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Hi there,
I visited your
fabulous site. Tell me, is your hit counter out (i.e. has
reset to zero recently) or is your traffic low?
No I am not a
salesperson, just a St Kilda resident and nethead who stumbled across
your site.
If you're not getting
enough traffic, I would be happy to submit it to search engines or
discuss via email methods that have worked for me.
Excuse my butting
in. Great site!
Juli Collins
Butt in all you want
Juli-this web site is on a zero budget so we try try and try but at the
end of the day if the site keeps me amused I'm happy but seriously any
help would be much appreciated.
How much for your
dog?
Pakistani Bear
Baiting keeper
Re: article by Rachael Hodder - 19 March
2001
"BONUS PAID FOR PARKING FINES"
Having a surf on the internet, I stumbled on
this article.
I'm a parking and traffic officer for both
the City of Melbourne by day and the City of Yarra by night.
Yes we do get a bonus of $1500 dollars from
yarra, which is solely based on ticket numbers, but you will discover
that the night patrol officers (which I'm apart of) placed a clause in
our enterprise agreement (EB) and or local area workplace agreement (LAWA)
that the $1500 would be subject to the officer donating that sum to a
charity - the night crew (some) were totally against the idea of bonuses
as we believed that this was a form of 'secret commission' and placed
undue pressure on the officer - we had heard from day time officers that
if there was a break between tickets of 30min, they would be questioned
by management (excluding meal breaks).
In Melbourne on the other hand, officers are
placed in teams where a team target is set. If the team meets the ticket
target they have 1/2 a day off a month to go to the pub or have a bbq
and still get paid - mind you, if your 10 short on ticket numbers you
miss out. Peer group pressure voids the team leader of any harassment to
push less productive officers in the team.
The individual bonus is also annually, and
an officer can received a 3 or 5% bonus - during an officers review an
element of productivity is there - and it amazes me that officers who
get the 3 and 5% are also the big ticket number writers and the officers
that focus on the PR service and show empathy with the motorist get
"squat".
PS, There are even stories where the council
was informed by staff that parking signs we not enforceable, but told to
go ahead and keep booking. 100's were issued
Strictly Confidential, Yeah sure ed.
Ludwig
Hello there
Have just been looking at your website stuff on St
Kilda, specifically on Acland
St. I visit Melbourne regularly and usually stay at
the Novotel at St Kilda and always head for Acland
St for meals and to meet up with collagues etc. Itr's
great fun making restaurant bookings and being asked how to spell my
unusual name !!! I'd figured at one stage it was the ONE
place I could go in oz that I didn't have to spell
it but..... I've always wondered which one of my
ancestors the street is named after. The current
thinking sees to be that it was after philathropist Sir Thomas Dyke
Acland but he has no obvious connection with the area. I notice that
you have an image of his portrait on the Acland St page (?
for this reason) but also one of someone captioned
as Acland Anderson in 1856. Who is he and what is
his connection with Acland St? Have you come across any evidence
of whom the street was named after?
Thanks
Glenda Acland
Researching more Glenda amd will advise ,ed.
Hi,
I cam looking for the bike path map but the link is
broken. Nice site overall
though
cheers,
Erik
Bike link fixed Erik - cheers, ed. |
