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No... he did. Just didn't say it so pointedly.
Bullshit.
I would easily say 80% of employers have done something dodgy to me too.
Most of them, it was small enough that the effort of trying to get it sorted and then deal with unemployment for a while was not worth it.
One of them was a place that got vindictive to anyone who stuck their head up...one lady was owed nearly $10k and tried legal means to recover it, and the boss spent nearly $80k financially ruining her as an example to everyone else, and nobody else ever seriously tried again.
It is absolutely rampant.
It looks like you've been adequately refuted by the members of a country who know how things really are.
I can confidently say that I'm not omitting details. I called the local police office, they said to email the local court. I went to Fair Work, their online help and phone support said to email the local court. My employment office said to give up and move on, which I admire the honesty of.
Fair enough. This gives a lot more context to your post!
Found this post late, well after the disastrous collapse of the United Workers Union's "Hospo Voice" (and its then absurdly incorrect positive appraisal by the ACTU and UWU). Answer seemed to be yes for a while, but it was really no the whole time.
Quite sad how it turned out, and practically none of the issues that prevented Hospo Voice from actually penetrating into an industry in extreme need of labour organising have been fixed.
To preempt randos coming in with "the members are the union"-type thought-terminating cliches - I was a member for as long as I was in hospitality (\~2.5 years, but I saw a decent share of dodgy business in that time). I tried organising my workplace but the union's (and the general labour movement's) reputation was so far down in the toilet that the only way I'd be able to overcome it was outright lying about the state of things which I was not going to do. I tried finding ways to provide constructive criticism to union staff on how things were done (namely allowing a bunch of strikes in the 2020-21 period to get starved out and then calling them historic wins) and got pretty disinterested responses or stonewalling. There were also no meetings to discuss union matters (guess I missed the 4-year union election cycle) - all events were strictly on rails, smothered by yet more thought-terminating cliches (they're everywhere) and general toxic positivity that prevented any departure from sloganeering. The executive-level was more interested in wallowing in self-pity, lying to themselves that they were powerless to fix these issues, than doing the most basic, instantly obvious moves to fix problems. There's a lot of work to do there but the whole thing is very opaque and top-down, and the UWU has a terrible reputation even among other unions' careerist staff.
What's a less cynical view?
Give me a doll and I will show you where employers, government have touched me
Live long enough in the world, and you'll find out.
To get it off my chest? To bring more attention of the failings of worker protection to the apathetic public? To see if anybody offers any feasible advice? To make sure, if people are too lazy to care, that they're at least not able to excuse themselves with ignorance?
My point is, the game can't be won. It's already been redesigned from the inside. But, a large part of that redesign is covering up the reality of our situation, and how bad things really are; And that's a part I won't heed to. I want there to be no secrets in how hard we're all getting fucked by those with the permission to do so.
Sure, but it's silly to exert effort if it's being completely wasted. If my recourse has already been blocked of, it's just me pounding my head against a brick wall. What am I supposed to do?
Stage a one-man protest outside of the bars? Send an email to a local politician who has zero interest in fixing economic issues, so that their mail-checker can glance at it once before throwing it away?
I work for a big 4 and have been underpaid. Got fair work involved and the firm discovered they had underpaid me 5 years ago as well. Managed to get backpay (with interest) and encouraged other colleagues to check their payslips, ex employees were also paid. It's a shit show.
Part of the problem is people assuming their situation is representative, when often it isn't.
I've been contracting for almost a decade. My missus has been working in large corporates for 20 off years. Whenever I'm contracting for an SMB, she loses her shit over how random their payments are - in one case, three months worth of pay arrived at once.
A lot of people who only have worked corporate or gov sector office jobs would find OPs story, or yours, hard to believe. They've always worked for places with HR, set policies and processes, with zero fucking around when it comes to pay.
What they don't realise is that SMB/franchises employ the vast majority of people, and the experience there can differ wildly depending on the owner/operator.
It really is.
Many people working outside of unskilled labour don't believe that it could possibly be so bad, so exploitative, especially in a 'polite and lawful' society like Australia; So, they refute and ignore what everybody living under 60,000 a year knows to be a stark truth of life. If they don't believe what it's like, maybe they should ask around.
I feel like I'm living out a shitty remake of Metropolis.
Sorry about all the downvotes you got, too. You gave decent, polite advice, the kind of thing I never even thought about as a young jobseeker.
A world of nothing but shitty unskilled jobs, dysfunctional organizations, zero protection, and a complete absence of accountability. Sounds like we're speeding back to the 1800s, but we all know that anyway.
I'm assuming 'touched' is the family-friendly word used.
I’m surprised a big 4 didn’t… account… for that properly /s
100%.
My partner has worked in a government admin role for the same department for 20 years, pretty much got the entry level admin job almost out of school and has just moved sideways within the department a couple of times and slowly moved up the ladder.
She has absolutely no idea of what happens out in the workforce in the private sector and especially in blue collar jobs.
There is an almost complete disconnect between our lived experiences in the workplace.
I have a sister who works in hospitality, and she has never had a full time job and never had a boss who hasn't fucked around with pay, demanded unpaid labour, withheld entitlements, and at least half of them have at one time or another sexually harassed members of staff...the consistency of this happening across more than 20 casual hospo gigs shows it is a widespread problem.
I have a brother in construction, and every job he has had, he has been expected to break OH&S laws, work without proper PPE or training, cover up breaches of environmental laws and more.
People in a nice comfy tenured office job have no fucking idea what most workers deal with.
Haha it’s all good. In hindsight my jobs have mostly been white collar (apart from pre uni) so likely much lower risk of abuse than the service / hospo industry.
