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#3286410 25-Sep-2024 20:35

I also like the lie that "no front line staff will be impacted" in these types of cuts.

Turns out that when the "back office" people go, the front line staff now need to do the work back office staff did, and they do it less efficiently

Think of it this way, how would MPs like it if they were forced to write heir own speeches, you know get rid of that back office job.

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#3286411 25-Sep-2024 20:37

sir1963:

Think of it this way, how would MPs like it if they were forced to write heir own speeches, you know get rid of that back office job.

I read a comment on Reddit (take it with a grain of salt) of someone claiming to work in the Beehive.

Apparently, MPs aren't nice people to be around. And some just plain ignore you or treat you like lower life forms.

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#3286418 25-Sep-2024 20:51

freitasm:

sir1963:

Think of it this way, how would MPs like it if they were forced to write heir own speeches, you know get rid of that back office job.

I read a comment on Reddit (take it with a grain of salt) of someone claiming to work in the Beehive.

Apparently, MPs aren't nice people to be around. And some just plain ignore you or treat you like lower life forms.

That's always been the case, and on all sides of politics.

I have very good family friends who worked in the union movement for a long long time. From what I've been told a lot of the people who made it from there into politics range from people you wouldn't enjoy working with to genuine a-holes. There's also a lot of exceptions to that who are genuinely nice and good people.

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#3286420 25-Sep-2024 20:59

Note the person posted about National MPs and the PM. But in my comment I explicitly did not mention one party or another.

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#3286425 25-Sep-2024 21:44

freitasm:

"I want targets"

"It's not about the targets!"

PM Christopher Luxon visibly frustrated over questions about gang list; says it’s not about ‘frickin targets’ - NZ Herald

But when a reporter questioned Luxon and Mitchell about police removing gang members off the national gang list as part of “sanitising” it – including the removal of deceased people – Mitchell and Luxon appeared to become visibly frustrated.

The reporter suggested it was “convenient” for the Government for gang numbers to reduce and questioned if the Government had asked police to do it.

“Guys, guys, no disrespect,” Luxon said.

“It’s not about the frickin targets, it’s about outcomes.”

And following on from this, a commentary from longtime political reporter Barry Soper, who so doesn't sound like he's in the tank for National 🙄

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/the-fractious-relationship-between-media-and-politicians-barry-soper/T23UNYNH55BMRLBPN7BVV55X6A/

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#3286426 25-Sep-2024 21:49

freitasm: Note the person posted about National MPs and the PM. But in my comment I explicitly did not mention one party or another.

Sure. For those who aren't aware of the problems parliament has had it's worth reading the original Francis report and the update in 2023.

Like a lot of high profile and highly pressurised work places it's not an easy place to work at all.

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#3286465 26-Sep-2024 07:41

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The governments "increase" in funding has followed many years of tradition (by all parties) in being below the rate of inflation, ie in real terms a funding cut.

It's a great tactic. It allows you to cry 'How can the opposition say we are cutting funding? We have allocated the largest budget ever for <X>!' and be literally correct.

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#3286466 26-Sep-2024 07:45

quickymart:

And following on from this, a commentary from longtime political reporter Barry Soper, who so doesn't sound like he's in the tank for National 🙄

Heh --

Contrast with the current Prime Minster, he gives no preference and appears to answer virtually everything that’s thrown at him, even if at times he doesn’t address the query.

"Appears" is doing some heavy lifting there.

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#3286501 26-Sep-2024 09:16

Reckon eh.

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#3286506 26-Sep-2024 09:45

Handle9:

That's always been the case, and on all sides of politics.

I have very good family friends who worked in the union movement for a long long time. From what I've been told a lot of the people who made it from there into politics range from people you wouldn't enjoy working with to genuine a-holes. There's also a lot of exceptions to that who are genuinely nice and good people.

A friend is currently an assistant to a minister (think press secretary type ) and did the same thing for a labour minister.

All ministers have been very careful not to appear before her in lizard form - so far.

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#3286513 26-Sep-2024 10:38

Seymour now going to war on teachers.

"Schools will have to play their part in setting a good example as well," he said.

This meant not taking teacher-only days during term time.

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#3286524 26-Sep-2024 11:07

SaltyNZ:

Seymour now going to war on teachers.

"Schools will have to play their part in setting a good example as well," he said.

This meant not taking teacher-only days during term time.

Because nothing makes learning easier than having unhappy teachers.

But that's what the right does. Destroy society to the benefit of a few.

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#3286537 26-Sep-2024 11:14

SaltyNZ:

Seymour now going to war on teachers.

"Schools will have to play their part in setting a good example as well," he said.

This meant not taking teacher-only days during term time.

Stunning in its' brilliance. Teachers can still have teacher only days, but they are to occur in the school holidays. I presume weekends are also ok.

In other news, I have been informed by my employer I can still work from home, but only in the hours 5 PM to 9 AM.

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#3286605 26-Sep-2024 12:57

Seymour has no clue and just spouting off once again. There already are strict rules around number and timing of teacher only days. They are not called for just because they feel like it. Also if they schedule days during the term breaks they are a different thing and also have strict rules around them in the collective agreements. They can only have a certain number per year, also includes parent teacher evenings etc as well as planning days they already run before the start of the academic year. But hey Seymour wanted an anti-teacher sound bite, because that this government has, sound bites with no basis of reality behind them.

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#3286668 26-Sep-2024 15:16

He’s going to have a whinge when schools finish in mid December as a result of this. Once they do their 380 half days they close for the year. Teacher only days don’t count as a day they are open.

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