Speaker 1: This is the chrissiest one show.
Speaker 2: We're about to we might be able to what do
Speaker 2: they say, throw a cat amongst the pigeons here.
Speaker 1: We've consulted Reddit and one of the top trending stories
Speaker 1: in that particular, Nest of Vipers, is a very simple
Speaker 1: statement that says, work is having to bring your kids
Speaker 1: to work day and then there's no question, there's no question,
Speaker 1: it's just go forth and discuss it. And you and
Speaker 1: I said, Jack, we don't think that they're a good idea,
Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
Speaker 2: I do not.
Speaker 3: Care.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't see the point of having them here.
Speaker 2: I've got three of my own.
Speaker 1: So I like, I know how to deal with children.
Speaker 1: I come to work, not to deal with.
Speaker 3: Children, and to be you and see your friends in
Speaker 3: your community. Right and work.
Speaker 2: It's a very different thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just read an article on the weekend
Speaker 1: about maintaining your mental health. You need a stopper between
Speaker 1: each role that you have and when you've got it.
Speaker 1: When you're a mother, you need a little buffer of time,
Speaker 1: half an hour for you to recalibrate and be your
Speaker 1: next person.
Speaker 2: Worker whatever.
Speaker 3: Thirteen twenty four to ten, does your workplace do or
Speaker 3: bring kids to work day.
Speaker 2: Now, I don't think they do that here at NOA.
Speaker 3: We've done something to be fair, because I get if
Speaker 3: your parent works at NOVA. It's pretty cool to be
Speaker 3: in a radio station or know that your parents work
Speaker 3: at a radio station. So I know Nova's done something
Speaker 3: before where they do a bring your family to the
Speaker 3: office from fort or six or fort or seven and
Speaker 3: they put on drinks and the kids run around and
Speaker 3: get to see the studios. That I'm okay with because
Speaker 3: it's after the workday.
Speaker 2: Babysitter or something, sure, come, but not a whole day.
Speaker 3: Dedicate how many children would be here, it would be awful.
Speaker 3: I feel the same about pets in what way? Do
Speaker 3: not bring your dog to the office. Do not bring
Speaker 3: your dog to work. You might think it's cute no one.
Speaker 2: Else does, but what if they just sit under the.
Speaker 3: I don't care how long is a piece of string,
Speaker 3: Then every Joe, Dick and Harry are going to want
Speaker 3: to bring their dogs in. And I don't want a
Speaker 3: kelpie running under my legs while I'm trying to make
Speaker 3: my skinny lart eate the coffee machine cakes.
Speaker 1: I think you choose like you wouldn't go if you
Speaker 1: had a kelpie, you wouldn't bring them.
Speaker 3: But have you met people Murphy could come here?
Speaker 2: I have thirteen twenty four to ten.
Speaker 1: I mean, we have a guy that we know that
Speaker 1: we work with here, Yes, who told a story. Didn't
Speaker 1: happen here at Nover, happened at a different workplace where
Speaker 1: it was bring your kid to work day and one
Speaker 1: of the kids went and filled up everybody's water bottle
Speaker 1: with cooking salt.
Speaker 3: And put salt water in the water bottle, Like, that's
Speaker 3: not okay. Does your workplace have a bring your kids
Speaker 3: to work day?
Speaker 2: And how did it go?
Speaker 3: Did it go terribly like we would imagine, or was
Speaker 3: it a lot of fun. There'll be a Priceline pharmacy
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Speaker 2: The Christiest One show.
Speaker 1: We're about to be very unpopular, Jack, I think, and
Speaker 1: we are saying that having a whole day where everyone
Speaker 1: brings their kids to work sounds like fresh hell to me.
Speaker 2: I actually love it. When there's a couple of kids,
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, fresh blood.
Speaker 3: And I appreciate that because as a parent, if your
Speaker 3: kids sick and you're a single parent or dad's working,
Speaker 3: it's the only option and you've still got to come
Speaker 3: to work. Yeah, that I'm cool with.
Speaker 1: And if there's somebody that you love, like you know,
Speaker 1: in the in the sales team or whatever, and you
Speaker 1: suddenly see their kids unlike and who is it?
Speaker 2: I just get so excited.
Speaker 3: I'm happy to meet Jackie Bristow's son and see the
Speaker 3: connection between the two. I was thinking about it same,
Speaker 3: that's fine. It's when there's like eighty kids.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine how many kids would be here?
Speaker 3: I just couldn't ten. Does your workplace do it bring
Speaker 3: your kids to work day?
Speaker 2: Christine?
Speaker 4: No, I would never do it again. I took my
Speaker 4: son to work in an office and he actually.
Speaker 2: Trusted, Okay, tell us everything.
Speaker 1: Was it an organized day or you just couldn't find
Speaker 1: anywhere else to give put it?
