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AKA I'm a sociopath who feels absolutely no remorse for killing babies and everyone who does should probably harden up BOOTSTRAPS TO NOBODY'S SURPRISE EVER https://www.theage.com.au/business/workplace/penalty-rates-cuts-devastating-parliamentary-inquiry-finds-20180724-p4ztdd.html quote:Cuts to weekend penalty rates have hit Victorian women and regional workers hardest, threaten the state’s economic growth and have not created any more jobs, according to a Parliamentary report. Don Dongington fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Jul 25, 2018 |
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/elfyscott/women-are-twice-as-likely-to-die-in-the-six-months-after-aquote:Women are receiving poorer quality treatment for heart attacks in hospitals and are dying at twice the rate of men in the six months after these visits, according to a new Australian study.
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ABC has an article up saying how Tradesmen need to stop handshake contracts where no written contract for a job exists and they just assume they will get paid for the job via a handshake and what happens is the client just disappears and pays the tradies nothing and they can't do anything about it because no contract actually exists. How dumb are Australians?
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Anidav posted:ABC has an article up saying how Tradesmen need to stop handshake contracts where no written contract for a job exists and they just assume they will get paid for the job via a handshake and what happens is the client just disappears and pays the tradies nothing and they can't do anything about it because no contract actually exists. Strictly speaking the bolded part isn't entirely true, it's just often so much time and expense to prove there is one and what it was that that it's frequently cheaper to let it go than it is to go through the courts. As to the second part, never underestimate it.
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Anidav posted:How dumb are Australians? plastic bags
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Anidav posted:ABC has an article up saying how Tradesmen need to stop handshake contracts where no written contract for a job exists and they just assume they will get paid for the job via a handshake and what happens is the client just disappears and pays the tradies nothing and they can't do anything about it because no contract actually exists. I feel like there's a space for a quick handshake contract app in the market.
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Konomex posted:I feel like there's a space for a quick handshake contract app in the market. Every day we stray further away from God
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And here I thought the stereotype was without a written contract the tradie will take your money and disappear off the face of the earth. Probably goes both ways.
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Handshake contract and paid in cash so you can under report your income.
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kirbysuperstar posted:I should probably opt out of the health record thing but I'm pretty sure I can never get health insurance again anyway and the idea of a shitbag insurer glancing at my file and filling their trousers in horror is funny to me. Nah, you totally can. Every insurer has to give the same rate to everyone for the same policy before loading and the Australian Government Rebate is applied. The term is "community rating". Legally, health insurance providers cannot discriminate in Australia. Only thing you'd step in to is 12 month wait for pre-existing conditions.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:And here I thought the stereotype was without a written contract the tradie will take your money and disappear off the face of the earth. Probably goes both ways. One might get you a royal commission from the Coalition. Guess which one!
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Anidav posted:How dumb are Australians? kirbysuperstar posted:plastic bags Pauline Hanson's One Nation
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Intoluene posted:Nah, you totally can. Every insurer has to give the same rate to everyone for the same policy before loading and the Australian Government Rebate is applied. The term is "community rating". Legally, health insurance providers cannot discriminate in Australia. Only thing you'd step in to is 12 month wait for pre-existing conditions. Maybe I was thinking of life insurance. Either way I told the guy what I had and he kinda just noped out of the call. Thanks for clarifying that, though - appreciate it.
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Yet another reason why the apartment market is going to absolutely poo poo the bed: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-25/residents-in-apartments-slugged-thousands-to-change-power-supply/10029842quote:As power bills surge, people are being told to shop around for cheaper deals. Wouldn't surprise me it this also happened with other things like internet etc.
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Periphery posted:Yet another reason why the apartment market is going to absolutely poo poo the bed: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-25/residents-in-apartments-slugged-thousands-to-change-power-supply/10029842 I live in a building with one of these embedded power networks. They charge above the market rate and it’s impossible to get out of. It’s hosed. But then I’m looking into some future apartments being constructed under a capped-profit and ethical/sustainable model and they’re planning on embedding their own networks. And making the claim that it’ll be green energy at 60% of the market price of fossil fuel energy. Also planning to install their own 100/100 fibre lines and charging 75% of market rates. The development is still a few years away, but it sounds good in theory.
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Intoluene posted:Nah, you totally can. Every insurer has to give the same rate to everyone for the same policy before loading and the Australian Government Rebate is applied. The term is "community rating". Legally, health insurance providers cannot discriminate in Australia. Only thing you'd step in to is 12 month wait for pre-existing conditions.
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Anidav posted:ABC has an article up saying how Tradesmen need to stop handshake contracts where no written contract for a job exists and they just assume they will get paid for the job via a handshake and what happens is the client just disappears and pays the tradies nothing and they can't do anything about it because no contract actually exists.
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Yeah good luck paying for a lawyer on a handyman's income of... $maybe.
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Rocking up and threatening the customer with violence is free and effective. You can also break the things you fixed while there. E: or do they mean dummies working on a crew with no employment details? Tradesmen working solo should be loving over all and sundry without issue. JBP fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Jul 25, 2018 |
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JBP posted:Rocking up and threatening the customer with violence is free and effective. You can also break the things you fixed while there. JBP advocating literal crimes in response to possible crimes? Where is the old JBP?!
