NZ should have full employment!

[ManDownUnder]

Just this very morning on the way to work I saw 5 guys involved in picking the rubbish up from the side of the NW motorway... and considering the way it was done I thought to myself - we can use this approach to get NZ fully employed.

I was inspired!

So here's how it was done.

Guy #1 had a claw thingy, rubbish sack, gloves, high vis gear, was on foot picking up bits and pieces and stuffing them into a sack as he went.
Guy #2 was in a ute following him at a slow walking pace, hopped on the back (for the rubbish I expect)
Guy #3 was driving a HUGE truck at walking pace behind the ute, hadsigns on the back, flashing lights and an anti crash pad on the back of it
Guy #4 was in ANOTHER f'n huge truck... lights signs and an anticrash pad... crawling along behind the truck slowly driven by Guy #3
Guy #5 was taking it easy, sitting in the passenger seat alongside guy #4, (letting #4 do all the hard work I suspect)
5 guys, 3 vehicles, God only knows how much fuel inching their way along the road doing a job the average 16 year old could safely do, alone, much faster.

With taxes being put to such pathetic use, and jobs being done in incredibly inefficient ways... I'm sure we could reach full employment in now time.

[Str8 Jacket]

It was doobie time so they all had to huddle so they could pass it around. Duh!

[Finn]

Labour is doing it's bit. It employed 16000 more bureaucrats to help lower the employment rate.

Geez they're clever.

[TOTO]

You are wrong about guy #5. He was supervising, making sure all is done like its supposed to.

[Swoop]

Just use the "one bloke on a step-through bike, with a bin on the back" method that West Auckland uses.
Bloody brilliant idea, whoever thought that one up.:cool:

[ManDownUnder]

Labour is doing it's bit. It employed 16000 more bureaucrats to help lower the employment rate.

Geez they're clever.

Inspiring isn't it. I weep every time I see how much tax I pay... at least I know where it's going...

[Sanx]

Yep, it's a jobs for Labour supporters scheme. Those who can be bothered to get off their arses and actually waddle to the WINZ office are doing OK.

[Coldrider]

I guess the point you are making is the auditor, trainer & health & safety rep had skived off.

[Mr Merde]

Inspiring isn't it. I weep every time I see how much tax I pay... at least I know where it's going...

Overseas "fact finding " missions, free air travel for life, pensions, non existant armed forces, grossly over inflated number of police officers (not those on the beat but the paper pushers who "administer"), social welfare, touchy feely policies, gas guzzling governmental automobiles, re election funding, the expense of selling off national industries and on and on and on.

[Coyote]

Interesting fact I read in a letter to the Listener, had no reference so if someone can confirm it that would be good, apparently NZ has 12000 hospital beds and 9500 managers in the health sector.


FUCK?!?!?!!!?!??

[Finn]

Interesting fact I read in a letter to the Listener, had no reference so if someone can confirm it that would be good, apparently NZ has 12000 hospital beds and 9500 managers in the health sector.


FUCK?!?!?!!!?!??

Then add ACC staff to that figure.

[JimO]

Interesting fact I read in a letter to the Listener, had no reference so if someone can confirm it that would be good, apparently NZ has 12000 hospital beds and 9500 managers in the health sector.


FUCK?!?!?!!!?!??

those beds wont manage themselves

[Mr Merde]

so there are 1.263 beds for every manager. Theres youtr problem.

They dont know how to share responsibility for that .263 of a bed and therefore they become entangled in more red tape in determining which section of the bed is theirs and how it is utilised

[Coyote]

Then add ACC staff to that figure.
Well not sure how many of these managers may be working for ACC, if any. Even so, it is just a wee bit absolutely bloody ridiculous.

those beds wont manage themselves
No, but I'm sure you don't need roughly 2 managers for every 3 beds. If you do, well that's a problem too isn't it?

so there are 1.263 beds for every manager. Theres youtr problem.

They dont know how to share responsibility for that .263 of a bed and therefore they become entangled in more red tape in determining which section of the bed is theirs and how it is utilised
Throw in another manager to deal with that maybe?

[Colapop]

To be fair (having worked at manual jobs like that before) if there weren't so many c*nts on the road that don't slow down and make the job death defying (IF you don't get hit or IF they don't throw shit at you) then they wouldn't need to have that many guys tied up doing that job. People want a clean green country and expect that they can have that by chucking shit out of their cars and someone will pick it up.

