Posts by Stephen Judd
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Joe Wylie,
If James wrote a DB post about why he favoured Grant* the local commentariat would be calling him a quisling in no time flat.
*hypothetically.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I suggest keeping away from The Standard at the moment
It's an echo chamber. Rumours are recycled into solid fact, some MPs are the Antichrist or Satan, every setback for Cunliffe is a conspiracy, the people you like are selfless and the ones you don't are troughers. On the other hand, it shows that Kiwiblog has no monopoly on gutter politics comments.
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Shane last night clearly was not a contender. "The taniwha from the North", as he called himself more than once, had all the right phrases but couldn't assemble them into a coherent stream of sentences. It was like listening to a pretty good best man's speech at a boozy wedding reception.
Having said that, I actually left with a better impression of him than before. Now I get where the "he can connect" stuff comes from, because he does have the gift of the gab and a great dramatic delivery. When he is doing oratory he is at his best. Politics is a performing art, this is one of the skills, and he has it.
But on behalf of "geldings" everywhere, I ranked him 3.
I agree with Keir that Grant did best on the night. I suspect the room was tilted towards him anyway, and it's always easier to work a room that's already on your side. Of the three though, he seemed to me to answer more questions head on rather than side-stepping to just say what he wanted.
For something that purported to be a contest, it seemed oddly collaborative. They know each other's jokes, they refer to each other's answers positively. So the repeated stress on unity rang fairly true on the night.
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Hard News: The shaky ground of…, in reply to wasabicube,
As an aside, it is interesting to observe the level of duplicity exhibited by some commenters on this subject. Clearly misrepresenting yourself to your prospective or current employer whether through a psychometric assessment, interview or otherwise is something that should be of concern.
Not if you think that they’re actually useless bullshit. Especially in contexts where it’s the employer’s obviously clueless agent.
Logically, on this basis, no one should ever follow advice on how to do well in employment interviews, as such advice invariably involves stifling your natural reactions to convey a false impression, sorry, I meant the best impression.
I also don’t think we can overlook that in an economy with structural unemployment, in many cases potential employees need the employer much more than the employer needs them. Few among us are perfectly upright in the face of such strong incentives.
Personally I’ve done one of these tests once. At the time, the employer swore that its purposes was so they could get a good balance of personalities on the team, rather that to select for a particular type. These days, I would regard reliance on testing as a red flag about a workplace and a sign of somewhere I don't want to be.
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Hard News: Jonesing, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
The asset sales referendum is a great example.
Erm, the one that Labour was also right behind, got teams out doorknocking for, with the Greens, as a multiparty initiative along with the trade unions?
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martinb, very telling. I would like to circulate it further.
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Account suspended. Heh.
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My pick is that the genuine Cunliffe has reported it as a hoax account; Twitter would have taken it down; and if the troll/deluded person has made a case that it's clear from the handle that they are not David Cunliffe, it's been reinstated.
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Hard News: Political Idol, or whatever…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I get he’s not actually talking to anyone who doesn’t get a vote in the Labour leadership, but posturing to the base can very quickly become a liability in the campaign
I've already seen other people lament that candidates will stress their left credentials in this process and then tack right once selected to prep for general election. So... meh.
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