Hi, Bob. Thanks for meeting with us. You know Sharon from HR. Good, good. Take a seat.
First of all I want to thank you for your years of service to the companyâŚ
Yes, itâs about the charity thing.
I can assure you Iâm very serious. Bob, you stole from a charity. Quite frankly itâs not the sort of look we want around here, certainly not from one of our senior employees.
No, itâs not like you stole from the company, but thatâs the point isnât it. Where do you draw the line? Why wouldnât you steal from the company if youâre going to steal from a charity?
And itâs not like you donât have the money. SoâŚyou did this because it was a little inconvenient to you, that was the moral judgement you made. That made it okay.
No, Iâm afraid itâs effective immediately.
Got you.
Hahahaha, could you imagine? I mean, maybe if it was one of the floor staffâŚno, no, it was a joke.
Come on, weâre going for a long lunch. Iâm paying. Well, I say Iâm payingâŚ
Hahahahaha.
Is it stealing ifâŚ
when you move into a new office and the predecessor left all their junk there âjust in case you need itâ and underneath everything you find 2 x bottles of veuve clicquotâŚ
and you take them?
Standing there at the bus stop yesterday arvo, minding my own business, when whoosh I get a magpie swoop at my face and peck at my eye. No serious damage but the eyeâs sore and red today.
The bird then did the same to a girl a minute later.
As if I needed another reason to hate Collingwood.
Never ever been swooped by a magpie. Thereâs even a short road in Thornbury near my home which I cycle through daily where Iâve counted as many as 20 of them, and nope.
i copped three in one stretch of bike path in dandy the other day. one got my ear, the other got my cheek and the third missed. the first one caused me to get the wobbles up on the bike, nearly binned it!
â â â â â â â magpies! i do love the ones in my backyard however, they are friendly.
Drivers who stop at unmanned unsignalled school crossings for people waiting on the footpath. If the crossing isnât attended by flouro flag wavers YOUâRE NOT REQUIRED TO STOP. Some probably do it out of courtesy to pedestrians, some because they donât know the rules, but whether Iâm a driver or pedestrian geez it â â â â â â me off.
I like Magpies (the birds only). They only get aggro because they think youâre going to fark up their nest and eat their young. And thatâs just because they donât recognise you and that you therefore must be a bit sus as far as theyâre concerned. And thatâs probably because some other person that they also didnât recognise farked with them at some point. They are long-lived and donât reproduce frequently so it makes sense that they invest a lot in parental care.
Once they understand that youâre non-threatening (theyâll literally recognise your face) they should stop giving you such a hard time.