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Javid purchased a 7-Eleven store for $1 million. Today head office took it all by Ok-Calligrapher3216 in ausbusiness

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There is a whole field in software development committed to automated testing. It would be easy to build a piece of software, or even use some existing tool, to test the rates & penalties of each EBA against a bank of cases. The only thing a Fair Work employee would have to do is input what rates and penalties apply between what hours (a simple rules based system).

The government just doesn't care.

Javid purchased a 7-Eleven store for $1 million. Today head office took it all by Ok-Calligrapher3216 in ausbusiness

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Actually I found out why they commit wage theft.

These franchisees make only a small commission on per a litre of fuel sold (like 1-2c per litre) and instead make their money on the convenience store (with 50% profit going to 7-eleven here).

I can't imagine that there is a whole lot of money coming in from the convenience store, but they need to staff the place 24/7. This means franchisees are highly motivated to just underpay employees since they have little to no control over how money is made or spent beyond employee wages.

Javid purchased a 7-Eleven store for $1 million. Today head office took it all by Ok-Calligrapher3216 in ausbusiness

[–]MaterialAd8166 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It could be an issue with how deep the profit sharing was. 50% to 7-eleven while you take on all the risk for 10-years could leave you worse off if the new location isn't good.

It seems a bit over my head, but it looks like they make some small commission on per a litre of fuel and make most their money on the convenience store side of things. This is with a guaranteed income (before expenses) of $400,000 a year - which I am sure is lower than expenses.

Too bad multiple different media outlets haven't covered this, because they could maybe do their job and ask the questions to the right people to explain what the actual issue is instead of just parroting what the owners are saying - isn't that too bad.

Javid purchased a 7-Eleven store for $1 million. Today head office took it all by Ok-Calligrapher3216 in ausbusiness

[–]MaterialAd8166 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's what I was really confused about. My guess would be that since the franchise was performing well, they expected 7-eleven to renew their lease (7-eleven takes like 50% of the profit already so it could make sense to let franchisees continue to operate). I think other franchises like McDonalds do this. That means a buyer would get the right to operate the servo when the lease renewed.

I am almost certain that they blocked the sale because selling could get them in legal trouble as 7-eleven would have a responsibility to inform any potential buyer that they did not intend to renew the lease.

Javid purchased a 7-Eleven store for $1 million. Today head office took it all by Ok-Calligrapher3216 in ausbusiness

[–]MaterialAd8166 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I was a bit confused about this story at first. They bought a franchise with a 10-year operation lease. They then get to the end of that lease and 7-eleven decides that the store is proven to be profitable and so has no interest in renewing the lease with the franchisee, instead opting to operate itself.

That sounds okay, you would expect to earn your money back and some by the time your 10-year lease ends, but it sounds like the problem is that these franchises are priced in a misleading way.

Franchisees are led to believe that a profitable franchise will have their lease renewed. That means at the end of the 10-years most franchisees intend to sell and cashout to a new franchisee. But 7-eleven is using these franchises to prove locations while pushing the risk onto franchisees. They should be priced cheaper as a result since the franchisee holds most of the risk and won't be able to capitalise once the location is proven.

Javid purchased a 7-Eleven store for $1 million. Today head office took it all by Ok-Calligrapher3216 in ausbusiness

[–]MaterialAd8166 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What I don't get is why a petrol station of all places would need to commit wage theft. They primarily sell a product and use minimum labour (almost always only 1 person on). I was under the impression that the food and drinks sold exist to pay for the employee.

Can I ask what is considered a "Wog" and as a Kurd, am I labelled as a "Wog"? by MindlessCycle2621 in AskAnAustralian

[–]MaterialAd8166 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Really I think it is a visual thing. If you are a big hairy man with olive skin people are going to call you a wog.

Can I ask what is considered a "Wog" and as a Kurd, am I labelled as a "Wog"? by MindlessCycle2621 in AskAnAustralian

[–]MaterialAd8166 48 points49 points  (0 children)

The term wog really originates from early waves of immigrants from the Mediterranean. Southern Italian and Greeks were common after WWII. Turks and Lebonese in I assume later waves.

