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The one quote from NZF that really got to me was this from Colin King "What my wife and I have enjoyed over 42 years, I don't think anybody else of the same sex could enjoy" (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10823697). What a miserable position to take. What sort of horrible person do you have to be to think that this is ok?
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Lemonus posted:Colin King is a National MP FYI. My bad. gently caress that guy anyway.
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Armourking posted:Apparently the vote on marriage was a "failure of democracy" according to Colin Craig. Colin Craig is such a loving tool.
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Aug 30, 2012 04:27
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Xik posted:Is this in the format [Group][Voted For]-[Voted Against]? Chris Finlayson is a gay catholic.
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Aug 30, 2012 10:18
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Vagabundo posted:Speaking of Maori and racist terms, Hone will probably be in a bit of hot water after calling the Maori Party "John Key's little house niggers." Are you sure about that? He seems to get away with all the other poo poo he pulls.
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Sep 5, 2012 23:37
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ClubmanGT posted:Problematic is the understatement of the century. This is a good old fashioned INCIS style gently caress-up. Apparently it can't handle part-time workers who aren't paid during non-teaching breaks. Kind of important in the loving education sector. There are so many things wrong with this system it's not funny. My partner is getting paid for maternity leave, because as it turns out 2 people in the same school with the same last name is problematic. Not to mention that it looks like none of their Kiwisaver payments have gone in since August. They've been taken out of the pays, but have just vanished. Nice work. edit: It gets better, we found out today she's either not getting paid this week or she's getting paid too much. If we tell them she's going to get paid too much they'll cancel it altogether, if we don't tell them we're just going to have to pay it back at some point. This system is completely hosed. Smithersnz fucked around with this message at 21:43 on Nov 11, 2012 |
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Nov 11, 2012 09:51
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Felix_Cat posted:It's time to fix the economy! We need to cut all benefits, institute a flat tax, and ship our prisoners overseas (to China, who would be thrilled to take them). You missed the best one, cut the minimum wage to $8 but give the dole to hardworking business owners.
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Dec 14, 2012 09:06
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18 months to 2 years to fix Novopay: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10863674 At my partners school every teacher was underpaid this week, since Novopay thought they started later than they did, and apparently that means they get paid less. Awesome.
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Feb 5, 2013 12:43
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Oh, they're starting to use debt collectors to collect from overpaid teachers? gently caress. You.
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Mar 12, 2013 04:12
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Miguel Angel Face posted:If teachers refuse to pay back the overpayments, then I see no problem with using debt collectors to get back the overpaid money. The problem is that a teacher can be overpaid one month, and underpaid the next (like my partner). Why should they have to put up with that poo poo? If novopay can't be trusted to get the initial payment right, why should they be trusted to claim the money back?
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Mar 12, 2013 04:30
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Miguel Angel Face posted:Yes - I do think that ousting such people will result in an improvement when they're replaced by people who are more committed and capable. Where are these better teachers coming from? Are they the first years who can't get jobs, or the teachers already in a school where they are comfortable, and aren't going to be paid more to shift to a new school to look after a lovely class of pupils?
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Mar 18, 2013 23:49
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Hey look, Colin Craig is being a tool, must be a Wednesday: But it's ok, because he got "hacked".
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May 22, 2013 03:31
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swampland posted:How's everyone voting in the local elections? I'm finding it hard to find actual policies on the candidate's pages, most of them seem to believe in a "better, brighter future for Wellington" with only the smallest hints of what they plan to actually do. I did learn that Nicola Young is campaigning on compulsory address numbers for buildings though. I guess she gets lost a lot. I love seeing the crazies come out at election time: "Jesse Butler" posted:Jesse Butler. Aucklander. 45. South Auckland raised. I also base a whole lot on whether they can write a profile without spelling mistakes, too many exclamation marks and going from third person to first person in the space of a sentence.
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Xik posted:I had fun reading through all the profiles. If you can't be bothered doing that, you're pretty safe if you just go through and only vote for woman. Oh man, that's just not true: "Tricia Cheel" posted:A vibrant community is built upon a population brimming with health & vitality and all true progress follows that. As co-ordinator for Friends of Sherwood since 1990 I have worked hard to make my neighbourhood a beautiful & healthy place in which to live. The rest of Auckland could enjoy the same benefits of being "As Free As Possible" of toxic chemicals, waste and other pollution by adopting our proven organic methods throughout the whole region.
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Sep 26, 2013 13:06
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And Len Brown confirms: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11140517
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Oct 15, 2013 04:42
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truther posted:Also, can someone confirm that the Waitakere elecorate is now official Kelston? I understand Bennett's seat has moved to Kelston but don't really understand how Waitakere can be altogether dumped. From what I gather Massey and everything north has been lumped in with Glenfield, and that's the electorate Bennett is standing in. I'm not sure how much Glenfield/Greenhithe has in common with Massey, but them's the breaks.
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Nov 25, 2013 04:11
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Young Nats delivers again...kinda
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Apr 7, 2014 05:52
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I just don't understand how making teachers working conditions worse will increase achievement. If you're trying to get better people in there, maybe you should pay more. Who's going to say "sweet, zero job security and lovely pay, long hours and dealing with stupid kids and rear end in a top hat parents, sounds like the job for me!"
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Sep 21, 2014 10:18
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fong posted:National's coalition hasn't stopped them from making all the changes they wanted in education. They got charter schools, national standards, the 6-week teacher training course, and now this new executive principals thing. The only thing that's been holding them back are the unions, otherwise we'd probably have full-on performance pay based on student progress in the standards. I was sitting around a table full of teachers who were all quite chuffed that National got back in, and the very next thing they were talking about was how bad performance pay would be. I just can't comprehend it.
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Binkenstein posted:No internet at my new flat because Chorus can't hook me up until the 14th (I spoke to Snap about moving before New Years). Slow fuckers. My UFB should be hooked up today, I organised it on the 22nd of December, so that's fairly quick. My work fibre is still not hooked up though, and I booked that in July 2014. Good times.
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