Belly,

So you donated $1200 to the floods?

I doubt it.

SM! it is hard to remain civil to such as you.
Your claim that the tax was a donation is at best flimsy and smart **sed!
I without much pleasure see the standard issue Engineer in you.
You will be aware that tradesmen and skilled workers, right down to pick and shovel laborers, have fixed views about them.
Government once sent the very juniors out in the the field , to learn from the mud army types.
They bought an arrogance with them, and even had to lead how to use a shovel.
The better few, on leaving admitted they had learned much, some even reminded us on being appointed for an `18 month stint, as our boss.
Self assurance is not evidence of capability.
MOST, impressed with their own high marks on paper, failed the true test.
Man managment.
Cast of by RTA and such, these failures continue to fail, because they under estimate those they are ment to lead.
And over estimate them selves.
IF we are reincarnated may I return as a road kill Koala rather than pumped up Engineer.

NSW under the Obeid government, sold its lottery's.
Wounder if he bought them.
But once they existed to pay for hospitals, and the big one once helped fund the building of the Opera house.
What if we had a National lottery to fund fire flood and other emergancys?
Should not, NSW was making cash from what it sold, and in selling the lottery's gave the purchaser, wait for it!
The unclaimed prize pool, millions of dollars.

Belly,

Once again you love to make judgement with no information. I got to be in charge of a technical division at the age of 27 out performing everyone else by including all the tradesmen in the decision making and giving them the credit where it was due.

My experience of employees is that there are the performers who do their work competently and efficiently, and there are the big mouths that think they know everything, complain when things are done differently from "the way it has always been done", find a hundred reasons why they couldn't do what was asked of them, and want the unions and EBAs to ensure they get the same treatment as those that actually pull their fingers out.

I don't see you in the first group.

You forgot one thing SM, that being unfair dismissal laws.

Not only do these laws protect these grubs in the workplace, but they have also paved the way for them to set the work standard levels, evidence being in the decline in productivity.

At least the industry I am in at present, timber cutting, you get paid for what you do, not how long it takes you to do it.

SM you may be unaware of you biggest ever construction.
That huge ego, sorry but the quickest of looks tells me it needs supporting better.
Rechtub, well done! I see in your post a my dad is bigger than yours shout!
This morning unplanned, I after driving 120 klm to market days found 4 of my ex work mates [RTA] road builders.
Within that group stood the finest grader operator team leader I have ever known.
And none who did not give their best and a good best every day.
UNFAIR DISMISSAL.
Should say just that unfair.
Will not go in to the very bad unions, or the very bad workers who, TODAY drift from job to job, farming such a dismissal.
And will, with some pride, tell you both this, fellow workers despise them! every parasite.
I have assisted my members, sick of such, only to see a left wing union step in shouting and get an out of court settlement.
Yet if am employer follows every step, no claim will win.
Not every boss is bad.
Group cuddle on that.
Get your rocks ready!
Not all workers/unions are evil, not walking away from that my red necked mates!