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Season 3 Episode 6: Snouts In The Trough
Jim and Rhonda ask Tony for help building a new airport rail link, but Tony's proposal shocks them both. Meanwhile, Nat has her entire week derailed by a tweet.
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Set inside the offices of the “Nation Building Authority”, a federal government organisation responsible for overseeing major infrastructure projects, Utopia explores that moment when bureaucracy and grand dreams collide.
Starring Rob Sitch, Celia Pacquola, Dave Lawson, Kitty Flanagan, Anthony 'Lehmo' Lehmann, Luke McGregor, Dilruk Jayasinha, Nina Oyama.
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Do you have a "Bert" in your office?☕
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Please bring Bert back next season; we need more Bert in our lives! 😭
@@PyroManZIIUUID’s u
Yeah, it's me 😇
More tea and bikkies!
"...to get him a cup of tea."
Understands the assignment.
I love that part. A boss seeing someone taking initiative and being like "god damn I gotta get this man some tea."
The value of older workers are so nicely represented here.
Some. Some older workers.
Usually they are just bitter and stuck to old ways. Mostly deaf
@@stevenobrien557exactly this, have seen an equal level of lazy old sods to people who worse their arses off to help the youngsters out. Racist bunch of old people to the softest kindest people who on a hard day would being you a cuppa and give you that old comforting shoulder squeeze.
Age proves nothing.
I work with a old bloke called Con and he's exactly like Bert such a great guy but don't get on his back side haha
@@xXasiahkiinXx123 you watched someone get on his backside?
Had a colleague like that. He would come in early because he had to take wife to work and daughter to school. He would get bored so he would organise the warehouse and prepare everything for the day. If he saw you struggling with something he would help you without even saying much. Never a complain and never a day late. He even refused a promotion as it would have reduced the time he spent with his family. Once I changed job Ingot him hired telling my boss I would resign if he was disappointed about my friends performance. He is now in a senior role and is performing miracles while being so polite. When you find people like this keep em close.
Awesome story. I give referrals like that, too. Good on you for noticing and giving him the support - that's the only way the good and polite ones will ever have a chance against the throat-cutters. Keep it up!
Same. Her name is Jessica. She's pocket size and strong af! Great common sense. Great union sister! Proud to work w/ her!
"He called me 'luv'!"
"D'you want me to file a report with HR?"
“Who invited HR?”.
Who let HR into the building?? - Tony
Well done, you quoted a line for the show. What a clever girl you are!
@@TheMusicalElitist aren’t you just lovely
It's a shame how everything can be used against people nowadays. Even a simple gesture of kindness
“Where you going?”
“To get HIM a cup of tea.”
This part made me 🥺 a little
If you ever have a Bert in your office, don't make the mistake of "efficiency gaining" his position!
Bert is a great example of an old African proverb:
“The young can walk faster, but the elders know the road.”
Love the turn-around at the end of Tony being the one to get Bert a tea.
I adore people like Bert, they are hard working, polite, motivated and efficient. However HR at one bureaucracy I worked for viewed people like him as The Enemy for all those reasons and used their slightly archaic language as a reason to purge them from the workplace. 🙁
I do believe that's what happened in this episode; he found a cheaper and faster way to get the project finished, and the higher-ups sacked him for it.
I used the term "plates" for images in a report the other day - did I catch some digs about my "old man" terminology . . . lol !
@@TrailerYacht Could go a shortbread.
@@darrenrobinson9041 - get me a cuppa tea . . .
And they all end up as pensioners without housing.
Slide rule and the old banker's desk lamp. Bert's one in a million.
I got one of those lamps in my room at my desk. They are top class.
Aw I love Bert. The best thing about the world’s Burts, is that they don’t need you to like them. They’re nice and work hard because that’s who they are. If you don’t appreciate it, he’ll always find someone who will,
I love the Bert we had in my office but he retired a few years ago. 😢 He was so lovely and helped me all the time and his brain was like a computer. He could remember everything that ever happened in the Dept going back to 1970s. Top bloke. 😊
I heard an interesting idea a few years back about "Silver Eagle" employees or something like that. The idea was instead of having people like this retire, you give them a scaled back part time position as a kind of permanent advisor. They come in a couple days a week and just bring the knowledge to the staff replacing them. They can help out where they can, but they're mostly there to instill institutional knowledge.
