Thanks to everyone involved in the Federation for all the work done in 2014 - great stuff.  And especially to Wal Gordon - a man amongst men, you have earned such respect for taking a stand, we need to follow your example. 

Interesting article about SKILLS - they seem such a bumbling group of individuals, scarily in charge of a huge amount of money.  Stephen Joyce made a major F++k up bundling all these ITO's together - it hasn't work for the betterment of industry (well, our industries anyway).  The beast is too large to be tamed almost, but then I remember the David and Goliath story....

Merry Christmas to all - the holidays can't come fast enough for me.

Well they say Nero fiddled while Rome burned so it is not a new management model.
 Just proven to have less than desirable outcomes!

They also say that as in life as in sewerage the good stuff floats to the top.

You get holidays Jax?

Enjoy your holidays guys, the way my phone has been going with people wanting stuff done before Christmas i could be flat out for a couple of months! It's the same every year....



 

Apparently they have published a policy on "dealing with unreasonable people".......

I should get a copy and apply it to how they fob the industry off with their fingers in their ears going lalalalalala, tell lies, hide evidence, turn a blind eye to blatant evidence, even misrepresent it and then tax us via a charity and frame innocent people......sounds pretty unreasonable to act like that.


Or just another way of coving up for being a dodgy bunch of....er hum Professionals. LOL.

Like a rotten tomato, nice and shiny on the outside but every time you prod it some more shit oozes out......needs blating.

I saw that policy on the website and can only assume, from the comfort of my arm chair that the policy has been written specifically for the Board's dealings with Paul Gee.  I imagine that they are not liking the fact that Paul is not going away quietly, he is not "taking his medicine" from the Board, and he is consistently pointing out inconsistencies  in the Board's approach to his case and the charges against him, and the case bought against others and the medicine handed out to them. 

This case would need to go down as one of the most shameful in the history of this PGDB.  The investigating was shoddy, ill conceived, some might say vindictive, and unprofessional in my opinion.  The holes that got shot through it by Wal Gordon and Paul were absolutely gobsmacking.  For the Board to lay 44, yes 44 charges and only get a guilty on 2 of them (and I believe Mr Gee is contesting the two he was found guilty on) shows that the Board did not do their homework before deciding to charge Mr Gee and going through with a farce of a hearing.

I believe there have been numerous items of correspondence from Mr Gee to the Board - and when I saw this policy I immediately thought that it had been written with him in mind so there will be a justification on their part now to no longer correspond or involve themselves with him.

I guess only time will tell whether this is true or not when they finally refuse to write back to Mr Gee and cite the policy as the reason.

I wonder if they will apply it internally?

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Still got some up my sleeve mate....

What every kiwi (not just those tradies affected by these goons) should ask themselves is....... even if this is massive to me and my family (and believe me it is huge), it is mere small fry to the powers that be..... but if they will cover up such corruption and ineptitude over a "relatively" small matter.....what do they do over the big stuff, the world changers?

As a Government, you are not only judged by your actions but also by your inactions and what you are prepared to ignore. Or do we have acceptable levels of corruption and law breaking?

If the law of the land only applies to some (usually the "lower" levels, the least powerful) and not others (usually the ones running the show, and from my experience it is a show), it is a form of control not democracy.

Which is it?


I want to read this policy and apply it to them and their recorded and documented behaviour, with signed correspondence.

Someone else send Campbell live an email, the more the merrier ......... god knows they have a few off me.... just copy and paste off here if you want.