u/Existing_Interest_24

I looked on fairwork. The only fairwork claims that seems relevant is "undue pressure and influence claim" and "coercion claim". The undue pressure and influence claim focuses only on employment contracts, so that means I'm left with only applying for the coercion fairwork claim.

The situation is that I'm a college graduate working in a small independent business and the manager who has worked here for 20 years asked to have lunch with me. She walked me to the local Cafe 1 min walk away.

She put a blank piece of paper in front of me and told me to write negative things down about the other supervisor. I tried saying no. I tried making excuses like he's my supervisor. I also said he always talks about court, and the manager made a face like she was a bit concerned about the court part. And then she shook her head a few times and then slid the paper closer to me.

I picked up the pen and started writing things down. While I was writing things down, she said really terrible negative things about him. She talked about his parents, his parents medical conditions, his partner, she talked about how she thinks he is very lonely and insecure, she talked about the house he purchased in another town, she gave a lot of examples of what he did in the past 6 months at work, basically everything she knew about him. All of these things I didnt know about him and obviously, is none of my business, and yet she told me.

I tried to only say good things about him, but the manager kept shifting it towards negative things about him. She also had a A4 notebook open in front of her which I have figured out is her "gotcha book", where she writes down everything that happens in the business. For example, I read the first few sentences on the page it was opened to (even though I wasn't supposed to) and it said "Jessica went to the sister store on 4th May 2026 at 2pm" which sounds micromanaging and unnecessary. The manager was writing down notes i was saying to her.

Anyway, when I finished writing until the end of the A4 piece of blank paper she gave me, the manager took it away straight away and put it in her handbag.

I cried during the Cafe lunch as well because I didnt feel right.

The manager told me that my supervisor is going to get fired. Why would she tell me that and make me write negative things down about him to use against me and him, if he makes an unfair dismissal claim.

The only thing I wrote on that piece of a4 paper is "i dont want to write anything down" over and over again until I reached the bottom of the page. I also was able to take a photo of that piece of paper without her knowing I took a photo of it. I pretended I was texting someone, but I was actually taking a photo. I took a photo when I wrote three quarters of the page. I didnt take a photo of the page at the end of finishing writing the page, because she took it away.

So I reckon the manager would've gotten a shock when she looked at the page when she got home. Because she was expecting me to write negative things about him and instead I wrote "I dont want to write anything down".

In my coercion claim, I could write there was a power imbalance between me and the manager, no formal meeting, manager paid for the Cafe lunch, I didnt know i was going to have lunch with her that day, workplace investigation protocol wasnt followed, I didn't receive an email to notify me in advance there was going to be a lunch meeting, put on the spot, made to write things down when I didnt want to, tried saying no, the cctv would show me waving my hands trying to say no and the manager sliding a paper in front of me, the manager disclosed that the supervisor will get fired, and the manager said awful things about the supervisor during the entire lunch and took that paper away from me. The piece of paper also proves she wanted me to write things down and that I wrote i dont want to write anything down. For example, it is very weird i wrote that phrase for the entire page. This is a very weird situation.

After the lunch, the supervisor was also very worried and kept asking me about what happened at the 2 hour lunch, so basically i was hounded by the female manager at lunch and then again by the male supervisor after lunch. The manager told me to say if he asks, then to say the lunch was about my female issues, which it clearly wasnt.

If I make a coercion claim, I will probably be fired as well. This workplace has fired two other people (not including the supervisor) in the past 6 months. In fact, I will probably be fired in the next few weeks before my 12 week probation ends, since I didnt write down on the piece of paper what she wanted me to write.

I really liked this supervisor. I don't want to stab my supervisor behind the back.

Edit: if I make a coercion general protections fairwork claim and then get fired, then I need to make a dismissal general protections claim as well? Thats two separate fairwork claims. And then my supervisor is probably going to make his own dismissal general protections claim. So that is potentially 3 fairwork claims the employer needs to deal with.

Edit 2: I need therapy after this. And I hope no one else has to be pressured and put on the spot like I did. This place is in a remote rural town in the middle of nowhere.

Edit 3: i just realised. So I cant tell my supervisor anything that has happened to me? Because right now, my supervisor has made it clear that he thinks i said bad or negative things about him at the lunch with the manager when in fact that is not true. The manager is the one saying bad things about him and not me.

The checkout girl at my grocery store asked me, and i said pharmacy. And she said pharmacy assistant? And I said yes. I said yes because im shy and introverted, and its easier to just say yes.

Im actually an intern.

But I am in my 20s and look dumb and naive. She's also in her 20s too. So thats why i look like im only capable of being a pharmacy assistant. A customer in the pharmacy even saw me just working at the till, and said to me "oh, you studying to get up to an assistant is alright for your level". I didnt respond.

