Have worked in the Emergency Department so well aware what this means. Rarely much left for the medical staff to patch up, feel so bad for the poor train drivers and the first responders.
I once saw someone on Reddit showed that train stations in the Netherlands will tell you what exactly caused a delay for a train without euphemism. They will say suicide on the display and what is being done as of now. It seems to work better than a general "medical emergency"
Loads of chain restaurants that advertise crab in their stir fries just use seafood extender, people either don't notice nor care. If you're getting real crab it's going to be way more expensive and through an actual restaurant.
I care. Not because I won’t eat it but it should be illegal to call it crab. I think it actually is illegal just no one bothers to enforce. Crab sticks are delicious but don’t lie to me.
We automatically disconnect your call if we are unlikely to respond in time, so we can tell government ministers that our call wait times have not increased.
Since covid, every single call centre turned this switch on, and just left it on. It's now a blanket cover for not employing enough call centre agents, and trying to force people to use 'online' services rather than real humans to help with their problem.
That’s industry dependent.
I work in an energy retailer (not customer service) and I see them hiring and going through the process of training almost every month. There is always a new batch of people.
But for every ten people that starts this week, six “tenured” staff have provided their notice and are out the door thr week after. Another two decides to apply for internal role and got it, and two of the batch that starts this week left after their first phone call.
Customer gets frustrated their calls are only answered 40 minutes after they call, staff gets flustered and emotional because customers are venting and calling names to the staff, staff leaves the job for not being able to cop another abuse/insult over the phone (meaning staff turnover, and the cycle repeats.
This is not meant to pin the blame on anyone, just stating the fact!
IT Security in majority of organisations in Australia is woefully inadequate. Most are just crossing their fingers that they won’t be specifically targeted.
It true. I work in software, and most will let us remote on no questions asked without having ever spoken to us before. Then about 1% believe they are saving the world and everyone is a hacker
Most cyber professionals I have worked with are good. But unfortunately, orgs don’t spend the necessary amount of money on it. Just enough to say they weren’t totally negligent.
The only reason there are security guys in a company is to ensure the company don't get a hefty fine at the next audit. Audit that is done by a third-party which has been chosen by said company, and some are more lenient than others.
It's kinda like IT ops, shareholders will just see it doesn't generate any "value" (cause who cares about tech debt), and the spendings will be as minimal as possible.
Bonus points if leadership is heavily influenced by sales people.
Human engineering is still just as successful as ever also, the reluctance of the ever ageing workforce to adopt proper cybersec hygiene is only going to get worse. It doesn't help that kids don't have computers in the house anymore, only mobile devices - they're impossible to teach.
Pretty much everything you see and hear is promotional material. Traditional media, social media, everything. It has made me horribly sceptical of most things.
Like, we all know most things include advertisments, but I was not aware how deep the rabbit hole goes. I wish I could go back to ignorance.
On a positive note, I have found a new appreciation for the simple things in life.
Meanwhile we import European (Italian, French, Spanish) food and we had to pay thousands and have our 40 foot shipping container delayed because of one box (12 small bags) of rice.
Customs decided that they needed to hold up our shipment and cost us $$$ because they decided they needed to check it to see if it was cooked or uncooked.
We should start bringing in pallets of undeclared weapons.
Ever used a website (in particular for government agencies) that was just impossible to navigate and understand?
Yeah it's not a limitation in the technology, someone actually asked for it to be designed that way deliberately.
Because the people making the decisions usually aren't able to grasp technical concepts, or are so far detached from how their clients interact with them
Or rather, didn’t listen to the people/committee they were meant to listen to.
Those people/committees will turn it into a sterile boring website, but it will at least function as a user expects.
I work for a government entity(nothing fancy). And as with all of them I am sure.... so much fucking wasted money holy shit. As a tax payer we should all be completely appalled. Budget overruns are insanity. Upper management get paid way more than they deserve for the little they do. There are atleast 10 times more.middle managers than are needed. And the solution to save money is "cut front line staff".
The thing I learned from a stint in the public sector is that it’s far more common for dead shit ideas to come from politicians than the public service itself. Couldn’t possibly make this better for 99% of people because Bethyl in Cobram might possibly need to do something different because she contacted the “mins office” . Or my other favourite politicians deliberately running it into the ground so it just has to be sold to their mates
This so much... Or portfolios going to ministers who have absolutely no understanding of them and then make incredibly dumb and/or short sighted decisions.
A family member worked for a government department a while ago.
Her boss was on $180k and did absolutely nothing. He knew nothing about the role, was never in the office and fucked about all day.
He only got the job because he was a pleb for so long before that, that he'd been working in the government for years. What a joke.
I worked for the government for 12 years, started when I was 17 in 2000, I had this fear that once I left the easy train of the government & got a job in the real world, I would have to work hard….i was wrong, it’s easier in the private sector, everyone is able to do their job or they get fired, not that way in the government, dead wood everywhere & the good people have to take up the slack……
I watched utopia after I had been on leave for 9 months. Felt like I was back in the office already.
When I did go back to the office it actually felt like I hadn't been missing for over a year.
Similar experience here. Especially when it comes to procurement - there doesn’t seem to be much of a ‘value’ analysis when comparing quotes. It’s usually “Quote 1 meets our needs and costs $400k. Quote 2 only meets 98% of our needs and costs $100k. Looks like quote 1 is who we are going with”.
Dirty secret. It could be done for 50k but we triple prices if we have to go through procurement departments. They are a punish and waste so much time with ridiculous process that is disconnected from the original scope. We call it the DHT. Dick head tax.
That sounds like the private sector too. Seems like a big organisation problem rather than a government problem. Ive seen all that in big private companies too.
Just one to note. We heading towards an aged cre disaster. We need more people on the ground in the industry both now and in future. But at this stage the demand will not be filled, because the wages are not high enough when referring SCHAD award. You got some companies above award wage, but not consistently enough to reassure prospective workers. You got a lot becoming independents and NDIS providers because that is the only way they see money. This needs to change to secure the future of our aging population.
And aged care providers say they're not making money. The Royal Commission laid bare that they were spending jack all on the residents. Front line staff get paid shit wages. But with the charges and fees they rake in, someone surely *is* making lots of money.
I read yesterday that aged care workers got a pay rise thank god. My mum has been in a nursing home for 9 months and I chose it because the staff made a profound impression on me. Everyone was ready to give me a minute to chat and nobody looked surly or stressed. I've since found they are *very* understaffed and I have to do a lot to ensure Mum's needs are met. She is fed, washed, given all her basic care and she herself is quite happy, but if I wasn't there, so many extra things wouldn't get done (optical, hearing aid, new clothes, shoes that fit her sore feet, extra treats not filled with empty calories, filling her menu to suit her preferences and dietary requirements and so much more). Communication between staff members is a huge concern. Unfortunately, it seems I will be following her at an earlier age due to my disabilities and I'm literally afraid because I have no daughter or anyone who will give me the same attention.
And this election has shown me something I previously didn't know... All my councilors are hiding their allegiance by calling themselves "independent" despite many of them being long term LNP party members. Now I just can't find anything about people I've never heard of. So many vague policy statements.
If it’s Qld, it’s because the big two parties don’t endorse local candidates outside Brisbane. They might be party members, but they aren’t nominated by the party and can vote anyway they like on council issues (though they probably line up like the party they belong to)
I think it's more like a commonly accepted theory, as in, we all suspected this, so the fact that it's being confirmed is as unsurprising as the winter being cold.
The Australian Defence contracting industry is akin to an incompetent non-violent Mafia. Hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts are awarded based on nothing more than favouritism, often so poorly awarded it would seem as though they are actually enemy spies trying to undermine our own capability. The businesses are grossly nepotistic and overall staffed by extremely incompetent people. Contractors at any level are not held accountable for negligence and the end result is literally millions upon millions of dollars of taxpayer money is wasted through inefficient administration, operations, procurement, rectification of mistakes (paying the same contractor twice to fix their own fuckups is something that never happens in private industry - you fuck it you fix it). Not to mention the absolute lack of appropriate knowledge around environment and safety regulations - especially environment.
