Geez! I hate that!

[Citroënbender]

Originally Posted by mad2

mdf is too heavy and useless, try chipboard.. at least if it gets wet it won't fall to pieces straight away.

Fairly sure that I’ve been called heavy and useless, but I’ve not been bent over double in a mailbox.

As to what I hate… Stump grinder vs water supply :

Off to the scrap three-quarter copper stash. Looking good…

Mate came past with his Viega press tool:

Job done!

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

Council sticker lickers.

Absolute arseholes with a hero complex.

Had to take a group of OSHC kids to the cinemas on the Parade at Norwood today, only place you can stop 2 75 seat coaches anywhere near the location is in the metro bus zone.
Pulled up, hazard lights on, kids get off, sticker licker pops out of nowhere and books us both. We explain the situation, not interested.
Rang our office, nowhere else to stop so have to do it again at pickup time, old mate again appears from nowhere and pings us again.
$160 per ticket x4 for being there a total of 5 minutes.

What ****es me off is Councils allow these types of businesses that cater to large groups in their entertainment hubs and then fail to provide safe access for groups of that size to be dropped off and picked up.

The irony is, that earlier in the day I was doing rail replacement shuttles due to industrial strikes and were asked to stop for passengers at bus stops for the same Government thats just booked me for....stopping at a bus stop.

For starters, state government and local council are two different entities, just think you had an overzealous parking inspector on the day, the bus company can appeal the tickets if they wish to.
As an employee I would not bother about the tickets unless there were other alternatives to your parking needs.

Cheers

[BENT_8]

Originally Posted by Itsme

For starters, state government and local council are two different entities, just think you had an overzealous parking inspector on the day, the bus company can appeal the tickets if they wish to.
As an employee I would not bother about the tickets unless there were other alternatives to your parking needs.

Cheers

Not sure where I mentioned State government but anyway, the bus sstops approved for me to stop at would be the same as the one I was booked at so they all fall under the same governance yet it was ok at 1 but not another and thats hypocricy.

[pottery beige]

Originally Posted by BENT_8

Not sure where I mentioned State government but anyway, the bus sstops approved for me to stop at would be the same as the one I was booked at so they all fall under the same governance yet it was ok at 1 but not another and thats hypocricy.

one you were dropping brats off and the other you were actually hired to stop at those sstops?

[BENT_8]

Originally Posted by pottery beige

one you were dropping brats off and the other you were actually hired to stop at those sstops?

They all fall under the Australian Road Rules Act s183(1) which doesn't provide exceptions for being hired by private rail companies.
They're turning a blind eye to us using those stops because it suits their agenda of providing the least inconvenience to constituents during an industrial relations disruption.

[ford71V8]

Always good to have mates with connections

[MITCHAY]

When work is dead for ages and then somehow everyone smashes you at the same time before you go on leave. Dunno how they do it

There is a problem that came up last minute. Lets see if anyone actually tries to fix it or leave it to me. I'm betting the latter but at least trying would be an improvement

[Tonz]

I presume your nursery dosent have any local competetion, which is a shame for you. Take your bags & reputation and walk, see how many customers you take with you.

[HIPO]

Doctors! disappointed to be informed by mine, that i am allowed back inside the clinic now.
Spent the last couple of yrs having monthly car-park appointments , due to being unvaxed for Covid ..... preferred the car-park meets TBH.

[Citroënbender]

I hope they don’t have rubbish TV constantly on, in the waiting room. Double the suffering!

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

I hope they don’t have rubbish TV constantly on, in the waiting room. Double the suffering!

Back when i was 17 in year 12 at school, every saturday i watched every episode of ready steady cook on a 12 inch tv with a metal cage around. Did that for 12 months. My brother was on a suspended sentence for driving offences. I was his youber to do the weekly check in, before youber was a thing. Didnt get paid either.

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by Citroënbender

I hope they don’t have rubbish TV constantly on, in the waiting room. Double the suffering!

Well, most recently it was Channel 7's morning talk show. You know the sort, pasty presenters that can't make it in primetime, useless celebrity trivia masquerading as "news", and the infomercial's every 15 minutes selling pointless crap no one would ever need.

Who the hell actually sits down and watches those programs! I would rather watch football............and I hate football.

[MITCHAY]

Last day of leave. I can't say I feel much relaxed and dumb of me to take the week off during school holidays.

Every day some sort of noise waking me up anyway. From road work diversions to kids being kids to everyone doing some form of work around the house

[Tonz]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

Last day of leave. I can't say I feel much relaxed and dumb of me to take the week off during school holidays.

