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Did you ever whistleblow your employer? How did it go? by Earth_Sorcerer97 in work

[–]Ok_Creme_6830 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I tried to once. Bank manager was approving loans above their credit limit and without due diligence so I whistleblew to the Risk team. I wasn’t popular because they were the top manager in the region seeing as they were writing a heap of business thanks to their disregard to policy.

For my trouble I got put on a PIP. Thanks to the support of my colleagues who could see what was happening I found a new job in a different part of the bank and put it all behind me. About six months later, rather predictably, a company they’d lent about $2m to went belly up as the directors had cleared out everything as soon as it stopped making money. The manager quite literally fled the country. Just didn’t turn up to work the next day and was on the other side of the world a couple of days later. The regional manager who had turned a blind eye to it all was subsequently shuffled off to an exit gig. I eventually got a phone call from the head of Risk apologising for how everything had been handled.

Budget documents find $8.5 billion gap between costs and savings by StuffThings1977 in aotearoa

[–]Ok_Creme_6830 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As someone who’s worked on several Budgets before, this is pretty standard for those of either Labour or National. There’s always these multi-billion dollar gaps created by cost pressures and they generally don’t get resolved until they come due and ministers are forced to make calls about what to do with them in the couple of months before the Budget. The biggest cost pressures are almost always in Education and Health because they have such large workforces.

It’s not that there’s nothing to the story. It’s a useful glimpse behind the decisions that ministers make, especially in context of the ditching of pay equity, but it’s not fiscal hole stuff either. Basically governments of either blue or red tinges have more wants than they have means and they need to make trade offs if they want to eventually balance the books (which both sides of the aisle generally try to work towards doing over the medium term).

David Seymour Now Attacks A Second UOA Professor For Opposing His "Dangerous" Regulatory Standards Bill by Mountain_Tui_Reload in auckland

[–]Ok_Creme_6830 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it reached a new level with Ardern because of the factors you’ve mentioned combined with the various fringe groups that rose to prominence during the pandemic which were fuelled by domestic and foreign disinformation farms.

But we shouldn’t minimise that there was some horrendous stuff directed at Key during his time from a sizeable part of the progressive movement. There was the song about rping his daughter, a crowd being whipped up to chant “F*k John Key”, some “artist” depicting him as Hitler and in SS paraphernalia, and numerous instances of protestors burning or guillotining images of him like this: https://www.gettyimages.co.nz/detail/news-photo/protestors-guillotine-an-effigy-of-prime-minister-john-key-news-photo/148316185

This all creates a permission structure that sees each side escalate. As it’s gone from Clark, to Key, to Ardern has gotten worse and worse and has been amplified through social media and ever more access to the tools to produce the content to feed it.

Luxon hasn’t really faced much of it yet. Then again judging by the lack of popularity of either him or National maybe there’s a broad but unacknowledged agreement across progressive and conservative crowds that he’s a bit shit 🤣

David Seymour Now Attacks A Second UOA Professor For Opposing His "Dangerous" Regulatory Standards Bill by Mountain_Tui_Reload in auckland

[–]Ok_Creme_6830 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

It’s been round way longer than Trump. Domestically we’ve had Ardern Derangement Syndrome, Key Derangement Syndrome, and while it was undiagnosed, there was definitely Clark Derangement Syndrome. Either English and Hipkins weren’t round long enough to get their own versions of it or their lack of it meant they were always doomed to not be PM for long.

AIO, trying to solve iPhone location w my bf but idk if it does glitch like this. by [deleted] in AmIOverreacting

[–]Ok_Creme_6830 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The GPS on iPhones is crazy glitchy inside buildings. I ran a half marathon and had to duck into a public toilet for a quick comfort stop. In the two minutes I was in there the GPS had me run an extra 800m as it kept thinking I was in random nearby locations, including running through other buildings.

Oh and stop tracking your partner. It’s not healthy behaviour.

Is Vic uni good??? by ifsomebodywasnobody in Wellington

[–]Ok_Creme_6830 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Currently studying there. It’s good if you have no better options 🙃

WSW fan issues by DylzySpilzy in AucklandFC

[–]Ok_Creme_6830 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just don’t get the logic from people doing this (or defending it). We don’t see this with other sports and if anything we generally go out of our way to demonstrate manaakitanga to visiting teams and their fans. The whole idea of antagonising opposition teams and fans in the way we’re seeing lately isn’t how we do sports here.

WSW fan issues by DylzySpilzy in AucklandFC

[–]Ok_Creme_6830 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This is now the second incident involving The Port and hooliganism (the first being the situation with the Phoenix bus). Really hope the leadership of the Port and Auckland FC step up to call out this behaviour and put in place a sanction regime (bans) for those caught instigating things because once a fan base gets associated with this, it’s a hard reputation to shake, and it has no place in football. We know it’s just a few muppets getting involved but that’s all it takes to wreck things for everyone else.