WGG: When keys on y key board just stop working
I can't use the period coa forward slash or letter "" buttons at the oent

Seems like its a case of 

You know what really grinds my keys........................

Wgmg: when your supervisor is your  workplace bully. Getting to a point that I'm thinking of going on stress  leave

WGMG : didnt get put into consideration for a promotion at work. Reasoning being we are comfortable where you are.

Couldn't you tell the higher ups about it?

I can't trust anyone there 

Start writing down every instance - time, date, word-for-word and when it gets long enough, take it to HR.

Been doing that.  And what I meant by  I can't trust anyone. I meant management.  All are friends/ related .

Family company? Get out ... there is no future if your not family. You're only hired help.

Seek.com.au

Don't knock 12 month contracts to build experience either - worked for me for plenty of years.

Kinda. Owners used to own dodo/ still owns a % . He hired people he knew , and they hired people they knew . My immediate  supervisor has fallen out with 2 of the Russians but I wouldn't say nothing to either of them due the fact  word will get around.  I would like to move but noone will hire  person with little experience in buidling construction administration.  Hence why I am workingas a labourer / storeman at  start up building company 

Wgmg: yay for me ive gained 9  kilos since i joined the new company im working  for.  Went from 95 to 103.8 kgs . This added to the stress makes it worse

WGMG: Lost all the fta channels on foxtel. Have to get a foxtel tech out. Just annoying!

I feel your pain.  
Wgmg: somehow owing foxtel 413 bucks.  As Im on the hd package  but we got a discount but 413?? 

WGMG:: we got the rain from Cyclone Debbie in SEQ last night. A causeway that was replaced in 2013-2015 was destroyed again. People are losing their minds and ringing every consultant under the sun and council to complain.

Some facts for the plebians:
- We have had 2 x flood events exceeding a 1% Annual Exceedance Probability. 2!
- Bridge structures are not designed for this, if they were, the same plebians would be complaining about cost.
- You cannot allow for 948mm of rain in 24 hours if you want to ever get work again.

Whilst I appreciate that this road being cut off is frustrating, you cannot have your cake and eat it - you cannot have a bridge that can withstand 2 x 1% AEP events that is cheap.

It's spelled plebeian you filthy pleb 

WGMG: When I say "No thanks" but they don't listen and keep asking as if what I just said was a meaningless burp 

WGMG: when I see this



But it isn't a long winded rant :(

Brah you're from Newcastle :laugh:

WGMG:

The parasitic bastards who run those MacKeeper/ "If you close this tab your hard drive will be wiped" type ads that keep popping up in my search bar every 3rd page I browse to. I've got two ad blocker programs running (both downloaded free from the App store, thankfully) but those spam-artists have a TONNE of different domains, so I keep getting a slightly different one and having to ad it to my list of blocked addresses.

I don't know who I have more disdain for- the people who create this garbage, or the people dumb enough to fall for this nonsense and make it a viable industry...

I'm not an engineer but you were critical of the design and construction of the transmission towers in SA being damaged by a similarly rare weather event. Just wondering why that's different?

Normally you design for best practice which considers which is a trade off between cost and risk, it's uneconomical and unreasonable to design things to be near enough to invincible. In this instance it's a causeway, not lines that power an entire state. The bridge inconveniences 14,000 people, they're not cut off at all. Stakeholders and builders during a planning phase will determine a level of risk people are willing to accept with consultation with the community. The cost of the bridge that failed was $15mil. If you told the community it would be $100mil, they'd laugh you out of the room.

With the SA transmission lines, the level of risk (i.e. blacking out a whole state) is the number one consideration. When designing those lines you would ask yourself "what would it take to knock these out and how likely is that"? With wind and rain/flood events you have an annual exceedance probability (AEP). Generally speaking, you design for an AEP which considers the type and importance of the structure. I do not know the details of the design of those transmission lines. In saying that, you cannot design against every kind of scenario. You have to define a point where risk must be accepted. In 3 years a plane might crash into the lines and knock them out again. You can't design for that.

Now that I have seen the bridge first hand, the failure was caused by inadequate abutment protection. The original designers placed big rocks where the bridge connects to the land. This does not stop the finer sands and clays washing out. Due to the force of water the sand and clay did wash out causing a void which failed the bridge. The designers of the abutment do have a case to answer. This should not have happened.

The issue with the community is that with the benefit of hindsight they're all experts. Trying to explain to people that we have had two flood events that had less than a 1% chance of happening within 5 years is difficult. People expect a cheap and invincible solution and they want it yesterday.

There's no difference.

If the loads are outside of the prescribed standards then all bets are off.  