I loved that idea.
My company employs this idea. I have 3-4 mentors like Bert all ages 70+ that are semi retired.
I teach them how to use MS teams, and they give me 40+ years of experience and knowledge.
If you don’t have a Bert… are you the Bert?
I'm a Bert- but after a lifetime of having been taken advantage of, I'm now pushing back against the selfish non-Berts.
I'm only a Bert to the colleagues that work hard and are kind.
No. Absolutely not how it works. You're the Bert if you're Bert. Almost no offices have a Bert. Berts are quite hard to find.
I took the original comment to be more profound. If you dont see a bert, be a bert@@twelvecatsinatrenchcoat
If you don't have a bert, you should quit your job
Obviously Bert's slide rule was more accurate than the one that Mr Wilson used to build the 100 metres track.
We need a lot more of Bert. And not just on this marvelous show.
“Bert we’re just trying to trim some things out of the 2026 Comm Games budget. You’re welcome to have a look if you want…” 😅
“I’ve found an area of the budget where we can make savings.”
“Where?”
“The budget.”
I work for a certain govt agency who had their heydays in the ‘50’s - ‘00’s, and all of the older guys from the beginning of the last big program (late ‘74-‘11) are starting to retire. Those guys were trained by and worked with the guys that literally moved mountains of steel off of the face of the earth…some of THOSE guys are still around, but in reduced capacities or are retiring as well.
The amount of sheer knowledge and raw data they have is absolutely astounding…it’s mind boggling.
There's one where I interned the last summer. He's the encyclopaedia of my profession. Sadly, he's only part-timing now and will retire early next year. Sad to not have the chance to learn from him.
Bert MVP. Makes you tea, and cuts the fat on the expenditure.
Bert reminds me of my late father. The man was Iranian, 6'2, and was a heavyweight boxing champion in his day. Handsome too, although his genes were mostly recessive.
He had the habit of referring to every lady below 40 as either "Madame" or "Young lady" and brought all the charm you'd expect from a proper English gent. He'd even regale you with tales of going to school with Freddie Mercury (Bucktooth). He'd tell you about last using computers when Lotus 123 was the main accounting software. Unfortunately he passed away due to said smoking.
A gentle giant, through and through. Also, there's something about that old timey charm most of us can't really capture.
I remember Lotus 123! I liked it.
God bless Berts. Each and every one of them.
That man knew the power of a slide rule
I am the younger Bert!
I use a slide rule as a nod to my old man who was an engineer (and im not all that old too - 36). I often get people wondering up like.... "whats that thing?"
quite often i can sort out problems with my slide that would take me much longer with a normal calculator, but then again my brain works different to most. (i have an ASD)
This is one of my favorite episodes...S3 E6, “Snouts in the Trough”.
Agreed. Although it would have been nice if Bert had a regular character, at least for the remainder of season 3.
I know a guy like Bert who’s retiring soon. As soon as he announced his retirement, the assistant manager and regional director asked if he wanted to come back as a contractor, so he can keep his pension and retirement plus a nice wage. No one wants to see him leave, but we are wishing him the best.
Thoroughly enjoying catching up on the back catalogue of this series. Looking forward to meeting Bert 😃
Season 3 might have been one of my fav seasons for this reason
Not just this episode but there were a few other instances in season 3 where Tony and co had some of the power to say no and the routine weekly inconveniences weren't always as bad.
It made the Rhonda and Jim dynamics way more interesting, esp this was just before Rhonda got really mean in S4
Got a fella like this at work, honestly he makes the work so much easier with a bit of help here and there. We need more "Berts" in the workplace, they make things so much better
Everyone wants to have a Bert in their office. No one wants to be the Bert in their office.
Well because it's thankless in real life. People will be polite and thankful on a surface level. But you whip that slide rule out and show up at 6 am one too many times and people just start expecting it. Pretty soon people are just loading things on you cause they're lazy and they know you'll do it.
If using pencils at office makes me Bert then I am a Bert. 😆
How about a clutch pencil?
