Workplace urine test

[rwh]

You think your $100 Nike T-shirt isn't made in China!?

What $100 Nike T-shirt?

Perhaps you were using it as an example, much as I was.

The point is that one should have some choice in what to buy, in order to avoid buying crap that isn't really fit for the purpose, or won't last very long. Vouchers for cheap shops mean you might end up having to buy 3 items to last the same time as one from somewhere decent, that only costs twice as much. Whether it's a shock or a vacuum cleaner is pretty irrelevant, really.

BTW I wouldn't spend $5 on a Nike T-shirt. Last time I bought a T-shirt with stuff written all over it, yes it was from the Warehouse - but it was because I needed something to clean my car with. Turns out it was hopeless for that, too ...

Richard

[scumdog]

BTW I wouldn't spend $5 on a Nike T-shirt. Last time I bought a T-shirt with stuff written all over it, yes it was from the Warehouse - but it was because I needed something to clean my car with. Turns out it was hopeless for that, too ...

Richard

Sell the car.
Sorted.

[Pancakes]

What $100 Nike T-shirt?

Perhaps you were using it as an example, much as I was.

The point is that one should have some choice in what to buy, in order to avoid buying crap that isn't really fit for the purpose, or won't last very long. Vouchers for cheap shops mean you might end up having to buy 3 items to last the same time as one from somewhere decent, that only costs twice as much. Whether it's a shock or a vacuum cleaner is pretty irrelevant, really.

BTW I wouldn't spend $5 on a Nike T-shirt. Last time I bought a T-shirt with stuff written all over it, yes it was from the Warehouse - but it was because I needed something to clean my car with. Turns out it was hopeless for that, too ...

Richard

Your a crazy fool! Cheap clothes are synthetic, you need a cotton rag to clean your car and not one with writing on it (unless it's got really nice paint then you need the right cleaning stuff) why would you buy a t-shirt to clean your car? You don't have any rags at all?

Yeah I was using it as an example. I'm not talking about stuff that will last long, I'm talking about stuff that will last long enough to get you into a job and up to your first pay. This isn't supposed to be the amount of money you need to have a great lifestyle (the dole, not DPB or sickness etc, they are very different) it's supposed to stop you starving while your job hunting.

[u4ea]

I think they should start giving out vouchers instead of hard cash, for supermarkets and the warehouse etc, and they should pay the rent money straight to the landllord or housing nz.

I absolutly agree with that.Having been on the DPB (sons father used to beat me) and working part time I have seen many a beneficiary neglecting their responsibilities.Even though the Working For Families packages are great now many don't care about work.They have a great lifestyle collecting the benefit and pissing it up and paying their tick bills or popping out another kid to pay for the lifestyle.With rights come responsibilities and that is the point to me.If the government payed for drug testing beneficiaries and funded rehabilitation programmes for long term unemployed(dispenation from work for caregivers,illness or some damm good reason) who tested positive then stopped payments after the programme had finished.That would give folk plenty of time to collect benefit and sort their shit out.Would cost the government in the interum but save them heaps in the long run I'm sure.

[B0000M]

Message from a hard-working Kiwi

I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes
as it sees fit. In order to earn that pay cheque, as I work in the
timber industry, I am required to pass a random urine test, with which I
have no problem in passing .

What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who
don't have to pass a urine test. Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test
to get a welfare cheque because I have to pass one to earn it for them??

Please understand – I have no problem with helping people get back on their
feet.

I do on the othe r hand have a problem with helping someone sit on their arse
drinking piss & smoking dope all day.

Could you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass
a urine test to get a WINZ cheque???

Please pass this along if you agree or simply delete if you don't.

Hope you all will pass it along though, because something has to change
in this country, and soon!

[Jantar]

Posts about this being a repost have been moved to the repost thread http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...ad.php?t=36107

[yod]

this is in jokes and humour?

[Finn]

Yeah, why did you put this in Jokes and Humour?

[B0000M]

Yeah, why did you put this in Jokes and Humour?

i found it humourous, thought someone else might too

[scumdog]

i found it humourous, thought someone else might too

Love that pic re 'unmarked car' as your sig.

I just LOVE being the object in your pic - the look on the face of somebody who had just done something dumb (that they wouldn't have had a marked car been around) when they get pulled up is priceless!!

Mwahahah "Shit, where did YOU come from?" is the most common greeting from them.

Back on topic...............

[Boob Johnson]

With a Urine test...


This was written by a rigworker off the Taranaki Coast


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I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit.


In order to earn that pay cheque, I work on a rig for a drilling contractor.
I am required to pass a random urine test, with which I have no problem.


What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don't have to pass a urine test. Shouldn't one have to pass a urine test to get a WINZ cheque because I have to pass one to earn it for them?


Please understand that I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do on the other hand have a problem with helping someone sit on their ass drinking beer and smoking dope.


Could you imagine how much money the government would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a WINZ cheque?

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Halving the dole queue would obviously be a good idea on paper but where would these people go for their next meal?


One would imagine the crime rate would go through the roof!

[Bren]

Bloody good idea...I would back that 100%

[3umph]

agreed but down side is that crime rate would most likely rise quite considerably...

[Hitcher]

I think he's taking the piss.

[Mully]

but down side is that crime rate would most likely rise quite considerably...

Nah, cos with the money you save, you give people who earn their money guns with which to defend their hard-earned possessions. Then you dig a big hole and chuck the bodies in there to fertilise the soil.

Ohhhh, ohhhh...... Vigilantes!!!!! Bags me for commanding a unit!!!