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Comment on Recruiter harassed me whilst off sick. Considering filing a complaint. How best to handle this? in ~life
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Comment on Recruiter harassed me whilst off sick. Considering filing a complaint. How best to handle this? in ~life
Bullmaestro Link ParentCartharsis and having a written record of the issues raised. Given the Trustpilot reviews this agency has, I don't see anything changing. While 70% of the 1-star reviews are clearly people salty...Cartharsis and having a written record of the issues raised.
Best case scenario is that you cause some systemic change at the agency which prevents similar things to happen to others.
Given the Trustpilot reviews this agency has, I don't see anything changing. While 70% of the 1-star reviews are clearly people salty about not receiving responses or feedback to advertisements they responded to, the others seem legit and like they correllate to my experience.
Also for the record, I don't like the job and I feel like the only reason I'm still working here is that I've been pressured to stay to the end.
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Comment on Recruiter harassed me whilst off sick. Considering filing a complaint. How best to handle this? in ~life
Bullmaestro Link ParentI don't know who Ben's line manager is. He's also a management consultant in his own right who handles the temp recruitment team for my specific county. Maybe someone like a regional manage or...I don't know who Ben's line manager is. He's also a management consultant in his own right who handles the temp recruitment team for my specific county. Maybe someone like a regional manage or director may be above him, but it would take a lot of LinkedIn sleuthing to find someone like that and I dunno if cold contacting a random manager is a good idea instead of complaining via official channels.
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Comment on Recruiter harassed me whilst off sick. Considering filing a complaint. How best to handle this? in ~life
Bullmaestro Link ParentOh very much so. I'd say I don't particularly need this job. The only thing that has honestly kept me there is that my colleagues and managers are nice people. But the pay sucks (£13.50 an hour...Oh very much so.
I'd say I don't particularly need this job. The only thing that has honestly kept me there is that my colleagues and managers are nice people. But the pay sucks (£13.50 an hour isn't that much above min wage here), the commute is too long and too costly, the head office is a 50 mile drive away from me, the systems kinda suck, and it's just repetitive invoice processing 8 hours a day.
As much as I agree with you on "many recruiters are scum", I think the industry is a bit more regulated in this country compared to the US or Canada.
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Recruiter harassed me whilst off sick. Considering filing a complaint. How best to handle this?
The recruitment agency I temp with are a major multinational player in the market, have a bit of a reputation for being sharks (based on feedback I've seen about them on Reddit and Trustpilot.)...
The recruitment agency I temp with are a major multinational player in the market, have a bit of a reputation for being sharks (based on feedback I've seen about them on Reddit and Trustpilot.) They're a publicly listed company who absolutely 100% should know better.
I caught a really nasty virus two weekends ago and had been practically bedridden for nearly a week. For the first two days of calling in sick, I logged into my work laptop and messaged my line manager via Teams. On Wednesday morning, I was advised that I should also keep my agency in the loop, so I instead sent her an email, ensuring to copy in the recruitment consultant who is my point-of-contact (I'll just call him Ben.)
At roughly 3:40 PM, Ben sends me a snarky WhatsApp message out of the blue. "you know we can see your details on job boards lol." I left him on read because 1. I'm in bed and 2. My job search is frankly none of his business.
He then called me and proceeded to all-but-accuse me of pulling sickies to attend interviews, going behind his back to apply for jobs. He asked me if I even considered how bad I was going to make him and the agency look if I quit my job, then proceeded to interrogate me about my contact I had with other recruiters and warned me to delist myself any job boards moving forwards. I complied, purely because I wanted to shut him up and didn't want to start a further argument, when in my head I just wanted to verbally chew him out.
I don't appreciate being intimidated and guilt-tripped about my job search, especially when I am genuinely unwell, and I am seriously thinking about lodging a formal complaint with the agency, but I'm also worried about facing retaliation for this.
AFAIK, I have not signed into a contract preventing me from applying for roles with other employers or agencies. I'm also on a temp zero-hours contract that is due to finish in less than three weeks where either party can terminate it without notice or liability. There is the possibility of the work assignment being extended, or me being offered a permanent role but I don't intend to stay beyond this. This was a decision I made to myself weeks before Ben's recent asshole behaviour. Other than that, I literally have nothing lined up.
