According to the Daily Telegraph in 2017, they can earn up to 130,000. But the subtitle says "as much as 180,000" so it already contradicted itself in the title.
The one thing people appear to forget is Traffic Controllers work in a very high risk job where people deliberately try to run them over. I used to hire traffic controllers on projects in Brisbane. They were getting $18 an hour flat and $25 an hour as overtime with no allowances. On these major unionised projects, the Victorian CFMEU classifies Traffic Controllers as CW1, CW2 with 6 months in role, and CW3 in a controller spotter role. Their permanent hourly rate is $48.93 for a CW1 to $52.23 for a CW3. They work 36 hours of normal time which is guess is 8 hours Monday to Thursday and 4 hours on Friday before OT kicks in. On casual rates..... they get $61 to $65 an hour. Now all that aside.... there is a young bloke across the road from where I live in Northern NSW. He works as a traffic controller for a labour hire company run by a Job Search Provider. This bloke gets $32 an hour flat rate.
To be fair if you run a company whose job is to perform independent reports and you return a report that is not what the client wanted/expected then they are probably going to go to another independent report body.
HR wouldn't allow us to sack 2 thieving drug addicts who arrived late and left early from work for over 3 years in our state health department.... ffs.... The comedy here may be exaggerated but it perfectly represents what is happening in corporate Australia.
Just like Yes Minister was a realistic portrayal of the UK Parliament decades ago, Utopia is spot on about what goes on in Canberra - actually it is worse.
The old way to speak Australian was to speak like a tough guy asking a question. The current way to speak Australian is to sound like a homosexual asking a question.
Rhonda from PR is a real rival for affection though. I've had the misfortune of working with people just like that - this is very accurately observed satire.
This show is very similar to Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister which was first broadcast in 1980 i.e. 40 years ago. Obviously there are a lot of muck ups at higher levels but there are a lot of low level public servants trying to do their best on short term (1-2 year) contracts.
I've never laughed while being infuriated before...we need an emoji for that. Is HR really just corporate self-sabotage? Like, do they get courses on how to trigger fight or flight responses in people? OMG! Do an HR on HR review at an HR conference! I need to see humans stuck in a perpetual feedback loop!
Ugh... women in HR... How to destroy any industry with people who don't make any product or provide a service to everyone else. A corporate illusion of self importance that does nothing except consume people and spit them out as garbage!
Get rid of Hr here in New Zealand there are a few companies that did not have a Hr dept like Resene Paints and seemed to operate pretty well without one!😂
One of the greatest stories I read was a company who simply fired the HR department, and used the costs save to pay the actual managers who had to work with people to hire staff and work with them more money to monitor them (and get a better class of manager), and then just keep an IR law firm on retainer for the legal stuff. Allegedly, as one of the (former) HR drones were carry their stuff out in a box, one of the managers said to her "I don't even know what **** you did here."
I just found out about the American version of Utopia and discovered the original from the U.K. So I thought I'd start with U.K. to try and get a handle on what it's about. Right now, I'm so confused. These clips here are they connected to the Graphic Novels Dystopian and the found Graphic Novel Utopia or are they two completely different TV show entities?
Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeechnically, these guys aren't Public Service. They're a Government-owned company. All the graft of a government department, but with that sweet, sweet magic immunity from oversight thanks to the three magic words: "Commercial-In-Confidence".
I recently found the show and finished season 2. I thought that it would end on a victory but ended in another disappointment. In future seasons do they ever find a way to fight back?
No, and that's both beautiful and horrible aspect of the show. Just like in real life nothing is actually resolved like it "supposed" to go down. Good guys never win. Incompetent, scheming people who know how to play the system? Those guys are on top and keep taking W after W.
Segment 4: the people Tony are meeting with are consultants - external "experts" hired for their "expertise". They're satirising how they work: ie, they don't really provide any expertise specific to the client's needs, they just charge a fat fee, cook up some nice-sounding advice (probably copy-pasted from the hundreds of others they've done), and then wait for the $900,000 payment for about three hours of work to come through. Segment 5 is a dig at unions, perceived as lazy and over-paid (specifically, the "CMBU" on the guy's hi-vis is a dig at the powerful CFMEU, the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, except the name's changed so the producters' houses don't get firebombed).
I just watched "The Top 5 Utopia Videos Of 2023! | Utopia" on RU-vid. The show is so close to real life that it's almost scary. Australian politics, public service, corporations are all portrayed so accurately that it's uncomfortable to watch. But it's also hilarious.
does this behavour actually occur, i mean the poeple on the bells, like is this their actually mental process or this just a laugh ey, or should country folk be worried??
Of course this is from a secondary source, but my dad works in a consultancy firm and yeah, some of their HR workshops and the bureaucracy that Utopia mocks, is scarily accurate
Australia has gone bonkers. Political correctness used to be a joke. Now it's poisoned the workplace and everything feels so sterile and boring. There are better ways to educate the population on not being creepy or abusive in the workplace. Instituting fascist level rules isn't the way forward and we are losing the very essence of being an Aussie.
