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With rain battering down from Noosa to Bega, grub bosses across the country have been informed that due to the wet steel, there will in fact be no deal.
This is of course in accordance with both federal and state labor laws that address the hazard posed to workers by falling rain, as well as rain that accumulates to the point of causing flooding.
As goes the age-old Australian constrution worker proverb: Wet steel, no deal.
With the backing of several government agencies responsible for enforcing workplace safety laws, as well as vigilant trade unions, the boys have decided that it’s time to walk.
But at 10:30am, it’s almost too late in the day to go home.
What’re you gonna bloody do at home? mow the lawn? It’s too wet.
“I reckon we go tip a few at the Hilton? [Betoota Heights Hotel, commonly referred to as the Heighty Hilton]” says one usually mute scaffolder.
“What do we reckon boys?”
With roughly 27 of the 30 workers on this particular job eventually justifying a quick rain-day tipple, the worksite clears so fast that several of the apprentices were out front revving their commodores before their polypipe they had been carrying even hit the ground.
MORE TO COME.
