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@azuresinger

6 ай бұрын

You guys are a RIOT! 😂USA loves you!🎉

@ericlycan5681

6 ай бұрын

Is there any way for me to watch this in the US?

@brandoncariveau

6 ай бұрын

Can’t watch on ABC iview in the USA

@ericlycan5681

6 ай бұрын

@@brandoncariveau yeah that's what I'm seeing. I'm bummed.

"Oh my god, have I let HR in to the building again?" :'D

10-15 years for manslaughter! Great writing.

@everyonesalittlemad1608

7 ай бұрын

Agreed

@ribbonsofnight

7 ай бұрын

No one could convict him for murder.

@bremer1701

6 ай бұрын

@@ribbonsofnight feminsts or SJW's can.

$120,000 for the lollipop man! What are you gonna get for $70,000? High school maths teacher This is funny but too true.

@azuresinger

6 ай бұрын

As a retired American teacher of 32 years, that lil' scenario plays perfectly here too! Way to go, guys!! Makes me chuckle! 😅

@GlowingTube

6 ай бұрын

No wonder there is a teacher shortage, shit pay and overwork.

@xlynx9

5 ай бұрын

According to the Daily Telegraph in 2017, they can earn up to 130,000. But the subtitle says "as much as 180,000" so it already contradicted itself in the title.

@andrewsmith8729

4 ай бұрын

The one thing people appear to forget is Traffic Controllers work in a very high risk job where people deliberately try to run them over. I used to hire traffic controllers on projects in Brisbane. They were getting $18 an hour flat and $25 an hour as overtime with no allowances. On these major unionised projects, the Victorian CFMEU classifies Traffic Controllers as CW1, CW2 with 6 months in role, and CW3 in a controller spotter role. Their permanent hourly rate is $48.93 for a CW1 to $52.23 for a CW3. They work 36 hours of normal time which is guess is 8 hours Monday to Thursday and 4 hours on Friday before OT kicks in. On casual rates..... they get $61 to $65 an hour. Now all that aside.... there is a young bloke across the road from where I live in Northern NSW. He works as a traffic controller for a labour hire company run by a Job Search Provider. This bloke gets $32 an hour flat rate.

@FistandFootMartialArts

Ай бұрын

Oh. "Maths teacher". I actually thought he said "Meth teacher" as a vague reference to Breaking Bad. See how I am? LOL

The independent consultations segment illustrates by far the most disgusting aspect of Australian governance- the revolving door.

@venkatameesala

7 ай бұрын

Not just Australia. Every country

@stanislaw_p

5 ай бұрын

If only australia...

@JonNargodian

5 ай бұрын

To be fair if you run a company whose job is to perform independent reports and you return a report that is not what the client wanted/expected then they are probably going to go to another independent report body.

@Ameyekbote23

3 ай бұрын

​@JonNargodian This comment needs an independent assessment

@zylmsabater122

3 ай бұрын

​@@Ameyekbote23 hmm well can you give us a broader compass direction?

Honestly Tony has become one of my favorite TV characters, so glad I found this show, so sad I ran out of episodes.

HR in the Australian Public Service is worse than these guys show. They are not there to help you, only to help the department.

@STREETMACHINETV

4 ай бұрын

Actually that's the role of HR everywhere. They are not there to protect the workers, but to protect the company.

I can totally sympathise with Nat on the first one.

@ribbonsofnight

7 ай бұрын

and all the other scenes she's in.

HR is a menace 😂😂😂😂😂

HR wouldn't allow us to sack 2 thieving drug addicts who arrived late and left early from work for over 3 years in our state health department.... ffs.... The comedy here may be exaggerated but it perfectly represents what is happening in corporate Australia.

@daleviker5884

4 ай бұрын

The state health department is not "corporate" Australia. If people knew how much money governments waste there would be a riot.

@hoilst265

4 күн бұрын

Yeah, but you turned up late that one time in 2019, so that's why you're being let go, gasgas.

Just like Yes Minister was a realistic portrayal of the UK Parliament decades ago, Utopia is spot on about what goes on in Canberra - actually it is worse.

If they made a US version it would be huge

@bebits3173

6 ай бұрын

It would be cancelled before the first season finished.

@squidsyd100

6 ай бұрын

I mean isnt that what parks and rec is?

@vertomme

6 ай бұрын

Or Veep

@thomaselwood12

3 ай бұрын

The Americans don't get humour like this, as in they literally don't get it as to not find it funny.

@Rocka5438

3 ай бұрын

they could just, you know, send this one over to the US

Ive loved your work for decades, right back to the D Generation days, and I've got some Best of The Late Show DVDs kicking around.

@LachlanMadsen

3 ай бұрын

I have a Frontline T shirt from the ABC Shop back in the day

That bloke just drove off with Rob's new boat!!

Ah Beverley from HR..my favourite character

@kenoliver8913

Ай бұрын

Rhonda from PR is a real rival for affection though. I've had the misfortune of working with people just like that - this is very accurately observed satire.

Awesome! The only thing worth watching in the past decade on Their ABC.

@jose.peraltabros

5 күн бұрын

What about Bluey?

I have central chest pain watching this 😂

@darthkek1953

12 сағат бұрын

That'll be your Covid vax

Haha these clips made me want to learn how to speak Australian! It wasn’t too hard. It’s very similar to English which is almost like American

@gentlemanskier3107

4 ай бұрын

😂

@KeithHays-ek4vr

5 күн бұрын

Try speaking Kiwi. - It's histerical! 🤣

@darthkek1953

12 сағат бұрын

The old way to speak Australian was to speak like a tough guy asking a question. The current way to speak Australian is to sound like a homosexual asking a question.

