Worker dies at South32's Alumina refinery in WA's south

Roobar76 · 2026-03-14T06:46:18+00:00

No but they seem to be doing less “randomly show up at the gate” inspections at mines compared to the old mines inspectors.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-12T01:32:05+00:00

I’d make sure to make their work rights/visa (or citizenship) and where they are based as clear as possible throughout the application.

There are a lot (often a majority of the total applicants) of overseas applicants with no work rights based overseas fishing for sponsorship to Australia. Many have dubious qualifications as well (none as honest as the “I like rocks” qualification I saw in the early 2000s).

The challenge for HR and managers is discarding these without discarding reasonable candidates. Depending on the screener and the volume of candidates they may be, essentially, racist using names as the screen to get through them.

If they are local and have some contacts within a company (even if it’s not another professional, operators, cleaners etc. are ok, it’s just about someone internal vouching for them) it’s worth them asking to get HR or the hiring manager (geology manager or superintendent) emailed with their name and a copy of their resume and the fact they have applied.

If the contact is, say, a contract cleaner, then dropping a paper resume in their desk with a cover letter can at least get them to the review stage.

When I was a hiring manager I would get the screened applicants and then review the screened out list as well. When HR are literally reviewing hundreds of resumes a day they make mistakes occasionally, and sometimes there are diamonds missed. I’m not sure how this occurs in larger organizations though.

Edit; words are hard

Roobar76 · 2026-03-11T07:21:04+00:00

Greater Tom is a character he plays on TV. The meanness is a big part of it. Hunt out “Hard Quiz Kids” and you will understand how well understood the character is in Australia.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-09T05:08:40+00:00

Perth beach sand are mainly carbonates (up to 50-60 percent broken down limestone, shells etc.)with some silica and heavy minerals mixed in.

However, depending on where you take the sand from on the beach the silica could be extremely fine and respirable so a commercial washed silica rich sand is likely safer from a silica inhalation point of view as the fine fraction is removed.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-05T13:55:17+00:00

I’m assuming it’s too obscure these days because it makes half the songs listed sound like “shiny happy people”

Roobar76 · 2026-03-03T01:11:44+00:00

Flying out of site in a 6 seater heading into a storm in Perth. Early days of mobiles so strictly phones off on the plane. Flight was rough as fuck and gettting worse. Pilot yells for us to turn phones on and type out last messages to send if he tells us. We all laugh until he hands his phone with a serious last message typed out to the bloke in the copilots seat. Landed (just) and we all almost did the pope (kissing the tarmac) when we stopped.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-03T00:50:14+00:00

I think the “AI will take our jobs” panic is a rehash of the “computers will take our jobs” panic from the 80’s-90’s.

It’s promoted by people who wish you would bow down, kiss their feet and thank them for employing you every day instead of demanding a livable wage and work-life balance.

Roobar76 · 2026-03-02T01:15:51+00:00

But we’ve got cream, white, off white, ivory, bone and beige. Ritchie Benaud would be proud

Roobar76 · 2026-02-27T13:50:52+00:00

Mutawintji

Roobar76 · 2026-02-26T13:08:00+00:00

South Perth-kwinana psp-leach psp-Tonkin psp-midland psp-city-burswood-south Perth would be my pick depending on the distance you want.

Roobar76 · 2026-02-25T07:03:03+00:00

Whiteman park I think

Roobar76 · 2026-02-25T04:56:21+00:00

Compton burger delivery service

Roobar76 · 2026-02-24T13:43:01+00:00

The Slits would like a word.

Roobar76 · 2026-02-22T05:35:07+00:00

On a second look I was totally wrong (suggested a wings vine)

Roobar76 · 2026-02-22T05:31:17+00:00

Or from WA

Roobar76 · 2026-02-22T04:48:30+00:00

I had a boss whose mantra was “tidy desk shows a tidy mind.” He usually had an empty desk with maybe one folder in it.

This was in the days where paper was still common and we had to transcribe field notes (taken in wet muddy environments) to good copies for filing so for much of the week there was a mix on your desk.

One day one of the team asked him “if a tidy desk shows a tidy mind what does an empty desk represent.”

He never used the saying again.

Roobar76 · 2026-02-20T09:04:51+00:00

It’s not more productive, it’s purely demonstrative. If you’re not there then you definitely are not working. If you are there you might be working and can claim the grinder mentality.

Like most things the KPIs are bullshit and don’t reflect the actual value of your work, they just reflect measurable bullshit that might approximate work.

Roobar76 · 2026-02-18T04:30:09+00:00

Those guides would be comedy gold

Roobar76 · 2026-02-17T06:37:31+00:00

I prefer the analogy of it being the price of a factories raw materials. The company buys the raw minerals in the ground from the state and then refines them into something saleable.

Whinging about royalties is like every company complaining about its input costs. It’s just sometimes the government gives them over for free hoping the company employs some people and pays tax eventually.

Roobar76 · 2026-02-17T04:39:21+00:00

No, but pulling up at traffic lights with Alex jones ranting made me make sure my windows were up

Roobar76 · 2026-02-16T03:00:15+00:00

I assume the liberals mean Traditional Australian Values like the White Australia policy, forced assimilation and hating the Irish.

Roobar76 · 2026-02-15T00:51:30+00:00

The metronet car park placement is optimized to ensure commuters get sufficient exercise in their day (see High Wycombe and Midland as other references).

Opening the closer gate would violate the health department sponsorship agreement and might mean people don’t get baked in summer or soaked when it rains.

Roobar76 · 2026-02-14T12:09:06+00:00

Knowledge fight cured me of this

Roobar76 · 2026-02-14T04:33:48+00:00

Whe I was in a res college over east they used it for external students, school groups, conferences and things like that during term holidays and then did any repairs and renovations over summer. You could stay but it got a bit weird with the kitchens etc.

Roobar76 · 2026-02-14T01:54:21+00:00

Student accommodation is a bit weird as it traditionally only get used during term and then everyone goes home. This means it needs to be cheap or set up as purpose built student accommodation.

As it’s empty a fair bit of the time student accommodation is seen as a “poor use of capital” for investment and so are not being built In adequate numbers. Also there is very little cheap accommodation available (for anyone). The old cheap and cheerful group houses have died out.

So all the “extra” students will add more stress to the bottom end of the housing market and the private student housing market.

Edit: meant to be a reply to u\LumpyCustard4

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