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To show it accurately you’d put the doll in a blender
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The irony was not lost on me 🥴
What's worse is that something tells me this is hardly accidental. Maybe not entirely engineered, but certainly not a total mistake. Dividing people into duty-specific microclasses within society so that information doesn't travel across these lines? An relatively illustrious office-class that doesn't believe a single negative word from workers below their caste?
Yeah, it's hard to appreciate how bad shit is until you see it for yourself.
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I noticed a car for sale that was extremely undervalued however the post stated that the car was “being sold under instructions of the Offical Receiver, under the proceeds of crimes act”. Does anyone know what kind of implications this has on the car and whether it will have a clean title?
She takes premium, dude!
From a QPOL officer, mate no dramas buying it.
Highly unlikely they will come for it as the other poster said.
Take the bargain that it is and if there's a kilo of coke hidden in the door then sell it for profit
Late 90s Kezza bought one and it was a beast no underworld people came knocking car was never damaged but when we drove to Sydney from our little coastal town or to Canberra would get pulled over by the cops alot. As it was a former drug running car not sure if he changed the plates on it or not. But even if you do change plates pretty sure that sort of info stays with the car. Never any hassles just constantly pulled over and required him to say that he recently purchased it and ask one of the cops why he was so targeted and was told that was the reason
Just means the boot is a mystery box
I don’t know a great deal about it, I’m from a different state, but having a couple of quick conversations in the past with people about this exact topic, I have been warned that (depending on the crime that was committed), the previous owner / owners may target the car to steal back / damage in retaliation.
Then there is this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofFzdOZ2K18
Well being sold under the Proceeds of Crime act its perfectly legal and yes it has a clean title
Buuuuut there are other non-legal related issues, as others mentioned, potentially another druglord seeing the car, thinking its an adversary and shooting it up, someone may have been murdered in it, carried a dead body, become a target for theft etc.. So I mean yeah it's got a clean title, but I wouldn't say there's no strings attached
I wouldn’t touch it, what if it has sentimental value to some underworld figure.
It would have to be an absolute one off type of vehicle to even entertain it
Free meth/ice hidden between the panels. Bargain!
New plates and get it wrapped. Maybe even change the wheels if they are not standard rims.
Snake might come looking for you
You forgot the second “PREMIUM!!”
Lil Bandit!
or just snort it, call me if you find any
Or just bin it and qpol will assign a street value to it and bill you for what they reckon they should have gotten retail.
I worked with a young guy, had a hot Audi. Said he got pulled over almost daily. He purchased the car from a rello who had been convicted for drug distribution. New plates didn't change anything for him.
I can't imagine what a hassle that would be, I'd be selling the car real fast.
Nah, once you change the plates, it's all good. We bought a car that (unbeknownst to us) had been used for a drive-off without paying at a petrol station. The cops hassled us for a couple of months, turning up at home even, and we gave them all the details of the guy we'd bought it off, including his address and phone number, signed a declaration etc, and it was obvious when the rego was transferred into our name which was a couple of weeks after the drive-off, but they kept hassling us. They even had CCTV footage of the dude who was around 30 years younger than my husband, which they acknowledged, but new shift, new officer, and they'd decide to hassle us again. Changed the plates and never saw them again. I don't think common sense is very common in the police force.
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Thanks for the reply and that is a good point to note.
She needs premium dude, PREMIUUUUM!
DUUUUUDE
Agree, nobody is finding the car unless it’s an uncommon car that is bright green or something
Im not saying it would happen. Just that there is a possibility. it’s a run of the mill car then no one is going to care. But if it is a unique one or they have done upgrades or something then there is always a way to find them, especially if it was used for moving drugs around or something, those peeps have eyes everywhere. Not talking from personal experience, and a bit different but a friend got into the wrong crowd, tried to get out of it and no matter where he went, they always found him eventually.
Check the car thoroughly and see if the car was used in a crime. I looked at buying one in a similar situation years back in a diff country, turns out someone was stabbed up in the backseat. Wasn’t shown in the online auction pics, but was missing backseats and flooring and was cleaned “well”…
Yeah it’s just an rs3 so nothing too rare and I plan on changing the plates and doing a few cosmetic changes anyways so it should be good.
The stadium was designed in such a way to limit crowd noise seeping out.
This is great, just bring more lesser seen bands please.
Good stuff - bring back the night-life!
That's what these excessively expensive stadiums were built for, may as well use them.
Looking at the latest Visit NSW essential guide to NSW best pies and sausage rolls. Two bakeries from orange have made the list. I've only ever been to orange twice, I've spent two weekends there as a get away, and both times it was unequivocally the best food I've had in NSW outside of the Sydney CBD. Nothing, anywhere else in the state even comes close. Every single meal, no matter where we went was perfect. Has anybody else had this experience?
It’s not Coffs Harbour.
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mudgee isn't too bad either
and some of the best indian you will ever have is in dubbo
The best chicken parmigiana I have ever had was at a pub in Grafton.
All they did was substitute the ham with bacon. But boy it was good.
I second Orange… I was so genuinely impressed and surprised by the food scene, and the incredible quality. It’s just that little bit too far away from me to make it a regular getaway, which is a shame because I really think it’s up there in terms of foodie destinations.
Wagga Wagga was also a pleasant surprise. Never had a bad meal in Wagga.
I visit orange often with work. Gracie burger is amazing, Elrays, there is that small good shop that sells jerky and the like. Lots of great stuff there!
Albury is good too
Schwarz Bakery
Wentworth falls
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I'm very fussy about pies but the ones at Kuma Pies, Cooma NSW, are the best. If you are ever heading to the snow, definitely drop there on the way.
Shoalhaven Heads Bakery was a good feed imo
Mudgee is excellent as is Rylstone. Best dumplings ever in Rylstone. Both pubs food is above average as well.

