love30stm

yep I know they have one but thats not the main office ....thanks for that

most of the work is done in wangas.....

but anyway Ive been to see Korn, and Panic at the Disco (panic at the disco took my girls btw )

and was you being angry i dont think you were or is that just me

love30stm

[QUOTE=Lookin2Oz;6923169]If you don’t mind me asking – where in the UK are you from ?

Yes well, driving to Auckland to see concerts is understandable , I think most people like music and there is nothing to beat a good concert

Which band / s did you see up in Auckland ?

Cheers

<snippped>

Put me in my place

I am blonde

love30stm

ooh please not another Patrick...dont think hes that childish or that unhappy

shirl

Hope not LOL !!!

Kiwiprincess

A number of places have a head office - they are actually only a national head office in some cases. Often the head office for the region/company is actually in Melbourne or Sidders.

BEVS

You are, but not on BE. You forfeit that privilege a while back & are no longer welcome.

shirl

Actually I was engaging in conversation with the other forum member. If you care to read the text you will read that I was discussing music & concerts in Auckland etc.

Yes I am aware of that but it is a forum and we are all entitled to input into it once you make your post public and not private.

I happen to have had dealings with MARS in New Zealand and in my opinion politely pointed out that MARS actually do have a head office in Auckland as the member that I was engaged in conversing with expressed that MARS HO is in Australia.

I think it is a dangerous practice to post details of work places of members. You never know who is out there and what their motives may be. I think that sort of info is better kept to a PM.
Am I attempting to stir up trouble ? – Certainly not.

But I am - as you say entitled to my opinion and that is - some information is FACT ( as in the case of MARS h/o) and can not be disputed. So regardless of my opinion
( or whoever else’s) the fact IS – MARS New Zealand have a head office in Auckland. See above

In my opinion my pointing this out ( politely) is NOT stirring trouble – is that your idea of stirring trouble ? NOPE!

Outside of that I am truly sorry that your family is being spilt up and that must be really hard for you.

Please don't be sorry for me. I am not sorry for me only sorry for those that return to the past hoping to pick up where they left off. That will never happen as people move on and the old places are never the same when you go back years later. In my opinion in life you can only move forward and that is what I intend to do.

Have a nice day

lardyl

so he was a BE-zombie then.................a kinda shock-jock??

/gets coat/

BEVS

I agree. I'll remove this data.

FYI. This user is no longer able to respond

love30stm

Thanks Bev and Good xxx

lardyl

Soupy was a good, fun poster on the whole, but did some norty things......I for one will mourn his passing........enjoy Oz Campbells..........

To old, bold and not so-good-as-gold posters......

sr71

That's odd, there was a bit on the news last night saying that parking is very cheap in Auckland because of an oversupply. $5 all day was what many are offering. I used to pay £30+ for 3-4 hours in central London.

I'm not so sure that wages are that much lower in NZ compared to the UK. Certainly if you come from the South East or London then you will probably earn more in the UK, but even then I'm not 100% convinced.

I knew plenty of IT contractors on £100K+ in London, but by the same token I knew plenty of full time IT people on a lot less - £20-£45K seems average, which is achievable in NZ. Senior roles maybe £60-70K. One of my friends is the IT Security Manager for one of the largest and most respected organisations in London and he is on £40K. It wouldn't be unrealistic for him to earn $120K in NZ. Large outsourcers like EDS, Fujitsu, Capita, Logica, CSC etc have hordes of people on these low salaries.

BEVS

I'd spook you but I'm all outta karma

lardyl

maybe in IT but elsewhere its nowhere near the case just look at the mean and median wage.....others have said something like 2-5% have incomes over $100k in NZ. That isn't massively above the UK average F/T wage of about $67,000NZ (and now the NZ$ is getting to a reasonable level vs US$ and GB£ then that is only going to loook worse)..
also almost all the health workers I know took a pay hit from the NHS and that goes for tradies, etc, etc.
I could be wrong of course......but then all you really need to look at is the commercial hourly rates service sector co.s can charge - in my field I can charge $350 to $400 per hour to UK clients but only $150 - $200 to NZ clients. There is no way that this is going to translate into a better salary in NZ than in the UK - a couple of us have done the maths and found we are up to £2 or £3million worse off over a 20 year period. But who came to NZ for the money.....???

Back to the stats, the best data for comparison I can get for UK:
from:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=285
maybe hourly rates are better as all the NZ stats I can see are "weekly income" to include salary, investments, etc....and can't be apples/apples with the UK ones.........
see, this for NZ:
http://www.stats.govt.nz/products-an...tp-revised.htm
with the dollar at 36 pence then NZers earn about £261 per week.........maybe that does not take into account part-time earnings and the self-employed.........would need to look at the stats a bit further....but it does paint a picture.......

but then us migrants are not average NZers.......well some of us engineers and specialists have ended up picking fruit and cutting lawns.......and that is often real NZ life

even so $729 is still not £457, in fact it is just over half.....at 2.8NZ to the £

lapsed kiwi

Lardyl, I'm pretty sure the NZ figures you have quoted include part-time earners, so are not directly comparable to the UK full-time figure you used. I remember reading in the Herald last year (sorry I don't have a link) that the full-time mean income here is around $45k, or $865pw. So, not far off the 2:1 "numbers" ratio I think is a rough guide to comparing UK to NZ earnings, eg £30k in UK is "like" $60k in NZ.
I know all comparisons are flawed in some ways though