Has anybody had experiences raising formal complaints with recruitment agencies? The agency does have a complaints procedure and a dedicated quality care team that investigates formal complaints.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Bullmaestro (edited )LinkToram Online is a very interesting MMORPG and I'm not sure if I like it or not. On one hand, it's a uniquely charming game with a somewhat decent story, a great soundtrack and is somehow both...Toram Online is a very interesting MMORPG and I'm not sure if I like it or not. On one hand, it's a uniquely charming game with a somewhat decent story, a great soundtrack and is somehow both mobile-focused and actually having some depth to its gameplay. That's where my positives for it kinda end. It's very grindy, relies heavily on gaining hundreds of levels and doing dailies for progression and graphically it looks incredibly dated like an late PS1 game. Toram also aesthetically looks so similar to Final Fantasy XI and XIV to the point where I'm surprised Square Enix haven't sued for copyright infringement. There is genuinely a short humanoid race of people who look damn-near identical to the Tarutaru from FFXI or Lalafell from FFXIV. Even Josh Strife Hayes pointed out so many aesthetic similarities between this game and the Final Fantasy MMOs in his video review of the game.
I take some of my previous gripes about Vampire Survivors back. Ever since unlocking Hurry mode, the complaint about having to play a constant 30 mins through a stage has subsided. I still feel like progression through the game is confusing. It also feels like the game is 50,000 times better to play with a gamepad. Some weapons shoot forwards and it's better to have the more precise turning of a thumbstick than the 8 directions of WASD movement.
Old School RuneScape has been going rather slow for me. My current goal is to reach 62 Woodcutting and complete Sins of the Father to unlock Darkmeyer and be potentially ready for Blood Moon Rises when that releases. So far, I have one woodcutting level to go before I achieve the final minimum level requirement, and have completed In Search Of The Myreque and In Aid Of The Myreque but I have three more quests. Darkness of Hallowvale and A Taste of Hope seem super tedious by comparison.
Guild Wars Reforged disappointed me in the 20 minutes (thus far) I've played of it. Not because I effectively had to create another account because Steam licence keys are incompatible with existing ArenaNet accounts, but because for £17.99 this game basically looks the same as I remember Guild Wars Factions looking back in 2006 and I expected far more of a visual and QoL upgrade compared to what they actually packaged. The bundle doesn't even include Eye of the North or the Bonus Mission Pack, which you'd kinda expect from a 20th anniversary remaster.
Mind you, I hated Factions when I first played through it, but people have always told me that's the weakest of the three Guild Wars campaigns, and that Prophecies and Nightfall are so much better. My only experience so far with Reforged and playing through the Prophecies campaign has been doing a few quests, almost dying to a level 1 enemy because it turns out necromancer/warrior hybrids suck, and hitting a roadblock with a quest where I have to find an NPC in a location not even marked on my map in order to open a gate and progress. I mean I know excessive handholding is a thing in modern games, but if you're telling me to go somewhere that isn't even listed anywhere on my map without any quest markers (maybe because I haven't properly explored the zone), don't be surprised when I get confused and bored.
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Comment on Hooters | Bankrupt in ~food
Bullmaestro (edited )LinkIn short, a series of private equity acquisitions, a leveraged buyout (why have they not been outlawed already?), terrible economic conditions and an overall decline in food quality led to them...In short, a series of private equity acquisitions, a leveraged buyout (why have they not been outlawed already?), terrible economic conditions and an overall decline in food quality led to them filing for bankruptcy. A lot of people blame #MeToo for their decline but I don't think the movement and all the scandals they faced were significant enough to truly harm the brand, unlike American Apparel who were effectively torpedoed out of existence under similar circumstances.
The video mentions a similar chain called Twin Peaks who also have scantily-clad women as their main draw but haven't been in freefall. You could also say the same for Coyote Ugly who have effectively adopted the same concept but for bars.
I've only been to Hooters once for a birthday meal, and this was when they expanded their UK business. The food sucked, and to nobody's surprise, the location I went to shut within less than 2 years. Feminists celebrated the restaurant's closure, yet I see the Coyote Ugly Saloon that opened here months ago getting no flak despite them effectively running on the same concept (bar/restaurant staffed by predominantly women in skimpy shorts), and I genuinely think that if Twin Peaks expanded outside of the US and opened a restaurant here, it would go down really well.
Also, when looking up if Hooters still even had a presence in my country, I came across their UK website and saw this quote about their origins.
In 1983, six businessmen in Clearwater, Florida, who had no prior experience in the restaurant industry, teamed up to create a place where they couldn’t be kicked out. On April Fools’ Day that year, they opened it as a joke, never imagining it would turn into a huge success, let alone a global phenomenon.
