the Devo thread!!
Far out!!!! ^^^
The Lord works in mysterious ways!!!!!
grrr so shitty, this week has be crap, and now stuck at work what was suppose to be 2 hours turned out in to 8 hours grrrrr.
over this crap;
Devo i had to leave the Gong today.
had a killer weekend, got loose as f*@k at 151 on friday night, cant remember a few things. i somehow cut my elbow, got splattered with blood on my shirt (the blood splatter is not consistent with the cut on my elbow so its not my blood, and a sore cheek (turns out i headbutted my best mate in the mosh pit (had a bigger death circle/mosh pit than most rock concerts i have been to)
sat night had one of my good mates engagement party in Campbelltown, rocked out there, went swimming in my undies, wore a garbage bag as shorts when someone hid my jeans, and was doing shots of Captain Morgan’s all night then when we run out me and my mates fiancée’s girlfriends started pumping down some goon and champagne.
Sunday consisted of sitting on my mum’s lounge for 7 hours fearing i was about to die/spew. then hit up South Beach for a swim, chicko’s for the 4th time in 2 days then north gong pub for some beers that didnt go down well at all…
Fuck i miss the place….
haha chickos! The schnitzel burgers are craaazy! Me and my husband go halves in one of them.
I have spent many a weekend trying to find a similar/equivilent schnitzel burger in melbourne. Nothing comes close…
Kinda getting homesick now.
Hahaahaa, the guys that own Chickos used to own the charcoal chicken here in the park!!!!!
Devo I can only skate on weekends! :(
Devo’ed government clerks have no idea about reality.
2 departments linked to the same system verbally tell me opposite things. I point out that bureaucratic red tape is making it difficult.
They tell me I have to not do my self employed work so I can attend their interviews because it isn’t considered work because over a 12 month period it shows a loss despite suppling them the evidence of $15,000 earned in two weeks and explaining how many hours I do per day self employed.
This argument goes on for 70 minutes despite it preventing me from getting to my part time job teaching drama.
I ask them to find me a job to fill the extra 11 hours a fortnight they require. To do this they want me to attend 2 hrs a week looking for work at their office instead of doing actual work for my business. For 20 years they have been required to find me a job and not offered me one interview. The agency only provide full time work opportunities.
This clerk asks me to provide evidence of me working! I respond by asking her to provide evidence that the person she phoned was actually a government agent - she can’t.
At the previous meeting she ordered me to provide her with details of all my clients, their contact details and children’s names (I didn’t).
The other agency told me I didn’t need to supply them with anything as it was logged into their system and would be evident on the other. When checked there was a problem with the way it was logged and they couldn’t access it. Again I was asked to provide evidence of me working.
I was accused of being difficult to deal with and refusing to meet my obligation.
I further explained the only way to meet their expected obligation was to lie to the system, forge documents and cook the books because trying to comply was impossible. I asked them if that was what they expected.
Again they accused me of being difficult.
Of course I’m being difficult! they are acting like bloody idiots!!! Who work in an idiotic system.
And please don’t ask why I just don’t stop receiving benefits. The money I receive in a year barely would cover what I need for fuel to get to the snow. And the reasons for having to comply are more complex than launching the space shuttle.
To do what is right I must stay on a system that makes it impossible to stay on by doing what is asked of them.
And then you get a job and all the recruitment agencies try to call you up and offer you different roles every month for the 1st year of your employment. You have no job and nothing, finally you get a job and you’re the most employable person on earth!
I’ve always had work just never a full time job.
I can only work 10 days a fortnight - no-one will employ on a full time basis with that. Not that the government understands.
And the government wont employ me because I can’t pass a physical - I’m coloured blind.
But I don’t qualify for disability.
It’s such a joke!
I can only work 10 days a fortnight - no-one will employ on a full time basis with that.
umm am i missing something here?
working 10 days a fortnight=a 5 day week
thats what 95%* of the working population do?
Why wont anyone employ you to work a normal 5 day week?
*obvioulsy an exaggeration but you get the idea
Colourblindness is hardly a disability…
and 10 days a fortnight is full time… At least I only work 5 days a week…
I can only work 10 days a fortnight - no-one will employ on a full time basis with that.
umm am i missing something here?
working 10 days a fortnight=a 5 day week
thats what 95%* of the working population do?
Why wont anyone employ you to work a normal 5 day week?
*obvioulsy an exaggeration but you get the idea
I can’t work Friday - Monday every second week. In a fortnight rotation = 8 working days.
Tj,
Colourblindness made Qantas pull me from a traineeship in Aeronautical engineering when I was 16.
Hoover then jumped on me to do a traineeship as an electrical engineer until (when about to hand me a contract) found out I was colourblind.
The head of Cityrail South wanted me to cheat the colourblind test so they could give me a manager position. I had to do 3 weeks sweeping platforms as part of the training but colourblindness rules out being able to work in any government dep that involves reading colour coded signals or signage.
The joke is that the government wants me to lie and cheat so they can ignore the bureaucracy.
To set things straight - I don’t want to be classed with a disability; or colourblindness to be considered as one.
These days there is little restriction placed on the work colourblind people can do but not +20years ago. (1 in 7 men are colourblind)
The bottom line is, no matter how colourful 
I write my CV;
I’m a 40 year old who has never had a full time job and can only do 8 working days a fortnight.
Back in the day I couldn’t even get a CAMS license to do circuit racing.
And I sure as hell couldn’t work in pit lane when I was offered a mechanical apprenticeship with Holdens Racing Team (that’s what followed after the Hoover letdown).