Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Oh well, I’m sure the nigh on inevitable Employment Court action will be covered in an impartial and unbiased manner by Todd Scott’s august organ. :)
I've heard something genuinely gobsmacking about this. Which would, I presume, come out in an Employment Court case.
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Cameron Slater has just been on Checkpoint, where he accused other people of throwing Bevan Chuang under the bus.
We’re through the looking glass, folks. Nothing is real any more.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Hebe,
That is, who employs the appointer and whether Brown’s undoubted influence as Mayor was used heavy-handedly (ie a chat with the appointer along the lines of “do it”) or more discreetly (“would you have a look at this possibility old chap though I know there are other good candidates”).
I wasn’t actually either of those though. He was listed as one of several referees and his office confirmed that Chuang was competent.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Morgan Nichol,
Yup. That's bizarre.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Alex Coleman,
DPF responds to this post by objecting that it isn’t about something else, namely, the thing that everyone else has been talking about everywhere else:
What an utterly, utterly inane comment that was by DPF. Especially:
the so called centre-right people involved
Fucksake. That's exactly who they were. At the last four elections.
Still, it does further indicate that outlining the sorry history of these people has got under some skins. There’s that.
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Anyway, I have to go to the supermarket, so I’ll leave you with this:
I have been told Stephen Cook is launching a “sex website”.
Righto.
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Hard News: When a riot went on, in reply to Neville Lynch,
No, he meant Straw Dogs, a movie about a riot. And by the way, Michael Dow was also one of two owners of Record Warehouse at the time of this quote.
Thanks, Neville. No one else has pointed that out. I'll add that to the story.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Steven Peters,
And no, you cannot have a sexual relationship with somone who is subordinate in power in the workplace, unless it is open and declared, so that any conflicts of interest that may arise can be dealt with in the interests of the workplace and its purpose, and not in the interests of one or both of the trystee’s, whose motives are usually a lot more narcissistic, complex and unmanageable, than those of a workplace.
1. This rule will doubtless come as a great surprise to many people, not least employment lawyers.
2. She wasn’t an employee. She was another politician.
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Hard News: Everybody's Machiavelli, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Otherwise, I’d like to know how many media organizations have “non-fraternization” policies, and how well they’d stand up in a court of law.
Let me answer that: none of them do.
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From the Herald:
Auckland Council chief executive Doug McKay is this afternoon expected to announce an inquiry into the Len Brown sex scandal.
The decision was made following inquiries from the New Zealand Herald about whether Mr Brown's affair breached the council's code of conduct and conflict of interest policies.
Probably makes sense if only to shut people up for a while.