The Random Discussion / Argument Thread

[SAW]

You done time Sun Ra? New Grafton?
Colleague from up north tried for refugee guard. Last I heard he was facing charges. Twas a twat.
Serco, Downer and more. The new Coles or Bunnings of everything else.

 

[Sun Ra]

You done time Sun Ra? New Grafton?
Colleague from up north tried for refugee guard. Last I heard he was facing charges. Twas a twat.
Serco, Downer and more. The new Coles or Bunnings of everything else.

Haven't done any time yet [touch wood ].

I got seconded to Immigration from Customs for 3 years early 2010s to work in detention centres at the height of boat arrivals under Gillard / Rudd - first as a Case Manager, then running Facilities Management on Christmas Island 2012/3 post riots and overseeing the place 400% over so-called "capacity". Did it for the money as I had just done a home extension & renovation and bumped up the mortgage - so it paid that off. Doubled my salary plus a few allowances were tax free. But the work did my head in.

Later in 2016 was head hunted to go back there - after another riot to work in an Intel capacity. The demographic had changed then from refugees to bikies and ex-cons / crims who had their visas cancelled on character grounds and were in the process of being "removed" or deported.

Working with Serco during this time was much, much more difficult than dealing with Iranian asylum seekers or even Mongols or Bandidos guys.

 

[benn0]

Haven't done any time yet [touch wood ].

I got seconded to Immigration from Customs for 3 years early 2010s to work in detention centres at the height of boat arrivals under Gillard / Rudd - first as a Case Manager, then running Facilities Management on Christmas Island 2012/3 post riots and overseeing the place 400% over so-called "capacity". Did it for the money as I had just done a home extension & renovation and bumped up the mortgage - so it paid that off. Doubled my salary plus a few allowances were tax free. But the work did my head in.

Later in 2016 was head hunted to go back there - after another riot to work in an Intel capacity. The demographic had changed then from refugees to bikies and ex-cons / crims who had their visas cancelled on character grounds and were in the process of being "removed" or deported.

Working with Serco during this time was much, much more difficult than dealing with Iranian asylum seekers or even Mongols or Bandidos guys.

always interesting stuff youve got to say sunra

 

[SAW]

Yeah those big companies helped me into my retirement apprenticeship.
Downer who employed me in one guise did a crim history check, fine. In another guise, them utilising my employer, expected me to pay for my own, even though they had it.
I’ve never understood hiring via a labour hire company at $50-70/hour (employee paid maybe $35) to keep it casual and at arms length.
I saw one regional government realise this and hired the casuals back as permanents on their own books. Massive savings who’d have thought.
Job network agencies and cashless card providers are some of the biggest leeches around.
Dutton’s hiding the truth by saying “slash the Canberra public servants” when the reality is “cut the public servants in a region near you”, political suicide.
I’m pretty happy for Australia to explore its hidden Trump. I’ll just need to shut up in case the brown shirts hear me.
Fascinating days ahead, better than a good movie.

 

[Rabbitlicker]

I just stumbled across this comment from @afghan bob from a few years ago whilst trying to "fritter & waste the hours in an offhand way" (Pink Floyd gets credit for the words......). How prescient!!!!

Log in

who said anything about co2 ? the thread is about it going to be a hot summer just because it's not hot where you live doesn't mean it's not gonna be hot as fuck elsewhere

www.theserratededge.com

 

[Sun Ra]

always interesting stuff youve got to say sunra

some would disagree mate

 

[Rabbitlicker]

always interesting stuff youve got to say sunra

I'd like to hereby register my disagreement with that comment.

Collecting multiple Saxophones with Antisimitic runes engraved into them makes me question the commensurate marble-collection of this nefarious individual...

 

[Harry bootlace]

Haven't done any time yet [touch wood ].

I got seconded to Immigration from Customs for 3 years early 2010s to work in detention centres at the height of boat arrivals under Gillard / Rudd - first as a Case Manager, then running Facilities Management on Christmas Island 2012/3 post riots and overseeing the place 400% over so-called "capacity". Did it for the money as I had just done a home extension & renovation and bumped up the mortgage - so it paid that off. Doubled my salary plus a few allowances were tax free. But the work did my head in.

