Once upon a time, the Post Office and Railways were full of deadwood.
You know the ones. Always leaning on a shovel or generally milling about, waiting for the smoko whistle or knock-off. The old codger who pushed a broom around a workshop, making no impression on the dirt. The cretin who's sole job was to 'Look after the gang's truck'. The terminally useless slattern who made the tea.
They are all gone now.
Or are they?
My latest observation is that they have devolved into NZQA.
(BTW, I'm off on a course for the next two weeks, so I may be a little quiet here ON ACCOUNT OF ALL THESE FRIGGIN' ASSESSMENTS!)
2 comments:
While you do have a point relating to deadwood, those entities, such as NZ Rail, never had to make a profit.
They kept whole communities afloat, they trained scores of apprentices at a time in trades ranging from upholstry to heavy engineering.
Once sold off to overseas interests, the communities that supported those entitieswithered. The inhabitants, instead of supplying products, rates, taxes, services, went on the dole and actually cost the rest of NZ.
Telecom. Asset stripped 3 times so far by overseas interests.
NZED, sold off - you saw the results of the lack of maintainence and capital works that ensued as a result, yesterday.
Well, lame twat pispot, what a load of shit you spout.
You sound just like one of thiose libitarian fuckwits.
The did, in fact keep communities afloat, not just those that worked for the entity, [such as NZR] but all the feeder businessses, from atlas shovels, to the greengrocer in main st.
Err, if you dont know how asset stripping works, then I suggest finding someone from Telecom that has been there since the days of the P&T - they will be able to illuminate you.
The facts are that freeholding deadbeat industries liberated 100's of thousands of people into jobs that actually had some form of production come out of it.
ROTFPML
We now come to the only point in your diatribe that I agree with.
Successive governments have ripped the heart out of the counties infrastucture. You appear to have a particular hatred for labour - I believe that national carries an equal blame. However, all politicians are cheats, liars and not worth the gas in a pigs fart, in my opinion.
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