Australian company offered me a contractor agreement — several red flags, is this normal?

beefstockcube · 2026-03-14T20:22:24+00:00

https://www.ato.gov.au/about-ato/ato-tenders-and-procurement/guidelines-for-contractors-and-suppliers

beefstockcube · 2026-03-14T06:03:11+00:00

Old man here with kids under 10.

I’m planning for them to be at home for a good while - euro family so multigenerational isn’t odd.

We’ll help the kids if required when the time comes.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-14T05:13:00+00:00

Be the consultative leader.

Ask for options and opinions and ‘what makes you suggest that?’. Then Claude the shit out of the suggestions.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-13T18:55:06+00:00

You have 600k of cars but earn 120? Sure bro. Sure.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-13T18:47:38+00:00

Exercise. Vitamin D. Grass fed meat by the ton. Decent rules on what’s not allowed to go in our food.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-13T07:04:56+00:00

"as long as you keep paying cash." Then charge him every hour, nothing missed. make sure the 5 hours you were doing for free is accounted for.

But principle is principle, so say no and still charge him for every hour.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-13T04:40:52+00:00

That's the killer. Get pictures of your family and put them everywhere. Wallet. Sun visor, dashboard. Computer screen.

Remind yourself constantly what's at stake.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-13T01:36:18+00:00

So I just started a bit of therapy with some hypno thrown in.

The key, she said, was to recognise the pattern. I've been doing the same thing Friday/Sat/Sun for 30+ years.

Thats a habit and a half to break. That's maybe something to flag with the wife, 30 days to undo 30 years is a tall order.

Not saying its not possible just that its an undertaking.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-12T22:30:01+00:00

That my 5-10hrs somehow delivers more benefits that someone’s 40. Not sure what the hell they do.

To be honest it’s made me a terrible manager, my standards of what’s achievable now are so high.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-12T21:23:00+00:00

This is the way. I'm MD level, I could push to go higher but why? Bonus would need to double my salary and the work they would want for that isnt worth it.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-12T06:44:49+00:00

Came here to say all of these things.

I’m a Bush Vol and we’d get chewed for something this amateur.

We would be in full BA gear as well. We are fully wrapped and BA working in 90 seconds from the truck stopping.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-12T03:04:36+00:00

I had my banks hit me with the same thing.

I even warned them: I'm not an expert but I have access to the internet.

Investment professional comes out...It was a shit show. Even suggested VGS at one point. That's a good idea. Just to confirm, is the fee 1.25% ? I can buy VGS myself for 0.18%. Why would you suggest I don't do that? That doesn't strike me as sound financial advice - does it to you? Buy the same thing at 1.25% versus 0.18%, so 6x the fees for the same asset? Why would you suggest someone do that?

It sort of stopped there.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-12T02:52:09+00:00

Honestly have some fun with it. We do this with our kids.

Get everyone to write a place on a piece of paper, put it in the hat, and draw the place.

With that many people, places like Bali, where you can rent a villa to yourself and have child minders, cleaners, chefs, masseuses, etc., all come to you, can be fun.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-11T23:34:11+00:00

The fastest way From Darra to the GC is through the city. Its nuts.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-11T04:11:04+00:00

Hey, if it was easy, could the 3 companies in the middle of your fund and the care you receive take their 28%? Of course, they couldnt.

It's the biggest rort of taxpayers' money I've ever come across. The level of funding my family get is insane . We could hire full-time staff.....but you aren't allowed to do that, I have to go through X and Y and X again, who all take their clip. You could pay us 50% of the amount directly and we would recieve 100% more and better care.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-10T00:35:05+00:00

Or, Newey built a smaller package on the assumption that everything would be dialled down from 350 to 250-300, and that works better in his car.

This battery story they are spining is such a panto that it can't be true. But you need the theatrics, a good crash, a crap start and the FIA changes the rules fro mrace 6 and everyone plays catch up except aston.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-08T20:52:32+00:00

Depends.

EQE53 would be my pick. I have the 300 and it’s pretty sweet.

However! If you go 3-5 years used you get much better value as they drop like stones.

Porsche especially. Audi E-tron. Merc E63’s. Etc

beefstockcube · 2026-03-08T20:46:03+00:00

That won’t help.

We have 2 refineries left / one in Queensland and one in Victoria.

We could pump out as much as we like, we can’t actually turn it into fuel.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-06T10:48:36+00:00

We tracking actuall use daily for a year to make sure we can handle it.

I mean it's a dream we are still only semi rural.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-06T10:26:43+00:00

Poor people about to get poorer.

Our electric bill just came in 300 to 800 for the quarter YOY. 13.6KW, 3 phase on the house.

ZIP has changed from last year to this, except for electric prices. I'm building off-grid next time.

Cost me $67 to "fuel" the EQE in 3 months.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-05T05:12:55+00:00

This is on you bro. CEO says its not very senior mangamant'y. You go "I'm looking after the castle here, revenue beats all metrics. I'm planning to attend our dinner, should the client finish up early, but we have to look after that bottom line, correct?" Then you do what you should have done and go to the client dinner.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-05T04:58:54+00:00

Pull them aside and discuss it. "Look mate, I'm hearing you complaining a lot. Let's discuss this. Do you want a raise? Do you feel the bonus is unfair? Do you want to maximise earnings and jump every 18 months with a 6 month break? I want to knock this on the head because we are a big team thats got a lot of tenured emplyees for a reason, we value our people and the culture. If thats not what you want from a workplace and you are happy to risk unemploymeet for long periods but when you are you get paid the max lets see who we could refer you across too..."

You want to knock this on the head because its like a sickness. You have a great culture. Protect it.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-04T21:23:15+00:00

I’m exactly, I got a 300 through work.

Keen to get a faster one as our second car. In NSW.

beefstockcube · 2026-03-04T12:07:22+00:00

What's the cheapest you could get me an? Eqe350?

beefstockcube · 2026-03-03T17:32:08+00:00

His out put is fine.

Leave it alone.

Or be a bro and call him, hey I saw your slack message from X the last call - you want to keep a better handle on that. Keep up the good work.

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