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4 months ago | 21
Who remembers Tony Abbott? He turned around and immediately did all a bunch of cuts that he explicitly said he wouldn't do in the lead up to the election
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Use to work for NSW Ambulance, collecting the fees after people were billed for their life saving trip to the hospital. Absolutely soul destroying charging someone $500+ after their they had a heart attack, kid almost died, etc. Because Libs in NSW barely gave funding for anything, the billing system we used was super shit and had glitches and bugs. Sometimes if people poured their heart out to me on the phone and they couldn't pay the bill I exploited a glitch that reduced their bill to $0. All that it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing. Edit: Starting to get a little worried but how much traction this comment is getting, but fuck it. Can't fire someone who's already left. For any Paramedic comrades, the billing system use to all be based on the patient's home address and name, so if that info was mysteriously wrong or missing on your report, it makes is really hard to send the bill to the correct person.
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I'm working for an agency that just recently got out of 13 years of coalition wage freeze. All the past work is logged and recorded, and I can see in 2013 it just... stopped. My team starting in 2022 had to basically relearn the entire system from scratch cause the pre-Abbott institutional memory had been wiped. We've gotten more done for the Australian people in 3 years of Albo than the last 13 before that under Coalition. Thanks to our wages actually being almost a match for private sector now, weve been able to hire in actual talent to help with research and services.
4 months ago | 287
Not me, but a story from my mum who has been a social worker for 20+ years. As part of her job she has to write reports often in advocacy for her patients (often the elderly as she specialises in dealing with people suffering with dementia). In doing this reports she would often write very passionately about the disservice the state was doing to these people. However one time she went way overboard and got reprimanded by the secretary of NSW health for using “an absurd and excessive amount of exclamation marks”. She used 2 in the whole report
4 months ago | 152
I worked in the public service and got caught up in one of their big sweeping job cuts. They made me and my offsider fight for the same position. After submitting our one pagers saying why we should stay, they scheduled a one on one meeting with one of the higher ups to let us know their decision. With a big shit eating grin, he started the meeting saying, “I have a fantastic opportunity for you” and slid a job ad for another gov department across the table and said he’d give me a great recommendation. With his tone, I thought I had my job but no. Me and my offsider are still mates and have both left the department. Any time we catch up, we always start our conversations with, “I have a fantastic opportunity for you”.
4 months ago | 84
Throwaway account for obvious reasons - Once worked on a major reform under the previous NSW liberal government. We’d costed it for around $1 billion over 10 years but the Minister, on a whim decided and I quote “make it $10 billion because it sounds like a better number to me”. We’re still unsure if that was based on anything tangible. Funding was approved in the end…
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I use to work as an advisor for Centrelink (yep, I was the chic you talked to after waiting 2-3 business days to get through to Centrelink…), and part of my job was to assess disaster relief payments. Part of the process was to ask for photo evidence of damage so that we could assess their claim. I once got this gent on the line who had already been waiting on the phone for more than 3hrs… before you feel bad this guy was trying to claim that his car had been damaged from floods… I asked for photo evidence…I shit you not, the bloke sent a picture of a curated scene with what appeared to be a dodgy photoshop of a car floating in flood water. The only problem was that he used a photo from another country…it looked like the Ghandi river maybe?? With a red Holden Hatchback Barina cropped and faded into the river. I was impressed with his confidence in his photoshop as he swore black and blue that was it taken outside his bedroom window. The commitment was impressive.
4 months ago | 39
Anthony Albanese never lies or breaks election promises. My power bill went down by $275. He can be trusted for another term.
4 months ago | 20
Former public mental health worker. I am now a public mental health patient. Now , I'm not saying correlation equals causation but the garden gnomes currently dancing around me sure are saying that..
4 months ago | 19
I worked for the department of veteran affairs as a labour hire case manager because apparently the team was so busy they needed back up. I got paid $95k a year so can only imagine what the labour hire firm were getting from the government. I worked there for 6 months and outside of keying up 5-10 payslip a week (pure data entry) I did nothing. The team was a team of 15 and they also appeared to be doing nothing. It was the most boring job I’ve ever had in my life. The boredom was stressful. I used to openly read books at my desk and beg for work. To this day I still don’t know why I was hired or paid so much.
4 months ago | 26
Also, if you ever have cancer, be admitted under public rather than private. There's more funding and resources for public cancer patients.
4 months ago | 58
In the previous federal government, there was a period of about 3 months where I had no work to do other than to invoice contractors and consultants. This was during covid so it was all working from home. I logged on 9-5 everyday.. and I managed to paint up an entire warhammer 40k army.
4 months ago | 42
Like Abbott's No Cuts to The ABC. We remember Dutton as the Minister for Immigration, or his Border Force officers asking to see people's identification in Melbourne. No shade of pink tie will help me to forget.
4 months ago | 5
Dont vote dutton if you like 1. Livable wages 2. Medicare 3. Ndis 4. Having actual jobs.
4 months ago | 93
"Pharmacists: Confess Your Sins" Jordies. We have ALLLLLL of the stories.
4 months ago | 23
An older relative of mine go retrenched from her state based employment and got a massive redundancy payout. Two weeks later had the near identical job on a federal level. Worked it for 5 years and got a voluntary redundancy and was back a month later (after a holiday) as a consultant doing the same job and paid much more! Recently retired on defined benefits scheme!!! Apparently you can do this on the state based super if you keep putting into it!!!
4 months ago | 15
I got ya homie, i got two for ya (Sorry for the lack of detail, I like to work lmao). I work in a call centre for a certain dept. First one. I received a call and after my opening delivery, this man wanted to file an allegation .... this man wanted to have a woman deported due to her being in a relationship with his nephew and he didn't like that and explained that he didn't think she was a good fit for his nephew and that she was a bad influence (sounded like he was jealous). I had to explain to this man that not liking someone is a personal issue and not breaking any laws, the man sounded so defeated , but I couldn't help but laugh after the call. Second one, I received a call, and without missing a beat, directly after I said" hello and ", I get a "are ya white? And are you Australian?" I was gobsmacked, bamboozled even..... He continued with" because I called you guys and a coworker of yours doesn't speak English are you guys even located in Australia?" and proceeded to speak mock Chinese.... I just replied with "yes I'm Australian and yes I'm white but quite frankly sir that's racist", he replied "No it's not ". I had to explain to this man that called the number on our department website where in the world we where located, bloke was trying to convince me I was in Vietnam and lying to him..... Some days I realise why we have warning labels on things that are obvious.........
4 months ago (edited) | 17
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Peter Dutton has backflipped on his promise to cut the public service. But don't think you're safe, we all know how the Libs are with election promises. So.... Public Servants confess their sins. Tell us your craziest stories and sins from working in the public service before you lose your job.
4 months ago | [YT] | 5,913