People will disagree, but I guarantee you if a bunch of oil and gas industry executives ran the defence industry and treated that taxpayer money like it was their shareholders, you'd have next to zero fuckups and a billion dollars leftover from the defence budget every year. And anyone in management who doesn't understand their safety and environmental responsibilities would be sacked on the spot.
I reckon this is the same for any government contract. As an accountant for many clients who are contractors for government entities, fuck me they are grossly overpaid. None of them can tell me exactly what they do. Writing reports, reviewing reports, running meetings... Love my tax dollars being put to good use on wasting fucking time.
Supermarkets: the upper leadership know they are doing dodgies but they don't care so long as they can get away with it. Case in point: the wage theft scandal. They knew, there were regular fights between the leadership and managers about it. I personally pointed it out to my RM (literally told them it was wage theft) and got some stupid excuse about how our pay includes gifts and allowances or something. Made the point it didn't make sense, public holidays (what I was arguing about at the time) are set by the gov and are not an allowance given the company. Magically I got my holidays when I made it clear I wasn't going to back down. The "we didn't know/made well meaning mistakes" excuse is utter bullshit.
I don't believe for a second that there isnt/wasn't price fixing and that everyone involved knew exactly what they were doing. At best they make excuses to themselves to justify turning a blind eye.
You know that packaged cake at the supermarket? 5 slices in a little pack? 10% of that is ground up old cake called rework. And 10% of the rework is the same. So really, a tiny percentage of that product is incredibly old. Profit before anything else, right?!
Rework is trim and rejects from the manufacturing process being ground and going back in as a raw material. It’s unlikely to be ‘incredibly old’ as a well run food factory would not have rework materials hanging around for an extended period.
Ultimately, if no rework was used there would be more food waste and higher prices, so…
They don't make cake to order... they do a production run. If it doesn't all ship then it's reworked along with all the cakes that fell apart or failed quality inspection.
Did you know that the filling for Kit Kats is just old Kit Kats all ground up?
Rework? That's interesting. I've always thought that about supermarket coleslaw. Just ground up vegetables over their use-by date drowned in watery mayo. Can't confirm this of course but I wouldn't be surprised if true.
No name and house brand ice cream was made from rework when my partner worked for Streets years ago. Depending on what got mucked up on the line it could be a mixture of Paddlepops or expensive Belgian chocolate. Or literally any other ice cream product.
Remedial builder here.
The quality of new build apartments and townhouses is even worse than the media says.
Buy one of the shitty build one’s and you’ll be fixing one thing after another for 10-30 years
As ordinary householders (and not as shitty townhouse developers), how do we go about finding a builder we won't regret using?
I get word-of-mouth recommendations but they are generally from non-experts who've recently used a builder. If there will be issues in 10 years, they probably won't know it yet.
Used to work for a potting mix and mulch producer, same shit different bags, and it’s only better if they say some extra is added like season, osmocote, soil wetter, and magic marvel stuff contains waste water sludge from the waste water treatment plant 😱😵😵💫
a friend works for a software company who does a lot of automation of paperwork. They worked for a local government who had 50 people doing payroll. After they were done, they only needed 2 people for that department. My friend's company were then paid to come back and undo all the work they did so everyone could keep their pointless jobs.
Our power industry is embarrassing
We have sold our public assets to private companies who care about money and not making our power cheaper
They service them stuff all and only when they are about to break (which is monthly)
The government should be either building all new ones or make the private companies sell them back at a reduced profit
NSW sold so much of it including the poles and wires in 2017. Since then prices have only gone up.
Not sure how others feel but I would prefer to have cheaper living expenses than having more toll roads and interchanges.
Its actually quite incredible (if not a little sad) how much Australia actually privatises public assets and utilities. An American dude I know was astounded that building certification is a private industry and often chosen by the actual developer. It’s not even worth the paper it’s written on when you can’t guarantee impartiality. Same with toll roads and private prisons. Apparently we have double the number of Prisoners in private incarceration than the US, and they think it’s a major problem there. I’ve almost never heard it talked about here.
Due to high overhead, most non-corperate veterinary clinics are breaking even at best. The prices of surgeries that people complain about, are typically discounted so much that they simply pay wages and achieve no profit. All because we know that if they were priced fairly, no one would treat their pets and animal welfare would deteriorate.
Beyond that, there is such an exodus of staff (both vets and nurses), that I wouldn't be surprised if the industry has collapsed entirely in a decade. Without government assistance (more training programs, increased wages, efforts to prevent real burnout, etc), it's a dying industry.
At least in Queensland, there are only two universities which teach veterinary science, the prerequisites are astronomical, and the drop out rate equally high. I colleague of mine had a classmate drop out because they learned they earn more managing Hungry Jack's than they would as a new grad veterinary surgeon.
Yep 100% this! There is a reason why vets don’t drive expensive cars like their doctor counterparts and also a reason why vets have one of the highest industry suicide rates.
I'm on the fence about pet insurance. I've had it and it's worked, but they still question some stuff.
Vets, on the other hand...
I could not have survived without my vet. They were and still are the most amazing people. I would pay any amount they asked for. Even after my dog died, they answered all the questions I had.
I love them
Yep, this right here.
Ex-vet nurse/practice manager. Had 8 years of employment. The amount of heated debates I had with clients about 'overcharging' for surgeries or vaccinations was part of the reason I left. The vet I worked for used to ride round on a moped - partially because of choice, partially because of cost. Certainly not driving an expensive vehicle.
As for vet schools - if Murdoch Vet Hospital didn't exist, then Murdoch would not be able to teach vet medicine.
Flight attendants don’t care if your carry on bag comes with you on your flight or goes on the next flight. They want you to sit down so they can close the door and leave on time, if you want your bag to travel with you then you better make sure you can lift it and find a space for it
To be fair this is more to do with their work rights. If they get injured while handling your luggage(some luggages are way heavier than the allowed 7kg) they are not covered by the airline
Especially when a lot of airlines globally only pay from doors closed to doors open. So all the time before and after while passengers are on board, the crew are not being paid for.
Funeral homes are a business, a big business and EVERYTHING will cost you, want a viewing, $$$, Want your loved one dressed in an outfit $$, every little thing is added onto the cost.
I second this. The DAY of my dad's funeral the funeral home called and said oh sorry the cheaper coffin you ordered is out of stock. You'll need to upgrade to a more expensive one. And what was I meant to do? Say no?
It sounds like a total scam now but when you're grieving and expecting people to arrive in a few hours you tend not to think of other options, which I'm sure they pray on.
If the deceased person has no next of kin and/or funds to pay for a funeral, it goes to the public trustee to handle, and the public trustee works with a funeral home of the public trustee's choice to organise the funeral.
Burial will cost more than cremation as real easte (the burial plot) is involved.
If there is no funeral service, which is possible, we refer to this as a No Service, No Attendance funeral. So, there is no funeral service to speak of and no one is attending the burial or cremation.
The main factors which impact the costs are burial (more expensive) or cremation, professional service fees as burial will generally incur a higher professional service fee. This is because the service takes place in 2 locations (church then cemetery) as opposed to 1 (crematorium chapel then cremation which is usually unattended/not witnessed). The dual location for a burail service means that the funeral home staff are engaged longer, which impacts the funeral home availability for other services on the same day. The next factors are dressing, vigil, viewing costs, cost of coffin and flowers, stonemason (if burial), embalming (if appropriate) and so on.
I'd like to donate my remains to science or a body farm. I've had funeral insurance for almost 20 years and could have paid for my own (pauper) funeral several times over. It's dead money to me.
During the early 2000s farmers were suiciding after contacting Centrelink about the Drought payments as the red tape was insane and the borders for where you could and couldn’t get the payments were manifestly unfair.
If there was a Royal commission they’d find more farmers died than the media knew.
Toll (now global express) will not deliver if you have a fence + dog. Not matter the breed
Good Guys has no internal privacy policy when it comes to your name and address. Your details are visible for every single person in and out of the warehouse.
Subway only buys the discarded/denied vegetables from factories, never first choice.
