Thread: I'm now FIFO scum

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Sorry. Good luck if you can get it, but the golden goose has been slain, this country is no longer globally competitive, unions and greedy folk have long seen to that. For the likes of a Geo. nay be so smug, those times have passed. Graduating in a year or so time? Better think about learning Spanish, French or doing African politics.

Lucky country.

Isn

Originally Posted by mools

Sorry. Good luck if you can get it, but the golden goose has been slain, this country is no longer globally competitive, unions and greedy folk have long seen to that. For the likes of a Geo. nay be so smug, those times have passed. Graduating in a year or so time? Better think about learning Spanish, French or doing African politics.

Lucky country.

Isn

Bollocks. I've come back to Aus after working in genuine *****-holes such as Saudi Arabia and hear how tough we're all doing it. I don't understand where this negativity has spawned from but suspect people actually believe what the media feeds them.

Originally Posted by Horatioau

?.... after working in genuine *****-holes such as Saudi Arabia....

Saudi-a-rah-to-ya. Tax free living. Genuine **** hole that one .

Best you now sample the rest of the world.

FFS.

You won't be the only one doing FIFO from Kal Pat. I'm often up at the site just north of where you're going - we now fly into the new airport at Xmas Creek (a lot better than Cloudbreak).

At the moment, I'm at Frankfurt airport waiting to catch a flight back to Perth. Have been over here for a week on a training course. All the white stuff on the ground here at the moment is a pleasant change from the red stuff I'm used to looking at.

Will see you round town sometime no doubt. If you see the grey D2 in your travels - it's not me. My young bloke now has it as his daily driver.

Pat, wouldn't it be the mining CEO's and boards who are scum. They don't care if FIFO families fail, or interested in making communities; just as long as the rivers of profits flow all is good.

Still not all FIFO families fail. Best of times with the new job.

Wouldn't it have something to do with:

* everyone is getting paid more, relative to the flight costs
* Cost of flights cheap relative to 20 years ago with more competitive operators
* Cost to build new housing at the sites now very high (building trades also expecting to be flown in or accommodated, unlike 30+ years ago)
* Govt not forcing companies to build communities unlike years ago
* People are more fussy about living conditions now, want the same level as the cities = expensive
* Jobs are more specialised, due to automation, and there is a smaller pool of these employees, many of whom dont want to live on site (used to the city lifestyle)
* Some mines are now viable with short resource lifetimes, so not worth building a community for them

None of which really makes FIFO a great idea.

Originally Posted by newhue

Pat, wouldn't it be the mining CEO's and boards who are scum. They don't care if FIFO families fail, or interested in making communities; just as long as the rivers of profits flow all is good.

Still not all FIFO families fail. Best of times with the new job.

FIFO is a reality,people give it a bad wrap but it's here to stay,I don't think there scum,I should have put a smiley after saying that,just want to clear the air on that part.CEO's have a tough job,being a hard arse and making hard choices is not easy. Pat