|
5th February 2008, 22:45 | #81 | |
|
Quote:
|
|
5th February 2008, 23:44 | #82 |
|
That's weird..............I lived in Brisbane for about a year and I never got that feeling that I was actually living in another country. Admittedly the heat would remind me sometimes that I wasn't in NZ anymore but other than that, everything else very similar.
|
5th February 2008, 23:58 | #83 | |
|
Quote:
|
|
6th February 2008, 03:25 | #84 | |
|
Quote:
stupid expensive weekends raping mah monahs |
|
6th February 2008, 08:10 | #85 | |
Stuff
|
Quote:
__________________
My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. |
|
6th February 2008, 23:02 | #86 | |
|
Quote:
|
|
6th February 2008, 23:43 | #87 |
|
Sex = Six
Safeway = Woolworth Hungry Jack's = Burger King Home brand = Home brand |
9th February 2008, 22:54 | #88 |
|
Looks like National may have difficulty in persuading most of NZ that the low wages in the country are due to the Labour government. |
9th February 2008, 23:25 | #89 |
Stuff
|
how long before aussies start to migrate to nz for lack of water?
__________________
My degree of sarcasm depends on your degree of stupidity. |
10th February 2008, 00:31 | #90 | |
|
Quote:
|
|
10th February 2008, 15:28 | #91 | |
|
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/46...0491537&pnum=0
Quote:
|
|
10th February 2008, 15:45 | #92 |
Objection!
|
McCarten is an idiot. Do I think NZ employers have some serious cultural issues (e.g. too much of the "pay peanuts and expect plenty" mentality and too focussed on personality issues at the workplace)? Sure. But this idea that employers pretty much all universally try to cream off the profits (OMG HOW AWFUL THAT SOMEONE WANTS TO MAKE A PROFIT) instead of adequately reinvesting money into businesses so they can continue making money is just crap. There might be some irrational dolts who think they can just cream away every year but sooner or later you need to reinvest to survive and people know it.
Of course, you'll NEVER hear McCarten tell anyone that unionists who do nothing for workers but cause disruption actually do nothing to contribute to the NZ economy, nor will you hear a thing from him about the unions' abject refusal to countenance any sort of performance-related pay. WE CAN'T ABANDON THE MEDIOCRE, CAN WE?? |
10th February 2008, 16:19 | #93 | |
|
Quote:
Last edited by Genesis : 10th February 2008 at 16:20. |
|
10th February 2008, 16:49 | #94 |
|
NZ employers pay peanuts because they figured most young people in their 20s will just bugger off overseas anyway, so why bother "investing" in them + there's endless supply of "cheap labour" flooding out of universities to fill the gaps.
|
10th February 2008, 19:21 | #95 | |
|
Quote:
|
|
10th February 2008, 21:16 | #96 |
|
i haet you for afkin on our conversation gen
HAET |
10th February 2008, 21:45 | #97 |
|
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4395820a1861.html
I don't like Michael Laws at all but aside from his gross generalisations on the nature of new zealanders and australians, some of his points make sense to me. |
10th February 2008, 23:39 | #98 |
|
Some of his points. We used to have a similar can-do attitude as he says Oz has but we seem to have lost it over the last 20 odd years and become cheap and nasty instead.
|
11th February 2008, 00:14 | #99 |
|
the bigges thing that has always gotten to me and other people in my family (originally poms) is the tall poppy syndrome here. one of the biggest hurdles a lot of people doing a recent course with me had was how to actually ask someone for the dosh- Earning money is almost seen as some kind of horrible thing to do in this country. Being someone who earns a decent wage means you must be corrupt in some way, which is of course total bollocks. this is one of the main reasons im moving to aus- im sick and fucking tired of people treating me like a pariah because i can and do charge people 50 dollars for half an hour of my time, whereas a short flight away there is a country that would pat me on the back for the same fucking thing (and pay me 65-70 for that half hour)
|
11th February 2008, 09:23 | #100 | |
|
Quote:
Personally I don't think that tall poppy syndrome even exists - I tend to feel that people use it as an excuse to get up set that they don't feel they're getting the recognition that they deserve. Pixie
__________________
Civilised is as civilised does and civilised people walk among us. |
|
11th February 2008, 10:12 | #101 | |
|
Quote:
Unions do quite a lot of work for the low-skilled and low-paid in this country. All those teenagers that get their $8.50+/hr for working in supermarkets and fast food stores can thank the Unions for bargaining a decent wage for them, regardless of whether they realise the Unions did it in the first place. Don't bag the Unions based on biased media pieces, if you've never actually been involved with one. |
|
11th February 2008, 10:26 | #102 | |
|
Quote:
Last edited by Omegakai : 11th February 2008 at 10:27. |
|
11th February 2008, 10:52 | #103 | |
|
Quote:
Unions have there place in succesful businesses that promote innovation and increased productivity , Fisher and Paykel are a prime example.
