4.30 Get out of the pit, grab a coffee, daily ablutions, make sarnies. 5.20 Set off in the car, switch on radio, listen to the usual inxs, midnight oil, men at work on the radio or spoof interviews with polotitians made from sound grabs (every station does the same joke), listen the the ad breaks where the man with the helium voice reads the terms and conditions Then the traffic news: some mullet haired truckie has come together with a hoon in his V8 and the world slows down to take a look. 6.15 Arrive on the job to see the usual brown nosers already there unwrapping their lines and eagerly awaiting some "mud" (although we don't officially start until 6.30), sit in the car for 10 mins and get glared at like some trouble making pariah. 6.25 Join the other robots who have already made start, I make an attempt at basic communication: "mornin'" ... sometimes you may get a grunting sound in return or on a realy good day you may even get " 'ows it going?" but there is rarely any eye contact as this would be classed as insubordination and talking on the line is generally frowned upon. 9.55 The labourers are still loading me up with mud with 5 mins to smoko.
10.00 Should be sitting down having a sandwich but still using the mud.
10.10 sit down for smoko and try to make another attempt at social interaction but my attempts at humour are greeted like a fart in a lift. The forman says something remotely funny (work related of course) and oh how we all roll about holding our sides with laughter. 9.25 The usual teachers pets are looking nervious and pack up there eskies to make sure they are back on duty before the stroke of 9.30 9.30 (sharp) Back on the slab and jump on a trestle scaffold and dare to question why we only have 3 scaffold boards on the trestles (which are designed for 5) when there is a pile of boards a mile high just a few feet away, the reply "thats how we do it in Australia, if you don't like it...." We are all back in full swing. I have a little sing out load and tell the apprentice about how when I was his age i was out fighting, getting, drunk and shagging anything with a pulse and how he should be doing the same. This just get the foreman's back up even more and I am reprimanded for being a bad influence. 10.00 - 2.20 blocks, mud, blocks, mud blocks, mud, blocks, mud blocks, mud, blocks, mud blocks, mud, blocks, mud blocks, mud, blocks, mud blocks, mud, blocks, mud blocks, mud, blocks, mud blocks, mud, blocks, mud, flush ender, 7/8, 3/4, bump up, grind down ......... 2.25 winding down, tell labourer to stop bringing mud, he looks at me as if i'm mad, pack up tools.
2.30 (official end of working day) walk of to car and turn to see grown med quivering and wishing they had the balls dare to leave their posts without direction from a superior. 2.35 Start drive home listen to more inxs, midnight oil, men at work on the radio. The only thing that got me through the day was looking forward to "get This" on "mmm" now thats been pulled!
4.00 get home, showered, have dinner watch Nick Jr for a couple of hours (i got the full works sky package and all i seem to watch is bl00dy kids TV!) then asleep before the kids!
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You know i love you really Aldo, but i think its time to get on seek.com dont you ,,i have found thou that aussies dont always get our sense of humour,,who knows maybe its just us mate that arent quite right!!!lol
Cal x
AT least you are there in work. The uk is a much grimmer place with the eastern europeans under cutting us brits.I,d swop places with you tomorrow.Is that why we get the name whinging poms?
DAVE(plasterer)
Aussie men don't gossip about anything related to sex because, to quote Germaine Greer, an Australian man's idea of foreplay is, "D'yer wannit or not?" There's not a lot to joke about after such a promising start, is there?
Gill
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Then the traffic news: some mullet haired truckie has come together with a hoon in his V8 and the world slows down to take a look.
but i think its time to get on seek.com dont you ,,i have found thou that aussies dont always get our sense of humour,,who knows maybe its just us mate that arent quite right!!!lol
