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Some young bloke from Brisbane says he’s ‘red hot keen’ to move to Betoota next year but his boss won’t let him.
Oscar Cardigan, of the Bay Area down in our capital, explained to The Advocate today that while his boss his happy with him sitting at home in Capalaba tapping away on his laptop, he can’t have him moving two-thirds of the way to Alice Springs.
The 28-year-old said he hasn’t been into the office since March and doesn’t plan to until October. It hasn’t dropped his productive output and he tells our reporter that it’s been better for him socially and emotionally.
“My boss reckons he needs me back in the office as soon as possible,” he said.
“All I do in there is what I do at home.”
Oscar said he’s even asked his employer, Goldman Sachs Cannon Hill, to consider transferring him to the multinational’s firm here in town.
“They couldn’t arrange that, which is a shame. I reckon their biggest concern is the internet being too unreliable for business meetings. I could just head into Goldman in the French Quarter and do them from a hotdesk. It might just be easier for them to just do nothing, which is a shame,”
“Maybe if the government took their own cock out of their own mouths for five minutes, they might be able to come up with some policy ideas to incentivise companies to decentralise their staff. But no, they’re just noshing themselves off on the rug with Big Brother on mute in the background.”
The Advocate reached out to Goldman Sachs Cannon Hill for comment but were told they don’t comment on internal matters.
More to come.