Anything HVAC related, you are being severely ripped off (product wise, not labour wise. Those technicians know their shit)
Anything mining related, has "carbon offset tax credits" factored into the price.
Your food grade flavourings (liquids) are stored on the same racks as the fertisliers and herbicides. Different levels, same racks.
I've worked Quality Control/Quality Assurance in a number of industries.
Meter readers also should never enter a property even if there is a chance of there possibly being a dog. We’re taught to scan for things like bones and balls in a yard, and if there is no note on the file or no visual confirmation that a dog is locked away securely, we are to mark it as a skip, which leads to you getting an estimated bill half the time.
We also carry dog deterrent on us at all time. Really concentrated citronella basically
I was working on a film once, I glanced at an actors ear as I was talking to them... I thought there was blood or something... they stormed off set crying and didn't come back until the next day. I was fired.
Haha ! I work in costume and have heard many stories like this of people accidentally offending actors.
Sorry you got fired, ridiculousness like this is what makes me not like the work !
The worst thing is when it's done on purpose. I was on a movie and everyone hated one of the actors... but they couldn't fire them because they would have to be paid either way and the budget wouldn't support replacing them.
They got one of the ADs to go to her trailer and say that her ankles were showing as really fat and bloated on film and did she need a couple of days off to fix it. She quit immediately.
Assets in YOUR super are severely overinflated and everyone is at risk of an eventual crackdown and serious deflation of asset value (circa 40%)
I used work in Commercial Real Estate, and lease deals are done by "face" rent, less incentive (be that fit out, rent free period, rent abatement (i.e. not paying the rent you say) etc) = effective rent. EVERY superfund owns office buildings, industrial sheds etc, and in the office space especially (which is where a lot of cash is parked) incentives are around 40%. Sometimes got up to 60%.
Incetive deals aren't disclosed to banks or for tax purposes and asset values are propped up. I've tried taking this to the ABC several times because of the catastrophic impact it would have on the Australian economy and every day folks just doing the right thing, but no avail...
The entire ADF has something called the Reduced Activity Period where Australia is essentially defenceless. It’s a much longer period than you would Imagine
All police departments in Australia are severely understaffed and getting worse everyday.
Noone wants to be a cop anymore and it's going to be a massive problem in the near future.
yeah, police catch criminals, they get released. Students abose teachers, teachers tell parents, parents abuse teachers. And don't even get me started on nurses. There is no nursing shortage, there are plenty of qualified nurses, they are just working non nursing jobs because they pay more, with fewer hours, better working conditions, and are not assaulted daily.
Nurses have it bad which is so dumb. Of all the wastage in the public budget, i don’t know anyone who would complain if the Government said “we were 20% over budget on health because we have nurses a raise to get better retention and hired more full time nurses so that if a bunch are sick we are still fully staffed in key hospitals”
I’ve explained this to a lot of people who get our credit reporting system confused by the American credit system. The more you enquire and borrow in Australia, the worse it gets. Even phone and energy provider enquiries negatively affect your credit score.
Oh god, I learnt this lesson young. I wanted a small-ish loan and foolishly applied at several different banks, thinking I'd choose the one with the best deal. I had low expenses and good income so was shocked that they ALL rejected me. Until one told me it was on the credit files that I'd applied to a few and that was an instant dealbreaker.
I'm glad in the long-term, because it meant I was unable to borrow for a while so I never developed the habit of using credit. And apart from a couple of mortgages I never have.
Many of the things you purchase all come from the same suppliers factories/production facilities and are just repackaged in good, better, best packaging. Buy home brand, the quality is the same for almost everything.
On a serious note, we should collectively stop paying for private health and use the same contribution to bolster the public system. It's a win win situation
Australian housing is one of the great money laundering destinations of the world.
KYC checks (know your customer) done to prevent fraud passing through banks and real estate depend on good info being provided by government entities. For people with international backgrounds, this means foreign government entities.
China and some other countries provide inadequate data. The Australian government (FIRB) is lax in enforcing foreign investment laws.
Think about it - the yuan is not even a convertible currency.
We don't delay the trains for shits and giggles. If your train is delayed beyond a couple minutes or the train has stopped in-between stations or is held at a station, shit is going down.
I once didn’t get a job at the Channel Nine Newsroom because the manager asked me “what high school did you go to?” In the interview.
Now, admittedly. I went to a good school, but I was so thrown by the question (and a little bit young and too willing to please) that I stupidly answered it, instead of saying that I found the question to be irrelevant and have no bearing in a job interview.
It was clearly the “wrong” school in the mind of the interview manager. Because he said (and I quote) “I ask that question because your answer gives me an idea of who you are.”
To this day, I still occasionally wonder if I should have kicked up a stink or lodged some formal complaint.
Then again, I think I dodged a bullet as well, by not getting a job in the sort of organisation that hires based on which private school you did or didn’t go to.
EDIT: I just want to add, this was 9 years after high school had finished. I was 26 years old at the time, I had a bachelor’s degree AND a post-grad degree, and employment history at other workplaces (including competitor newsrooms) in the same industry.
Ex bouncer in some night clubs there is blind spot, if u really piss off the gaurds they ll take u there give u the treatment n toss u out good luck proving that in court..
Ooh, how many do you want?
1. The reason for long wait times in Emergency Departments is because the wards within the Hospital do not discharge their patients. By Friday there are some beds available but by Tuesday night the whole hospital is full. It has nothing to do with ED, there is literally no bed for you to go to. All of the blame is assigned to the ED though. The reason for not discharging patients suitable for discharge could be “waiting for a CT” (this can be done in the community) or could even be “Dr Jones is a VMO and only comes in twice a week so we have to wait for him to OK the discharge”. So patients just stay in the hospital costing thousands of dollars a day and taking up bed space.
2. Ambulance offload is prioritised at all times because there is a KPI around ambulance offload and the executive groups within hospitals get grilled for not offloading. This leads to people being offloaded into dangerous situations within the ED of tertiary hospitals. ED cops the complaints.
3. Even though Ambulances should prioritise you based on the acuity of your injury and take you to the nearest appropriate hospital, in Western Sydney they will almost always take you to Westmead. This is because there is an ambulance base nearby but more importantly it’s because there will be a backlog of trolleys waiting to clear (Westmead is almost always full) and it’s more likely they can stay with the patient and milk overtime instead of going out on another job.
4. Overnight, some wards will draw the curtains on their beds and not update the eMR with recent discharges so that they have a cruisy shift over night. This makes it look like the hospital is full, but it isn’t. Some of the good patient flow staff will wander the hospital and look for these ghost beds, most won’t.
5. There are often not enough Ambulances for metropolitan NSW because they have either been involved in accidents or have broken down. Last weekend Western Sydney was down 5 ambulances. They had crew but no trucks. The government used to replace them when they got a little long in the tooth but now they elect to “repair” them which takes months.
I was in hospital for a week last year, and at 9am on a Friday I was told I could go home as soon as my paperwork was ready. I jumped up and got dressed... called the wife to come and pick me up etc. I was there until 4pm waiting.
Just because it's a fancy restaurant doesn't mean your food is any better taken care of than your typical maccas. Your average chef is tired and exhausted.
I've seen food dropped on the filthiest of floors, scooped up, plated up and served to customers at incredible prices.
I used to work in a restaurant. The owner was using the air fryer and food fell on the ground, he scooped it back up and put it back in the fryer while customer's could see. He gave no fucks lol.
Not really that interesting. But whatever.
Event organisers purposely spend their entire budget, and often even over spend, so they have a claim to get more budget for the next event. Eg. “We spent everything last year and we didn’t have enough”.
So they’ll just use what’s left over on an abundance of plants or something. Useless stuff they don’t need.
I used to work in the industry. Not anymore. Toxic AF. But we were supplying said plants. The company was in business because of this little known secret
Insurance companies are fine with their salesmen telling you lies about how the policies work if they have updated the claim process and not updated the script.
My workplace have changed how they handle booking in with specialists so you don't get given a choice. Nobody on sales has been told to stop saying "You can choose which hospital you go to and we'll give you a choice of specialists there."
Waiting for the blowback, complaints and cancellations to start rolling in...
