The What's Pi$$Ing You Off Thread

[Bizkets is Drunk?]

My job is a protection officer/ safe worker people that get track access for people to work and keep them safe. Just getting my last stuff signed of for national accreditation then yeah have a look at my options. have worked with a few people that have done safe work in the pilbra and smash 200k a year easy for john holands and momentum. Its good coin but were do you put money before family time. I want to spend as much time with the wife and my son. Money definitely helps but they were doing 4 on 1 off. So if you could live next camp so you could still spend each night with the family I would have a go at it for sure. Still looking a NSW as they pay there blokes upto 60 a hour.

[Never had any say Panda]

Firstly FIFO and DIDO suck. Hats off to the people that can do that and maintain a decent family life. But why the f*ckers can't donate more to the forum I don't know.

Secondly, before assuming FIFO workers are making squillions you need to look at the individual arrangements.

Example: I was offered a job in WA and it was something stupid like 8/4. Yes the package was more money.. But each shift was 10-12 hours.

At the end of the day I would have to travel at their expense but in my own time, and if I factored travel into the hours worked (since my current job pays me to travel), I would have been on about 3/4 of my hourly rate.

This is true for blokes I know drilling as well. When they compare the hours worked and travel they aren't that much better off than they could be taking a full time position closer to home.

Anyway WPMO..

Accepted new job.

Resigned

Current boss made me an offer to stay.

I almost accepted it but declined on account if money not being my main focus right now and wanting to have a bream.

He was pretty upset. We shook hands, hugged it out and sat around chatting about the good times and made all the usual promises to catch up etc etc etc.

Left that room, went back to my desk.

His boss (companies big boss) called and explained as per clause 23 of my employment agreement, if I left their company to provide a similar service to any of their existing clients I would be in breach of my employment agreement and as a result Civil action would be taken.

I mean for f*ck sake.

[k31th]

sign an NDR and tell 'em to fark right off

[JETURBO]

But your only going to the new company for cleaning duties.... I mean seriously that sh*t will fly lol

[Never had any say Panda]

If by NDR you mean Non Disclosure. Already have one.

This is a commercial thing.

I mean I was gutted enough I made the call to leave this company. Then the big boss got cunty about it.

[k31th]

yeah, I meant an NDA... not sure where I got NDR from haha (I know where, but it's nerdy and irrelevant)

EDIT:

P.S. Cunty

Edited 22/12/15 10:36 AM by k31th

[Never had any say Panda]

Non delivery receipt? Lol.

And bellbat I already spoke to my future employer about changing my job title to cleaner. And for the time.period stipulated in my contract I could clean the office and make coffee while making loud comments about what people left on their desks and how they could fix it.

[Ralph Wiggum]

My job is a protection officer/ safe worker people that get track access for people to work and keep them safe. Just getting my last stuff signed of for national accreditation then yeah have a look at my options. have worked with a few people that have done safe work in the pilbra and smash 200k a year easy for john holands and momentum. Its good coin but were do you put money before family time. I want to spend as much time with the wife and my son. Money definitely helps but they were doing 4 on 1 off. So if you could live next camp so you could still spend each night with the family i would have a go at it for sure. Still looking a NSW as they pay there blokes upto 60 a hour.

Brookflield manage the local frieght and south west networks. 200k Mono's and John Holland Jobs are long gone. Brookfield would be perth/merridan/northam based not FIFO.

[Lennox]

Firstly FIFO and DIDO suck. Hats off to the people that can do that and maintain a decent family life. But why the f*ckers can't donate more to the forum I don't know.

Secondly, before assuming FIFO workers are making squillions you need to look at the individual arrangements.

Example: I was offered a job in WA and it was something stupid like 8/4. Yes the package was more money.. But each shift was 10-12 hours.

At the end of the day I would have to travel at their expense but in my own time, and if I factored travel into the hours worked (since my current job pays me to travel), I would have been on about 3/4 of my hourly rate.

This is true for blokes I know drilling as well. When they compare the hours worked and travel they aren't that much better off than they could be taking a full time position closer to home

Yeah that's actually not true at all for qualified tradesmen. Engineers (I'm assuming that's what you are?) Are tending to get a pretty rough deal because it's extremely competitive as it seems everyone of my Era did an engineering degree thinking they would walk straight into a 120k+ job in the city and heaps of them can't even find work. . Hence they can pay these graduate engineers less than what they would have been on in previous years

For tradesmen the hourly rate is at least 10 bucks an hour better than what you'd get in perth and also you can do 84 hours a week every week which you can very rarely do in perth.. travel to/from site is 1.5 hours on a plane and it's paid...

[Tocchi]

but some of the chartered flights are the non-wifi planes :(