Oh please. Don't pull that Randian crap on me - I don't believe in the heroic entrepreneur, struggling against thieving governments and lazy yet greedy workers. I've never met that guy, I don't think anybody has. There are five productive staff in my ...
Well look who knows so much. Just about any idiot can do factory work, yet any factory work I can think of pays more than I get. This alone disproves your entire thesis ("If anybody can do a job, it's not well paid,"). Sheet metal work, food, roof rack ...
Just remember, it's apparently all the deluded left wing extremists that have made him like this. Funny, I always thought ring whingers were about personal responsibility yet here he is blaming others...
This story alarmed me so I went to inequality.org.nz and filled in the “where do you stand” calculator. There I saw I am fourth place from the bottom and that I am $4982 worse off than if all incomes had grown evenly. I decided there is no justice in this ...
The CEO at my work is on around $100k/year. The (production) manager under him is on around $55k/year. The person immediately below him, who took half of that manager's workload (and works a minimum of one unpaid hour per week) is on $31,200/year or $15/...
I think what happened is that those with decided that they deserved it and they also decided that those without deserved what they got. They widely promulgated this idea, and then we get people who think if you have nothing, it's because you didn't work ...
To be fair, the Prime Minister has been forced to apologise for being the man I thought he was. Lice are attracted to clean hair, unfortunately it takes more than a comb to get rid of John Key.
It's not a smear if he actually was involved in it, now is it?
Don't forget "Labour did it, too!"
Oh good, there was a mistake in the link. Here's the corrected one: http://www.odt.co.nz/news/business/338877/economy-status-still-rock-star Not sure how I got that extra Z in there....
According to the term's originator, New Zealand still has a rock star economy.
Agreed. It's something I would like to believe but until any evidence has come out, it's all just too easy to dismiss.
I don't think you understand how television works. The viewer is not the sponsor, the viewer is the product. Just remember, if you're not paying for a service, then you are the product. GMail/Hotmail/broadcast television/Youtube all feature advertisers ...
Not directly related, but I once met an ex-pilot (private, I think) who told me he lost his pilot's licence because he'd had a heart attack, resulting from years of exposure to diesel fumes from the forklifts in the warehouse he worked at. My grandfather ...
Think Sydney's expensive? Try Auckland. Don't think there's too much to say about that.
To paraphrase Van Halen, right now too many people are working too hard for minimum wage.
this lot want to allow truckers to issue their own warrants of fitness for their 45 ton trucks A friend of mine is a bus driver. A few years ago, he told me about the Certificate of Fitness process at his work. He started off by saying that the buses only...
Well, can't argue with that! You win an easter egg.
Retailers are calling for a revamp of Easter trading laws. They don't want people to have to work, of course, only work if you want to, but I think enough of us have seen how that really works out for a good number of workers.
I'm going to draw the obvious conclusion from your statement: Poor welfare makes part-time minimum wage more attractive. Fixed that for you. Mind you, you need 16 hours before you earn more than the dole. If you're forced to work two jobs, then one pays ...
Abbott and Key-stello?
I agree. I think they're expecting that the market will force employers to become more safety-focussed. The cynic in me says that they look at any accidents as nothing more than numbers on a sheet and consider it a financial trade-off. (Check out the three...
He can't accept any blame, he's got to distance himself from the failure. If he's associated with it at all, then there'll be damage to invincible Brand Key, but if he can palm it off as Somebody Else's Fault then all is good. He's just like most of the ...
Agreed. I don't want to open up any jokes about intelligence or whether he has a brain or not, even a few blows to the head can cause concussion and brain damage, which can have a lasting effect on your life. Mind you, some people get brain damage and ...
I did a bit of research after your initial post, and came back to say what you've said. I've not much else to add, you've pretty much said it all, particularly the "we're only human" part.
Actually, it was my employer who told me that. They're wrong on so many things, why not another?
... happen: "I can confirm that BassGuy worked here for that period...?" "I can only confirm that BassGuy worked here for that period...
You owe me a new screen, because I spat my drink all over my old one.
There's an old Don Carpenter quote that applies to Key: "Hello," he lied.
I can't say too much because the industry I'm in is a very small one. When I signed up with them, they said that the industry is one with flexible hours, so breaks would need to be taken when it was convenient due to the workload. This is reasonable, but ...
As if to reinforce your point, I've been told that three anonymous complaints have been laid against my employer by family and friends of family (because named complaints could potentially be traced back to me and I'd face consequences for that) and not a ...
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