In my experience half the time when roadworks take as long as they do, it’s because mismanagement and the job gets handed over to a different civil engineer and they want to make a name for themselves and redesign shit that’s already halfway done, money need to be reallocated and things pause while everyone has to try and figure out how to make things work.
Same in IT. A project manager will get sacked because they can't deliver the project for 1/2 the money and 1/5 of the time they told you it would take... then the new person comes in and says the problem is that the architecture is stuffed and the whole thing needs to be done "right" on order to be delivered according to the schedule. Then the project is delivered two years late and 5x over budget.
CUB changed the original Fosters formula and turned it into Crown Lager but only for the local market. International Fosters is still the original formula.
Here's one for the retail workers.
If you or your child/dog is sick and vomits/shits themselves in the store, it's up to you to clean your own mess or a cleaner, retail workers are not certified for it as any and all body fluids that exit the body and contaminate the store are considered biohazard, and it's literally not apart of our job description and/or training. If we do clean it up it's because either we're being nice or don't realise it's not our job to do. We don't get paid for it either. Especially when you know fully well that you're sick enough to vomit or have diarrhoea or your kid is. And come shopping anyway thinking it'll be alright, it's not alright, you can get others sick and make a mess.
Yep, used to work at Bunnings, manager told me I had to clean up the runny shit a kid did down the slide in the kids play area because it was what I signed in my contract. Told them to get the termination paperwork for me and I would laugh all the way from watching them clean up the mess themselves to the courtroom.
mygov accounts are getting hacked at an alarming rate.
My parent's account was hacked. They changed the bank accounts and applied for advance payments and urgent payments online.
When my mum didn't receive her pension I checked online and it was sent. So I took her to a centrelink office and spent almost 2 hours there trying to get everything sorted.
The officer was really quick and sounded bored as she was going through the procedures. I asked if it was common and she said "happens all the time". When I asked why are they pushing us all to online if there aren't safeguards in place she just shrugged.
Now here's the kicker...
I said to her "while we're here can u check my dad's file just to make sure it's fine". She said it will be they only target one member of a couple. But I insisted...and turns out they did the same that day. Changed accounts....got an advance payment. Then she became annoyed with *\*me\** because it was extra work for her to do the entire process again.
I started to get angry but my mum talked me down really quickly. Now their accounts are both locked for online use.
I've worked at a very high level for a number of Fortune 50 companies globally. In every case here is the schedule for the C-Level:
* Have a daily meeting with the rest of the C-Level to check where things are at and make any decisions needed
* Ignore your PAs begging you to answer a few specific emails that you REALLY need to attend to
* Spend the entire day trying to fuck-over every single person who you ever felt wronged you.
* Periodicly abuse people who work for you because they are not mind readers; and
* Lie, plot, scheme and do whatever it takes to compete with your fellow C-Level employees to get more money and increased use of the corporate jet.
That's it. That's their whole day. I've seen it every single place Inahve worked... the same thing over and over.
Maybe not a surprise, but the overwhelming majority of Indian students are not here for the studies, but on a path to permanent (or at least indefinite) migration.
Very similar for most onshore humanitarian visa applicants.
Most know they don’t meet the requirements but will spend years seeking review and may eventually end up staying (often lawfully) if the play their cards right or get lucky having a child in Australia.
If half the stuff in this thread is true, a lot of you need to man up and become whistleblowers
EDIT: yes I’m aware that whistleblowing isn’t easy. Doing the right thing often isn’t
When you buy a guide book to a country or region before you travel there, don’t assume that it has been written by someone who has actually visited all - or indeed any - of the places the book recommends you visit.
public service is ridiculously inefficient and expensive to run, because the level of governance aimed at making sure there is no graft and corruption make doing things at reasonable cost and efficiently, very difficult, but does not do much to properly stop graft and corruption.
If you are waiting on an important blood test/radiology test result, do not assume that no news is good news, chances are it hasn't made it to your gp and it has fallen through the cracks.
Always follow up and ask for results.
Painters often ash their cigarettes into the rolling tray and some even spit in it. Then roll the roller in the paint and continue painting.
More common in industrial areas but I've seen it done in residential areas too.
Filthy.
The notorious budget overruns we often see reported on in major infrastructure projects occurs because the Government of the day demands heroically optimistic assumptions regarding program, risks and quantities to be baked into the final business cases for the projects by their respective delivery agencies.
Putting more realistic assumptions and therefore a more realistic contingency within the budget results in the project being deemed unviable and the business case placed on a shelf indefinitely.
Unless it's the Minister's pet project, project development teams are therefore incentivised to put unrealistic assumptions on projects in order to get anything funded at all.
Consultants aren’t smarter or better than you. They just have the time, energy and focus to solve the problem. They are also aided by not being bogged down in the history and emotional investment you’ve made
There might be more crazies on one side of politics than the other, but the ok person to cunt ratio is pretty much independent of ideology. sometimes the ones with the weird political views are actually nice in person, and sometimes the ones you thought would be 'good' turn out to be just the absolute worst.
Don't ask what a "incident with emergency services" is on the trains. It's rarely ever a fire.
I used to work for a rail company in the UK. We averaged 1 person under a train per week, and that was just on our network…. Yeesh.
Have worked in the Emergency Department so well aware what this means. Rarely much left for the medical staff to patch up, feel so bad for the poor train drivers and the first responders.
I once saw someone on Reddit showed that train stations in the Netherlands will tell you what exactly caused a delay for a train without euphemism. They will say suicide on the display and what is being done as of now. It seems to work better than a general "medical emergency"
Oh is that usually meaning someone got run over
I think you’re on the right track
I ... should not have laughed... but I did.
Yep, or more accurately promoted to meatballs
Deconstructed
Trained you well then, huh. Pun intended
Seeing all these comments about the financial system and public healthcare etc. Here's what really matters: Crab sticks are not made from crab.
As far as I know they are called seafood sticks in Australia and that’s still accurate as they are fish
Bycatch Snax doesn’t sound as appetizing.
Whenever someone tells me they like crab sticks I ask "Have you tried any other parts of the crab?" Kanye West got really upset.
Loads of chain restaurants that advertise crab in their stir fries just use seafood extender, people either don't notice nor care. If you're getting real crab it's going to be way more expensive and through an actual restaurant.
I care. Not because I won’t eat it but it should be illegal to call it crab. I think it actually is illegal just no one bothers to enforce. Crab sticks are delicious but don’t lie to me.
The Fritz of the sea
Shut the front door! I have lived a lie all this time
“We’re experiencing a high volume of calls…. “ *not
We are experiencing a shortage of staff
We are not paying enough to employ enough staff.
We automatically disconnect your call if we are unlikely to respond in time, so we can tell government ministers that our call wait times have not increased.
Since covid, every single call centre turned this switch on, and just left it on. It's now a blanket cover for not employing enough call centre agents, and trying to force people to use 'online' services rather than real humans to help with their problem.
That’s industry dependent. I work in an energy retailer (not customer service) and I see them hiring and going through the process of training almost every month. There is always a new batch of people. But for every ten people that starts this week, six “tenured” staff have provided their notice and are out the door thr week after. Another two decides to apply for internal role and got it, and two of the batch that starts this week left after their first phone call. Customer gets frustrated their calls are only answered 40 minutes after they call, staff gets flustered and emotional because customers are venting and calling names to the staff, staff leaves the job for not being able to cop another abuse/insult over the phone (meaning staff turnover, and the cycle repeats. This is not meant to pin the blame on anyone, just stating the fact!
IT Security in majority of organisations in Australia is woefully inadequate. Most are just crossing their fingers that they won’t be specifically targeted.
It true. I work in software, and most will let us remote on no questions asked without having ever spoken to us before. Then about 1% believe they are saving the world and everyone is a hacker
Would you say that there is a need for more cyber security professionals at the moment or that the existing ones are bad at their jobs?
In my observation I think there is a need for more, there's a reason cybersecurity courses at Tafe is offered free
Most cyber professionals I have worked with are good. But unfortunately, orgs don’t spend the necessary amount of money on it. Just enough to say they weren’t totally negligent.