I've been working on road wroks and had cars racing by at 100kph+ in a 50kph zone. It's no f*cking joke when someone realises too late that there's a sign in front of them - they swerve take out the sign and it goes flying past your head!

I fully support what you're saying about tax dollars and such - but it's gotta be directed at the right people.

[vifferman]

With taxes being put to such pathetic use, and jobs being done in incredibly inefficient ways... I'm sure we could reach full employment in now time.
Sounds like "back in the good old / bad old days", when there was no unemployment, and a bazillion people worked for the Gubmint (MOW, Railways, NZ Post, etc.) On the plus side, public transport was cheap and went virtually everywhere, and public works projects like new roads weren't hampered by the Resource Manglement Act.

[vifferman]

Yep, it's a jobs for Labour supporters scheme. Those who can be bothered to get off their arses and actually waddle to the WINZ office are doing OK.
Oh.
Mebbe that's the problem with #2 Son: apart from three weeks as a "clean-up dude" at the local butchery, he's been unemployed since July, and had an income of $0.00.
But he doesn't support Labour. :buggerd:
Maybe that's the real reason he won't walk up the road to the local WINgerZ office....

[ManDownUnder]

I've been working on road wroks and had cars racing by at 100kph+ in a 50kph zone. It's no f*cking joke when someone realises too late that there's a sign in front of them - they swerve take out the sign and it goes flying past your head!

I fully support what you're saying about tax dollars and such - but it's gotta be directed at the right people.

I hear what you're saying - experienced similar myself (not so extreme I admit) ... but wouldn't 2 guys and one vehicle (big f**k off truck with signs and stuff on it) have been enough?

5 guys, 3 vehicles all chasing stationary pieces of paper as they lay in the grass about 5m off the road all reminded me of a Character out of Spike Miligans book "Dip the Puppy".

Fred was a banana hunter... he hunted bananas. I figure they're about as dangerous as bits of paper...

[ambler]

Guy #1 had a claw thingy, rubbish sack, gloves, high vis gear, was on foot picking up bits and pieces and stuffing them into a sack as he went.
Guy #2 was in a ute following him at a slow walking pace, hopped on the back (for the rubbish I expect)
Guy #3 was driving a HUGE truck at walking pace behind the ute, hadsigns on the back, flashing lights and an anti crash pad on the back of it
Guy #4 was in ANOTHER f'n huge truck... lights signs and an anticrash pad... crawling along behind the truck slowly driven by Guy #3
Guy #5 was taking it easy, sitting in the passenger seat alongside guy #4, (letting #4 do all the hard work I suspect)
If you've ever wondered why Japan's unemployment is so low, take the above and multiply it by five, then add a hundred unnecessary roadworks projects for every district of the country... it's basically a 'work for dole' system but still keeps the statistics looking good.

[Colapop]

Too many guys have been killed or seriously hurt doing roadside work. That's the reason for all the trucks and warning signs etc. It's not the guys on the side of the road it's the f*cktards driving their 4x4's or cars or other trucks that are the hazard.

In that story there was only one guy that maybe shouldn't have been there, the second guy in the truck - unless he was training (to do the job) or there for some other legitimate reason. All of the other guys were there because of the idiots that exist on our roads - that we as motorcyclists are all too familiar with in their attempts to kill us.

[Mekk]

I think it's great that those five guys have all got jobs. Especially jobs that are hassled by the rest of society as being for underlings and "working class".

It sure beats those that bludge off the rest of us.

[NighthawkNZ]

So here's how it was done.
Guy #1 had a claw thingy, rubbish sack, gloves, high vis gear, was on foot picking up bits and pieces and stuffing them into a sack as he went.
Guy #2 was in a ute following him at a slow walking pace, hopped on the back (for the rubbish I expect)
Guy #3 was driving a HUGE truck at walking pace behind the ute, hadsigns on the back, flashing lights and an anti crash pad on the back of it
Guy #4 was in ANOTHER f'n huge truck... lights signs and an anticrash pad... crawling along behind the truck slowly driven by Guy #3
Guy #5 was taking it easy, sitting in the passenger seat alongside guy #4, (letting #4 do all the hard work I suspect)5 guys, 3 vehicles, God only knows how much fuel inching their way along the road doing a job the average 16 year old could safely do, alone, much faster.

With taxes being put to such pathetic use, and jobs being done in incredibly inefficient ways... I'm sure we could reach full employment in now time.

Sounds like they were on PD