Posts by Danielle
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Otherwise it’s just conservatism
That's rather charitably put.
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But that is why we have welfare.
Ah, but we'll be getting rid of most of that after November 26, when Key gets his 'mandate'. Perhaps then we'll all have to start wearing magical pixie balance bracelets.
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I can't blame them, but they are wrong.
It's not a *question* of being wrong, it's a question of being able to eat! As Sacha says, Kiwisaver is being taken up by a large number of people, so it isn't actually that people are hostile to saving, per se - it's that they're hostile to not making ends meet *right now*, in their current situation. This isn't directed at you, Ben, but god, I am so OVER comfortably well-off people pontificating about how the workers just don't know what's good for them. (Also, I hear it's so hard to get good help these days.)
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Dismal Soyanz,
getting the public over its knee-jerk hostility (well, that's how I interpret it) toward compulsory and/or incentive-led savings.
That's all very bloody well if you actually earn enough. I can't really blame people on average incomes for being hostile to compulsory savings when New Zealand's wages are low and our supermarket duopoly keeps raising food prices because they know they can. It's not as if most people are flush with discretionary income to save at the moment, is it?
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Keir Leslie,
Here I am suggesting that management in NZ isn’t very good at making money.
*That* actually makes sense to me, thanks Keir. When I think about it, I always get stuck on the 'managing people' part of management (and, perhaps, so do they?).
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to BenWilson,
I only got into the theory of it in a small way
I did a compulsory paper in management for the MLIS and it MADE ME WANT TO DIE even more than the rest of that pointless busywork degree. Which is saying something.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to recordari,
That's why I said 'most'. I'm sure there are lots of drum-circle type businesses out there with a warm and welcoming flattened organisational structure which would make me equally suspicious and annoyed. There is no pleasing me when it comes to this shit, Jack. ;)
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The ‘management are all evil’ theme does my head in.
I said they had the power, not that all of them necessarily used it for evil. I'm sure you personally are a delightful manager and I'd only whine about you very slightly in private. ;) But when you get right down to it, isn't that what distinguishes management from a plain old administrator? The ability to make the people you manage... do stuff? And possibly get rid of them if they don't do the 'right' stuff?
I haven't had particularly bad experiences, but I have no illusions about how little pause it would give people I work for to lay me off. Being on the Evil Commie end of the spectrum, I don't really believe in all this wishy-washy co-opted-hippy HR-speak about everyone being enabled and empowered in employment relations, because most businesses are fundamentally hierarchical and motivated by profit. That's why unions exist in the first place.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Keir Leslie,
It’s incompetence at the management level.
People keep saying variations of this, and to be honest I have no idea what it means. Isn't management just admin with some special value-added power to make your underlings miserable?
Perhaps I have merely been so incompetently managed all my working life that I have never understood its true glory. Heh.
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Hard News: Only what we would expect a…, in reply to recordari,
Took me months to find this out after joining.
Oh. I thought that was a general interwebby acronym for editable posts? But perhaps not. Sorry.