Look, we all do it. We hurl about terms like psychopath and narcissist with reckless abandon and almost always without fully understanding the nature of the terms and the subtlety and nuance that goes into a clinical diagnosis.
Former PM Kevin Rudd was labelled “a psychopath” by former MP Steve Gibbons, and “a psychopathic narcissist” by former NSW premier Kristina Keneally. Peter Garrett ratcheted it up a notch by calling Rudd “a megalomaniac”. And that’s just the diagnoses from within Rudd’s own party. Why, the man must be a veritable walking copy of the psychiatric bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
It is arguably true that Canberra is a magnet for narcissists of various stripes. In fact, anyone who wants to get into the caper knows that getting elected to parliament involves a bevy of posters featuring their name and smiling face being nailed to lampposts and wedged in front gardens all over their home suburb. It has to be more satisfying than looking in the mirror for hours.
The trouble is, once these narcissists get to Canberra, they find themselves outgunned by bigger, badder, more vain, more hollow, more manipulative narcissists. Interacting with narcissists more narcissistic than they are must be a real blow to their bloated egos.
Full column here.
Word is penalty rate cuts will save a company like Harvey Norman about 900K per year. Filched straight out of the pockets of those who can least afford it.
No wonder Abbott’s got the hump. That glory shoulda been his.
John the Baptist:-
Of course Turnbull supports the penalty rate cuts
He has campaigned for years along with all Liberals that penalty rates are too high.
The answer is there for all to see. It is madness that he will not admit it. Reminds me of his $1.75million donation. Eventually he will have to bite the bullet.
I cannot see why Shorten has never alluded to the Looters long tirade against Penalties.
Also, on the ‘independence’ theme, the Liberals have often intervened
when they have not liked a decision an independent body or commission has made.
Yes it is correct and good politics for Turnbull to say Shorten will not accept the
commission’s independence that he set up…BUT…never in Shorten’s time did it cut wages
from those least able to afford it.
If it had he would have possibly stepped in when the lowest paid workers were savaged.
Turnbull still can…but he won’t.
Just another example of Shorten’s hopeless tactics.
Bassy, Shorten has never supported low paid workers going by his track record. The guy is a fraud, albeit a well off one.
On the subject of teachers, my daughter just started school this year, her teacher is great, but imho the good ones are never appreciated enough. My personal experience was, my grades were reflected by how interesting the teacher made the subject matter. Not all teachers have that gift I reckon.
In other breaking news, Hunters & Collectors asked by animal activists to change the band’s name in case it hurts the feelings of the target audience in the upcoming duck season in Victoria.
New scandal hits Trump. This will be an everyday event methinks.
NASA offers JB a free ticket and camera on SpaceX flight along with an extra bonus lap around the moon.
Turnbull should take a leaf out of Wayne Bennett’s book, ” I let my team do the talking for me”. All pollies should go to the Wayne school of economical public speaking, mandatory.
Penalty rates, mmmh, better be fixed quick smart if Malcolm wants to keep his job. Just for those who phooee small business owners though, there is more to them that meets the eye. A friend just had his rents doubled, yep, doubled on his 3 shops he runs. No comeback on that one, it’s sign the new lease, pay up or get out.
Gerry the Hardly Normal is going to get it right in the bottom when Amazon gets going, as are Coles, Woolies and yep, Aldi & others too. I have it on good authority Woolies are very concerned about Amazon and others that are coming. They have been preparing for quite some time.
By the way my little fell started Kinder this year as well.
Being an ex-chalkie, many potential parents ask me ‘what is the best school around here’,as I have taught in all of them when I did some casual teaching. Here is my answer
ANY SCHOOL IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE TEACHER WHO IS ON YOUR CLASS AT ANY GIVEN TIME
It depends on who your kid bumps’ into/which class he or she is placed in. A kid can withstand a lazy teacher once in a year and not suffer too much but TWICE in a row is disaster.
B’man, I believe the effort the parents put in makes just as big or even bigger difference to the child’s efforts and outcomes.
Dismayed:-very true…without parental support many schools I have worked in would fail. Sadly, governments from all sides take advantage of parents and the many hours they put in for their kids.
Hunters and Collectors: Are you serious? Have we gone mad?
Penalty rates: Most small businesses that have to open on public holidays usually have the owner and/or family behind the counter – can’t afford wages for casuals.
then a 20%+ surcharge?
Oh they can afford wages alright, they just want to keep as much as they can for themselves.
