Relating to 99% of every Australian trainer Engineer.manticle said:just as there are knowitalls with a degree or diploma who've never touched or seen the thing they are an alleged expert about.
And most of them are ex army tradies, in my experience.browndog said:I know a lot of crap tradies that became instructors.
It's probably a 'Tradesman's Accountability Bond' that he uses for gullible morons to finance his 'Totalisator Agency Board' account with. But it's more likely he's a former Greek business official now plying his trade in Australia to escape the heat over there. :lol:manticle said:Dubious about the legality of the above mentioned deposit. What was the reason given?
3 years of uni accounting degree, and by the time I got to my first day on the job (though having done bookkeeping as a part time job and understanding the basics very well) I realised that I knew nothing from the degree. Ironically, the part time job taught me more.manticle said:It's the same with any job whether uni or tafe based training.
A doctor or dentist will probably learn as much in six months on the job as they did their entire 6 (?) years of med school and only become competent after another 6+ in the field. Same with chef, carpenter, archivist, conservator, plumber, bricklayer, you name it.
The training is a fundamental if done properly but you need to build on that and that only happens with experience.
Still, there are loads of practitioners of all types who've been 'doing it this way for thirty years mate' who have been doing it badly for thirty years and wilfully remain ignorant, just as there are knowitalls with a degree or diploma who've never touched or seen the thing they are an alleged expert about.
I really like this idea.of mice and gods said:I had a new one today.
Apart from having 50 pages of site rules to gain access to a small site and on top of the generic company and site specific inductions they are now saying that they 'may require a $1000 deposit before commencing work (to be refunded upon completion and final inspection of the work)'.. and here was me thinking that they would pay us for the work we are doing for them.
The boss man said it best when he said they can get fucked.
Al
Not really a reduction. They just said we won't have any pay rises for the next 4 years, knowing full well they had taken things too far and the writing was on the wall.Ducatiboy stu said:In Holdens case the union actually went to management to offer a reduction in pay to try and keep jobs.
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