When I worked at the servo I was working in a fairly ethnic area, so we got a lot of people coming in that I could barely understand asking for smokes etc. One day I was on shift with a much older colleague and a man of Middle Eastern descent came in, he was quite young looking and couldn't really speak English. He brought in an imported Marlboro carton and was gesturing to the ciggie cabinet that he wanted cigs. For some reason I thought he was too young and didn't know what brand of cigs to get so was just getting these ones (or something like that), so I asked him for ID. He had no idea what I was asking, and at that point I realised that I'd made a mistake and he just couldn't speak English - not that he was nervous about being underage or whatever. I began going to get the cigs when my coworker came over and said that I couldn't do it and that he must produce ID or not be served. Turned into a 10min back and forth of just wanting cigs and no he must produce ID etc. So off he went, then came back 20mins later (had walked home and back) with an overseas drivers license showing that he was mid 20's or so. My colleague refused to accept it or let me sell him his smokes, so he went off in search of another servo.Not having a driver's license has made some things tricky in NSW. I needed an rsa (license to sell booze) and because I only had a passport they weren't sure I could get it! Try buying cold and flu pills...a pharmacist even knocked back my passport. People unable to think outside the guidelines. Photo id = license so nothing else will do.
When I lived on Campus at Uni they made me a senior res of one of the dorms - no training or nothing I just got a sweet room. But because of the title I had to get a blue card for working with kids, since one of the blokes in the dorm was 17 for a couple of months.You need a 'working with children check' to work in a school, it costs money that you later claim back in tax.
You need a 'working with children check' to coach or manage a kids sports team, you can get it for free online. There are (or used to be) exemptions if you were a parent of one of the kids in the team.
A 'working with children check' merely checks you don't have a criminal history that makes you 'dangerous' to kids. All of a sudden everyone is a presumed pedophile, and only the ones that have been charged can't work with kids.
That's just on the egg shell, it's not on the inside lmao.How often do you buy eggs at the supermarket with a bit of shit or feather on the shell? Happened to me today, lovely arse feather it was and a darn tasty egg.
that's the impression I get from the regulation too that it is more about protecting large egg companies than it is about protecting the health of the individual.I know about this one, my olds used to sell "home grown organic goodness etc etc" eggs to the hipster cafes in Castlemaine, but eventually gave it away as it got all too hard. The commercial egg industry is freakign huge and is very very good at lobbying governments for regulations that knock off such competition. Not that my olds would be a blip on their radar, but they like all industries are mighty protective of their patch.
With most bureaucracy I can see what might be the reasoning behind it, even if the implementation is retarded. But this one, only seems retarded, do pens explode when packed with notebooks?While travelling in Russia my partner wanted to send some note books and pens to her nephews in poland. We had to unpack everything and re pack it because you are unable to send writing instruments and paper together in the same package.
Its Russia, the reasons are probably forgotten and irrelevant and the only important thing is enforcing them. Its probably a carry over from communist days when supplies were heavily regulated and controlled and everything could be seen to be used to aid dissent.With most bureaucracy I can see what might be the reasoning behind it, even if the implementation is retarded. But this one, only seems retarded, do pens explode when packed with notebooks?
In NSW you still need to go to the whatever the rta is now and get final ticks for it, even as a volunteer. This was one of my "but you don't have a license..." moments. I'm not here to answer questions about my lifestyle you fat fuck, just accept the passport already. Oh really? I need other photo id to back up a fucking passport????????? Can't wait until they start saying that at the airport!You need a 'working with children check' to work in a school, it costs money that you later claim back in tax.
You need a 'working with children check' to coach or manage a kids sports team, you can get it for free online. There are (or used to be) exemptions if you were a parent of one of the kids in the team.
A 'working with children check' merely checks you don't have a criminal history that makes you 'dangerous' to kids. All of a sudden everyone is a presumed pedophile, and only the ones that have been charged can't work with kids.
No.tubby it was obviously a clot in a vein . If it was an artery that bit would die and drop off.
Yep, I know that pain. I moved stuff back from the USA when I returned to Oz.When I moved back to Australia from the UK, I self-shipped my stuff back by sea. Bills of lading etc. I handled all of this paperwork well enough, and my stuff turned up at the Sydney docks when expected. I turned up to get my stuff early in the morning to claim my pallet, and so began a comedy of stuffing around. First they couldn't find it, then they did find it, then they decided they wanted to do an inspection. Each step required a 2 hour interval on a day I had expected to be at work. They decided a fine dusting of dirt on my MBT tyres (which had been washed and scrubbed of loose dirt and mud) merited disinfecting the entire bike at my cost. Wouldn't let me just throw them away either, because rules. No real place to wait while these losers messed around either, so I basically had to hang around the dock area. When they did release my stuff, I had to personally chase up a forklift driver to move my stuff from the customs area to the pick up area, and pay for that as well. It was the perfect combination of disrespectful, disorganised and dumb.
I left at about 3pm absolutely furious, having been dicked around by a decent cross-section of worthless douchebags who will be first up against the walll when the revolution comes. I hope they all get replaced by robots ASAP.
Have you seen some of the shit pens have written? No womder they want to keep them apart!While travelling in Russia my partner wanted to send some note books and pens to her nephews in poland. We had to unpack everything and re pack it because you are unable to send writing instruments and paper together in the same package.
Not enough.You Street sign hating folk know that we are putting lights in the road at busy intersections to prevent the pedestrians from crossing into traffic while walking and playing on their phones? Yes...it's fucking true. How many people have really been nailed doing this?