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Originally Posted by Franco Cozzo
Same with OHS/WHS requirements, various red tape, taxes, cost of power, dealing with three levels of government and answering to a foreign head office with its own political agenda.
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It is that kind of thing that will always be Australia's Achilleas Heal.
I had a real eye opener recently when a couple of staff took 2 weeks together and I jumped into a part accounts payable role.
Apart from the basics of electricity, gas, rates and stuff like that... Staff training, fire extinguisher service and testing, fire system monthly test and maintenance, cleaning, blocked toilets, pest control, general repairs and maintenance, service and maintain the courtesy buses, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc... $980 to pressure wash the bird **** from around the front entrance. $4000 for anti bullying and harassment training. $4500 staff breakfast meeting and get together. $6000 a week to clean the kitchen (1 of 5 kitchens in total, I know 4 of them cost in total about $13k a week). $1500 CPR training. $2000 fire panel training. $6000 a month for the payroll system. Workcover. Auditing and reporting.
And all this is before cost of sales goods and wages. I'm stunned that this place makes money and can afford to operate.
And as we've just heard, power prices are going up somewhere between 15 and 30% next FY depending on location. Which is why they've just covered the roof with solar panels.