Ezy2Confuze Member 898 Member For: 15y 2m 4d Gender: Male Location: West Perth. Posted 05/12/17 12:50 PM Share Posted 05/12/17 12:50 PM 9 hours ago, Rab said: Anyone know what's happened to Stever @discostig? Seems to have disappeared. I'm pretty sure Steve works for an IT outsourcer, so he's probably running around like the proverbial blue a**ed fly, as this time of year, everyone wants stuff done during the quiet time before Christmas and the embargo's that the data centre and communications companies like Telstra have. These mean that no new equipment is allowed to be installed between mid December to mid January, so you can understand companies trying to get stuff done before the embargo's come into effect. The other reason companies try put new equipment in now is because it's half way through the financial year, so they take stock of their budget's and buy stuff if they are under budget. It also tends to be a big hiring time for the same reason, they see they have enough in the budget for hiring staff. That's one of the reasons I'm not convinced the economies improving in Wait aWhile, when they talk up the number of jobs "created" after July, because the new budget situation means companies hire new staff which inflates the figures for the next few months. Also there's information we've received from outside sources about 1,800 staff being made redundant (I think it's in about 6 months time iirc) when a mine in the NT which is mostly W.A. workers goes from construction to production. We heard this about 4 months ago now, I have a suspicion it's Ichthys but like I said, we heard the news 4 months or so ago now so I'm not 100% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 12y 7m 16d Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 05/12/17 03:24 PM Share Posted 05/12/17 03:24 PM Hey @bupalooga saw your car at mcm on Saturday looked good mate also thinking about buying a twin turbo v12 amg with a cop chip. Whatta ya reckon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arronm Dropping a turd Gold Donating Members 9,520 Member For: 17y 1m 23d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 05/12/17 03:28 PM Share Posted 05/12/17 03:28 PM A fews on car sales. Didn't see any cop chips though. I heard you can download ecu tunes from BitTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffwagon Puff Gold Donating Members 15,972 Member For: 9y 10m 20d Gender: Male Location: South Australia Posted 05/12/17 10:56 PM Share Posted 05/12/17 10:56 PM If anyone needs waking up at least once an hour through the night for any reason, I have a perfectly good baby I'm happy to loan out 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,042 Member For: 16y 8m 10d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 05/12/17 11:01 PM Share Posted 05/12/17 11:01 PM happy to not care about that morning all, happy Wednesday and... office day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffwagon Puff Gold Donating Members 15,972 Member For: 9y 10m 20d Gender: Male Location: South Australia Posted 05/12/17 11:13 PM Share Posted 05/12/17 11:13 PM Cheers butthead Not ideal but eh what can ya do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skidxr6t skids Donating Members 2,754 Member For: 11y 11m 21d Gender: Not Telling Posted 05/12/17 11:37 PM Share Posted 05/12/17 11:37 PM wait till they're in their teenage years and wake em up early I say 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k31th less WHY; more WOT Site Developer 29,042 Member For: 16y 8m 10d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 06/12/17 01:00 AM Share Posted 06/12/17 01:00 AM That's a fairly ({})y thing to do. Don't hold a grudge, imho. You decided to bring them into this world and you decided to take on the associated care and attention that that task obviously entailed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puffwagon Puff Gold Donating Members 15,972 Member For: 9y 10m 20d Gender: Male Location: South Australia Posted 06/12/17 01:04 AM Share Posted 06/12/17 01:04 AM Not only am I going to wake them up but I'll screenshot this convo and when I wake them with a water pistol I'll tell them it's because of this. See?! Haha they'll love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rab WOT? Moderating Team 10,981 Member For: 11y 9m 24d Gender: Male Location: Frankston, 3199 Posted 06/12/17 01:14 AM Share Posted 06/12/17 01:14 AM 13 minutes ago, k31th said: That's a fairly ({})y thing to do. If the worst thing the kids cop as teenagers is dad waking them early then I'm tipping Puff's done a pretty awesome job raising them 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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