Bandit Alley
REGIONAL FORUMS => AUS/NZ => Topic started by: scooter trash on May 24, 2005, 08:13:09 AM
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Mick,
My wife went on a job interview yesterday. It was for an Executive Secretary position. It seems this couple is from Australia. They started a business in New York; it became very prosperous so they sold it. Now they are here in Virginia Beach, VA starting up a new company. My wife Susie knows they are from Australia because the wife had mentioned that they just returned from Australia because they had to put her mother in a home for the elderly. Now the questions Susie had was what is it like working for an Australian? What are their work ethics like? Susie is a very organized person. She can walk into a pile of shit and have it organized and running smoothly in a matter of days. I told her if they are anything like Aussiebandit you are going to love working with them. Of course she said a business is a lot different than joking with your Bandit friends. I said I have no idea what it would be like but in the morning I’ll ask Mick. So there you are Mick. What are Australian’s really like?? And should I tell Susie to brush up on her Kiwi jokes??
Thanks,
Larry (Scooter Trash)
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Hey larry refer to the PM I sent.
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Aussie aint answered you yet so I'll give you my insite.
There are 2 types of Aust Businessmen/woman.
One becomes sucesfull by being an absolute prick, by treating his workers like crap, and by having the gift of the gab, and totally BS him/herself to the top.
The other is the salt of the earth, looks after his/her workers and pays them well, almost to the point of profit sharing, calls a spade a spade, (as in the card type) and is down to earth, will go to extreme lenghts to never let talent leave his company. And is generally a really nice person.
The second however is rare as rocking horse shit, and should these people have these qualities, please send them straight back here, we could do with some real employers once again. :duh:
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Yep, that's about what I said. I've worked for Aussies, Poms, Germans, Italians and Greeks. Some have been good, some have been pricks.
But generally, in my experiance, you do the right thing by them, they'll do the right thing by you. Again, generally.
I also told him Aussies don't like 'fakes', we appreciate 'real' people and we certainly don't suffer fools or arrogance easily.
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Thanks B6mick.
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You guys crack me up. Think I'll go over there and work for you. Anyone need a slightly overpaid Designer ?!?!?!?!?!?
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Bugger, I was hoping you'd say Accountant. The financial controller where I work resigned today.
You know how we said there's the 'salt of the earth' 'good bloke' type boss, then there's the real prick. Well, this bloke could be a real prick, the sad thing, for him, is that he looks like Mr Bean, so no-one took him seriously anyway.
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Aussiebandit,
I sent this out as a post because my PM's to you were getting error messages.
I guess we'll both come over then, Susie can do your accounting and support me while I ride the Bandit through the country. Now that would be the life.
Of course she'll want to ride her bike too, so I will probably have to get a job. But what if I came over with lots and lots of Bandit parts for the Aussie's and wellingtons for the Kiwi's. I would probably be well off till the parts and boots ran out.
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Think I'll go over there and work for you. Anyone need a slightly overpaid Designer ?!?!?!?!?!?
Sorry Bloke, I'm am The Orginal SIR PRICK ( as opposed to just Mr or Master Prick), I treat every one like crap not just my workers, I don't have the gift of the gab, and I couldn't BS myself to the top to save myself.
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B6mick,
Checkout the latest post in the clubhouse. I think you'll enjoy it.
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Yes I did indeed enjoy that, :lol:
Oh does this prove that I'm a Sir Prick now :thanks:
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If the shoe fits !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Now listen here Scooter - stop hijacking our site :monkeymoon:
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Hey Marty, fairs fair - we've taken over the Pommy Forum.
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But scooter may be an aussie one day. :lol:
There is some hope for him yet.
We aint taken over the pom forum, any way we is poms :duh:
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OK I’ll go back to the Southeast site. Or shall I say, I’ll go back to the Weather Channel site. Look at the topics:
The Azaleas are popping, the dogwoods howling...
Who's catching hell in the storms?
Sandblasted face
This Weather Sucks!
Bye.
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I don't think Marty like my joke about the New Zealand farmer. That's why he kicking me off the board. :sad:
An Aussie is having a quiet drink in a bar. He leans over to the big guy next to him and says, "Do you wanna hear a Kiwi joke?"
The big guy replies: "Well, mate, before you tell that joke, you should know something. Im six foot seven, 135kg and I played as a lock for the All Blacks.
"The guy next to me is six foot five, weighs 125kg and hes an ex-All Black No 8.
"Next to him is a bloke whos six foot 10, weighs 140kg and hes a current All Black lock. Now, do you still want to tell that Kiwi joke?"
The Aussie says: "Nah, not if Im going to have to explain it three times." :beers: :beers: :beers: :beers: :beers: :beers: :beers: :beers:
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Hey Scoot, as B6mick said, if your thinking of becoming an Aussie, then you may as well stick around - besides I've read the yanky forums and ours is funnier.
We aint taken over the pom forum, any way we is poms
Yeah, Mick you're right, we're are Poms, we were just clever and moved to a better country.......
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Thanks Mick. I understand.
I'm a Yank and I should stay with my own.
But you guys are really funny, I so enjoy your site.
Maybe I was an Aussie in another life ??
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just wandering out loud " would scoot be an expat aussie"
seems to know heaps of kiwi jokes.
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Don’t know if this helps, but my father spent his time in WWII on a submarine stationed out of Fremantle. He has many stories how they just loved it there in Australia. Of course being out in a submarine in the middle of a World War guess any land would have been wonderful.
He does tell this one story about him and the captain going out hunting in the bush. They were sitting under a tree and were watching these planes go by. He said that it looked like the planes were flaying a search pattern. They just thought the planes were practicing. Then all of a sudden this Aborigine comes out of the bush and scared the shit out of them. It seems that there was a recall to the sub and they couldn’t find my dad and the captain so those planes they saw were searching for them but couldn’t find them. However the Aborigine tracked them right down to where they sat.
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Hey Scooter - that is a great joke :lol:
I have to admit, that when I played First grade rugby league for Norths in Brissy (now Mick - hold your tongue) I played in the backs and we always reckoned the forwards were as thick as pig shit . Probably from the beating their heads had taken over the years. Or maybe they are just dense