Posts by nzlemming
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Dexter, you're concatenating a number of different problems as if they all share a common source. It's not helping your overall argument.
If you want to discuss how bad unions are, by all means make your case, but bringing the ACC into the discussion is pointless and the sort of tactic that weakens your case, as we may tend to disregard you as a raving loony.
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Don't know why that double posted. But deleted.
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Collection agencies have no better history than the MEAA at distributing rightfully owed revenue, as anyone who's dealt with CLL can tell you.
However, the fact that MEAA clip the residual ticket at 15%, as opposed to SAG at 2-3% I'm told, should give anyone pause. If I were not a member of MEAA(NZ)I, and I think the Devil would be bringing me my card on ice skates if I were, I should be very reluctant to have the MEAA handle my revenue in any of its incarnations.
Which raises a point for the industry - if residuals are to become a standard part of contracts (a Good Thing tm IMHO), it behooves the industry to sort out how it will be managed to everyone's satisfaction. It might even be best to get SAG to help out.
Personally, I think Mr Whipp was more motivated by the prospect of unionizing the NZ industry after the Australian model than he was by the prospect of handling the residuals, but I may be giving him more credit than he deserves.
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Or a wunch of bankers...
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The Masons have a hall on Te Moana Road here in Waikane. On Tuesday nights, cars are parked for about 500 metres in all directions...
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Yes, but god, are we fucking good or what? He just can't win. :)
Indeed, and I'd particularly like to congratulate the Women's XV for showing such restraint in the face of such gratuitous use of the term "chick". A model of decorum.
(Actually, that's a dead giveaway that he's trolling)
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A particular individual may well be able to be wealthier in the non-creative industries, but I say let them try to find their happiness where they can.
Pretty much why I turned to IT in the mid-eighties and kept my theatrics largely in the amateur field. Doing what I loved when I loved to do it more than assuaged the pang of not doing it for money, because then I would have had to do stuff I really didn't want to do in order to pay the bills. Mind you, the environment is different now - there's more opportunity - there's also more competition, though. And I am old, father William, I am old. ;-)
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Just remember, oh best beloveds, that Brendon has now entered the phase of infuriating as many people as possible on PAS, so that we will respond to him with ever increasing invective until he can depart with "dignity" and say he was run out of PAS by class traitors who won't even engage civilly.
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It was the reading that I was concerned about, yes. I'm thinking anything by the wretch should come with a health warning.
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when I read that twerp Paul Holmes' crap.
Have you seen a doctor about that aberrant behaviour pattern of yours, Sofie?