I think my pharmacist coworkers just say they work in healthcare. But i dont like telling people im going to be a pharmacist. I'd prefer to keep my occupation private. Lol that's the complete opposite of nurses saying unsolicited, "I'm a nurse".

I work for an independent small business.

I don't have to clock in or clock out, which means staff members usually come to work right on time, or even 5 min to 10 min late, and still get paid (e.g come to work at 9.10am but get paid from 9am).

We do fill out time sheets every fortnight.

We get paid for lunch and our employer provides lunch too, which means we dont need to bring lunch to work. The caveat is that we are still supposed to still be at work during lunch. For example, other workplaces have a 30 min unpaid lunch where you can leave the building or do whatever you like. But at our workplace, we eat the employer's lunch and still talk to the coworkers and staff around us. As in, we don't have the mindset of "im on lunch break, dont talk to me". Overall, if we are rostered 9am to 7pm, then we get paid the entire 10 hours.

Our roster changes every fortnight. So we are not working the conventional 9am to 5.30pm roster Monday to friday. My conventional family member cannot wrap their head around the fact that our roster changes every fortnight and that I only work 4 days a week.

Even when im supposed to work 9am to 6pm for example, i usually leave work at 6.30pm, which i claim the overtime.

My family member says this workplace is not good and shakes their head.

My friends work at other places (we graduated from the same Uni degree) and they are not allowed to work at the same work location on an ongoing basis. My friends are rostered to work at different stores throughout the week, which means unpaid travel all over metropolitan Perth.

My workplace is only a 20 minute walk from my house and I dont have to work at other stores.

I went to small claims court. It was a car accident. Court ordered the other party to pay me back $4000. It is fortnightly payments.

The other party has been paying me back fortnightly, exactly as the court ordered. They now only have about $1000 left to pay.

The other party sometimes forgets to pay, so I message them, and they reply back straight away, and then they also pay straight away. If they dont pay straight away, then they text back explaining why.

Now it has been 5 days since they were supposed to pay. I messaged them 3 days after they were supposed to pay. They have read the message because it says "read". But they havent replied at all. I havent replied back because I dont want to be annoying.

Should I just message them again 1 week after the date they were supposed to pay me?

If they miss two payments, I can message them again.

If they miss 3 payments and dont reply to my messages, then I have no choice but to commence enforcement proceedings?

For example, a pharmacist, radiographer, doctor, nurse, physio who works for the adf for 10, 20, 30 or 40 years.

When they stop working for the adf, do they get a fortnightly pension at a certain age? Any sort of pension?

If they deployed overseas a few times as a health professional for the adf, do they get a pension when they stop working for the adf?

Or is it only combat soldiers who get a pension?

We have phone calls all the time at the pharmacy for advice over the phone, asking us to collect products for free delivery, calls from the hospital about a patient being discharged, calls asking for our email and fax, calls from health services asking how we operate our deliveries, so many phone calls.

I used to be scared or anxious of picking up the phone, but not anymore. As soon as the phone rings, I pick it up asap.

I just dont know any other health profession that receives so many phone calls.

But I'm sure other pharmacies I worked at didnt receive this many phone calls in a day?

Sometimes I'm just really weirded out.

She's thinking of working a maccas around perth. Would maccas require her to work after school a few days a week and then on Saturdays and Sundays too?

Would it be roughly 10 to 15 hours a week, or less than 10 hours a week?

She's worried that she won't have time to study

For example, a customer would come to pick up their mum's webster packs, and would only give me a $50 note. So we just charge him $50 and then we tell them they can pay the rest later. We then have to make a note to say they will pay x amount later, only because some customers have come back and said nope I've already paid for that.

Some customers have accounts with us, which allows them to take things from our store and then pay later. But this has meant they dont really pay us back until their account reaches 500$ or even almost 1K. We've asked some customers to pay us back, but they either make excuses or they get angry and say to stop harassing them.

Some customers dont have an account with us, and yet ask to pay later. This goes for any products we sell, including jewellery or other gifts we sell.

And customers like to ask us for discounts too, which we give.

For example, a nasal spray was too expensive for one customer, so we gave them a discount.

And we also do free delivery. We have delivery days. But some customers call us and ask for delivery within 1 hour, which we do.

Surely my pharmacy giving discounts, letting customers owe us money and doing free delivery within 1 hour is not normal? Also, if the customer gets discharged from a hospital, then we receive the discharge summary from the hospital and then update the webster packs to reflect the changes, then deliver to the patient's house within 1 to 2 hours, so they can get their dinner dose. One customer called us a few times in one day to get us to change their webster packs. We ended up getting the discharge info from the hospital about 5.30pm and then the customer rang us again and said it better be ready when I get there by 6.30pm

I guess bending over backwards for customers means that we hope the customers return back to us and become long term customers? But how does that logic make sense when there are many other pharmacies who make patients pay now and not later, and those pharmacies are doing really well. So if our pharmacy starts making customers pay now, and we refuse customers paying later, then we will lose customers? Maybe these customers come to us because they know other pharmacies won't let them pay later.

