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[Jackrat]

Is Judy Baily really worth $15000 a week. :calm:

[Blakamin]

Is Judy Baily really worth $15000 a week. :calm:
no effin way


and this message is too short

[Sniper]

Hell no, but she can give the excess to me :shifty:

[Riff Raff]

No, I don't think so

[onearmedbandit]

If someone is willing to pay her that amount, then yes. Can't blame her (I know no-one her is, so far) for accepting a pay rise, even a substantial one such as this. I know if someone offered me that sort of coin, I would take it and love every minute of it.

However, for a role such as hers, yes it is too much.

[avgas]

Is anyone worth $15000 a week? Fuck off
So it may as well go to her.
Too many people are saying "Oh she doesnt deserve it!" - bullshit. The case is no one actually deserves it. Why dont you go an complain that someone else won lotto even though u had a ticket. I say good on her for accepting it - i bloody would have.
And i dont even watch the news anymore.

[Mr Skid]

Stop your bitching.

Judy's hot, and you know it!

[James Deuce]

It's not about who deserves what, or how much someone is worth. It's how much her employer will pay her.

[Paul in NZ]

Is Judy Baily really worth $15000 a week. :calm:

Shit no... Worst shag I ever had...


Well OK... I've had worse....


Actually, shes not bad....


Pretty good in fact....


Fine looking woman....


But she's not my Vicki now is she? She is easily worth $15,000 a week...

Paul N

[Blakamin]

. I say good on her for accepting it - i bloody would have.
.
yeah, if it was some shitty companys money, I wouldnt care... but I pay tax and dont even watch one news (was gunna tonite but she wasnt even on it! at $15000 a week, she shouldnt get a fuckin holiday on my coin)
why should some prick in charge of a government entity decide how much she should get.... she is just another public servant... why cant we vote on her price???

[aff-man]

She would have to be naked and doing some pretty damn fantastic stuff to be worth that much coin :shutup: :shutup: :o . Hahahah but if you think about it people who get long running roles in television (not in this country) usually get a nice heafty pay packet. What near the end of the series Tim Allen was gettin payed a cool mill for every episode. For New Zealand television and for the news....................... yes it is to much :shake:



But that's her boss's fault. Hell i would slap her over the head if she said no to a pay rise like that. Even if she did ask and they caved. :2thumbsup

[merv]

Whether its tax money or not doesn't matter in my book as in the end we the customer pay. I don't see this as any worse than Teresa Gattung getting $2.8m/year. If she and all her managers took a reasonable wage imagine how cheap our phone services could be.

It was the same shit at Tranz Rail, as the profits of the company sagged due to the rip offs taking cash out of the business, the Managing Director and his close knit group of management cronies kept doubling their salaries because "Oh their jobs were so tough". Were any of them worth it? Compared to the average worker - no way. No person can be 50 - 100 times better than the next guy.

Its American capitalism at its best and it is well and truly in this country now.

[merv]

Talking about naked, when I was in Melbourne in November I liked the Naked News on at 10.30pm and repeated again at midnight. It didn't matter that by the time the Comedy Channel played it, it was about 3 weeks old. In North America they get it daily on time I guess. Seems it started as a net thing and then hit the pay TV. Marvellous, but I wouldn't have a clue what they paid the chicks.

[Hitcher]

Marvellous, but I wouldn't have a clue what they paid the chicks.
I estimate somewhat less than Judy gets to do it fully clothed...

[vifferman]

I estimate somewhat less than Judy gets to do it fully clothed... But of course.
They didn't have to spend some of their hard-earned moolah on clothing.

Mind you, I'd imagine neither does Judy. I believe there's a clothing allowance or summat.



So.... an STX1300, Mr Hitcher.:eek:

Well well well.

(3 holes in the ground....)

[Hitcher]

So.... an STX1300, Mr Hitcher.
Indeed. I have posted a pre-purchase ride review. Did I say that it's big and red?

[onearmedbandit]

merv - one of the reasons TG from telecom and her like get paid so much is because this is what they could demand, if not more, on the international market. If we want the best running our businesses over here, we need them to be paid accordingly. And she is good at her job, no question about it.

[toads]

Is Judy Baily really worth $15000 a week. :calm:

NO, disgusting waste of money

[merv]

merv - one of the reasons TG from telecom and her like get paid so much is because this is what they could demand, if not more, on the international market. If we want the best running our businesses over here, we need them to be paid accordingly. And she is good at her job, no question about it.

Its a conspiracy though with the rich guys (CEOs and Boards and the like) saying that's the market rate, but its such an old boys network thing it is self fulfilling for them. The general Joe is powerless against it and when it comes time for workers pay rounds they baulk at even thinking of something like a 1 - 3% payrise, while they have already given themselves 20 - 30% or more. That's why I mentioned TG - her salary bumped up by about 1 mill last time round. How do you think the lines contractors fared? Oh no, they were expected to lower their costs or lose the contract I bet. That's how capitalism works here these days in private enterprise.

