Mega Thread The Random Thoughts Thread Part 1

[Doctor Feel]

Come on Kokk - don't bail out in the first round.

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

I was a electronics sales manager for 5 years until I finished up my uni. I can tell you they are getting by, but by the skin of their teeth. They have gone some ways into cost cutting such as online orders direct from vendor, staff cut backs etc. etc. However they are fighting against the tide and the changes they are making are only mitigating rather than creating growth or profit.

I got given shares in the business when it had it's IPO around 1.5 years ago - I sold them immediately. Good choice too - they have not hit the price of the IPO since.

They are slowly making transitions to online only, decreasing the amount of stock on the floor and on hand. Problem is the staff are the ones copping it. The businesses cut back on wages for staff while increasing the volume of work required from every staff member. Boy am I glad I didn't entertain a career in retail.

Another manager who is a very bright dude, very intelligent. He got into retail when he was 16 or so, he was the dux of his school and had all options open to him - but he got a low level promotion early on and opted against university as he didn't know what he wanted to study. Now he is a manager getting paid fairly well, in fact I believe he is the highest paid store manager in the chain and he is only on 74k PA. He works 50+ hours every week and is under immense pressure with falling revenues and increasing targets. The issue with this is - his retail skills are only transferable to other retail jobs, and they are all in the same boat.

Genuinely feel sorry for him, a real wasted talent. He is locked down with a mortgage and a starfish for a wife who doesn't work (and hasn't since I've known him which is 7 years now) she is a little bit nuts so she can't interview well either. He went and married her, and he is younger than me at 24. Time is on his side, but everything else isn't.

Hope it works out well for him.

Damn .....yeah retail in Australia is dieing a slow death....

and your mate sounds like he is in a terrible situation .....if he is happy i guess it doesnt matter...

 

[BIG MATTY WHITE]

I miss those days when the AUD was on par with the USD I was buying guitar pedals from the states like one mad mudder fudder

Man it was a goooood ride

 

[Doctor Feel]

 

[Zakk Wylde]

I was a electronics sales manager for 5 years until I finished up my uni. I can tell you they are getting by, but by the skin of their teeth. They have gone some ways into cost cutting such as online orders direct from vendor, staff cut backs etc. etc. However they are fighting against the tide and the changes they are making are only mitigating rather than creating growth or profit.

I got given shares in the business when it had it's IPO around 1.5 years ago - I sold them immediately. Good choice too - they have not hit the price of the IPO since.

They are slowly making transitions to online only, decreasing the amount of stock on the floor and on hand. Problem is the staff are the ones copping it. The businesses cut back on wages for staff while increasing the volume of work required from every staff member. Boy am I glad I didn't entertain a career in retail.

Another manager who is a very bright dude, very intelligent. He got into retail when he was 16 or so, he was the dux of his school and had all options open to him - but he got a low level promotion early on and opted against university as he didn't know what he wanted to study. Now he is a manager getting paid fairly well, in fact I believe he is the highest paid store manager in the chain and he is only on 74k PA. He works 50+ hours every week and is under immense pressure with falling revenues and increasing targets. The issue with this is - his retail skills are only transferable to other retail jobs, and they are all in the same boat.

Genuinely feel sorry for him, a real wasted talent. He is locked down with a mortgage and a starfish for a wife who doesn't work (and hasn't since I've known him which is 7 years now) she is a little bit nuts so she can't interview well either. He went and married her, and he is younger than me at 24. Time is on his side, but everything else isn't.

Hope it works out well for him.

$74K per year at 24 is very good money.

But **** working 50+ hours per week for that money and without a car/phone/laptop etc.

 

[Doctor Feel]

$74K per year at 24 is very good money.

But **** working 50+ hours per week for that money and without a car/phone/laptop etc.

74k a year at 24 is alright, the hours are very long though with no fringe benefits and minimal chance of career progression. I'm on pretty much the same working 4 days a week with one day set aside for uni and I'm the same age. Contract comes up the end of next month - pay rise indicated, in which case i'm moving and buying my second house.

The workforce is becoming more and more knowledge based with far less jobs available for people without qualifications. It's bizarre though, because I've got a number of quals and they don't mean anything aside from the fact it displays that you can learn new things.

There are a lot of people who can offer plenty to a workplace that don't have qualifications, alas everything requires a degree these days aside from trades.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Oh god.

 

[Zakk Wylde]

Bruce just caught up with Thomas Chong out the back...

 

[Doctor Feel]

Bruce just caught up with Thomas Chong out the back...

Bit of a puff puff behind the shed. Now he is all like ayyy lmao

 

[Boss351]

Come on Kokk - don't bail out in the first round.

headline tomorrow if he loses

the Kokk prematurely withdrawals.............from Wimbledon

 

[SgtSchulz]

Is there any context to Bruce being in Trengroves house or vice versa?

 

[Doctor Feel]

Goodes' face...

 

[CrimsonRaven]

I've just watched the entire first season in a day and a half. Why do I relate so much to a 42 year old man with two kids?

 

[Dylan8]

I've just watched the entire first season in a day and a half. Why do I relate so much to a 42 year old man with two kids?

Great show

 

[Schulzenfest]

I've just watched the entire first season in a day and a half. Why do I relate so much to a 42 year old man with two kids?

Then you have the next four seasons to watch for the first time, in which case I envy you.

His stand-up is even better than the show too.

 

[Dylan8]

Not feeling True Detective season 2

I still don't really know who the characters are or the premise

God, McConaughey blew it out of the water in S1

 

[SilenceOz]

Not feeling True Detective season 2

I still don't really know who the characters are or the premise

God, McConaughey blew it out of the water in S1

Trying to get in to True Detective, season one, episode one.
Just some of the dialogue seems a little too forced, heard it is great though

 

[tribey]

Not feeling True Detective season 2

I still don't really know who the characters are or the premise

God, McConaughey blew it out of the water in S1

Cut your losses and watch Mean Girls and Wedding Crashers back to back.

If time travel and human cloning ever become a thing everyone, male or female, should get a prime Rachel McAdams.

 

[Magpiespower]

Not feeling True Detective season 2

I still don't really know who the characters are or the premise

God, McConaughey blew it out of the water in S1

Unfortunately, I reckon a-lot of the criticisms out there are pretty valid.

All that aside, I could've done without a whole yawning (first) episode of set-up.

Since it's set in LA, it really felt like a poor man's Michael Mann...

 

[Magpiespower]

Day/night test cricket at Adelaide Oval... OVER HER DEAD BODY!!!

#NorthAdelaide
#NIMBY

 

[Jumbo]

Day/night test cricket at Adelaide Oval... OVER HER DEAD BODY!!!

#NorthAdelaide
#NIMBY

ahhhhhhhhhh, kill it with fire

 

[raman]

The tragic thing is I have an auntie who is also named Anne Moran and she is perfectly lovely (and a Port supporter)

 

[Boss351]

Day/night test cricket at Adelaide Oval... OVER HER DEAD BODY!!!

#NorthAdelaide
#NIMBY

Silent Hill needs a new freak

 

[chiwigi]

I've just watched the entire first season in a day and a half. Why do I relate so much to a 42 year old man with two kids?

Because the underlying truth is that we are all going to end up in a similar situation one way or another when all the bullshit and lies we tell ourselves are stripped away.

 

[Byrons Firen]

Day/night test cricket at Adelaide Oval... OVER HER DEAD BODY!!!

#NorthAdelaide
#NIMBY

Ah little Miss Nth Adelaide,with an opinion on everything and right every time.
You doubt me?
ask her, she'll tell you
the sort of person like Graham Cornes that would insist on having the last word with an echo