I need to vent!

[GoktimusPrime]

The mirror wouldn't be good as CCTV but it'd still be better than nothing. I'm imagining that Woolie's argument against your fiancée's suggestion is the cost of setting up and maintaining CCTV, so perhaps they would be willing to consider a cheaper alternative. <shrug> Or maybe set up a fake camera? I dunno. <shrug> I suppose another choice might be to install one of those sensitive car alarms that go off when someone touches the car... but they can be so annoying cos they're prone to being accidentally triggered (and people soon learn to ignore alarms that "cry wolf"). But in terms of alerting your fiancée while she's at work it might work.

Gawd... this reminds me of the first school I taught at in a rather shabby part of Western Sydney. I lost all my hubcaps! Another teacher had his new car _buried_ in dirt. Our Principal once told us at a staff meeting _not_ to bring our good car to school (which doesn't work when you only have one car! :/)

[1AZRAEL1]

The mirror wouldn't be good as CCTV but it'd still be better than nothing. I'm imagining that Woolie's argument against your fiancée's suggestion is the cost of setting up and maintaining CCTV, so perhaps they would be willing to consider a cheaper alternative. <shrug> Or maybe set up a fake camera? I dunno. <shrug> I suppose another choice might be to install one of those sensitive car alarms that go off when someone touches the car... but they can be so annoying cos they're prone to being accidentally triggered (and people soon learn to ignore alarms that "cry wolf"). But in terms of alerting your fiancée while she's at work it might work.

Gawd... this reminds me of the first school I taught at in a rather shabby part of Western Sydney. I lost all my hubcaps! Another teacher had his new car _buried_ in dirt. Our Principal once told us at a staff meeting _not_ to bring our good car to school (which doesn't work when you only have one car! :/)

All valid points, but Woolies is useless. She told me that their A/C is broken and most likely won't be fixed for months or even years. And coming up to summer is going to make it fun. They cut costs at the expense of their workers. They change the price of petrol by only a couple of cents, even less sometimes, and expect them to change it as soon as they are told. But you can't when they are too stingey to have 2 workers on, and the place is full of cars. She didnt get to go and change it for nearly an hour bacause it was that busy, and they called up after and said, why did it take so long to change it? in the sort of tone "Do what you are told" stern voice.

I know too many bad things about Woolies, and Coles for that matter.

Sounds like you would have some pretty insane stories about teaching