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Post by fish on Mar 31, 2024 9:07:42 GMT 12
I'm out of bread, and need to find a plate / meal to take to a family shared dinner tonight.
But the religious do-gooder minority wont let me go to a supermarket to get any food.
Anyone got any ideas on what I can do?
I could take a can of baked beans and give thanks to god for at least having old tinned food in the cupboard?
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Post by DuckMaster on Mar 31, 2024 9:21:04 GMT 12
I'm out of bread, and need to find a plate / meal to take to a family shared dinner tonight. But the religious do-gooder minority wont let me go to a supermarket to get any food. Anyone got any ideas on what I can do? I could take a can of baked beans and give thanks to god for at least having old tinned food in the cupboard? Plan ahead. Next you'll be demanding the supermarket is open Christmas Day. |
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Post by DuckMaster on Mar 31, 2024 9:24:02 GMT 12
And all the staff will be paid well for working the stats, the visitors are over the moon that they can buy fresh food over the weekend. Every body happy except for the left do gooders that know better than everyone else. Easter Sunday is NOT a stat. Anyone working today is paid their normal contracted rate. Anyone working today who is entitled to the day off because the law says their company should be closed is getting shafted. The only people winning are the business owners who are on holiday with their family. |
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Post by GO30 on Mar 31, 2024 10:57:39 GMT 12
I guess you'd have to do a bit of research and understand why the Shop Trading Hours were restricted in the first place. Then armed with that 35yr old decision we could have a debate about if those principles and objectives still apply today. The current act replaced the previous (1977) plus a pile of amendments around it. The 1977 and amendments previous replaced the one before that, 1955, which look like when Anzac Day was added in. There are many amendments and assorted tweaks over the time frame. None say why but there are snippets popping up that suggest it's all about religion protecting itself, which seems somewhat obvious.
Does religion deserve that today? It would be hard to think it does with it's dodgy kiddy fiddling history and the way it leaches off not only it's now tiny congregation, only 3% of NZers said they do any religion in the last census that wasn't a fuck up. Then add in how religion bludges so heavily off society with owning so much of NZ but not paying rates or taxes. Then add in religion these days seems to be more the area of some preying on the vulnerable and plainly silly.
But in saying that not all aspects of religion are bad, even the Tamaki's do do some genuinely good work. Even the old white pasty dudes in tradition churches help some..or at least until they get pinged as kiddy fiddlers. But then the 1%'s also help many, far more than some like to think, along with even us mere mortals so religion is far from unique in doing that.
I think time has come for religion as we traditionally know it and with that comes what do we do with the likes of Easter and Xmas.
But that's not to say we dump the holidays, maybe we just bring them into the 21st century, which in today's world of the micro twitchy and those who need to be continually offended, should be pretty easy.
If nothing else, if religion (and any other minority) wants to dictate to the majority at least it can pay it's own fucking way and stop the leaching.
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Post by fish on Mar 31, 2024 10:59:24 GMT 12
I'm out of bread, and need to find a plate / meal to take to a family shared dinner tonight. But the religious do-gooder minority wont let me go to a supermarket to get any food. Anyone got any ideas on what I can do? I could take a can of baked beans and give thanks to god for at least having old tinned food in the cupboard? Plan ahead. Next you'll be demanding the supermarket is open Christmas Day. It is very gracious of you to suggest my family and I go hungry today to appease the views of a religious minority. Halleluiah, Amen, Thanks be to God. Now, where is a picture of a priest in fancy dress / white robs and a weird hat chanting in Latin and flicking some holy water around? |
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Post by harrytom on Mar 31, 2024 13:43:45 GMT 12
The Laws area nonsense. Supermarkets allowed to open in Queenstown but not Wanaka, especially with an international airshow and 10's of 1,000's of visitors in Wanaka. Foodstuffs says its Wānaka New World stores have decided to stay open across Easter Weekend in breach of the holiday's trading laws. Almost all shops across the motu were required to close on both Good Friday and Easter Sunday, unless they were deemed essential or had an exemption, the Labour Inspectorate said. But New World Wānaka and New World Three Parks were trading as usual, without an exemption or essential store status. Read more: Easter weekend: What's open, what's not and when you have to pay a surcharge Both stores had previously been fined for trading on Good Friday, in 2021 and 2022, in breach of the Shop Trading Hours Act. "Wānaka is part of the Queenstown Lakes District Council, and while Queenstown has an exemption to trade on Good Friday which dates back to the mid-1980s, Wānaka isn't included in that exemption," Foodstuffs