$900 coming your way, courtesy of your children

fikuss · Post by **fikuss** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:25 pm

I am almost definitely going to buy a ninja who is going to totally flip out and kill everyone.

Post by **huge** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 1:28 pm

Facts:

1. Ninjas are mammals.
2. Ninjas fight ALL the time.
3. The purpose of the ninja is to flip out and kill people.

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 10:40 pm

just to reiterate my ninja skills are available to hire... for about 900 dorrar.

autumnleaves · Post by **autumnleaves** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:11 pm

come on Rudd... where's my bonus? papa needs a new pair of everything.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:12 pm

I hear that...hurryhurryhurryhurryhurryhurryhurryhurry!!!!

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:15 pm

i need to eat.

amzie · Post by **amzie** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:20 pm

it can take up to six weeks....

Feigan · Post by **Feigan** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:34 pm

anyone got it yet?

Direkt · Post by **Direkt** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:38 pm

kronz · Post by **kronz** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 5:46 pm

I need it now!!!!

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:33 pm

my missus got it on monday... she's a student though

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:38 pm

I heard it's being distributed by postcode...I'm in 3149. I expect mine some time next July

mecka · Post by **mecka** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:59 pm

distributed by random postcode from what I've heard.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 7:35 pm

deviant wrote:my missus got it on monday... she's a student though

Pffft. Student lame-os. They contribute nothing to society, yet get the payment first. Fucking handout vultures imo. I see a lot of bra-burning and not a lot of job-getting.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 10:57 pm

bra burning is productive hardy...... just coz you don't see it.

ghetto kitty · Post by **ghetto kitty** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:38 pm

by the time it comes its gonna be spent twice over by most people

pre emptive stimulus spending fail.

same o · Post by **same o** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:40 pm

pre emptive = fail imo....

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 1:45 pm

I've already spent mine lol

apophenian · Post by **apophenian** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:52 pm

deviant wrote:I've already spent mine lol

Your economy thanks you.

Apparently.

Kaiproject · Post by **Kaiproject** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 8:23 pm

Hardy wrote:
deviant wrote:my missus got it on monday... she's a student though

Pffft. Student lame-os. They contribute nothing to society, yet get the payment first. Fucking handout vultures imo. I see a lot of bra-burning and not a lot of job-getting.

not true, students pay for big fat unis land aquisition and new developments (*cough* rmit, own half the dam city land even where they don't have uni buildings), and pay academics' wages who arguably contribute less to society. and get free o/s trips n shiz to research.

and lecturers when half the time you'd do better to read provided online course notes, everythings digital these days anyway. self-teach yourself prettymuch anything and learn more onthejob...

autumnleaves · Post by **autumnleaves** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:07 am

can't meet hot uni girls online though.

nic · Post by **nic** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 7:50 pm

i need sth money as soon d i cd get it

Post by **lynt** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 10:59 pm

Bioshock is pretty dope, though.

same o · Post by **same o** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:23 am

lynt wrote:Bioshock is pretty dope, though.

this

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 10:53 am

Kaiproject wrote:
Hardy wrote:
deviant wrote:my missus got it on monday... she's a student though

Pffft. Student lame-os. They contribute nothing to society, yet get the payment first. Fucking handout vultures imo. I see a lot of bra-burning and not a lot of job-getting.
not true, students pay for big fat unis land aquisition and new developments (*cough* rmit, own half the dam city land even where they don't have uni buildings), and pay academics' wages who arguably contribute less to society. and get free o/s trips n shiz to research.

and lecturers when half the time you'd do better to read provided online course notes, everythings digital these days anyway. self-teach yourself prettymuch anything and learn more onthejob...

Are you fucking serious? Who the fuck do you think writes the online course notes? Or the textbook for that matter? And which poor cunt has to read/look at/listen to whatever crap you turn in and mark it fairly and constructively?

And the bit where our jobs depend on producing research of international standing kinda makes the whole international travel thing a bit of pain in the arse actually. In fact, if I could NOT be travelling, or even have the slightest say in the place I live I'd be a damn sight happier. And I do all this why? Because I'm the fucking world expert in something and it seems like a bit of a cop out to not try to push the envelope a bit. But yanno, that's clearly not contributing anything to society/knowledge/human endeavour.

Oh and we get the $900 because most of us get absolutely nowhere near $80k.

So really, fuck up sunshine

Polecat · Post by **Polecat** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:54 am

^ well said retzie. It's one of the shittest things in the world that to follow your career in academia in the early days you have no say in where you're going to live. If the job is there, you have to go there. I'm only still in Melbs because I jumped off the academic boat. Otherwise I'd be living in Utrecht, The Netherlands.

BTW I don't get paid for the annual 2 hour lecture I do, and you students get the handouts in case you're too inattentive to fucken listen. When i did undergrad we wrote all our notes with a pen, and if you didnt take any it was your fucking problem that you had nothing to study. Now you're spoon fed.

Let's not even talk about all the hours of unpaid work involved in marking uni assignments and exams for people who's only job at uni is sessional teaching or tutoring.

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:03 pm

students have the notes taken for them now?? fucken jeebus, that would been awesome, and way easier come study time (insteada having to read my own shit notes)

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:51 pm

yep, they download them from the interwebz

jeezus retzie... taking things personally much? settle down mate, not every opinion is directed at people in your exact circumstances.

nic · Post by **nic** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:03 pm

no money yet

again

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:32 pm

yeh but dan at the same time it was a pretty silly thing to say

academics contributing nothing to society? um...isn't the whole point of academia to add to the supply of knowledge of the human race? isn't that pretty much what any person who has completed a doctoral thesis has done?

retzie was reasonably justified in her response.

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:58 pm

deviant wrote:taking things personally much?