This is great but I think it missed the best part from my recollection, which is that Bert came back with a much reduced budget estimate by removing all the inflated and double counted costs. He had worked in the government stores board or something and actually knew how to estimate efficient infrastructure capital costs. Could we have that clip too? If Bert had looked at the '24 Comm games, he could've avoided most of the estimated cost blow out and the Games could still be on in Victoria.
Hahaha 😂 great - these old codgers really are a wasted opportunity retiring them too early! Ageism is a sad reality 😢
He suggests they issue bonds to finance the project and set up their own works department to build. His estimated cost is 2b over 2 years. At the end of the episode, they announce the project for 7b and 5 years. Im assuming this is pretty accurate for how government works hahah.
@@dillonhillier That is absolutely how (at least our) government works. To many ministers with to many mates on too many boards.
@@dillonhillier You didn't mention the "kicker"... During show's credits, Katie & Tony in the dark filing room because automatic timer has shut off the lights.
Something like: "[Program that hired Bert] was cancelled as cost-cutting measure..."
With $7 billion project in the budget, gotta save money somewhere, right? (*sigh*)
First time I visited Australia in 1994 I stayed at a guest house operated by the local affiliate of a worldwide missionary organization my parents were associated with. Bert here reminds me a great deal of the gentleman who operated that guest house. Uniquely Australian and it seems rather representative of a bygone era.
Every office needs a Bert
Loved this. Best gag? About the slide-rule.
I loved it when he makes Bert a cuppa. I need to watch more of this show, the humor is great.
Anyone else feel all protective of kindly souls like Bert?
i ve never seen an episode but this is my fav show of all time!
I don't know this show very well, but the UA-cam shorts are quite funny. (Yes, Minister/Office vibes) I know from them that Tony's the boss, so it's quite wholesome that he goes out of his way to make a cup of tea rather than asking his employee to do it.. nice 👍
you should definitely watch the whole thing.
@@ribbonsofnight I would if I could, but seems to require being in Australia :(
@@qualjyn2 I heard they sold it to some streaming platforms under the name dreamland for overseas markets.
you could get like a vpn or something@@qualjyn2
Oh my god, the acting is so perfect!
MUST. have more episodes with this guy!!!!
This is my favourite episode. Seems like the themes discussed would solve a lot of problems
We had a guy like Bert doing propane. Thought he might be too old. Rolled in, showed up an hour before everyone, fixed the bulk plant that had been having flow problems, showed everyone else how to do thay, ran his route about an hour faster than anyone expected, charmed the office staff full of bitter female divorcees, fixed the customers furnaces just to be nice (not even a thing we usually did) and generally was the perfect employee for like a year then got surgery and retired. He is the only person I know who got the nickname Captain Awesome unironically.
".....It's used to do calculations."
"On shoes?"
The zingers in the show are so rapid-fire.
i love this show.
"Well he should know better" he's not wrong.
I love this!
I love that this joke has such a terrifying hidden meaning, Competent workers are aging and retiring from the workforce, leaving the rest of us to Scramble out of our social media, Cheeto-covered cocoons to keep Civilization from collapsing.
We have an anti-Bert.
We're researchers and our Anti-Bert is a semi-retired academic who comes in once a week. He has very good knowledge in his specific area, but stopped reading about new techniques about 20 years ago judging by what we have to explain to him. He is also the type to have 'imperfect recollection' shall we say about previous conversations and decisions. We recently agreed to completely stop his latest idea after multiple rounds of issues but the next week he was trying to resurrect the project. The real boss doesn't want to rock the boat despited the drain on time and resources he creates. Both of them need to be pensioned off or subjected to a harsh audit of their future plans.
Poor engineers, always underestimated.
Favorite Episode
I want this to be a series!
want me to call HR hahaha
"Well he should know better" 😂😂😂
The world needs more Bert's
This older guy at my old wearhouse job saved me from almost getting real banged up (I didn't know what a tag out was) basically showed me what to look for who to tell how to mark my machine as unsafe. He had a tec out to help me as fast as he could (he was mid to late 60's ) so it took him to time to get to the office. Rip hector 🤘
I picked up cobol as my career shortly after Y2k. It's a legacy system (and still quite lucrative), i was probably the youngest guy at the time picking it up and most guys that i later worked with were in their 50s or 60s. Absolute old school geniuses who knew the ins and outs of everything from programing to engineering to anything else you can throw at them. One of them said that he used to work on missile systems.
