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Post This - You Tossers!

Now we have all seen the looney elements of Australian management who think that because they hire a person's services for 37.5 hours a week (and screw an extra 8 or 9 hours of unpaid overtime out of them) that they own their employees.

How many people have worked for bosses who try to intrude into their private lives?

Well, one of the most appalling examples of Bosswankeritis has to be from the stamp-lickers at Australia Post who have effectively fined a worker some $3000 because she ... .

A> Stole a packet of stamps?

B> Couldn't tie up a parcel?

C> Had one too many personal items on her desk?

If you guessed C then you are right! Yup, some jumped-up little appendage at the Australia Post call centre in LaTrobe St, Melbourne, went feral because a worker had FOUR personal items on her desk.

The offending item was a picture of the woman concerned and some friends and how on earth that could be offensive - apparently there were no barnyard animals or indecencies involved - is just mindboggling.

Now allegedly, the managing lickspittles at the Australia Post call centre in LaTrobe St, Melbourne, have placed a limit of three personal items on the desks of the ladies working there. Why? Who in the ***** knows?

But while that may seem a tad over-the top how about this? In some call centres the telephonists have to raise their hands if they want to go to the loo. Not only that, but they are timed so they don't waste company time!

Don't know about you guys, but I reckon that's worth getting on the phone to Australia Post and giving them a right royal bollocking. What a pack of tossers! 131318.

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