No... he did. Just didn't say it so pointedly.

Bullshit.

I would easily say 80% of employers have done something dodgy to me too.

Most of them, it was small enough that the effort of trying to get it sorted and then deal with unemployment for a while was not worth it.

One of them was a place that got vindictive to anyone who stuck their head up...one lady was owed nearly $10k and tried legal means to recover it, and the boss spent nearly $80k financially ruining her as an example to everyone else, and nobody else ever seriously tried again.

It is absolutely rampant.

It looks like you've been adequately refuted by the members of a country who know how things really are.

I can confidently say that I'm not omitting details. I called the local police office, they said to email the local court. I went to Fair Work, their online help and phone support said to email the local court. My employment office said to give up and move on, which I admire the honesty of.

Fair enough. This gives a lot more context to your post!

Found this post late, well after the disastrous collapse of the United Workers Union's "Hospo Voice" (and its then absurdly incorrect positive appraisal by the ACTU and UWU). Answer seemed to be yes for a while, but it was really no the whole time.

Quite sad how it turned out, and practically none of the issues that prevented Hospo Voice from actually penetrating into an industry in extreme need of labour organising have been fixed.

To preempt randos coming in with "the members are the union"-type thought-terminating cliches - I was a member for as long as I was in hospitality (\~2.5 years, but I saw a decent share of dodgy business in that time). I tried organising my workplace but the union's (and the general labour movement's) reputation was so far down in the toilet that the only way I'd be able to overcome it was outright lying about the state of things which I was not going to do. I tried finding ways to provide constructive criticism to union staff on how things were done (namely allowing a bunch of strikes in the 2020-21 period to get starved out and then calling them historic wins) and got pretty disinterested responses or stonewalling. There were also no meetings to discuss union matters (guess I missed the 4-year union election cycle) - all events were strictly on rails, smothered by yet more thought-terminating cliches (they're everywhere) and general toxic positivity that prevented any departure from sloganeering. The executive-level was more interested in wallowing in self-pity, lying to themselves that they were powerless to fix these issues, than doing the most basic, instantly obvious moves to fix problems. There's a lot of work to do there but the whole thing is very opaque and top-down, and the UWU has a terrible reputation even among other unions' careerist staff.

What's a less cynical view?

Give me a doll and I will show you where employers, government have touched me

Live long enough in the world, and you'll find out.

