colddiesel
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Some 30 odd years ago I established a job placement business to seek out and place people in new jobs. We specialized in finding engineers, electricians, diesel mechanics, plumbers, truckies carpenters; you name it, for the mining industry in Australia.
We frequently have to recruit overseas and have brought in many skilled migrants from UK, Europe particularly the east, East and South Asia. In 2008-9 we thought we would see if we could recruit in a newly poor country, the good ole' US of A. The basic idea was that even if their technical skills needed sharpening their language skills would be good and it would be an easy cultural fit.
Leaving aside all the details we eventually imported 40 Americans and placed all except 2 on two big mines.
They settled in but their bosses had a few misgivings, because whilst net of tax they could earn double what they got in the US, their main ambition seemed to be to fly out at the end of their fortnight or three week roster and splurge their money on girls and a good time in Brisbane or Sydney. That led to a bit of absenteeism and one or two other problems.
And then their bosses introduced them to Rugby League. Rugby league is a fairly similar to NFL with simplified rules. You can only tackle or block the player carrying the ball and you can only pass backwards. Basically it's a battle between two teams of thirteen, wearing no protective gear, clobbering each other and if you can get away with thumping someone off the ball, well so much the better. The Americans took to it like bees to a honey pot and during the season March to September started to prefer football to flying out for a good time at weekends etc.
Last week I attended a match which involved the two mines I mentioned One side had 5 American players the other 6. They tore into each other as though their lives depended on it, twice the game degenerated into an all out brawl. But at the end of it all the protagonists were to be found in the bar comparing bruises, black eyes cuts grazes and other soon to be exaggerated 'war wounds.'
And they were so damn happy, one of the bosses told me that the absenteeism problem no longer occurred. The guys were as happy as pigs in mud and as the maintenance manager observed, " of course any bunch of bloke would prefer a game and muckin' about with their mates rather than screwin' some sheila (woman) in Sydney.
So there you have it, It seems that young men actually prefer to punch each others heads on the football field and boasting about it in the bar afterwards to chasing women .
We frequently have to recruit overseas and have brought in many skilled migrants from UK, Europe particularly the east, East and South Asia. In 2008-9 we thought we would see if we could recruit in a newly poor country, the good ole' US of A. The basic idea was that even if their technical skills needed sharpening their language skills would be good and it would be an easy cultural fit.
Leaving aside all the details we eventually imported 40 Americans and placed all except 2 on two big mines.
They settled in but their bosses had a few misgivings, because whilst net of tax they could earn double what they got in the US, their main ambition seemed to be to fly out at the end of their fortnight or three week roster and splurge their money on girls and a good time in Brisbane or Sydney. That led to a bit of absenteeism and one or two other problems.
And then their bosses introduced them to Rugby League. Rugby league is a fairly similar to NFL with simplified rules. You can only tackle or block the player carrying the ball and you can only pass backwards. Basically it's a battle between two teams of thirteen, wearing no protective gear, clobbering each other and if you can get away with thumping someone off the ball, well so much the better. The Americans took to it like bees to a honey pot and during the season March to September started to prefer football to flying out for a good time at weekends etc.
Last week I attended a match which involved the two mines I mentioned One side had 5 American players the other 6. They tore into each other as though their lives depended on it, twice the game degenerated into an all out brawl. But at the end of it all the protagonists were to be found in the bar comparing bruises, black eyes cuts grazes and other soon to be exaggerated 'war wounds.'
And they were so damn happy, one of the bosses told me that the absenteeism problem no longer occurred. The guys were as happy as pigs in mud and as the maintenance manager observed, " of course any bunch of bloke would prefer a game and muckin' about with their mates rather than screwin' some sheila (woman) in Sydney.
So there you have it, It seems that young men actually prefer to punch each others heads on the football field and boasting about it in the bar afterwards to chasing women .
