u/indifferentsatid

Currently renting a small unit in Melbourne.

The property has come with a refrigerator and washing machine.
The fridge has broken down and as anyone would I contacted the realestate agent to let them know.

They state that when applied and signed for the property, it was listed as unfurnished. They claim these are “bonus items”. As a result, I will have to now get my own fridge.

I am very confused as nowhere does it state in the tenancy agreement that I signed, that the place is unfurnished.

But with the Condition report (which I also had to sign within the first 2 weeks of moving in last year), the washing machine and fridge have been specifically photographed and put on the document.

I have also been given notice to vacate within a 3 month time as the owner is moving back into the property, which is fine by arises suspicion that they don’t want to repair or fix the fridge.

I am also concern if they don’t do anything, they will deduct a new fridge from my bond.

And my food is going off now :(

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks everyone :)

I don’t want to sound like I’m whining but it might.

Not going to mention the exact store/s I worked nor specific people.

If you’re looking for a job, I’d highly suggest staying away from Bunnings, especially stores in east/south-east Melbourne.

I worked for Bunnings for half a dozen years.
Initially starting out as a team member in a department, then worked as a department supervisor for multiple years, then continued into a niche role on top of supervisor. From the start I was warned to stay out of the politics in that specific store - gosh was that person right!

The store went through several complex managers in the span of a few years; one’s transferring from other stores in hope of fixing the one I worked at.

One complex manager specifically stated to me quote “I’m here to get rid of bad eggs”.
Well that’s great.
My store had issues with older people (50ish - 60ish age range) as team members, and way to
Young inexperienced supervisors and coordinators (some put in the role at 18).

I saw a massive change in the store for the worse, especially over the lockdown period in 2020. The store prioritised financial gain, and shifted drastically away from a friendly work place, to profit profit profit.

Older workers were bullied out of work. I had a great relationship with majority of my colleagues at the time, and saw many of them extremely stressed, mistreated and under appreciated.

Many of these people had worked in Bunnings for 15 plus odd years, had great work ethic and great experience.
Sadly, most of these workers were bullied so bad and exploited.

They were given impossible tasks, forced to work isolated from colleagues. They were specifically set up to fail, so they could be moved on.

At this point, I had taken on a supervisor role under a fairly young coordinator. I had worked alongside him from when he was my supervisor, then he took the department coordinator role, and then he transferred me to his old role.

He was such an incredible, gifted coordinator. Unfortunately, like what I saw for a lot of people, he quickly became burnt out and treated horribly by other coordinators and the operations and complex managers, to the point he decided to transfer to another store.

In weekly meetings held for all supervisors and coordinators, the entire hour was spent gossiping and talking extremely poor of members on the floor. I was so disgusted. Like actual school yard level shit talking.

At this point in time, I was working under the pump 5 days a week, staying back more than 10 hours. The workload given to me was insane, especially if I wanted to meet KPI targets and goals set by the managers. At some points I was staying back and doing 14 hour shifts just so I could keep up and finish the workload.

Wasn’t even paid as we were strictly told not to clock out after 10.5 hours as we would be paid double time. So I was clocking out at 10 hours, and doing an additional few hours on top of that.

I was there opening the store, and there till just about closing time a lot of the days.

Eventually, I had extreme pressures and circumstances happen in my private life where I had to step away from specific duties and roles to focus on my health.

Here there was a massive shift in treatment towards me. I was pressured into talking about my current medical treatment and listing specific medications I was on.

I had been on these medications for over a year at this point and experienced 0 side effects from them.

However, they stripped me of responsibilities, took away my ability to use tools like pallet jacks and WAVES (those things we drive around on and get up high). And put me back on the floor.

This made it much more difficult to do even simple tasks safely and reliably. Like putting away stock above the shelf or moving pallets. Soon I was moved once again to front end support. WHAT I HAD SEEN FOR YEARS WITH OTHERS WAS HAPPENING TO ME.

I was also told to uphold the supervisory role, even though I was no longer under that title or even getting paid for it.

Eventually I cracked it. Left in 2025.

Of course this still has had a massive impact. I’ve been doing job interviews and every time I get to reference checks at the last stage, I’m either ghosted or denied the job position. It’s pretty obvious what they’re doing.