To get it off my chest? To bring more attention of the failings of worker protection to the apathetic public? To see if anybody offers any feasible advice? To make sure, if people are too lazy to care, that they're at least not able to excuse themselves with ignorance?

My point is, the game can't be won. It's already been redesigned from the inside. But, a large part of that redesign is covering up the reality of our situation, and how bad things really are; And that's a part I won't heed to. I want there to be no secrets in how hard we're all getting fucked by those with the permission to do so.

Sure, but it's silly to exert effort if it's being completely wasted. If my recourse has already been blocked of, it's just me pounding my head against a brick wall. What am I supposed to do?

Stage a one-man protest outside of the bars? Send an email to a local politician who has zero interest in fixing economic issues, so that their mail-checker can glance at it once before throwing it away?

I work for a big 4 and have been underpaid. Got fair work involved and the firm discovered they had underpaid me 5 years ago as well. Managed to get backpay (with interest) and encouraged other colleagues to check their payslips, ex employees were also paid. It's a shit show.

Part of the problem is people assuming their situation is representative, when often it isn't.

I've been contracting for almost a decade. My missus has been working in large corporates for 20 off years. Whenever I'm contracting for an SMB, she loses her shit over how random their payments are - in one case, three months worth of pay arrived at once.

A lot of people who only have worked corporate or gov sector office jobs would find OPs story, or yours, hard to believe. They've always worked for places with HR, set policies and processes, with zero fucking around when it comes to pay.

What they don't realise is that SMB/franchises employ the vast majority of people, and the experience there can differ wildly depending on the owner/operator.

It really is.

Many people working outside of unskilled labour don't believe that it could possibly be so bad, so exploitative, especially in a 'polite and lawful' society like Australia; So, they refute and ignore what everybody living under 60,000 a year knows to be a stark truth of life. If they don't believe what it's like, maybe they should ask around.

I feel like I'm living out a shitty remake of Metropolis.

Sorry about all the downvotes you got, too. You gave decent, polite advice, the kind of thing I never even thought about as a young jobseeker.

A world of nothing but shitty unskilled jobs, dysfunctional organizations, zero protection, and a complete absence of accountability. Sounds like we're speeding back to the 1800s, but we all know that anyway.

I'm assuming 'touched' is the family-friendly word used.

I’m surprised a big 4 didn’t… account… for that properly /s

100%.

My partner has worked in a government admin role for the same department for 20 years, pretty much got the entry level admin job almost out of school and has just moved sideways within the department a couple of times and slowly moved up the ladder.

She has absolutely no idea of what happens out in the workforce in the private sector and especially in blue collar jobs.

There is an almost complete disconnect between our lived experiences in the workplace.

I have a sister who works in hospitality, and she has never had a full time job and never had a boss who hasn't fucked around with pay, demanded unpaid labour, withheld entitlements, and at least half of them have at one time or another sexually harassed members of staff...the consistency of this happening across more than 20 casual hospo gigs shows it is a widespread problem.

I have a brother in construction, and every job he has had, he has been expected to break OH&S laws, work without proper PPE or training, cover up breaches of environmental laws and more.

People in a nice comfy tenured office job have no fucking idea what most workers deal with.

Haha it’s all good. In hindsight my jobs have mostly been white collar (apart from pre uni) so likely much lower risk of abuse than the service / hospo industry.

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To show it accurately you’d put the doll in a blender

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The irony was not lost on me 🥴

What's worse is that something tells me this is hardly accidental. Maybe not entirely engineered, but certainly not a total mistake. Dividing people into duty-specific microclasses within society so that information doesn't travel across these lines? An relatively illustrious office-class that doesn't believe a single negative word from workers below their caste?

Yeah, it's hard to appreciate how bad shit is until you see it for yourself.

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I noticed a car for sale that was extremely undervalued however the post stated that the car was “being sold under instructions of the Offical Receiver, under the proceeds of crimes act”. Does anyone know what kind of implications this has on the car and whether it will have a clean title?

She takes premium, dude!

From a QPOL officer, mate no dramas buying it.

Highly unlikely they will come for it as the other poster said.

Take the bargain that it is and if there's a kilo of coke hidden in the door then sell it for profit

Late 90s Kezza bought one and it was a beast no underworld people came knocking car was never damaged but when we drove to Sydney from our little coastal town or to Canberra would get pulled over by the cops alot. As it was a former drug running car not sure if he changed the plates on it or not. But even if you do change plates pretty sure that sort of info stays with the car. Never any hassles just constantly pulled over and required him to say that he recently purchased it and ask one of the cops why he was so targeted and was told that was the reason

Just means the boot is a mystery box

I don’t know a great deal about it, I’m from a different state, but having a couple of quick conversations in the past with people about this exact topic, I have been warned that (depending on the crime that was committed), the previous owner / owners may target the car to steal back / damage in retaliation.