In the instance of my original post, the bridge was designed for a 1:100 flood or an AEP of 1%. The data I have suggests the flood plotted well above a 1:100 year flood event. The IDF curves provided by the BOM only have up to 1:100 lines. I think this area got 890mm in 24 hours.

The failure appears to be associated with erosion of the outer bend in the Coomera River causing a migration of fines from the abutment underneath the abutment and causing the relieving slab to fail at the connection.

The engineering failure from what I have seen is a lack of abutment protection where flow velocities are highest. They placed ripped rock over fill and alluvium as a protection rather than a concrete rat wall or a no fines concrete retaining wall. This bridge was build in accordance with normal engineering practice otherwise. You could fly a plane into the piers and they'd stay up. I think the designer will be shitting themselves.

So if I'm reading this right the bridge was designed for a 1 in 100 year event.  You are saying the flood exceeded a 1 in 100 year event. Correct?

Then the designers have nothing to worry about.

What happened to the abutment due to an event outside the standard is not their concern.  All the designers have to show is they designed the structure for a 1 in 100 year event.  Provided that's all tickety-boo then they're sweet.

That is assuming the scope of work/standards/whatever said to design it to that and that only. 

Yeh we were involved with the piling (thankfully they're fine) and as a pre-emptive strike I ran the climate data through the BOM IDF curve generator. It's well over 1:100.

My director suggested that as this causeway failed in 2013 that there could be grounds for anyone looking to the law that 'best practice' was absent in the design of abutments considering we have such recent precedence of the causeway failing under such similar mechanisms (erosion of abutments). Seems like a grey area, definitely not my expertise.

WGMG: I think I have found worse innocuous injury than a stubbed toe. My arm fell onto the boot of a player who'd slid in to tackle me, corking the muscle used to move my little finger. Since Sunday every little movement of the finger has sent excruciating pain all the way up my arm to my elbow. Never realised how much that finger moved when I wasn't even using it.

I've probably had an autistic breakdown related to these transgressions already but fuck it

WGMG: Indonesian roommate (codename: Agung) currently encamped within the kitchen. My goal was to have a nice quiet time cooking my healthy batch of bacon and eggs on toast but alas fellow vibrations that time hath passed. She is, as I verbally spew, humming in a very poorly toned Asian accent, much to my chagrin (I cannot stand humming, especially of poor quality). She hath sneezed several times now, with no evident signs of covering her facial mucus from compromising the hygiene of my fine kitchen. The dishes to which she cleans irregularly (with a technique much to be desired) are stacked up in a plebeian way next to my dirty sink, which I detail cleaned several orbits ago. A mere poke of the pile of tupperware, utensils and questionably sized bowls sends them into a cascading cacophony of noise due to their stacking, which lacks organisation and awareness.
 
WAGMG: White, robotic introverted android roommate (codename: Mr. T) recently went camping to the world-famous, spine-tingling area of the universe known as Forster. As such he hath returned with his high-quality, expensive tent to which he had to point out its cost, which utterly blew my mind and also motivated me to blow out his. As I spew it currently sits on the back verandah still completely set up like it awaits its champion stallion. The reason for its erection upon my glorious verandah is for it to "dry out" despite the fact that it makes it impossible to hang the washing out (my washing line hangs across the verandah, no bullshit technology, just the way I like it). I predict it to stay as a monument to his autism for days to come, heaven forbid he get water in his circuits or on his fine student accommodation floor boards. May I add that is hath been rainy in the promised land recently, so his mighty Gallic shack hath been rained upon, extending its stay for all to see for an indefinite period.

WARGMG: Smelly, possibly deceased, possible Mossad spy (codename: The Walking Dead) consistently uses my frying pan when cooking his frozen chicken wings which he flogs from his high-quality restaurant known as Dominos. There, as I spew, 8 frying pans of varying and size and quality in the cupboard. As you'd expect, mine is the finest in both structure and ergonomics. He hath chosen my trusty cooking steed to use for his sweaty enjoyment and subsequently hath no idea how to wash up a simple frying pan properly. I have observed this interesting specimen not know the existence of the strange substance known as dishwashing liquid, or the even stranger substance known as hot water. He simply sprays cold water on it then places it face down on the bench-top and retreats tactically to his lair or sweat and, I suspect, crusty cum-stained tissues. A grown man, ladies and gentlemen, who cannot wash up properly, not realise the mediocrity of his ways, not know of the existence of anti-perspirant and not be aware of the harrowing word known as "Hello". This is indeed a disturbing universe  

As amusing as these installments are, i'm shocked that you still share a house with people.

This ^

I would have moved out or triple murdered years ago.

-PB

WGMG: it was 3c yesterday and I got sunburn.