spokesperson Emma Wooster said. "With tens of thousands of visitors expected to come into town over the holidays, the two New World stores in Wānaka took the decision to open throughout the Easter holidays, including Good Friday and Easter Monday," she said. Wānaka was hosting its iconic airshow, Warbirds Over Wānaka, for the first time in six years, following pandemic-related cancellations. "Their motivation is to make sure the local community and visitors alike, have the convenience of access to food and groceries from a full-service supermarket throughout the break," Wooster said. Neither store would be selling alcohol on Good Friday or Easter Sunday, she said. In January 2023, MBIE put out a statement criticising the stores for ignoring warnings. "Despite MBIE reminding the two stores and Foodstuffs' South Island chief executive in early April 2022, the two stores opened on Good Friday, which was against the law," Labour Inspectorate regional manager Loua Ward said then. "As a leader and major employer in the retail sector, it is extremely disappointing to see a prominent group like Foodstuffs South Island's having two owner/operators blatantly choosing to ignore their legal responsibilities and focus on profit making. www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513060/wanaka-supermarkets-choosing-to-deliberately-breach-easter-trading-rulesThey will get fined. They won't care. The profit from the day will be many times greater than the fine. They don't give a flying fuck about workers rights. And the fact that they can brush off the fine is because they are reaming us so much for goods. Workers dont to work,well dont turn up.Risk loosing your job so what.Labour courts will be on workers side. I dont have a issue with a bussiness to open when they like butdont pressure staff or staff negotiate a rate.win win for all |
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Post by GO30 on Apr 1, 2024 13:22:21 GMT 12
They will get fined. They won't care. The profit from the day will be many times greater than the fine. They don't give a flying fuck about workers rights. And the fact that they can brush off the fine is because they are reaming us so much for goods. Workers dont to work,well dont turn up.Risk loosing your job so what.Labour courts will be on workers side. I dont have a issue with a bussiness to open when they like butdont pressure staff or staff negotiate a rate.win win for all To true HT, no court will ping an employee whose been the subject of arm twisting by a dodgy employer, especially when the employer is breaking the rules so blatantly. |
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Post by harrytom on Apr 5, 2024 17:54:06 GMT 12
Waka ??Ltsa what a bunch of tossers.
7th to 12th 8.00pm to 5.00am Krangahake gorge closed for resurfacing. OK so far,now. Kaimai ranges closed 8.00pm to 5.00am for surfacing work. Web sites says via detours which in effects means no access to Tauranga during those time.
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Post by em on Apr 5, 2024 18:25:51 GMT 12
Talking to a couple of architect mates over the w/e. One is scrambling to find a new job as his project is coming to an end and he doesn't see anything else to keep him busy. But he's not finding anything. Another who recently moved jobs has a friend whose company has layed off several of thier staff. Chippy mate who lives in Cambridge said one of the firms down there recently laid off 9 of thier staff (not sure total headcount of company but can't be that big in a town like that). But same mate is snowed under, poss because he's farkn good and works like a trojan. Next 6 months could get pretty grim for some people by the sounds. Engineering consultancies have stopped hiring, with a number doing lay-offs at the moment. Govt have turned the tap off on everything, so many outfits workload is falling off a cliff. Education buildings programme stopped, 3 waters stopped, with at least a 3 year delay on getting anything going, Auckland and Wellington transport programmes in disarray (Regional fuel tax and Lets get Welly moving). I'm not across NZTA roading projects but understand there is a massive lag from the change of govt changing the work programme and priorities. Not sure what residential building is doing, but interest rates are high. I think the only thing keeping that sector going is massive immigration. Country was already in recession for the last 6 months of last year, current govt is talking about austerity, even though the don't call it that. to be fair, the last lot were spraying money around like confetti, problem is the party is over now, and lots of people are going to have nasty hangovers. A big issue is around certainty, driven by the change of govt. Sure this new govt has nailed through its 100 day plan, but that was almost exclusively undoing everything done over the last 6 years. On all the important things, all they have done is appoint specialist panels to investigate and report back. That includes state housing, 3 waters, education building and parts of transport (Cook straight crossing for example) and they are still formulating a new transport strategy. D1 got given redundancy notice yesterday . She works for a recruiting Co specialising in civil engineers , architects , project managers etc. Zero recruiting happening right now . |
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Post by harrytom on Apr 9, 2024 18:26:19 GMT 12
Ok now for the the thick side of me as I do not understand.
