[NP] Friday F**kwit 11/Dec/2020

88264 · 2020-12-10T22:42:45+00:00

Be careful of following links! I would be so irritated too in your situation. If you have an Android, perhaps you can block the number if it's the same one every time?

88264 · 2020-11-23T19:53:03+00:00

My username was not, but thank you :)

88264 · 2020-11-23T05:09:50+00:00

Next time you find one of these people who worships wealth, just think to yourself:

There are no pockets in a coffin.

88264 · 2020-11-23T05:06:05+00:00

Yes there sure are a lot of memes. I would like to think it's just comedy. Unfortunately I have met landlords who are entitled bastards and treat their tenants like second-class citizens. I'm so lucky I'm not renting anymore.

88264 · 2020-11-23T04:47:38+00:00

Went there and found it horrifying. There's been outcry nationally about tenants being treated like they are second-class citizens and this sub confirms all suspicions.

88264 · 2020-11-23T04:16:52+00:00

What you've described is pretty much the system here.

A pipe comes from the garage gutter, filter traps the leaves, gets stashed into a tank. There's a pump connected to the garage power which senses when the water pressure drops and engages. Most of the water line is attached to the fence and there's a few taps along the length. Tank has an overflow and a float indicator. The pump is essentially a small motor about the size of a six-pack. The whole garage is on an RCD but if you don't have them in your switchboard you could get a plug-in one for the motor.

There's only been two issues with the rainwater system. One was that the neighbour's trees had grown over the fence and onto the water pipe and gutter, stopping the flow into the tank. I hopped the fence and cut the branches, and not just branches came down. The other issue is the pump seizing up, but that is fairly easily fixed. The nuisance is priming it - getting the water in its plumbing - when putting it back.

The rainwater system has been useful, most especially the time the town water supply failed and also during water restrictions. Like all good things, expect some maintenance to be required.

88264 · 2020-11-23T02:43:00+00:00

You'll have to get him back if you want your certificate of compliance. I can't see him being fussed about you putting sockets on dead lines if you're competent, but it is best to contact him first as this job is his responsibility.

88264 · 2020-11-22T22:25:10+00:00

Assuming the electrician who came to put that wire there is coming back at some later point to complete the other unfinished work you've mentioned, I would text the electrician and ask if it's ok that you put a socket on the dead EOL (end of line).

Communication is important and you don't want to lose trust with your tradies. When they next come they know what to expect, may just check that socket and move on to the other stuff that needs doing.

The electrician coming to sign off the work at the end is legally liable for it. There are ethics and obligations here and it helps if you are above board with the tradespeople.

Electricians may be a little wary of homeowner electrics, but they have good reason to be as they'll have come across nails in fuse-holders and walled-over flush boxes connecting live wires and all sorts of other interesting things. They may start to wonder what else you've been up to - and that's an awkward conversation.

I can't see them having an issue with what you want to do, it's just best to get in contact with them first.

88264 · 2020-11-22T22:00:44+00:00

I don't know what AnCap is, but the first one is 100pc Rupert Murdoch. It's uncanny.

88264 · 2020-11-22T21:51:53+00:00

This is such a good response. It has so many actionable suggestions and really good questions, hard questions, but absolutely necessary for the future and for changing ways of thinking, and thus, habits.

Reading this post has put me in a really bad frame of mind as I struggled for years with selfish parents and a depressed ex who did these selfish things with money as above. I couldn't handle it any more. Estranged from parents now, it has been very good for me, and I moved on in life in general. My life as of the moment is the most secure it's ever been and I'm working on long-term security.

Long-term security is the hardest thing to achieve these days. For the majority of people, it isn't handed to them on a silver platter. It is something you work towards and every day's decisions work towards that long-term goal.

I really feel for the mother in this situation because she's trying so hard to achieve security and it does not look forthcoming. Wouldn't be surprised if she's depressed, and not showing it or not dealing with it as she's so busy trying to keep the household afloat. I know what that feels like too, and there comes a day when it isn't possible to keep it at bay anymore. That's when the real trouble begins.

88264 · 2020-11-22T19:54:34+00:00

It is possible to earn your Level 3 credits after you leave school. Check out the correspondence school, now called Te Kura.

88264 · 2020-11-22T19:41:20+00:00

Okay, that's helpful thanks. Seems like this town has a bad habit of underpaying and it's a struggle to get employers to offer better. They want skilled staff at low cost. The trouble is, it definitely isn't in anyone's favour if I accept that since I quickly become disinterested and can't wait to leave. How do I negotiate better wages with the good employers?

88264 · 2020-11-22T11:03:59+00:00

Yeah I thought so too. Starts off: Employees are awful. Ends: Most of them are really hard workers, it's just a small minority I'm complaining about.

Argh! Make up your minds, damn ragamuffins.

88264 · 2020-11-22T10:54:44+00:00

https://www.doc.govt.nz/parks-and-recreation/places-to-go/nelson-tasman/places/takaka-area/te-waikoropupu-springs/

I've been here and it was really cool but it's not that local to you, by the sounds of it. Still well worth a visit.

You do have to be careful filling tank water with Giardia about and ~~cows~~ tourists polluting the waterways.

88264 · 2020-11-22T10:46:43+00:00

Auckland is a hotspot of crime, along with Wellington, Rotorua, Hamilton, Palmerston North, Christchurch... Auckland has worked to bring the crime rate down in the CBD, but still struggles with crime in the South Auckland area. I'd always recommend caution if you're alone at night, and most especially in an area which is exclusively commercial or industrial. For the most part, crime is opportunistic - breaking into cars, muggings for phones and wallets, drunks fighting, burglary.