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I got the impression we were talking about wage theft by small businesses bringing on casual skilled labour then not paying for it, rather than sole traders getting hosed by customers.
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News Corp WE can barely turn on the TV or flick through a newspaper these days without hearing about Australia’s housing affordability crisis. But apparently, there’s actually no such thing. That’s according to property expert and The Freedom Formula author Bushy Martin, who is convinced the only issue is with our own “entitled expectations”. He said as a nation we were asking the wrong questions and treating the “symptoms rather than the cause”. “Everyone goes on about the affordability crisis and there’s no doubt about it — if you want to buy property in Sydney or Melbourne’s inner ring, that’s going to be unaffordable for most people,” he told news.com.au. “But it’s more of an accessibility and expectations issue than an affordability issue. “It’s a dynamic multifaceted issue where isolated reactive and ill conceived interventions for the few are likely to have unknown and unintended far reaching consequences for the many. “So do we really have a housing affordability issue? Yeah, nah.” Mr Martin said first home buyers represented just one in seven property purchasers — and that as a country, we shouldn’t change the entire system for the “politically correct squeaky wheel minority”. “Should we be turning housing policy on its head to cater for the few by meddling with the market that could potentially have significant impacts on the many?” he asked. “Or should the few learn to suck it up, grow some b*lls, lower their short term expectations, start saving and become rentvestors or learn to live with a bit less for a little while to get started?” Mr Martin insisted while we did have a problem in highly sought after areas, it was not happening across the board. “We live in the best country in the world and the best locations come at a price because everyone wants to live there,” he said. “So the issue in these lifestyle meccas for first home buyers is the savings deposit hurdle. “But this belies the real underlying issue — our entitled expectations.” He said most people were missing a “massive opportunity” by believing they had to own the home they lived in. And he said our “instant iPhone everything world” was at least partly to blame, with people expecting to get everything they wanted immediately without putting in the hard yards. But Mr Martin pointed to his own experience as an example of how to buck the trend. He and his wife Sonya both started with nothing following previous relationship breakdowns before amassing an international portfolio of 12 properties together. They achieved it by rentvesting — or investing in affordable properties outside of where they actually wanted to live, and then renting in their chosen location. “We recognised pretty early on that having a mortgage and putting a dirty great noose around our necks and living on dog food and baked beans for 30 years probably wasn’t the way to get ahead,” he said. “We made a conscious decision to rent in the location of our choice at a fraction of what we’d have paid in a mortgage, and we started putting all our energy into investing our income into assets — we bought property in affordable, fringe areas on the outskirts of Adelaide.” He said it all came down to a question of “lifestyle versus loanstyle”. “If we want the dream home in the dream location now, we need to compromise on lifestyle,” he explained. “Or you can choose to enjoy a better lifestyle now by securing a lesser starter home further away.” He said many Aussies needed to learn to “separate access from ownership” and realise we don’t necessarily have to own the best house in the best suburb in order to be “living the dream”. Mr Martin stressed that while he was qualified to talk about property and finance, he was not a financial planner or accountant, and that people should talk to professionals before making major financial decisions to make sure it suits their risk profile.
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Mr Chips posted:And this will never, ever change, no matter how much giant for-profit insurers lobby Australian governments. Who knows but for now, dude can get private health insurance.
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https://realestatetalk.com.au/property-investment-strategy-bushy-martin/
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quote:Mr Martin said first home buyers represented just one in seven property purchasers
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bell jar posted:JBP advocating literal crimes in response to possible crimes? Where is the old JBP?! NAP
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Why is that? Too busy buying avocado
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I want to shank every loving boomer that complains about young people with their iPhones and holidays.
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...holiday? what is that?
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I spend all my money on rent
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Pfft bunch of fuckin' losers in this thread. I just married someone who had a house. Simple! Of course we have to pay it off and we seem to be going backwards rather than forwards, but whatever. I'm sure we'll pull through.
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The Before Times posted:...holiday? what is that? The Before Times posted:I spend all my money on rent Hmmmmmmm...have you considered just trying harder...?
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Just work hard and watch your income never change.
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hooman posted:Just work hard and watch your income never change. Well ackshually your income is going down.
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The Before Times posted:...holiday? what is that?
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JBP posted:Well ackshually your income is going down. =*( Please don't remind me. EDIT: Guardian top article relevant: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/25/most-australians-wages-have-declined-but-ceo-pay-is-better-than-ever "Most Australians' wages have declined but CEO pay is better than ever Workers in private sector, who are 85% of the workforce, are experiencing wages growth well below inflation" hooman fucked around with this message at 11:49 on Jul 25, 2018 |
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https://twitter.com/jurassic_snark_/status/1021537414924328960?s=21
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modigliana is a class traitor
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Everything is hosed*: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-25/ndis-poster-boy-has-own-application-rejected/10034228quote:A man living with a disability who featured in ads across the country for the National Disability Insurance Scheme when it launched has had his own NDIS application rejected. *Working as intended.
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