The totally off-topic thread

[drron]

Pushka payroll is an interesting area and there are not too many shortcuts but be thankful that there are computers and payroll software that are mostly bug free.

Unless you work for QLD Health!

 

[Pushka]

GIGO seems to apply too.

 

[RAM]

GIGO seems to apply too.

Do not talk about systems consultants like that ......

 

[blackcat20]

Pushka payroll is an interesting area and there are not too many shortcuts but be thankful that there are computers and payroll software that are mostly bug free.

Until we changed systems this year, I'd never had a problem. Now I'm lucky if my pay is vaguely right, as the system doesn't seem to understand how my two pay rates work.

 

[RAM]

It is amazing how coincidentally donors to major political parties and some not so major seem to be able to function in Australia totally differently to the way they do in the rest of the developed world.Take CCs for example. Just look at the protection EVERY cc in the UK is required by law to provide. If something fails with a purchase the cc company really wants to get a good result for you otherwise it costs them not you.

Good to start letting people know just how much we are being fleeced here in Oz vs overseas consumer protection.


Payment protection

The best way for UK shoppers to get protection for large purchases is to use a credit card, as long as what you're buying costs over £100 and less than £30,000. Thanks to Section 75 of the 1974 Consumer Credit Act, the card issuer is jointly liable, and the protection includes items where you've paid a deposit of over £100 on the card, but settled the balance in another way.

The protection offered, in effect, makes the card company liable in exactly the same way as the retailer. Not only does it mean that if the shop goes bust – as in the Phones4U case – you'll get your money back, but if there's a problem with something, the card company is also liable.

So, for instance, if a new TV develops a fault, and the shop maintains that it's nothing to do with them, you can take the matter up with the card company. In practice, very often if a retailer is being awkward, simply telling them that you'll deal with the card company may be enough to make them take notice. Small shops especially don't want to end up getting items charged back, and perhaps risking their card facilities.

Of course, not everyone has a credit card, or you may simply prefer to pay by a debit card. If you do, however, it's important to be aware that the protection offered by a debit card, while comparable to that offered by credit cards, is not a legal obligation. Instead, it's a scheme offered by the banks, and referred to as chargeback.

 

[JohnK]

I had to drag myself out of bed this morning kicking and screaming.

59 days to go and counting....

 

[rogerkambah]

I had to drag myself out of bed this morning kicking and screaming.

59 days to go and counting....

The Wedding?

 

[shellthom]

So how do you apologise when you've accidentally cut off a car driver?

I had a situation recently where I missed seeing a car when changing lanes and cut them off to the extent they had to slow down to let me in. The driver rightly honked their horn when I was going across and ceased immediately I was completely in the lane.

I was completely in the wrong and deserved the honking and not doubt the abuse the other driver was thinking.

But how do you show them that they were right and you were wrong?

I always do the shrug shoulder hand wave thing, its the one I do when someone "lets me" (meaning I force myself in because they don't understand the zipper) merge in front of them in traffic. If theres no traffic I hit boost and go around them without cutting anyone off.

 

[RAM]

Makes me hungry just reading about it.

Airbus looks to future with ‘flying doughnut’

Experimental design could redefine widebody aircraft but may not get off the ground soon

Airbus’s design for a future aircraft looks less like a conventional airliner and more like something from a 1950s sci-fi comic. If a patent application filed by the European aerospace and defence group takes off, future passengers could fasten their seat belts in cabins shaped like giant doughnuts — or flying saucers.

The UFO-like shape addresses a problem facing aircraft designers. Cylindrical shapes are good at containing the stresses of pressurised cabins but huge pressures on the cylinder’s front and rear ends need to be managed with strong, heavy structures.


The “flying doughnut”, however, is the company’s most radical reinvention of aircraft structure. The “simple and efficient” solution would involve passengers’ not only receiving their in-flight meals from trolleys negotiating curved aisles but also learning an entirely new way of boarding. Diagrams in the patent application show passengers entering the aircraft through steps leading up to doors arranged around the hole in the doughnut’s middle.

 

[JohnK]

JohnK, you must be a popular member on here. Your Inbox is full...

LOL. Not popular. Just lazy. Apologies....

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Am I the only small business holder here who is starting to get really sick of the concept of having to pay Telstra nigh on $70 / mth just to list a phone number in White Pages?

 

[markis10]

Am I the only small business holder here who is starting to get really sick of the concept of having to pay Telstra nigh on $70 / mth just to list a phone number in White Pages?

White pages listings are free, its the enhanced listing that costs.

https://www.tio.com.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/9029/Dispute-over-enhanced-listing-charges.pdf

 

[erkpod]

My Place of Employment has social media positions X 5 available.

So someone could get paid way more than me to tweet about my colleagues & I.

http://m.seek.com.au/job/27650531

 

[shellthom]

My Place of Employment has social media positions X 5 available.

So someone could get paid way more than me to tweet about my colleagues & I.

SEEK - Job Details

hmm if only I knew how to use twitter and had good communication skills

 

[hummel]

My Place of Employment has social media positions X 5 available.

So someone could get paid way more than me to tweet about my colleagues & I.

SEEK - Job Details

$75k+ to tweet? No wonder we can't get quality factory staff.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

White pages listings are free, its the enhanced listing that costs.

Yes correct - I should have added that - we have web site and email address included - no bolded listing just enhanced by adding web site and email address. I was basically inquiring aloud as to thoughts of others - has White Pages totally run their race in terms of phone number search?

 

[JessicaTam]

Yes correct - I should have added that - we have web site and email address included - no bolded listing just enhanced by adding web site and email address. I was basically inquiring aloud as to thoughts of others - has White Pages totally run their race in terms of phone number search?

I don't think I have touched a paper phone book for a few years.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

I don't think I have touched a paper phone book for a few years.

I think most people under 60yo same - but do people use White Pages online to search still?

 

[Pushka]

I don't think I have touched a paper phone book for a few years.

When I used to be able to read them.....and now they go from front verandah delivery directly into recycling bin.

 

[OATEK]

I think most people under 60yo same - but do people use White Pages online to search still?

Lat time I went to use the Online White Pages, the URL in my favourites was totally wrong, and my guess is that I have used it twice in the last 5 years.