hypnodoc It's All In Your Mind Gold Donating Members 2,198 Member For: 21y 3m 22d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 18/02/09 10:52 PM Author Share Posted 18/02/09 10:52 PM (edited) TAB, it ain't that bad, its just the looming shadow of reality. At least no matter what happens, we live in a decent place. Its all happened before and it will all happen again. Just a wake up call.I promise I'll try to think of something happy to say soon. Oh heres something. I get to come home for eight weeks on Monday night and I get to see the family and drive my Phoon Then in what is a strange twist of irony I have to go to LA at the end of April Edited 18/02/09 10:54 PM by hypnodoc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 9m 26d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 18/02/09 10:57 PM Share Posted 18/02/09 10:57 PM Good stuff. May your family be well and your phoon start when commanded! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosti NOT THERE!... THERE! Member 852 Member For: 16y 9m 28d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 19/02/09 12:08 AM Share Posted 19/02/09 12:08 AM I'm not usually Mr. Brightside but lately I've been finding myself thinking, at least we have homes to cower in whilst we cry about the state of the economy.Some peeps down here in VIC aren't so lucky...Likewise, at least we're not ducking Israeli shells on our way to drop the kids off at school. Do you think anyone in Gaza is freaking out about the financial state of the world?Money troubles are a luxury many people will never even experience....you know its sites like that after having a quick peruse....and these threads.... that make me feel like we are talking ourselves (every single one of us on the planet that will be affected by it) INTO this recession, rather than getting on with it, I dont just mean us here I mean EVERYONE.... It's like an under lying current drawing us deeper and deeper down the gurgler....Surely in this day and age we have the ability to do something about it...I agree completely. The media and the general population create these self fulfilling prophecies and the "we're all going to die and there's nothing we can do about it" mentality does nothing to help anyone's situation.I'm all for being a realist, don't get me wrong. But apart from doing what we can to safeguard ourselves (read; being half sensible) it seems we need to just buckle down and ride the wave.If the people who have the most to lose (big business) can get it so, so wrong, then I think it's fair to say that any and all speculations must be taken with multiple grains of salt.Of course owning your own business complicates this somewhat and a certain level of increased anxiety is probably pretty healthy, but that is something that I have no experience with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 3m 6d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 19/02/09 12:40 AM Share Posted 19/02/09 12:40 AM I cant help seeing the irony in Doc jetting all over the planet yet being the Resident Recession Stooge...I'll finish this post later...gotta go pull some money out of thin air to pay for some basic commodities now all my O/T has been cut....then find jobs for the extra 12 staff I have from night shift being cut.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ms700 Moderating Team 10,170 Member For: 22y 20d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 19/02/09 01:02 AM Share Posted 19/02/09 01:02 AM Im cheering about just changing jobs, now my new employer is axing 400 jobs, 30 in my area alone.......not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buf-Phoon loitering with intent Lifetime Members 13,318 Member For: 21y 6m 1d Gender: Male Location: Zombie Birdhouse Posted 19/02/09 01:06 AM Share Posted 19/02/09 01:06 AM Yeah, read that and thought of you Mickus. Fingers crossed you'll be sweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macktheknife Xtreme Xalted Member Donating Members 3,112 Member For: 21y 9m 14d Gender: Male Location: BrisVegas Posted 19/02/09 01:16 AM Share Posted 19/02/09 01:16 AM Yep, sure is some real stuff happening.Transport industry. (Just the refrigerated division where Macka makes his living)2008. 4 major operators go to the wall & several others floundering. All in all, something like 600+ rigs between them. (When this stuff hits the auctions it always drives a major hole in the new equipment market)2009. None of the majors like Toll, Linfox, Woolworths etc are placing the usual orders for new gear that is normally happening this time of the year.Toss in the terrible natural disasters of floods & fire, dress with reduced spending on fresh produce/fruit/meat etc, and you've got a section of the transport industry bleeding from the bum.Next, take the massive reductions in heavy freight that has serviced the mining industry through the boom.The big suppliers of prime movers like Kenworth, Western Star, Volvo etc have the largest stocks & shortest delivery times ever experianced.No matter what spin you put on it, its going to be ugly for a while.As for hedging by buying gold stocks etc, if Macka could do that he'd be saying to Claude, "F*k the gold Claude, lets just get back in a T & head for the beach to have a sit down"Oh, & dont forget the Smarties....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guests Posted 19/02/09 01:25 AM Share Posted 19/02/09 01:25 AM meet with a guy this moring he said they where tendering for a new school somewhere in perth, there a 16 builders on the tendering list.16 is crazy, normally its 3-4 or if theres not much work it maybe 6 at a push. 16 means people are desperate as hell, why would anyone want to spent $100,000 tendering a job with a 1 in 16 chance of winning it unless there in real trouble it only going to get worse from here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guests Posted 19/02/09 03:48 AM Share Posted 19/02/09 03:48 AM $100k tender costs is huge! What's the job worth Esky? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dirty32 Legendary member!! Donating Members 1,739 Member For: 18y 29d Gender: Male Location: Dianella, West Oz Posted 19/02/09 04:23 AM Share Posted 19/02/09 04:23 AM I was gonna say that... $100k is a massive tender! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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