Spare a thought for the 120 workers getting the heave-ho at Ford in Geelong this week, which the company is trying to manage sympathetically.
“Everyone’s been told not to loiter – drive in, interview, then go,” a worker told Double Take.
“Last time there were groups hanging around the car park making it uncomfortable for others, wanting to know whether they still had a job or not.
At least our worker could see the bright side of this Friday and its presumably big redundancy pay-out.
“It’ll only be gloomy if they make me stay,” he said.
Infrequent users of Moorabool St’s western bus interchange are often given a fright when two loud reports, akin to gun shots, ring out as buses approach.
Old hands know it’s merely a large, unbalanced metal drainage cover banging about as bus wheels pass over.
But it’s still amusing watching the various reactions, with one youngster amusingly clutching hands to chest in a melodramatic pretend demise this week.
Vale Ray Evans, former Deakin electrical engineering lecturer, co-founder of the HR Nicholls Society, one-time union delegate and recipient of an experimental mechanical heart that kept him alive the past three years.
Ray’s passing was noted far and wide, from the blogs of noted commentators to the pages of leading newspapers around Australia.
Our sympathies to his family.
No doubt about it, we’re a hungry lot in Geelong.
Foodbank Victoria, in town this week helping out Hunger for Knowledge, which supplies food to organisations across and the south-west of Victoria, offered a surprising figure on just how hungry.
It said 544,257kg of food was delivered to people in hardship across the region this year to date – the equivalent of 1.1 million meals.
Now that’s hard to digest!
