UnSubRocky wrote on Mar 17
th, 2022 at 1:13am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 16
th, 2022 at 10:45am:
UnSubRocky wrote on Mar 16
th, 2022 at 12:58am:
greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 15
th, 2022 at 7:33pm:
I don't bitch about the price of groceries because they have to pay another $200 to have some service person man the checkout counters.
I'm perfectly happy to pay extra if it provides jobs for people.
I paid $2.20/litre for petrol today (self-serve is the only option), and $9 for a bottle of mouth wash - couldn't care less.
More like $200 to pay 2 teens to work 6 hours. Or maybe 3 people working 4 hours shifts, manning the checkouts. But it comes down to moving 2 people away from the checkouts to stacking those shelves and saving the store money on not needing to babysit some old man that does not know how to scan a few items himself.
We had 2 people on checkouts tonight when I was doing my shopping. Given that it was near 8pm, it is fair that they only had 2 checkouts open to serve the 5 people getting served in that 10 minute window. Why would you want to have a third or fourth person sitting at the checkout waiting on someone else after the 1 person they served is gone. Waste of labour money.
You paid $2.20/L today. I bet you are the type of person that uses his car regularly, too. Would you rather pay $1.10/L and self-serve. Or would you rather pay the $2.20/L and have someone from the service station pumping your fuel for you?
If it creates more jobs, I have no problem paying more for goods and services.
Oh, bull-f'n'-sheeit. $2.17/L to fill up my car tonight (plus some for my mower fuel). I would not pay another 5c/L to pay someone to come out and pump my fuel. It is such an easy task that it would be demeaning to have someone else do it for me. Take your 20 items to the self-checkouts and do your own scanning. The designated checkout operators are too busy trying to help old people too technophobic from learning new things.
I swear that there are too many people in this country that think paying more to have people scan and bag, or wash the windscreens, check your oil, and pump your fuel. Perhaps we need to bring back people that go around knocking on your bedroom windows to wake you up and replace that darn alarm clock. Or maybe a water carrier to replace those pesky pipes leading from the town's water reserves.
Wake up and smell the coffee -- before you start accusing that product of stealing income from tea or milo brands. Being a luddite in the 21st century will soon leave Australia having to fall behind places like Indonesia in technology. Ironically, their catch up will have us competing better with them.
Just ignore Bwian aka Gwoggy aka Laugh Til We Laugh At Him aka Jim Slackey aka Moosetupha Can't Troll hard enough...
He's absolutely off his face and talking utter invented BS again.
And he posted 2 comments yesterday which I copied and took a screenshot of before he could edit or delete them. Why? Both comments clearly indicate how unhinged his full time multi troll mindset is these days. Do not believe his comment above. It is a filthy and unhinged lie by an unwell man who has not worked for at least 15 years (that I know of).
What I do is this : I follow the principles my migrant parents taught me :
• Always do the right thing wrt money matters. Don't waste it. Invest it in your health and welfare and future. And your children's future. And always remember the vulnerable poor around you.
This is why today .... I'm in a very financially secure position with my husband. I've stuck to mum n dad's philosophy.
I STILL remember being around 4 and sitting on a normal chair at the kitchen table and watching my parents talk about money. It was never about MAKING money. It was about SAVING money. They kept repeating the word : economia <--- it means to economise ie save.
And that's all I knew growing up. My life was about growing organic fruit n veg ( Mum n Dad had a mini farm happening ffs with chooks etc ).
And that's why 2 teenage migrants with no education and no English language skills and no money and no support who came to Sydney with nothing but dreams and hope in 1965.....had FOUR houses by the time I was born!
Both worked 2 to 3 jobs each all the time and saved.
My uncles and aunts by marriage did even better! They owned factories as well as homes. But that's because my uncles had trades skills/qualifications.
Mum n Dad taught us to remember those around us who couldn't cope financially. If your standard of living increases so should your standard of giving. And through that we were taught the important principle of BEING GRATEFUL and the principle of SHARING.
And as a little kid I watched what this did. It kickstarted a synergistic chain reaction involving community network development driven by positive energy and happiness. Yes HAPPINESS. Being HAPPY! That's what life is supposed to be about!
The only complaint I have about my European childhood is that we never had a pet dog or pet bird or pet kitten like the kids at school. Ours was always a pet lamb. My cousins had pet goats.
The peculiar thing about our pets? Every so often these animals needed to apparently return to their homes far away on some farm for the farm air was good for their health. They would then come back. Looking the same. 😐
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