Ferry stike before Tri Series Round 1

[Robert Taylor]

I wasn't going to reply to this, but I'm in sunny Nelson with no motorbike.

Robert you the RIGHT have lunch whenever you want and where ever you want, you can take two hours and go the finest resteraunt in New Plymouth, and have a bottle of wine with your lunch and put it on the company expense account. YOU can decide how much salary you want to draw. YOU can decide if you want to have a day off without having to ask anyones permission.
You could do that as often as the companies finances would stand it if you wanted.

Your protestant work ethic is comendable, but not to be confused with any legal compulsion to work your ring off

The RIGHTS workers have around health and safety, hours and pay are very limited in NZ, and as I have mentioned (several times in this thread now) HARD WON !

Oh yeah i'll be emailing you soon about fixing my forks

Spoken like a true socialist Wharfy! ( no malice ). I guess Im just as proud of my political leanings as you are of yours, better to have conviction to set principles than ''float '' politically, dependent on who is handing out the biggest bag of lollies. In the end event many of us can agree that there are too many people at ALL levels of society on the take. Like many New Zealanders my pet hate is CEOs of companies getting fat bonuses when they are already very very well remunerated.
Yes I could conceivably do the extended lunches etc but it is a forelorn hope. More is the lot of small companies in this evironment that we all share that we work our ringpieces off to survive in this dog eat dog world. If I treated my workers like I do myself Id be called much worse things than a slavedriver

[wharfy]

Spoken like a true socialist Wharfy! ( no malice ). I guess Im just as proud of my political leanings as you are of yours, better to have conviction to set principles than ''float '' politically, dependent on who is handing out the biggest bag of lollies. In the end event many of us can agree that there are too many people at ALL levels of society on the take. Like many New Zealanders my pet hate is CEOs of companies getting fat bonuses when they are already very very well remunerated.
Yes I could conceivably do the extended lunches etc but it is a forelorn hope. More is the lot of small companies in this evironment that we all share that we work our ringpieces off to survive in this dog eat dog world. If I treated my workers like I do myself Id be called much worse things than a slavedriver

My dentist said I'm not to eat lollies any more.
Indeed I'm a well nourished (and probably officially "middle class") socialist - descended from a long line of coal miners on both sides of the family.
You need to get a better work / life balance, luckily I am about to branch out into the "Life Coach" business - Buy me lunch and I'll tell you all about it, my rates will be quite reasonable

[steveyb]

Actually, at the risk of exposing personal details/confidences here, I agree with Kevin about his assertion regarding the work/life balance of our esteemed resident right-wingnut.
Sadly for us, that would likely mean an end to circuit-based service programmes.
Like many businesses in NZ and everywhere, KSS is caught in the invidious conflict of income vs resource.
Not enough income to justify employing or training more resource, not enough resource to make sufficient money to hire more resource.
It is a really difficult place that many, if not most, businesses find themselves in and many do not make the leap across the valley of death to which it is often refered.

Nevertheless, we can still probe (intellectually that is!!) Dr Robert's faulty political leanings and poke the borax etc.