Mistress has now been away a week on her holiday’s in NSW seeing her family, nothing to report, did the weekly shopping this morning early to avoid the heat Perth was supposed to reach 42 today, 11.21 tonight it is sitting around 29, so still rather hot. Pretty much stuck to my shopping list, still spent $75 approximately, only bought one item not on the list and that was a 3 kilo frozen turkey for $14.99. unfortunately we didn’t win anything on Powerball, bought another ticket for next week, as it had jack potted to $30 million.
Tomorrow, will run the washing machine and do an early load, so they dry on the line by the afternoon, one good thing about hot weather is washing doesn’t take long to dry. Will be having a few dishes with mushrooms in the ingredient this week for meals as l bought a box of mushrooms for $8 from IGA this morning, figured it was cheaper than paying $8 a kilo. Did get a nice tray of mangoes for $25, which was cheaper than buying them individually for $3 apiece.
Nothing planned for the week ahead, weather wise going to be remaining in the mid to high 30′s, so it is cooler option being at home with the evaporative cooler running away.
Younger brother called me yesterday about issues at his work, l gave him some advice after tallking through the issues, advised him to contact a friend of mine in Melbourne to see if he could go to his work with him and deal with the issues for him, he is supposedly going to be interviewed by HR about them next week. Whilst it is petty stuff, it is one of those situations that they can twist and manipulate and make serious enough allegations about it to warrant dismissing him. He has been there since he was 18, so nearly 30 years and he recently hurt his back requiring spinal operation, so he doesn’t need the aggravation at the moment.
I told him, if my friend wasn’t available than contact my solicitor in Melbourne and take him along, he has had some experience in Industrial Law and most importantly when confronted with this sort of bullshit allegations, you need to have someone independent there as a witness as a minimum and more importantly someone to act as your advocate. He could in turn make allegations against his Departmental Head for workplace victimisation, harassment and bullying and so he shouldn’t try and deal with this alone. One of the things that annoys me being in Perth so far from family is you cannot be there at a moment notice to asset them when they need it.
Posted on January 28, 2012
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