My initial comment basically was mainly about how I see no difference between tax money and prices charged by private businesses - either way we the customer pay, plain and simple. Private businesses don't print their own money they get it from us. So when I hear gripes about spending on public servants etc I think its ridiculous if people think is OK for private businesses to do it e.g. lavish holidays on the company and all that sort of thing. If its alright for one its alright for the other, so I have no particular worry about Judy and her pay.

[crashe]

Well with that massive increase in her wages....

Judy should go out and buy her own motorbike instead of sitting on the back of her husband's Harley Davidson. She already has all the bike gear to wear.

But no I personally don't think that she is worth all that money..... heck since the increase, she has hardly been on the screen. Some one has been filling in for her.... Look its Monday today and where is she.... off on holiday... guess she won't be on tomorrow either .... why cos its another public holiday... so she will work I guess this week Wednesday, Thursday and Friday for $15,000 now that aint bad for 3 hours work. Oh ok she does a few hours behind the scene to make sure that she pronouces the words correctly.

[Coyote]

Did TV1 really think that the public would stop watching TV1 News if Bailey went?

[Hitcher]

Did TV1 really think that the public would stop watching TV1 News if Bailey went?
Probably. The only reasons people watch TV1 are Coronation Street or that nobody has shown them how to use the remote control...

[Blakamin]

Probably. The only reasons people watch TV1 are Coronation Street or that nobody has shown them how to use the remote control...
or they still run a set of rabbits ears on a 70's philips push-button tv......
do they think she'd get more overseas.... I dont think so..... give me a cute blonde news lady any day....... :not:

[gav]

http://www.nakednews.com/
Yeah, we should get something like this ;)

[Blakamin]

http://www.nakednews.com/
Yeah, we should get something like this ;)
yep!!!! and you could get them all and the set for $15000 a week

[Lou Girardin]

merv - one of the reasons TG from telecom and her like get paid so much is because this is what they could demand, if not more, on the international market. If we want the best running our businesses over here, we need them to be paid accordingly. And she is good at her job, no question about it.

This old chestnut is always used to justify corporate excess in NZ. When did anyone hear of a NZ CEO being headhunted overseas?
Did Judy get any offers from outside NZ? Nope, she didn't even have offers from TVNZ's competitors.
I just wish my bosses have had the commercial acumen of Ralston and Fraser.

[sels1]

Probably. The only reasons people watch TV1 are Coronation Street or that nobody has shown them how to use the remote control...

LOL - I know people like that! (Look Mum, this button can change the channel, see...)

[James Deuce]

Probably. The only reasons people watch TV1 are Coronation Street or that nobody has shown them how to use the remote control...

I've only met one over 85 year old that didn't think that changing channels would break the TV, or that tuning all the other channels wouldn't be horribly expensive.

[MacD]

Did TV1 really think that the public would stop watching TV1 News if Bailey went?

Well I specifically don't watch TV1 News because of Judy Bailey as her "emoting" drives me up the wall...

happy news Judy face...
sad news Judy face...
this is really terrible and you should all feel bad Judy face...

Arrgghhh... :crazy:

(I don't really know why her presentation style annoys me so much but it just does and has for years!? ) :unsure:

[onearmedbandit]

This old chestnut is always used to justify corporate excess in NZ. When did anyone hear of a NZ CEO being headhunted overseas?
Did Judy get any offers from outside NZ? Nope, she didn't even have offers from TVNZ's competitors.
I just wish my bosses have had the commercial acumen of Ralston and Fraser.


I wasn't refering to Judy Baily in my post, I thought that was clear enough. And as far as being an old chestnut, who are you, or all of us for that matter, to know anything about who's being headhunted. That sort of information is not public knowledge. And it also doesn't only apply to those who are headhunted, but to those who could easily up and leave NZ for greener (richer) pastures. You get someone with their skillset, who could say earn including bonuses/stock etc multi-millions per year, and offer them $500,000 to work here! I know where I would be going. And thats not called unpatriotic, thats called being payed the best you can for what you do.

[avgas]

I was under the impression that TV was no longer owned by the Govt......but hang on, what am i paying tax for????
Oh yeh the rest of the country - got worried there. :sweatdrop
Yeh lets have some hot young minx read the news instead of judy bailey - naked.
Then i might watch the blooyd thing

[Coyote]

Yeh lets have some hot young minx read the news instead of judy bailey - naked.
Then i might watch the blooyd thing
I'm sure thats gonna happen :eek:

[manuboy]

Where's $15000 a week come from? Near as i can calculate (using my mental abacus and a basic understanding of tax rates ) i thought she'd get around $8400 in the hand?

And nobody is worth that. But what are you gonna do?

[Blakamin]

Near as i can calculate (using my mental abacus and a basic understanding of tax rates ) i thought she'd get around $8400 in the hand?

providing she has a shit accountant... if she hada good one.... welll, she'd be registered as a company, employ herself for $15 an hour, write off everything she owns (and put it in a trust)... etc...etc....

[mini_hooks_]

http://www.nakednews.com/
Yeah, we should get something like this ;)

who ever came up with that is a very smart person ...how many of their viewers are male do you think??? <_<