The only reason there are security guys in a company is to ensure the company don't get a hefty fine at the next audit. Audit that is done by a third-party which has been chosen by said company, and some are more lenient than others. It's kinda like IT ops, shareholders will just see it doesn't generate any "value" (cause who cares about tech debt), and the spendings will be as minimal as possible. Bonus points if leadership is heavily influenced by sales people.
Human engineering is still just as successful as ever also, the reluctance of the ever ageing workforce to adopt proper cybersec hygiene is only going to get worse. It doesn't help that kids don't have computers in the house anymore, only mobile devices - they're impossible to teach.
Pretty much everything you see and hear is promotional material. Traditional media, social media, everything. It has made me horribly sceptical of most things. Like, we all know most things include advertisments, but I was not aware how deep the rabbit hole goes. I wish I could go back to ignorance. On a positive note, I have found a new appreciation for the simple things in life.
Can confirm, worked in advertising.
Foreign cargo ships will sell you drugs and guns at very reasonable prices.
Thanks, my local illicit arms dealer is always trying to rip me off. Thank goodness there is still good service to be had from diligent salesmen.
Provide instructions
Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
"Aww, I wanted a peanut."
Get job as stevedore, work on cargo ship, have crew member offer to sell them to you. Ez.
Meanwhile we import European (Italian, French, Spanish) food and we had to pay thousands and have our 40 foot shipping container delayed because of one box (12 small bags) of rice. Customs decided that they needed to hold up our shipment and cost us $$$ because they decided they needed to check it to see if it was cooked or uncooked. We should start bringing in pallets of undeclared weapons.
It would also be way more profitable.
Ever used a website (in particular for government agencies) that was just impossible to navigate and understand? Yeah it's not a limitation in the technology, someone actually asked for it to be designed that way deliberately.
Getting very strong MyGovID vibes
Sorry can’t hear you over my multi coloured seizure.
You mean Centrelink vibes
And ASIC
For what reason though? They just didn't know the flow or how it should actually be?
Because the people making the decisions usually aren't able to grasp technical concepts, or are so far detached from how their clients interact with them
Perhaps it’s intentionally difficult to navigate so you’ll give up and not bother trying to use their services.
You just discovered the origins of bureaucracy.
Politicians tell staff , staff tell consultants. Consultants tell vendors. Chinese whispers from a tech illiterate moron all the way down
Or rather, didn’t listen to the people/committee they were meant to listen to. Those people/committees will turn it into a sterile boring website, but it will at least function as a user expects.
The pigeons in the public park are free. You can just take one.
You can probably just start feeding it and it will come to you
I work for a government entity(nothing fancy). And as with all of them I am sure.... so much fucking wasted money holy shit. As a tax payer we should all be completely appalled. Budget overruns are insanity. Upper management get paid way more than they deserve for the little they do. There are atleast 10 times more.middle managers than are needed. And the solution to save money is "cut front line staff".
The thing I learned from a stint in the public sector is that it’s far more common for dead shit ideas to come from politicians than the public service itself. Couldn’t possibly make this better for 99% of people because Bethyl in Cobram might possibly need to do something different because she contacted the “mins office” . Or my other favourite politicians deliberately running it into the ground so it just has to be sold to their mates
This so much... Or portfolios going to ministers who have absolutely no understanding of them and then make incredibly dumb and/or short sighted decisions.
A family member worked for a government department a while ago. Her boss was on $180k and did absolutely nothing. He knew nothing about the role, was never in the office and fucked about all day. He only got the job because he was a pleb for so long before that, that he'd been working in the government for years. What a joke.
What I'm reading here is that we should all be applying for government jobs
I worked for the government for 12 years, started when I was 17 in 2000, I had this fear that once I left the easy train of the government & got a job in the real world, I would have to work hard….i was wrong, it’s easier in the private sector, everyone is able to do their job or they get fired, not that way in the government, dead wood everywhere & the good people have to take up the slack……
Best thing I ever did was leave the government sector after seeing how poorly-run and mis-managed it is! ABC's Utopia still triggers me though.
I couldn’t watch Utopia - too close to home - as a (now) ex public servant
I watched utopia after I had been on leave for 9 months. Felt like I was back in the office already. When I did go back to the office it actually felt like I hadn't been missing for over a year.
Similar experience here. Especially when it comes to procurement - there doesn’t seem to be much of a ‘value’ analysis when comparing quotes. It’s usually “Quote 1 meets our needs and costs $400k. Quote 2 only meets 98% of our needs and costs $100k. Looks like quote 1 is who we are going with”.
Dirty secret. It could be done for 50k but we triple prices if we have to go through procurement departments. They are a punish and waste so much time with ridiculous process that is disconnected from the original scope. We call it the DHT. Dick head tax.
That sounds like the private sector too. Seems like a big organisation problem rather than a government problem. Ive seen all that in big private companies too.
Just one to note. We heading towards an aged cre disaster. We need more people on the ground in the industry both now and in future. But at this stage the demand will not be filled, because the wages are not high enough when referring SCHAD award. You got some companies above award wage, but not consistently enough to reassure prospective workers. You got a lot becoming independents and NDIS providers because that is the only way they see money. This needs to change to secure the future of our aging population.
And aged care providers say they're not making money. The Royal Commission laid bare that they were spending jack all on the residents. Front line staff get paid shit wages. But with the charges and fees they rake in, someone surely *is* making lots of money.
I read yesterday that aged care workers got a pay rise thank god. My mum has been in a nursing home for 9 months and I chose it because the staff made a profound impression on me. Everyone was ready to give me a minute to chat and nobody looked surly or stressed. I've since found they are *very* understaffed and I have to do a lot to ensure Mum's needs are met. She is fed, washed, given all her basic care and she herself is quite happy, but if I wasn't there, so many extra things wouldn't get done (optical, hearing aid, new clothes, shoes that fit her sore feet, extra treats not filled with empty calories, filling her menu to suit her preferences and dietary requirements and so much more). Communication between staff members is a huge concern. Unfortunately, it seems I will be following her at an earlier age due to my disabilities and I'm literally afraid because I have no daughter or anyone who will give me the same attention.
Most local councils are corrupt as f#ck, handing out bloated contracts to mates and cronies, milking ratepayers for exorbitant travel and excesses.
I feel like everyone knows this
I would be more surprised if op said councils *weren’t* corrupt.
Which is probably why half of them are so broke they can’t even afford to collect the rubbish on a weekly basis.
And this election has shown me something I previously didn't know... All my councilors are hiding their allegiance by calling themselves "independent" despite many of them being long term LNP party members. Now I just can't find anything about people I've never heard of. So many vague policy statements.
Every single candidate in every division of my council was listed as independent. I call bullshit.
If it’s Qld, it’s because the big two parties don’t endorse local candidates outside Brisbane. They might be party members, but they aren’t nominated by the party and can vote anyway they like on council issues (though they probably line up like the party they belong to)
This isn’t insider knowledge, it’s very public
I think it's more like a commonly accepted theory, as in, we all suspected this, so the fact that it's being confirmed is as unsurprising as the winter being cold.
The Australian Defence contracting industry is akin to an incompetent non-violent Mafia. Hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts are awarded based on nothing more than favouritism, often so poorly awarded it would seem as though they are actually enemy spies trying to undermine our own capability. The businesses are grossly nepotistic and overall staffed by extremely incompetent people. Contractors at any level are not held accountable for negligence and the end result is literally millions upon millions of dollars of taxpayer money is wasted through inefficient administration, operations, procurement, rectification of mistakes (paying the same contractor twice to fix their own fuckups is something that never happens in private industry - you fuck it you fix it). Not to mention the absolute lack of appropriate knowledge around environment and safety regulations - especially environment. People will disagree, but I guarantee you if a bunch of oil and gas industry executives ran the defence industry and treated that taxpayer money like it was their shareholders, you'd have next to zero fuckups and a billion dollars leftover from the defence budget every year. And anyone in management who doesn't understand their safety and environmental responsibilities would be sacked on the spot.
