Thread: Payday...$300 for 7hrs work

I've been working as a subby paid by the job - had a ripper last month 4 hrs travel not paid for and then 10.5hrs work all for the princely sum of $170-00

I moved my entire family to QLD as there are so many jobs going here (after 30 years in the topend - to hot and a year in Adelaide - to cold). I am a dual trade Electrician / refrigeration and Air Conditioning mechanic with 30 years of trade, management and training experience. To the seventy zillion jobs i have applied for ' sorry you must have a QLD electrical license' This is wrong as mutual recognition means that any trade from anywhere in Australia must be recognised. when I point this out I get any thing from take it up with the premier to sorry company policy.

I am actively looking for work overseas as I am sick to death of the attitude I am getting from my own countrymen and women when applying for work. The mines are some of the best - you must have 3 years mining experience to be considered - umm how the hell do you get the experience if they will not hirer you without it????????????? even though I have all the skills sets and knowledge they require, which is industrial experience.

So I have applied for my QLD electrical license which will take another month to be processed meanwhile I cant work in my trade as no one will hirer me without it, So now I do anything to keep the money coming in God love Australia

Originally Posted by BigJon

Yep. I lived in rural Vic, but drove over 400km to go to Adelaide for my fifo job. There is always an easy solution but some people just don't want it.

I would be happy to drive that far if it meant I had a job that was rostered days on and off

Originally Posted by RR P38

Need to get your name down with a manning agency. Programmed, Skilled, Wadels etc.

Where do I find these.

Dave.

Originally Posted by blitz

I've been working as a subby paid by the job - had a ripper last month 4 hrs travel not paid for and then 10.5hrs work all for the princely sum of $170-00

I moved my entire family to QLD as there are so many jobs going here (after 30 years in the topend - to hot and a year in Adelaide - to cold). I am a dual trade Electrician / refrigeration and Air Conditioning mechanic with 30 years of trade, management and training experience. To the seventy zillion jobs i have applied for ' sorry you must have a QLD electrical license' This is wrong as mutual recognition means that any trade from anywhere in Australia must be recognised. when I point this out I get any thing from take it up with the premier to sorry company policy.

I am actively looking for work overseas as I am sick to death of the attitude I am getting from my own countrymen and women when applying for work. The mines are some of the best - you must have 3 years mining experience to be considered - umm how the hell do you get the experience if they will not hirer you without it????????????? even though I have all the skills sets and knowledge they require, which is industrial experience.

So I have applied for my QLD electrical license which will take another month to be processed meanwhile I cant work in my trade as no one will hirer me without it, So now I do anything to keep the money coming in God love Australia

Not just Queensland - probably the same in every state in Australia.

I know that I cannot employ an electrician to work on site over here unless he/she has a WA Electrical Workers licence. It's not company policy, but a regulatory requirement - so you can thank our state governments and the multitude of shiny-arsed bureaucrats who need to dream up this rubbish to justify their own existence for this and similar situations.

Originally Posted by BMKal

Dave, a lot of the "diesel fitters" or heavy duty mechanics on minesites are actually motor mechanics....

I can never hear or read the phrase "Diesel Fitter" without being reminded of this joke:

Paddy and Mick were both laid off, so they went to the unemployment office. When asked his occupation, Paddy answered, "Knicker Stitcher. I sew da elastic onto ladies' knickers and thongs."

The clerk looked up Knicker Stitcher on his computer and, finding it classified as unskilled labour, he gave him £80 a week unemployment pay.

Mick was next in and when asked his occupation replied, "Diesel Fitter."
Since a diesel fitter was a skilled job, the clerk gave Mick £160 a week.

When Paddy found out he was furious. He stormed back into the office to find out why his friend and co-worker was collecting double his pay.

The clerk explained, "Knicker Stitchers are unskilled labour and Diesel Fitters are skilled labour."

"What skill?" yelled Paddy. "I sew da elastic on da knickers and thongs, Then Mick puts 'em over his head and says: "Yep, diesel fitter.""

Originally Posted by BMKal

Not just Queensland - probably the same in every state in Australia.

I know that I cannot employ an electrician to work on site over here unless he/she has a WA Electrical Workers licence. It's not company policy, but a regulatory requirement - so you can thank our state governments and the multitude of shiny-arsed bureaucrats who need to dream up this rubbish to justify their own existence for this and similar situations.

This is the trouble I have looked up the legislation and that is not correct, each state has mutual recognition written into it's electrical legislation, someone is trying to pull the wool over our eyes, and when I politely explain that they cant do that the fall back is company policy which in fact is discrimination, I am so bloody frustrated over all of this, i could scream - but I agree totally with the bureacratic comment.

All of this has come about since the COAG (Committee of Australian Governments) to bring in national licenses and do away with state ones, all states agree it should be done but each states wants it to be done their way and will not bend, negociate or compromise on the issue; since this each state is now trying to (illegally) enforce only their state license is recognisedin each state.

Originally Posted by sam_d

I can never hear or read the phrase "Diesel Fitter" without being reminded of this joke:

Paddy and Mick were both laid off, so they went to the unemployment office. When asked his occupation, Paddy answered, "Knicker Stitcher. I sew da elastic onto ladies' knickers and thongs."

The clerk looked up Knicker Stitcher on his computer and, finding it classified as unskilled labour, he gave him £80 a week unemployment pay.

Mick was next in and when asked his occupation replied, "Diesel Fitter."
Since a diesel fitter was a skilled job, the clerk gave Mick £160 a week.

When Paddy found out he was furious. He stormed back into the office to find out why his friend and co-worker was collecting double his pay.

The clerk explained, "Knicker Stitchers are unskilled labour and Diesel Fitters are skilled labour."

"What skill?" yelled Paddy. "I sew da elastic on da knickers and thongs, Then Mick puts 'em over his head and says: "Yep, diesel fitter.""

I've got a mate in Melbourne who's a gynaecologist. Ask him what he does for a living and he'll tell you he's a "crack mechanic".

CLASSIC!!!! heard that Deisel fitter joke years ago but its still so funny!

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