I got the second highest score in high school, I got the top 5% in Uni a few times, I also helped my sibling with their homework while studying full time as well, I graduated with the highest grade in my masters degree, now I got accepted into my dream job and its been 3 months since I've been working here.

I have a driver's licence but my dad drives me to and from work. I'm also 30yo and I've never driven with just myself in the car. My dad has been yelling at me and my family (which includes my mum and my siblings) ever since I can remember. My first memory is my dad yelling at me at the top of his lungs when I was 4yo. The yelling has gotten worse. I got scholarships and welfare during school which totals to around almost 100K, and my mum and dad took it all.

My dad goes from happy to angry and happy again to angry. Me and my siblings would get an award and dad would be happy. And then he gets angry again. It used to be that when I transferred him money, he'd be happy the whole day. But then he got used to it, and started yelling at me on the same day I transfer him money.

One horrible memory that pops into my mind was when I came home from school at 13yo and told my dad I got one mark wrong on my test because I spelt "accommodation" incorrectly. I didnt know that it had double c and double m. And my dad was extremely anguished over that and got so angry and extremely frustrated. I was only 13yo. I felt so sad. It's been 14 years. And I've had many academic achievements and my dad is still angry.

My dad smokes cigarettes a lot and spends a lot of money, and he lives off welfare paycheck to paycheck. Imagine if I didnt get those scholarships, it would've went to another student and it would've been life changing for them, whereas my dad just wasted that scholarship money. And when he sees a homeless person, he wants to give them money. Why cant he just be nice to his own family.

My workplace said they want me here for two or three decades. My dad says that my workplace doesnt like me.

My neighbour also passed away. But the wife is still alive. And my dad doesnt feel sad at all. In fact, he said maybe they will sell the house and we can buy it and put it up for rent.

My dad doesnt work. So id be the one buying it. There is no escape.

My dad is extremely disappointed in me. I should've escaped as soon as I graduated college.

Edit: my dad is in his mid 60s. I'm glad that he probably only has about 20 years left of life. My dad cut his own family off because he got angry with them, and then he created his own family (me, mum, siblings) when he clearly should have just been a single man living by himself, festering in his own chaotic anger.

I bought a house next door to my parents house. In other words, I bought a house next to the house I was born and raised in.

My coworkers literally made a face like "what???". Their face made it seem like they were quite disgusted or thought it was a weird thing to do. And then they were talking about how I need to buy a house that is far from my parents house, like in a couple suburbs out, so that I'm not dependent on them.

And when I go home from work, they sometimes say things like "you're going home straight to mummy and daddy for dinner?"

They also talk about property a lot and investing.

I'm in my early 30s, perth.

If you have a rental property and you live interstate, and you can only come to visit the rental property at least once a year only, does that mean you definitely need to have a property manager?

Could you get your parents who live close to the rental property to do the inspection checks instead?

I made another post a few days ago about a towing situation in perth. Tow truck driver convinced me that my car was a write off.

Anyway, I got in touch with my insurance company. my insurance was able to get the car back from the towing company quite quickly.

My insurance company dropped it off at a crash repair who said they can fix it by replacing panels, headlight etc. So my car isn't a write off.

I'm allowed to select my own crash repairer according to my insurance policy. My insurer told me to drive my car to crash repairers to get a quote, then the insurance company will have to send someone from aami to have a look at the car, then after that I will have it booked in for repairs.

I already went to two separate crash repairers

I was expecting for the crash repairers to email me the quote, from which I will email to aami.

But one crash repairer was trying to pressure me to give them my claim number (i had to pull out a few excuses to get them to finally stop asking and be okay with me giving the claim number to them at a later date). Another crash repairer said it's fine for me to call up later and give them my claim number.

Anyway, I'm glad I went to two crash repairers because I got treated much better at the second crash repairer I went to.

I have decided on which crash repairer I want to go to just based on how they treated me, how they pointed out more panels to fix, and also because they will replace/fix my wheel along with the panel too. So I can do it all in one location. In contrast, the other crash repairer i went to said I will need to get my wheel fixed at a separate location.

So does that mean I dont need to see the quote? Because the crash repairers didnt want to email the quote? Do I not have the right to see the quote? They just told me to give them the claim number and they can give it directly to aami. Is it really bad to give me a quote?

I've never been through this process before. I just thought I was supposed to be given a copy of the quote. But my parents said since it's going through insurance, that I dont need to see the quote, because insurance will take care of it, and that all I need to do is choose the repairer I want.

Edit: i havent given any crash repairer a claim number yet.