Derek McKinnon

@elladeonRH @NickJFreitas The online world has problems.

@derek_mck @NickJFreitas I saw the comments on YT, and (unfortunately) it was just a slam on a new grad. Like, 1900 comments all hating on her. :(

The math don't math.

@elladeonRH @NickJFreitas Yeah, I appreciate it could come across that way, but that's not the way I interpreted it. To me, it was a comment about the maths.

@derek_mck @NickJFreitas "Men can, just not women," Nick Freitas probably. What's sad is that he has daughters.

As a German living in Australia the fact that Australia has twice as many public sector workers than France is hilarious.

The single best thing a parent or school can do to improve emotional regulation skills in children is to radically increase how much adventurous/risky play they get. It’s literally free, works immediately and you don’t have to convince kids to do it. Instead we have a whole infrastructure of expensive professions using classroom based instruction to “teach” kids how to regulate emotions. It’s bonkers.

@delia_burgess Nah, but I do find the efficiency movement in Australia leads to less and less human communication. What happens when we get to the point we never talk to anyone?

@derek_mck yeah not sure if you’ve been to an Israeli supermarket. def not that.

israeli supermarkets are so fkn inefficient why no self check out? low tech vibes in high tech society

I also started an online chat, but your online system didn't work, and then after 50 minutes a guys finally started talking to me on the phone. Then told me he was pre-paid and I would have to start the entire process again for post paid. I gave up. Hung up on him and shut down the online chat. Even before this call I dread ringing Optus. I appreciate you have setup systems to minimize your cost, but if your customers can't actually get stuff done with you in any reasonable time frame, we are going to go somewhere else. @Optus. I spend $600 a month with you and apparently you don't want any more of my money.

Hey, Derek. Sorry to hear about the extended wait time experienced whilst getting in touch to add another service to your account with us. Whilst wait times can vary depending on volume, we aim to assist as soon as we can. We understand that time is valuable, and you may not have the time to wait for a Business Expert at this particular point in time. Our Business Experts are available on → 1300 723 016 (Mon to Fri 9:00am - 7:00pm AEST and Sat to Sun 9:00am - 5:00pm AEST). They are also available 24/7 via the Message Us platform available via your My Optus App and My Account online. If you choose to contact us via the My Optus App, this will allow you to receive notifications once an Agent has responded, meaning you can go about things in the interim. We certainly appreciate your holdings with us, and apologise for the undue frustration caused by the current wait times, and appreciate your patience. - Dillon

@Optus. So I want to give you more money by adding an extra phone number to our business account. I'm now at 40 minutes on hold. The time expected to answer me has now increased from 20 minutes to 30 minutes. So 1 hour and 10 minutes at best.... for me to give you more money????? You to realise that this is costing me more in wages than you will get per month? But that's OK, it's given me time to start talking to you competitors about what they can offer.

@RichardHanania Childcare is cheap. It is the high house prices which makes life difficult for new parents.

This is kind of paranoid stupidity probably does as much damage to birthrates as high costs of childcare.

@JEChalmers Look at the breakdown. It is all AI Data centres.

BREAKING: New numbers released by the ABS today show private sector investment is soaring under the Albanese Government. Capital expenditure has far exceeded market expectations, with billions more being poured into productive investments. New private capital expenditure (capex) grew very strongly at 6.5% in the March quarter – more than six times the median market expectation. It means capex is up 14.6% through the year. This is good news for Australian businesses and good news for our economy.

You are showing your lack of knowledge. Originally private providers spent their own money and there were virtually no restrictions. Allowed a lot of freedom and creative thinking. Showed the old CES up massively. So the bureaucrats couldn't allow that, so they shut it down.

@derek_mck @CaptainMeow123 @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick Private providers are not 'spending their own money', they discharge public contracts. So, therefore, it makes a lot of sense to have a clear system to avoid rorting. The problem with the Employment Fund now is providers don't use it because it doesn't attract outcome payments.

Oh here we go. Tax the productive and make it easier for the non productive… That’s… socialism! #auspol

I said that in my post. I was head office, so I can't remember the details, but it was a source of frustration among front line staff. I do know that we put on a concert of all the artists (from various offices) to see if they could get some backing from industry. I doubt that is possible now.

@derek_mck @CaptainMeow123 @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick You can certainly still organise steel cap boots without too much difficulty and many do. I'd like to hear some more specific examples of something you can't do now.

@maximumwelfare @CaptainMeow123 @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick Things you can do are very limited compared to what you used to be able to do before the government decided you couldn't spend your own money on it.

@derek_mck @CaptainMeow123 @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick What? That's not difficult to do now, you reimburse the job seeker, and submit a request to be reimbursed yourself.

@maximumwelfare @CaptainMeow123 @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick If someone needed something to be able to get a job, it was initially very easy to do that thing to help them get a job. Then they changed the rules to make it very hard to do it. So if someone needed steel cap boots, you could still get them, but it was extremely limited.

@derek_mck @CaptainMeow123 @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick What are the kinds of rules you're complaining about?

@maximumwelfare @CaptainMeow123 @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick The original system set up in the 1990's did help people. But then the bureaucrats decided they didn't like it and forced the industry to adopt lots of rules that meant they couldn't help people anymore.

@CaptainMeow123 @derek_mck @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick The system we have right now is almost entirely built on wildly outdated and discredited nudge theory and other 'behavioural economics' nonsense and this is to blame for the problems in the system. It doesn't work. You have to help people.

@maximumwelfare @CaptainMeow123 @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick Wow, you really are out there aren't you. There is nothing I can say that would even be comprehensible to someone as closed minded as you.

@derek_mck @CaptainMeow123 @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick People turning a profit from the system are often self-interested and biased actors, and this in itself is incompatible with any notion of a fair or lawful welfare system.

@maximumwelfare @CaptainMeow123 @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick That makes no sense at all. People within a system are generally the ones with the knowledge of the problems within that system. They just don't have the power to fix it. In welfare to work, only government can fix it, but that system is impossible to work with.

@CaptainMeow123 @derek_mck @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick He has worked directly in the system that is responsible for trapping people on welfare long-term. He is the one causing the 'intergenerational welfare dependency' so obviously he has less than zero idea of how to fix it.

Trapping people in welfare is bad. But cutting back the money so that people can't live a basic life is also bad. So I disagree that we should cut the money, but neither should long term unemployed people just assume they can continue to live off the government with no consequences.

@derek_mck @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick Which business? Name the business.

@maximumwelfare @CarpetWormKnows @ausstockchick Ingeus.