The Man's Message
Established 2003 | "Tetritus fortis sine gym"
Friday, June 14, 2024
Crew Of The Weeks
With 225 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ to choose from this fortnight, the customer for this edition's winning crew wrote what can only be described as a small novel of high praise. I've taken the liberty of chopping up their cliff hanging review into easy-to-digest bite size quotes.
"Ash and Pat were very professional, clever with how they prioritised items and wasted absolutely no time. They took the time to set up on both ends in the best way to speed up and improve the whole run, which meant we finished half an hour under the quoted time."
"They also always seem to work really well together, which sounds weird to note, but it makes it MUCH smoother when pair of movers make get along really well and trust each other. Moving is rough - especially in apartment buildings and between inner city locations with very little guaranteed space to park, work etc - but Ash and Pat were super nice people who were calm and reassuring about any challenges and really good at what they did."
"I've also never seen a human park a truck with so little margin for error and nail it like they did. There's that teamwork in action for you!"
Jack Tandy is hunting you down to shower you in praise and vouchers.
Tax Time
About this time of year people start asking about ATO tax income statements (aka Group Certificate if you’re old) so they can do their tax return. These will be available on your myGov account within about 2 weeks of EOFY - i.e. mid July.
How About A Pay Rise?
Pay rates are changing, the change will apply to the first full pay period that starts after 1 July. Conveniently this year, that is Monday 1 July.
Flu Shots!
'Tis the season to be sneezin'. Tomorrow is the 15th day of winter and the sniffles are already taking hold. Lots of staff are down for the count atm so The Man is still encouraging everyone to seek out a flu shot in order to minimise the risk of sickness and transmission.
To incentivise this, The Man will gladly reimburse all staff who get a flu shot. Just bring your receipt into the office and it will be processed along with the next pay cycle.
You can book at Chemist Warehouse right here.
Toolbox Meeting
Click this link to watch to the last Abbotsford toolbox meeting.
Upcoming toolbox meetings
Cranbourne: 7am Monday, 24 June
Abbotsford: 7am Tuesday, 25 June
Ramp up your care factor
Please please please treat your ramp with care. It spends its waking life being trampled on whilst being the go-between for the truck and ground. It is a hard life.
When its work is done, you can thank the ramp by carefully sliding it back inside its home gently. Appreciate your ramp. Do not slam the ramp. Slamming the ramp into its home bends the hooks, breaks the ramps, and makes Richie very very sad.
Depot shifts
Are you assigned to a depot shift? Not sure what to do? Here is an easy explainer.
Man With A Van assigns a small number of movers each day to the role of “Depot Dawg”. This is to help cover those staff who call in sick on the morning of work so we can meet our customers’ bookings on time, every time.
What am I expected to do when I sign on? Report immediately to the morning manager. They will either give you meaningful work to do or send you out on the road.
When do I start getting paid? You get paid from the time you clock on or the time you confirmed by sms; whichever is later.
When would I expect not to be paid? If you arrive at work and, following a discussion with the morning manager, decide you would not like to work and would prefer to do something else instead (eg buy a coffee, eat breakfast, use the gym etc), you should not expect to be paid for that time.
Still have questions? No stress. Speak with your nearest friendly neighbourhood manager.
Where is the thing?
For your convenience:
Cubby holes: Located to your left of the walkway towards the trucks. Powered if you need to charge anything. Store your boots and misc personal items however, this is not monitored so leave at your own risk.
MWAV Uniform: Now found in the black cupboards in Richie and the Morning Man's office. Leave it neat or the uniform will be fed to you. No T-sauce.
Man-well: Located next to the workshop for all your cold filtered water needs.
Fooz is back, baby!
Fooz is finally back where it belongs. No spins. Two touches before scoring. First to seven. Filth pigs encouraged. See you on the balcony to test your mettle. Matt Windsor is hunting for fresh battles.
Suggestion Box
Suggestion: To boffins in the IT lab, there's this thing that's been happening a lot recently where people rostered on as spares/depot have been getting assigned days and then not having their full hours show up on their clock off text. Not cool. How can we make it so that whoever is a spare doesn't have to get in touch with the office/phones team at the end of the day to adjust for the actual hours worked?
Response: Thank you for this suggestion. The IT boffins are indeed aware of this issue and are looking into having it resolved ASAP. Until it is resolved, more communication is always better - not only for spares but if your logged hours text seems inaccurate, always check and double check. Do you have an idea to make MWAV a better place to work that you don't feel comfortable speaking directly with a manager? Submit it anonymously at www.tinyurl.com/mwavanon
Gig Guide
If you have a gig you would like to plug, please send it through to jacktandy@manwithavan.com.au or tomjackson@manwithavan.com.au