Funny ! I wonder if they will turn their attention to those thieving scumbags that control the 7-11 franchises over there ?


I would not know who was working in Maccas, have not been to one in years. Last time I stepped foot in one was the one in the Night Bazaar road in CM. Wife was pregnant I think and had a craving for their spicy chicken wings. The guy who served me was Liberace gay to the power of ten ! It was quite funny seeing even the Thai people in the shop react to how "out there" he was. Was worth going in there just for the show !

A good thing too.   They were the best employer of University student labour at one time.  This enabled students to earn enough to provide their needs provided they had family accomodation etc.  Then someone got the bright idea of importing full time Phillipine labour..  Some of them were  nice and were capable but it took the food out of the mouths of students. These jobs did not attract Uni graduates which the Phillipinos were for the money they were prepared to spend. 
Very poor move.  It is good to see it stopped.


www.smh.com.au/business/retail/mcdonalds-lowers-its-tax-bill-as-profits-soar-20160626-gps2b3.html

Sounds like England might be a bit different to other parts of the world. Some places have been using imported pickers for generations. That's why there are so many Indians in Fiji, the English brought them there to work on the plantations. The local natives would not do it, they lived well enough off yams, coconuts and all the seafood they could eat.


I would like to see what happened if they took every Mexican out of the USA tomorrow. Wonder if all those jobs they are "stealing" would be snapped up by out-of-work American farm workers and manual labourers. I doubt it very much. What would happen is the people who have been employing them would suddenly have nobody to fill those positions.
Funny thing is a lot of those farmers who employ those Mexicans are probably Trump supporters.

Ask the farmers in Australia who rely on Brit and European backpackers to harvest their crops every year. If it wasn't for them they would not have anyone to do it.

Friend of mine in Gunnedah NSW has two big Case harvesters, does the season from QLD down to VIC every year Oct - Jan. Relies on Brit backpackers to drive his machines, cannot find Aussies who are willing to work those three months of the year.

The pay rate is not always the issue, it's getting people to go out bush for three months straight at that time of the year, when most people are laying on the beach drinking beer.
These guys are not idiots, they are switched on young guys from the UK who are backpacking around the country. They are not going to work for peanuts. When I get back I will give him a ring and see if I can find out what the going rate is, will let you know.

I actually spoke to him about doing a season with him early in 2015, but ended up in hospital in March, so that was the end of that.  Could probably still drive one, nice big air conditioned cab, just sit there and push buttons on a computer screen and let it steer itself. That's if I could get up into the cab.  

There you go, would have meant I would have been getting just on half what I was being paid in the mining game, fabricating steel, repairing trucks etc.

I didn't realise Aussies had their own fast food.

Surely timtams don't count?

Adding beetroot to a burger isn't a unique produt either....just a bunch of kangaroo rustlers.

Thought when you went to the butcher you just drove along till you found something.