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Moreton Bay Regional Council

Would you like to be paid less than your colleague for doing EXACTLY the same job? - then MBRC is the place for you! It may soon be 2019 but here we like to do things the un-Australian way. We operate a 2 tier wage system and a choice of very short contracts that your mortgage lender is sure to love! 

We also offer no REAL advancements because we'd hate to see you go.....thats how much we care. But we do offer lots of training. I say offer, but what i really mean is beg. 

Nonetheless, we do have lots of in-house online mandatory courses which only serve to reduce our liabilities and insurance costs - we'll do our best to deliver these courses in the most patronising way possible......a bit like this ad!

Want to feel the love? We promise to Micro manage you on an hourly basis to make sure you're delayed as much as possible and then blame u for the delay - we think that's the best way some of our most expensive managers and coordinators should spend their time. 

But wait! Apply for any of our positions and we'll do our very best to fill it with an expensive contractor or someone who is completely unsuitable for the role.
We like to get the most bang out of the rate-payers buck.....even if those contractors only end up staying for a few days. We do this by letting our personal beliefs get in the way of selecting a suitable and capable candidate who can serve the community well. 

So, if you have no direction in life or are feeling unsupported, Good for you! You'll fit right in. You might be an asset, but we pride ourselves on making you feel like a neusaince child. Its just one of a whole host of benefits which sets us apart from the rest!

Know someone who works here? Refer a friend and we'll make sure to hire you too! Some people call that nepitism, but we call it inclusion.

Want to belong to a club, great! We have a range of cliques,  internal politics and nepitistic clubs you can be part of, and best of all, membership is entirely free!

Our comprehensive support programme ensures every incompetent employee is rewarded with either a promotion or their very own team! After all, nobody wants a scene or to be performance managed, we'd rather ignore it and hope it goes away.

That's right folks, we're indifferent to the mass exodus and it couldnt possibly be our fault.......must be something in the water.

Oh!, did we mention that we like to fudge numbers to make things look like they're ok when they're not?

We've got it all!

I was a supervisor at MBRC and it was horrendous. I felt sorry for the demands i was told to put on the staff who were all contract workers and feared losing their job. If they didnt keep up with these ridiculous workloads their contract would be terminated, leaving it a highly stressful and toxic work environment. To do the workload required you would have to work 24hrs a day and then some! This left alot of people having to leave on stress, getting fired, working extra unpaid hours, or just quitting even though they didnt have a job to go to! I was so glad to leave and will never ever go back, the place needs a complete overhaul. 

The root of the problem lies with HR and upper management, who hide the details of the toxic workplace by outsourcing staff from contract companies. This ensures that MBRC never looks to be churning through staff in the way it is, and firing people is justified through the simple ceasing of a contract. This is unethical and unprofessional, and detracts from the service provided from the local community. Whats more, the staff members ARE members of the moreton bay region, who are completely ABUSED by the council and overworked, and then ABUSED by their fellow MBRC locals who treat them poorly because of their own disgust in MBRC. Its pointless.

The council aware of the problem, with literally hundreds of contract staff being turned over in a SINGLE YEAR, and still they keep doing it, because it saves them MONEY.

Where can you start?

Let’s start with this: I would not wish employment here on my worst enemy. Unless you were someone that knew how to brown nose management, of course. 

They will work you to death, but refuse to promote or even give you the opportunity to advance. Instead they will take all your skills, all your recommendations, and use them, but you will never receive a word of praise. 

Next thing you know, years will have passed and you’ll still be sitting in the dust, fed lies as to why you can’t advance, when those of you that are handpicked as favourites will rise to the top- without the required skills that you apparently need, but with the energy to bully other staff to boot! 

Want to ask for help? Don’t bother. Your emails will be ignored or you’ll get pulled aside for “performance development” and by development we mean “stop asking.”

If you want to work for a culture that engages in backstabbing, gossip-mongering, lack of advancement, heartbreaking tactics, go ahead! Don’t expect to have work-life balance though, because you’ll be getting projects dropped on you, even while you’re not at work, only to get in trouble when you return because they aren’t done. 

Do yourself a favour and stay far away from this place. 