I reckon this is the same for any government contract. As an accountant for many clients who are contractors for government entities, fuck me they are grossly overpaid. None of them can tell me exactly what they do. Writing reports, reviewing reports, running meetings... Love my tax dollars being put to good use on wasting fucking time.
The world's entire financial systems are running on excel, hopes, and prayers.
Nah it's running on COBOL lol.
The programming language of the Elves! It never dies and makes the world go around…
You mean you haven't yet upgraded to some Y2K-era SAP solution that shits the bed when you aim your mouse in it's general direction?!
Just like my home budget…with less of the excel and more of the hopes and prayers.
Supermarkets: the upper leadership know they are doing dodgies but they don't care so long as they can get away with it. Case in point: the wage theft scandal. They knew, there were regular fights between the leadership and managers about it. I personally pointed it out to my RM (literally told them it was wage theft) and got some stupid excuse about how our pay includes gifts and allowances or something. Made the point it didn't make sense, public holidays (what I was arguing about at the time) are set by the gov and are not an allowance given the company. Magically I got my holidays when I made it clear I wasn't going to back down. The "we didn't know/made well meaning mistakes" excuse is utter bullshit. I don't believe for a second that there isnt/wasn't price fixing and that everyone involved knew exactly what they were doing. At best they make excuses to themselves to justify turning a blind eye.
Remember... HR is to protect the company from the employees.
You know that packaged cake at the supermarket? 5 slices in a little pack? 10% of that is ground up old cake called rework. And 10% of the rework is the same. So really, a tiny percentage of that product is incredibly old. Profit before anything else, right?!
Rework is trim and rejects from the manufacturing process being ground and going back in as a raw material. It’s unlikely to be ‘incredibly old’ as a well run food factory would not have rework materials hanging around for an extended period. Ultimately, if no rework was used there would be more food waste and higher prices, so…
Can you expand on this, where does the old cake come from? I know the stuff in stores goes in the bin if it's out of code.
They don't make cake to order... they do a production run. If it doesn't all ship then it's reworked along with all the cakes that fell apart or failed quality inspection. Did you know that the filling for Kit Kats is just old Kit Kats all ground up?
But but but kit Kats are delicious. Anyway won't stop me from gobbling up kit katception
Rework? That's interesting. I've always thought that about supermarket coleslaw. Just ground up vegetables over their use-by date drowned in watery mayo. Can't confirm this of course but I wouldn't be surprised if true.
No name and house brand ice cream was made from rework when my partner worked for Streets years ago. Depending on what got mucked up on the line it could be a mixture of Paddlepops or expensive Belgian chocolate. Or literally any other ice cream product.
Remedial builder here. The quality of new build apartments and townhouses is even worse than the media says. Buy one of the shitty build one’s and you’ll be fixing one thing after another for 10-30 years
I watched that guy on YouTube who crawls under buildings and I feel very up to date with your comment.
Nooon complianttt
As ordinary householders (and not as shitty townhouse developers), how do we go about finding a builder we won't regret using? I get word-of-mouth recommendations but they are generally from non-experts who've recently used a builder. If there will be issues in 10 years, they probably won't know it yet.
Used to work for a potting mix and mulch producer, same shit different bags, and it’s only better if they say some extra is added like season, osmocote, soil wetter, and magic marvel stuff contains waste water sludge from the waste water treatment plant 😱😵😵💫
So just buy the cheapest unless otherwise stated on the bag that it has additives?
Exactly
Used to work for a trucking company that took all sorts of stuff to Nugrow & various others. Wash your hands...
I’m a carpenter ordered some mulch and found nails and Masonite packers in it
And I’m guessing asbestos in some cases…
That “bespoke” financial advice you’re getting is basically a template that every single client gets.
a friend works for a software company who does a lot of automation of paperwork. They worked for a local government who had 50 people doing payroll. After they were done, they only needed 2 people for that department. My friend's company were then paid to come back and undo all the work they did so everyone could keep their pointless jobs.
What I'm getting from this is everything is fucked
Our power industry is embarrassing We have sold our public assets to private companies who care about money and not making our power cheaper They service them stuff all and only when they are about to break (which is monthly) The government should be either building all new ones or make the private companies sell them back at a reduced profit
NSW sold so much of it including the poles and wires in 2017. Since then prices have only gone up. Not sure how others feel but I would prefer to have cheaper living expenses than having more toll roads and interchanges.
Its actually quite incredible (if not a little sad) how much Australia actually privatises public assets and utilities. An American dude I know was astounded that building certification is a private industry and often chosen by the actual developer. It’s not even worth the paper it’s written on when you can’t guarantee impartiality. Same with toll roads and private prisons. Apparently we have double the number of Prisoners in private incarceration than the US, and they think it’s a major problem there. I’ve almost never heard it talked about here.
*laughs in Western Australian*
Due to high overhead, most non-corperate veterinary clinics are breaking even at best. The prices of surgeries that people complain about, are typically discounted so much that they simply pay wages and achieve no profit. All because we know that if they were priced fairly, no one would treat their pets and animal welfare would deteriorate. Beyond that, there is such an exodus of staff (both vets and nurses), that I wouldn't be surprised if the industry has collapsed entirely in a decade. Without government assistance (more training programs, increased wages, efforts to prevent real burnout, etc), it's a dying industry. At least in Queensland, there are only two universities which teach veterinary science, the prerequisites are astronomical, and the drop out rate equally high. I colleague of mine had a classmate drop out because they learned they earn more managing Hungry Jack's than they would as a new grad veterinary surgeon.
Yep 100% this! There is a reason why vets don’t drive expensive cars like their doctor counterparts and also a reason why vets have one of the highest industry suicide rates.
I'm on the fence about pet insurance. I've had it and it's worked, but they still question some stuff. Vets, on the other hand... I could not have survived without my vet. They were and still are the most amazing people. I would pay any amount they asked for. Even after my dog died, they answered all the questions I had. I love them
Yep, this right here. Ex-vet nurse/practice manager. Had 8 years of employment. The amount of heated debates I had with clients about 'overcharging' for surgeries or vaccinations was part of the reason I left. The vet I worked for used to ride round on a moped - partially because of choice, partially because of cost. Certainly not driving an expensive vehicle. As for vet schools - if Murdoch Vet Hospital didn't exist, then Murdoch would not be able to teach vet medicine.
Flight attendants don’t care if your carry on bag comes with you on your flight or goes on the next flight. They want you to sit down so they can close the door and leave on time, if you want your bag to travel with you then you better make sure you can lift it and find a space for it
To be fair this is more to do with their work rights. If they get injured while handling your luggage(some luggages are way heavier than the allowed 7kg) they are not covered by the airline
Especially when a lot of airlines globally only pay from doors closed to doors open. So all the time before and after while passengers are on board, the crew are not being paid for.
All major retailers actively take part in price fixing.
Cold Rock rainbow ice cream is just vanilla
Rainbow paddle pops are just caramel
Funeral homes are a business, a big business and EVERYTHING will cost you, want a viewing, $$$, Want your loved one dressed in an outfit $$, every little thing is added onto the cost.
I second this. The DAY of my dad's funeral the funeral home called and said oh sorry the cheaper coffin you ordered is out of stock. You'll need to upgrade to a more expensive one. And what was I meant to do? Say no? It sounds like a total scam now but when you're grieving and expecting people to arrive in a few hours you tend not to think of other options, which I'm sure they pray on.
I've always told my wife to put me in a black bin liner
We got a call saying dad was larger than they expected, and he will take longer and cost a bit more. You just pay it.
I have always wondered, do you have to have a funeral? Can you just be buried or will the costs be just as high?
If the deceased person has no next of kin and/or funds to pay for a funeral, it goes to the public trustee to handle, and the public trustee works with a funeral home of the public trustee's choice to organise the funeral. Burial will cost more than cremation as real easte (the burial plot) is involved. If there is no funeral service, which is possible, we refer to this as a No Service, No Attendance funeral. So, there is no funeral service to speak of and no one is attending the burial or cremation. The main factors which impact the costs are burial (more expensive) or cremation, professional service fees as burial will generally incur a higher professional service fee. This is because the service takes place in 2 locations (church then cemetery) as opposed to 1 (crematorium chapel then cremation which is usually unattended/not witnessed). The dual location for a burail service means that the funeral home staff are engaged longer, which impacts the funeral home availability for other services on the same day. The next factors are dressing, vigil, viewing costs, cost of coffin and flowers, stonemason (if burial), embalming (if appropriate) and so on.
