Produce nothing and provide a bit of menial entertainment value (on and off the paddock) and your set.

"Woods, whose image was tarnished by a sex scandal, was the top earner for the eighth consecutive year but his winnings and endorsements dropped 31 per cent in the 2011 survey to $US62.3 million ($58.9 million)." Seems he had a bad year all-round!

Not that I have anything against Mr Woods or his ability to whack a little white ball around a paddock. I neither like him nor loath him, don't know him. What's he like on the end of a mop?

There's your solution, rehctub.

Attach some bells to the end of your sweeper's broom and teach him a few songs. Free entertainment in the butcher's shop....bound to draw the customers : )

The cleaners i know are contractors. Running a business just like you. But your case is different, isn't it. You want slave labor, exploitation, under pay someone, just like Hungry Jacks.

Poirot, Glad you raised the subject of butchers. Here's a way to make an extra quid. I'm in the local butchers for a keg of mince. Goes like this He's got mince at $8.99/Kg, not bad mince, not full of that red dye stuff (makes it look good) or the 'phnobonwono' stuff (makes week old fresh today). The Mug: "keg of mince please." Butcher Boy puts mince in bag, puts mince on scales: " That's $10.20" out goes the hand. Mug says "Is that a kilogram?" BB "A bit over!" (like 15% over) Mug says " Could you make it a Kg." BB removes a bit from the bag, and throws it in the tub. "$9.60!" (BB is not a happy camper.) Mug plays hard ball " it's a kg for 9 bucks!) BB removes more mince from bag. In the old days when you started in a butchers shop one of the first things the boss would say was "don't forget to get your wages through the scales!" maybe some still do that.

I got 17.50 as a cleaner less than a year ago. THAT is the standard, Cherry picking one job doesn't qualify your weird reality. Apparently QPAC pay very well too, but the VAST majority pay award.

I can't believe you people.

Our economy is crumbling around us, jobs are being shed yet you remain in denial.

As I say, it doesn't matter how much an hour one gets when there are no hours to be had.

Now, had the government taken responsibility for supporting the low paid, rather than just placin the burden on business, we would be in a much better place.

But then again, when you waste billions on collective failures, time and time agai, while also supporting every seining dick besides your own people, what else do you expect.

I do draw a little comfort in knowing that you were wormed, many times over.