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WhyWork Podcast

Alan Girle, Trajce Cvetkovski, & Sara Pazell

The WhyWork Podcast is an organisational strategy session and legal dissection of workplace events that are laced with humour. Your bloggers, Alan, Trajce, and Sara, explore the contemporary and uncomfortable realities of work and the boundaries that are tested. Alan and Trajce dismantle case law and Sara pushes all to consider how to redesign the world of work so that business objectives are realised and that people thrive. Good stories are told. The WhyWork team throws shade on some of the stories

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28:55

S07 E07: AI Ethics: A Beautifully Shambolic Disaster

WhyWork Podcast ·

2025/03/03

Season 07 Episode 07: AI Ethics: A Beautifully Shambolic DisasterWARNING: This episode includes discussion on a workplace fatality – we advise listener discretion.“Artificial Intelligence (AI) is off its tree!” protests Trajce. “This stuff is dangerous. Its hallucinogenic – a beautifully shambolic disaster. Society must put the rails on it.” “Are you going to try to reign in Sara?” asks Alan, “Impossible!” he follows.Trajce explains his experiencing on using AI to research case law. Tested three

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27:08

S07 E06: Free to air - The blue channels and digging...

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2025/02/24

Season 07 Episode 06: Free to air - The blue channels and digging in the trenchesWARNING: This episode includes discussion on both sex and serious workplace fatalities and injuries – we advise listener discretion.“Have you guys heard about the airline kerfuffle?” nudges Sara, as she shares a media report, “There was a flaw in the movie selection technology.” “It was a bit romantic, maybe a bit too romantic,” agrees Alan. “Bare boobs and prosthetic penises, or so the story goes,” Sara elaborates. She

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23:16

S07 E05: Tickle versus Giggle for Girls

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2025/02/17

Season 07 Episode 05: Tickle versus Giggle for GirlsWARNING: This episode discusses a fatal incident – we advise listeners to use their discretion.Alan shares a human right’s case on 'Tickle versus Giggle for Girls,' an alleged case of discrimination from joining a ‘club’ via a service App based on gender identity. “This is squarely political,” says Trajce, “each party has a strong interest group behind them as this case enters into appeal.Trajce shares more stories on these issues and his

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24:16

S07 E04: Cheap and nasty: The unintended consequences...

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2025/02/10

Season 07 Episode 04: Cheap and nasty: The unintended consequences of workplace interventionsThis episode extends the discussion from Season 07 Episode 02 on workplace incentives. Thank you, Michael Grima, who shared a media report on paid Tinder leave benefits. “You get paid to go out on a date?” Alan marvels. “Love me, Tinder…” Trajce croons. “I guess being in love is supposed to make you productive,” Sara reasons. Trajce digs in, “Coffee, Botox, I’ll take it all. I’ll buy in I’m cheap and

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29:22

S07 E03: Passionate or polemic?

WhyWork Podcast ·

2025/02/03

Season 07 Episode 03: Passionate or polemic?Alan and Trajce poke the bear of workplace diplomacy with examples from politics. Alan share a story of a city mayor who referred to a new councillor as a ‘ranga.’ “What’s a ‘ranga’?” asks Trajce. Listen to this episode to find out!Trajce shares more stories about politicians and their apologies to cover their gaffes. In turn, Sara challenges the boys to think about middle-ground and high-ground fatigue, when being politically correct is simply bland

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29:39

S07 E02: Workplace incentives to combat the...

WhyWork Podcast ·

2025/01/27

Season 07 Episode 02: Workplace incentives to combat the return-to-office ball-&-chainThe WhyWork crew, Alan, Trajce, and Sara, revel in entertaining stories about novel workplace incentives to motivate staff to return to the office. Thanks to Dr Agustin Chevez for sharing the story about cosmetic Botox booths as a workplace return-to-the-office incentive. Alan cautions, “Take care not to make your workplace incentive look like a contractual agreement.”Sara shares her angst about the common

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31:32

S07 E01: Two Years of WhyWork: Celebrations, Travel,...

WhyWork Podcast ·

2025/01/20

Season 07 Episode 1: Two Years of WhyWork: Celebrations, Travel, Trivialising Workplace Safety, and DesignCelebrations - The team, Alan, Trajce, and Sara reflect on their two years of podcast recordings together. “Has it been two years?” Alan and Sara marvel as Trajce announces their two-year anniversary.Trajce delivers a delicious view on his recent travels to Montmartre, France, and his experience with the art of Burlesque theatre. He advocates for holiday travel to his recent destination of

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25:22

S07 Bonus 02: WhyM'scal Mash - Beyond the Desk:...

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2025/01/13

In this special WhyM’scal Mash re-mix episode with Alan, Trajce, and Sara, we dive into the unpredictable world of psychosocial exposures at work, blending excerpts from jaw-dropping, thought-provoking stories from past episodes. From the festive chaos of a Christmas party gone awry (S01 E01: Bubbles of Trouble) to a tourism industry tale featuring unexpected and unwelcome behaviour in shared accommodations (hint: it was more than a piss up, [S02 E07: 4 Men and Women 2]), this mash-up explores the

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16:10

S07 Bonus 01: Re-Release: Spirit Animals

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2025/01/06

Season 07 Bonus o1 - Re-Release Episode - a little frivolty to start the new year. What is your Spirit Animal?. The river otter, the wise owl, and the transformation of a deer to a stag and back again. When ‘fuzzy science’ can be meaningful in terms of personality profiles, values, and our behaviours. Why not have fun and reflect on who we are, how we are, and why? This episode reveals more intimate details about the mugs from backwater Brissie: Trajce, Alan, and Sara.

