Things that sh*t me the seventeenth

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Mrs Post arrives at client after driving for 45 mins this morning, to find she missed a txt from her employer as she was getting ready to leave that said the shift was cancelled.

Because they sent it an hour before the shift started, she doesn't get paid anything.

But because the client cancelled it less than 4 hours before, THEY get paid in full from the client's NDIS package.

w***ers.

Crystal ball predicts a parting of the ways, real soon now.
 

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At my sons swimming, I forgot his teachers Xmas present, I’m going to be in big trouble when Mrs Interloper finds out

That's OK. We had Bad Santa at work today. Fantastic start, bloke in the queue of traffic let me pull out of my driveway as the lights at the end of the street changed, we both made the lights, I got 2km down the road and realised I'd left the "up to $30" bloody present behind. All up cost me 15 minutes. :(

After all the jiggerypokery with present stealing and stuff, I wound up with a nice Scanpan frypan that I thought would be ideal. Got stolen from me a couple of goes before the end. I came home with a shopping bag. Ooh, a shopping bag! With handles and a zip!

Worth a sum total of <google>
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oh dear. It's a designer shopping bag, costing $29.95 on their website.

Tail between legs time...
 
Applying for jobs is the absolute ****ing pits
Got an update email that applications on a job I applied for had closed. Scroll down further to find out there had been 592 applicants. FMD.
 
Mrs Post arrives at client after driving for 45 mins this morning, to find she missed a txt from her employer as she was getting ready to leave that said the shift was cancelled.

Because they sent it an hour before the shift started, she doesn't get paid anything.

But because the client cancelled it less than 4 hours before, THEY get paid in full from the client's NDIS package.

w***ers.

Crystal ball predicts a parting of the ways, real soon now.

Agencies are shit. I have an ABN as a sole trader and am an individual support worker to one participant.
We don't have a service agreement so that we can be flexible. Even her support coordinator says she understand why it is hard for us to have a standard agreement when the days we work together or tasks change weekly depending on particpant's priorities.
 
Mrs Post arrives at client after driving for 45 mins this morning, to find she missed a txt from her employer as she was getting ready to leave that said the shift was cancelled.

Because they sent it an hour before the shift started, she doesn't get paid anything.

But because the client cancelled it less than 4 hours before, THEY get paid in full from the client's NDIS package.

w***ers.

Crystal ball predicts a parting of the ways, real soon now.
Disgusting. What a rip off.
 
People in public having a conversation on speaker, with the phone held at about shoulder-height. What good does that do? Just put it to your ear, you ****head. You'll hear better, and those around you won't need to hear the loud, distorted babbling.
But how will they be the main character?
 
Mrs Post arrives at client after driving for 45 mins this morning, to find she missed a txt from her employer as she was getting ready to leave that said the shift was cancelled.

Because they sent it an hour before the shift started, she doesn't get paid anything.

But because the client cancelled it less than 4 hours before, THEY get paid in full from the client's NDIS package.

w***ers.

Crystal ball predicts a parting of the ways, real soon now.

I worked traffic control for a few months about 3 years back - we'd get a text notification the day before for a next days shift, no notification meant no shift and if you replied 'no', you'd get a call asking why you declined... That was a fun call trying to explain I had advised a week earlier I was unavailable on a certain day

Even with being rostered on, shift starts & payment structures weren't exactly streamlined:

  • Your "start" time was listed as either meeting at the depot or on site, and meeting at the depot wasn't the start of that shift/job
  • Depot starts then factored in driving time to get to the site for the start of the job; if the company you were working with that day cancelled the job during the drive time, so prior to arriving on site, you then didn't get paid for the shift & had to go back to the depot to be "on call" for 4 hours
  • If you were at the job site prior to it being cancelled, they'd have to cover the wages for a 4hr shift


But this is where the distinction between driving time & shift time comes into thing:
  • Working over 8 hours equates to overtime for whatever's worked beyond 8 hours... Driving time from & to the depot isn't factored into this
  • I worked one shift of approx 7 hours, with an hour's allowance for travel each way from/to depot, making it a 9 hour day, but no overtime as driving time is counted separately
  • Another shift I was at the depot before 6:30am, didn't return until after 6:30pm & had no formal breaks during the day, but not sure it was even recorded as an 11hr shift due to the travel time and the meal allowance for working over 10hrs was about $11



There's some absolute shit working conditions out there, but because those businesses know they'll have someone else knocking on the door for a job, they have zero interest in changing the treatment of those currently on the books
 

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