Like your thinking, crim! Sort of matches mine when in a black mood, I hope they chop down every last tree in Tassie. They should get what they voted for.

And bring back conscription - Iraq needs more troops and we ain’t got enough to do the job properly.

*sigh*

Tony, couldn’t bring myself to leave beautiful Brisvegas but I might give you a call in a few weeks when the thesis is out of my hair about whether anything’s happening here in town along the same lines.

The work is 2 and possibly 3 day’s first year teaching in the Business Faculty next semester - and I’m also applying for a full time continuing position at Griffith - so I’ll have to disappear now and write the said application.

And if this wasn’t in a labour market with an excess demand for labour? This kid would just have to take the bourbon and deal with it, or get sacked.

I am going to protest.

Of course not everyone will be able to find another employer offering a similar job.

I’m fuckin speechless.

Dear Saint Paul J K.

Please forgive him. He knows not what he does.

Still treasure the memory of a guy ringing up with a very convincing pitch about how he’d innocently turned up for work, got unfairly roared out by the boss for no reason, and been heartlessly and summarily sacked. He can’t do that, can he? Turned out, when I’d asked a few questions, that he’d been absent for a week from a key position without telling his employer about it, showed up without explanation or apology, and when the boss expressed his vehement disapproval, just decked him. I told him the employer was well within his award rights in sacking him (which he was) and he should be grateful he wasn’t charged with assault.

All I’m saying is that all we’ve got here is the kid’s story of what happened. Absent an account from the other side, we can’t know if it’s true.

a suit and tie (purple tie and mauve shirt!)

*cues a certain ZZ-Top hit*

Good luck with the application, Mark!