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3:14

S07 Trailer 03: We're back to unpack

WhyWork Podcast ·

2025/01/01

Season 07 Trailer 03: We're back to unpack - Botox, sex offences, Bollywood dancing, and work from home topics are on their way to your listening ear.

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3:06

S07 Trailer 02: Reflections before we return to...

WhyWork Podcast ·

2024/12/23

Season 07 Trailer 02: A teaser on the exploration of the entertainment industry and issues of principal contractors managing subcontractors - it all blows up when there is a fatality.

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S07 Trailer 01: Botox and Bollywood

WhyWork Podcast ·

2024/12/16

Season 07 Trailer 01: Botox and Bollywood, a teaser on more to follow in WhyWork Season 07.

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18:58

S06 E15: Turbulence on the ground

WhyWork Podcast ·

2024/12/09

Season 06 Episode 15: Turbulence on the groundWARNING: we discuss a passenger fatality - listener discretion advised.Thank you to subscriber, Grace Kennedy, for suggesting this topic. Grace described her experience in the airport arrivals lounge when passengers headed down an escalator to collect their luggage. The passenger congestion was significant, causing a pile up so severe that this led to people back pedalling on the escalator, attempting to walk backward to return to the floor

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29:54

S06 E14: From the club to the courtroom

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2024/12/02

Season 06 Episode 14: From the club to the courtroomWARNING: This episode includes refences to both sex and suicide - listener discretion advised.Trajce presents a judgement from the United Kingdom involving a lawyer hiring a law student as his legal secretary. The confronting aspect of this scenario? They first met in a strip club where she worked as a stripper to fund her studies.“This reeks of people and power. In this scenario,” probes Sara, “does this lawyer think that he can ask anything of

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29:50

S06 E13: From underwear to underworld: Criminal ties

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2024/11/25

Season 06 Epsiode 13: From underwear to underworld: Criminal tiesWARNING: This episode includes sexual references - listener discretion is advised.Trajce jokes about purchasing a pair of Tradie’s underwear, a discussion thread continuing from Season 05 Episode 04. Trajce wonders if ads like this offend peoples' sensibilities.Alan responds, “There will not be many situations in a workplace when you would contemplate showing a video of people in their underwear.” Sara asserts that context matters,

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24:07

S06 E12: It's going SWM'ingly

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2024/11/18

Season 06 Episode 12: It's going SWM'inglyThe podcasters, Trajce, Alan, and Sara, discuss the conventions of establishing Safe Work Method Statements (SWMS). Alan likens SWMS to mythology, rigorously enforced from powers that be, though he believes that the legal doctrine supporting them is unclear. Alan asks, “Do they really work?”Trajce shares his research on breaches of work health and safety law, including fatal events. “In these cases,” he reveals, “90% of the defendants presented a SWMS – 517

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31:19

S06 E11: The collective sighs - let's talk about s-X,...

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2024/11/11

Seaon 06 Episode 11: The collective sighs - let's talk about s-X, babyLet’s talk about…. sex as a primal survival urge. The WhyWork Podcast reflect on their debate about the Australian Tradie’s underwear ads discussed in Season 05 Episode 04. Sara makes a joke about performance drivers much to the chagrin of the boys, when Trajce quotes a Talking Heads lyric, “We’re on the road to nowhere…”Sara explains primal inner-mammal neurobehavioural drivers of human activity, philosophies advanced by

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24:41

S06 E10: Moooo – It’s a stampede!

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2024/11/04

Season 06 Episode 10: Moooo – It’s a stampede!WARNING: A fatality is discussed in this episode – listener discretion is advised.Country boy Alan shares a story about cows in Wales. In this case, a cow went haywire while farm workers offloaded it from its transit vehicle to a pen. The cow was agitated, jumped off its ramp, killing a 75 y/o farmworker, and injuring another man. “Can you keep the cattle calm?” begs Trajce. They team dissect the case, remarking on the lack of enclosures and barriers as

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36:22

S06 E09: IRL? In Real Life? Software solutions and AI...

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2024/10/28

Season 06 Episode 09: IRL? In Real Life? Software solutions and AI in work designTrajce struggles with the ideas of ‘flow efficiency,’ likening this to urine tract functioning. Sorry, Anna Linning - a subscriber who asked about ‘flow’… Alan connects the idea to Flo’s scones, Flo Bjelke-Petersen’s famous pumpkin scones. Sara brings the boys back around to discuss psychological flow, theories from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and links these ideas to job redesign and software solutions. She shares one of

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26:39

S06 E08: The sentinel gateway – keeper of the path ahead

WhyWork Podcast ·

2024/10/21

Season 06 Episode 08: The sentinel gateway - keeper of the path aheadWARNING: This episode discusses a workplace fatality - listener discretion is advised.Alan shares an industrial safety law case involving the disrepair of a gate, which prompts Trajce to reflect on his early-career prosecution of an industrial gate failure, leading to the news headline, “Fallen gate crushes mum.” The team remark on the feasibility and severity of these events deserving serious assessment, challenging the reliance

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