atw: Re: Another "rates" query

Auto Electrical / automotive engineering

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From: austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:austechwriter-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tracy
Jenner-Lawson
Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 9:11 AM
To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: atw: Re: Another "rates" query


Hi Warren

Which trade are you going back to?

Tracy
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Warren Lewington" <wjlewington@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 7:47 PM
Subject: atw: Re: Another "rates" query


> "And there are those of us who simply choose to remain independent of 
> any affiliation with a professional organisation -- for their own 
> reasons -- "
>
> Miriam I saw all this sort of "argument" from panel beaters, and do 
> you have any idea how the insurance companies manipulated it to their 
> own ends?
>
> Nope. Bet you don't.
>
> Well they played each of the individual panel beaters off against each

> other until they screwed them down on rates so much that beaters can't

> make an affordable living from insurance work using tradesmen. You get

> sub-standard work from poorly trained and un-supervised staff, using 
> aftermarket body panels that don't meet Australian Design Standards. 
> That means your car only looks road worthy... And safe.
>
> Since this is likely to be one of my last posts to this list as a 
> technical communicator, I might as well just say it the way I want to:
>
> I think the employment agencies are generally trawling for resumes to 
> prop up their "pets" who are often not right for the job. I suspect 
> the agencies are "re-writing" the good non pet candidates to make the 
> pets look better. I am almost sure that the good tech writers looking 
> for work in these situations are getting nowhere. I know I have 
> applied for a number of jobs that I should have had an interview for 
> but never received a call. That's a big call isn't it? Evidence? How 
> about not giving you the full job spec? What about the deviousness 
> when it comes to re-writing resumes? Why are we never allowed to see 
> what was written?
>
>
> When I quote my current rates, which I refuse to go any lower than, I 
> get silence, as though "how do I sell that rate?." I have heard $35.00

> per hour for four week contracts is the go now... Even for specialist 
> stuff.
>
> "Your skills were not right for the job..." is what you usually get if

> the agents can be bothered to get back to you. Most of the problems 
> our fraternity have can be traced back to employment agencies, who do 
> very little in reality. More often than not, we are being played off 
> against ourselves, each other; the end result being that we lose out. 
> Collectively lose out.
>
> The best way to avoid this is to be aware of each other, talk to each 
> other and stand united. The easiest way to start that is to all belong

> to the same incorporated organisation (not an Email list). IT DOES 
> MEAN SOMETHING. It's called power in numbers. That's what unions were 
> all about until we forgot about some of our more egalitarian (leftist)

> leanings in the wash out of the baby boomers greed trip...
>
> Anyway, it doesn't matter much to me now. As some of you may be aware,

> it looks like I will have to go back to the trade to make a living. 
> Should have been smart and stayed dumb, instead of wasting so much 
> time (years), energy and money trying to get smarter to make a better 
> living.
>
>
> Still, in the trade at least I don't have to worry about ironing a 
> shirt, shaving, and being nice to people I don't like. I can always 
> say what's on my mind and say it how it is. And I can pin up porn or 
> fart and swear when I want to, and I can punch an irritating workmate 
> in the nose, then go and have a beer with' em.
>
> Best part about it is, when the jobs finished, its finished, and you 
> just have to wait for it in the mean time.
>
> Good bye, good luck, fare well!
>
> Warren.
>
>
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