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I'm in defence. I wouldn't be so sure that stuff is safe... D day is tomorrow.

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Iv been on 11-12hr days as well as half day Saturday's for a good year now, it been good times, I think from here untill the iron price comes back up a little it maybe abit quiet. We do work for bae and lockheed. But they are now starting to keep alot of contracts in house/ own country . It is gettin harder.

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It'll be a while until the price of ore goes back up with China hoarding an estimated 100 Million + surplus tons of steel.

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  On 17/09/2012 at 12:29 AM, SLY6T said:
We do work for BAE...

That's who I work for... Until possibly tomorrow.

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On a course with three blokes from BAE at the moment, two from perth and one from sydney

Even my work is getting tighter, trying to stretch resources

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While I'm lucky to be in work for a bloody long time (touch wood) the company I work for is refusing to put anymore staff on as some of our big clients are shelving projects until commodity prices increase..

And so far we are lucky federal gov hasn't sliced too much infrastructure investment so on our current contracts we'll be busy till 2016..

However the next contracts are in question..

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Hope it works out in your favour today Adam..

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They got rid of nearly all the contractors at work. Only some of the trades are still here and one or 2 really good operators, operators and laborers mostly got the flick.

Some didnt even know until they got off the plane in Mackay to head to work.

90 went last week and for the last 3 or so months they have been booting smaller contracting firms off site.

Morning meetings on some crews use to be 50/50 pit guys and contractors now theres only half a dozen contractors there,

They say pit guys are safe. I hope so.

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  On 17/09/2012 at 9:24 PM, Sharp Dressed Panda said:

Hope it works out in your favour today Adam..

Thanks mate... I survived!

It was a terrible thing to watch unfold and I could tell it took a toll on our maintenance manager who had to select the people and then deliver the bad news.

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