Luxon wants Govt Depts to cut down on numbers(fair enough) but next breathe cutting down on immigrants as to get NZers off their ases back to work.
NZ is in a recession,wants 50k off benefits but there are very few vacancies now . How many unemployed/civl servants possess the skills as welders??
Will unemployed Gangsters be targeted to work?
Truancy.
Could have fines etc for those not attending school.How about starting with those roaming Mall etc and fined out why they are not attending?
A child pulled from school to go sking/island holiday not really a issue if its 2 or 3 days before a term ends.
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Post by fish on Apr 9, 2024 18:51:41 GMT 12
Ok now for the the thick side of me as I do not understand. Luxon wants Govt Depts to cut down on numbers(fair enough) but next breathe cutting down on immigrants as to get NZers off their ases back to work. NZ is in a recession,wants 50k off benefits but there are very few vacancies now . How many unemployed/civl servants possess the skills as welders?? Will unemployed Gangsters be targeted to work? Truancy. Could have fines etc for those not attending school.How about starting with those roaming Mall etc and fined out why they are not attending? A child pulled from school to go sking/island holiday not really a issue if its 2 or 3 days before a term ends. You might be getting too much filtering via the Mainstream Media. They are doing a spectacular amount of spinning as they really do not like the govt. Govt departments - constant headlines of 200 gone here, 90 gone there, but the media never says up by 1,700 there, up by 1,200 there in the 6 years under Labour. Oh, and they never say that of the 200 gone, 40% are already unfilled vacancies. Then on immigration, we had 170,000 non-NZer's move permanently to NZ last year. One hundred and seventy thousand. That is not sustainable however you look at it. The impact on housing, health, schools and infrastructure is mind-boggling. Especially when half of that number are parents / grandparents of the skilled person who actually got the visa. Bearing in mind hair dressers and Indian chefs are counted as 'skilled migrants' (as opposed to brain surgeons, rocket scientists, code writers and what not). So dialing back immigration from mind bogglingly high numbers is hardly something to get excited about. The 50k off benefits sounds highly alarming. I can see it as a good asperation to help people so that they don't need a benefit, but a target like that with a beast like The Ministry of Social Development, that is just going to be a train wreck. Something that really bugs me is genuinely sick people are lumped onto the job seeker benefit. So if you have cancer, you go on a job seeker benefit, or people with ME like me. We / they need ACC style return to work support, occupational therapists, and, God forbid, actual treatment. It is a complete nonsense. BUT, that target is not until 2030, so 6 years time. Personally I don't think living on a benefit would be very nice or very easy, but benefits have always been there as a safety net in our society. Sure, there are examples of people that rort the system and make a lifestyle out of it, such as Mothers who's kids have six different Dad's. It is possible the govt do this well and upskill and genuinely help people, but I very much doubt that will happen. Getting govt workers to retrain as welders? Stranger things have happened. I'm sure they are imminently qualified to get into the productive sector. Getting them out of the state sector is the start, and who knows, our GDP might actually go up. Our tourist industry needs hotel cleaners, and if we shut off the supply of cheap foreign labour, there would be increased demand for such roles. Post covid airline pilots were getting work driving large complex farm machines, like combined harvesters and the like, similar skill set, just not as glamourous. Truancy. We all know the problem is bored kids wagging school and doing a bit of ram raiding for shits and giggles. The talk of fining rich parents for taking Charles on holiday to Hawai during term time, cause that's when they have the timeshare available, that is a distraction. It is an obvious follow-on from covid that attendance plummeted, and now is the right time to focus on getting it back to where it was. Kids need to be in school, learning. And it's not just ram raiders, the climate action protest was during school time last Friday, no reason they couldn't have held that next week while they were on holiday. Labour let things go amoke, the new govt is simply saying kids need to be in school. The media is reporting one very narrow aspect of that as fining parents who go on holiday. It is just massive filtering and spin from our mainly socialist media. |
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Post by fish on Apr 9, 2024 18:57:53 GMT 12
Did you hear the target about increasing export GDP?
