December 10, 2024 • 7 mins
A Chinese student makes weekly trips to Melbourne University for face-to-face classes to meet the attendance criteria. Is this the world’s longest and most insane commute?!?!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let's talk about the longest commited to work and talking
to a man Rocco who works here at Nova.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Rocke had no idea.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
He rolls in here, takes him two hours to get here,
I fit's and two hours to get home.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
He's a warregamber. Is that right, Tommy?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yeah, he runs to work, which is unbelievable effort.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
He just lives in Glue, but he's a really slow runner.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
He drives to the station and then the train for
a couple of hours, has sleep, and then gets into
Central station I think, and then gets the light.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Rail that's right, and then on the way home he
clocks in and walks through the front door at around.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Eight thirty at night, leaving here in Piermont.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I mean it's tough.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I think we all go through a period in our lives,
our working lives, where you you'll do anything for a job,
and you know you get home.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You're doing it over time, You're getting your home late.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
But Rocco, you can't sustain that, mate, especially when you're
the CEO of Nova.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I mean, you need to run this space.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I said, you could be working at the local war
a game of fish and chips. You know, you could
just roll out of bed and go down the street
and the next thing you know, on the deep.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Fryer they don't have a fish and chips onasy got
out of the damat you can go fishing in the dam?
Can you some fish and chip?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Go to the Chicken Chicken Chip.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, there's Nikki and Tony's takeaway that Ryan what's their
signature burger? Then just with the lot of yeah, well,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
There's also Roos commute the Skippy's food bar and cafe
as well on Fourteenth Street. Mate, I'll always have the
worst thurteen twenty fourteen longest commute.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't have to hear from here. And do you
listen to us on the way?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean Rocco said he loves the podcast. It helps
him fall asleep on the train. What about this is
a Chinese student has come out and said, no, I
not Rocco, I have the longest commute. So this guy
last pretty good for him. He lives in Melbourne but
flies once a week to do FA to face classes
back in China in Denzil, so he will fly ten
(02:05):
to thirteen hours on the plane just to be face
to face in his class.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
What an idiot?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Good point? Ever heard of? Zoom? Mate?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Quick one?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I mean it's great at the start. Jesus is a
good boss.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
He comes and sees this once a week and I
really love having him around.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
But then after a while, has he got a famili's
he got kids?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well he must have a fortune. He's done it for
eleven weeks in a row.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
How many frequent flies is? I always think of frequent flies.
You can fly around the world fifteen times or just
fly home free.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Kate and Woodcraft, Hello, Hi, how are you going? What's
going on? Kate? What's your commute from Woodcraft?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
I am going to an hour today to Shorehaven Hospital
Bill to see one apprentice for half an hour?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Okay, so what's the drive there?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Two and a half hours, oh, Kate, hour round trip?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What's your what's your routine? Kate? Do you get yourself
a coffee or what gets you through?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Yep, I've got coffee, got a snack. Got you guys
on the radio?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Hood yaka, don't run your car off the road. We're
the only ones on air at the moment. Two Kate,
So you've done well there? Yeah, we're walking all the
way up to Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Kate, say the half an hour chat that you need
to have, did you say on site with a chippy?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Yeah? With an apprentice. So we manage the company I
work for is my gateway. We manage apprentices and trainee
We look after them for the sixty one company building companies. Wow,
and so we do the mentoring. So we go out
and visit them every eight weeks or so. So every
eight weeks I go down Scenara for a visit.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
And come back.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Good work do you put do you put your foot down? Kate?
Are you good at that?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Are you telling these young fellas to bloody yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Because Sindary company?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Great work? Chat, love it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Let's go to Dave and suit over hour? What have
you got for a stave out?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Long?
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Boys? You take back what you said about the local
takeaway shop?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Would you?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
What's wrong?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Way in war a Gamber?
Speaker 7 (04:09):
What do you go down right next to war a
game of mate? We're still with war a gamer. That's
our local.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Okay, So Dave, what's what do you what's your takeaway shop?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Oh? It's a next one. It's called the local takeaway shop? Mate.