Then there is this! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofFzdOZ2K18

Well being sold under the Proceeds of Crime act its perfectly legal and yes it has a clean title

Buuuuut there are other non-legal related issues, as others mentioned, potentially another druglord seeing the car, thinking its an adversary and shooting it up, someone may have been murdered in it, carried a dead body, become a target for theft etc.. So I mean yeah it's got a clean title, but I wouldn't say there's no strings attached

I wouldn’t touch it, what if it has sentimental value to some underworld figure.

It would have to be an absolute one off type of vehicle to even entertain it

Free meth/ice hidden between the panels. Bargain!

New plates and get it wrapped. Maybe even change the wheels if they are not standard rims.

Snake might come looking for you

You forgot the second “PREMIUM!!”

Lil Bandit!

or just snort it, call me if you find any

Or just bin it and qpol will assign a street value to it and bill you for what they reckon they should have gotten retail.

I worked with a young guy, had a hot Audi. Said he got pulled over almost daily. He purchased the car from a rello who had been convicted for drug distribution. New plates didn't change anything for him.

I can't imagine what a hassle that would be, I'd be selling the car real fast.

Nah, once you change the plates, it's all good. We bought a car that (unbeknownst to us) had been used for a drive-off without paying at a petrol station. The cops hassled us for a couple of months, turning up at home even, and we gave them all the details of the guy we'd bought it off, including his address and phone number, signed a declaration etc, and it was obvious when the rego was transferred into our name which was a couple of weeks after the drive-off, but they kept hassling us. They even had CCTV footage of the dude who was around 30 years younger than my husband, which they acknowledged, but new shift, new officer, and they'd decide to hassle us again. Changed the plates and never saw them again. I don't think common sense is very common in the police force.

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Thanks for the reply and that is a good point to note.

She needs premium dude, PREMIUUUUM!

DUUUUUDE

Agree, nobody is finding the car unless it’s an uncommon car that is bright green or something

Im not saying it would happen. Just that there is a possibility. it’s a run of the mill car then no one is going to care. But if it is a unique one or they have done upgrades or something then there is always a way to find them, especially if it was used for moving drugs around or something, those peeps have eyes everywhere. Not talking from personal experience, and a bit different but a friend got into the wrong crowd, tried to get out of it and no matter where he went, they always found him eventually.

Check the car thoroughly and see if the car was used in a crime. I looked at buying one in a similar situation years back in a diff country, turns out someone was stabbed up in the backseat. Wasn’t shown in the online auction pics, but was missing backseats and flooring and was cleaned “well”…

Yeah it’s just an rs3 so nothing too rare and I plan on changing the plates and doing a few cosmetic changes anyways so it should be good.

The stadium was designed in such a way to limit crowd noise seeping out.

This is great, just bring more lesser seen bands please.

Good stuff - bring back the night-life!

That's what these excessively expensive stadiums were built for, may as well use them.

Looking at the latest Visit NSW essential guide to NSW best pies and sausage rolls. Two bakeries from orange have made the list. I've only ever been to orange twice, I've spent two weekends there as a get away, and both times it was unequivocally the best food I've had in NSW outside of the Sydney CBD. Nothing, anywhere else in the state even comes close. Every single meal, no matter where we went was perfect. Has anybody else had this experience?

It’s not Coffs Harbour.

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mudgee isn't too bad either

and some of the best indian you will ever have is in dubbo

The best chicken parmigiana I have ever had was at a pub in Grafton.

All they did was substitute the ham with bacon. But boy it was good.

I second Orange… I was so genuinely impressed and surprised by the food scene, and the incredible quality. It’s just that little bit too far away from me to make it a regular getaway, which is a shame because I really think it’s up there in terms of foodie destinations.

Wagga Wagga was also a pleasant surprise. Never had a bad meal in Wagga.

I visit orange often with work. Gracie burger is amazing, Elrays, there is that small good shop that sells jerky and the like. Lots of great stuff there!

Albury is good too

Schwarz Bakery

Wentworth falls

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I'm very fussy about pies but the ones at Kuma Pies, Cooma NSW, are the best. If you are ever heading to the snow, definitely drop there on the way.

Shoalhaven Heads Bakery was a good feed imo

Mudgee is excellent as is Rylstone. Best dumplings ever in Rylstone. Both pubs food is above average as well.