There’s still a ‘duck season’ MtK?
Amusement for sick people still in 2017.
Disgusted, Bella
Apparently there is Bella. Gives Victorians something to do on weekends.
And then of course there’s Gerry Harvey wanting the government to ban Amazon from coming to Australia”like Donald Trump not letting the Muslims in”
I mean who would rather go and shop at Harvey Norman on a Sunday, never get what you want, never get good service etc., than browse the Amazon.com website and get exactly what you want, delivered to your door within 3-5 working days. He thinks they’re parasites and not something we’d want around the place….yeah right Gerry
I was amazed just a few years ago to hear a major retailer (who seemed to be the go go-to guru for televised commentary on the subject of the economy) state quite candidly thus,
“Take this 90CM Schmicko Flat Screen with ergonomic textured remote, just a year ago I was selling them for $599 and now I’m only getting $299.! That’s how bad things are! )
I mused whether the happy shopper who bought the said item on the come in sucker 36 months interest free plan for $599 might send the poor fellow a donation to help tide him through these difficult times.
Or might he/she take advantage of the opportunity revealed in that advertisement and pop in and buy another to average the cost of the units down.
Give ’em heaps
PS That’s why God made Christians. Someone has to pay retail prices. The bigger the margin the more Christian you are.
I was just going to give the tips on never paying too much and always getting a bargain, in anything. Oops. Well, we all know Im not a Christian, but I didnt realise there was a correlation.
Walking in the dark side,….
Or at the dark end of the street.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC3AXQ8dPJM
A tip for shoppers at Myer
Keep the article in the packet with tags on until you actually wear it. Because it will be on ”40% off” sale within days usually, definitely within a few weeks. Then you return it and repurchase it
Lemme see. The man who had a business model that put mom & pop appliance and furniture stores out of business, now complaining that a new business model is putting him out of business. There’s a word for that.
Methinks, Mr Baptiste, that PM Trumble will be making a B Line to the Lodge Wine Cellar to drown his sorrows today after a pitiful and really incompetent performance this week. He’s a “Barry Crocker” imho Mr Baptiste.
Jean Baptiste I think these go getters from the NSW Greens sum up the dichotomy between parliamentary democracy and the rights of labour. Left renewals milksop efforts to find a place for true revolutionary visionists within the strictures inherent in any parliamentary party only demonstrate our current system is predicated on total submission of the person to the party. As a result the abolition of real thought, as a base, to forge a new society from the violence inherent in the system is constrained. A system I might add that is designed in such a way to pit the worker against those who wish to feed from the endeavours of their work. This construct, as supported by those who profit most from labour, the multi national oligarchs, can only be supported by the direct consent of parliamentary democracy. Whilst members of parliamentary accepted revisionist leftist parties harangue the subdued with diluted ideas and diatribe seeming to indicate the worker construct has only tacit consent true revolutionaries understand the construct is in fact forced upon the worker through the parliamentary process sponsored by those who profit most from labour the capitalist oligarchs.
Below is an excerpt from an article about two people at the forefront of establishing the new workers state. Long may they battle!
‘In a lengthy online post criticising Left Renewal, activists Dexter Duckett and Vanamali Hermans have accused the faction of defending “the sanctity of MPs’ offices like Lee Rhiannon and David Shoebridge while stacking out the party’s working groups to pursue ideologically favourable policy directives.
“Left Renewal’s praxis is a pseudo-vanguardist one, tacitly signalling that if enough disruptions are made in the political hegemony, the class consciousness of the masses will rise up with the vanguard,” they write.
“Of course, the state will co-opt any rising discontent within the multitude, but will make rapid developments in the forces of the economic base to boot.
“The ideological chauvinism of the Left doesn’t compare to the power intrinsic to the material forces of labour.”’
Be still my beating heart! Darren?
wishful thinking my dear
Stop it, JB. It doesn’t matter
It matters to me Bodaseeya! What the world needs now is men like Rupert. I can almost hear the hissssss/thunk of the guillotine.
Give ’em heaps comrade Rupert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXsZbkt0yqo
Darren is just part of the elitist infrastructure called the law. An infrastructure that supports the oligarch against the worker masses and treats the worker as the forced labourer upon whose backs the profits of greed and so called justice are earned. Until the legalist parasites are banished to hell organised labour will always be repressed. Only a workers tribunal made up of the worker, for the worker should sit in judgement of the worker. As the capitalist elite are in a paroxysm’s rage when their fools estate has been burnt to the ground only then will,the true impotence of the artifice that is known as the law become apparent.
