Genetic purity
True story.
I’m chatting to an acquaintance, who’s from Hong Kong and has been living in Australia for a few years.
He says to me;
“What’s with this crazy welcome to country thing?”
Workshop, workshop, google, etc.
It’s not a law, you don’t have to do it.
Although some employers insist, so as an employee if you don’t comply you’re giving them ammunition for three warnings, as required for a sacking.
But mainly, if you don’t do it, you expose yourself to the highest court in the land, the kangaroo court of social media.
My Hong Kong acquaintance asks how that is different to having a dictatorship that tells you exactly what to do.
I say, no idea but best just to ignore the whole thing. It’ll go away eventually when people get bored with it.
After all, what harm does it do?
You can’t waste time in Australia; it’s one big waste of time anyway.
Arguably the carbon footprint and lost productivity (lol) of the welcome to country is avoidable. So just don’t measure it, I say.
Sidenote; you can tell how useless your chosen career is by how many welcome to countries you have to deal with in a year.
If it’s death defyingly hypocritical and boring, then don’t go. That’s what I do.
In any case, it’s good to weed out those that can’t stand hypocrisy. They’ll be quiet, if they’re smart, and then slowly leave the country. Effectively they’re enemies of the state. You’re better off without them.
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