After chatting with a friend ...

[blamebrampton]

The following poll will be very helpful in sorting some ideas. If you are in paid work and have a minute or two spare, it would be lovely to hear from you![Poll #1401151][Poll #1401151]

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[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

The other leave thing needed to be check boxes rather than buttons, cause I get Bereavement and Family leave as per the Aus govt employment standards.

The contract I was originally handed and expected to sign was so unlawful that I refused to sign it. I then went and re-wrote their employment contract in line with Aus standards and suggested we use it instead. They did - for me - but continue to use the other one for everyone else who hasn't worked in HR or have an idea about their legal rights. I figure I told them it wasn't legal - and if people are too silly to check and question before they sign, it's their own lookout. I'm tired of trying to save the world.

My salary is awful, being PPT, although my hourly rate isn't terrible. I could just about live off it if I had to. The average salary for what I do hasn't actually changed much in the 20 years I've been working, so I don't earn any more now than I did then in actual dollars - just the value is WAY less.

Fortunately I have a husband who is a man, and who does clever technical things, and thus earns roughly 10 times what I do, and so we can eat and feed the cats.

*headdesk*

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am poo at polls!

I remember your contract. Was that before WorkChoices was rolled back? Some people went bananas the minute they caught the scent of bastardry, and it's hard to put them back in their boxes!

My salary took a dive with the collapse of my fave weekly, but at least I can work four days a week with no stress!