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Thread ID: 147828	2019-05-03 04:54:00	Living allowance, livable?	the_bogan (9949)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1460389	2019-05-05 07:58:00	As you say it started on 1st May.	zqwerty (97)
1460390	2019-05-05 08:04:00	They'll probably take it away and put that down to climate change ;)	R2x1 (4628)
1460391	2019-05-05 09:26:00	There's going to be more weather extremes ie, hotter and colder, so probably no, R2x1, LOL.	zqwerty (97)
1460392	2019-05-05 23:01:00	Seriously, can people live comfortably on that these days? In general Should those on a handout expect to be paid enough to live 'comfortably' ? Plenty of working people do have have to struggle with minimum wage . Hardly a comfortable existence for those workers If Ak rent is $500++ , even many families with working parents will struggle .	1101 (13337)
1460393	2019-05-06 03:59:00	In general Should those on a handout expect to be paid enough to live 'comfortably' ? Plenty of working people do have have to struggle with minimum wage . Hardly a comfortable existence for those workers If Ak rent is $500++ , even many families with working parents will struggle . It's not a handout as such. It's what IRD calls a living allowance. It's part of a calculation for paying child support that is exempt from the calculation for how much you need to pay. I reckon they should call it something else, as to me I'm not sure anyone could live on that comfortably (rent/kiwisaver/travel/food/clothing etc)	the_bogan (9949)
1460394	2019-05-06 07:00:00	In general Should those on a handout expect to be paid enough to live 'comfortably' ? . Uhuh. It's why we now live here. My brother is almost 60, he has epilepsy, is IHC, now has Dupuytren's contracture so can't use his hands properly, and has almost lost his sight completely. $265 a week even with my mums house, means he can't live on his own, even if his disabilities allowed it. So he should shut up and suffer cause he only ever managed to get 2 jobs in his life.	piroska (17583)
1460395	2019-05-06 07:27:00	Not at all 1101, our modern society should have the compassion to help people like your brother. I think the difficulty is to do so depends on what the family is prepared to do. From experience, some muddle on, some quietly ask and the ones that spoil it, demand. Ken	kenj (9738)
1460396	2019-05-06 21:51:00	Not at all 1101, our modern society should have the compassion to help people like your brother. I think the difficulty is to do so depends on what the family is prepared to do. I'll tell you what annoys me. Years ago when he wasn't so bad (hands ok, sight reasonable) he did the same polytech IT diploma I did. He passed, he did have some extra tuition in C++ but hey, I didn't even do C++ and if forced probably would have failed that. No-one would hire him. he got the interviews and the minute they saw him, the excuses got rolled out. He is quite capable of do his own IT fixes, well Linux maybe not always, but then I'm new to that too. No-one will hire me for IT anymore either....too old is the comments, some blatant, some disguised. It's BS. They go on about staff shortages, but old people don't get a look in. Then people go on about lazy beneficiaries and how they all have this amazing lifestyle. Crap.	piroska (17583)
1460397	2019-05-06 22:52:00	Actually it's more like 45 years old where the barriers come up I found. They want young people they can easily exploit who will go hell for leather without thinking much for a pittance. They want young foolishly enthusiastic people that will follow orders blindly and not suggest better ways of doing things. It's more of a power trip reward for the individual who is boss than getting the job done right first time I have found. If you question how things are being done with all the good will in the world it is taken as a challenge to their authority and a threat to their position of power., Management in general, I can only speak for NZ these days, is the pits. I put it down to the type of people who tend/are attracted towards management positions, people who are good at very little else but greedy and power loving at the same time.	zqwerty (97)
1460398	2019-05-06 23:03:00	Management in NZ is still using the top-down IBM mainframe synchronized model of business management with dumb peripherals when they should be using the asynchronous intelligent peripherals type model. They're doing it so they can claim all the credit when things work out and pass the blame onto outside incompetence, ie stupid employees, when things go wrong.	zqwerty (97)
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