Question that it didn’t answer though was that after avoiding being murdered or imprisoned and saving for a house outright, how can you show that you earned that money legitimately? Asking for a "friend ".
Honestly, laundering money isn’t as hard as most people think. A lot small cash based businesses are pretty much an easy way to take in more cash then you think.
Why would you want to?
The article advises on how to acquire $810,000 without paying taxes therefore when purchasing a property in New Zealand you are legally required to show that you received those funds that legitimately.
Can we have an honest discussion about the kiwi work ethic. From what I can see it’s horrible. Have you ever tried to contact customer support from any company? How long did it take you to talk to somebody? Were they really interested in helping you or solving your problem? Did they actually solve your problem? How long did it take.
I don’t even bother to call anymore, I email and talk to live chat and the standard reply is that they will get back to me within four working days. Like WTF man, four working days to answer an email? I am reporting a problem do you you really think it’s appropriate to make me live with that problem for four working days?
How about tradies? I call a tradie, he says he will call me the next day but doesn’t. The next one does the same thing, five tradies later I get one that actually calls back and makes an appointment to show up. They don’t. I call and they give me some lame excuse and make another appointment which they may or may not show up for.
Have you ever walked into a store and tried to find somebody to help you? Have you ever asked a question to a business employee and gotten a blank stare because they have no idea what they are doing and they get paid minimum wage and they just started last week because nobody wants to work for this shitty store for more than a month?
No wonder our economy is a mess and our productivity is so low.
Please understand that customer service and productivity have nothing to do with kiwi work ethic.
Remember the company doesn’t want you to call the call centre, they actively want wait times to be long so you will use the online options that are cheaper for them (unless you’re a new customer, you’ll notice those queues are a lot better staffed). Also pay attention to whether they have their own call centre or if they are using a call centre that handles queries from multiple places. Its all about the company saving money and has nothing to do with work ethic.
I have never had a tradie not show up so can’t comment on that, but I have had them show up for a 1 hour job that took 3 because of something unexpected so I have had them come later than planned but can understand that unless you’re first of the day then it’s only ever an estimate.
Have you ever walked into a store and tried to find somebody to help you? Have you ever asked a question to a business employee and gotten a blank stare because they have no idea what they are doing and they get paid minimum wage and they just started last week because nobody wants to work for this shitty store for more than a month?
Again, this is the store’s fault not the employee’s work ethic. If they wanted their staff to be knowledgeable they could have those staff, that their company doesn’t train them on the products they sell says nothing about the work ethic of the staff.
No wonder our economy is a mess and our productivity is so low.
I know the government likes to say everyone is lazty, no one wants to work and our productivity is low, but these are different things.
Productivity is about how efficiently we can produce. NZ has a small coal mine, with equipment suitable for that. It might cost them X amount to extract a tonnw of coal.
Australia has giant mines. One or two people can operate a giant bucket wheel excavator and mine up twice as much as what we can do in NZ for the same expenditure. This would mean they are twice as productive, but that says nothing about how hard the staff are working.
NZ has low productivity because we don’t operate at the same scale as larger countries, and because our government is way behind on R&D support.
Remember the company doesn’t want you to call the call centre
I’ve found this to be a an international mega corp thing and to be alot less prevalent in NZ. In NZ companies highly value their rep becaause we are small and generally poor, they want any slightly annoyed customers to be funneled into their customer service pipeline so they can clear up the issue and have a happy customer walk away. Its so much cheaper to fix a customers issue than have them shit talk your business for the rest of their life and NZ companies seem to understand this in my experience.
We must have had different experiences 😅. In places I’ve worked with contact centres, they didn’t want too quick of a wait time because people are more likely to call. Typically targeted 10 or 20 mins wait.
However, places are also likely to have long waits at the time you call because you are most likely to call at the times that other people are most likely to call too, so controlling those peak demands without making it shit for the staff can be hard.
I get that the company doesn’t want to help their customers but the point is that the employee has no interest in actually doing the job of helping you which is supposedly their job.
The questions I have for the employee in the store are not calculus problems, they are simple things like “does this come in red” or “do you carry such and such” or whatever. Just basic knowledge about what’s in the store.
This is called culture, and culture is 100% a company problem not an individual staff member problem.
There’s a reason performant companies are so obsessed with employee engagement.
Ive worked in corporate and construction and the kiwi work ethic so bad. There is no respect or care about doing a good job. People will happily brag about doing a shit job even if its only 5mins extra work to do it properly. In construction it pissed me off so much because a lot of these tasks can only be done once and need to last for decades. In IT I care a lot less since it can be fixed and seen transparently but its still annoying when people half ass stuff and it breaks in 6 months. People constantly showing up late and leaving early. Acting like doing their job requires to much effort when its a dead easy job.
The managers in nz are also pretty bad at creating a place where people want to work. They treat staff like cattle especially islanders and Indians its disgusting.
People say it doesnt matter but it does. When you work around people who have a good work ethic the days flow by and mood is far more optimistic. Instead of every problem being the worst thing ever its an interesting challenge to solve and instead of leaving the job unfinished and rushing home you finish it properly and it feels good. I worked with a great guy when i was a teenager and he would push us to go the extra mile detail wise, He’d always remind us what we were working on working on someone’s home and this is what they were paying us for.
You get it. Once I worked in a place where staff would be browsing Tinder on the job at 9am on a Sunday. They talked enthusiastically about prostitution, drugs and pornography. If I ever have to deal with this again in warehousing, then my forks are going straight through the first asshole I see. That’s half of why I’m out of work lol. The amount of punks and assholes is astounding in logistics jobs. I don’t even want to work in that field again.
I worked my ass off in a hardware store until I almost had psychosis. I resigned after a very long customer complaint that was made by a psycho customer who gaslit me from the moment he arrived. He complained that I looked tired - no shit, as I had been working in 30 degree heat wearing steel caps all summer. We aren’t allowed to sit or stand idle. There’s only 3-4 staff in the drive-thru most of the time and we really needed one more guy, but the owners are delusional boomers who don’t care.
The good thing: if you’re buying h1.2 treated pink dye timber, find a new staff member before he burns out. Ask him to cut the timber to 2.4 metres. This timber costs about $40 a metre so you can save a few bucks on each length by having it cut down to 2.4 metres. After all, rafters are always 2.4 and you’re going to cut off the excess anyway. Why not get the staff to cut it down for you and avoid paying the extra 600 millimetres? They burn though staff so fast that there’s always at least 1 guy who doesn’t know about this trick.
Really, you pay by the metre?
Here is a fun story.
I once went to bunnings and asked for a specific length of a timber to repair a fence. They told me that their saw was broken and brought me a hand saw and told me to saw it myself. They of course charged me for the whole length of the product.
The only people who should be concerned with the “work ethic” of others are slave owners.
how long it takes to reach a customer support person depends entirely on how many support people the business employs…
Makes sense.
