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Another shocking employment revelation from the Sydney Morning Herald:
Almost one in five workers under 26 is unhappy with pay and conditions ...
The glass is greater than four-fifths full. That’s as good as empty to the SMH.
What do under 26’s expect? Six figure salaries and 3-4 day working weeks?
When I was 24 I used to get paid $A36k a year to manage a high sales turnover retail dept. The pay was crap, I had to work weekends, only got 30 minutes for lunch if that, worked late, got abused by customers (even when I came in early unpaid) and had the responsibility for the entire store on some shifts without getting paid extra.
But such is life when you’re young. I accepted that the job was a temporary stop gap measure and worked my butt off to make sure I could position myself to get something better.
If some of the journos at the SMH could have their way everyone would earn the same amount regardless whether you were a manager or a staff member…and we’d all call one another “comrade” as well.
“Almost one in five”, etc, etc - well, of course the numbers are low! The remainder were too intimidated by threat of savage beatings from management to speak honestly.
They wouldn’t have been fooled at the SMH, though.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 04 25 at 02:32 AM • permalinkIn other news - The Pope remains Catholic.
Posted by Lucky Nutsacks on 2006 04 25 at 03:07 AM • permalinkLet’s look at the rest of that sentence:
ALMOST one in five workers under 26 is unhappy with pay and conditions, but most young people will not quit a job straightaway even when they feel poorly treated.
Journalist Debra Jopson has gone from “almost one in five” workers to “most” young people in the space of a single “but”. And one wonders why any young people would want to quit straightaway. Why not wait long enough to introduce yourself, or find out where the canteen is, or even for the first pay packet. Sheesh!
That number is way too low. You guys are paying too much for entry-level jobs if only ALMOST one in five is unhappy. If everything is hunky-dory, what is the incentive to improve your lot. Like every other value in life, happiness is earned.
And what about this ALMOST person? If you count to 10 instead of 5, do you have one whole person who is unhappy? Or is this the odd person who is agnostic about life regardless?
Since the SMH being moronic isn’t really unusual and not worth the electrons needed to post a message, here’s an O/T question.
Who are we going for in the NBA & NHL?
Is Wayne Gretzky still playing NHL?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 04 25 at 05:24 AM • permalinkSorry - a clarification. Since I know nothing about the ‘form’ in the NBA & NHL, who should I adopt and, er, root for (to use the local vernacular)?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 04 25 at 05:26 AM • permalinkWho is stupid enough to pay money to read the SMH (or The Age for that matter)? Sydney and Melbourne must be thickly populated by imbeciles for these red rags to survive.
For news, I rely on The Australian, Tim Blair and a few other reliable websites, most listed by Tim on the LHS of this page. I’d sooner buy a copy of the Gay Bar Loiterer’s Guide to Sydney than the SMH.
I’d sooner buy a copy of the Gay Bar Loiterer’s Guide to Sydney than the SMH.
You buy that too? It’s a good read, the GBLGS.
Posted by Quentin George on 2006 04 25 at 07:33 AM • permalinkOnly one in five, of that age group, is unhappy with his job. That sounds almost miraculous considering how miserable most people I knew, including me, in their first entry level(adult) job. Having to wear adult clothes, having to deal with people and not solve problems by saying whatever, getting up early and into work on time and and the worst was having to take orders from someone obviously socially inferior and not as well-educated. Only one in five, Australia sounds like Paradise.
Posted by Pat Patterson on 2006 04 25 at 08:49 AM • permalinkOn a side topic, a bunch of chimps just busted out of a sanctuary in Sierra Leone, killing one man and wounding four (one had his hand messed up such that removal was necessary).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4938620.stm
Will all out war ensue? My money’s on the chimps.
Posted by Texas Ranger on 2006 04 25 at 09:34 AM • permalink14, 15. Even this New Yorker pulls for a Canadian city to win the Stanley Cup, where it is most cherished. My team of choice the New Jersey Devils are like Hawthorn in the ‘80s, more resented/admired than loved. Perhaps they’ll continue to undress the New York Rangers and then get knocked off by Montreal or Ottawa.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 04 25 at 09:57 AM • permalink#2 Tdw77,
Just curious, did you enjoy it? I ask because- still being comparatively young- I know I don’t mind putting in the hours, even if I’ve signed off, to see a job done well. Fukuyama would probably put it down to thymos- that is, I’m an arse-kisser for recognition from managers. Plus- I expect a bloody good reference when I leave.
Welcome to “The Real World” youngsters. Now you know why your mother warned you, “Don’t try to grow up so quickly, enjoy your youth.” She knew what you know now. Life sucks. Now get back to work your brainless serfs before I have you all sacked!
There are plenty of illegal aliens who snap up your jobs in a heart…. Oh…. never mind, that’s from my US Tyrant Boss Rant. Sorry.Just wait until the Sydney Morning Herald discovers that as many as 50 percent of the workforce are experiencing wages that are below average.
Posted by Margos Maid on 2006 04 25 at 07:35 PM • permalinkWho is stupid enough to pay money to read the SMH (or The Age for that matter)? Sydney and Melbourne must be thickly populated by imbeciles for these red rags to survive.
They were giving away thousands of free copies of the Sun Herald at my local Westfield for the last several weekends.
I read with considerable amusement the gloating piece on page two claiming the Weekend Herald’s circulation far exceeded the Weekend Telegraph or Australian. I too wonder how many people actually paid for their copy to help reach this figure.
What also baffles me, is how they can produce and distribute a Sunday newspaper in time for a 6pm Saturday movie. I guess nothing much happens in the world on the weekend.
In other news - The Pope remains Catholic.
But are the principals really Catholic? Who knows what happens in there if you get a second marriage, not use the rosmary, not pray for your sins…
Are their schools really undercover cults and non thinking brainwashing places to learn and find fault with children?
Da Vinci knows the real secret…
Dilbert’s pointy-haired boss is very worried about those data on sick days.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 04 25 at 10:50 PM • permalink#27 anthony
I did up until a customer blasted me because I’d arrived early (unexpectedly) and another staff member (unaware of my arrival) had told him moments before that I wasn’t in the store.
But without that job (and the one I had managing shifts at a maccas store late at night) I wouldn’t have the much better career I have today. So its worth doing the hard yards when your young because it pays itself off in later years.
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Of 940 students answering a questionnaire distributed by the Sydney University Students’ Representative Council with Unions NSW, four in 10 said they would contact their employer if they had a problem.
Who the F*** else do you contact? Your lawyer? Bloody hell. If you’ve got a problem, bring it up with your boss, don’t be such a nancy-pants. I conclude from this that 6/10 students are stoopid.