The old school work burg you know you got features
one Apple one with.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
The long Dave, you got a right commute, buddy, Oh.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Commute half an hour for me mate.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Okay, all right, Well we weren't talking about takeaway storing
Morrow gam but we're talking.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
About long commute. But Dave wanted to defend.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Takeaway.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Laura and Iron Park, your friend tell us about your mate.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Oh yeah, one of my dear friend's son, Bailey. He
we live in camble Town, little hometown, and he commute
to Camber every day and back for work. And he's
a first year of presice and he comes back every
day because he plays for Grover at Macassa Rams. So
you'll go to work early in the morning, like leave
(05:10):
it's three or four in the morning, to be at
work for a day, come all the way back to
stre going to do it all again the next day.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You're kidding, what five days a week?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yeah, five days a week because we're doing it for
the last couple of weeks now to get a job
finished right before Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That is a great effort.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
So well, what are we talking three hours day, three
hours back.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Laura or more?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Because Lenie can do what is it eighty or ninety
on the freeway. They can't do one hundred and ten
that everyone else can do.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So you just started to affect your soccer training, you
know what I mean? You need to He's got to
look after the rams.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Can't let the team down. Maddie and Lethke. How many
CA's do you travel a day?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Maddie, Yeah, so I reached three hundred kilometers a day.
I can do up to five hundred cimeters in a
day generally to my first job. It's a minimum one
hundred and twenty kilometers job.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Okay, So okay, So Mattie, you are you coming into
the city, Are you coming into Sydney or you just everywhere?
Speaker 7 (06:07):
So my area is Hornsby to Surnives, to the Blue
Mountains and over. I come from past liftsgoing Portland.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Right, And what do you do, Matte.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
A client's technician? I think? So are your appliances and
stuff like that, washes, copping machines.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Maddie, What gets you through? What gets you through?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Years ago?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's very kind mate, but you know, Maddie, there's only
so much we can do. And then when you turn
up and someone's got a sock court and a dryer,
you must be bloody furious.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
No it mate keeps me in a job.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah, a job and you've just got to be So
what time would you get home at nightmat.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Yesterday was a good one. I've got aim at four thirty.
I can to times get home at thirty nine thirty
at night.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh, it's a big day, Maddie. It's a really big day.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Can I give you something to, Maddie? I'm Tommy, something
to Maddie.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Would love to find one hundred dollars from hungry Jacks.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, well, why don't we give every one one hundred
dollars to Why not hungry jacks?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yep, said crazy, one hundred dollars to spend hungry Jacks.
Take a moment for yourself today rich velvety, smooth barista
made coffee from Jack's Cafe.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Mattie, you can get one of those on the way
home tonight.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
I put on my stopping and get.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Sits in.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast walk great
shows like this.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Download the Nova Player by the App Store or Google
Playing
This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Let's talk about the longest commited to work and talking
to a man Rocco who works here at Nova.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
Rocke had no idea.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
He rolls in here, takes him two hours to get here,
I fit's and two hours to get home.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
He's a warregamber. Is that right, Tommy?
Speaker 4 (00:17):
Yeah, he runs to work, which is unbelievable effort.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
He just lives in Glue, but he's a really slow runner.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
He drives to the station and then the train for
a couple of hours, has sleep, and then gets into
Central station I think, and then gets the light.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Rail that's right, and then on the way home he
clocks in and walks through the front door at around.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Eight thirty at night, leaving here in Piermont.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
I mean it's tough.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I think we all go through a period in our lives,
our working lives, where you you'll do anything for a job,
and you know you get home.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
You're doing it over time, You're getting your home late.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
But Rocco, you can't sustain that, mate, especially when you're
the CEO of Nova.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
I mean, you need to run this space.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
I said, you could be working at the local war
a game of fish and chips. You know, you could
just roll out of bed and go down the street
and the next thing you know, on the deep.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
Fryer they don't have a fish and chips onasy got
out of the damat you can go fishing in the dam?
Can you some fish and chip?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Go to the Chicken Chicken Chip.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, there's Nikki and Tony's takeaway that Ryan what's their
signature burger? Then just with the lot of yeah, well,
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
There's also Roos commute the Skippy's food bar and cafe
as well on Fourteenth Street. Mate, I'll always have the
worst thurteen twenty fourteen longest commute.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
I don't have to hear from here. And do you
listen to us on the way?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
I mean Rocco said he loves the podcast. It helps
him fall asleep on the train. What about this is
a Chinese student has come out and said, no, I
not Rocco, I have the longest commute. So this guy
last pretty good for him. He lives in Melbourne but
flies once a week to do FA to face classes
back in China in Denzil, so he will fly ten
(02:05):
to thirteen hours on the plane just to be face
to face in his class.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
What an idiot?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Good point? Ever heard of? Zoom? Mate?
Speaker 5 (02:15):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Quick one?
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I mean it's great at the start. Jesus is a
good boss.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
He comes and sees this once a week and I
really love having him around.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
But then after a while, has he got a famili's
he got kids?
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Well he must have a fortune. He's done it for
eleven weeks in a row.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
How many frequent flies is? I always think of frequent flies.
You can fly around the world fifteen times or just
fly home free.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Kate and Woodcraft, Hello, Hi, how are you going? What's
going on? Kate? What's your commute from Woodcraft?