Every day some sort of noise waking me up anyway. From road work diversions to kids being kids to everyone doing some form of work around the house

1 week is not good for the body, it takes 1 week to start winding down, then your 2nd week is the rest time and the ankle biters are back at school.

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by Tonz

1 week is not good for the body, it takes 1 week to start winding down, then your 2nd week is the rest time and the ankle biters are back at school.

I find that I spend the first week trying to unwind, then spend the second week fretting about going back.

I have 390 hours of leave and 110 hours of sick leave owing to me, plus two lots of long service.

I have been planning to take long service when my new car arrives, one of the reasons why I'm so agitated about the constant stream of delays with the new Mustang...................I'm gagging for some extended time off. A new car is my holy grail, so I want to take the time to enjoy the delivery, dialing the paint in and getting it all protected, then take some road trips to see family in Merimbula and Coffs Harbor. I just want to do all this without a time frame attached to it................enjoy life for a change.

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

I find that I spend the first week trying to unwind, then spend the second week fretting about going back.

I have 390 hours of leave and 110 hours of sick leave owing to me, plus two lots of long service.

I have been planning to take long service when my new car arrives, one of the reasons why I'm so agitated about the constant stream of delays with the new Mustang...................I'm gagging for some extended time off. A new car is my holy grail, so I want to take the time to enjoy the delivery, dialing the paint in and getting it all protected, then take some road trips to see family in Merimbula and Coffs Harbor. I just want to do all this without a time frame attached to it................enjoy life for a change.

Take a lot of your entitlements sooner rather than later.Wouldn’t be the first time a supposedly good stable business has gone down taking all the employee leave and holiday pay with the.Some employees have also found out (too late) that super wasn’t being paid either

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

Take a lot of your entitlements sooner rather than later.Wouldn’t be the first time a supposedly good stable business has gone down taking all the employee leave and holiday pay with the.Some employees have also found out (too late) that super wasn’t being paid either

You are correct, that is a certain reality with companies big and small, we were just talking the other day about this with my company which is very big across Australia, Liberty steel & Infrabuild formerly Onesteel.
After 30 years with the company this year, I'm using the last of LSL starting in 4 weeks' time and will exhaust all my accumulated leave and sickies before I retire as I see bad times for the steel industry.

Cheers.

[roKWiz]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

Take a lot of your entitlements sooner rather than later.Wouldn’t be the first time a supposedly good stable business has gone down taking all the employee leave and holiday pay with the.Some employees have also found out (too late) that super wasn’t being paid either

Not unlike a certain furniture company my father owned. Employee's left with nothing.

[MITCHAY]

Yeah for most of the time I take a big break at Xmas which has much the same problems but even that has been getting shorter due to work so trying to take extra days here and there and a week now before it got too cold.

At some point I just need to tell them to stick it up their **** and take two weeks when I want to do so.

[MITCHAY]

In fact business should be encouraging you to take your entitlements rather than accrue big balances as it is a liability on their books.

So if they block leave for seemingly no good reason I'd be worried.

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

In fact business should be encouraging you to take your entitlements rather than accrue big balances as it is a liability on their books.

So if they block leave for seemingly no good reason I'd be worried.

On a few occasions at my old mob i got given the choice of leave or payout of x% of my leave. My boss was pretty straight up and down with me. It was along the lines of 'if' i quit the company didnt have enough to pay me out. When i did quit they had enough to pay me out so that wasnt bad.

[MITCHAY]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

On a few occasions at my old mob i got given the choice of leave or payout of x% of my leave. My boss was pretty straight up and down with me. It was along the lines of 'if' i quit the company didnt have enough to pay me out. When i did quit they had enough to pay me out so that wasnt bad.

They legally cannot pay only x% of your leave, they are obligated to pay the lot. This is why they don't want to accrue it and it is in their interest not to let it get that way. Small business especially. Anyone not dodgy anyway.

But you can't get blood from a stone as they say.

[.:4:.]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

They legally cannot pay only x% of your leave, they are obligated to pay the lot. This is why they don't want to accrue it and it is in their interest not to let it get that way. Small business especially. Anyone not dodgy anyway.

But you can't get blood from a stone as they say.

No, what it was was take say 3 weeks off or get the 3 weeks payed out. Option 3 was say no to both. All up to me, nothing dodgey from the employer.

[MITCHAY]

Originally Posted by .:4:.

No, what it was was take say 3 weeks off or get the 3 weeks payed out. Option 3 was say no to both. All up to me, nothing dodgey from the employer.

