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Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

iajanus posted:

A good day

I dont think he should be fired for something that has nothing to do with his job.


If he made the post from a company account, or was representing the company at the time, it makes sense.

I mean if you're ok with people getting fired for having lovely opinions y'all better lift your game.

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Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Jonah Galtberg posted:

A dumb and wrong opinion from Laserface? Someone check my pulse my heart is racing

If someone is a oval office (like you) and theyre not being being paid by your employer, why is it any of your employers business?

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Starshark posted:

Don't use gendered slurs.

oh im sorry i forgot this is a saaaafe spaaace for loving dags who cant handle words on a screen they are voluntarily reading.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

ScreamingLlama posted:

I just got a letter today from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal informing me that my appeal was successful and I can stay on the DSP.


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

hnnnnng can you be joyous more quietly (almost whispering) im about to cum

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

the year is 2050.

every house in australia can have up to 2 poker machines per person.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Uber got legalised in NSW. its cool and good.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Starshark posted:

You're not empty because of the lack of words, you're empty because you're a worthless, soulless husk of a so-called human being.
a bloo bloo bloo you dont have the same opinion as me.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Starshark posted:

Still salty because I told you not to use gendered insults? You'll get over it around the time your nuts drop.

OMG ageist.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

I am debating going on Centrelink while out of work because its coming up to a tricky season to find work and honestly I would rather be off work over xmas anyway. I have about 5 grand saved which I was hoping to use to pay for a sinus operation next year - is this going to affect my chance at receiving welfare payments?

Im currently living off that money and while I dont mind doing so, I really need to get my loving sinus fixed.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

QUACKTASTIC posted:

Cross posting from USPol because



Im not following the US election stuff at all. is it actually looking like Trump is going to be elected? surely they arent that stupid?

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Nien posted:

I worked on a thing recently where there was the ultra high tedium job needing to be done. The Indian guy did it (and best I've seen that sort of job done) for $4,000. The lowest quote from a local was $47,700. You can't compete with this. Don't try.

My old employer was doing this for a lot of software dev stuff. Rather than having contractors come in they would just outsource on e-lance for a fraction of the cost and if a guy wasnt working out or was doing a bad job then they just binned him and got someone else immediately.

it basically turned the entire development team into project managers who delegated work to an invisible workforce. it sorta sucked tbh. totally killed the awesome collaborative vibe we had in the team.

Apparently now that company is gutting basically every department except for the heads and outsourcing everything that is 'work' and when something needs to be 'created' its done by one of the skeleton staff left behind.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

In Tokyo, those 'all you can eat/drink for 2hrs' places wont let you in if you're australian. I dont blame them, because Im sure theres a reason, but it would be nice if my passport somehow identified me as 'not a racist' so that I could enjoy something.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

open24hours posted:

I've been to those and I've never even been asked where I'm from.

Aussie passport gave it away I guess.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Or just stop posting loving first dog, like everyone wishes you would.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Monis was cool and good because two white people died.


What this thread actually believes.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Man Monis didnt do anything wrong because he was mentally unstable and a muslim.

what this thread actually believes.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Monis is a fuckhead terrorist that deserved to die and we are better off without him. he had nothing of value to contribute to society.

I agree that 'unleashed hell' is heavy handed, but not because of the measly death toll. Martin Bryant 'unleashed hell'. Man Monis unleashed 24 hour news coverage of a shop front.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

The housing market "coming off the boil " isn't what we want. We want the cheap Chinese pot it's boiling in to crack and fall to pieces.

Covering us all in boiling water.


Metaphors man.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Anidav posted:




Dev reveals that freaks from the survival horror game "Outlast" were modelled after Tony Abbott.

Did they really reveal that? I posted this like last year with the same thought

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

I hope hockeynomics makes it into national slang as 'a reaction to something that isnt actually a problem'

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Im a middle class white male, I have literally no reason to run. I just lift weights.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

EXAKT Science posted:

You should probably do at least a little cardio, tho.

I do, I just cant run properly and have zero reason to bother to try. Rowing or cycling machines are more my jam.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Even a perfectly executed campaign tackling the issues that might cause kids to turn to drugs, you're still not gonna stop the ones who do it because it's fun.

