Shift workers - Do they loose 1 hour in WA
Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 01:18
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Trekkie (Member - WA)
Dont forget to put your clock forward 1 hour at 2am this morning. Yes WA has finally got it - yeay - about time - like it or not its here
Reply By: Gramps (NSW) - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 01:22
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 01:22
hahahaha you stirrer Trekkie. Here we go again :))))
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Reply By: Bware (Tweed Valley) - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:21
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:21
Daylight savings would be a bit pointless on the Enterprise in deep space unless you were going where no man has gone before in search of an extra hour of daylight! LOL
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Follow Up By: Mr Fawlty - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 16:06
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 16:06
Well as the Enterprise can travel faster than light I think you could get
well ahead of the light and as it catches up to you you could by traveling at the same speed as the light you could have perpetual light....
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Reply By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:33
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:33
Yeh like it or not the dictators got their way for the time being and NO i'm not shifting my Blo##y clock .I didn't want it and so I'm going to use it, When I get up in the morning it will be on Western Standard Time.
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Follow Up By: Phillipn - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 13:37
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 13:37
You don`t gain an extra hour of daylight [thats impossible] you loose one hour of sleep.
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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:33
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:33
Doug
Why not sneak off back to QLD. that way you will have it both ways
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Follow Up By: Motherhen - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 15:38
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 15:38
And Carps had the audacity to say that most people are in favour of it!
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (W.A) - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 16:41
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 16:41
Richard
I will just treat your statement with the utmost contempt it deserves.
Truth is I'm not a West Australian, Queenslander ,or New South Welshman but was born in South Australia and have lived in those other states and as an Australian citizen I have the right to live where I choose,
And fortunately for us all you don't own WA
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Follow Up By: Richard Kovac - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 23:52
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 23:52
No that's true Doug
But YOU will the one, early for work ..Ha.ha
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Reply By: Richard Kovac - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:31
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:31
Yes abouit time..
The sky has not fallen down the 8 hours so far
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Reply By: Exploder - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:40
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:40
Oh good, now on Monday when I get out of bed a 4:15am DST for Work witch is really 3:15amWST and when I go to bed in the evening when it will now still be F**king light out side, I will remember to curse Allan Carpenter and the entire labour government for making my life just that little bit more annoying.
So what will all you people be doing with you Imaginary extra Hour of daylight they have now given you?
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Follow Up By: Member - andrew B (Kununurra) - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 15:29
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 15:29
Catching up with frieds etc or spending some time with the Family in daylight hours after they finish work - its only been a day and all the clocks in the house are changed and the beer tastes just as good watching the cricket
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Follow Up By: Exploder - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 18:48
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 18:48
“all the clocks in the house are changed and the beer tastes just as good watching the cricket”
No it doesn’t, and you know it, LOL
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Follow Up By: Member - andrew B (Kununurra) - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 21:30
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 21:30
Mmmm, tasted a bit funny when Ponting and Hussy got out - even got the kids to bed at normal time........by the adjusted clocks anyway! (Wonder what time they will wake up....)
time for another dark and stormy, and gormeu pizza for tea!
Cheers Andrew
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Reply By: Mr Fawlty - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 16:11
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 16:11
This movement is being driven by Curtain Manufacturers bleating to politicians... The extra hour of sunlight causes the curtains to fade so they make money in supplying replacements....
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Reply By: Member - Oldplodder (QLD) - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 17:58
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 17:58
Really what you are asking in regard to shift workers working at the time of the change:
Will the boss still pay you the same this week with the start of DS, and you work one hour less?
AND,
When DS finishes, and you work one hour more, you do it for nothing?
AND,
if you change jobs meanwhile, or do not have a job when DS finishes, what happens?
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Reply By: Member - John - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 18:36
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 18:36
Trekkie, most awards, remember them, covers this situation, those working when it comes in, work 11 and get paid for 12, if 12 hour shifts, when going back, the shift worker gets paid for the extra hour worked. Of course, on AWA's and probably most awards in WA, it wouldn't be covered, so a bun fight will probably ensue!!!!!!
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Follow Up By: Member - andrew B (Kununurra) - Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 22:06
Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 22:06
On our AWA's, we get paid the full 12 (.5) hours, and will be either paid for 13.5 or work the 12.5 and have n hour off...sort of. When Ansett bit the dust, we were geting 14 days pay for a worked 10.5, and if you had to work more due to the plane availability you got paid accordingly. I for 1 at least, am about 20k (gross) better off with a workplace agreement than with the award.
Cheers Andrew
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Reply By: Waynepd (NSW) - Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:12
Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:12
I am a shift worker and yes (depending on the type of shifts you work 8 or 12 hour) you will cop a 9 hour or 13 hour shift when going back to normal time, and a 7 or 11 hour shift when going over to daylight saving time.
Funny how i only remember copping the longer shifts over the years and not the short ones.
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Reply By: Member - Davoe (Nullagine) - Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:23
Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:23
well the bahh humbuggas were proved wrong We had kids outdoors playing till 8.00pm up and down the street, while we enjoyed a barbie. There were no flies and the oppresive heat was actually a perfect 28 degrees. No one in the house had problems sleeping and there was plenty of light when we got up at 5.30 refreshed and ready to enjy this new era of new thinking (STILL cant get a carton from the local bottlo tho - maybe next century)
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Reply By: Member - Phantom (WA) - Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 13:29
Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 13:29
I never thought I would mention this DS word agin but I changed my 43 clocks...yes thats right 43, and my family all love it.
I have asked most people at work this morning and have not had ONE single negative.
Steve
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Follow Up By: equinox - Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 14:31
Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 14:31
You must be asking the wrong people. I've come across about 50/50, but I'm sure it will be more like 80/20 against, when the referendum is due. I've been awake since 2:15am WDST so the late sunrise surely didn't affect me today.
Something that made me cringe in yesterdays "Sunday Times" was a stockbroker who said as the ASX was "over east" he had to start work at 7:00am everyday in
Perth and it was a great intrusion into his family life poor little thing. I've been starting at 7:00am or earlier my whole working life (over 20 years) and it hasn't affected my family life one little bit. As I said in an ealier post on the subject, it's all driven by the Chamber of Commerce. Anyway, can't wait to vote "No" in three years as I have done two times already.
Cheers
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Follow Up By: Member - Phantom (WA) - Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 15:38
Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 15:38
Sorry Equinox,
I was not selective at all...in a working class environment and was surprised at the result....but nonetheless true.
I think you will be disappointed in 3 years time...but then again we may all be dead by then.
Steve
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