__________________
"This doesn't happen to me often, Honest!!" |
|
11th February 2008, 10:54 | #104 | |
|
Quote:
|
|
11th February 2008, 10:54 | #105 | |
|
Quote:
<Ahhhem>... |
|
11th February 2008, 11:04 | #106 | |
Up Unt At Dem!
|
Quote:
it is commonly accepted by the leading economic think tanks and institutions that our business environment is one of the best, if not THE best in the world. why dont they shut the fuck up and be grateful? |
|
11th February 2008, 11:09 | #107 | |
|
Quote:
__________________
"This doesn't happen to me often, Honest!!" |
|
11th February 2008, 11:13 | #108 | |
|
Quote:
|
|
11th February 2008, 11:50 | #109 |
|
mmm, arab you could pull off but indian no
did you respond to them asking whne they got out of prison / con jokes? cause i think thats the standard response to aussies shoulda just punched em in teh head |
11th February 2008, 12:29 | #110 |
|
Kinda hard when they are driving past, yelling out of a window. on a deserted stretch of beach... then again it was Australian day weekend,and everyone was acting yokel. Something else that got to me was the Unimaginative-ness of Australian street names, distracts. and on yeah Public holidays.
did heaps of cool shit thou. went to Dracula's. it was grand. |
11th February 2008, 13:30 | #111 | |
|
Quote:
|
|
11th February 2008, 13:37 | #112 | |
|
Quote:
__________________
ɹǝʌo sᴉ ǝɯɐƃ ʎɥʇ |
|
11th February 2008, 14:50 | #113 |
Word To Your Motherboard!
|
Last edited by Farmer Joe : 11th February 2008 at 14:51. |
11th February 2008, 15:32 | #114 | |
|
Quote:
|
|
11th February 2008, 15:57 | #115 |
|
At least i could handle Arab / Persian, but Fucking being called Indian. srsly.
|
11th February 2008, 16:32 | #116 |
|
Other things i found odd about OZ.
EFTPOS in Oz isnt as widely used as it is here, When you say you have a pin number on your Visa, They politely tell you that visas cant have pin numbers (happened at least 3 times) And Recites OMFG, they are like the size of your supermarket ones, super huge and long for like a 95cent pack of gum... save a tree or something. Some law about light bulbs, you have to have the energy saver ones, its like law or something soon. But you can run your aircon all day, which business often do, walked past some surf shop that was open at 10pm in surfers, massively huge open doors, and the aircon running as if it was trying to cool the whole country. |
11th February 2008, 16:55 | #117 | |
I have detailed files
|
Quote:
|
|
11th February 2008, 17:09 | #118 | |
A mariachi ogre snorkel
|
Quote:
|
|
11th February 2008, 19:13 | #119 |
|
im about as aryan as it gets. missus is some kind of persian thing, everyone thinks shes from the middle east. or a mexican.
its not so much giving a shit what other people think (come on youve seen my posts on here... ) but being sick and tired of cunts who fail where ive succeeded giving me shit about it. not that i dont love living in NZ, cos I do, but id rather go see what its like on the other side of the ditch and if it sucks i can come back. |
11th February 2008, 19:53 | #120 | |
Objection!
|
Quote:
I actually suggested in my post that I do recognise some businesspeople are shortsighted and greedy. That recognition does not require of me, or anybody with an IQ over 80 for that matter, to absolve all others of their responsibility for our lack of economic success. You have actually read and learnt that NZ has some of the lowest productivity in the OECD, right? |
|