Speaker 4: It was an organized day, but there was only a
Speaker 4: few little kids, and I was doing as though were
Speaker 4: toldly except minehed He trashed the whole office, was running
Speaker 4: in out of my manager's office. Actually left work early.
Speaker 2: How old was your kid at the time, two and
Speaker 2: a half.
Speaker 3: What did your other colleagues think, Christine? Was your manager married?
Speaker 4: I had no control.
Speaker 1: And Christine? Was he always like that?
Speaker 2: Or did he just really turn it on because he
Speaker 2: knew what it meant to you.
Speaker 4: He was just bored and he turned it on.
Speaker 2: Christine. How old is he now?
Speaker 4: Seventeen? And I still told him about it.
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Speaker 2: It happened yesterday. It's Christine fram a High tam Hi.
Speaker 5: Hi.
Speaker 2: So your hobby's work does this? Yes?
Speaker 6: Okay, a year where you get to bring the kids
Speaker 6: in York for a big mining company.
Speaker 1: And is it organized, like is there stuff to do?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 6: Yes, it's fully organized.
Speaker 1: It's very sad and.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, there's virtual reality there.
Speaker 6: Do they get to look into the mines and things
Speaker 6: like that? Which is really cool?
Speaker 2: That is cool.
Speaker 3: So's cool. Yeah, hang on a.
Speaker 1: Minute, just before we give it, just before we give
Speaker 1: this the green the green light, tam Is everybody else
Speaker 1: at work on that same day?
Speaker 6: Yes, so it's a week day and they have to
Speaker 6: register their children and bring them in.
Speaker 2: All right, okay, we'll allow it. I'm changing my mind, that's.
Speaker 3: Saying that's really cool. Priceline Pharmacy Voucher for you, tam
Speaker 3: Hi Kelsey.
Speaker 7: Hello, Chrissy and Jack. I don't know if I want
Speaker 7: to talk to.
Speaker 3: You Why what have I said? What have I said today?
Speaker 7: I've literally got my two dogs sitting at my feet
Speaker 7: right now.
Speaker 2: What sort of dogs? Though?
Speaker 1: Because Jack earlier said that, you know, kids are not
Speaker 1: allowed at work, and either are dogs?
Speaker 2: Yuck?
Speaker 3: Joe crazy will hate you for saying that to us.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I understand because if the other people's dogs,
Speaker 7: I don't want them here either.
Speaker 8: But min are okay.
Speaker 3: See, this is the thing. It's when it's yours, it's okay.
Speaker 3: What kind of dogs do you have?
Speaker 7: They're rescue dogs, so we don't really know what's in them.
Speaker 7: One's a hunt away. No, they're beautiful, they're so well behaved,
Speaker 7: they're amazing. But I can't even have a wee break
Speaker 7: they follow me everywhere.
Speaker 2: And how many other people are in your office?
Speaker 7: Oh, there's a fair few of us. There's twenty twenty odds.
Speaker 7: But there is literally at least a dog in the
Speaker 7: office at least once a week.
Speaker 2: And do you think that they're there?
Speaker 1: Is?
Speaker 2: I reckon?
Speaker 1: There is definitely someone in your office, and you will
Speaker 1: be a once you think about it, Chelsea, you'll know
Speaker 1: who they are. There will be someone that is like
Speaker 1: Jack that absolutely hates your dog being there, but it
Speaker 1: hasn't said anything.
Speaker 7: And that's the one that my dog went and poo
Speaker 7: in their office.
Speaker 1: Okay, the Christy Swan Show, The Chrissy Swan Show.
Speaker 2: I think I'm about to go to jail.
Speaker 3: Oh good.
Speaker 1: I feel like something a law has come in that
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be able to follow. And I'm talking,
Speaker 1: of course, of the right to disconnect laws.
Speaker 3: Well they've been in place since what August twenty six now, yes.
Speaker 2: And I've been a nervous wreck since.
Speaker 1: Yes, because you know, my greatest fear I'll go to jail,
Speaker 1: is it. I'll go to jail. That's my greatest fear.
Speaker 1: And in my dreams, I go to jail and the
Speaker 1: whole time I didn't know that I was doing something wrong.
Speaker 1: And I feel like this is going to send me
Speaker 1: to jail.
Speaker 3: I thought maybe you'd like jail because it'd kind of
Speaker 3: be a break for you.
