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A remarkably unpopular South Betoota shift worker felt compelled to write to The Advocate this morning with his own personal tale of woe.
Dennis Peterson, who works nights unloading cargo at Diamantina Air Freight on the north end of the airport, said he thought he was hearing things when he heard his message tone trill out from the next room.
“I thought, who could that be?” he said.
“I don’t have any friends. Not any friends that text me, anyway. I’ve got friends online but they haven’t got my mobile number, that’s for sure. So I was genuinely surprised and excited to see who it was,”
“At first, I thought it was Mum checking up on me to see if I was still alive but it was far, far less cool than that. It was from Telstra to say I’d gone over my data limit.”
And with that, the 29-year-old shrugged and sighed.
“It could’ve been worse. It could’ve been the ATO saying I’d claimed too much on my laundry last year or something. I claim sunscreen because I work outside. They don’t know it’s exclusively at night.”
Never-the-less, young Dennis says he’s able to see the bright side of this seriously, unabridged depressing situation.
“It could’ve been work asking me to come in early! [laughs] Don’t you hate it when that happens?”
More to come.