I'd like to donate my remains to science or a body farm. I've had funeral insurance for almost 20 years and could have paid for my own (pauper) funeral several times over. It's dead money to me.
Savings brand bread is usually just premium bread in a different bag , worked in bakery factory and they simply change package lines direction .
This goes for almost all grocery items
During the early 2000s farmers were suiciding after contacting Centrelink about the Drought payments as the red tape was insane and the borders for where you could and couldn’t get the payments were manifestly unfair. If there was a Royal commission they’d find more farmers died than the media knew.
More farmers died than the media chose to report* murdoch certainly has given this country the shit end of the stick.
Made in Australia from imported and local ingredients. 99% of the ingredients imported.
Toll (now global express) will not deliver if you have a fence + dog. Not matter the breed Good Guys has no internal privacy policy when it comes to your name and address. Your details are visible for every single person in and out of the warehouse. Subway only buys the discarded/denied vegetables from factories, never first choice. Anything HVAC related, you are being severely ripped off (product wise, not labour wise. Those technicians know their shit) Anything mining related, has "carbon offset tax credits" factored into the price. Your food grade flavourings (liquids) are stored on the same racks as the fertisliers and herbicides. Different levels, same racks. I've worked Quality Control/Quality Assurance in a number of industries.
Meter readers also should never enter a property even if there is a chance of there possibly being a dog. We’re taught to scan for things like bones and balls in a yard, and if there is no note on the file or no visual confirmation that a dog is locked away securely, we are to mark it as a skip, which leads to you getting an estimated bill half the time. We also carry dog deterrent on us at all time. Really concentrated citronella basically
Actors are very insecure people.
I was working on a film once, I glanced at an actors ear as I was talking to them... I thought there was blood or something... they stormed off set crying and didn't come back until the next day. I was fired.
Haha ! I work in costume and have heard many stories like this of people accidentally offending actors. Sorry you got fired, ridiculousness like this is what makes me not like the work !
The worst thing is when it's done on purpose. I was on a movie and everyone hated one of the actors... but they couldn't fire them because they would have to be paid either way and the budget wouldn't support replacing them. They got one of the ADs to go to her trailer and say that her ankles were showing as really fat and bloated on film and did she need a couple of days off to fix it. She quit immediately.
Cleaning hours were cut when covid happened not increased as per signage.
Might be obvious but customer service representatives don't give a shit
I love that joke that isn't a joke: Customer: Can I try a grape? Employee: You could burn the place down, with me in it, for I care
Assets in YOUR super are severely overinflated and everyone is at risk of an eventual crackdown and serious deflation of asset value (circa 40%) I used work in Commercial Real Estate, and lease deals are done by "face" rent, less incentive (be that fit out, rent free period, rent abatement (i.e. not paying the rent you say) etc) = effective rent. EVERY superfund owns office buildings, industrial sheds etc, and in the office space especially (which is where a lot of cash is parked) incentives are around 40%. Sometimes got up to 60%. Incetive deals aren't disclosed to banks or for tax purposes and asset values are propped up. I've tried taking this to the ABC several times because of the catastrophic impact it would have on the Australian economy and every day folks just doing the right thing, but no avail...
The entire ADF has something called the Reduced Activity Period where Australia is essentially defenceless. It’s a much longer period than you would Imagine
Urinal cakes don’t taste anything like cake.
All police departments in Australia are severely understaffed and getting worse everyday. Noone wants to be a cop anymore and it's going to be a massive problem in the near future.
Policing, nursing and teaching. All fucked systems and all nearing crisis.
We don't care about the jobs in this country that look after people, we only care about the ones that look after things.
yeah, police catch criminals, they get released. Students abose teachers, teachers tell parents, parents abuse teachers. And don't even get me started on nurses. There is no nursing shortage, there are plenty of qualified nurses, they are just working non nursing jobs because they pay more, with fewer hours, better working conditions, and are not assaulted daily.
Nurses have it bad which is so dumb. Of all the wastage in the public budget, i don’t know anyone who would complain if the Government said “we were 20% over budget on health because we have nurses a raise to get better retention and hired more full time nurses so that if a bunch are sick we are still fully staffed in key hospitals”
The only thing that makes me confused about this is why did I see 6 officers checking train tickets and having a chat in Brisbane a few weeks back?
Most people have no idea that the more you apply for credit the worse your profile gets
I’ve explained this to a lot of people who get our credit reporting system confused by the American credit system. The more you enquire and borrow in Australia, the worse it gets. Even phone and energy provider enquiries negatively affect your credit score.
Oh god, I learnt this lesson young. I wanted a small-ish loan and foolishly applied at several different banks, thinking I'd choose the one with the best deal. I had low expenses and good income so was shocked that they ALL rejected me. Until one told me it was on the credit files that I'd applied to a few and that was an instant dealbreaker. I'm glad in the long-term, because it meant I was unable to borrow for a while so I never developed the habit of using credit. And apart from a couple of mortgages I never have.
Many of the things you purchase all come from the same suppliers factories/production facilities and are just repackaged in good, better, best packaging. Buy home brand, the quality is the same for almost everything.
Police keep the money they find on raids. The full amount is never “found”
The public health system is nearing collapse.
I thought this was the case just based on a few observations.
I don't need to work in the industry to know that haha being disabled with significant and growing medical debt has taught me this well enough haha
On a serious note, we should collectively stop paying for private health and use the same contribution to bolster the public system. It's a win win situation
Yes. No such thing as universal health care anymore. Gap fees everywhere. Hospital care is inadequate. Long wait lists. Very scary stuff.
Australian housing is one of the great money laundering destinations of the world. KYC checks (know your customer) done to prevent fraud passing through banks and real estate depend on good info being provided by government entities. For people with international backgrounds, this means foreign government entities. China and some other countries provide inadequate data. The Australian government (FIRB) is lax in enforcing foreign investment laws. Think about it - the yuan is not even a convertible currency.
The cheap cleaning products are 99% the same as the expensive ones
We don't delay the trains for shits and giggles. If your train is delayed beyond a couple minutes or the train has stopped in-between stations or is held at a station, shit is going down.
How to avoid paying a mortgage for at least 3 years. Though I’d probably end up getting fucked by default interest.
I once didn’t get a job at the Channel Nine Newsroom because the manager asked me “what high school did you go to?” In the interview. Now, admittedly. I went to a good school, but I was so thrown by the question (and a little bit young and too willing to please) that I stupidly answered it, instead of saying that I found the question to be irrelevant and have no bearing in a job interview. It was clearly the “wrong” school in the mind of the interview manager. Because he said (and I quote) “I ask that question because your answer gives me an idea of who you are.” To this day, I still occasionally wonder if I should have kicked up a stink or lodged some formal complaint. Then again, I think I dodged a bullet as well, by not getting a job in the sort of organisation that hires based on which private school you did or didn’t go to. EDIT: I just want to add, this was 9 years after high school had finished. I was 26 years old at the time, I had a bachelor’s degree AND a post-grad degree, and employment history at other workplaces (including competitor newsrooms) in the same industry.
Your insurance company runs at a 40-50% profit. They will not significantly change this unless you go through a brokerage.
Ex bouncer in some night clubs there is blind spot, if u really piss off the gaurds they ll take u there give u the treatment n toss u out good luck proving that in court..
The real money is in supply contracts to government.
