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Forum: The Update Forum
Sep 25th 2009, 9:57 pm
Replies: 65
Views: 7,262
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Look at the time!

Hi
Not related to Arthur Scargill are you by any chance ? !

Anyway....there was no medical certificate produced but no doubt she could have got one easy. In the end it was the owners decision...
Forum: The Update Forum
Sep 24th 2009, 9:56 pm
Replies: 65
Views: 7,262
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Look at the time!

P'raps not, but isn't it more likely those that have lived and worked in Oz and experienced this scenario would p'raps understand it ?
Forum: The Update Forum
Sep 24th 2009, 9:38 pm
Replies: 65
Views: 7,262
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Look at the time!

So 2 replies from people in Oz who like me "don't get it".

Say I'm a "user" who takes sickies as they come along and only have 2 sick days left in the year - but bugger I have a major stomach bug...
Forum: The Update Forum
Sep 24th 2009, 8:17 pm
Replies: 65
Views: 7,262
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Look at the time!

Bumping this thread 'cos I never did get an answer to this:

My husband takes his sick whether he is sick or not. His salary is calculated in such a way that he actually pays for his sick days so...
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 24th 2009, 8:06 pm
Replies: 6
Views: 653
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: IT Related Jobs

Judging by the grammatical errors in the question, I'd say you'd better stick to any Oz city rather than Bangalore! - Joke !
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 20th 2009, 9:44 pm
Replies: 526
Views: 17,371
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: UK & Australian Music

Those Bee Gees knew summink methinks......

Same reason AC.DC had to get the hell outta Oz to have a career beyond 5 minutes.

Oz immigration, border control and work relations would not let...
Forum: The Barbie
Sep 19th 2009, 10:08 pm
Replies: 107
Views: 5,484
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Anti-social youth in UK....really that bad?

I'll tell you a good honest truth about UK kids......

My 13 year old stood for 4 hours today outside a busy intersection at some shops in his full air cadet uniform collecting money for the RAF...
Forum: The Update Forum
Aug 27th 2009, 10:19 pm
Replies: 65
Views: 7,262
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Look at the time!

You found it weird....now you don't, so I guess you understand how it works.
Please explain for us simpletons!
Forum: The Update Forum
Aug 27th 2009, 10:12 pm
Replies: 65
Views: 7,262
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Look at the time!

This is exactly my point......and why bloody call it sick days if you know full well people will take all of it each year regardless ? How can you measure the fitness of your staff and if anyone...
Forum: The Update Forum
Aug 25th 2009, 9:30 pm
Replies: 65
Views: 7,262
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Look at the time!

I am totally intrigued - please explain how this works. How can a salary be calculated that takes in to account someone taking or not taking sick days.

I have a professional interest in...
Forum: The Update Forum
Aug 24th 2009, 9:26 pm
Replies: 65
Views: 7,262
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Look at the time!

Good news on how the job is panning out. Can I ask will you defo take the 10 days sick or only when you actually are sick. I never understood the sick entitlement when my staff told me they were...
Forum: Australia
Jul 22nd 2009, 9:21 pm
Replies: 73
Views: 7,424
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: First visit home - feeling confused

We re-adjusted by moving back to the UK.

Now, wherever I go for whatever reason, I take note of my wonderfull surroundings I did not know I would miss until I did not have them anymore.

In this...
Forum: Australia
Jul 13th 2009, 10:04 pm
Replies: 477
Views: 37,146
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Is Australia an oversold country?

Horses for courses.....On coming back to the UK, if you took my salary on leaving Oz and convert to GBP it is near half what I am paid now and I didn't earn peanuts in Oz neither. I worked outside...
Forum: Australia
Jul 13th 2009, 9:54 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 793
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Should I get HDMI cable before moving to Oz?

......just to be safe....take all the cables you can.....and some electricity too.....then wait.....Oooooooooooooo......25 years and you might get a decent TV programme.

:D:rofl:
Forum: Australia
Jul 9th 2009, 7:00 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 5,380
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Are pensioners generally better off in Australia compared to the UK?

Of course it is. You only have to spend some time working with Australians in Australia to know that doing any work is easy to get around.......
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 8th 2009, 11:48 pm
Replies: 67
Views: 4,890
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Greatest Rock star of all time

Question asked for greatest rock star.......had it been pop star then that goes to MJ no question.

So...rock star....no surprise from me...BON SCOTT.

His lyrics
His life

I wonder how much...
Forum: Australia
Jul 7th 2009, 10:30 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 5,380
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Are pensioners generally better off in Australia compared to the UK?

I am similar age to you.

Spent 3 years in Oz.......and now realise how much I value my mates, who I look forward to growing old disgracefully with, rather than me being 12000 miles away trying to...
Forum: Australia
Jul 7th 2009, 10:25 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 5,380
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Are pensioners generally better off in Australia compared to the UK?

No

My uncle emigrated to Oz in the 60s...he is in his 70's now.

All his brothers and sisters are in the UK
All his friends from his youth are in the UK
He lost his wife, who cared for him as...
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 7th 2009, 10:10 pm
Replies: 63
Views: 3,286
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Parents - your thoughts on the Aussie Primary Education System

I'll express my opinion as UK>Australia

This is based on experience of three Oz schools, one of which was private
and two UK schools both state.

Now, education in the UK is TOTALLY different...
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 3rd 2009, 10:58 pm
Replies: 10
Views: 926
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: who wins the ' I live miles away from nowhere' competition ?

I used to 10 mins from Wollongong......that's pretty remote...outback...middle of nowhere...... and miles from civilisation of any sort.
Forum: The Barbie
Jul 3rd 2009, 10:07 pm
Replies: 2
Views: 468
Posted By Olibeneli

The future of that "housing dream" in Southern NSW

An interesting article about a beautiful area that could be raped by development and following that some reactions from locals that show a very mixed bag of opinions. The area needs houses, jobs and...
Forum: Australia
Jul 3rd 2009, 9:34 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 4,545
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: There is something I've missed. I know its sad but it's online shopping

...everywhere in australia is the back of beyond.......i did not want to trawl from shop to shop....'cos there was so little choice....it was Hardly Normals or Sick Smith.....great.
Forum: Australia
Jul 2nd 2009, 10:32 pm
Replies: 52
Views: 4,545
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: There is something I've missed. I know its sad but it's online shopping

Online shopping in Oz ?............complete and utter shite.

I lived and worked in the Illawarrra...went online to buy a fax machine.


Of the very few results that google threw up, the best...
Forum: Australia
Jul 2nd 2009, 10:19 pm
Replies: 477
Views: 37,146
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Is Australia an oversold country?

Can I throw this in to the pot.

Recall that "best job in the world" to be caretaker up in the barrier reef ?

Long before the job got taken I told most anyone who was interested that the job...
Forum: Australia
Jun 24th 2009, 10:43 pm
Replies: 477
Views: 37,146
Posted By Olibeneli

Re: Is Australia an oversold country?

I've no idea...my neighbours live too far away.
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