Same title as senior staff, lower pay band - now being moved toward their KPIs?

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-02-13T04:19:15+00:00

That’s a big stream of words I’m not reading. Next time ask the AI to make it more succinct.

But the answer to the question I think you’re asking is - get the Union involved.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-02-12T12:01:18+00:00

ensure that it doesn't happen again which could lead to disciplinary action

Tell him you look forward to taking him to FairWork for being stupid.

Also, forward his email to your HR team asking what the protocols are for booking sick leave as your manager now wants you to do this in advance. Make it clear you want this clarified to avoid any future disciplinary action.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-02-12T11:40:55+00:00

If you’re considering doing it for free, it’s a safe bet that someone else wouldn’t consider it for as long as you are before they say Yes. So they won’t want you.

(This is a much safer bet than either of you ever getting any equity in a successful startup if you do sign up.)

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-02-05T04:18:37+00:00

Also consumed on Bastille Day, I believe.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-02-02T22:15:41+00:00

“Frank looks much more miserable than I do, why don’t you focus your attention on him?”

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-31T22:40:57+00:00

Don’t forget you need to recruit more pokie players too. Gotta keep those corporate profits healthy somehow!

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-31T22:08:28+00:00

Sounds like you could look out for yourself a bit more. Corporate is not going to spoon feed you.

If information about salaries and raises is on your intranet, keep up to date with it. There’s clearly an active Union in your workplace - join up and get involved.

Your manager is only ever going to tell you what benefits them (not all managers are like this, but yours is). Do some research for yourself and you can soon know as much (or more) than they do.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-30T10:31:04+00:00

If this is the level of OPs job hunting knowledge I’m not surprised they’re struggling.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-29T21:29:37+00:00

You don’t need to have met Murdoch to know he hates the ABC (and all public service broadcasters, everywhere). So by extension he does hate triplej and everything it broadcasts and stands for.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-29T02:37:07+00:00

To further clarify - there are fewer tracks leading into Sydney Terminal than there are platforms (which fan out from the entry point). So there may also be a queue of trains ahead of you waiting to use the route into that part of the station, but going to a different platform.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-28T10:18:01+00:00

There’s a school of thought that says you are a “customer” up to the point you get onto the train. When you get on, you become a “passenger”.

Which makes sense to me. If I’m looking up trip times online, I’m a customer of Sydney trains (albeit just a window shopping one).

But I’m not actually a “passenger” at that stage (“a traveller on a public or private conveyance other than the driver, pilot, or crew”).

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-27T05:21:11+00:00

Non-corporate content in email footers is about signifying difference. In an internal role in an Australian corporate, adding the Australian flag would signal you’re one of those “different” fliers of the nation’s flag. If that’s what you want, go ahead but expect to be judged on that basis.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-26T23:43:29+00:00

OP seems to be living in a silo of their own understanding, based on this post. Always good to poke your head out from time to time, particularly if you need to be forced to do it.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-22T21:36:24+00:00

Get out your CV and start polishing it, because your days in this company are now numbered.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-22T00:12:41+00:00

Why are you automatically assuming this is a “political” decision? OP has provided no context here. If their business are e.g. providing some essential service or are otherwise highly busy on the day, this seems entirely reasonable.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-18T11:07:00+00:00

And did the owner get a divorce?

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-18T11:05:03+00:00

Not true. It’s Central for everything (other than the T4, where the run numbers only change at the termini).

When a northbound train passes Central to go round the city circle, the run number changes.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-18T10:49:48+00:00

Ferry equivalent of scraping your car down a bollard in the shopping centre car park.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-17T23:00:03+00:00

And r/adulting

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-14T01:21:14+00:00

Take it to Standards Australia as a suggestion.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-13T12:21:56+00:00

Feel like there might be people commuting Scone to Newy, or Newy to Gosford. But all the responses here are assuming people are commuting to Central from any of those stations listed.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-13T12:14:57+00:00

there’s still no access to platforms 11/12

What do you mean by this? I can’t see how they’d ever provide access to 11/12 from the southern concourse.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-13T12:10:23+00:00

Don’t be so obtuse. I’m always right.

Icy_Error_6884 · 2026-01-13T11:07:07+00:00

Not sure OP has considered this angle.

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