Things that sh*t me the seventeenth

[Rotayjay]

An old chestnut: some people really are disgusting in public toilets. One real 'beauty' was when I walked into a toilet that had a massive shit in it, floating, with no toilet paper whatsoever in the bowl. Did the shit just float really well, or did the campaigner not wipe?

 

[MadMundy]

Well done steak eaters

Can't imagine enjoying that ****in burnt car tyre.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Man in my court has a new ride on mower and mows the the lawn 3 times a week it's like a new toy.

I'm ..

 

[cats_09]

Mrs Post arrives at client after driving for 45 mins this morning, to find she missed a txt from her employer as she was getting ready to leave that said the shift was cancelled.

Because they sent it an hour before the shift started, she doesn't get paid anything.

But because the client cancelled it less than 4 hours before, THEY get paid in full from the client's NDIS package.

w***ers.

Crystal ball predicts a parting of the ways, real soon now.

I worked traffic control for a few months about 3 years back - we'd get a text notification the day before for a next days shift, no notification meant no shift and if you replied 'no', you'd get a call asking why you declined... That was a fun call trying to explain I had advised a week earlier I was unavailable on a certain day

Even with being rostered on, shift starts & payment structures weren't exactly streamlined:

• Your "start" time was listed as either meeting at the depot or on site, and meeting at the depot wasn't the start of that shift/job
• Depot starts then factored in driving time to get to the site for the start of the job; if the company you were working with that day cancelled the job during the drive time, so prior to arriving on site, you then didn't get paid for the shift & had to go back to the depot to be "on call" for 4 hours
• If you were at the job site prior to it being cancelled, they'd have to cover the wages for a 4hr shift

But this is where the distinction between driving time & shift time comes into thing:

• Working over 8 hours equates to overtime for whatever's worked beyond 8 hours... Driving time from & to the depot isn't factored into this
• I worked one shift of approx 7 hours, with an hour's allowance for travel each way from/to depot, making it a 9 hour day, but no overtime as driving time is counted separately
• Another shift I was at the depot before 6:30am, didn't return until after 6:30pm & had no formal breaks during the day, but not sure it was even recorded as an 11hr shift due to the travel time and the meal allowance for working over 10hrs was about $11

There's some absolute shit working conditions out there, but because those businesses know they'll have someone else knocking on the door for a job, they have zero interest in changing the treatment of those currently on the books

 

[rocker_oz33]

traffic control people shit me.

 

[cats_09]

traffic control people shit me.

Having worked traffic control, I can honestly say that drivers shit me - so many poor, inattentive drivers who either nearly hit you or don't understand a stop sign means stop


Maybe we need a change to drivers licence procedures & introduce that all new licencees need to work traffic control for a period of a week or 2, and get an understanding of being on the other side of things

 

[rocker_oz33]

Having worked traffic control, I can honestly say that drivers shit me - so many poor, inattentive drivers who either nearly hit you or don't understand a stop sign means stop


Maybe we need a change to drivers licence procedures & introduce that all new licencees need to work traffic control for a period of a week or 2, and get an understanding of being on the other side of things

Traffic control are not police even they think they are a higher power.

I've not seen any near misses..

But some drivers get shitty with them.
I guess they get shitty too.


Signs being left up for seems no reason.
Signs being left up for mowing but they won't move them ..after mowing being done.
They share at you when your already doing 40ks take a photo it will last longer .
They walk in front of you because they can't park on the side of the road of the signs .
Won't move signs after lane opened up..

 

[raskolnikov]

Well done steak eaters

Can't imagine enjoying that ****in burnt car tyre.

Blue FTW

 

[Pistol Night]

People in public having a conversation on speaker, with the phone usually held at about shoulder-height. What good does that do? Just put it to your ear, you ****head. You'll hear better, and those around you won't need to hear the loud, distorted babbling.

Wife does this with every call. Drives me insane

 

[Pistol Night]

At my sons swimming, I forgot his teachers Xmas present, I’m going to be in big trouble when Mrs Interloper finds out

Shit ive got swmming lessons this morning. Is this a thing?

 

[kickazz]

People in public having a conversation on speaker, with the phone usually held at about shoulder-height. What good does that do? Just put it to your ear, you ****head. You'll hear better, and those around you won't need to hear the loud, distorted babbling.

I think what we all need to do here is what Tim did to Gareth in The Office.

Join in/interrupt the conversation. When they tell you to pias off saying it's a private conversation, tell them to go and have it in private then.

 

[eddiesmith]

Traffic control are not police even they think they are a higher power.

I've not seen any near misses..

But some drivers get shitty with them.
I guess they get shitty too.


Signs being left up for seems no reason.
Signs being left up for mowing but they won't move them ..after mowing being done.
They share at you when your already doing 40ks take a photo it will last longer .
They walk in front of you because they can't park on the side of the road of the signs .
Won't move signs after lane opened up..

Having done traffic control it makes me notice even more the bad traffic controllers.