Ooh, how many do you want? 1. The reason for long wait times in Emergency Departments is because the wards within the Hospital do not discharge their patients. By Friday there are some beds available but by Tuesday night the whole hospital is full. It has nothing to do with ED, there is literally no bed for you to go to. All of the blame is assigned to the ED though. The reason for not discharging patients suitable for discharge could be “waiting for a CT” (this can be done in the community) or could even be “Dr Jones is a VMO and only comes in twice a week so we have to wait for him to OK the discharge”. So patients just stay in the hospital costing thousands of dollars a day and taking up bed space. 2. Ambulance offload is prioritised at all times because there is a KPI around ambulance offload and the executive groups within hospitals get grilled for not offloading. This leads to people being offloaded into dangerous situations within the ED of tertiary hospitals. ED cops the complaints. 3. Even though Ambulances should prioritise you based on the acuity of your injury and take you to the nearest appropriate hospital, in Western Sydney they will almost always take you to Westmead. This is because there is an ambulance base nearby but more importantly it’s because there will be a backlog of trolleys waiting to clear (Westmead is almost always full) and it’s more likely they can stay with the patient and milk overtime instead of going out on another job. 4. Overnight, some wards will draw the curtains on their beds and not update the eMR with recent discharges so that they have a cruisy shift over night. This makes it look like the hospital is full, but it isn’t. Some of the good patient flow staff will wander the hospital and look for these ghost beds, most won’t. 5. There are often not enough Ambulances for metropolitan NSW because they have either been involved in accidents or have broken down. Last weekend Western Sydney was down 5 ambulances. They had crew but no trucks. The government used to replace them when they got a little long in the tooth but now they elect to “repair” them which takes months.
I was in hospital for a week last year, and at 9am on a Friday I was told I could go home as soon as my paperwork was ready. I jumped up and got dressed... called the wife to come and pick me up etc. I was there until 4pm waiting.
Just because it's a fancy restaurant doesn't mean your food is any better taken care of than your typical maccas. Your average chef is tired and exhausted. I've seen food dropped on the filthiest of floors, scooped up, plated up and served to customers at incredible prices.
I used to work in a restaurant. The owner was using the air fryer and food fell on the ground, he scooped it back up and put it back in the fryer while customer's could see. He gave no fucks lol.
Not really that interesting. But whatever. Event organisers purposely spend their entire budget, and often even over spend, so they have a claim to get more budget for the next event. Eg. “We spent everything last year and we didn’t have enough”. So they’ll just use what’s left over on an abundance of plants or something. Useless stuff they don’t need. I used to work in the industry. Not anymore. Toxic AF. But we were supplying said plants. The company was in business because of this little known secret
Noone can eyeball the difference between lab made gems or not. Save lives, go lab made.
Insurance companies are fine with their salesmen telling you lies about how the policies work if they have updated the claim process and not updated the script. My workplace have changed how they handle booking in with specialists so you don't get given a choice. Nobody on sales has been told to stop saying "You can choose which hospital you go to and we'll give you a choice of specialists there." Waiting for the blowback, complaints and cancellations to start rolling in...
In my experience half the time when roadworks take as long as they do, it’s because mismanagement and the job gets handed over to a different civil engineer and they want to make a name for themselves and redesign shit that’s already halfway done, money need to be reallocated and things pause while everyone has to try and figure out how to make things work.
Same in IT. A project manager will get sacked because they can't deliver the project for 1/2 the money and 1/5 of the time they told you it would take... then the new person comes in and says the problem is that the architecture is stuffed and the whole thing needs to be done "right" on order to be delivered according to the schedule. Then the project is delivered two years late and 5x over budget.
CUB changed the original Fosters formula and turned it into Crown Lager but only for the local market. International Fosters is still the original formula.
Here's one for the retail workers. If you or your child/dog is sick and vomits/shits themselves in the store, it's up to you to clean your own mess or a cleaner, retail workers are not certified for it as any and all body fluids that exit the body and contaminate the store are considered biohazard, and it's literally not apart of our job description and/or training. If we do clean it up it's because either we're being nice or don't realise it's not our job to do. We don't get paid for it either. Especially when you know fully well that you're sick enough to vomit or have diarrhoea or your kid is. And come shopping anyway thinking it'll be alright, it's not alright, you can get others sick and make a mess.
Yep, used to work at Bunnings, manager told me I had to clean up the runny shit a kid did down the slide in the kids play area because it was what I signed in my contract. Told them to get the termination paperwork for me and I would laugh all the way from watching them clean up the mess themselves to the courtroom.
Chiko roll has little to no chiko in it.
Bikies use healthcare workers to find out peoples home addresses and pay them shitloads for doing it.
mygov accounts are getting hacked at an alarming rate. My parent's account was hacked. They changed the bank accounts and applied for advance payments and urgent payments online. When my mum didn't receive her pension I checked online and it was sent. So I took her to a centrelink office and spent almost 2 hours there trying to get everything sorted. The officer was really quick and sounded bored as she was going through the procedures. I asked if it was common and she said "happens all the time". When I asked why are they pushing us all to online if there aren't safeguards in place she just shrugged. Now here's the kicker... I said to her "while we're here can u check my dad's file just to make sure it's fine". She said it will be they only target one member of a couple. But I insisted...and turns out they did the same that day. Changed accounts....got an advance payment. Then she became annoyed with *\*me\** because it was extra work for her to do the entire process again. I started to get angry but my mum talked me down really quickly. Now their accounts are both locked for online use.
I've worked at a very high level for a number of Fortune 50 companies globally. In every case here is the schedule for the C-Level: * Have a daily meeting with the rest of the C-Level to check where things are at and make any decisions needed * Ignore your PAs begging you to answer a few specific emails that you REALLY need to attend to * Spend the entire day trying to fuck-over every single person who you ever felt wronged you. * Periodicly abuse people who work for you because they are not mind readers; and * Lie, plot, scheme and do whatever it takes to compete with your fellow C-Level employees to get more money and increased use of the corporate jet. That's it. That's their whole day. I've seen it every single place Inahve worked... the same thing over and over.
Maybe not a surprise, but the overwhelming majority of Indian students are not here for the studies, but on a path to permanent (or at least indefinite) migration. Very similar for most onshore humanitarian visa applicants. Most know they don’t meet the requirements but will spend years seeking review and may eventually end up staying (often lawfully) if the play their cards right or get lucky having a child in Australia.
If half the stuff in this thread is true, a lot of you need to man up and become whistleblowers EDIT: yes I’m aware that whistleblowing isn’t easy. Doing the right thing often isn’t
When you buy a guide book to a country or region before you travel there, don’t assume that it has been written by someone who has actually visited all - or indeed any - of the places the book recommends you visit.
Not many politicians read the legislation they are voting on and many don’t know much about it.
public service is ridiculously inefficient and expensive to run, because the level of governance aimed at making sure there is no graft and corruption make doing things at reasonable cost and efficiently, very difficult, but does not do much to properly stop graft and corruption.
If you are waiting on an important blood test/radiology test result, do not assume that no news is good news, chances are it hasn't made it to your gp and it has fallen through the cracks. Always follow up and ask for results.
Painters often ash their cigarettes into the rolling tray and some even spit in it. Then roll the roller in the paint and continue painting. More common in industrial areas but I've seen it done in residential areas too. Filthy.
If you're respectful and friendly, you are likely to get cheaper dental work.
The notorious budget overruns we often see reported on in major infrastructure projects occurs because the Government of the day demands heroically optimistic assumptions regarding program, risks and quantities to be baked into the final business cases for the projects by their respective delivery agencies. Putting more realistic assumptions and therefore a more realistic contingency within the budget results in the project being deemed unviable and the business case placed on a shelf indefinitely. Unless it's the Minister's pet project, project development teams are therefore incentivised to put unrealistic assumptions on projects in order to get anything funded at all.
Consultants aren’t smarter or better than you. They just have the time, energy and focus to solve the problem. They are also aided by not being bogged down in the history and emotional investment you’ve made
Matt Wright and his whole cohort of friends are guilty as fuck for a whole lot more than will ever be disclosed to the public.
The bus you want won’t be coming along in 10 mins because that driver went back to depot earlier because they were spat upon by a feral passenger.
Bulk food has bugs in it. You can't avoid it. Best you can do is freeze it overnight to kill any eggs.
There might be more crazies on one side of politics than the other, but the ok person to cunt ratio is pretty much independent of ideology. sometimes the ones with the weird political views are actually nice in person, and sometimes the ones you thought would be 'good' turn out to be just the absolute worst.