Opening "a place where they couldn't be kicked out" sounds like a red flag motivator to for anybody creating a restaurant brand. It's weird that it's only the UK arm of the business mentioning this in their branding.
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Comment on Consumer Electronics Show 2026 in ~tech
Bullmaestro LinkFor me Dell stood out for saying what many could have easily predicted. Consumers don't want AI. It's made hardware prices skyrocket, has replaced a lot of workers despite the tech being pretty...For me Dell stood out for saying what many could have easily predicted. Consumers don't want AI. It's made hardware prices skyrocket, has replaced a lot of workers despite the tech being pretty shit, and is getting very justified consumer backlash as a result.
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Comment on UE5 Environment Art - Cliffwood Village (2023) in ~arts
Bullmaestro LinkLooked gorgeous but the water in this has so many problems. From far away, the waterfall looks like an incredibly low-res and flat animated texture, and then close-up it seems like it's spewing...Looked gorgeous but the water in this has so many problems.
From far away, the waterfall looks like an incredibly low-res and flat animated texture, and then close-up it seems like it's spewing around in very predictable but also unnatural patterns. And the stream looks too blue and is flowing too slowly.
Maybe it's an Unreal Engine 5 problem.
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Comment on What was it like for you and your partner when one of you was losing a parent "slowly"? in ~life
Bullmaestro LinkUnfortunately I'm dealing with a similar-ish situation with my 80-year-old dad and I've been witnessing his slow decline for years first-hand. He has chronic illnesses (COPD, kidney failure, and a...Unfortunately I'm dealing with a similar-ish situation with my 80-year-old dad and I've been witnessing his slow decline for years first-hand.
He has chronic illnesses (COPD, kidney failure, and a few others), plus complications stemming from a previous workplace accident and the cocktail of meds they've put him on since. He's been rushed to hospital a few times with respiratory infections because his blood oxygen levels have gone dangerously low. The main reason I'm still living with my parents even at my age is because I simply can't afford to move out and have been screwed over by the economy and by the last few governments.
My chance to buy a flat and move out over a year ago got delayed by probate, then outright torpedoed when I was made redundant because I chose to stick with a multinational vet care corporation whose executives responded to low sales with a "mass layoffs will continue until profits improve" mindset.
Don't want to go into too much detail about my home life but my parents are mollycoddling to say the least. I almost never cook for myself, never do my own laundry and even on days where I'm working from home they treat me like they're my servants. Even at 80 my dad has been particularly egregious about babying me through my day. Part of the reason I loathe my current temp job is the early starts, but even that's a problem on days where I work remotely and don't have to prep for a 2 hour commute. I often struggle to sleep and get woken up earlier than intended because he's up super early loudly moving things around, watching TV and setting up my desk. And if I ask him to stop and let me take care of myself he will throw a tantrum like I'm ungrateful.
If you couldn't already tell, I don't have the best relationship with my dad. But I am still greatly concerned for him.
A few years ago, he tripped, fell down the stairs and banged his head on a step when trying to answer the front door. I heard loud thudding and came out of my room to find him near the front door laying in a pool of blood. The man who rang the doorbell hadn't even noticed until I opened the front door in a panic, so I'm sure that if I went to the library as originally planned, he would have bled out.
That memory is still etched in my skull and had made me feel uneasy for a while. And I just know that when my dad inevitably passes away (don't know how many years he has left) it's going to break me.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
Bullmaestro (edited )LinkOld School RuneScape has been my main game of the week. Current goal is to hit 75 Attack and get a Godsword then hit 66 Herblore before I really start farming the Moons of Peril. Melee otherwise...Old School RuneScape has been my main game of the week. Current goal is to hit 75 Attack and get a Godsword then hit 66 Herblore before I really start farming the Moons of Peril. Melee otherwise feels far too slow to train for me, even with methods like Scurrius (only got good when the spines FINALLY dropped) and Sulphur Naguas netting me nearly 100k XP an hour.
When my work temp contract finishes, I plan to play and stream the new Deadman Mode season. I fucking hate PvP but I also feel like the only reason I hate playing on the permanent Deadman world is because it's full of a few griefing assholes who have genuinely chased any new players away from the server. I hated the fact that we didn't get Leagues last year and I didn't like how short Grid Master was, so I'm eager to get into another seasonal event, even if it's mainly for PvPers.
