KFC isn’t BBQ food would be the problem I have with it. Same goes for Tofu
Anytime is a good time for a bucket
I find their very existence heinous.
Great post, but look out. Everyone will come for you now. Any time now…
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No because thankfully you were brave enough to call it out so it didn’t happen.
Courageous.
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Tofu isnt food and i have no idea how or why people eat it.
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Hey everyone. Would love to hear any and all advice for someone who’s recently embarked on a career change from blue collar to white collar work.
I’m now working as a recruiter for a labour hire company (previously worked as a scaffolder). It’s an environment that I’m unfamiliar with so I don’t know what to expect nor do I have a point of comparison so it’s difficult for me to make heads or tails of what goes on. With that in mind, this line of inquiry goes out to the seasoned veterans of the corporate world.
I’ve asked my boss to give me some structure about what to expect over the next month, 3 months and 6 months. I need to see a game plan. I want to know what I’m going to be doing, how I’m going to be taught it, what is expected of me, what my goals are and of course, what I can be expect to be earning as well as any other relevant detail.
Currently, I don’t have any of that. I’m pretty much in the dark on all of this and the lack of structure is driving me nuts.
Now the obvious solution is to sit down and have a conversation with my boss - which I’ll be doing this week. But please be aware blitzers, I am not seeking advice. What I’m seeking is people’s thoughts on my experiences and whether or not my boss has dropped the ball. What’s the etiquette in these circumstances? Personally, I am very suprised that we haven’t sat down and created a clear roadmap as to where I’m going with my career progression and my earnings potential - but is that asking too much? Maybe it is. I don’t know. How am I to know given that I’m only two months into this role?
It’s not that I feel I deserve special treatment but given that there’s only 6 of us and I’ve already been told I’m a big part of the company’s future, I thought we’d be all over this.
For the record, I feel obligated to say that my boss is a cracking bloke and has offered up a lot of support in other areas.
Have at ‘er, blitz. Am I being reasonable or am I setting the bar too high?
Thanks in advance, you bunch of legends!
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how big is the whole company (no of employees) and how many layers exist between you and the top
if the answers are <50ish and <2-3, your boss is going to have no fkn idea at all how to answer those questions. not through negligence or ignorance - they’ll just have never thought about any role in that kind of detail for you.
vibes-based instead of certainty will frustrate you for a while by the sounds of it, but you may have to learn to live with it a bit.
i’ve just started a new job, i got headhunted by a company who (correctly) heard rumours i was “exploring options” and they created a role for me. answers to the above questions are 31 and 0. if i asked the owner for that kind of roadmap i’m fairly certain she’d say “wtf are you on about”
that said, i asked her in my sham interview “hypothetical: 12 months from now, we’re sitting here and you’re happy as larry that you got me in and you want to give me a raise. what’s happened in the meantime?” in a fairly rambly answer, i picked up enough clues as to what she’s envisioning. from that i’ve been able to piece together a rough “3 month, 6 month, resources i’ll need” plan for myself. if i’ve made any incorrect assumptions in there i’m sure i’ll hear about it at some point.
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The secret of white collar workers is Copilot is our best friend. You should make it yours as well.
… the ABC documentary “Utopia”. But maybe that only applies to the PS.
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I’ve always found it’s best to chart your own future (and that of the team you lead) and also for anyone reporting to me that comes up with what they want, and how I can help them get there…it’s so much easier to help them
Once you have settled in, you’ll see where the big opportunities for you and the business are. Share these insights with your boss, and if possible suggest some things you’d like to try differently.
Also, find out what your bosses KPIs are. If you can help them achieve whatever that is, they will be forever thankful.
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We had family from NSW visiting and they are massive NRL fans. Last night we had an interesting discussion about Rugby Union and Soccer, where the suggestion was that if AFL and NRL didn’t exist then Australia would dominate Rugby Union and Soccer if all those great athletes who play AFL and NRL could only play those games.
I listened hard and some of the arguments were very compelling especially for Rugby, but I was not so sure about soccer.
What do any of you sporting experts (as all us Bomber supporter are) think ?
Unless you are built like a tank, Rugby isn’t a option, if no AFL, I think Soccer would be the dominate sport.
Its a theory that is why good bowlers come from NSW and QLD, those tall skinny guys can’t play Rugby so concentrate on Cricket, where in the southern states, those same tall skinny guys can play footy.
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No doubt rugby front rowers have bulk, and all are muscled but if you look at Billy Slater and players like him , there are many AFL stars who fit his physique.
Suppose a difficulty is if there was no then boys and girls would be all playing soccer and rugby from a very early age and the skills would be much greater. I could see Walla, Rioli, Ablett Jr and other small forwards scoring goals and Pendlebury type being good centres or defenders.
Anyway, sort of dumb discussion but interesting what if ?
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There’s plenty of front rower types in junior footy, but they fall by the wayside as it gets more serious. No place for them in footy at a higher grade.
Not so with rugby. They wouldn’t simply age out of the game.
if we’re talking “never existed”, then union would be roughly where it is now, and soccer is probably the dominant sport
the cultural entrenchment of footy and league in aus the early 1900s can mostly be attributed to class divide and the establishment of national identity. the growth of footy/league was about the working class rebelling against the english identity because they were “our” games and not “theirs”. remove those, and then it’s just class divide. in the early 1900s there wasn’t enough of an upper class population to sustain a spread of union, so it wouldn’t have taken hold in the same way that footy/league did. soccer has always been seen as a working class activity so that would have spread instead.
would we now be world beaters? would have depended on how we went against england in the pre-wwi era. if we just got stomped by them, then there wouldn’t have been the motivation of rebelling against the english identity to drive the growth of the sport. if we’d matched or beaten them, then similar to cricket it would have then been tied to the establishment of our national identity.
now let’s really into simmo’s schizo thinking patterns
in my opinion (and probably mine only) if we never had initial success vs the poms in cricket/league/etc pre-wwi, then i think we would have latched on to olympic success as part of our national identity, which steers us away from team sports being a dominant subculture in favour of individual pursuits (athletics etc). if we’d gone the 1900s valuing the success of the individual instead of the collective on the sporting field, then as a nation we would have bought just as hard into the myth of “rugged individualism” perpetuated during the cold war/nixon/reagan/thatcher era and economic inequality would be even way more fked than it is now.
OK, maybe that is true about rugby, but then if all the elite players were into soccer, where would Australia be in world rankings. Certainly that players from both NRL and AFL have skills to adapt to other sports and good coaching would happen.
imo we’d have followed a similar trajectory to brazil. consistent top 5 in the 70s-90s, but everyone else caught up and now we’d be hovering 5th-15th
If League and Rules were never invented, then I find it difficult to believe Australia wouldnt at least be as good as Germany.
I can’t think of a reason why not.
And we’d have won the World Cup in the nineties.
Edit: not all League and Rules body types convert to soccer. Your Nelson’s and your Sandilands’s’s.
But plenty do.
You imagine players like Ingliss, Slater, Long, McLeod, Martin (and yes, there’s a theme there), being brought through an incredibly strong 25 team National League, (and extremely good state league feeders) playing since they were four with as much love for the game as they had for their respective sports…
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