Ah ok that is annual leave cash out and legal. I thought you meant only getting paid x on the $

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by MITCHAY

In fact business should be encouraging you to take your entitlements rather than accrue big balances as it is a liability on their books.

So if they block leave for seemingly no good reason I'd be worried.

This sort of links back to posts made on the previous page. Small family business, small staff numbers. If someone is on holidays, then they have to work harder, or things simply don't get done. So, it's in their best interest to not incentivize leave. I always feel guilty asking for leave, I can see the boss's cogs turning when I do. And it's always a bad time to ask, as in it's school holidays, Christmas rush, Spring rush, winter bare root season, potting season................................... doesn't matter when I ask for it, its inconvenient.

And after 41 years in business, I highly doubt they have ever had to pay long service leave to an employee.

[Tassie f100]

Originally Posted by DFB FGXR6

This sort of links back to posts made on the previous page. Small family business, small staff numbers. If someone is on holidays, then they have to work harder, or things simply don't get done. So, it's in their best interest to not incentivize leave. I always feel guilty asking for leave, I can see the boss's cogs turning when I do. And it's always a bad time to ask, as in it's school holidays, Christmas rush, Spring rush, winter bare root season, potting season................................... doesn't matter when I ask for it, its inconvenient.

And after 41 years in business, I highly doubt they have ever had to pay long service leave to an employee.

Why should you feel bad about taking leave.If the business s profitable,then they can afford to employ extra staff or even a casual or 2 to keep the wheels turning when staff ore on leave or sick.The more you give,the more they reckon they can take

[MITCHAY]

Originally Posted by Tassie f100

Why should you feel bad about taking leave.If the business s profitable,then they can afford to employ extra staff or even a casual or 2 to keep the wheels turning when staff ore on leave or sick.The more you give,the more they reckon they can take

All good in theory not so much in reality. If you have SME knowledge they make it difficult everywhere you go.

[prktkljokr]

I hate when you try to buy something on Gumtree and the seller sporadically replies

Trying to buy a Ute tub for a job, seller has no phone contact details listed, so I send a message yesterday morning asking if its available and the price, four hours later I get "yes", so I reply straight away with when can I pick it up, all I get is crickets

So I send him a message last night if he could send me his number so I can call, still crickets, then I get a message with send your number and I will get straight back to you, so instantly I sent my number, crickets again.

Like WTF, do you wanna sell it or not ?, a contact number with the first yes would have had this deal done and dusted.

I will just buy the other one that's listed instead, little further out, but at least I will have the job done by the time this other peanut calls me.

[prktkljokr]

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

I hate when you try to buy something on Gumtree and the seller sporadically replies

Trying to buy a Ute tub for a job, seller has no phone contact details listed, so I send a message yesterday morning asking if its available and the price, four hours later I get "yes", so I reply straight away with when can I pick it up, all I get is crickets

So I send him a message last night if he could send me his number so I can call, still crickets, then I get a message with send your number and I will get straight back to you, so instantly I sent my number, crickets again.

Like WTF, do you wanna sell it or not ?, a contact number with the first yes would have had this deal done and dusted.

I will just buy the other one that's listed instead, little further out, but at least I will have the job done by the time this other peanut calls me.

I was about to tell another seller that I would buy his tub and this Knob throttler finnaly contacts me with a address, so against my better judgement I go to pick it up.

So half hour drive to get there, well when I get there, there is a MR Triton tub that looks like it has been dropped off the back of a truck, not a straight panel on it, I would say worse than the one we are going to replace, he comes out and I just turn and start walking away, he yells out arent you going to make me a offer, F'ing time waster, so I drive home to find the other 1 I was looking at has gone off Facebook .

I have now found another, I hope its as he has described, will see tonight when I get there.

[Itsme]

Originally Posted by prktkljokr

I was about to tell another seller that I would buy his tub and this Knob throttler finnaly contacts me with a address, so against my better judgement I go to pick it up.

So half hour drive to get there, well when I get there, there is a MR Triton tub that looks like it has been dropped off the back of a truck, not a straight panel on it, I would say worse than the one we are going to replace, he comes out and I just turn and start walking away, he yells out arent you going to make me a offer, F'ing time waster, so I drive home to find the other 1 I was looking at has gone off Facebook .

I have now found another, I hope its as he has described, will see tonight when I get there.

The joys of sales on social media, you win some and lose some, I usually ask for clear photos of the product, any signs of evasiveness then I terminate all contact with seller.
Best of luck with your tub.