GRIPES

[Marty_d]

He's only trying to keep the birds off his oranges, not starve them to death

[red750]

We've all heard the news regarding child care centres and the Working With Children check. My complaint is that the coverage is spread so wide, it has become unmanagable.

 

I am a volunteer at our Men's Shed. I don't do much because most of the guys don't need help with what I was accepted for - assistance with computers, internet, email accounts and digital photography.

 

What do those two thoughts have to do with each other? As a volunteer, I am considered an employee of the company which runs the shed. In other operations of the company, three suburbs away, they have activities involving children. As an employee of the company, I am required to hold a Working With Children certificate and undergo police checks, even though the youngest person through our doors would be over 50. What a waste of admin and police effort.

 

 

 

 

 

[facthunter]

That's what happens when you go too Big and get $$$$'s INVOLVED. Nev

[onetrack]

And the system is a complete failure, as evidenced by the childcare victims and the number of schoolteachers, police, and people of "high standing", who are now being caught on a regular and seemingly increasing basis, for deviant activities.

[nomadpete]

Gripes....

 

My relevant gripe is that the "Working With Vulnerables" blue card has become as cumbersome and ineffective as a ASIC card.

 

I am required to hold a Blue Card to be a volunteer fire fighter. 

 

Next thing, they will want every human to have one, just in case they encounter a person who is under the age of consent..

 

 

 

Edited Saturday at 04:09 AM by nomadpete
Gritting my teeth.

[spacesailor]

but !.

Under the age of ' consent ' didn't stop a " politician " from paying 

To get those " under-age  " girls pregnant  .

Then the parents had to pay more for their daughters ' abortion ' .

spacesailor

[Marty_d]

5 hours ago, red750 said:

We've all heard the news regardibg child care centres and the Working With Children check. My complaint is that the coverage is spread so wide, it has become unmanagable.

 

I am a volunteer at our Men's Shed. I don't do much because most of the guys don't need help with what I was accepted for - assistance with computers, internet, email accounts and digital photography.

 

What do those two thoughts have to do with each other? As a volunteer, I am considered an employee of the company which runs the shed. In other operations of the company, three suburbs away, they have activities involving children. As an employee of the company, I am required to hold a Working With Children certificate and undergo police checks, even though the youngest person through our doors would be over 50. What a waste of admin and police effort.

 

 

 

 

Maybe some of the members are in their second childhood?

[facthunter]

My " Lot " is just people gathering for a talk and coffee. Very flexible, No empire building. Nothing in Writing No money Involved. The chairman is the 
One who sets up the Chairs.    Nev

 

[red750]

Two more examples of the brilliance of closed captioning on the TV this morning:

 

realising  -  rill icing

 

stadium - stady yum

[facthunter]

It'd the stuff of Waiting Rooms. Nev

[octave]

The auto subtitling has quite a high degree of accuracy, but when it does mess up, it can be quite amusing.

 

My son owns a computer game development company.  About once a week, one of the team members produces a short YouTube video talking about updates to their main game and upcoming developments.  The fellow who does this is German, although he speaks English without much of an accent.

 

A couple of years ago, I watched one of these videos, and I had subtitles on.   He talked about how an update would be delayed because there were some small problems to fix. 

 

 He said, "There are still some NIGGLES in the system" Unfortunately, the auto subtitle heard the word NIGGLES as, shall we say, a racially offensive word with almost the same letters.  

 

Reading the comments, everyone understood what had happened, and it did lead to some quite humorous posts.