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Amazing to be reminded how fortunate it is to drink water and go to the toilet as necessary at most jobs. I have new respect for traffic controllers. Thank you.
This sounds like another example of where you have been taken advantage of. The way you have explained it the employer has been completely negligent and you would have recourse to be compensated.
The story about the motorist ignoring the stop sign and driving into the hole but continuing as if it was all normal was a classic.Sounds like a comedy skit.!.Some people have no idea.😆
Well well I tried that too! We say flagman or flagger here. Took the training, got the certificate. But I found out that just like with any no-skill job, you have hundreds, thousands, of applicants for every opening! At the end I could not get anything other than a shift here or there. Probably got less than 10 shifts over a 2 year period, so gave that up. Some of them were in the winter and they were brutal - imagine it's -25C at night and your job is to walk in front of a huge snow plow for 8 hours. You can even drink coffee or other hot beverage because, as you said, there is nowhere to pee. Also had to supply my own gear (clothes, helmet, gloves, reflective safety vest, etc).
that is brutal, worst thing is not having a toilet around. Deal breaker they expect you to drive with your own car. Don't you usually go to a depot and pick up one of the utes with all the lollipops in the back? pretty boring job though I can imagine would start to drive you insane
When I was doing that, yes the seniors or full-timers had utes. It's a bit like the supermarket, they had a minimal backbone of full timers but the majority were casuals.
traffic control jobs are a joke i done it for a couple of months in New Zealand and its not worth it. - minimum wage - no onsite toilets not even a portaloo - no powers to stop drive throughs by impatient motorists and expect to receive a cop of abuse when telling a drive through to stop - shifts of unknown duration (3hr one shift, 16hr the next) - one job i didn't even get a break for my entire 10hrs on shift and to top it all off your employed by an agency so the traffic control company can just drop you like a hot potato at any time for no reason at all
NDIS providers have a cushy number, many are corrupt. My sister is on NDIS, the workers are generally unskilled and no one watches them to make sure they're doing their job.. typical govt agency.
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Amazing to be reminded how fortunate it is to drink water and go to the toilet as necessary at most jobs. I have new respect for traffic controllers. Thank you.
So true!
I probably would not have lasted even one hour in that temperature and would have walked off the job! No amount of money is worth that.
That was my last day!
This sounds like another example of where you have been taken advantage of. The way you have explained it the employer has been completely negligent and you would have recourse to be compensated.
The story about the motorist ignoring the stop sign and driving into the hole but continuing as if it was all normal was a classic.Sounds like a comedy skit.!.Some people have no idea.😆
Yeah, the driver kind of looked confused or impervious to the roadworks.
80% of the time I pass a work site the "traffic controller" is staring at their phone (men and women).
Those would be the permanent or long term ones. They got all the cushy assignments!
In Melbourne, all you see is construction. They should change the number plate theme to Victoria, the construction state.
Apparently to fix the massive rental crisis we are having here at the moment. What a joke.
@Age_Blocked the construction in Melbourne has been going for years. Development, Redevelopment etc. I visit on and off and noticed this.
To deny an employee, the ability to use the toilet or drink water is abusive😮
I guess I needed to learn to always carry water with me rather than leave it in the car. The toilet though, yeah...
That happens more than you would believe... In many industries, I've been there ...
If you went for as a traffic controller looking cute in a pair of daisy dukes.....You're IN😅
Had to look up what a daisy duke was haha. Oh yeah, that's unfair!
Isnt that a WHS issue? The company should allow for breaks every 5 hours.
It's supposed to be, but I found in practice it wasn't the case. This was the exception rather than the norm though.
Well well I tried that too! We say flagman or flagger here.
Took the training, got the certificate. But I found out that just like with any no-skill job, you have hundreds, thousands, of applicants for every opening!
At the end I could not get anything other than a shift here or there.
Probably got less than 10 shifts over a 2 year period, so gave that up.
Some of them were in the winter and they were brutal - imagine it's -25C at night and your job is to walk in front of a huge snow plow for 8 hours. You can even drink coffee or other hot beverage because, as you said, there is nowhere to pee.
Also had to supply my own gear (clothes, helmet, gloves, reflective safety vest, etc).
I never thought about working in the bitter cold, as its sub-tropical here. I bet that cold is just as bad or worse than the summer heat here.
that is brutal, worst thing is not having a toilet around. Deal breaker they expect you to drive with your own car. Don't you usually go to a depot and pick up one of the utes with all the lollipops in the back? pretty boring job though I can imagine would start to drive you insane
When I was doing that, yes the seniors or full-timers had utes. It's a bit like the supermarket, they had a minimal backbone of full timers but the majority were casuals.
traffic control jobs are a joke
i done it for a couple of months in New Zealand and its not worth it.
- minimum wage
- no onsite toilets not even a portaloo
- no powers to stop drive throughs by impatient motorists and expect to receive a cop of abuse when telling a drive through to stop
- shifts of unknown duration (3hr one shift, 16hr the next)
- one job i didn't even get a break for my entire 10hrs on shift
and to top it all off your employed by an agency so the traffic control company can just drop you like a hot potato at any time for no reason at all
Sounds just like my experience. Thanks for sharing
Your minimum wage is quite high compared to some other countries but do you pay tax on that and how many %?
If it was a full time job, then yes. But right now, I'm only paying GST, but no tax because my salary is way under the min threshold.
@@AgeBlocked 👌
Try working for NDIS
Thanks for the heads up. Never heard of them. Had to look it up
The bedpan economy.
NDIS providers have a cushy number, many are corrupt. My sister is on NDIS, the workers are generally unskilled and no one watches them to make sure they're doing their job.. typical govt agency.