DMM is brutal. It's a version of Old School with 5x to 20x XP rates, where the entire map aside from a few sparse safe zones are open PvP. There used to be no combat level brackets whatsoever, but currently the brackets which determine what players can attack you is 3-75, 76-85 and 86-126.
This would be all well and good if the permanent worlds weren't full of mage or range pures, a.k.a. griefing sad fucks who min-maxxed their combat stats to minimise their combat level and maximise their raw DPS standing outside of every safe zone ready to 2 shot you.
And if you die on a Deadman world, good luck progressing your account. The PKer gets a key and can loot your 10 most valuable bank slots. Even if you found a way to travel between the mode's sparse safe zones, barely any of them have activities that are going to raise your stats or earn you meaningful gear.
Other than that...
Cookie Clicker has quickly turned into a slog. I last rebirthed when I had roughly 1 quadrillion heavenly chips and now it's taking me whole days of idling for me to even get a remotely sizeable amount of prestige levels. And all of this to unlock one, maybe two upgrades.
Vampire Survivors. Picked this one up yesterday when I saw a Hypixel Studios developer had created a mod for Hytale (releasing in 8 days) that was like a recreation of this game. I played a few rather shitty mobile clones of this without knowing what the OG indie game was. And I've been playing it mostly whilst in bed on my Steam Deck because I have a really terrible cold that has left me borderline bedridden for the past two days. Despite the Overwhelmingly Positive reviews, I'm not sure if I like Vampire Survivors that much. I just have a lot of nitpicks with the game, like:
- About 95% of your gold income will come from opening treasure chests which come from minibosses that occasionally spawn.
- The animation for opening these chests drags on for far too long, cannot be skipped and gets old really fast.
- 30 minutes is far too long for a single level playthrough. Even the mobile clones I've played have limited levels to 15 minute bursts.
- SteamOS's performance overlay is permanently on and cannot be deactivated. I get this problem in this game only. The overlay is genuinely disabled in my Steam Deck's options menu.
- It feels like the game demands maybe 10 - 20 hours of non-stop grinding for enough gold to buy all the upgrades before you can realistically start clearing past stage 2.
- Stage 2 is genuinely easier than Stage 1. I cleared it first on multiple characters.
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Comment on CGA-2026-01 🕹️⛵🛡️ INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkI remember when this game was first announced and everybody flipped because they expected a serious and gritty title to follow up Ocarina & Majora, not this "celda crap." Since then Wind Waker...I remember when this game was first announced and everybody flipped because they expected a serious and gritty title to follow up Ocarina & Majora, not this "celda crap."
Since then Wind Waker released to critical acclaim and has ironically aged like a fine wine, unlike many of the other titles that came before or after.
This is one of the many Gamecube games that my brother had, so I had limited exposure to it before getting a Wii U and playing that many years later. I do remember some things being an absolute pain like the Triforce hunt.
On my HD playthrough (first time I played it independently) I got as far as the Earth Temple before putting the game down. I hope to be able to finish it this time around.
I'll probably be playing the Switch 2 Gamecube release, even though I absolutely loathe the sheer amount of input lag on Nintendo's official emulator. HD is undoubtedly more polished but the power cable on my Wii U console and gamepad literally burned out so as far as I'm concerned it's electronic waste now.
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Comment on Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (January 2026) in ~health.mental
Bullmaestro (edited )LinkMy New Year's Eve actually went really well, which is shocking given the last few years. I finally got to celebrate with a karaoke night without something going wrong. No homewrecker...My New Year's Eve actually went really well, which is shocking given the last few years.
I finally got to celebrate with a karaoke night without something going wrong. No homewrecker guilt-tripping me into changing my plans because they wanted to split apart my buddy's relationship, no stress of a family member being hospitalized, no drunk driver t-boning my friend's car in the parking lot, no pub landlord cancelling the karaoke part of the event just an hour in because he wanted a disco instead.
Others didn't have it so well. A lot of people I knew had friends pass away on/near NYE. My ex-girlfriend's father had a heart attack and his prognosis isn't looking good. And unfortunately that's turned into an uncomfortable conversation about inheritance where I'm worried her mum is going to do everything in her power to deny her any money.
I dunno what I'm going to do for 2026. I have another month to go until this temp job (finally) comes to an end. If they offer me a perm role I do not intend to take it. That job and all the (at home and commute-related) bullshit that has come alongside it has fucked with me physically and mentally.
