Gold Coast City Council

Received Bullying & Suspension over created Hear Say.. from a Disliked Supervisor. I Was disliked because of my Personality which is Phlegmatic, I dont smile or show emotion. Stupid Supervisor thought i was depressed however its one of the 4 psychological characters. I didn't fit in to his down-line so i was disliked. We had annual fitness testing & i made a slight mistake with a movement , he then sneakily crossed me off as a failure with out my knowledge, however he made me do it again which i did it correctly. Another Guard did the same thing as me & he was never marked as incompetent. Later stories were created from other guards from not helping supervisors with a pen to being unhelpful with  first aid matters, however i had already been employed there 3 years with a clean Record. All this was False hear say & a way in trying to get me out. Upper Managers compose Memos regarding fairness & equality however was never Actioned or Monitored. Managers owned up to the Bullying & Harassing & I went under Psychological Assessing under the Councils Umbrella for months. This is White Elephant outfit. 


Excellent machinery & operators, staff knowledgable & on the whole hard working. Good back up from management and engineers. WH&S ethos sound and practical. Enviromental practices first class. On-going training of all staff considered important and made available.
Worked mainly six day weeks (all RDOs, Sat till 1-00pm). 
Started as Concrete Finisher and was trained up to Supervisor with up to 45 staff spread over 3 crews. 
Occasional difficulties with beauracracy in decision making specially when design alterations required. 
Most enjoyable part of job was seeing competed projects and having the knowledge that they were built to the highest possible standard and that there would be no returning to do patch up work.

I worked as a student librarian for a period of three weeks. In this time, I worked on all aspects of the job, including shelving, front desk, IT, computer aide, customer service desk, returns and collection duties. I helped set up school holiday activities, reading groups, book club and helping set up displays. 
My co workers were pleasant and helpful answering to any queries I had.
The hardest part of the job is quite difficult to answer, as I enjoyed the work experience, the customers and helping to run the library.
I enjoyed interacting with the customers, helping with queries (including telephone), plus helping with computer queries.

I am writing this as a staff member or should I say former permanent staff member of the now city of gold coast,I am now on redeployment as i injured myself on the job over two years ago now and I have done every thing needed to get back to work.I have been told I need  operation to fix the work place injury I got and the council in there wisdom rejected this and I am now having to look for a new job either still with the council or outside the council,this is a lot harder than they make it seem,after almost 30 years working there,I have just been pushed aside into the to hard basket,I feel that I am been punished for getting injure on the job.

The amount of harassment and discrimination I went through was unbelievable.. Don't even trust the HR department as they try and cover it all up. I wouldn't recommend Council to anyone.

There are some good people there, but Upper Management when confronted with complaints turn against you and do anything to force you to resign. No-one listens to you. They say and do things to you and then when confronted with it, they play the denial game and deny everything. And make out its all in your head.

They really need to address the workplace bullying culture there.

I was employed with the goldcoast city council as a casual through an employment agency.This position was for approx 6months, I enjoyed this role located in broadbeach and worked unsupervised for 3 days of the week, always ensuring my work was complete. Gained relations with many people who worked in and around the oasis centre ,broadbeach cbd,I enjoyed this role assisting the public in a friendly and proffestional manner.

Most of Senior Management are not team players, don’t handle conflict very well. They have very low empathy, are manipulative and deceitful and most have a Jekyll and Hyde type of character. 
The executive level are very ambitious, often seek positions of power and do well on KPIs (key performance indicators) as that's their only focus... unfortunately they often destroy people in the process and bully everyone to get their own way.

Great place to work and excellent work conditions. The hardest part about the job is the 'politics' so to speak and the reality that some staff in this workplace feel rather entitled and therefore don't always recognise what a good workplace it really is. All roles that I worked in with GCCC involve quite a lot of variety and allow you to take ownership of your contribution.

Supervising water safety to the general public, performing fist aid , and assisting and directing public to swim areas , water testing 5 times a day.

I work with 16 co workers who are all helpful and we have fun, the hardest part of the role is some labouring and moving 50 meter pool into a 25 meter pool.

The most fun is jumping in the water after a shift.

I have learned to be polite and considerate to the public.

It is a fun workplace with loads of hardworking people. I have learn a lot at Gold Coast City council. As the organisation is very large, one can get expose to lots of corporate material for running such large organization as well as there are lots of opportunity to get expose to various phase of a project starting from Planning all the way to construction and maintenance.

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