Speaker 1: Oh look, yes, there is a part of that, but
Speaker 1: I'd rather hospital. Yes, but these disconnect laws are scary
Speaker 1: to me. If you're not across them, I mean, of
Speaker 1: course you are, but I'll give you a little, a
Speaker 1: little explanation. People now need to be able to have
Speaker 1: their own time away from work, right, it means that
Speaker 1: your boss it's against the law for them to text
Speaker 1: you out of hours, for them to call you out
Speaker 1: of hours, for them to expect you to respond to
Speaker 1: them if they send an email at seven pm. And
Speaker 1: I do that all the time. And the reason I
Speaker 1: do it is because I'm crazy and my brain never
Speaker 1: stops and I'm never not which is the nature of
Speaker 1: my I work.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's hard for us in this industry.
Speaker 2: And then also.
Speaker 1: You're honor please, I plead innocent because of lockdowns and
Speaker 1: work from home and everything's so blurry and shady now,
Speaker 1: it's like ten years ago you went to your office
Speaker 1: and you worked and you had the same desk and
Speaker 1: then you went home. Now you don't even have the
Speaker 1: same desk. There's bloody hot desks. There's dogs in here, people,
Speaker 1: there's kids in here. Every Tuesday and second Thursday and
Speaker 1: any day with a unicorn in it. You're allowed to
Speaker 1: work from home, which I think is wonderful, but it's
Speaker 1: very confusing for someone like me. I don't know who's
Speaker 1: working and.
Speaker 2: When I know.
Speaker 3: But you're Christy Swan, You're good. No one's gonna get
Speaker 3: mad at you for texting and also we text each
Speaker 3: other at all times of the day. I mean, we're
Speaker 3: not each other's bosses, so it doesn't really matter. But
Speaker 3: it's fine because if you're busy, you just reply to
Speaker 3: each other the next day.
Speaker 2: It's bosses, it's colleagues.
Speaker 3: Is it colleagues?
Speaker 2: You and I?
Speaker 1: You and you could have reported me for the text
Speaker 1: messages that we were sending on Friday night at like,
Speaker 1: if not.
Speaker 3: I am strapped for cash, So to take you to the.
Speaker 2: Colleen, that's the thing. What to stop you from doing that?
Speaker 3: I mean the videos of me singing karaoke were illegal
Speaker 3: in themselves that I sent you, so I think you
Speaker 3: could also take oad of Yes, I.
Speaker 1: Do have evidence against you if it ever came to that,
Speaker 1: but do you know what I.
Speaker 3: Mean, It's tricky, Swanye and I Also there's an argument
Speaker 3: here for small and medium sized businesses who are already
Speaker 3: doing it tough that maybe need their employees to do
Speaker 3: something at five twenty or five fifteen, and they're getting
Speaker 3: responses from their employees saying, nah, I'm off the clock.
Speaker 3: Like there is they are off the clock.
Speaker 2: It's so gray.
Speaker 3: That also feels unreasonable, Like imagine if our boss Sarah
Speaker 3: if she tried to reach out to me at five
Speaker 3: point thirty and I said, you can't do that, now
Speaker 3: get back to me tomorrow. I would never.
Speaker 2: I would never.
Speaker 3: And also I've got like articles I need to send
Speaker 3: you in gossip about.
Speaker 2: I know, I mean it is not for us.
Speaker 3: Thirteen twenty four to ten. If these new laws, then
Speaker 3: new right to disconnect laws are affecting you, or if
Speaker 3: you're a boss that maybe has had employees sassue about
Speaker 3: texting amount of hours, like.
Speaker 1: As soon as you found out about them, did you go?
Speaker 1: That is going to be wayne.
Speaker 2: All over to the Chrissy s One show.
Speaker 1: We're talking about these right to disconnect laws. There's a
Speaker 1: new article about them. So they came in three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: these new laws where you do not have to respond
Speaker 1: to any messages you get that are work related when
Speaker 1: you're at home trying to disconnect. And they came in
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, and I've been a nervous wreck ever since.
Speaker 1: And there's new information today saying small to medium business
Speaker 1: owners are really confused about it.
Speaker 2: There's so much gray area. Everyone needs to be wary, and.
Speaker 3: There's some hefty fines that can be thrown out if
Speaker 3: you are a boss that does reach out to your employment.
Speaker 1: Passive signs like nineteen thousand dollars individually and nearly one
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars for a company.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's scary, man, Oh my god, So I'm terrible.
Speaker 3: En twenty four to ten, we're asking if these new
Speaker 3: disconnect rules and laws have affected you at your workst you,
Speaker 3: hey here, you going good?
Speaker 2: Are you a trade?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: That's the one.
Speaker 2: So how is this affecting you? Because you guys start early.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and Ram kickoff.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Stu you run a team. How's it affecting
Speaker 3: you and your team?
