Banter 2021 Off-Topic Chat Thread - PART II

[cats_09]

Just got a message from my parents that the tests came back negative.

That's a positive

 

[cats_09]

 

[Shell]

Yeah that deserves a big fat thumbs down if there ever was a thumbs down..

 

[winty]

This is f**king disgusting...

 

[Shell]

That looks like the after pic

 

[dazbroncos]

Ah, the AFL sent me a WatchAFL.com.au voucher for my 2022 Cats membership last night.

Registration works out just fine, so that part is good. Can watch shows and match replays on their website, no problem.

Their Android app is a little goofy, but I can live with it. The sucky part is that they don't have an app colored for "Android TV," so we can't play it directly on our nice Sony TV. I can use Chromecast but that means I have to keep a phone or tablet around to drive it.

I guess I'll find out how well it works live when the AFLW starts up in January.

laptop with screen sharing also works -same theory I know -i just go HDMI right into the TV

GO Catters

 

[Braklet]

laptop with screen sharing also works -same theory I know -i just go HDMI right into the TV

Yeah, I also have an HTPC connected to the TV, so can also use the website directly. Just nowhere near as handy as using the TV remote directly.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

To all, but especially vanderlay industries I wish you all a happy festivus.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

 

[Braklet]

To all, but especially vanderlay industries I wish you all a happy festivus.

I got a lotta problems with you people, and now you're going to hear about it!

 

[Braklet]

The reason for the season...

 

[Shell]

I wanna do the feats of strength

Will drop any of youse in a second

 

[Shell]

Anyone else getting these annoying af texts about deliveries. /deliveries i dont have and am not expecting

 

[cats_09]

Anyone else getting these annoying af texts about deliveries. /deliveries i dont have and am not expecting

No for me, but my mum did

It's scammers - all I do is delete

 

[Shell]

Obviously it's scammers...

******* pissing me off, at least you can totally ignore phone calls.

 

[cats_09]

Obviously it's scammers...

******* pissing me off, at least you can totally ignore phone calls.

Can you block the numbers?

 

[Shell]

Idk.

Put them as spam I guess, ill try that. It still goes on your phone tho.

 

[Down at K Park]

Can you block the numbers?

It's always a different number. I get them every few days, and have for the past 3 or 4 months.

 

[Hamingja]

Scammers must have randomly spoofed my mobile number so I got a heap of messages from the people they were trying to scam telling me they don't have a tax debt lol, morans

 

[Shell]

The sad thing is, some ppl must fall for it. Otherwise it wouldnt even be a "thing" in the first place.

 

[Sky]

they stopped for me when i hopped on the dnc register

 

[Down at K Park]

they stopped for me when i hopped on the dnc register

As if scammers give a damn about that though. They already are doing something illegal, what’s one more.

 

[winty]

Looking forward to work next week. We have a program at work where if someone has been in our hardship program for over a year and have been making all their payments which cover their ongoing gas or electricity costs, we will waive their overdue balance. Next week we'll all be allocated an hour to call the customers involved and tell them the good news that their ongoing debt has been waived.

There's about 800 accounts all up, and the largest balance we'll be waiving is over $19k.

I'm expecting there'll be either a lot of tears of joy, or a lot of people claiming it's all a massive fraud. Hopefully more of the former.

Loving making these calls at the moment. We were originally rostered on for an hour each, but I've been rostered on to do outbound this week, so once we've finished calling customers who had requested a call back, we're getting stuck into trying to call the customers who we've waived debts for. Not only that, but I put in for a couple of hours of OT so I can help contact more customers. Today I spent about 5 hours calling customers and telling them the good news.

Most of them have been appreciative, a few have said I've made their Christmas, but I had to laugh at one I called yesterday who seemed to think I wasn't on the level, said "Nah, don't worry about it" and hung up. I wonder if that means I can add the debt back onto his account...

 

[Shell]

Loving making these calls at the moment. We were originally rostered on for an hour each, but I've been rostered on to do outbound this week, so once we've finished calling customers who had requested a call back, we're getting stuck into trying to call the customers who we've waived debts for. Not only that, but I put in for a couple of hours of OT so I can help contact more customers. Today I spent about 5 hours calling customers and telling them the good news.

Most of them have been appreciative, a few have said I've made their Christmas, but I had to laugh at one I called yesterday who seemed to think I wasn't on the level, said "Nah, don't worry about it" and hung up. I wonder if that means I can add the debt back onto his account...

I'd say.... yes.

 

[Shell]

Or do some shifty laundering and pocket that cash yourself. Everybody wins!*


*cant guarantee you wont lose your job or not go to jail