working for a massive company like Shell the benefits must be there for you and your family for you to sit tight with them I did work for Shell Rossgo, but that was at the Refinery. As I took a redundancy the company policy is I can never work for them again, unless there is a significant business ...

Waahoo! Good work Jon! You've put in heaps of hard work so I'm not surprised you are smashing PB's!

Just got my conditional job offer through - need a medical first to make sure everything is good with me! Also had all the information through like pension, pay.....FREE WEEKLY CHOCOLATE ALLOWANCE is also mentioned in BOLD clearly that is more important than entitled holiday etc etc [emoji38] [emoj...

Kwacky wrote:Just taken a look on Google maps. That looks like proper outback to me.

Put it onto "earth" view and look at how brown it is! Yup Broken Hill is proper outback, he's as far outback as you can get in NSW.

He showed a google map pin of where he is and it's way out the middle of bum-f**k nowhere so it's not surprising he ran into some wildlife.

https://goo.gl/maps/J77DaLCa76k

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Monty apart from the kangaroo's the US has all those nasty things too AND Trump!

I'll stick to Aussie thanks.

I guess our money would go further privately Kiwi but it's the convenience of a new home that sold us plus we like the modern layout across 3 floors. The kids have the top floor with their own lounge and we have down stairs with a buffer floor in between (lol) so plenty of room to give everyone the...

Those figures are a bit misleading though as 90% of Australia's land mass is uninhabitable compared to 30% of the UK.

But new developments in Sydney are just as close, and totally understand the reasons.

Looks good Blade, but why do they build them so damn close together!

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/557893 ... ne-in-bath

http://metro.co.uk/2016/02/24/teenager- ... h-5714352/

I got to my desk for start of shift, and my computer insisted I did a restart for some automatic updates. Restarted and my Outlook wouldn't run, which is a bit of an issue as most of my tasking is sent through email. So rang our IT support. They remotely applied a "repair" to my Office pro...

It doesn't matter how many protection devices and warnings we put in place, the truly stupid will always find a way to injure or kill themselves. I was actually quite surprised when I moved to Aussie that they allow 240V outlet in the bathrooms. In NZ you can only have an approved shaver power outlet.

Kwacky wrote:I keep telling you, everything in Australia wants to kill you.

Good point, maybe this should just go in that thread!

This was on the local Kawasaki Forum, they obviously don't have the same NSFW policy we do! Hence I screen captured it rather than quoted it
I've only seen dead roo's on the side of the road on the bike so far luckily!

£750 increase in council tax and as we will live on a private road we even have to pay for our own street lighting. How does that make sense. That's a big jump! That's about what I pay a year in rates (council tax) but we have no street lighting at all, no water or sewage (on rain tanks and Biocycl...

Congrats Rossgo, I know how you feel with the interview process, this job took a 1.5 hr phone interview, 5 hrs of aptitude testing, a 4 hr medical, and a 4 person panel interview over an hour on the other side of the country!! You find moving to a bigger company a lot of the stuff you didn't like ab...

Had a buffet lunch today. It looked great and even had cookies but I was too nervous to eat so I only had a triangle of a sandwich and an orange juice! Why are you nervous Rossgo? You're not going to propose are you? :? I'll make a new thread soon. I still need to catch up with all of last week's f...

Rossgo wrote:Had a buffet lunch today. It looked great and even had cookies but I was too nervous to eat so I only had a triangle of a sandwich and an orange juice!

Why are you nervous Rossgo? You're not going to propose are you?