Matt H"My dude, with all due respect..."
Go and get completely fucked
If you tell me that AI-based video learning is going to stop people falling off roofs, I...just...you are going kill people.
"Nah man, AI is the future."
*links to AI vendor website that basically promises no accidents ever if you use their magic computer program*
lol my guy I want to see you front the Supreme Court after the inevitable accident happens to see just how far "the computer said it was safe" gets you.
After a bit more of a back and forth, old mate just goes "your [sic] entitled to your opinion just keep it respectful"
my guy. You didn't see what I *wanted* to say.
anywy, the boss at the day job saw the exchange and found it all hilarious - so that's something.
in other news, someone upstairs had a yabbie in a tank.
last night it escaped.
IT found it, much to their surprise, in the kitchen. Downstairs.
The yabbie is missing a claw. A non-zero number of people spent time this morning looking for the missing claw.
This is the strangest workplace.
Did I mention this is the second time a yabbie has escaped? Becuase it is.
Yes, reader, this has happened before.
Again: strangest workplace.
Ok. So. The boss went out to the BBQ shop to get something BBQ-related this afternoon.
While at the BBQ shop, he saw some amazing, over-engineered BBQ that he how really wants to by.
He was showing me this BBQ.
I off-handedly made a comment that BBQ'd garlic prawns are amazing.
He got very excited at that and went off to see what trays and things we have so tomorrow he can cook garlic prawns.
I think tomorrow we're going to have garlic prawns.
I need to be careful with my power to shitpost things into reality.
Just the strangest workplace.
Boss just poked his head into my office to inform me there are prawns in the fridge.
And salt and pepper squid.
And calamari rings.
I guess it's happening.
the boss has fired up the BBQ.
I have eaten a not insignificant quantity of seafood.
CharlieG@MattHatton Now for a productive afternoon.
Craig Askings@MattHatton sincerely, with all my heart. Up yours!
allrite@MattHatton No yabbies visible.
Wonderdog 🏳️🌈@MattHatton And not a yabbie in sight…
I love this, so I@MattHatton needs more chili
@jpm I am not about to criticise the free seafood.
@MattHatton next time. There’s definitely going to be a next time
Que@MattHatton are you bbqing inside a warehouse?
@BabblingGeek Well, I’m not. The boss is.
Liam 
Adam@MattHatton my boss is a fucking dickhead, we never have this.
Alpine Tocsins@MattHatton at one previous workplace, I got the idea while at the pub for lunch that we should have a cloud chamber, so bought nearly all the bits on the way back to the office (including a smoke detector, for the radioactivity) and only failed because I couldn’t get dry ice in time. That was a fun place.
Justified Ancient of Moomin@MattHatton what about garlic yabbies though
@ThermiteBeGiants I will pass on the well-travelled yabbie.
Stephen Collins@MattHatton they are becoming intelligent. They're setting you up to get more crustaceans at which point they will collude to take over.
@trib Friendship ended with chairman of the board.
now chairman of the claws is my friend
@MattHatton Genuine LOL at this. 🤣
@allrite I often find myself wondering just how I managed to stay employed here.
Than I look at what else tends to happen around this place and I feel better.
@MattHatton see also: your pet octopus will definitely escape its tank. Very exciting when it’s an exotic kind of octopus known for its bright blue rings…
@jpm The most amazing bit is that, apparently, the yabbie was still alive.
@jpm Unlike the previous time this happened, where it was found several months later behind a desk. It is now encased in resin.
@MattHatton this was the fate of said octopus (minus the resin bit)
Shawn Williams@MattHatton I was today years old when I found out what a yabbie is
Mathi Gwithyas
thefathippyMy kids caught yabbies and brought them home in ice-cream buckets. Very capable escapees, quite happy to stroll across dry land. Or carpet, as the case may be.😂