Via Another Outspoken Female (who posted the link to this in a comment this morning, but it’s too good to languish there for long) the remixed Workplace Relations ad beneath the fold is a brilliant, pointed piece of satire – or does it still qualify as satire when it’s this close to the truth? Anyway, fantastic stuff. Whoever assembled this has skills.
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LOL
Where should Crosby Textor send the writs?!!
More evidence to back up the remix:
But this research is research done by people who have been members of a union, and everybody knows only unionists would think that kind of flexibility is somehow unfair.
“I mean, when we say ‘prosperous’ we mean, in the overall sense. I mean I can’t guarantee that each individual won’t be worse off. I mean, it’s up to individulas to make the most of the opportunities they are given, and that’s what we stand for”.
Suck on it suckers.
That is gold…
I particularly like the way they’ve integrated the whole thing – nicely edited.
Amused – I’m always amused at why someone thinks that a multi-million dollar company is on an equal footing to an individual who may or may not even be aware of the rules (quite hard to find if you don’t want to listen to bullsh%t from both “sides”‘). Flexibility has always been available to those employers who have the will – I’ve had it for years and not one of my bosses even remotely needed the new laws. On the other hand I am one of the few people I know of in this situation – about 10 of my 100′s of customer employees/employers have any sort of “flexible arrangeents”.
Every single one of the employees who has had the new laws implemented has either lost a lot or left for other work. The employers have in turn lost some of their most skilled staff (in the current environment) and most are confused as to why production/quality has suffered as a result. The companies that might gain the most don’t have the legal staff/money to look into it and are avoiding the issue like the plague (due in quite a few cases to union pressure).
For my $0.00005 worth they should instead have consolidated state OHS laws – these seem to cost a lot for little return (unsafe sites are still dangerous while safe sites are hampered by nanny-state rules and massive costs). The unions don’t like the idea (trades need to “get their quals” in each state) but it seriously needs to be done.
Hey. Thanks for posting my videos. Really glad people like them.
I’ve just done a couple more on the National Security Hotline – possibly not as good as the workplace ad, but they turned out alright.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avwzKKtbn_U
Hugh – may I offer you props?
Lots of fun doing this sort of thing – I used to while away the graveyard hours when I did sound for ABC News in Perth making mash-ups from the 8mm tape archives with a razor blade edit kit. How things have changed!
Thanks, FDB!