FBU - Fletcher Building

[Beagle]

The stubbies have been having a whale of a time in the last few years, milking the construction boom, overcharging for their services and stuffing developments around. No need to feel bad for them.

Give the contract to one of the Chinese, Korean or Japanese construction companies with their own construction teams and they will have it completed in 6 months, in time for the APEC summit.

It is seriously embarrassing to go to any of the Asian capitals and observe how quickly they finish a project - within cost and well ahead of time.

Fair enough. Have to agree with all that.

[Balance]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12279055

And like a maggot to a smelly piece of garbage, the ever-caring and profile seeking Jacinda arrived to check out the fire for herself - and without any face mask to show her solidarity with City dwellers by breathing in some of that black toxic smoke.

She will appear tonight on TV no doubt in fireperson suit in a repeat of the hijab wearing to show sympathy with all affected by the fire?

And yes, businesses affected can count on her championing compensation - from Auckland council and the government. What a champion she is!

No sympathy from her however for the businesses sent to bankruptcy by the Albert Street never-ending road & underground rail works - no votes there.

[winner69]

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12279055

And like a maggot to a smelly piece of garbage, the ever-caring and profile seeking Jacinda arrived to check out the fire for herself - and without any face mask to show her solidarity with City dwellers by breathing in some of that black toxic smoke.

She will appear tonight on TV no doubt in fireperson suit in a repeat of the hijab wearing to show sympathy with all affected by the fire?

And yes, businesses affected can count on her championing compensation - from Auckland council and the government. What a champion she is!

No sympathy from her however for the businesses sent to bankruptcy by the Albert Street never-ending road & underground rail works - no votes there.

And here she is mate

https://twitter.com/fireemergencynz/...563282944?s=21

[Balance]

Sell the CEO is a clown. Doesn’t seem to realise the seriousness to his company and others. Smiling not a good look. Nothing delivered about their on site procedures and their known facts. The roof crew do know something. Damage control media advice woeful. Improve your comms team and advice. He seems to think the insurers will hand over a cheque. He said his fire control was adequate. Laughable. Sky CEO was good. He does know the name of the person who reported the incident.

Body language indicates he doesn’t want to be there and gives condescending answers.

And here she is mate

https://twitter.com/fireemergencynz/...563282944?s=21

Now if you want to see someone just absolutely loving it - smiling, grinning and lapping the disaster up - you can see the ever opportunistic Jacinda in action.

Nothing like a disaster or tragedy (Pike River comes to mind) to milk political capital off.

Thanks, W69 for the link - I think everyone now can see Jacinda for what she absolutely is.

[Lease]

Now if you want to see someone just absolutely loving it - smiling, grinning and lapping the disaster up - you can see the ever opportunistic Jacinda in action.

Nothing like a disaster or tragedy (Pike River comes to mind) to milk political capital off.

Thanks, W69 for the link - I think everyone now can see Jacinda for what she absolutely is.

She(PM) and he(CEO) have shown Kiwis' optimism - smile, even in a disastrous situation.

[Timesurfer]

Getting a lot more bang for their buck on the share buy back though

[Chinesekiwi]

Well said.

She(PM) and he(CEO) have shown Kiwis' optimism - smile, even in a disastrous situation.

[blackcap]

The "maggot to a carcass" PM that we have looked pretty happy about it all too. She is seen broadly grinning. Never one to miss a photo-op, Ardern turns up to get in the way of emergency services for the cameras. She obviously was all toothy smiles and relentless possidividdy for what is a utter disaster for Auckland. I suppose it is JK's convention centre burning down so she would be over the moon.

On another note, what green eco nonsense to build the roof from plywood, straw and tar. Whoever decided on that needs to have their head read. Go woke, go broke, really applies here.

[Balance]

She(PM) and he(CEO) have shown Kiwis' optimism - smile, even in a disastrous situation.

Sell the CEO is a clown. Doesn’t seem to realise the seriousness to his company and others. Smiling not a good look.

So which is it - smiling a good look or an indication of the opportunistic politicking that disasters bring to the hijab (read - Oppression of Muslim women) wearing Jacinda?

Next, we will have our ever 'caring' PM smiling broadly at all the delays to just about everything (projects, policies, tree planting, hospital care etc etc) under development - it's the Kiwis' optimism way, see?

Pathetic.

[Balance]

So true ... every time I go to Singapore (once or twice a year) there are new high rises and big halls where the time before was just green or brown land ...

They certainly show it is possible to complete building projects much faster (and without catastrophes) than we seem to do here in NZ.

Obviously - different work morale and working standards. Work is going on 24/7 - instead of leaving machines for 2/3 rd's of the working day and the whole weekend idling around ...

Building quality ... well, they do make mistakes as well, but haven't seen over there that much consistently low quality work like FBU likes to produce every day, but maybe I am too harsh after having seen some of their earthquake repairs in Christchurch - absolutely incompetent and shoddy work.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...-just-168-days
It's the kiwis' way, see - others build whole factories and mega-buildings in less than 1 year, the kiwi way is to stretch it out to 5 years so that the government, executives, contractors, subbies, etc can milk the projects for as long as possible.

And as the Christchurch earthquake showed, shoddy workmanship (resulting in whole buildings collapsing like pancakes) from decades ago - not just today!

Well said.

She(PM) and he(CEO) have shown Kiwis' optimism - smile, even in a disastrous situation.

Such high aspirations!