Favourite lazy traffic controllers I’ve complained about before, but they were doing footpath work, well off road but requires traffic control when concrete gets poured for 5 minutes every hour or so. Easiest job you’ll do outside of a full road closure.

But these lazy ****ers couldn’t be bothered packing up on Friday afternoon and left the signs up all weekend, for a couple of weeks…

 

[Over The Post]

Traffic control are not police even they think they are a higher power.
I've not seen any near misses..

From a discussion a few years ago.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...ive-update-in-op-part-5.1266202/post-71070881

 

[the_interloper]

Shit ive got swmming lessons this morning. Is this a thing?

Don’t worry, your parents should organise the present

 

[rocker_oz33]

From a discussion a few years ago.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...ive-update-in-op-part-5.1266202/post-71070881

I don't remember your post from back then..

 

[cats_09]

From a discussion a few years ago.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/thre...ive-update-in-op-part-5.1266202/post-71070881

100%

I'm not going to argue that there isn't cowboys & idiots in the industry, but the vast majority I worked with were really good people and their priority was going home alive at the end of the shift


It's super frustrating when the approved plan is for 3 controllers, but the company opts to save money by only paying for 2 to work a 10hr shift instead, even though you're monitoring traffic coming from 3 directions. Then when that shift is extended to keep working beyond sunset, you're only in your day gear & drivers haven't put headlights on it makes for a dangerous situation

Or being in the middle of a job that started about 7:30/8am, scheduled to go until 5pm and at 1pm you get a text advising you'll be on call for any overnight emergencies - after replying no, you then get a please explain phone call, the on-site contact tries explaining things to them but as punishment you lose shifts

The only time I def got breaks was when working jobs for the Geelong Council - they made sure their employees had breaks & as a flow on, anyone else working that site also had breaks; otherwise breaks didn't exist

 

[Pistol Night]

Don’t worry, your parents should organise the present

Shes too busy organising my floaties to remember surely

 

[Xtreme]

Campaigners doing house renovations/construction work and such starting at 7:15am. Shouldn't be happening until 9am.

Hope they get a fine

 

[ShooterMcGavin8]

GPs are increasingly becoming fraudulent drug dealers, who use the exact same google that I do on the occasion they want to find a diagnosis.

Literally anyone with fingers and the internet could do their job in 2024.

Getting pricey to visit as well, when you can actually get in.

 

[ShooterMcGavin8]

An old chestnut: some people really are disgusting in public toilets. One real 'beauty' was when I walked into a toilet that had a massive shit in it, floating, with no toilet paper whatsoever in the bowl. Did the shit just float really well, or did the campaigner not wipe?

Don't you see some sights! Took a piss in a porta potty at a construction site the other day. Shit and piss every where and smelt like death.

 

[GreyCrow]

Listening to Xmas music and Last Christmas comes on and all I can hear is Bruce McAvaney

''special''

 

[Rotayjay]

I worked traffic control for a few months about 3 years back - we'd get a text notification the day before for a next days shift, no notification meant no shift and if you replied 'no', you'd get a call asking why you declined... That was a fun call trying to explain I had advised a week earlier I was unavailable on a certain day

Even with being rostered on, shift starts & payment structures weren't exactly streamlined:

• Your "start" time was listed as either meeting at the depot or on site, and meeting at the depot wasn't the start of that shift/job
• Depot starts then factored in driving time to get to the site for the start of the job; if the company you were working with that day cancelled the job during the drive time, so prior to arriving on site, you then didn't get paid for the shift & had to go back to the depot to be "on call" for 4 hours
• If you were at the job site prior to it being cancelled, they'd have to cover the wages for a 4hr shift

But this is where the distinction between driving time & shift time comes into thing:

• Working over 8 hours equates to overtime for whatever's worked beyond 8 hours... Driving time from & to the depot isn't factored into this
• I worked one shift of approx 7 hours, with an hour's allowance for travel each way from/to depot, making it a 9 hour day, but no overtime as driving time is counted separately
• Another shift I was at the depot before 6:30am, didn't return until after 6:30pm & had no formal breaks during the day, but not sure it was even recorded as an 11hr shift due to the travel time and the meal allowance for working over 10hrs was about $11

There's some absolute shit working conditions out there, but because those businesses know they'll have someone else knocking on the door for a job, they have zero interest in changing the treatment of those currently on the books

This is why people saying that unemployment needs to increase can go and get ****ed. Keep unemployment low.

 

[rocker_oz33]

This is why people saying that unemployment needs to increase can go and get ****ed. Keep unemployment low.

Totally different.. IMO.

People on the doll don't wanna work .
Because their rent goes up... because they on super cheap rent.
If they make X amount their doll goes down.

 

[Over The Post]

Totally different.. IMO.

People on the doll don't wanna work .
Because their rent goes up... because they on super cheap rent.
If they make X amount their doll goes down.

Aaaaaand another one for the ignore list.

 

[rocker_oz33]

Aaaaaand another one for the ignore list.

If your over my posts .
Put me on ignore list .
I wont lose sleep ..