Is there really a hell master?
Hell is what the workers of the world are currently enduring. As for the bourgeois idea of heaven and hell this is only another lie used by the powerful to further subjugate the worker to their will. When the day comes that labour rises and takes what is theirs, what has been paid for by the sweat of their sodden brows, what has been denied them by the greedy, aided and abetted by parliamentary democracy, then the parasites that are nourished by the blood of others will endure the workers hell. They will till the field and bare the yoke of the oppressed. They will scream at their false gods and blame others when in fact it is their greed that will have delivered them to their fate. A fate they once willingly bestowed upon others.
gory hardon is stoked
Cutting penalty rates has zero to do with increased productivity and everything to do with putting our hard-earned wages back into the profits of the massively wealthy tax-dodging corporates.
Why should the disadvantaged pay a bonus to the already rich?
This is exactly why we need unions.
Regards, Bella
Our PM “Tangles” Trumble, Mr Insider, in a mess over the Penalty Rate fiasco. Can this lad get anything right! Come on “Tangles” give it up buddy let someone else take over who can get things done. Heading towards 2 years as PM with very little to show. One good thing his Memoirs when finally written wont take long to read.
we agree at last.
Cracking address to Congress today by POTUS Trump, just 6 weeks into his 8 year tenure, Mr Insider. I know many don’t like him but am sure we all must have a sneaking admiration for this super confident man who has shaken the old Establishment down to its roots and promises so much! Go hard Donald! FLOTUS Trump, Melania, again looked ravishing!
you do know it was written for him by someone with a brain right? He just read the words. Its called a scripted performance. the meltdown will come when he has to wing it.
Delivered beautifully and confidently Wraith, an art in itself. Could you imagine listening to Turnbull for over an hour, we would be comatose! I like the man myself, big, ballsy and brassy, just like your Uncle Henry.
We need to borrow Mr Trump for a while here Mr HB
Just an observation – when Morrison is interviewed and asked the hard questions, why does he become a little bit manic and try to talk over and dominate the interviewer. In the last year or or so you can see that he is trying to restrain himself but mid-interview, he always reverts to type.
Scott, take a leaf out of Pauline’s book. Answer the question and leave the histrionics to the HOR’s Dorothy Dixers’.
can you imagine him on a date, ewwwwwwww?!!!!
Morrison does it to hide his lies.
Dutton is a dud. Anyone who thinks he could galvanise the coalition behind his smug grin and vacuous, right-leaning agenda is dreaming. Turnbull has two roads. He can be true to what he believes in (that would have made me give him a tick if I’d been polled in his stoush with Abbott) or he can pay the piper and keep his job.
Hobson’s choice. The only thing in Turnbull”s favour is that Shorten is unelectable too.
Turnbull once made a famous appearance on this blog and promised to come back with an answer or comment on whatever was the topic of the day. He didn’t.
I’ll bet he still reads it though.
I agree re Dutton and was going to comment earlier. I am surprised that his name has even come up. Morrison would have a better chance but that is not saying much. Bishop? I don’t know but I doubt it. Not sure if Shorten is unelectable (though he should be) but given the right opposition (see above and add Turnbull) he could scrape through with a minority govt. Abbott, God love him, though Janet doesn’t (nor Savva), is the ONLY other choice. He has proven to be electable.
Mind you, years back I thought Howard was unelectable. However thanks to Keating, I am sooo close to getting his face tattooed on my right buttock (no centrist moi!). Ahhh those halcyon days, that turned into years…. The voters loved him, they couldn’t get enough… until they did. And then they got Rudded and Gillarded and could only hope (and still do) that he would unsheathe his golden sword. But we’ve still got Tony, a lifesaver, firefighter and Christian – this is what we need in our darkest hours.
“But we’ve still got Tony, a lifesaver, firefighter and Christian – this is what we need in our darkest hours”. Bless you dear Milton, loyal till the last breath, crushed though you must be. I admire you big boy!
If Abbott was electable, anyone is. Except maybe Dutton. That would be a monumental mistake. Morrison is about as saleable is a bacon sandwich at an ISIS sausage sizzle but would still get there in the right circumstances. I think they might want to look at Frydenburg.
Agree Triv. Long odds but could be a winner.
With this government’s energy policy so on the nose with Australians? Frydenberg is voterland poison methinks.
