I don’t care about low speed limits.
I care about speed traps where the limit is clearly set too low for the road and you get induced to go over easy as.
That along with a thousand road signs telling you different things.
I live one top of a hill and there is regularly a speed camera car that sets up just around the corner where it gets cars that go over the 50kph on the downhill. Whenever I see it parked there on my way home I park my car directly behind it as close as possible and then walk home around the corner. Go back 15 minutes later and it is gone.
It’s a fun game we play.
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My best Mate was CEO at VicRoads and every gathering of friends he would cop it roundly about speed limits.
So he rocked up one time with his laptop with a traffic flow computer program that VicRoads uses to “optimise” traffic flow. It showed that lowering speed to 80 kph on freeways improved traffic flow most times of the day.
Now Gazza was a clever bloke, highly qualified civil engineer, had worked at VicRoads all his life and believed what he said. Of course the rest of us were smarter, and couldn’t accept it, as the reality is that the computer model assumes all Drivers have the same brain.
Not all heroes wear capes
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Recruiters who waste your time.
Seriously?
Is too hard to:
- Get your ■■■■ together before you start a process.
- Not lie about something that you ■■■■■■ up.
- Gaslight people.
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4…That you actually had a job in the first place.
5… That I spoke to you about 18m ago about a role at this company unrelated to the role I’ve just started so no, you don’t farking qualify for a finder’s fee…
There’s plenty I could say about recruiters… Mum always taught me that if you can’t say something nice, then say nothing. So in this case I’ll say absolutely nothing…
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After saying I was out of the process, they’ve now asked me to recommence my interviews…
FFS
And these clowns are going to make a ■■■■ load off placing anyone in the role.
recruiters are ■■■■ until you become involved with a good one, then they can work incredibly well for you.
Like HR… or Project Managers…
You have to deal with 99 useless ones, until you find a good one. And when you do find a good one, by jesus don’t you know it…
Agreed.
I have one that is a rock star, but she doesn’t necessarily get the jobs I am interested in.
Most others it’s simply a numbers game, just throwing candidates into the meat grinder.
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I did recruitment for a short time, or rather we were called Management Consultants. The three owners were Accountants and they were so shifty. Mostly we did executive recruitment in the banking industry and all the jobs were very high paying and we charged 30% of the package as our fee, so it was very lucrative. Even with my dubious morals, I could not handle the dishonesty in the way this industry operated.
We would recruit someone for a trading position in a private bank, and after a few months would sell the body again to another firm who were looking for a similar role for a cut of their commission. Absolute shanks.
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I’m still annoyed at my Grade 6 classmates who voted me “Most Likely To Hold A Grudge”.
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Obviously they never knew me…which is logical because I wasn’t in your grade.
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Banks are absolutely full of wankers at head office.
So many taking a large suck on the corporate teat for questionable value.
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Back in the day, the CBA used to have live staff Q and A’s televised.
Someone phoned in and said, ‘you’re being paid more than 20 senior loan officers (back when that was a thing), are you seriously suggesting even ten SLO’s couldn’t do what you do?’
He was most affronted.
It was back in late 1980s just before the “Financial Crisis” and these private banks were involved in high end lending. We had a job with Banque Nationale de Paris to find a Lender, and salary was $600,000. Most applicants had recently left University and some had a few years experience in Bank Lending and Trading. As someone who had just left working with a Large Industrial Company as a Middle Manager earning less than $100,000, I was not impressed with any of these blokes, but amazed at the levels of responsibility that they had. One candidate who was a recent graduate in Economics at Monash was working at ANZ, and I asked him his authority for lending levels. He casually said 500, which I assumed was $500,000, nope it was $500 million. He proudly told us of do a lending deal with Chris Skase !
I think they work on the assumption that if they pay someone $500K, then their output is worth $500K. A major error.
Thankfully I only have to head into the city once a week. Homeless has increased and it just stinks like the sewer.
They just erase the zeros when talking about a deal, an army of analysts run the numbers of anything anyway.
Retail bankers in particular are some of the most overpaid bunch of spuds around.
As are the various hangers on in every type of support function available.
Only in a big 4 bank would you pay a HR manager 7 figures simply for sitting above a bunch more.
The genuinely competitive stuff in investment banking, trading? Yeah they make obscene amounts of money too - but the work is also very difficult.
Thats not the sort of work our fat retail banks do. The only thing making their life miserable/difficult is the shark pen they put themselves in with other greedy souls out for their job.
They write mortgages, have some of the most protections in the world from the regulator to protect their risk of default(ie us).
Its not rocket science.
More people need to switch lenders to make them compete.
I finally found an actual proper barber locally. Not one of these overpriced hipster fade joints. I went there today and there’s a sign on the window, “Thanks for being my customers over the last 50 years, I’ve enjoyed serving every one of you. Unfortunately it’s time to pull the pin” dated Fri 29th March 2025
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