18/05/2026
Here's the story (and please let me know honestly what you think, for I'm happy to be wrong about this). My car needed a replacement bulb for the right rear brake light, so I drove to Supercheap Auto at Loganholme to get them to install it. I parked in the repair bay or whatever it is they call it. It wasn't raining and I went inside. I asked the staff member there, a guy, if someone was available to install the bulb. I was told "No, because it's raining we can't do any work". (Okay, that's cool, I wouldn't want anyone working in the rain) but I said that it wasn't raining. He then said, "Well, there are puddles out there and that's dangerous, we can't do the work". I was like, 'What??' He said, "We went out there just before and it's to dangerous". Now, I'm all for workplace health and safety, but are the staff so afraid of some water in the carpark, directly outside their store? If some water in the carpark is that scary and to be avoided, how did he get into the building? Did he levitate in from his car? So my question is, is this a fair call, that it's too dangerous to change a bulb, or is this a case of over the top bubble wrapping? I took a photo of said car in said carpark to show the (apparently) Noachian floods that prevented a bulb being changed.
