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Talley’s Group: Arsehole managers – bad faith and bullshit

lprent — Wed, 16 May 2012 22:56:00 +0000

Today there was the characteristic signature of a Talley's Group company spin that I've observed over the last five years on this site with their worker relationships. They lie, prevaricate, and fracture the truth. They appear to be completely untrustworthy and incapable of good faith bargaining. In my view they are the absolute arseholes of NZ managers and companies.

10,000+ at Auckland anti-MOM protest

lprent — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 03:14:56 +0000

Lots of people… get down to Britomart.. Mind you Britomart is filling up rapidly. They need a few more megaphones by the look of the crowd. Penny Bright sucks at chants. Slowly moving off. This is mining protest levels… A lot of people… Seriously slow. Walked 50 metres. Really good humoured and highly social. Lots ...

Veolia Transport: where were the backup plans?

lprent — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:10:58 +0000

I have and still do deal with quite a lot with systems in my day-job. But this…. I’m aghast at the self-evident stupidity. A power outage has shut down almost all train services across the Auckland region. The fault at KiwiRail’s National Train Control in Wellington, which controls Auckland signals and radio control, occurred about ...

400,000 comments (almost)

lprent — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:18:30 +0000

By one standard we have now passed 400 thousand comments. But I'm not a bullshitter with numbers like Bill English or Whaleoil. By my standards, we haven't quite hit it yet. We will in a couple of weeks. I'm starting to get a bit worried about how we're going to handle the rapidly increasing rate that people are arguing with each other here...

Updates, upgrades, and polls

lprent — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:28:05 +0000

A bit of maintenance work coming up over Easter, and a Morgan poll that covered last week. National show the effects of their mutual collective suicide attempts, and the Greens pick up the benefits. Labour are doing sweet bugger all. Starting to wonder if Labour MP's are catching the dogpack socializing disease from National. I have an impress ion of mutual arse sniffing and bugger all work. I'm unimpressed with the dog imitations from either party.

We need “operation 9″ to suppress the bookies

lprent — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 23:37:10 +0000

Evidently the people at iPredict don't like being called "bookies" or being described as "opening a contract" on someone. We are now being targeted by this shadowy organisation.

Perhaps it is time that the police exerted themselves as the entertainment for the media and started operation 9 against this subversive organisation

You know you’re in trouble when: The bookies open a contract on you

lprent — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:28:50 +0000

You know that bookies sense when there is blood in the water and they'll create contracts. I don't gamble but the interesting contracts today in my mind are "Judith Collins to cease being a Minister before 1 June 2012", "An ACC official ....to be found to have leaked Boag email", "Beehive staffer to be found to have leaked Boag email", etc. And a politician is definitely in trouble in NZ when they start talking about defamation :)

Organisational review – Auckland

lprent — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:14:27 +0000

Just a reminder that Auckland's first organisational review meeting is tonight.

Please encourage as many Labour members as possible to come along and contribute to the discussion.

Why I think that Auckland is getting scammed

lprent — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:42:51 +0000

It turns out that the report that provided the basis for a 12% return on equity at the Ports of Auckland is based not on something commissioned by them. Instead it comes from the previous employers of the current chairman at PoA, who have previously been interested in buying ports in NZ. And the comparisons used for the ROE are spurious.

Dumbarse ports management and owners

lprent — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 22:24:09 +0000

Today Ports of Auckland sacked 292 employees in the pursuit of the unobtainable by the idiotic. The Ports of Auckland from the start intended to provide a conflict with the intent of sacking all the workers and rehiring them on worse conditions, saving $6m (20%) in wages a year. The amount of money saved was a pittance compared to the underlying problems the port needs to fix.

The biggest party are non-voters.

lprent — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 03:06:17 +0000

The option that most eligible voters in NZ supported in 2011 was "don't vote". Nearly 7% didn't enroll, and if enrolled then more than 25% didn't vote. Of the eligible voters from the 2006 census, over 30% didn't vote at all. And since 2006 the voting population has almost certainly increased. It means that National's large vote is probably less than the biggest "party". Not a particularly good mandate unless you're as deluded as John Key.

Fran O’Sullivan will be distressed over Crafar decision.

lprent — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:36:13 +0000

Now there is a surprise (not). The Crafar farms sale doesn't conform to the economic benefits required under the Overseas Investment Act. Fran O'Sullivan is going to be distressed. The decision by the OIO and government was not in conformance with the the Overseas Investment Act. Fran waffled about everything except what was required by the Act - as our "anonymous" authors pointed out and were abused for doing so by Fran.

Journalists - pah!

Site health – comments and posts

lprent — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:31:38 +0000

vto made a comment that he thought that the number of comments was diminishing at kiwiblog. Now I have no idea because I usually avoid the sewer section there. However it did remind me that I should have a look here. It feels like it has been getting more popular, but intuition is a poor substitute for actually looking at the numbers.

John Key’s emergency descent

lprent — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:22:29 +0000

A great graphic from the Sunday Star Times as John Key starts dropping towards a hard landing in the personal popularity stakes. And in the great tradition of journalists everywhere, the rest of the article is about how he is still preferred by rubber fetishists.

Fran O’Sullivan: a shill with diversions

lprent — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:02:14 +0000

Fran O'Sullivan took objection to RedLogix criticizing her articles on Crafar farms. It helps our traffic, but really she should relook at the utter crap she has been writing before attacking the questioner. She talks about everything except why the OIO within their legislation limited framework should or should not have approved the sale. The more that I reread her work on this subject, the more I ask: what in the hell is she trying to hide?