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RECENTLY at one of the big two supermarkets there were many customers waiting to be checked out. Customers like myself who refuse to use automatic checkouts because they displace even more jobs.
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Two youngsters were heard to be arguing as to whom should man a station as they both claimed to be on their break.
Meanwhile, some of my fellow believers decided to use the auto tellers anyway.
So here is the message guys; whenever you see a line of people waiting, man the station and don’t rush.
Mr Woolworths and Mr Coles don’t give zilch about your jobs, only the bottom line, and are slowly brainwashing customers into checking themselves out and where do you think that leaves you? Out of work, that’s where. Their not having to pay wages is just another nice little earner without we suckers, seeing it reflected in lower prices.
Don’t forget shop workers, it’s people like us who see the writing on the wall that are doing our bit to help you keep your jobs. So it’s up to you to see that more of us don’t start using this technology. After all, aren’t they are bleating about being ripped off by the system, so get with the program.
Don Davey, South Launceston.
Game Changers
AMAZING how a heavy defeat at the Western Australian election can suddenly have the coalition thinking about the next general election.
Having done nothing, other than blaming renewable energy targets for power shortages, the Prime Minister in the week after the WA result summoned gas suppliers to a meeting regarding the looming shortage of gas for local consumption and, for the cost of less than half the price of one of the new submarines, sometime in the future we will be assured of all the electricity the country will ever need.
Hopefully all this will result in reduced energy bills just the same as the promised dividend following the repeal of the Carbon Tax and competition between privately owned energy providers.
A Carter, Mowbray.
Employment provider appointment
PERHAPS the Federal Minister for Employment can explain how a person on newstart allowance can attend an employment services provider appointment that did not exist (no notification issued, no phone call)? No one else can explain it.
It would save Centrelink sending out a letter stating you missed an appointment with your employment services provider (that did not exist) and as a result your newstart allowance has been stopped. I am not the only one this has happened to.
Maybe it is a gimmick to bolster up statistics showing newstart allowance recipients missing so called appointments.
A good on you and a pat on the back to the employment services provider staff. You have done your job and I have transferred to another employment provider.
Newstart allowance recipients should not have to put up with that sort of crap.
K. Nunn, Newnham.
18C Sell Out
WITH THEIR refusal to allow sensible amendments to Section C of the Racial Discrimination Act, our elected representatives in the Senate have a lot to answer for.
By pandering to the zealots of political correctness they have effectively hammered another nail in the coffin of free speech.
Newspaper editors, cartoonists and other public commentators are now afraid to say or do anything that may result in them and their employers being hauled before the courts for causing manufactured offence or humiliation to minority groups who are quick to exploit the vulnerabilities of our pathetic legal system.
Letters to the editor are destined to be increasingly bland as the general populace become afraid to say what they really think.
Daryl Binning, WA.
