Welfare. Can't Get A Job,..Yeah Right.

Think I read the minimum in some American states is only about $7. How do people live on that? Talk about the working poor - it's no wonder they supported Saunders and Trump.

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Originally Posted by BMKal

Can't remember exactly what he was on, as it was a few years ago. But I do remember him telling me how the old bloke on the forklift who had been working there for years was on about $36K a year. I used that as an example to convince him to go back to school, and then get an apprenticeship.

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We did the same to our youngest daughter , and for the first 2 yrs of her apprenticeship she often came to us saying she earns far more working for us at $22 /hr and often said she should quit. I ended up saying I wouldn't employ her if she did. She is a lot happier now that she stuck with it .

Cheers Ean

Yeah, I have these conversations with teenage boys who want to leave school and get a minimum wage job so they'll have $5-600 a week in the pocket. It seems a lot to a student, but I ask them if they still want to be on that for the rest of their lives. Some listen, some don't...

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Yeah, I have these conversations with teenage boys who want to leave school and get a minimum wage job so they'll have $5-600 a week in the pocket. It seems a lot to a student, but I ask them if they still want to be on that for the rest of their lives. Some listen, some don't...

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It's not only the teenagers, I had people work for me that left to work on the workboats in the harbour when the oil and gas boom along with the mining boom was happening , and they were basically unskilled workers making 6 figure salaries for 6 months work. Our industry lost heaps of workers, all due to the pay they could get, now it's all over and these guys expect to make the same money and can't find work. As they are still unskilled labourers they refuse to work for the going rate , and all they do is whinge about it.

I'm not painting everyone like that , but I'm sure it's happening in other areas not just here.

Cheers Ean

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Originally Posted by Ean Austral

It's not only the teenagers, I had people work for me that left to work on the workboats in the harbour when the oil and gas boom along with the mining boom was happening , and they were basically unskilled workers making 6 figure salaries for 6 months work. Our industry lost heaps of workers, all due to the pay they could get, now it's all over and these guys expect to make the same money and can't find work. As they are still unskilled labourers they refuse to work for the going rate , and all they do is whinge about it.

I'm not painting everyone like that , but I'm sure it's happening in other areas not just here.

Cheers Ean

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We have a similar problem here Ean. Some of our young unskilled bloke won't get off their bums, go to take and get their tickets. They'd rather bum around picking up scraps and moan about newcomers coming in with the qualifications and picking up permanent jobs.
Having said that, I reckon that the young people today are generally mach keener to work than they were when I was young. Jobs were easier to get then and so was the Rock and Roll.

Most of the students I deal with are keen to get jobs. However, a small number aren't keen to study to get the qualifications they need to get good jobs. Reality hasn't dawned on them yet. I keep talking about there being six unemployed for every available job.
On the other hand, I was talking last night with a former refugee lad who arrived here with nothing and is now doing well in second year at university. I know several others like that. One of them has been accepted into officer training school at Duntroon, as soon as he gets his citizenship early next year. It's a long way from his family being run out of Kabul by the Taliban. He will do very well, I predict.
Sure there are problem people, but there are also plenty of success stories.

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Originally Posted by Pickles2

What do you mean "Fee Structures For Tour Operators Would Be Changing"?
What changed, who changed it, and how were your costs increased?
Not doubting you even 1% mate, just want to know what changed?
Pickles.

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Pickles,

Will send a PM later mate to avoid this becoming political. Can't really answer without mentioning a political party and meetings that occurred when that all went down and although a few years ago I am still pretty ****ed off about it

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Jester, I realise that the chances are that the reference to the "Finance Misnister" is nothing more than a simple typo, but for a moment I wondered if it was your way of combining the words "miser" and "Minister" as a subtle comment about the ease with which funds are released for big boy's toys.
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Jester, I realise that the chances are that the reference to the "Finance Misnister" is nothing more than a simple typo, but for a moment I wondered if it was your way of combining the words "miser" and "Minister" as a subtle comment about the ease with which funds are released for big boy's toys.
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Typo but your explanation fits just as well so going to leave it now

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Plenty of work at my place . Lots of overtime too , but you don't get paid for it usually. Also a fair degree of casualization , so the expectations and stresses put onto the full time staff has resulted in two sackings this week , a majority looking elsewhere and no one willing to try for a vacant position. So by last count about six positions free with an average of one every two to three weeks for the casual staff.