I’ve worked a few jobs now and by far this was the most toxic environment I had worked in. I’m still in contact with workers and they continue to say nothing has really changed since I left.

Also I wasn’t exactly the perfect employee. Especially during times where I had significant pressure in my personal life. I had times I was late, got angry in the workplace and eventually started just skipping shifts due to treatment.

I was to anxious and depressed to go into work, because of how I was treated there.

Dear Bunnings,

GFY

I don’t want to sound like I’m whining but it might.

Not going to mention the exact store/s I worked nor specific people.

If you’re looking for a job, I’d highly suggest staying away from Bunnings, especially stores in east/south-east Melbourne.

I worked for Bunnings for half a dozen years.
Initially starting out as a team member in a department, then worked as a department supervisor for multiple years, then continued into a niche role on top of supervisor. From the start I was warned to stay out of the politics in that specific store - gosh was that person right!

The store went through several complex managers in the span of a few years; one’s transferring from other stores in hope of fixing the one I worked at.

One complex manager specifically stated to me quote “I’m here to get rid of bad eggs”.
Well that’s great.
My store had issues with older people (50ish - 60ish age range) as team members, and way to
Young inexperienced supervisors and coordinators (some put in the role at 18).

I saw a massive change in the store for the worse, especially over the lockdown period in 2020. The store prioritised financial gain, and shifted drastically away from a friendly work place, to profit profit profit.

Older workers were bullied out of work. I had a great relationship with majority of my colleagues at the time, and saw many of them extremely stressed, mistreated and under appreciated.

Many of these people had worked in Bunnings for 15 plus odd years, had great work ethic and great experience.
Sadly, most of these workers were bullied so bad and exploited.

They were given impossible tasks, forced to work isolated from colleagues. They were specifically set up to fail, so they could be moved on.

At this point, I had taken on a supervisor role under a fairly young coordinator. I had worked alongside him from when he was my supervisor, then he took the department coordinator role, and then he transferred me to his old role.

He was such an incredible, gifted coordinator. Unfortunately, like what I saw for a lot of people, he quickly became burnt out and treated horribly by other coordinators and the operations and complex managers, to the point he decided to transfer to another store.

In weekly meetings held for all supervisors and coordinators, the entire hour was spent gossiping and talking extremely poor of members on the floor. I was so disgusted. Like actual school yard level shit talking.

At this point in time, I was working under the pump 5 days a week, staying back more than 10 hours. The workload given to me was insane, especially if I wanted to meet KPI targets and goals set by the managers. At some points I was staying back and doing 14 hour shifts just so I could keep up and finish the workload.

Wasn’t even paid as we were strictly told not to clock out after 10.5 hours as we would be paid double time. So I was clocking out at 10 hours, and doing an additional few hours on top of that.

I was there opening the store, and there till just about closing time a lot of the days.

Eventually, I had extreme pressures and circumstances happen in my private life where I had to step away from specific duties and roles to focus on my health.

Here there was a massive shift in treatment towards me. I was pressured into talking about my current medical treatment and listing specific medications I was on.

I had been on these medications for over a year at this point and experienced 0 side effects from them.

However, they stripped me of responsibilities, took away my ability to use tools like pallet jacks and WAVES (those things we drive around on and get up high). And put me back on the floor.

This made it much more difficult to do even simple tasks safely and reliably. Like putting away stock above the shelf or moving pallets. Soon I was moved once again to front end support. WHAT I HAD SEEN FOR YEARS WITH OTHERS WAS HAPPENING TO ME.

I was also told to uphold the supervisory role, even though I was no longer under that title or even getting paid for it.

Eventually I cracked it. Left in 2025.

Of course this still has had a massive impact. I’ve been doing job interviews and every time I get to reference checks at the last stage, I’m either ghosted or denied the job position. It’s pretty obvious what they’re doing.

I’ve worked a few jobs now and by far this was the most toxic environment I had worked in. I’m still in contact with workers and they continue to say nothing has really changed since I left.

Also I wasn’t exactly the perfect employee. Especially during times where I had significant pressure in my personal life. I had times I was late, got angry in the workplace and eventually started just skipping shifts due to treatment.

I was to anxious and depressed to go into work, because of how I was treated there.

Dear Bunnings,

GFY