They like bikes

A pleasant surprise in the intoductory tour around the building for the new
job yesterday. Showers, lockers a place to lock up the bike and the company
has its own BUG! I won't be a freak this time. Yay!

Resound wrote:
> A pleasant surprise in the intoductory tour around the building for the new
> job yesterday. Showers, lockers a place to lock up the bike and the company
> has its own BUG! I won't be a freak this time. Yay!

come on, share, who, where, url for jobs page {:-).

"Terryc" <newsonespam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote in message
news:44ebc70a$0$7793$61c65585@un-2park-reader-01.sydney.pipenetworks.com.au...
> Resound wrote:
>> A pleasant surprise in the intoductory tour around the building for the
>> new
>> job yesterday. Showers, lockers a place to lock up the bike and the
>> company
>> has its own BUG! I won't be a freak this time. Yay!
>
> come on, share, who, where, url for jobs page {:-).
>
The company is Tenix, on Williams St in the CBD. Easy commute and I get to
faff about the city on the bike It's close and flat enough that I could
easily commute on the fixie once it's finished if I felt the urge as
well...East Kew was a bit far and hilly for that to be comfortable with a
backpack although I did it on the old fixie a few times.

In aus.bicycle on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:10:02 +1000
Terryc <newsonespam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote:
> Resound wrote:
>> A pleasant surprise in the intoductory tour around the building for the new
>> job yesterday. Showers, lockers a place to lock up the bike and the company
>> has its own BUG! I won't be a freak this time. Yay!
>
> come on, share, who, where, url for jobs page {:-).

Well, you can try working for Optus in Sydney next year. Showers,
lockers, secure undercover parking for bikes, and a BUG. Not till the
move to the new place in North Ryde though. For now I store the bike
in the lunchroom.

Zebee

In article <slrneeoan5.dlu.zebeej@gmail.com>,
Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@gmail.com> wrote:

> In aus.bicycle on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:10:02 +1000
> Terryc <newsonespam-spam@woa.com.au> wrote:
> > Resound wrote:
> >> A pleasant surprise in the intoductory tour around the building for the
> >> new
> >> job yesterday. Showers, lockers a place to lock up the bike and the
> >> company
> >> has its own BUG! I won't be a freak this time. Yay!
> >
> > come on, share, who, where, url for jobs page {:-).
>
> Well, you can try working for Optus in Sydney next year. Showers,
> lockers, secure undercover parking for bikes, and a BUG. Not till the
> move to the new place in North Ryde though. For now I store the bike
> in the lunchroom.

It's relatively common employee facility there in the tech companies in
the Silicon Valley. I visited a friend at work and was amazed at all the
bike lockers they have there. It's 5 stars!
--

Or the sponsors of Around the Bay, Portfolio Partners. They have lockers, showers and a free towel service.

They like cars too...... well, the ones that speed anyway.

In aus.bicycle on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:32:59 +1000
slaw <slaw.2d0tcz@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote:
>
> Zebee Johnstone Wrote:
>> In aus.bicycle on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:10:02 +1000
>>
>> Well, you can try working for Optus in Sydney next year. Showers,
>> lockers, secure undercover parking for bikes, and a BUG. Not till the
>> move to the new place in North Ryde though. For now I store the bike
>> in the lunchroom.

> Or the sponsors of Around the Bay, Portfolio Partners. They have
> lockers, showers and a free towel service.

I have suggested a towel service, no reply.....


Zebee

Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have suggested a towel service, no reply.....

Yeah, I can see POS going for that.

--
..dt

In aus.bicycle on 24 Aug 2006 04:14:48 GMT
dtmeister <dtmeister.nospamm@gmail.com> wrote:
> Zebee Johnstone <zebeej@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I have suggested a towel service, no reply.....
>
> Yeah, I can see POS going for that.

hey, if it's good enough for Microsoft!


Zebee

Of course they will ignore such a request. If they agree to a towel service, then you'll want a coffee service, then a massage service then a bike mechanic on the premises.....Then again, it might be worthwhile starting the process of wearing them down as soon as you can.

SteveA

Not necessarily, Tenix solutions have a bunch of obese, unhappy call centre operators and camera verifications staff (people who sit at a puter and type in your number plates from photos of people speeding), as well as a bunch of people who spend 10 hours a day sitting in stationary cars with speed cameras.

If a case is put to them, with estimate of costs, description of how the process would work and the anticipated benefits (sick days, morale, car space reduction?), you might get a response. If you walk in and say "Can we have a towel service?" then they'll say no. If you give them the facts you might succeed.

Lets not forget they have ****loads of revenue from motorists to spend....

Interesting perception of where the speeding fines go. And here's me thinking it was the government coffers that were filling up.

sinus wrote:

> Interesting perception of where the speeding fines go. And here's me
> thinking it was the government coffers that were filling up.

Speaking of riding to work and speeding fines, there was a job in NSW
that I unsuccessfully applied for, that had the same net effect; loss of
over $1million in speeding fines, for the government.


THe NSW PLC(? fine processing bureau) was going to relovate to Maitland
in Lower Hunter Valley, NSW. Fabulous thinks I. Great place to live,
lots of touring and plenty of roads to take to work.

So I do the full covering letter, response to criteria, resume and send
it off. Weeks later I finally get the "you have been unsuccessful".
Shucks, wanted this one, so rings up the name on the bottom, who turned
out to be level one/two head honcho.

Reason" err, since it was a relocation, it you didn't already live there
(Maitland), we didn't even look at your application. bummer.

Months later, I read in the newspapers that the relocation was a major,
major ****-up and they had to forego revenue worth millions in fines
because the infringement notices were not processed in time.

mwuhahahahahaha, one of my specialities was network relocations {:-).
OTOH, I did wonder if I should have used my sisters address in the HV at
the time, but there was months of living in Sydney before they moved anyway.

On 2006-08-24, Zebee Johnstone (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> In aus.bicycle on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 11:32:59 +1000
> slaw <slaw.2d0tcz@no-mx.forums.cyclingforums.com> wrote:
>> Or the sponsors of Around the Bay, Portfolio Partners. They have
>> lockers, showers and a free towel service.
>
> I have suggested a towel service, no reply.....

Prewarmed fuzzy towels. Yes, I see a great need.

--
TimC
Like most computer techie people, I'll happily spend 6 hours trying to figure
out how to do a 3 hour job in 10 minutes. --Rev. James Cort, ASR