Who's applied for FMGL loco operator positions and got in?

craigd · Posted: Thu May 08, 2008 6:09 pm

Hi I see FMGL are still hiring loco drivers - just wondering if anyone has been successful? I know a Pacnat driver from SFT who has secured a position with FMGL (someone I know from when I was working out of DELEC in the early 1990's), but that's it so far.

Craig.

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jd4980 · Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 1:49 pm

There were 2 guys from our depot put in. One was sucessfull and has taken up his possition over there, the other was blown out due to an existing injury they picked up i believe.

TE2815 · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:45 pm

Brain freeze Confused

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42101 · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 4:58 pm

Darrin its the new railroad up in the Pilbra Fortescue metals group....i seem to recal my mob were doing the recruiting for it.

Thanks heaps to ALL my friends on here.

craigd · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 5:45 pm

TE2815 · Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:22 pm

Thanks that explains the Brain Freeze, I haven't bothered looking over there so it didn't click Wink

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YM-Mundrabilla · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 7:48 am

I assume that 'Loco Operators' are what us old blokes used to know as 'Drivers'.

On one hand there is a trend to use acronyms to shorten things but concurrently there is a trend to use longer and more complicated (and less descriptive) terms such as in this instance. Another example is that detonators have become 'audible warning devices'.

If you can't fix it - change its name..........

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KRviator · Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 6:39 pm

And you know the really frustrating part of all this "technocratically correctness"? People paid tens of thousands of dollars to go to Uni to get a Degree to have the privilege of figuring out new names for things.

I guess they've got to justify their degree and their existence somehow...

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nutbagg · Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 2:55 am

Detonators are things that terrorists put in bombs. Therefore law abiding citizens can't use these terrible devices, so we give them a new name! Laughing

As for FMG I don't think they're too fussy as long as you tell them your a train driver and you pass the medical. Just from what I've heard and seen going up there to work for them. Wink

I suppose if you stuff up bad enough they'll just show you the door, must be plenty of drivers out there to work 12hr shifts for weeks on end for 130-140k a year.

Mate, if that loco pulls as hard as you do, it'd move anything.
I'd still rather have an ALCo.

Skipdaddyo · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 4:44 pm

Links

Main page - http://fmgl.com.au/IRM/content/Home.htm
Employment page - http://www.bfound.net/list.aspx?CoId=1955&rq=1

a) It's a road not a carpark
b) Easy orbital rail line. Tools: Melbourne map, Compass. Use the Compass to draw a line 7.5 (and 12.5, 17.5, 22.5, 27.5km) from the GPO. Hammer out the details and build.
c) What's any of this got to do with beer?