- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.
- Thread starter Farmer Roy
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- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
We have pretty much the same rules here. Friend of mine sole income is from property rentals. He's not a happy chappy right now.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Bummer for everyone...... will be close to a trillion blown. 50% of GDP .... will take 5 decades to recover from. Large cash splashes at elections going forward wont happen. There will have to be cuts made everywhere on public spending.. Wait till interest rates rise eventually.........
- Location
- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Perhaps Adani and the other mining companies will magnanaously return all their mining subsidies to help meet the bill now that the economy has stalled and their markets have contracted
Steel
Member
- Location
- Finley, Riverina, Australia
I went to town today and saw a council worker taping off all the playground equipment and BBQ area.
Just realised I broke one of the rules as I took two kids with me shopping.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
6 months jail for you!
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
meh
after 3 years of negative cashflow ( & still unsure as to wether I will survive this year ) without any help or assistance apart from increasing borrowings, I’m not too worried about landlords missing rents for 6 months tbh
I am more worried about their tenants. A lot - & I mean a LOT - of people literally lost their jobs overnight, with NO hope of finding more employment for at least 6 months. Even if you did evict them, there will be no one to take their place to pay rent . . .
as it is, the only thing keeping us afloat & literally paying household bills for the last two years has been my wife’s wage. Working for Council these last couple of months has been a God send, but I am only a casual, so have no job security there if they wind operations back at all . . .
my wife works in the office of a local pre school. They have three rooms, cater from 3 yrs old to “school readiness”. They have 13 or 16 teachers on their staff. Yesterday, they had 5 children at school . . . It does look like the Board will shut them down next term ( only 2 weeks left in this school term ) . Being admin, my wife will be the last to lose her job if it comes to that, but it is still a worry
landlords with assets are going to struggle no doubt, but not as much as their tenants I’d suggest
there is talk of banks deferring loan payments $ waiving fees etc ( my bank has already confirmed that ) & not foreclosing on any mortgages for 6 months or so.
I don’t think there is any sector who will come out of this unscathed
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- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
yeah, our Council has been very proactive with all this, in regards to staff movements, work practices & access to the main office in town & to the works depot, for the last 2 weeks or more
Being Parks & Gardens, we are considered essential ( we dig the graves & sporting fields etc need to be maintained otherwise they are too hard to bring back ) & we can all work in isolation. There are mowers & whipper snippers spread across town in various locations & we each just drive to our shed, rather than the depot.
However - I am only a casual, so if there are any reductions in staffing or workload, I will be first to go . . .
Anyway, on Monday Council locked down the Show Ground ( a large, popular public space that is used by a lot of different groups & individuals ) & any Parks / Playgrounds that have fences. Closed down everything else, disconnected all public BBQs, shut public toilets apart from 2 that are on highways out of town . . .
sh!t is real
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- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Went out today to take some food to my Dad and his partner, they haven't been out for a fortnight.
Roads were eerily quiet, generally speaking people are complying. Some trucks, vans and dog walkers was about it.
I got a load of concrete delivered and laid. Footings for my new shed.
Roads were eerily quiet, generally speaking people are complying. Some trucks, vans and dog walkers was about it.
I got a load of concrete delivered and laid. Footings for my new shed.
@Farmer Roy ,i‘ve watched this all unfold.
It really scares me as I think we‘ve witnessed the end of society as we knew it...and that is past tense.
Nothing will now be the same,will we ever shake hands again?
Its like someone has pressed a reset button and there’s no going back.
It really scares me as I think we‘ve witnessed the end of society as we knew it...and that is past tense.
Nothing will now be the same,will we ever shake hands again?
Its like someone has pressed a reset button and there’s no going back.
- Location
- West Yorkshire
While we are briefly talking about CV and work I am in a bit off a awkward situation with all this at the moment.
Where I work (in engineering ) we have no work and are sat on our backsides doing nothing and have been put on 3 day a week so I’m on 60% wages.
The boss won’t shut shop as he’s a puppet on a string for our main customer who does a little work for others who supply the NHS Aldi lidl etc with baby wipe packaging etc.
If he shut shop yes I would get 80% which I can survive on but I’m suffering financially at 60% and feel I’m subsidising our customer to the tune of 20% of my wage just incase they have a breakdown which more than likely will not happen.
I really don’t know what to do/options that I have.
Sorry Roy it’s your thread I know but there are a lot off wise words and common sense spoken here. ?
Where I work (in engineering ) we have no work and are sat on our backsides doing nothing and have been put on 3 day a week so I’m on 60% wages.
The boss won’t shut shop as he’s a puppet on a string for our main customer who does a little work for others who supply the NHS Aldi lidl etc with baby wipe packaging etc.
If he shut shop yes I would get 80% which I can survive on but I’m suffering financially at 60% and feel I’m subsidising our customer to the tune of 20% of my wage just incase they have a breakdown which more than likely will not happen.
I really don’t know what to do/options that I have.
Sorry Roy it’s your thread I know but there are a lot off wise words and common sense spoken here. ?
Could you not all have a word with your boss and say you want to go on the 80% shutdown option but if there is a problem that needs fixing you would go in that same day to sort it. Even if you did it unofficially without him having to actually be open? Would that work? it sounds a bit underhand.
My daughter has just been laid off , it was a good and 'apparently ' secure job as well,
But Not anywhere near as bad as for the poor souls seriously Ill with it of course.
This whole thing is bloody awful to put it mildly..
But Not anywhere near as bad as for the poor souls seriously Ill with it of course.
This whole thing is bloody awful to put it mildly..
- Location
- West Yorkshire
What’s the word Roy uses at the moment sh!tcunt well he’s one of those sorts of people.
We tried the deal off if there is something needs doing he can call us but he wouldn’t have it.
He hates the fact that we could get 80% of government but he’s the owner and gets nothing as he pays himself fudge all to dodge tax like they all business owners do so now they get feck all back.
He’s just a fecking Shitcunt.
I’ll be fudged if I’m leaving though as I’ve 20 years in now for redundancy so I’m just gonna manipulate and rape him for everything I can now.
Steel
Member
- Location
- Finley, Riverina, Australia
Very quiet on the main roads here now to. My daughter who just got her learners permit likes driving when there is less traffic. Lucky as she did stall my ute in the Main Street a couple of times.
- Location
- southern riverina Australia
Ha ha. I'll let Mitch know it's not just him...He stalled mine 4 times in one effort the other side of Robinvale last year.....To be fair to him we were fairly loaded up....supposed to be able to go for his P's in a few months.......cant see that happening.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
tbh - I am not too stressed by all this. Maybe we needed a reset button ?
nothing can be as bad as the last 6 months of last year, or the culmination of the last 3 years.
not that I am saying I am taking this lightly or disregarding it. Partly due to the Council job & the regular updates we get & how proactive Council has been with policies & staff, I am very aware of safe practices, social distancing etc etc. I personally have no concerns about catching or surviving Corona ( tbh, I don’t REALLY care if I live or die ), but my 11 year old son does have asthma & my wife does have sh!t lungs & gets hammered every winter with the flu - so they are my bigger concerns than my health
it just doesn’t keep me awake worrying all night like other things do . . .
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
Just coincidence, but Council are laying another beam in the lawn cemetery to increase capacity