Speaker 6 (02:47):
I am going to an hour today to Shorehaven Hospital
Bill to see one apprentice for half an hour?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Okay, so what's the drive there?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Two and a half hours, oh, Kate, hour round trip?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
What's your what's your routine? Kate? Do you get yourself
a coffee or what gets you through?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Yep, I've got coffee, got a snack. Got you guys
on the radio?
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Hood yaka, don't run your car off the road. We're
the only ones on air at the moment. Two Kate,
So you've done well there? Yeah, we're walking all the
way up to Christmas.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Kate, say the half an hour chat that you need
to have, did you say on site with a chippy?
Speaker 6 (03:26):
Yeah? With an apprentice. So we manage the company I
work for is my gateway. We manage apprentices and trainee
We look after them for the sixty one company building companies. Wow,
and so we do the mentoring. So we go out
and visit them every eight weeks or so. So every
eight weeks I go down Scenara for a visit.
Speaker 5 (03:44):
And come back.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Good work do you put do you put your foot down? Kate?
Are you good at that?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Are you telling these young fellas to bloody yourself.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
Because Sindary company?
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Great work? Chat, love it.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Let's go to Dave and suit over hour? What have
you got for a stave out?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Long?
Speaker 7 (04:02):
Boys? You take back what you said about the local
takeaway shop?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Would you?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
What's wrong?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Way in war a Gamber?
Speaker 7 (04:09):
What do you go down right next to war a
game of mate? We're still with war a gamer. That's
our local.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Okay, So Dave, what's what do you what's your takeaway shop?
Speaker 7 (04:19):
Oh? It's a next one. It's called the local takeaway shop? Mate.
The old school work burg you know you got features
one Apple one with.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
The long Dave, you got a right commute, buddy, Oh.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Commute half an hour for me mate.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
Okay, all right, Well we weren't talking about takeaway storing
Morrow gam but we're talking.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
About long commute. But Dave wanted to defend.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Takeaway.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Laura and Iron Park, your friend tell us about your mate.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
Oh yeah, one of my dear friend's son, Bailey. He
we live in camble Town, little hometown, and he commute
to Camber every day and back for work. And he's
a first year of presice and he comes back every
day because he plays for Grover at Macassa Rams. So
you'll go to work early in the morning, like leave
(05:10):
it's three or four in the morning, to be at
work for a day, come all the way back to
stre going to do it all again the next day.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
You're kidding, what five days a week?
Speaker 5 (05:19):
Yeah, five days a week because we're doing it for
the last couple of weeks now to get a job
finished right before Christmas.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
That is a great effort.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
So well, what are we talking three hours day, three
hours back.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
Laura or more?
Speaker 5 (05:31):
Because Lenie can do what is it eighty or ninety
on the freeway. They can't do one hundred and ten
that everyone else can do.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
So you just started to affect your soccer training, you
know what I mean? You need to He's got to
look after the rams.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Can't let the team down. Maddie and Lethke. How many
CA's do you travel a day?
Speaker 7 (05:46):
Maddie, Yeah, so I reached three hundred kilometers a day.
I can do up to five hundred cimeters in a
day generally to my first job. It's a minimum one
hundred and twenty kilometers job.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Okay, So okay, So Mattie, you are you coming into
the city, Are you coming into Sydney or you just everywhere?
Speaker 7 (06:07):
So my area is Hornsby to Surnives, to the Blue
Mountains and over. I come from past liftsgoing Portland.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Right, And what do you do, Matte.
Speaker 7 (06:16):
A client's technician? I think? So are your appliances and
stuff like that, washes, copping machines.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Maddie, What gets you through? What gets you through?
Speaker 7 (06:26):
Years ago?
Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's very kind mate, but you know, Maddie, there's only
so much we can do. And then when you turn
up and someone's got a sock court and a dryer,
you must be bloody furious.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
No it mate keeps me in a job.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah, a job and you've just got to be So
what time would you get home at nightmat.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Yesterday was a good one. I've got aim at four thirty.
I can to times get home at thirty nine thirty
at night.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Oh, it's a big day, Maddie. It's a really big day.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Can I give you something to, Maddie? I'm Tommy, something
to Maddie.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Would love to find one hundred dollars from hungry Jacks.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah, well, why don't we give every one one hundred
dollars to Why not hungry jacks?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Why not?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Yep, said crazy, one hundred dollars to spend hungry Jacks.
Take a moment for yourself today rich velvety, smooth barista
made coffee from Jack's Cafe.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Mattie, you can get one of those on the way
home tonight.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
I put on my stopping and get.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Sits in.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Whipper with Kate Ritchie is a Nova podcast walk great
shows like this.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Download the Nova Player by the App Store or Google
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