There is NO WAY Shorten can take Labor to victory. If he could not defeat a Liberal government that campaigned on debt and deficit every day for six years, and then went on to triple the deficit and add $200billion MORE to gross debt, how can he win in 2019? Hopeless.
He won’t have to take them to victory. It will be handed to him on a platter by the shattered Coalition
The whole of Turnbull’s Cabinet is a dud imho Mac, sadly most of ex ousted Abbotts people reincarnated but yes especially Dutton.
HB and Mac, Dutton is just awful, Morrison no better. I used to think Julie Bishop had it, but no longer. They are all unimpressive. I still think there’s someone in the Labor Party that will do a Bob Hawke and come in at the last minute. If the next election is not until 2019, then there is still time.
In fact “There is still time” could be the next campaign slogan.
Great theme Penny and who could forget the original from ’72.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jykIqQxEOw
Rudd made sure that cannot happen Penny.
It would take around 3 months for Labor to replace a leader – in that time the Libs would call an early election.
If they are going to move it has to be now but Shorten is still basking in the glow of a near win at the last election.
Th e “fed-up” factor will click in at the next election. Voting patterns will change drastically but to what?
In a nutshell , One Nation
We need someone to spike one of the Looters drinks so as they dnt appear for a confidence vote in the lower house.
I’ll do it Bassy.
“The only thing in Turnbull’s favour is that Shorten is unelectable too.”
I’m no fan of Bill’s but when we elected Tony Abbott the word “unelectable” should have been binned for all time. Dutton, or any other member of the macaque family, would be a poor choice as PM but that doesn’t make them unelectable.
can I secretly say that right now, over turncoat, bill is looking good baby!
vote1 cowpat……vote1 barkers egg…
Agree Wraith and that’s saying something…..
This is so cool.
http://gizmodo.com/denmarks-monster-wind-turbine-just-smashed-the-24-hour-1791889104
Be like Denmark Mr Turncoat.
I’ve been to Denmark, Bella and I thought my nose and ears were about to snap off as a result of the cold; and I have no idea were my penis hid. The last thing they need there is big fans!
see if you had your hoodie, your penis would have gone viking on you, as it was, …..
There you go again talking about your male bits but if it did manage to hide then jeez, I dunno, it must be teeny tiny.
Just saying, Bella
ohhh puhleeeze, stop obsessing over it ladies!
“It’s a tiny little fellow, able to conceal itself in the smallest wrinkle or fold of the terrain, sometimes lurking unseen and camouflaged in the foliage………….. “
jerry, it’s the shrinkage
Hooley Dooley! That will have the coal fossils choking on their cornflakes and in serious reflux for a month!
I’m tellin’ yers there ‘s somethin’ that just aint right or natural about the wind, I reckon them big propellers is slowing down the earth and veering it off it’s course which is causing global warming. You can see it happening right now!
Give ’em heaps!
when you sit in a field and watch the blades together, they dance along the spirals of the wind in synchronized perfection. Its hypnotic, and beautiful. Our bank has the ocean as the backdrop, tooo pretty.
Oh, and no piles of dead birds here, so that must be some terrible thing that happens to you lot in the east because you are all sinners or something.
up penalties…. up up up
http://asic.gov.au/about-asic/media-centre/find-a-media-release/2017-releases/17-048mr-asic-commences-civil-penalty-proceedings-against-westpac-for-breaching-home-loan-responsible-lending-laws/
wait for it,…..
then the wages go down,
interest rates go up,
people default, bank moves in,
and in a cold Australian Sydney morn another baby banker is born….
in the ghetto,
and his mumma cries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mOeVqqKIzg
Better than SNL.
Gross Govt Debt:
Labor: $47b to $273b over 60 months: Up $3.8b a month…..if this was bad.
Looters: $273b to $477b over 41 months: Up $5.0b a month…..what is this?
Our grandchildren Scott…our grandchildren!!!
This is a baaaaaaaaaadddd government
Those Rudd/Gillard/Rudd governments weren’t too flash in the Debt department either BASSMAN and could possibly be partly the reason we are where we are. Howard knew how to balance the books! His was a Goooooooooooooooood government!
structural deficit…..
Mate it is HOW you balance the books that count…he sold everything we had, had a $320billion dollar mining boom windfall, had no GFC to contend with, sold our gold reserves for a song, sold our raii, airports, bank, Telstra bloody hell…no fiscal wizadry in that…as I said previously NINE of Costello’s ‘surpluses’ would have been deficit if he had to contend with the same revenue as Rudd.
