Coronavirus - Australia
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@Bovidae said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@canefan said in Coronavirus - Australia:
I think it might be 12 months from the date the credit was issued?
I hope so, the wording is a little ambiguous.
See below
My air points dollars account is now healthily in credit. I wonder if you can use these in the air points shop?
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@canefan Good to know. My generic email didn't have that information as I didn't purchase the ticket.
I was going to Sydney for a specific reason (a concert) that has now been rescheduled for later in the year so hopefully everything is sorted before then regarding trans- Ta$man travel.
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@Godder said in Coronavirus - Australia:
If we're talking economics, apparently the statistical value of a life in Australia is $4.2 million. That's probably part of the consideration in the policy work.
In terms of government spending, the old cost more than the young to keep alive, so letting them die would certainly help the economy in that sense. Might not be politically palatable however.
$.5 million - that figure comes from PMC: (https://www.pmc.gov.au/resource-centre/regulation/best-practice-regulation-guidance-note-value-statistical-life).
The important bit is each year of premature death is costed as $195k, but that certainly wouldn't hold true for the retired elderly.
. 5? That link says $4.9 million.
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Advantage of working from home? Lunchtime hoops with my boys. Working on my god awful shooting mechanics
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@mariner4life said in Coronavirus - Australia:
Advantage of working from home? Lunchtime hoops with my boys. Working on my god awful shooting mechanics
That and wine with lunch.
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i really wanted to open a beer in my last Teams meeting, just for the Lols
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when we do our next Zoom meeting I am gonna put on a shirt, tie and wear my glasses haha
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
(I am really going to fucking struggle going back to structured work day after this).
We're having a company meeting tomorrow. My question to the executive was "now we've proved the capability are you going to reduce your capital expenditure on office space?"
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@antipodean said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
(I am really going to fucking struggle going back to structured work day after this).
We're having a company meeting tomorrow. My question to the executive was "now we've proved the capability are you going to reduce your capital expenditure on office space?"
I might have to steal that!
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@antipodean just because we can manage, doesn't make it good. A few weeks is one thing, but remote working without collaboration sucks for a bunch of the stuff that works better face to face. The number of problems that get solved in 10 minutes over a piece of paper, after days of back and forward emails is remakrable. Basically, everyone is stupid.
You know more than you can say, more than you can write down.
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@nzzp think I've mentioned that some of my team are struggling with the separation - I definitely am not. Maybe I'm just an antisocial fluffybunny?
Thing is, our HQ has progressively been set up for hot desking because of space, and the value is limited so far e.g. Monday/Tuesday is no desks by 8.30AM, while Thursday and particularly Friday the joint would be running around 40%.
So there is a good argument for more WFH. Especially for me.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus - Australia:
when we do our next Zoom meeting I am gonna put on a shirt, tie and wear my glasses haha
try that with no pants on, just to remind you of the freedom of working from home.
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@NTA said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@voodoo - it is why I'm always a bit hesitant to book the family trips with them. Flew to NZ Solo on Jetstar in 2017, but if they fucked up it was only me impacted. Having to put up with wife/kids pissing and moaning about ruined holidays has been done exactly once in my life and never again.
@Snowy said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@NTA Did you get an email from Air NZ about getting credits for your flights? They will hold a credit for you until you can rebook.
I was reading that is for domestic NZ flights only at this point. International flights are under different consideration, while they try to work out reductions in scheduling etc.
My mistake - cancelled flights out to April. Looks like our route doesn't appear in April so fingers crossed.
If they aren't running the flight, I'll be going hard on the "you aren't offering the service I paid for" but we all know the fine print will get you
Given circumstances, there might not be a rugby season to watch that weekend as planned
Hotels at this stage have charged us the night we land (midnight touchdown) but the one we booked in the Tron hasn't charged us from what I can see, but that was a non-refundable apparently. Just lock the credit card and come to terms
I got my US flights held for a year as well.
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@nzzp said in Coronavirus - Australia:
@antipodean just because we can manage, doesn't make it good. A few weeks is one thing, but remote working without collaboration sucks for a bunch of the stuff that works better face to face. The number of problems that get solved in 10 minutes over a piece of paper, after days of back and forward emails is remakrable. Basically, everyone is stupid.
I didn't say completely, those people that need to can work from an office. But there's no requirement for presenteeism.
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I’m working from home now and it’s fine. No change in productivity and I can get everything done that I need. But if something changes and I have to work from home permanently, I simply won’t, I’ll go back to being retired. Don’t underestimate how much you may need the contact with other people for both productivity and quality of life. Not everyone is the same.
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Well Scomo just announced a very generous JobKeeper payment of $1500 a fortnight to anyone who has lost their job. The biggest issue is figuring out if the company you work for qualifies. My understanding is if the turnover is less than a billion they have to have had a turnover reduction of 30%, if the turnover is greater than 1 billion then a turnover reduction of 50%.
In my case I am employed by a large worldwide recruitment agency, I am paid a set fee per job that is planned in advance. All my jobs have been cancelled in the education sector.
I now have to wait to see if the recruitment agency has had a turnover reduction of 30% to see if I qualify. Also do they look at just the Australian arm of the recruitment agency or the worldwide turnover. If they have managed to keep turnover up then I am just shit out of luck.
This also puts a bit of admin on the employer to nominate and provide info to the ATO. Plus I guess getting accountants to prepare documents showing turnover reduction.