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Yes it was the doco I saw at the Nova a few months ago. If you enjoyed ‘The Corporation’ and the people interviewed then go to your Video store and get out (it should be released by now) ‘OutFoxed’ on DVD. Equally as compelling. Whatever your views are on Rupert, you’ll never view him the same way again.
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Gatsby!Rob,
with your wide knowledge base (not just as a broker) where would you recommend?
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Gatsby.If the hundreds of thousands in Darfur in Sudan who have been murdered, raped and lost everything had a TV tonight, I wonder what they may be feeling? If 15 million can be created in 2 hours then how much longer must they wait?
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Gatsby.I’ve just finished watching ‘Donny Brasco’ on TV tonight. I’m just waiting for my boss to find out in 10 days. I feel like Donny Brasco now after having watched it. When the Union feels that they have another ‘win’ to their name and the Dept feels that they have ended the conflict, I think I’ll have to leave my job. The Dept don’t have a ‘witness protection program’ for their employees. (There is no humour implied in this post).
Gatsby.Hi landt64,
thanks for your reply. You are right. I feel a bit like the meat in the sandwich (between my employer and the union). It’s on my mind all the time and you’ve hit it on the head. I don’t really think I could go back after this is resolved. Yet if I don’t it will look bad for my case, as if I’m doing a runner. The irony is that you already feel burnt out from the continual abuse and to speak up you find that there is so much you must do to protect yourself and prepare for your situation when you are at your most vulnerable. I just wish it was over now. However I will stay the distance and worry about work environment, employment etc later on down the track. I’m just trying to take it one step at a time. I don’t even want to do this and since I’m the only one coming forward it’s like the bully will believe ‘she is the victim’ and rally around with as many staff as she can who she bullies and because they are in fear of her they will agree to whatever she wants to hear. That way she will feel she is in the right.
Thanks again,
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Gatsby!Simon if you are the first broker accreditted in the country with this Finance group then have you written out any loans thus far? What is their criteria, restrictions and flexibility like on loans comparable with current conforming bank lenders, etc.
Many thanks in advance.
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Gatsby.Hi Bonnie,
I haven’t carried out a search on Forrestfield. However I will soon be looking into WA. I’m currently tied up in a massive work issue which is currently taking up most of my time and mental energy. Hopefully this will be resolved soon so I can move on. If I find anything on Forrestfield in my WA search I will keep you posted. Good luck!
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Gatsby!Hi jonbren,
Firstly, I am by far no expert for advice but I would like to add for a start. The fact you and your wife are both committed to the ‘same goal’ means that you are both opening up lots of opportunities. If you work as a team you will double up on everything and can half the work load at the same time. The only minefield you can get caught up in is doing nothing for fear of the mines? Make a plan with your wife and go! At least you have each other to keep each other accountable to follow through. The only bad decision in life is never making one.
Good luck!
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Gatsby!Dear Byronet,
Again many thanks!
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Gatsby.To everyone who has replied I just want to give you a huge hug and thank you for your support and offers of advise. I’ve just got back from work (which felt like I was just going through the motions in a daze). However, my union rep phoned me this morning. She told me that she had spoken to the area manager of our region (Eastern Melbourne) and they were very keen to meet with me for a meeting. I attended the meeeting with my boss’ manager, the area manager and my union rep. I discovered why my boss has been informing myself (and other colleagues) why we are not to contact senior management. My boss has been reprimanded for nepotism by giving too many extra shifts to her sister and management asked my boss why wasn’t I interested in the extra work! When I told management that my boss told me that ‘management’ had approved her sister to work in place of me (all on public holidays, penalty shifts, etc.) management was taken aback and they then asked me to go on the record under the department’s ‘whistle blower’s act’. I did feel that I had the support of senior management. I also discovered that my boss has been putting her name to all the work that she has delegated to me (eg. client reports, pharmacological research, etc). I brought in photocopies of rosters where my boss had put in her sister to work where I was denied these shifts. I told management that I was not prepared to work alone when my boss returns from holiday to abuse me. I was reassured that if this happens (and belive me it will!) then I am to phone anyone from the head of the Eastern region downwards (which I would do anyway). My supervisor who is currently on holiday has been ringing me to see how the house is running and if the staff are doing as ‘they’ are instructed! I informed management that I will only go ahead if they do not mention anything about the meeting today until my boss is to return back to work on the 17th of this month. I think I learned more about what my boss has been up to from management than what I already suspected what she had been covering up.
I’m surprised that, in one way I am dreading when she finds out, yet I somehow feel a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
I am not over estimating my boss. She is paranoid (almost to the point of clinical) and over the years everytime I have tactfully tried to breach my concerns with her, the reply I have always received is that ‘I am not coping with work!’ Any suggestion of telling her that she cannot see anything from someone else’s perspective is met with strong defensive denial and seen as ‘how dare you!’. I also feel bad in that outside of a work environment she can be the complete opposite so I’m trying at the moment to struggle with a sense of betrayal on that level. From her stand point, the thought of remaining friends would be akin to heresey in her book. This I’m not concerned about. I am concerned because I know she will not be able to cope with what I’m doing and I’m concerned about how far she will go as pay back. Ironically, today I was told by management that her monozygotic twin sister who is pinching all my shifts was ALSO charged with bullying by her entire staff. My boss justifies how ‘hard done by’ her sister has been treated and has used this excuse to give her my shifts! As I work on my own it is very stressful as I don’t have staff support with me and I don’t want the other staff dragged into this who work there to be bullied as they don’t have the confidence that I do to blow the whistle act and take it as far as I am although they all have spoken to me about how they are treated.
pbatey thanks (and to everyone!) for your advise and as an added precaution I will be in touch with Work Cover and our Union’s solicitors as I know she will ‘believe in her mind’ that she is the ‘victim’ of a conspiracy campaign when she returns. I also don’t want to be at the risk of the Dept. leaving me hung out to dry when they feel the problem has ended. Most likely she will be moved and I don’t care what she says about me but I’m concerned that the Dept will not be able to control her against any pay back from her towards me.
