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[Jan]

Jan
Not all state servants have options when they lose their jobs. I have nieces and their partners working in Wellington and their jobs are continually under threat. All are very well qualified and have held responsible positions for many years and  they are most certainly not alone in this situation. For every job advertised there are a lot of applicants.
Then there are the so called “back-room” workers who have lost their jobs and unable to find another as many such as receptionists, secretarial support etc etc are not being replaced in any government department and the private sector can’t absorb them all.
Then there is the flow on effect to other businesses, properties, transport etc etc when people are not working they can’t afford many things which we have taken for granted.

It’s becoming a really sad situation for so many people in many occupations around the country that there is no certainty of having a job from day to day.

A state servant in a city sure has far more options than a family in Ohakune who are out of work simply because their mill have had their emergency power source disestablished .When Robies bakery goes down in the early hours of the morning because he can’t switch to his emergency gas - the prison ,schools,rest homes,the medical centre ,cafes and restaurants,ships leaving port plus the supermarket are left without their requirements - is this really good governance - should we not be using the resources we have .You know how huge PanPac is and the amount of revenue and jobs they generate throughout the entire district - you will also know they have been shut down for 14 months because of Gabrielle - 
My sons mill is in CHB the entire village relies on the mill operating - you surely don’t equate their chances of feeding their families with the opportunities a state servant has in Wellington -they can pivot is many different directions- yes they may have to come out of their comfort zone working in the private sector is very different from being a state servant .We can’t afford to lose manufacturing jobs when we have the resources to save them - the stupidity of taking the wood we grow overseas by a diesel guzzling ship and manufacturing it using dirty coal in China then bringing it back on another diesel guzzling ship as manufactured paper bags to replace plastic bags while we have our own natural resources is plain stupidity - at what cost all our manufacturing jobs and all the ancillary jobs .The country should be rioting