Posts by Che Tibby
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I didn't realize people cost so much.
that's a figure i heard somewhere, but someone with management experience could confirm it. it's roughly salary +$20/30k in overheads.
and we're not talking trips to fiji and a laid-on lunch. it's air-con and ict support.
What do unemployed policy developers do?
become contractors, on +$20k p/a
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Key's talking about a wage 'saving' of $500,000,000 over three years.
<scribbles on back on envelope...>
housing and salarying a bum on seat can cost between $80k-$100k+ per year, per person.
that's between 1600 and 2000 jobs gone (but not necessarily from wellington).
makes me wonder where in the public service? there are a few over-inflated policy units that really do need to be shrunk... but these kinds of numbers would herald a potential return to the bad old days of richardson and birch.
makes me wonder how a razor-gang government would be able to actually get any policy implemented? low unemployment means we struggle to fill staff positions now. make life hell for the public service and it will go to hell in a handbasket real quick.
(otoh, it might make the current tranche of bureaucrats stay put in a job for more than five minutes...)
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I gather from his strange outburst on Radio Live this afternoon ("wanker", "worst commentator", etc) , that Bill Ralston is planning some utu on me in his next column.
he's probably never forgiven you for sullying his brand by talking about ingesting X on bfm.
revenge. cold dish. etc.
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and craig's right about circa.
"paua" was appalling... i was considering cheering for the poachers.
we're hoping the marilyn monroe one is at least interesting.
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Well, well, its your lucky day, the alternative universe arrives!!
LOL. it's like evoking the candyman.
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and as for that freaking moron dubya. ever single business be has ever owned has cost a lot of other people a whole load of money.
but he gets richer.
at one point in 2001 i remember thinking, "jesus... they gave this fkcer a country now? how long till he breaks it?"
seven years apparently.
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we take [Cheney] out back and give him a thorough whaleoiling.
well... i was actually suggesting that we rough him up a bit, then file an assault chagre against him when he starts to fight back.
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meh. grow up being called chy, chu, ch-ee, shoe, shy, or other tries. often i'd settle on shane and leave it there.
then handle having to say, "che. see, haych, ee" and have every receptionist from here to new orleans spell it, s, h, e.
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I can't wait for that American bloke to turn up with his deluded reasoning why the war has been such a raging success.
i say if cheney actually turns up, we take him out back and give him a thorough whaleoiling.
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There is no revenue, only the sharing of the bounty of our own labour admist the revelry and joyous harmony of the peoples will, comrade.