Never made anyone tea though.
When she was called "love" it made her day - like doing something naughty behind the bike sheds. Just amazing how bad things have got in the corporate world.
someone called me love the other day and I couldn't help but smile
"You want me to file a report with HR?" The Co-Work Everyone Wishes They Didn't Have
Dedication Bert! ❤
He reminds of the good old Aussies from when my parents first migrated here.
Just found from the short. We need more of the bert stuff
Some chappy lol😂
I hope Albo has a 'Bert' in his office.
Out Bert just retired. Her name was Laura and she was a gem.
God I need to watch this show. 😂
I like the way person says completely inappropriate words, without realising it
Like the minister
Here I am. Now, where my flashlight? Ah here it is, in my hand
It broke my heart when they let Bert go 😢
He would have been a great ongoing character.
My god coworkers like this are worth their weight in pure GOLD
I remember this episode. After a short while Bert comes back into a meeting with a revised budget for construction and billions in savings.
Bert really should be running the place...whilst the others laugh at the pencil and slide rule.
Yepp, more Berts required. They should have made Bert a regular on the show.
This was so wholesome. Wrh
Slide rules huh....log tables will be next I suppose.
more more more. I need more Bert. please. I need to know how it went.
Love me a Bert!
Townieeee!
the last part was so sad, it was infuriating
If you don’t have a Bert, be the Bert.
Old school 👍🏻
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Due to govt restructures and mergers all the Berts have left and come back as consultants and getting paid better than they ever will be had they stayed!
Probably a better outcome as the 'Berts' would just come in and do the actual work that the idiot staff can't do/fixed the fuckups from the idiots, and go home at the end of the day without having to deal with the politics or bureaucracy.
How can I watch this in the UK?
and a bikkie? 😊
I want to see all the clips of Bert!! Does anyone know how to watch from 🇬🇧??
I want to work with Bert!
The face on your one at the end getting jealous of the old man. Jesus some people.
How do I watch this in the US?
I miss the my coworkers from the Lost Generation. They were knowledgeable and well balanced. They've all retired now.
how old are you? the "lost generation" was 1882-1900 - before the baby boomers was the "silent generation" 1928-1945
We had a Bernie. I hope he's doing well but he will be bloody old by now.
What is the name of this movie/show please.
See to me as an American this is funny. Cuz you have to be joking to convince me my boss/someone more senior than me would get ME a coffee for working hard 😂
i think australians are a friendly mob overall unlike Americans who want to kill each other all the time
What episode is this ? Cuppa for the correct answer and one of Carol's shortbread. 😄
Yeah, okay, but does he know how to build a 100 metres track?
Here I am thinking Bert is a main side character in the series getting mega excited tonwatch his antics and he's just in 1 episode?! What a waste of a great character!
When I see someone like bart, there is always 10-15 people who ask to promote him. People like bart don't want to be promoted due to either time constraints, responsibility they don't want etc. We all knew it's an excuse to stay where comfortable, but we also know no one lese more fit for the job and the promotion. Most hire ups would promote them without question due to it just being more profitable to have some like this at your level reporting back to you.
Summary: The question is: Is it morally ok to force a person to take the promotion.
Its hard to find these values in young generation nowadays
This series is different than Utopia UK.
because its utopia australia
@@bodybalanceU2 Utopia USA is same plot as UK. Australia Utopia is trying to be an updated "Office"
@@carlosbaja678 no utopia is following the hollow man which was released in 2008 nothing to do with the office more like yes minister
@@bodybalanceU2 UK and USA are way better. NZ and AUS are kind of weird and anti-personal freedom.
Is it wrong to refer to ‘The Minister’ as “some chappy”?
When the 1 competent boomer out of 1,000 returns and shows everyone why he made the big bucks...
Sadly there are fewer and fewer Berts in Australian workplaces since the recent unpleasantness. I know a Bert who refused to have the "safe and effective" and is, as a result, no longer with the company.
` to have the "safe and effective" `... ?
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Wtf? Call HR for what???
Nah cancelled cya bert 😂