I have a meeting with a recruitment consultant on Monday, but I feel like this is going to be another professional timewaster who will just bombard me with questions she would have found out if she just spent two minutes reading my CV, who will then tell me she has no positions available. I've thought about changing professions or starting a side-hustle because screw the accountancy profession and screw generative AI taking all our jobs, but I don't know what.
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Comment on Iceland has hottest Christmas Eve ever with temperature of 19.8°C – meteorological office reports high temperatures across country and record measured at Seyðisfjörður in east in ~enviro
Bullmaestro (edited )LinkI live in South West England and Christmas Eve was about 5°C outside during the day. This is literally Iceland. While it's not as stupidly far north as Greenland and isn't practically dry-humping...I live in South West England and Christmas Eve was about 5°C outside during the day.
This is literally Iceland. While it's not as stupidly far north as Greenland and isn't practically dry-humping the Arctic, it is still much further north than the British Isles and is on a latitude comparable to Norway and Finland. 19.8°C near the Winter solstice is a fucking worrying anomaly for a country with a subpolar oceanic climate.
Even the Wikipedia page suggests a record high for Reykjavík in December to be 12 degrees. That record was smashed by nearly eight degrees. 19.8°C feels like temperatures you'd typically expect midsummer, or during an April/October heatwave.
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Comment on Half way through the 2020's. What's your favorite games so far? in ~games
Bullmaestro LinkI'll do something different and give the 3 best and worst games I've played that have released in the last five years. Best: Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. I have been waiting a long time for this game to...I'll do something different and give the 3 best and worst games I've played that have released in the last five years.
Best:
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Bomb Rush Cyberfunk. I have been waiting a long time for this game to come out, and now that it's been released, I can say the wait was absolutely worth it. I just wish there was more content and Steam Workshop support though. Not sure if I'm looking forward to Hyperfunk though, which seems to be going all-in on the movement plus mods released.
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Donkey Kong Bananza. This is the reason to buy a Switch 2 and due to the sheer amount of destruction in the game's environments, I can easily see why this game wasn't possible on the OG Switch hardware. The Super Mario Odyssey devs knocked it out of the park with this one.
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OMORI. Many people never expected this game to come out so having it suddenly shadowdrop on Christmas Day 2020 was a shock to everyone. It does an even better job than Undertale at paying homage to Earthbound, despite its dark themes.
Worst:
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Umamusume: Pretty Derby. This is just mobile gacha slop. Portraying race horses as anime girls and having them do j-pop concerts after every few races gets very grating after a while.
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Mario Kart World. Maybe I was just spoiled rotten by the sheer amount of DLC content released for Mario Kart 8 and how polished online was there, but Mario's pivot into open world kart racing did not go well. The intermission tracks (which Nintendo had been forcing upon the playerbase through updates which prevent Random from picking a standard 3-lap course) suck, there's nothing to do in the open world they added, and I think the open world aspect hurts the potential for adding DLC.
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FOREWARNED. I dunno why I loathe this one. It could be that a (former) friend who cut me off last year in spectacular fashion bought it for us, or it could be that it's a really jank 4 player co-op
survival horror game which doesn't even remotely explain its mechanics.
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Comment on Are you still using social media? in ~tech
Bullmaestro LinkI actively use: Facebook - Mainly because there are a lot of decent meme pages that make what you see on Reddit look like crap. Also, a few friends use Messenger. X - I just haven't really...I actively use:
- Facebook - Mainly because there are a lot of decent meme pages that make what you see on Reddit look like crap. Also, a few friends use Messenger.
- X - I just haven't really bothered deleting my account, as I still follow a few political analysis accounts, plus it's a platform where a lot of businesses still use it to communicate with customers. But yeah, it's turned into a Nazi bar outside of that very specific purpose, 100%. And I think Bluesky and Threads are just awful.
- Instagram - One I sometimes use to find funny reels, because I don't really like TikTok's interface.
- YouTube - It has reels and short-form content too but I watch YT more-so for long-form quality content and documentaries.
- WhatsApp - It's how I keep up with a lot of friends, including my ex-girlfriend, and a group of people I regularly attend karaoke with.
- Reddit - Has declined a lot in recent years, especially after the third-party API revolt and Spez enshittifying the app.
- Digg - Yes, I'm in the closed alpha. No, I don't think this platform is anywhere near ready for a mainstream launch. You can't even edit your own comments, and AI is used very poorly to summarize posts.
- Lemmy - Has been on a slow decline because a lot of people are turning back to Reddit or ditching social news aggregators altogether. It's just full of tankies and Linux users at this point.