Throwing money at the issue to prevent hasn't worked. Just legalise it and sell it and turn drug prevention from a loss to a profit.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Besides the Air Force and other government operated aircraft for the politicians, there is zero publically owned airlines in Australia, correct? Wasnt Ansett the only one?

Some arrogant fuckhead on facebook is arguing that public transport in Australia is hosed because their Jetstar flight is delayed by 2 hours. A number of people have told her that its a private company but apparently in her mind 'public transport' includes any form of transport the public has access to.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

lol just lol if you live anywhere outside a 10km radius from the city of sydney and use a bike as a primary form of transport. it was never intended and should never be trusted unless you dont value you life.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

If working full time in a 5 of 7 day roster, should penalty rates be applied to sundays?

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

Wheezle posted:

Yes. There's more to a weekend for most people than just time spent not at work.

Right. So the employer I am interviewing for telling me that they dont pay penalty rates for weekend work (but do for public holidays) is breaking the law?

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

freebooter posted:

Not neccesarily. I've known some people on contracts where they don't get penalty rates because they get a higher base rate to compensate... so I guess that's legal.

What kind of job is it and how much are they offering you?

I mean, lawyers and poo poo will work like 60 or 80 hour weeks and get no compensation for late hours or weekend stuff. But anybody on an actual hourly wage should either be getting penalty rates, or getting a higher base rate than comparable workers doing Mon-Fri 9-5.


Full time just means 40 hours a week. I've worked full time Tuesday-Saturday (with Sundays and Mondays off) and got penalty rates for the Saturday.

Without giving away too much, its a support related role for a very large international tech company who specialises in devices that just work.


offering 40K, 5 of 7 roster.

I dont really want to take the job because its significantly less than my previous one, but its work from home and I can at least do it until something better paying comes along.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

posty posted:

No way in hell would the company in question be on an enterprise bargaining agreement from the howard era exempting them from penalty rates.

Good to know how much that job was paying - I too saw that position, comes up quite a bit actually and recommended it to someone who needed to work from home.

apparently it can be covered by a 'registered agreement' so if you are actually concerned about this, you should call fair work australia, as all registered agreements are registered with them, and they HAVE to know about it :). https://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay/penalty-rates-and-allowances EDIT: they have an online tool to search for them - I can't see one. best to ring them. https://www.fwc.gov.au/awards-and-agreements/agreements/find-agreement

considering I believe that company in question does a double irish with a dutch sandwich in regards to their tax obligations - I am not surprised at this.

I was earning about the same at HP doing level one work yonks ago and I had to schlepp my butt to work across town to start on a rotating roster for 8 hour shifts that could start anywhere between 6am and 1pm.

They also encouraged us to do overtime, though I was never a big fan of it, you just have to have a strong personality enough to tell them to gently caress off if you dont want to - because you value your work-life balance. we got paid for it though. time and a half for a few hours and double time after that. more if it was on weekends.

Thanks. Yeah I did work in HPs call centre and it was the same thing. I also worked for a now defunct mobile company that did the same thing. 5 of 7, no penalty rates except public holidays.

I will look them up myself and investigate. I have other irons in the fire but given the time of year things are progressing slowly and so far it's the job I'm closest to getting, and even then it starts in mid February.

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

lol good luck getting charged with hitting someone there is like no one there anymore.

who's the real cowards now huh?

Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

BCR posted:

Don't know. With rostered work unless its explicitly mentioned in your contract, you generally get 1.5X for so many hours then 2X after that.
actu helpline 1300 486 466
fairwork 13 13 94

I've had rostered work where if you're on saturday its the normal 1.5X an hour and sunday its the normal 2X an hour.

I've also worked on an award, where there was no penalty rates but they'd bumped up the hourly rate to make up for it.

How is this noted in the award? I should be able to ask the employer what award I am on, and then look it up on fair work and it'll say "$XX an hour plus YY to compensate for no penalty rates" ?

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Laserface
Dec 24, 2004

So what did he do

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