I can't remember by how much, I think it's dropped to 25% and they want to get it back up to 30%, by 2030.
Imagine if we ran the ruler over EVERY policy decision, new law or new regulation to see if it made the boat go any faster (increases GDP). SNA's would be gone in a heart beat. The ban on extracting natural resources would be gone by lunch time, oil, gas, minerals, iron sand, brown coal, rare earth metals, wind farms etc, etc.
The govt is moving very fast and in doing so may make the odd error, but at least they are moving. There is a saying, it is better to make a good decision rather than prevaricate trying to make a perfect decision and end up not making any decision at all. (I have seen this in Councils many, many times).
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Post by harrytom on Apr 9, 2024 19:29:07 GMT 12
I can understand the migration bit.But do you think kiwis will pick fruit on a contract rate like the islanders do?
Seems to be more leaving NZ than immergating,yes the boy is looking overseas now in the world of Robotics.
Can see where Brooke is coming from on the English Language front,had to deal with 2 new immergrants on Monday.manager came out and asked if I had a problem with her staff.Simple answer yes I cant understand them.
Have a niece working for MSD and a call for volunteers to take redundancy.Her manager said wont be happening as we cant cope now with new numbers applying for benefits and outstanding debt is out of control with very little hope of recovery.
I didnt vote for the coalition parties but can see where they are coming from but seems to be slash n burn exercise.If they want to run the country like a bussiness fine,better start looking at some of the MPs/back benchers.Some dead wood there. Do we really need a Minister of space?
Had to laugh at police tzering dogs,no problem just shoot them then see spca squeal.
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Post by fish on Apr 9, 2024 20:17:57 GMT 12
I can understand the migration bit.But do you think kiwis will pick fruit on a contract rate like the islanders do? Seems to be more leaving NZ than immergating,yes the boy is looking overseas now in the world of Robotics. Can see where Brooke is coming from on the English Language front,had to deal with 2 new immergrants on Monday.manager came out and asked if I had a problem with her staff.Simple answer yes I cant understand them. Have a niece working for MSD and a call for volunteers to take redundancy.Her manager said wont be happening as we cant cope now with new numbers applying for benefits and outstanding debt is out of control with very little hope of recovery. I didnt vote for the coalition parties but can see where they are coming from but seems to be slash n burn exercise.If they want to run the country like a bussiness fine,better start looking at some of the MPs/back benchers.Some dead wood there. Do we really need a Minister of space? Had to laugh at police tzering dogs,no problem just shoot them then see spca squeal. Fruit picking is a fairly extreme example. There is a lot of productive work people can be doing without getting down to the bottom rung seasonal manual labour. Driving tour coaches full of Chinese for example, instead of the Chinese tours bringing in their own drivers (!?!) For your son, understanding he is moderately recently graduated, it is a natural thing to want to go and see the world and expand their professional horizons. One of the good things about that is the learn the cutting edge stuff, develop the CV and bring it all back to NZ in due course. Dogs, should be shot. Even if it's registered, if it is caught roaming, just shoot it. You'd be surprised how fast the owners suddenly take action to stop their dogs from roaming when they start getting shot. |
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Post by fish on Apr 10, 2024 9:49:10 GMT 12
This from Erica Stanford on FB.
An extra 20,000 people went on the job seeker benefit in 2023, while 52,000 low skilled workers were brought into the country. The numbers just don't add up. That's why this government has announced changes to the work visa settings to prioritise jobs for Kiwis to help rebuild our economy.
Jobs for Kiwis. Imagine.
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