Look I totally agree, you can’t live in Australia without having some basic swimming skills and at least some awareness of where it’s safe to swim. I can swim thanks to lessons as a kid/my Dad/Sunday mornings at Bondi Icebergs, but my beach swimming skills are so lacking I tend not to go in.
I think only last year a similar family got into trouble in a Cavill Avenue hotel pool. Iirc 2 drowned (initial struggler and attempted rescuer) and a 3rd barely survived trying to help both. NFI how that happens tbh.
I honestly think the issue is that Adults tend to feel embarrassed about taking lessons for something that little kids can do or that the lessons are usually catered to kids.
For example I jumped onto Enmore Pools’ website and the page about learning to swim only talks about kids.
Yeah from memory a kid was struggling and Grandad when in to get him and died I think.
You’d be surprised how many people overseas just don’t know how to swim. It really is amazing. When I was 23, I did a two week canoe trip with a bunch of youth in Poland. We did the great lakes and some of these are pretty big and deep. We were halfway through the trip and mucking around near a wharf when one of the girls got playfully pushed into the water. She sunk like a rock. A few of us dived in and pulled her out, but turns out she couldn’t swim at all. Very common over there.
If you went to the pools there though, you would understand. They have very strict rules (at least a few years ago). Need to have a full shower before hand, need to take thongs to get changes into and then not allowed to where boardies, have to be speedos.
It is one of the three pillars.
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Sure its not one of the…four pillars?
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Am I supposed to remember something here?
I still haven’t learnt the service values when they made them triservice
CRIES
The only reason I’ve done anything resembling a swimming lesson since primary school is because I’d go Canterbury Pool when your BiL was working there.
So it’s my final day today, and my team threw me a work lunch at the Strathfield Golf Club.
My manager didn’t show up. She let us know she wasn’t coming into the office this morning due to a “flat tire”, and then said she couldn’t make it to the lunch because she “forgot”. She was also going to foot the bill on her company CC - so instead we all had to buy our own lunches.
She lives in Rhodes, 10 minutes away.
First world problems and all, but that’s become the norm with her.
Cunt act. Congrats on being free from that shit. 
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Yeah, it’s kinda scary just how far our team has falled morale wise.
Absoloute day for it to sit on the balcony and sip beers, but we’ve all come back to the office. I have no idea why I’m still here. I did my handover with my team leader this morning, along with my exit interview, and so now I’m just sat here until 5pm twiddling my thumbs. 
It will demonstrate to anyone who doesn’t already know what a crap manager she is
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One of my partners new nurses she hired in June is absolutely taking the piss, she has been rostered on for 38 shifts and only worked 9 of them. It’s now 2 episodes of bereavement and 4 of sick leave.
She’s either the most unlucky person, or really knows how to play the system. It’s causing the morale of the rest of the staff to really plummet now.
I’ve had two different uncles die at two different times in the first couple of months of two different jobs!
haha the girl I mention above has gotten a new sick note from her GP writing her off work until the 28th.
By the time she’s due back at work, she would have worked 9 out of 46 shifts. All 5 episodes of sickness have been different illnesses. There is literally nothing my partner can do about it and has to keep checking in on her asking if there is anything they can do to support her.
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Had a staff member like that about half a year ago. Hired her and was constantly sick, bereavement and other stuff. Thought we’d stick with her with the same process, she could just be really unlucky. Ended up letting her go for completely other reasons
Haha partner has been re-watching House, I hadn’t seen it other than the odd episode here and there when it was first around. I actually don’t mind it too much, there is so much he does and says which would not only get him fired, but locked away these days.