I am part of an eight member team where my responsibility is to be supportive in assisting other members to complete tasks, to understand the team dynamics, to multi-task, be able to produce quality work output and to fill a role in the absence of staff. I participate in team meetings, contribute to social club activities and engage in networking with employees to gain further knowledge and applying effective practices I take calls from the Call Centre and communicate with customers directly to resolve an issue.

My rols is supporting team members as well as processing park booking requests, I action items such as vehicle access hire into parks, wedding bookings. I communicate with Park Supervisors, hirers, internal staff and the community. I am also skilled in processing hall and banner hire bookings.

I am tolerant of diversity and understand the varied frame of reference of each individual. I am aware of communicating in accommodating ways and understand that first impressions count, building rapport in any face to face interaction, and listening to the customer. My years of dealing with clients and customers, and my recent studies in social science, hold me in good stead to providing positive and unbiased customer service.

This position was meant to be a turning point, a chance to excel and progress into a career choice. What I received was the complete opposite. I chose to come forward within probation and shed light on a particular employee that I had been stuck with who was breaking the councils “code of conduct” on a daily basis, reported to whom I thought would do the right thing by me and take matters further considering the severity of the issues reported. Instead within a week of reporting these issues I was handed a letter of termination a week before my probation period ended. This workplace is the most political back stabbing environment I have been put into. If you enjoy being unsure about the people sorrounding you and feeling as if as a new employee you have no correct guidance and enjoy being lazy then this is the workplace for you, say nothing, don’t report issues that have been there for years, let the stigma around the council remain and you will do just fine.

I do not recommend working for this organisation as there is no flexibility, support from management or growth in your career. 

The work culture is very dull & the company follows processes that are very out dated. 

Senior Management & Junior Management do not support their staff in anyway shape or form. 

I was micro managed by my supervisor who also lacked communication to his staff. 

My department had such a high staff turnover.. A colleague advised 12 staff had filled my position within two years. 

Once I put in my resignation management were unprofessional and didn't even acknowledge my prescence for the last week. 

If you are a strong individual who likes to give an opinion to provide positive improvements to an organisation don't apply for a role within this organisation as your voice does not matter!

Working for Moreton Bay Regional Council was a stable and secure position, my working day was 10 to 11 hours in length, 3 days per week, and consisted of weighing and charging fees for waste dumping and recycling. During my time there i learnt how to deal with the public and commercial customers in a respectful way, how to handle cash and manage documentation etc. Management was generally pretty rigid in it's dealings with both the employees and customers.
My co-workers were generally flexible in regards to our working together.
The hardest part of the job was dealing with sly and devious, stubborn and ignorant customers and conveying this problem to management in a clear and understandable way.
The most enjoyable part of the job was nearly everything, secure, good team members, management ok, generally happy place to work.

After the Grass Roots investigation exposed toxic culture they brought in a CEO who just wants to cuddle everyone and sprinkle fairy dust. The culture is different but NOT better. Directors and CEO make decisions with zero staff consultation, CEO is only there to pad the resume fir the next job and Directors have been there fir 20 to 30 years and know no other way to manage than micro management. Literally teams of senior staff are leaving every month, nonone knows who's who any more and the only people left are less than 12 mths in young people who know no better.

Pros:- The actual work was good as were my teamates. My team leader was very supportive and was always available. 
Cons:- However management above him was poor, totally lacking in communication other than negative, management not on the same page which impacted badly on staff, long term vacant positions, unreasonable management expectations what could be acheived in a day. Anyone that spoke up simply put a target on their back from vindictive managers. Pay is poor and does not reflect the responsiblity that staff have. The area where I worked saw a staff turnover of 40+ in 18months, for a unit that is supposed to have 30 staff. I would not recommend this employer to my worst enemy.

2 sets of rules old culture are okay, if new there they dont like you most people that have been there a while are threatened by new employees think that you are going to take there job, safety non existent  all comes down to money, if they have to spend money on something to make it safe they wont, you only get overtime if you are in the old crew, unrealistic probation periods for labourers 12 months, they say they want to be like the private sector not a chance, they don't have any trust in there staff, always micro managing, alot of time and effort to get anything done there, to much politics within the council all money gets spent around redcliffe not other outer suburbs.

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