- LinkedIn - I don't update it much. 95% of the interactions I get are recruitment spam, and these parasites have been professional time-wasters as of late.
- Discord - I find myself using it a lot less now, as I don't really game that much these days.
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Comment on What are your predictions for 2026? in ~talk
Bullmaestro LinkArtificial intelligence wrecks havoc upon the economy, either from major advancements which end up replacing millions of jobs, or from the AI bubble bursting and causing a market crash more...-
Artificial intelligence wrecks havoc upon the economy, either from major advancements which end up replacing millions of jobs, or from the AI bubble bursting and causing a market crash more catastrophic than 2008. Trillions are wiped off the stock market with major tech firms going under.
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Trump throws Zelenskyy under the bus and forces him to agree a peace deal where Russia gets to keep the Donbas and Crimea and where Ukraine must stay neutral and cannot join NATO or the EU. The alternative is America pulling support.
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Democrats take back the House and Senate in spectacular fashion, with some deeply red states turning against Trump, opening the door for a fresh attempt at impeachment.
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Andrew Tate flees Romania to avoid criminal repercussions, to a country that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US or UK.
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Comment on AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is. in ~comp
Bullmaestro Link Parent100% this. They hear AI as a buzzword and are like "fuck yeah."100% this. They hear AI as a buzzword and are like "fuck yeah."
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Comment on AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is. in ~comp
Bullmaestro LinkI use Oracle Fusion at work (currently work as a purchase ledger clerk) and I'm one of the temps tasked with "training" their Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) system to recognize documents...I use Oracle Fusion at work (currently work as a purchase ledger clerk) and I'm one of the temps tasked with "training" their Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR) system to recognize documents because my workplace's method of processing invoices has otherwise been very manual.
Oracle's solution is by far the worst OCR system I've ever used for processing PDF invoices and it's not even close. I genuinely cannot tell if it's because Oracle are a bunch of patent trolls with far more lawyers than engineers, or because they're embracing AI.
The irony is that IDR is neither intelligent nor does it recognize documents. After processing hundreds of docs from a specific supplier and marking the specific features this system needs to look out for, it still completely miscategorises invoices. And the thing about using Oracle Fusion as an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution is that you have to code transactions to very specific accounts with a long string of numbers.
When processing invoices manually you can just code the net invoice value to one line (assuming they're goods of the same type), post that lengthy accounting string once, put in the tax calculation and be done with it. When you process invoices with IDR, it replicates every line of an invoice, or tries its best to - I've seen plenty of errors.
Oracle Fusion only allows you to view 5 invoice lines at a time, and when you try to scroll down, it lags a lot, and it takes very simple stuff to glitch the system and end up having to start over again. You could click a button to get the detailed full screen view of each line which would make things easier if it didn't glitch out and fail to enable this view until you've already validated the invoice.
This crock of shit is part of what made Larry Ellison the second-richest man in the world. Let that sink in...
Point is... I'm done with AI slop.
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Comment on How do you want to define 2026 for yourself? in ~talk
Bullmaestro LinkI dunno what my new year's resolution will be or even if I believe in the concept. A close friend once said that we shouldn't reserve self-reflection for a specific calendar date and I agree with...I dunno what my new year's resolution will be or even if I believe in the concept. A close friend once said that we shouldn't reserve self-reflection for a specific calendar date and I agree with him.
Anyway, for me 2025 really sucked and I want next year to be the one where I bounce back.
This time last year I was meant to be moving into my own apartment. Then I was made redundant, spent seven months struggling to find another job and currently work in a role that I hate. It's the fact that I have to wake up at stupid o'clock in the morning, which can either be 7 am on a home day, or 5 am if I need to commute to the office. Commuting takes two hours each way regardless of if I drive or take public transport and it effectively garnishes 2.5 hours worth of my wages on bus/train costs, or slightly less in fuel if I drive. Also, I didn't spend years and thousands of pounds on accountancy qualifications so I could do 8 hours of basic data entry a day for £13.50 an hour whilst some parasite recruiter earns commission from my misery.
Despite 2025 being the year I lost my virginity and having a brief relationship, my love life (or lack thereof) has flatlined. I don't get matches on dating sites. A friend of mine led me on big time. And I just feel like nothing is going my way.
I think my resolution for 2026 will be to stop brooding. If somebody pisses me off or upsets me I have to be more confrontational.
Their complaints procedure is on their website and in the temporary contract terms and conditions. Not any contacts for senior business partners or directors.