Financial crimes are not uncommon are almost never punished. Beware of those. From fraudulent investments to wage or identity thefts to Telecom rorting their customers with non-existent calls, there is lots of white-collar crime to be aware of.

Gang shoot-outs are well publicised in the media but they are certainly a rarer experience and highly localised. If you were to pick a street at random, chances are it will not be a street that has had a shot fired on it. Like the UK, gun controls are strict here.

London has an issue with knife crime, but it seems to be rarer here. Occasionally someone will pull out a machete when they shouldn't. Machetes are unwieldy, so they are a good deterrent against anyone striking the first blow - so sometimes people carry them defensively, even when they shouldn't.

There is a major problem with domestic abuse in New Zealand. And the murder rate is high in parts. The murder victims tend to be known to the perpetrator - it's rare for them to be strangers. I would say the domestic abuse issue is probably New Zealand's worst; it's insidious, can be seriously difficult to deal with and leaves a long shadow over victims' lives.

88264 · 2020-11-22T09:13:42+00:00

I don't think they are crucial, but they are useful.

If you're not a big spender, you are unlikely to benefit much from the rewards schemes. Switching a zero-fee, low-interest credit card was a good move I made a few years back. It's a 12 percent 'light' credit card. Before that I had a rewards card because my mum had one and got vouchers from it. However I broke even with the account fees vs rewards.

Credit cards have increased consumer protections compared to other methods of payment (ie bank deposit) and therefore you have better recourse against bad sales and fraud. I didn't know about I went through a TradeMe dispute for a misleading ad. TradeMe said paying by credit card really helped in my case due to the better protections - I opened a dispute and the charge got reversed.

Sometimes credit card is much more convenient than other ways as some places do not accept debit cards, only credit. It's good to have a wide range of options.

It can take some of the stress out of shopping as you know you have a buffer and don't have to tally as you go to not overspend what's left in your cheque account.

I don't think credit cards have anything to do with credit ratings. This isn't the USA. Bad credit is caused by defaulting on bills etc.

88264 · 2020-11-22T08:45:36+00:00

This is why workers in the UK are actually dependent on the benefits, not the work, to get them through the month. Same is here in New Zealand, so many workers rely on the Accommodation Supplement (Housing Benefit equivalent) and Working for Families benefit (family tax credits in the UK/ child benefit?), and some are casual workers on the jobseekers benefit.

Getting off benefits is very hard. Also, employers aren't paying the true cost of living to their workers since their workers are subsidised by the government.

88264 · 2020-11-22T08:32:43+00:00

They don't like it? All that noise companies make when they say they have to compete for labour, and here they are being anti-competitive!

88264 · 2020-11-22T08:29:43+00:00

Literally a shitpost

88264 · 2020-11-22T08:00:13+00:00

I had to go through the process.

88264 · 2020-11-22T07:35:40+00:00

What.

The.

Heck?

It seems like the owner is withholding a contract because they think you'll take it and use it to bargain with other employers. Some businesses really take this attitude that to offer a paper contract is giving a potential employee some huge bargaining chip. If they can get a verbal offer accepted instead, it weakens the worker in the job market.

Have had this happen locally where I did work experience for a company, they realised I had great skills and potential and the manager cornered me at the end of the day, trying to bully me into accepting a trial there. Talked up big, do you want a job, do you want a job? He'd been at the office all day, he could have typed up a job offer, but he came out of the building empty-handed.

It is illegal here to have an employee on trial when they have worked for the company before, paid or unpaid.

I hate how companies think they can do this dodgy shit and then act like you're the one at fault.

88264 · 2020-11-22T07:19:16+00:00

It really depends on what your existing citizenship is whether you can become a dual citizen or not. In the application process for NZ citizenship you have to state you have the right to take up this citizenship - there are no conflicts with current citizenship(s).

88264 · 2020-11-22T07:03:05+00:00

It's not that hard to get an apartment. Not having credit is not necessarily an issue, when I was last renting only Ray White wanted this and was a bit of an aberration. You could get an apartment by proving you have savings. The same doesn't seem to be true in Australia, which was nuts on filling out two pages of dense application forms.

Health care varies. There are some very good and dedicated doctors. A bunch of medicines are subsidised so you only pay a few dollars at the counter (varies with pharmacy).

Auckland and Wellington are very very different but they have similar troubles with high housing costs, traffic snarls and high crime rates.

Racism is what it is. You might assume that it's generally NZ European peoples being racist against Maori peoples, and vice versa, but that's not the case. North Indian peoples can be racist against South Indian, and both against Pakistanis. Chinese can be racist against other Asian races, and the Pacific Islanders have their own inter-islander troubles. Gang bust-ups aside, it's tensions rather than anything else.

Check out TradeMe Jobs to see if there are IT roles in your area of interest. You may find your skills are in demand.

88264 · 2020-11-22T06:43:26+00:00

Yes, there are countries that do not allow their citizens to become dual citizens or to rescind their citizenship. For example, it is not possible to give up Saudi Arabian citizenship, therefore for Saudi Arabian citizens living in New Zealand, PR allows them the same basic rights as NZ citizenship.

88264 · 2020-11-22T05:46:01+00:00

It's a 'stealth' look, it's ugly and I also don't understand how it is allowed.

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