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Never heard of the Bloke !!
On the back of .....
Christchurch City Council boss CEO Tony Marryatt accepts a $68,000.00 pay rise. Christchurch citizens have vented fury and labelled this pay rise as “indecent”.
Marryatt’s 14.4 per cent pay rise has reignited debate over the issue. The increase took his pay from $470,400 to $538,529 a year, effective from July 1, 2011.
A pay – rise of gross indecent proportions when City Council tenants of Christchurch :a few days after the 22nd. February 2011 earthquake, received a 2.2 increase on the rent. For market value. What market value. The truth is as follows ….
This rent rise is on the back of a previous rent rise to carry the burden of Dave Henderson who Christchurch City Council bailed out of seventeen million dollars. For buildings (Dave Henderson too old and no intention to buy back or in a position that he could )but the Christchurch City Council handing him seventeen million dollars saying he would.
However, after battling liquefaction, finding a portaloo, being without power, water, sewage,telecommunications one was somehow suppose to find a newspaper, to look for an article or notice from the Christchurch City Council that the rent had gone up.
Year later 2012 ………..
Rate -payers,council tenants: especially those still unable to return home or to their council flat : are justifiably distressed at Tony Marryatts’ indecent pay-rise. He talks publicly about how good he is and his team .. what team… don’t see them or hear of them… doing what? Tony Marryatt tells the public he works hard, so does the council worker in a ditch of sludge, mum and dad caring for the distressed elderly in the neighborhood, the children digging out dehydrated liquefaction, Salvation Army giving vouchers for food.
At the coal face Christchurch people are suffering. Also working hard on all fronts.
Plenty of expensive beautifully printed pamphlets, or instructions “go on line” or go to Welfare, who give a pamphlet, and answer no to funds, or instructions to “go on line” People have lost employment, homes, live in dire circumstances in temporary accommodation , double expenses.
Tony Marryatt, what does he do? never heard of him, until this pay rise became public, that could support at least three families, or food to the food bank, many are hungry in Christchurch .. food would be good.
So who needs people like Tony Marryatt, and those who worked for EQC and defrauded the system whilst employed with EQC. Or those with excessive wages per day of a $1000 plus.
The city of Christchurch is a dysfunctional mess. EQC ( earthquake commission ) dysfunctional and confrontational to the victims, use of language one needs a lawyers to interpret, insurance companies for business for example with excess rises of 2,400% , Government engineers strolling around the city and suburbs saying the red zone is now green, …… many homes deemed to be a re-build… what lift the house for remedial re-piling on shonky land, repair, then when shattered again the insurance is not paying out again? Or the excess so great who could afford the insurance.
Tony Marryatt claims returning from holiday in Australia that his $68,000.00 pay rise was a reflection of his performance and the market rate for the job. What performance? Market rate, well go back to Australia or anywhere else and he would probably find he would not get a job.
( Another quake……. 5 …or was that a 6 just then………. where are the portaloos, the street is a river of liquefaction, the car has sunk in a hole of sludge, the power is off again.)
Never heard of the bloke.
People living in tents protesting corporate greed…. in New Zealand.. perhaps they have a point.
Play it again Sam
Play it again Sam
How much did one hear and see, yet was deaf and blind?
The audio bombardment and effects of the global movement is so demanding how much does one actually hear or see and retain or recall with accuracy..on demand.
It is widely known two people in the same situation at the same time will hear and see differently, for example a traffic accident.
Communication technology is so vast it is “Play it again Sam ” tune so the individuals desire to be enabled finding a quiet space, a full stop in life to listen and absorb, or sort information.
Riviera for Skype is a Skype call recorder (for Windows.) a tool which automatically records Skype calls and conversations to MP3 files. Record interviews, tech talks, conferences, audio casts, pod casts for learning later, a valuable tool holding information one can listen to at leisure and ponder on.
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The audio armchair : the demands of an ever increasing technological life, in business and life itself,an opportunity to relax, listen … sort information at leisure in a demanding world, great value for the ears.
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Earthquake Commission or Just Paper Tigers
Once upon a time, in an earthquake devastated city called Christchurch South Island New Zealand Bureaucratic Paper Tigers :
Tell the truck driver to move on, but his reply is he has not been paid and unable to purchase the diesel for his empty tank so he can move on. He is offered counselling, or told he could get a Red Cross grant, apply on line, but he has no computer, he could get a government fuel grant, which he has to pay back, that is if he is eligible. The Red Cross Grants are no longer available.
The community spirit is such who hear of the truck drivers plight, he receives a food parcel, kindly help from the Salvation Army, and other community spirited people.
The process of the paper war directed by the Bureaucratic Paper Tigers costs is far greater than if the truck driver had been paid for his work/ or dues in the first place, he would have bought his diesel and moved on. .
Same with the builder, eagerly sought , who can no longer build or continue repair work as the client is still waiting for the Earthquake Commission pay out, so the client can pay the builder, the builder has run out of money unable to purchase any more material.
The builder is also offered counselling and other means to cope with the after-shock stress.
Families in temporary accommodation financial relief ceases to exist. Yet still have pay the rent or mortgage on a place they cannot reside in either because of structural damage, or total content loss/or both. So costs are double, food grant for the year used up from welfare not eligible for any more so the merge provisions in the bottom of their supermarket trolley make the Wall Street protests in United States of America perfect,logical, objective sense.
The Bureaucratic Paper Tigers well paid, well funded, swamp a crippled city, with meaningless gestures, rhetoric, arrogance , strangling the people who are the phoenixes’ willing, intelligent people desiring the legitimate means enabling the rise from the rubble and ashes to re-build.
The Earthquake Commission seem to be busy doing a re-enactment of shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Or it reminds one of the story of Queen Marie Antoinette who said to a starving population “Let them eat cake” if there was no bread. Neither could be made there was no flour or means to achieve cake or bread.
