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  1. 17th December 2009, 21:08 #466
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    Quote Originally Posted by NZKTM View Post
    Where are you then? Te Awamutu?
    On ya...

    Te Rapa .......

    Things take time, its the company way !!
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    Quote Originally Posted by MXNUT View Post
    Te Rapa .......

    Things take time, its the company way !!
    Sweet, it must take you all of 5 minutes up the backroads to get to work then.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eddieb View Post
    Sweet, it must take you all of 5 minutes up the backroads to get to work then.
    yeah and then 4 hours to get home via raglan etc...........
    'Good things come to those who wait'
    Bollocks, get of your arse and go get it
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eddieb View Post
    Sweet, it must take you all of 5 minutes up the backroads to get to work then.
    Right past chez TRI BOY ....
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  5. 17th December 2009, 21:19 #470
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    can see some twilight rides a brewing here
    'Good things come to those who wait'
    Bollocks, get of your arse and go get it
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    Yahoo.. finally landed a job.... its out in the sticks a bit.. but will move out there... and stay in the local pub.....cant wait.......

    Talking to the agentecy yesterday.. jobs are bit hard to come by.
    there is lots advertised.. but twice as many cunts queing up for them..
    The recesion has hit a bit hard here too....
    Seems to be getting a bit better though...

    A few weeks of work.. and i will be bike shopping..

    Australia is a lot different to NZ.....

    The bush isnt half as tight.. and wet...and the distances ya got to travel are huge...

    Any suggestions..... keen on Another strom........
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    Quote Originally Posted by kevfromcoro View Post
    Yahoo.. finally landed a job.... its out in the sticks a bit.. but will move out there... and stay in the local pub.....cant wait.......
    First off well done !!

    Not sure on Stromys.. never had one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by kevfromcoro View Post
    The bush isnt half as tight.. and wet...
    or as vertical !!
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    Well im not sure why, every time this thread pops up im on it again..

    last monday the foreman of our crew says..

    The boss has told me that half of the staff are going to be layed off.......hes selling the van and 2 utes and 2 trucks ( oh fuk not again )

    i had a feeling this was coming, about 3 weeks ago there was a credit block on the fuel cards,,,,,,,,,,,,
    we had no fuel for 3 days,, there wasnt much done in them 3 days....LOL

    this shit is doing my head in..

    so Ive written in for a quarry management job, should find out next week about this job,
    also for work in Taupo as well, as Palmerston north..

    doing it all over again......

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    Boss said the budget target for sales is down 34%, so time to batten down the hatches.
    One bloke is leaving for another job and isn't being replaced. That leaves 5 from a staff of 18 only two years ago.
    It ain't over yet.
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    its so tough here in the rapa, its not just 4 roading company's going for the same job.....................its the whole of NZ...

    iv got about 2-3 weeks before the chop....

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    Shit Joe thats No good, Hope something turns up for you.
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    Sorry to hear that Joe, I've heard civil work up here, althougth there seems to be a lot going on, is being slowed down and guys have not been replaced for a while. In my work there is some work around (better than last year) but everyone, designers through to builders, has only got a month or so ahead of them, very different to being booked up for 6 months ahead!
    We have turned a corner but there is a long way to go, that lovely government GST change is going to slow things down again for me this year so I'm being carefull for now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by junkmanjoe View Post
    Well im not sure why, every time this thread pops up im on it again..

    last monday the foreman of our crew says..

    The boss has told me that half of the staff are going to be layed off.......hes selling the van and 2 utes and 2 trucks ( oh fuk not again )

    i had a feeling this was coming, about 3 weeks ago there was a credit block on the fuel cards,,,,,,,,,,,,
    we had no fuel for 3 days,, there wasnt much done in them 3 days....LOL

    this shit is doing my head in..

    so Ive written in for a quarry management job, should find out next week about this job,
    also for work in Taupo as well, as Palmerston north..

    doing it all over again......

    JMJ
    Keep an eye on the site of Rooney Earthmoving www.rooneygroup.co.nz if you are prepared to move south

    They regularly have jobs for excavator operators ( apparently they have over 70 excavators operating at present )

    Just a thought

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