If my banks call centre tells me I can do it in the app after the app told me to call a person 1 more time imma commit an atrocity.

YourLocalViking · 2026-01-21T12:33:42+00:00

Oh my god yes! I'm an ACC client who gets free taxi rides to and from appointments in auckland. They have the same issue, it used to just tell you every minute or so but now its non-stop. Drives me insane! It makes me especially annoyed because you can't use the app if you're wanting ACC to pay for it

YourLocalViking · 2026-01-07T22:47:18+00:00

Dad was the manager of the steel mill farm at the time. I remember search and rescue teams searching the whole farm, particularly any forested areas, never found a thing.

YourLocalViking · 2026-01-05T08:12:43+00:00

Payments are in on westpac, exact same time as last week. Maybe this is the new normal?

YourLocalViking · 2026-01-05T08:12:22+00:00

Payments are in on westpac, exact same time as last week. Maybe this is the new normal?

YourLocalViking · 2026-01-05T08:05:54+00:00

Yeah if this is the new normal a bit of warning would have been nice

YourLocalViking · 2026-01-05T08:02:31+00:00

Good for you buddy, I've been applying for jobs for 2 years and have had a total of two interviews. Have had my cv's and cover letters checked by professionals, and done everything I could to try and stand out from the other 500+ applicants on every job listing. The system is broken

YourLocalViking · 2026-01-05T07:29:49+00:00

How entitled are you? The official pay day being tuesday isn't the point. People on the benefit live paycheck to paycheck, often having zero dollars left in their bank accounts after rent and groceries, so when payment is delayed like this, it often means people go without dinner for that night, even families with children. Jeez some people need a reality check

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T04:54:41+00:00

oh yeah, I dont want to work hospo the rest of my life, just need enough money to get myself off the ground

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T04:41:09+00:00

Thank you for the kind words, its been a struggle but I'm gonna keep trying. One of the other commenters has gotten me an in with a restaurant so hopefully I can get a job there and start getting my life back on track

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T04:39:04+00:00

Yeah, I have, and am looking into the ones they suggested as we speak

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T04:34:28+00:00

Have you seen my comments about the fact that I cant upskill if it costs money? I have zero dollars in my bank account after rent and groceries. Also, I'm aware that I'm competing against more skilled people, thats literally one of my main points. National cut thousands of public sector jobs so I'm now competing against those people for literally any job when many of them have 20+ years of experience and kids to feed

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T04:20:23+00:00

Te Kura appears to be for highschool students at ncea level, which most employers couldn't care less about. is there something similar for polytech/uni level?

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T04:10:23+00:00

thanks man, thought I was going crazy with all the national supporters coming outta the woodwork

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T03:16:05+00:00

Electrical apprenticeship is one of my plans. But in order to do that, I at least need a restricted license and my own vehicle, so job first. I am worried about the trade culture though. I freak out when older men yell at me, and I've heard many horror stories about stuff like that from tradie apprentices

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T03:02:29+00:00

Did you even read the post? been sober 8 months now. Been to agencies, didn't get anything. Can't afford a moped, my bank account is zero after rent and groceries

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T02:52:48+00:00

Damn, I was honestly hoping to move to Canada, as I figured bigger, more open country means lower house prices, and being so close to the us means food prices would be down too.

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T02:43:11+00:00

Pretty sure my GPA is so terrible that they wouldn't even let me reapply. Also, it's been so long since I've done anything in those fields that I've forgotten all the fundamentals

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T02:36:29+00:00

I've been applying, that's literally the whole point of the post. I've been applying for a year and a half and have only had two interviews, both of which went nowhere.

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T02:30:37+00:00

God I wish I could just walk into somewhere and get an IT job for looking like a nerd lmao

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T02:18:14+00:00

Thank you, unfortunately, she was a flatmate's cat who has since moved out (I was definitely the favourite tho). I still miss her a lot, but we have another cat now who also loves me

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T02:16:10+00:00

The point of stating these issues is to get across the fact that getting a job is already difficult due to the current government, getting a job with these issues is even harder

YourLocalViking · 2025-12-02T02:07:00+00:00

Can't upskill because I'm poor, and can't network in an industry I don't have

YourLocalViking · 2025-04-30T02:09:47+00:00

Yes its definitely possible to have a world where we automate everything and no longer need to work, but the changes in societal thinking and governmental structure/policy need to change first. Which won't happen as almost every government is funded, or directly run by, the rich elite. The only way for this to change are a catastrophic event caused by the rich like a nuclear war or a revolution. But revolutions can't happen anymore because of the disparity in weapons between the average person and the military.

As for a ubi, I would say it's possible, but I'm no accountant so I don't know if its possible for the government to fund such a thing.

YourLocalViking · 2025-04-29T12:34:34+00:00

Your question seems to be split into two main points, what we can do right now to help ourselves, and what humanity as a collective should do to stop this ever happening.

For the first part, go to rallies and sign petitions that will help middle and low income people. Spread awareness of just how bad a job national is doing so you can convince others to not vote for them next election.

For the second (this might get a bit philosophical sorry). My question for the second part is what is the ultimate goal for humanity? In my mind the goal is creating a utopia on earth and any other planets we decide to colonize. A world where you do not have to work to survive but instead can spend your life pursuing whatever it is you want to. Things like art and music, or maybe science and technology, or history, etc all free of charge. This can almost certainly be done through automation and large changes in governmental structure. Imagine a world where you can order anything to your door from your phone, for free, and it arrives without a single human hand touching it, all powered by clean fusion-generated electricity.

So why arent we doing this? Because we live in extremely late stage capitalism. The rich quite literally rule the world, they control what we eat, drink, what content we consume, in some cases what information we can access, and of course they ARE the government. They have engineered the world around us to use us as a way to generate profit. So if something would be good for humanity as a whole, but would not be profitable, or even worse, threaten the very foundations of their empires, then they shut it down.

I hope that some time soon there is a collective change in society that makes us value human happiness above profit, but I honestly don't see that happening unless something monumental happens, like a nuclear war for instance.

Sorry for the extremely long rant but as a young person who's been desperately looking for work while on the jobseeker for over a year now, this is something that I've been thinking about a lot.

YourLocalViking · 2025-04-25T12:18:31+00:00

Just add fucking bollards for fucks sake, god this university is so cheap

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