I have just finished a two month internship overseas. All I can say is, I am incredibly lucky to be an Australian citizen because:
- OT is paid or illegal
- sleep is permissible
- your superiors can only berate you in one language
- minimum wage is…minimum wage exists!
When I saw this: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2004/s1247577.htm my head nearly rolled off. We Aussies can't appreciate how lucky we are. Technically, I was meant to get off work at 5:30. The reality was, the earliest I ever knocked off was 7 and that was only because I was sick. Let's not get into the times I did not even finish work, or when they hired a hotel room for me which I left untouched as I was stuck in the working office for 48 hours.
Enough of my complaining. I'm back in mother country and I've duly kissed the floor.