…and, as reported in the Oz he left a $90billion structural deficit for Rudd, Abbott and Turnbull to juggle///er “our grandchildren”. Heard Turnbull mention them 4 times yesterday!!
You could look at it another way Bassy.
Over 5 years, Labor increased it by a factor of about 6.
In a 3.5 years the Libs have merely doubled it.
Neither deserve any kudos – they all spent to Treasury’s forward estimates.
treasury against the wall when the coup comes…
Yes and the GFC never happened, tax revenues did not drop in 08,09 and the howard, abbott and costello show $80 billion a year structural deficit did not happen either or the $340 billion they spent of the $360 billion unbudgeted for extra tax revenue between 2004/07 was an illusion also. Jeez you are always screaming about debt but do nto want to know about reality.
And after the GFC passed it was spend, spend, spend.
Not to mention a bucket load of tax cuts that Rudd got conned into
Rewriting history is fraught with danger – just try for a change, and I know that it will be tough and you might have to take a double dose of Valium, to present ALL the facts..
ckSprat: are you actually CK (Chris Kenny, that might explain the doomsday prepper, alt right whinge stuff from you). Anyway back to the matter at hand. Several people this week on this blog have been highlighting the Massive Spending cuts by Labor in the their last 2 budgets from a link I posted. You know the one The Australian called the Biggest Fiscal contraction in the Nations history. All the data shows that once the stimulus was removed the economy stalled. Facts really are an inconvenience to you aren’t they.
The bottom line mate…the bottom line..Gross debt is $200billion more than it was in 2013-FACT. Household debt-worst ever, foreign debt, half a trillion! Labor had a REASON for debt. To save jobs and avoid recession. This was done with a AAA credit rating from all agencies.
I take it you’ll be mightily relieved to see Labor get back on the Treasury benches asap, eh Bassy?
NO:-they do NOT deserve to govern.-Shorten is a disaster I dnt vote for any of the bastards.I am praying for proportional representation one day then they will HAVE to work out a way to work together in the national interest instead of their own.
Think of the interest rates Bassman that that narcissicistic , psychosocioblowdryerpath Rudd burdened our grandchildren with. Wouldn’t trust bastard with a credit card Therese or you’ll be out supporting the family again.
Interest on government borrowings is at all time lows.
In your alternative universe?
JS Well with you in Bizarro world I guess I am in an alternative universe. We call it the “Real world” . Is it your position that interest rates are NOT at record lows? It all becomes clear now up is down, right is left you are living on Htrae aren’t you. Are you the salesman who is doing a brisk trade selling Bizarro bonds: “Guaranteed to lose money for you” Is this your code” Us do opposite of all Earthly things!
It is outrageous that those on quite large incomes like police, nurses, fireman and who enjoy an indexed defined benefit pension for life when they retire, should have their penalty rates protected. whilst those on the lowest incomes will lose $70 a week or more. This is unfair and devalues the work they do. The cuts should be administered equally or not at all.
Apply it right across the board – starting with CEO’s
Now THAT is the best comment on this blog in YONKS..well done..yep CEO’z
Bassman,
None of the occupations you mention are now on defined benefit super. It has been legislated that way.
They also do not have ridiculous amounts of holidays each year like teachers do but they still carry on. I mean why would you remunerate a fiery, nurse or copper for working 24/7 365 under, at times, extreme stress and danger when teachers all over Australia are experiencing chapped fingers due to chalk dust.
Love and kisses,
Guess who! (I no longer post but do read)
Mate I have 3 registered nurses in my family. One earns over $100k. They work hard but they never once but in the hours I did.
Teachers holidays…I won’tr even start on that. I never had many. For 11years i was attending UNi, studying doing higher degrees at night and attending compulsory residential schools in my holidays as well as working in the day. Thousands of teachers did this in my day. And by the way there is no extra remuneration for those higher degrees. Christmas was a good break I will admit but even then i had residential schools. When none of my kids became teachers you know the reason they gave me? The hours are too long (I used to get to school early and left late)…and….why do all of those hours with no overtime they kept harping. Yep U may go on about holidays but teachers work thousands of hours overtime and don’t get a cent for it. The holidays nowhere near pay for what is owed in overtime. Jack’s oldies were teachers I think. U need to have a yarn with him about being transferred all over a large state and dragging your kids and family with U, uprooting them from their jobs, schools , social and sporting clubs and friends. “Oh we are not moving AGAIN are we dad”. Blokes won’t take the job on anymore. Was reading about that yesterday. Guess this will start a whole blog of teacher bashing now. Would I do it again…yep…but would never be a Principal.
