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Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: 🐨Thur 11 Jan 2024

fullkitwanker@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

No, I called the tradie and he told me he’s not working. I just met the REA as she was in the building and she’s arranged for someone else to come let me in. Hopefully this one comes soon.

What I don’t understand is, how does the REA not know that the tradie is not working? How did they assign him a job without checking??? 🙄

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TinyBreak@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
most of them dont know. Trades HATE using the REA’s platform because the REA’s platform is often dogshit or worse try to charge the trade to use it (by the platform owner, not the REA). plus REAs are just customers of the tradies, so the tradies dont necessarily tell the REA that they are going on holiday. Even if they did (and some do) most systems dont have the capability to mark the trade as absent till X date.

Long story short: its a process less hellhole of organization.

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indisin@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- fullkitwanker@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not sure! Probably the former if I had to guess
  
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  - indisin@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    fullkitwanker@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I don’t have anything sharp on me unfortunately so I just have to wait for the tradie to save me :(
    
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prime_factor@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’s similar to how V/Line allocates emergency replacement buses.

They have a big list, and start calling the first one. If they can’t do it, they get bumped down the list, and they call the next bus operator on the list, until they have a hit.

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