Er, no? The whole 'choosing where you live thing' is definitely not just about me, in fact, I've got it pretty easy. Almost all academics I know have had to deal with heart-breaking choices because of their career. One member of our department has a wife and one year old kid across the country. She's an academic too and they just CAN'T get jobs in the same place. Other people I know have spent up to 3 years in different countries from their partners. It's a pretty big part of the game

If there were any merit (or even point) to the original post, then mebbe I wouldn't have bothered.

Hardy · Post by **Hardy** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:02 pm

retzie wrote:
deviant wrote:taking things personally much?
Er, no? The whole 'choosing where you live thing' is definitely not just about me, in fact, I've got it pretty easy. Almost all academics I know have had to deal with heart-breaking choices because of their career. One member of our department has a wife and one year old kid across the country. She's an academic too and they just CAN'T get jobs in the same place. Other people I know have spent up to 3 years in different countries from their partners. It's a pretty big part of the game

If there were any merit (or even point) to the original post, then mebbe I wouldn't have bothered.

... that's obviously not ideal for them, but it's still their choice. They can choose to live with their family, or they can choose their career. Everyone has to make sacrifices.

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 4:18 pm

^^ was going to say something that effect^^

I'd give up just about anything to be wanted around the world for my expertise and knowledge. Why do it if you don't want it? (rhetorical)

Also no money yet. Getting very desperate now. Going to Jungle Run has ruined me financially and I only spent $80

retzie · Post by **retzie** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 6:15 am

hardy wrote:Everyone has to make sacrifices.

True. And I think everyone makes a contribution to society - there's no macro without the micro. I just mildly take offence to a profession of fairly quantifiable contribution and sacrifice being glibly singled out as the one that should be left out of the blanket payment for no apparent reason (or perhaps it was meant to speed up the payment to students??) How 'bout we just say "Hurry the fuck up for everyone"?

By the way, I don't think that the sacrifices I mentioned are necessarily a good thing - I dunno if I'd drag someone else into this mess

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 10:38 am

found out that i don't farking qualify!

didn't pay enough income tax last year because i was a student and working cash jobs. i had a sinking feeling it'd some back to bit me in the arse for whatever reason....but not like this.

there's a tax bonus culculator if you're unsure http://calculators.ato.gov.au/scripts/a ... .xr4&go=ok

amazingly fucked off.

Post by **huge** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:19 am

lame as. how much tax do you need to have paid??

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:45 am

not sure exactly. something about tax libiality

ATO website wrote: If your taxable income is $100,000 or less, you can calculate your adjusted tax liability from information included in your notice of assessment by:

* adding the amount at label A (tax on taxable income) to the amount at label O (Medicare levy and Medicare levy surcharge),
* adding the amount of Foreign resident withholding credit, if any, shown in the note to label G then
* taking away the amount at label G (tax offsets and other credits).

This final figure is your adjusted tax liability. If the figure is greater than zero and you meet the other criteria, you are eligible.

aroes · Post by **aroes** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:46 am

Sorry if this has already been touched on, but if and when the payment is made and/or approved, are people notified? Or does the money just appear in the same account your pay goes into?
Confusement

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:53 am

I hear you get a letter but don't hold me to that.
Witty, that sucks!!!

Post by **huge** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:55 am

a few work colleagues in Sydney just got payment today, not all of them tho. the 3000's are still a way off yet it would seem.

deviant · Post by **deviant** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:02 pm

mixtress wrote:I hear you get a letter but don't hold me to that.
Witty, that sucks!!!

my GF got a letter first... but that may have something to do with centrewank, not sure

nic · Post by **nic** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:45 pm

Aroes yours will go straight to your bank account.
Unless you didnt provide bank details....then it will be sent via mail to your last address.

I still havent got mine. Pretty slow imo

mixtress · Post by **mixtress** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:51 pm

does anyone know the date they're meant to be completed by...is there a cut off point or could it drag on til next year?

aroes · Post by **aroes** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:02 pm

nic wrote:Aroes yours will go straight to your bank account.
Unless you didnt provide bank details....then it will be sent via mail to your last address.

I still havent got mine. Pretty slow imo

thankyou nic
can you plz deduct your fee from the payment, i dnt hv teh csh
thxbye

nic · Post by **nic** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:05 pm

mixtress wrote:does anyone know the date they're meant to be completed by...is there a cut off point or could it drag on til next year?

It could well go on until July. I dont forsee it taking longer than that.

Blaxter · Post by **Blaxter** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:01 pm

How can you winge about a free handout.
If you are relying on this money for food than that's your own circumstances not the governments fault.

quick · Post by **quick** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:18 pm

Blaxter wrote:How can you winge about a free handout.
If you are relying on this money for food than that's your own circumstances not the governments fault.

but everything is the governments faults...

obliveus · Post by **obliveus** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:48 pm

I think ours came in today. Much more in our account than should be. But no verification as yet. Hmmm....

mrj · Post by **mrj** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 2:54 pm

Blaxter wrote:How can you winge about a free handout.
If you are relying on this money for food than that's your own circumstances not the governments fault.

Free handout? How is this a free handout? The government is borrowing money to fund this and will pay off those loans through taxation. Now....I'm sure I knew somebody that was a taxpayer.......OH thats right, me! and you! and everyone else, who isn't rich enough to hire tax geniuses to exploit loopholes!

They are giving us an advance on our own money and doing it in such a fashion as to reduce its value as much as possible through
- creating excessive inflation therefore reducing the purchasing power of this money
- making us pay for x amount of dollars with x + c amount of eventual taxation or a reduction in x + c of public infrastructure or programs.

so yeh, I'm gonna whinge about it if its all the same to you.

witty_pseudonym · Post by **witty_pseudonym** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:08 pm

and people like me get to pay for your handouts but get doughnut!

(i'll get over it eventually)