Jamie Robertson is hilarious in every moment he's on screen

This show is very similar to Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister which was first broadcast in 1980 i.e. 40 years ago. Obviously there are a lot of muck ups at higher levels but there are a lot of low level public servants trying to do their best on short term (1-2 year) contracts.

Michael Scott would love this guy

What an interesting documentary

Brilliant. The writing, acting… first-rate👏👏👏👏

@hoilst265

4 күн бұрын

"I wouldn't want to presuppose-" "Suppose you did." The wit and wordplay is just perfect.

The best show ever!!!!! So smart and so funny!!!! Very depressing on how real it is, too!

Is this available to watch anywhere in the U.S.?

From the States and I just stumbled upon this show. Anyone know if they have a region free blu ray set available?

@benjaminyoung772

4 ай бұрын

Use a VPN to spoof your location as being in Australia if you’d like to stream. You’ll need to set up a free account. Not sure about the blu-rays.

Why isn’t this series available in the USA 😭 The Newsreader isn’t either

Beverly the HR lady is so frustrating but is so realistic

IMO: 1, 3, 5, 2, 4

Puts you off joining the public service

@hoilst265

4 күн бұрын

Teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeechnically, these guys aren't Public Service. They're a Government-owned company. All the graft of a government department, but with that sweet, sweet magic immunity from oversight thanks to the three magic words: "Commercial-In-Confidence".

🥂 🍾

Is the only way to watch this in the UK is by using a VPN or is there another way

Oh4fuxache 😂😂😂❤❤❤

Omg these are so depressingly real....

And still not something I can watch legally in the UK

@continental_drift

7 ай бұрын

That's really sad. I'm surprised it's syndicated around the world.

Lmao I'm shocked the Australian government hasn't raided the study of this show for hate speech.

I've never laughed while being infuriated before...we need an emoji for that. Is HR really just corporate self-sabotage? Like, do they get courses on how to trigger fight or flight responses in people? OMG! Do an HR on HR review at an HR conference! I need to see humans stuck in a perpetual feedback loop!

@v1rotait23

2 ай бұрын

Ugh... women in HR... How to destroy any industry with people who don't make any product or provide a service to everyone else. A corporate illusion of self importance that does nothing except consume people and spit them out as garbage!

@Telstar62a

19 күн бұрын

They're mostly there to try and prevent the company from being sued.

Get rid of Hr here in New Zealand there are a few companies that did not have a Hr dept like Resene Paints and seemed to operate pretty well without one!😂

@hoilst265

4 күн бұрын

One of the greatest stories I read was a company who simply fired the HR department, and used the costs save to pay the actual managers who had to work with people to hire staff and work with them more money to monitor them (and get a better class of manager), and then just keep an IR law firm on retainer for the legal stuff. Allegedly, as one of the (former) HR drones were carry their stuff out in a box, one of the managers said to her "I don't even know what **** you did here."

I recently found the show and finished season 2. I thought that it would end on a victory but ended in another disappointment. In future seasons do they ever find a way to fight back?

@paulorocky

6 ай бұрын

No, it’s a satire

@zZzZzyxel

5 ай бұрын

No, and that's both beautiful and horrible aspect of the show. Just like in real life nothing is actually resolved like it "supposed" to go down. Good guys never win. Incompetent, scheming people who know how to play the system? Those guys are on top and keep taking W after W.

can someone explain to what does scene 4 and 5 mean?

@hoilst265

4 күн бұрын

Segment 4: the people Tony are meeting with are consultants - external "experts" hired for their "expertise". They're satirising how they work: ie, they don't really provide any expertise specific to the client's needs, they just charge a fat fee, cook up some nice-sounding advice (probably copy-pasted from the hundreds of others they've done), and then wait for the $900,000 payment for about three hours of work to come through. Segment 5 is a dig at unions, perceived as lazy and over-paid (specifically, the "CMBU" on the guy's hi-vis is a dig at the powerful CFMEU, the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Employees Union, except the name's changed so the producters' houses don't get firebombed).

@awiemok_92

4 күн бұрын

@@hoilst265 Thank you so much. I understand for segment 4 part, but for segment 5 i didn't quite catch what you mean. Anyway thank you sir/maam.

the office but kinda real

Imagine working with people like that,

@kenoliver8913

Ай бұрын

I don't have to imagine - I have.

I too like John Legend😃

Oh my God how can I watch this in America I've been trying so hard to find it You can't even pirate it anywhere

Australians lacking some Latinos in their country, with all this worker regulations

"you most viewed videos of 2323" Good, thank you, there is no need to watch now.

I just watched "The Top 5 Utopia Videos Of 2023! | Utopia" on KZread. The show is so close to real life that it's almost scary. Australian politics, public service, corporations are all portrayed so accurately that it's uncomfortable to watch. But it's also hilarious.

Can someone pl. explain, who says "for fck sake" and implying precisely what?

@DeBean970

4 ай бұрын

Naomi says it because she got frustrated with being scrutinised over everything.

@DrkGddss

3 ай бұрын

​@@DeBean970Natalie

does this behavour actually occur, i mean the poeple on the bells, like is this their actually mental process or this just a laugh ey, or should country folk be worried??

@jimifawcett3138

7 ай бұрын

Of course this is from a secondary source, but my dad works in a consultancy firm and yeah, some of their HR workshops and the bureaucracy that Utopia mocks, is scarily accurate

@known1443

7 ай бұрын

This show is closer to a documentary than fictional

@lillyess385

6 ай бұрын

It's satire but it closely parallels real life.

This thing makes my skin crowl from how self centered they bell ringers are.

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