Re WTF - you're the one missing the point. If today's young journalists ignored an email or a phone call from their editor or had a legitimate excuse for missing a shift, there would likely be no serious repercussions. Back then, they would be out of a job and the alternative welfare supports for the jobless were practically non-existent compared with today. It was a very different world then and "laughing down the phone" would not have solved anything apart from expanding the unemployment queue.

The Albanese government, like all far-Left governments, just can't stop meddling in things it knows nothing about; things not in their remit in the first place. Leave it to employers/employees, and the unions if they are asked by their members.

But, piss of Big Government!

Exactly, ttbn!

WTF?

Where exactly is the win-win situation that the author talks about?

“Gone is the emphasis on an open and competitive economy where workers and bosses work out win-win solutions".

Was it a win-win solution when he was driving his pregnant wife through a cyclone because he could not say no to his boss/God?

Was it a win-win solution when he would "....probably be looking for another new career, and I couldn’t risk that with a modest mortgage and a pregnant wife to look after."

Where was the open and competitive economy?

Does not sound like win-win to me. How disconnected from reality can you be?

Maybe this is just a case of boomer envy?
Younger workers are not going to put up with this nonsense.

Maybe the author is just quoting from his book for more sales?

Maybe it's just delusional ideology?

WTF not again :" ...Maybe it's just delusional ideology?" Yes you got that right - on the part of our hopeless Labor government and its union bosses , most of whom have never had a real productive job in their lives! WTF is putting it mildly.

If the authorities actually managed, many problems in society would not even eventuate. New Taxes are an extremely poor & insidious method to cover incompetence & corruption.
Why should people have to cough up for more taxes when it is obvious that less taxing would be far more beneficial ? Standard stupidity & ignorance of what managing should be all about I guess.