Well, that's what I meant by "Political". I'm enjoying an experience few New Zealanders can claim to have experienced - in my youth I read about dissidents in the Soviet Union being denied work because of their political beliefs, stance, etc, and though how terrible it must be. Now I'm being denied work because of their political stance - "Unemployment for the Unemployed!" "Punish the Unemployed! Keep them Unemployed!" etc, which is as fine a case of: 10 GOTO 20 20 GOTO 10 as any other means of inducing psychiatric breakdowns as I have ever read about - Chinese Water Torture has nothing on it!
Thanks Wesley Parish Quoting Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:53, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > Wesley Parish wrote: > > > I would love to! I even know a little bit of German. > Go for it if you possibly can. > > > [ major snippage] > > > > I don't know you at all Wesley, but, in an effort to get this back on > > topic (a little), here are some things I do know: > > > > You appear to have some Linux knowledge, and seem to have above > average > > intelligence. > > Unemployment is the lowest it has been in NZ for 17 years. > Statistics, may say that, but as we all know statistics are lies for > politicians to manipulate. There is a huge underclass of people who are > not > formally unemployed, but not properly employed either. The revolving > doors of > the training establishments and subsidised work schemes really do skew > the > statistics. The sickness and invalid beneficiaries don't show as > "unemployed" > either. At the other end of the age range there are all sorts of > benefits > onto which one can get dumped without showing up as "unemployed". > > > I can't quite figure out why you are complaining that you can't find > a > > job. (Maybe not your "ideal" job, but the jobs are there...) > No, not for Wesley unfortunately. > > > Is there something I'm missing? > Quite a lot actually. > The employment laws are now weighted so heavily in favour of the > employee that > it's amost impossible to get rid of an employee who is unsuitable unless > they > are a proven criminal. This is now having the unfortunate effect on > employers > that if a possible employee is in any way 'different' they get > absolutely no > chance of even demonstrating that they are able to do the work required. > > No job there. > > Similarly with qualifications. No HR drone is going to take on anybody > who is > not academically qualified for the job b/c they will get a severe rap if > > perchance the employee is not right for the work, even if their obvious > inate > intellegence and work record seem to be acceptable. > No job there. > > The other side of the coin is that if you are obviously fairly > intelligent you > will have absolutely no chance of getting a boring serf/drone type of > job b/c > the foreperson who is going to employ you will be frightened that you > will > either displace them, or that you will just not turn up for work one day > b/c > you are sick of the drudgery. > No job there. > > At the moment, authoring is probably the best line of work for an 'out > of the > square' , yet literate and intelligent person. The schools have given up > > teaching English for English speakers, so that leaves a niche. I know > somebody who made an absolute fortune writing (shudder) MS Word and Exel > > macros. > > Outward migration is also a possibility. > > -- > Sincerely etc., > Christopher Sawtell > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
