Belly... I saw no RABBOTT posting here, so have no idea what you are rabbiting on about.

But I did reread your gleeful expose of working for the sake of work earlier in the post.

There is only The Blue Cross, but I might become a cross red one if you start accusing me of having a rogue avatar somewhere else in this OLO system.

Just which part/s of my post do you object to?

Is it that I regard the old union formula of 8,8,8 a pretty reasonable one, to which should be added at least two days off as a weekend?

I can see you revel in your life of 'busywork', but do you achieve anything at all?

Here, f'rinstance:

"I have worked shoulder to shoulder with one of Rudd's Queensland days staff, yes he is demanding, wants the best, but no chains hold people to the job"...jeez... 'shoulder to shoulder' eh?

What was that, breaking the AEU picket line for Rudd?

Fighting off the Boche in the trenches?

Or attacking the building workers for Gillard's anti-union SAS crew?

Clearly, the long hours no unionist should support have failed miserably to deliver the widebrownland anything useful in the time Rudd has been here, other than to rid us of Howard.

Maybe you liked Howard, Belly?

With your small-business mentality towards working hours it sounds like you might have been at least a secret admirer, like Rudd himself clearly was all the time he was in the ALP.

I like this one though...."Once spent 20 hours a day in large trucks sleeping in them driving in them every day"...you must have been picking up the empty containers at the ACL dock and driving ten miles to the pickup before returning and waiting in line for another 10 hours to drop off the full one... hard work indeed!

But this nonsense, "home life has to run second to my phone with me even in bed" is just that.

What are you... a heart transplant doctor?

Or an errand boy on a string?

I don't really know how hard politicians or their staffers work. I just know that anyone who works as hard as most of the people that I know don't have the time or energy to compete in triathlons as Tony Abbott recently did. It did nothing to break the perception that politicians are a bunch of bludgers.

Back in the day, I had it on good authority that the late Russ Hinze was great to work for.

Just sayin'.

And Sir Terence, CJM.

Come TBC surely you have heart of Tony RABBOTT?
He in an attempt to discredit Rudd says he works him self and his staff too much.
Not much impressed by your mud throwing and do not share your view of unions.
But I spent two months ,bit more working with a ex Rudd staffer getting a person in to the NSW Parliament, turned out to be an air waster but the ex staffer, great bloke loves Rudd

Ah, Tony Abbott I have heard of.

A thoroughly loathsome character, on a par with Rudd.

However, if he did say Rudd forces too long hours onto staff, then he is absolutely correct....presumably Coalition staff do not work such foolish hours?

Both enjoy pretending to be holy Christians, and while Abbott pretends to be liberal, Rudd pretends to be a 'social democrat'.

Both are screaming neo-liberals, and dangerous religious fanatics.

I'm not sure I offered a 'view' on unions, but I certainly commented on your inability to organise your time to work reasonable hours.

Now, that is really your concern, not mine (so long as you do not crash your car/truck into me as you return fatigued and weary from whatever nonsensical 'mission' you had been on), but when you seem to be promoting this as a beneficial practice, and supporting Rudd's hazardous approach towards other peoples lives, it becomes OK for me to offer a view too, so I believe anyway.