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In pursuit of a bit of light entertainment amidst these uncertain times, Damon Thompson has decided to treat himself to a little bit of laugh this morning.

Kicking off another day of optimistically applying for jobs while waiting for the Job Seeker payment to kick in, Damon decided he’d have a bit of a giggle and see if he could draw out of his superannuation.

This comes after the government launched an initiative a couple of weeks ago to allow workers to draw up to $10,000 out of their superannuation.

With a ‘you never know’ kind of attitude, the young out of work bartender working full-time hours with full-time responsibilities on a full time wage with a casual contract and no employment benefits, decided that maybe, just maybe his employer may have actually paid his super.

“Stranger things have happened I guess,” he laughed.

“But yeah, there was nothing there. Not a cent of super from any of my three adulthood jobs,” said the young graduate.

“Like a couple of hundred bucks from when I worked at the local IGA during high school.”

“But that’s just a hospo life isn’t,” he sighed.

“Fucking wage thieves.”