i found this Ziosk Aurizon Z500 POS on the ground a while ago. who knows what's in there. it does boot but I don't have a charger and it's out of power. do you want it?
this is one of those things that sits on tables in Olive Garden and Chili's and scams children into buying tablet games that are automatically added to your bill. lmfao
i listed it on Mercari. make an offer, I have absolutely no idea what it's worth. there are other POS units on Mercari and eBay but no one has ever sold a Z500 as far as I can find. it's heavy (almost four pounds) so keep the shipping price in mind
I videoed at North Strathfield on 25 April 2013 & then again this year. 25 April is the ANZAC Day public holiday in Australia (& New Zealand).
There have been many changes in the interveening 5 years. The biggest being the opening of the North Strathfield Rail Underpass (NSRU) on the eastern side of the station. In the 2013 video, building was about to commence, with concrete barriers placed to keep the construction workers off the active railway.
Less obvious is the change in the station footbridge. The eastern pylon was in the path of the NSRU, so was replaced with a cantilever abutment added before the pylon was removed, all done without taking the bridge out of action.
The station itself has been sympathetically renovated including the re-point tucking of the brickwork & the windows reglazed back to the original style.
From a train point of view, many changes too. Whilst Pacific National is still the major freight hauler, the QR National/Aurizon interstate intermodal services are no more.
SCT Logistics, whose wagons in 2013 were often on the front of Aurizon services, is now an operator in its own right, with almost daily services passing, often with Aurizon containers onboard!
The Crawford’s export container service between Botany & Sandgate still operates, but now with its own locos. The C & RL locos used in 2013, are now more likely to be seen on SSR grain services.
On the passenger side, much less change. Some minor rebranding on the longer distance services, whilst on the suburban services to Epping, the A class Waratah sets being introduced in 2013, are now the mainstay of the services.
Townsville property tycoon entertains national railway operator in multi-use land development
Townsville property tycoon entertains national railway operator in multi-use land development
Townsville property 2nd largest multi-use land development Townsville property developer, Honeycombs Property Group and railway operator Aurizon have reached a partnership agreement to develop 19.3 hectares of disused land of the former freight yards at South Townsville adjacent to the proposed North Queensland stadium. The site was earmarked by the State government and local leaders to be…
Update on Rail Traffic North Coast Line Rockhampton / Gladstone
Today we went to Rockhampton by car. 11/04/2017. Although there were many coal trains stowed up, we actually saw three loaded coal trains coming to Gladstone. Two were Aurizon and one Pacific National. The Pacific National was hauled by three electrics. I thought FMB but the last loco had about 20 wagons behind it. One of the Aurizon…
“Aurizon puts women on track with paid parental leave scheme” My Dad’s work and how his company credited their chief executive when interviewd by The Australian
So my dad Darren Hooper works for a rail company in Queensland Australia and he wrote this scheme for his company. He works in equaty and divirsity and has dont many amazing things for for women, LGBTIAQ+ and Indigenous workers in the company, this scheme’s origin and creator are truly false, it was Darren Hooper who did this and it is the first of its kind in Australia and a really big deal. My dad works hard at what he does and he does it well, he deserves to be credited in his work I know no one likes reading annoying long posts but this would mean a lot, the scheme is revolutionary and he deserves his credit and it is actually doing a lot of good and so yeah: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/industrial-relations/aurizon-puts-women-on-track-with-paid-parental-leave-scheme/news-story/9a08feac609344b8c9467523ca90edae (or if its not available in your country:
Rail giant Aurizon will pay new dads to stay home for six months, in a “Mr Mum’’ plan to feminise its workforce through Australia’s most generous parental leave scheme.
The ASX 50 company will offer all its workers six months’ leave on half pay, in a groundbreaking “shared care’’ scheme conceived in an overcrowded lift.
Aurizon chief executive Lance Hockridge resolved to break the company’s “blokey’’ culture after eavesdropping on female managers complaining in the lift about condescending colleagues.
He invited them to lunch, where they vented “eye-opening’’ frustrations over a chauvinistic work culture.
“There were examples of women being told to be seen and not heard, that they would just go off to have babies, and worse,’’ Mr Hockridge recalled yesterday.
“The turnover rate for graduate females was around 20 per cent.”
Mr Hockridge invoked a women-first policy for recruitment and promotion, and within 18 months turnover fell to 5 per cent, the same rate as men.
Women now make up 17 per cent of the company’s 6560 workers, compared with 14 per cent in 2014.
Nearly one in three senior managers is female, compared with 21 per cent in 2014, and the proportion of women engineers has jumped from 10 to almost 13 per cent.
Of the 21 apprentices hired this year, 17 are women and four are indigenous men.
Mr Hockridge’s bold target of doubling the quota of women in his workforce to 30 per cent within four years has triggered a backlash from some of the blokes.
“That led to a lot of resentment and comments like, ‘Does this mean I have to wear a skirt to get a start?’,’’ he said.
“Last year the side of a locomotive engine was graffitied with ‘Diversity = less jobs for blokes’ — and guess what, that’s right. But blokes have had the inside run for 150 years in this organisation. This is not about discrimination against men, it’s about discrimination in favour of a diverse and inclusive workforce.”
Aurizon account manager Jenny Koskinen will be one of the first employees to benefit from the new parental pay scheme when her baby girl is born in May.
She plans to take six months off on half pay, then return to work on 150 per cent of her salary while husband Nick takes six months’ unpaid leave from his finance job at another company.
“I’ll have six months at home and then I can come to work and pursue my career knowing Nick is at home with the little one and she’ll be in good hands,’’ Ms Koskinen said yesterday.
The scheme lets a new mother take six months’ leave on half pay, and then pocket 150 per cent of her salary if her partner takes unpaid leave from a different employer for up to six months. If both parents work for Aurizon, each can take six months off in turn.
Mr Hockridge, 61, has two daughters and admits they gave him insight into the social value of gender equality at work.
But he insists diversity will be good for his business, which issued a profit warning in December due to sliding commodity prices.
“When I joined the workforce the key and critical skills were the ‘hard skills’, the technical skills, and there was an assimilation of power through being like your boss,’’ he said.
“Today you still need those hard skills but the distinguishing capabilities in this competitive, global environment are the ‘soft skills’ of leadership and EQ (emotional quotient).
“We are an innovative and commercial company and we need people who can think outside the box and challenge tradition.”
A recent survey of nearly 22,000 publicly traded companies in 91 countries, by the Peterson Institute for International Economics, linked the presence of more women in senior management to increased profitability.
Former Sex Discrimination commissioner Liz Broderick yesterday hailed the scheme for “normalising care for men”.
Workplace Gender Equality Agency director Libby Lyons said Aurizon had “raised the bar’’ on parental leave.
Department of Social Services data shows that mothers made up 99.4 per cent of the 158,145 parents who took paid parental leave in the taxpayer-funded scheme.