And police don’t do unpaid overtime, long hours and get dragged all over the state? Think about what you said and get the chalk dust out of your eyes. Police also do not get paid for extra study.
Cops get HEAPS of overtime
On planet zog maybe.
Well said Bassman. The problem with the teaching profession is that people have no respect for what you do. Parents particularly. It’s OK at primary school level, where there is some degree of job satisfaction, but get to high school and it’s all downhill from there.
Even first year University students are pains in the backside, because they firmly believe that they are a protected species with the right to be given fantastic grades for very little effort.
that last bit is because they are being graded that way all through school, under the every player gets a prize model which seems to be in vogue.
No argument from me Bassman except I wish that more high achievers could be attracted to the profession.
The entry academic standards are so low that it is now reflected in everything they do – a “*” for just turning up – after all that is what the majority of new entrants into the profession did.
…but they STILL get an indexed pension
No they don’t. They have an accumulation fund just like everyone else smoke.
Last word should be bassman not smoke.
Geez, for a minute I thought that you were giving Bassy the last word – he definitely does not need that advantage, 🙂
Guess Who U say
Well you must be Burton Cummings
I have THREE nurses in my family. One earns over $100k.
None of my kids became teachers because they told me the hours were too long and they did not want to uproot and drag their families all over the state at a whim taking them from their friends, jobs, sporting clubs, schools etc.
The thousands I spent ruining cars and hitting roos on dirt corrugated roads? Will never get that back Bald.
Overtime? Teachers work THOUSANDS of hours over time and don’t get a cent for it. I had a mate who worked at Sydney Grammar who had to take Saturday sport year in and year out. So he only got Sundays off! Private schools are like that…but their pay is higher.
The holidays would never compensate for the unpaid overtime and out of hours work. Blokes just won’t take the job on. I was reading about that yesterday. No male role models for our kids anymore in some schools. Parents have complained to me that some of their kids have gone right through school and never had a male teacher. At the primary school here a few years back, out of 11 teachers only 2 were male.
And holidays? For 11yrs I worked full time in the day, came home and studied ’til the a.m. for my higher degrees, attended compulsory residential schools at Uni in the holidays (so they could make money out of the empty college\ rooms) and worked in my band on the weekend. A full week mate.
I know heaps of teachers who attended Uni and did what I did in their own unpaid time to better their qualifications. By the way, there was no extra remuneration for those degrees and the years of study I put in. Would I be a teacher again…for sure but NOT a Principal.
Now I realise this may turn the blog into a teacher bashing theme but teaching is a hard gig. Part of the teaching problem is the teachers themselves. They have never explained or defended their roles succinctly enough so we deserve all we get. How would you like to be told to get effed by pimple faced pubescent kids day in and day out which happens in some schools as well as being physically attacked.
Jack may have a few things on this. I think his olds were chalkies…or one of them.
Uncanny X, I married a fiery nurse, who later became a (primary) teacher. I cannot believe the crap that she has to put up with and the hours she does during the week and all weekend. It’s beyond ridiculous – the amount of paperwork they have to do now is insane, and, in the modern way, much of it is pure bullshit. Beyond that, the behavioural problems are many, varied and they have only ‘procedures’ to combat it. I’m always glad it’s me going off to school in the morning, my head would be a mess.
Not me
“This is unfair and devalues the work they do.”
Bassy, the “value” of work should not be measured simply by the remuneration in $ terms one receives, as you appear to be suggesting.
Think of all the unpaid charitable activity that goes on throughout our society. Using your scenario it would be worthless
Well aid. U make good points here Toaster
Oh and by the way my toaster blew up this morning…like the last one, stayed alive for just one year. They must be made with a 12month death timer in them! The old mica one we had when I was a kid…well I cannot remember it EVER being replaced
ive waited tables b’man. on christmas day. but of course, “these people?” dont count. they can be screwed. can you play in the Ghetto mate? here we come.
can only say it so many times then you have to go the whole hog. enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ-r0bilzhU
So good wraith….that voice….mmm ..Sigh.
Good on you Wraith = I have only gotten as far as having the odd feeling of guilt on Xmas day when i look at the food on the table