Speaker 9: We do every Tuesday we do a toolbox talk and
Speaker 9: then it's online because they've got guys all over South Queensland,
Speaker 9: right yeah, so it's a little hard to try and
Speaker 9: get to twenty different types on the day, so it's
Speaker 9: out the day before they get back to me by
Speaker 9: lunchtime the following day. These guys we've been do a
Speaker 9: monthly where we catch up at the office for breakfast
Speaker 9: catch up run through and this particular one had to
Speaker 9: test and tags, so I had the electrical company turn up,
Speaker 9: so all the gear was test and tags. So every
Speaker 9: quarter everything's up to date. They all know the rules.
Speaker 9: I send a message in the afternoon and then oh,
Speaker 9: you can't contact me outside about what time?
Speaker 2: What time was that?
Speaker 9: Well, this will be for me. I'm on the road
Speaker 9: at four point thirty am and I'm on home early,
Speaker 9: but usually I'm on the phone till six seven at
Speaker 9: night dealing with clients or other.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And see, that's the thing. That's the thing.
Speaker 1: If that's what you've been doing every day and that's
Speaker 1: what you're still doing, it's really hard to recalibrate and
Speaker 1: put things off for another twelve hours until everybody's back
Speaker 1: on board.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, I sign pharmacy voucher for us to you, especially
Speaker 3: in that industry when they're on the road, and then
Speaker 3: you've got to do your admin work in the VO.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the problem arises in the AVO. You've
Speaker 1: got to get that information to somebody before they start.
Speaker 2: Or how does it work?
Speaker 3: Toolbox Tuesday? We should implement a segment here called toolbox Tuesday.
Speaker 3: I love that.
Speaker 2: What sort of tools would we be honey challo James?
Speaker 8: Helloay, now what.
Speaker 2: Is going on here? Are you going to jail with me?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 8: No, Well I'm just a factory worker. So I'm sort
Speaker 8: of like the bottom end of the scale. I'm the
Speaker 8: one that can send people to jail for saying that
Speaker 8: you contacted me. But the thing is, I work in
Speaker 8: a factory that runs twenty four to seven pretty much.
Speaker 8: We have morning day, we have like day, afternoon, and
Speaker 8: night shift, and often people don't come in on a shift,
Speaker 8: and so they'll need people to stay back or come
Speaker 8: in early. So often my supervisor will be contacting me
Speaker 8: like nine o'clock on a Sunday night saying are you
Speaker 8: able to come in early Monday morning because we're short staffed. Now,
Speaker 8: if I just go no, you can't contact me, I'm
Speaker 8: never going to get overtime again. So I think there
Speaker 8: needs to be some flexibility to it, because it can't
Speaker 8: just be a complete shut off, because yeah, in that industry,
Speaker 8: they need be able to contact this because they've got
Speaker 8: to keep the machines running and stuff, and if they
Speaker 8: can't ask people to come in exactly.
Speaker 1: Also, further to that, yes you want to answer that
Speaker 1: call because you get more hours, but I worry the
Speaker 1: other way. If you never answer that call, then your
Speaker 1: boss will start not calling you, and quite often that
Speaker 1: can be seen as a show of lack of dedication,
Speaker 1: And it's not true you're allowed to be at home
Speaker 1: at home, not working at nine pm on a Sunday.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, but people aren't wired like that.
Speaker 1: If I was calling you six times and you never answered,
Speaker 1: I would just call Tom and then I'd call Tom
Speaker 1: first next time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, totally. It changes how you operate. Yeah, you also
Speaker 3: with stuff like that, Like surely I know and I
Speaker 3: know not everyone has a boss with common sense. We're
Speaker 3: very lucky, but like everyone, I hope is now just
Speaker 3: having to have these conversations about like, hey, there's these
Speaker 3: new laws, how does it work for us? Some people suck?
Speaker 3: Let's go, Hey, how you going? Hi?
Speaker 2: Now, what has happened to your son's school?
Speaker 5: They had the audacity to tell me that I wasn't
Speaker 5: allowed to email out of hours, And I feel like
Speaker 5: it's a personal tax because I am guilty. And I
Speaker 5: did send an email to one of these class stess
Speaker 5: at three a m. This morning because I had to
Speaker 5: get that information out of my head or it would
Speaker 5: be lost forever.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you sound like me.
Speaker 5: I work crazy hours, I have crazy thoughts, I do
Speaker 5: crazy stuff, and but in my defense, I have always
Speaker 5: and I will continue to send that email with a
Speaker 5: message saying I don't expecially to respond right now. Everyone's
Speaker 5: crazy like me.
Speaker 2: However, the owner my god, I say the same things
Speaker 2: in my email.
Speaker 1: The problem that I have with your situation is that
Speaker 1: the school shouldn't tell you when you can send the email,
Speaker 1: because you can send it anytime. If you'd said please
Speaker 1: get back to me at seven am out of that,
Speaker 1: that's the problem. But you can send emails whenever you want.
Speaker 1: The school's got no right to tell you when you
Speaker 1: can send them. It's when you demand the answer absolutely.
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