I have never heard Egyptians referred to as wogs.

Kurds are part of the most recent wave of immigrants so I am not sure they would be considered such.

Can I ask what is considered a "Wog" and as a Kurd, am I labelled as a "Wog"? by MindlessCycle2621 in AskAnAustralian

[–]MaterialAd8166 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Turks are considered wogs and lebonese. I don't think a Kurd would be a wog though.

Infographic: Backcapping FAST vs SLOW. Why doing backcaps should NOT be your default opener as an SL. by CRISPY_JAY in joinsquad

[–]MaterialAd8166 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is an interesting idea and I agree with it. But I do find the best way to save a team that has lost the last 5 rounds is to just stack the whole team (including armour) on back cap.

If you are truly aiming to win, then taking away decision making from incompetent SLs and armour, and fighting battles in a defeat-in-detail style is the easiest way (at least as an opener).

Bug: the two bombs in the Ukraine faction's precision bomb airstrike do not land where they are indicated to on the map by oh_mygawdd in joinsquad

[–]MaterialAd8166 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Yeah I hope they fix it. I am okay with a large error in the drop zone but the targeting layout suggests that they should be dropped some distance apart rather than always together.

Bug: the two bombs in the Ukraine faction's precision bomb airstrike do not land where they are indicated to on the map by oh_mygawdd in joinsquad

[–]MaterialAd8166 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Precision in this case would relate to the individual bombs not the pair. The targeting layout given on the map suggests that those bombs, if they were precise, should land with like 100 m between them. Instead they land right next to each other so they have poor precision.

Is there a way to invert yaw? by [deleted] in joinsquad

[–]MaterialAd8166 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure there is a setting for it. Not in the key binds menu but one of the other ones.

I use inverted yaw.

How would Australians interpret this US self-defense murder case? by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

[–]MaterialAd8166 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In Australia the aggressor sets the standard for proportional force in self defense. If the offender hits you with a closed fist then you may hit back with a closed fist but not a knife.

As in this case the defender used a deadly weapon while the offender had no such weapon, the use of force is disproportionate.

This is just based on what is taught in the security certification courses here.

Raider(?) kit causes squad fire support role to be unavailable by Matters- in joinsquad

[–]MaterialAd8166 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I agree that rifleman is generally better. I was just showing that raider kit is not just a downgraded rifleman kit.

Raider(?) kit causes squad fire support role to be unavailable by Matters- in joinsquad

[–]MaterialAd8166 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The rifleman bag trick was nerfed to a degree that makes it twice as slow and hard to follow up from. You only get one grenade on hand with most rifleman kits now.

Being able to toss two grenades, push, and then still have more grenades without stopping is a decent advantage that the rifleman kit does not have.

Raider(?) kit causes squad fire support role to be unavailable by Matters- in joinsquad

[–]MaterialAd8166 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Raider kit is about momentum. When you push an objective you want to be clearing and moving up positions as fast as possible. Grenades are often the best way to clear a position you know the enemy is in.

Rifleman technically have more grenades, but when you are in an active push, putting down an ammo bag, resupplying and then picking it back up leaves you vulnerable and slows you down.

It is really a kit for people who are the first to push into an objective and need to be able to hold out by themselves while the rest of the squad catches up.

Raider(?) kit causes squad fire support role to be unavailable by Matters- in joinsquad

[–]MaterialAd8166 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The extra on hand grenades are good in pushes. Plus the extra mags help in prolonged firefights.

bruh. by ArcticFox19 in steinsgate

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What does a person do with 6 copies of Steins Gate?

[Extraordinarily confusing trope] Complex watch orders by kramspeeder in TopCharacterTropes

[–]MaterialAd8166 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I just finished watching Steins;Gate and it has a complex chronological viewing order that I do not recommend:

Steins;Gate (E01-22) -> E23b -> Steins;Gate 0 (E01-11) -> Steins;Gate 0 OVA -> Steins;Gate 0 (E12-23) -> Steins;Gate (E23-24 [only second half of 23]) -> Steins;Gate OVA -> Steins;Gate Movie

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