I'm getting old and at times losing it, memory wise. (I spent 7 hours looking for a set of wood-boring drills the other day because a couple of days before I'd changed the box I stored them in for a smaller, more convenient one).
Because of this I often write myself notes in the evening of things I need to do the next day.
Those notes always start with "Get off your lazy arse you fat bastard".
It works. I do.
The right(ish) wing blogosphere in New Zealand appears to be full of praise for the "restraint" shown by the Coalition in the minimum wage increase.
The left and the MSM are no doubt full of how nasty the Coalition is for not giving up the kitchen sink. I don't read that far.
Both sides are wrong! There should be no such thing as a legal minimum wage in New Zealand
We don't do slavery in New Zealand. In fact we haven't since those nice, friendly, peaceful brown people were forced to give up keeping slaves for labour and food upon signing the paper in 1840. They were New Zealand's only slavers.
Not doing slavery and feudalism having gone out of fashion means that every working person in New Zealand can choose to work (or not work) where-ever he/she likes.
Employers who don't pay reasonable wages will soon find their factories/shops etc full of lazy, non-productive dunderheads (ie Labour/Reds voters) who's production is pretty much zero
As an ex employer I can assure you that damned near all employers
happily pay more for those who give their whole with a job, using their
brains and brawn to make the job both easier and better
If you don't like the pay, conditions or the bosses family, get another job.
If a minimum pay job is all you can get it will be because you don't follow the advice I give myself daily.
Maybe you should write yourself notes.
