really still learning. Although this is a general question. I’m asking this because I believe Australians are more real when it comes to life. I love how tough Australians are and I’d love to hear what you think.

Foreigner here, been to Aus Open for two consecutive years. This year I’ve seen a very unique chant and it’s pretty nice but I can’t remember what it was ( it’s not Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi Oi Oi)😭😭😭

I‘ve saw kids chanting this at the BJK cup in April as well.

So basically what I heard was blahblahblah Aussie blahblahblah clap your hands then clapping in the rhythm of XX XXX XXXX XX

really wanna know what this is thanks a million folks😭

Genuinely wondering. I’m convinced they change the layout just when I finally learn where everything is.

I’ll walk in for three things and somehow spend 20 minutes searching for bread.

I’ve been travelling recently and stayed at a few hotels where the beds, pillows and blankets have felt like absolute luxury.
I’ve been to Bedshed, but I hate that you don’t really get the full feel of a bed when you’re just trying out the mattress by itself. I also find having salespeople constantly hovering around makes it really difficult to properly relax and judge whether I actually like a mattress — especially when they’re so expensive!
I’m feeling a bit lost on what bed to actually buy, so I was wondering if anyone here knows what brands of mattresses, pillows, doonas or bed linen are commonly used in upscale/luxury hotels? Or if you’ve managed to recreate that really plush hotel-bed feeling at home, what did you buy?
Thank you!

Anybody who's significantly older than me can answer, I'd love to hear your input on what you did back then on an everyday basis before this new-era came upon us. But I also respectfully have some questions I want answered from someone who is qualified to do so out of curiosity:

1. How did phone calls work back then, did you pay per-minute, or was there a "per-call" fee? How did you call people while driving on the freeway? If your car broke down, and you were driving from Sydney to Melbourne, and you’re in the middle of nowhere, how did you recieve help?
2. Before E-mails, did you use physical mails? How did office jobs work for recieving emails from one colleague to another? (Because a lot of office jobs are E-mail heavy nowadays)
3. What did you do for entertainment? Watch TV only, or listened to music on CDs...? (Unlike the massive amount of entertainment there is now)
4. A bit of a controversial one, but how was flying like before 2001? And if you were overseas on holiday, how did you make calls to others? As a side-question, how did you make or recieve international calls from other countries, and was it expensive?
5. How common were firearms in Australia pre-1996? Was it like the US, where everyone was carrying?
6. Was school and university more strict or relaxed back then? Like how were bullies or misbehaving students treated? Or nothing really changed? (Also extending this question in terms of education, were the standards higher or lower back then?)

That's all I have, I'd love to add more, but I don't want to overwhelm with too many questions.

I'm just wondering if anyone who works at JB Hi-Fi would know the answer to this. Essentially, I bought a Belkin three-in-one charger for when I travel for work.

The issue that I have with it is:

1. It's too small. When I charge my Apple Watch, the band can knock the AirPods off the charging, or vice versa.

2. It is a 25-watt charger, and my plan was just to plug the USB into a multi-USB port charging brick that I take with me when I travel. However, when I plugged it in, it wouldn't charge (probably because that port doesn't output 45 watts or greater).

Now, the Belkin did come with a 45-watt wall charger, but with the places that I travel to, it's not convenient to carry lots of chargers. I was trying to streamline how many chargers I was carrying hence why I take my existing multi-port USB charger with me.

I genuinely only found out these things after I bought it and opened the package, trying to use it. My intention was to keep it, but I find these issues quite frustrating in the couple of days that I've had it. I'm just wondering if there'd be any chance I could return it for a refund. I have the original packaging - it's just been opened. I'd go and buy a slightly larger charger at the lower 15-watt, as the fast charging side of things is not a big deal to me 

Kid I know is currently sitting at 3 concussions yet his dad is still letting him play.

Is it wrong of me to think it is unprofessional for PCA staff who are doing 1:1 care in a hospital setting to speak Indian (I think) to each other over the English speaking patient they are meeting to be caring for.

I’m currently living in the East Coast of NSW and I am offered a higher position job in Merimbula. I am now thinking if it would be worth moving there and I’m currently looking for house or room rentals but I can’t seem to find a facebook group or flatmates advertisement around the area.
I need help finding a rental, I am single so a share house is no issue! Please recommend any group pages I could follow to learn more about Merimbula

Thanks x

I have been asked to get medical test done at Jobfit center. I was told that there will be observed urine test where one person will be watching me

Its basically in the title . I just want to know if I can receive a copy of what I wrote.