Later in 2016 was head hunted to go back there - after another riot to work in an Intel capacity. The demographic had changed then from refugees to bikies and ex-cons / crims who had their visas cancelled on character grounds and were in the process of being "removed" or deported.

Working with Serco during this time was much, much more difficult than dealing with Iranian asylum seekers or even Mongols or Bandidos guys.

fark. small world. i’m bad with years as i was drunk for so long, but I almost had a job doing facilities management at xmas island.
would have been similar time. hmm no would have been a couple of years earlier perhaps.
I was doing FM in sydney back then.

 

[Sun Ra]

Trump wants to turn Gaza into a casino resort. Ita Buttrose thinks only an ‘activist’ could object - The Shot

Media doesn't need to normalise all this heinous Nazi shit, but it will anyway. It is structurally incapable of protecting us from barbarity.

theshot.net.au

 

[Sun Ra]

Don’t say the P word - The Shot

In the case of Antoinette Lattouf vs the ABC, the national broadcaster is airing its institutional bias to the world. It's a strange choice.

theshot.net.au

 

[Sun Ra]

No one feels safe in Zionist Australia - The Shot

How many Australians have been fired now for opposing genocide in Palestine? These high profile cases are just the iceberg.

theshot.net.au

 

[Sun Ra]

fark. small world. i’m bad with years as i was drunk for so long, but I almost had a job doing facilities management at xmas island.
would have been similar time. hmm no would have been a couple of years earlier perhaps.
I was doing FM in sydney back then.

You worked at Villawood ? I heard stories about Blaxland ....... sounded like a cunt of a place.

I never worked there. No Travel Allowance and Remote Area Allowance, so, nope.

One of the side benefits of going to Christmas Island was the fishing and getting to live in a unique environment that I probably wouldn't have gotten off my arse to visit in my private life. Same goes for Derby [Curtin] and Leonora as well.

 

[Harry bootlace]

You worked at Villawood ? I heard stories about Blaxland ....... sounded like a cunt of a place.

I never worked there. No Travel Allowance and Remote Area Allowance, so, nope.

One of the side benefits of going to Christmas Island was the fishing and getting to live in a unique environment that I probably wouldn't have gotten off my arse to visit in my private life. Same goes for Derby [Curtin] and Leonora as well.

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no. i was a residential facilities manager
managed a large inner city apartment development.

still we had a murder, i discovered a suicide and drugs and all sorts of shenanigans

 

[HomeBound_Hound]

 

[HomeBound_Hound]

 

[Goonie Goat]

 

[Harry bootlace]

no. i was a residential facilities manager
managed a large inner city apartment development.

still we had a murder, i discovered a suicide and drugs and all sorts of shenanigans

two nudie runs that went wrong.
a bloke who locked himself out. drunk. decided to climb to his third story balcony and fell impaling himself on a spiked metal fence. and survived.
one tenant complained the towel rail was bent. when i went and had a look to replace he told me he picked up a woman and took her home and she held the rail while he took her from behind. it should have been strong enough for that ! he also grew weed on his balcony but I ignored that.
It was like my work life was a soap opera set in a residential development.
I loved a lot about it but my boss was an arsehole who ended up owing millions in unpaid wages and super and went into voluntary administration. i never got my money ( 30 odd k). He remained rich of course.

 

[Sun Ra]

two nudie runs that went wrong.
a bloke who locked himself out. drunk. decided to climb to his third story balcony and fell impaling himself on a spiked metal fence. and survived.
one tenant complained the towel rail was bent. when i went and had a look to replace he told me he picked up a woman and took her home and she held the rail while he took her from behind. it should have been strong enough for that ! he also grew weed on his balcony but I ignored that.
It was like my work life was a soap opera set in a residential development.
I loved a lot about it but my boss was an arsehole who ended up owing millions in unpaid wages and super and went into voluntary administration. i never got my money ( 30 odd k). He remained rich of course.

A bit like this ?

 

[HomeBound_Hound]

 

[HomeBound_Hound]

What ain't no country I ever heard of they speak English
English motherfucker do you speak it
Does he look like a little bitch