YOUR VIEWS
IF you are stressed over supply of materials, labour, missing goods on empty shelves, or a lack of services, you are not alone. Panic buying, hoarding and pricegouging add to our frustrations.
In this environment of frustration and anxiety, we are truly all in this together.
By the time you get goods, they have gone through many hands. A breakdown of any part of this chain causes shortages and subsequent delay.
Do you really think a business or service is frustrating your expectations just to annoy you?
Covid has thrown a spanner into our supply and service chain. We are all affected and will be for some time. What we are experiencing is living with Covid.
But things will improve as restrictions are lifted, as they should be. Be patient.
The next time you feel your frustration and ire rising, remember the person you are dealing with is doing their best to meet your expectations with the limited tools and information at their disposal.
No one deserves abuse for something beyond their control.
When dealing with someone who can’t give you what you want, you are looking into a mirror.
As the saying goes, before taking out your frustration on them, put yourself in their shoes. A little consideration and thought will show they fit.
BOB JANSSEN, GOLD COAST
THE report in Saturday’s GCB, regarding an uber driver being seriously bashed by a disgruntled passenger and receiving a 15 month suspended sentence by Magistrate McGee in Southport Court tells us two things.
Either the judiciary is so far out of touch with community expectations and standards of punishment or our jails are at bursting point and the state government has put up the “Jails Full” sign.
Either way the public needs to contact their local member and voice their dismay at outcomes like this or be smart enough to give someone else a go at government at the next election. LINDSAY HOWARD, GOLD COAST
LAST week a learned judge reportedly said: “I don’t know what else he could have done.”
Well, I am sure that 90 per cent of us know what else he could have done – get vaxxed, knowing that he planned to cross an international border – idiot!
JOHN WATTER, REEDY CREEK
I WOULD like to take this opportunity to welcome back our police to the job that they signed up for.
I was at the Hub in Broadbeach a short time ago for the third “jab”. They were there, looking tired and a little worn around the edges, to get their jabs also.
Anyone who has ever worked and served the local community up close deserves a medal. All of our first responders see things that many do not. The police, ambulance personnel, fire brigade and hospital staff, who are there for us. A big thank you. BEVERLEY SIMKUS, GOLD COAST