I’ve taken home today all the communication books and will photocopy every entry she has documented to support my case showing obvious lies, threats/bullying to staff and myself. I wish this person no ill whatsoever but I feel I started out with her with the hide of an elephant which over time now has been reduced to thin paper. I have doctors reports where I had to go out on stress leave due to her last year and everything is recorded (she still cannot believe that it may have been related to her and actual offered to do anything to help!!!!)
Anyway, again many thanks for your kind words. I’ve just got to stay focused for 10 more days and deal with it when it really begins.
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Gatsby!Dear landt,
Thanks for your concern. I work in a residential setting with 5 people with psych/intellectual disabilities on my own. You are right and I am recording any conversation and the time, date, etc with my boss. My problem is that I cannot leave my residents on their own if (when!) my boss comes in to abuse me. I phoned my union rep today and she is phoning my bosses manager tomorrow to tell her exactly what you have advised (great advice). Working on my own makes it difficult compared to working in an office for example with witnesses, however something will be worked out. My other concerns are for the people who I look after and I don’t want them to see me walk out or for them to see my boss come in and make a huge scene and scare them so I feel obliged to stay. Never the less, I will do as you have rightly stated which is what my union rep has told me (ie inform her manager that if this situation continues/occurs then I am to phone her and leave). Many thanks for your support and advice.
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Gatsby
ps. I don’t in anyway mean to come across in a sexist sense, but if my boss was male I know I wouldn’t feel so threatened. The field I work in is 90% female and most bullying cases tend to be males bullying females (the other way around). It’s as if because I’m a male then why should I feel bullied if you know what I mean. Male or female, my boss is just on one huge power trip and she knows it with me.Aussierogue,
I saw a doco titled ‘The Corporation’ a couple of months ago at an Indy arthouse cinema. Not sure if it’s what you are referring to on SBS however it was very enlightning.
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Gatsby!Hi JackHu,
Is Kesslerskeystosuccess, etc ‘Ernie Kessler’ by any chance? A friend and I saw him at a conference about 4 years ago in Melbourne. He’s now dead. No disrespect to the dearly departed but I always remembered him because my friend and I who saw him always had an in joke about Ernie. He had the EXACT SAME VOICE of ‘Ernie’ from Sesame St’s, ‘Bert and Ernie’ (I’m being serious). At the conference I told him my name was Bert and he would literally say ‘Hey Bert?’ and I’d reply ‘What’s that Ernie’. He gave a great sales pitch where he would say who wants to earn x amount of dollars a month for free and as the hands went up he would put the spot light on those people and they were herded off and signed up for commission selling. I wonder though if those people ever got to see there commission once he passed away?
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Gatsby!Rob,
That’s a great point you’ve raised. It’s a bit like ‘save the children’ syndrome. I’ve never understood that. What does that mean? You reach a certain age and then you’re off the ‘love list?’ I think we should love people of all ages or forget it. I mean think about it! What if you die and you’re not a child?
Picture people locking arms around a cemetery and a hearse rocks up.
“She can’t come in”.
“She was 96!”.
“No, she’s not a child”.
“What do you mean, she was hit by a bus.”
(next you hear an anti abortionist yelling out)
“THERE’S OPTIONS!”
“What do you mean, we have to get her stuffed?”.
Yes life was different when I was a child. Who would have thought we’d have the internet? When I was a child we were poor. When I was a child we had it tough! I had to wake up at 10 0’clock in the morning, half an hour before I went to bed, go down the mine and work 29 hours a day and come home and get thrashed to bed with a broken bottle and then our parents would kill us and dance on our grave dancing ‘Alleluiah’ if we were lucky!
And you know what the saddest thing is? You try and tell the young people of today that and ‘they wouldn’t believe you!’.
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Gatsby!Hi Rebecca2,
The tablets are called Alcodol. I’ve tried them. You take them before you start drinking, then 2 while your drinking and 2 the next morning. They were great. No hangover! Now I go to Alcodol’s Anonymous!
Rob,
I tried drinking the next day but eventually the hangover catches up with you. Now I just limit my drinking to weekends. I start on Sunday and finish on Saturday. Try it. You get no hangover and for some reason you feel pretty good all week.
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Gatsby!Speaking of ‘marks’, my armpits have healed up quite nicely!
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Gatsby!I received in the mail a flyer for a practicaly free mobile phone provider. The only thing was that you can’t use the no.5 button. So I got scammed into signing up. A week later some of my friends started phoning me and wondered why I never phoned them anymore. “I can’t phone just anyone I want, my phone has no 5’s”. Then I was asked how long have I had the phone. “I don’t know, my calendar has no 7’s!”
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Gatsby!Sonja,
I’m finding applying the Lamisal cream on my tongue to treat the affected areas the most challenging.
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Gatsby!Ditto what Property Guru said.
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Gatsby.Hi femaleage 20,
I like ‘Your Mortgage’as it doesn’t just cover ‘the best mortgage’, etc, but many aspects relating to property and property investing.
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Gatsby!
