The Daily Blog Open Mic – 16th August 2025
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/business/570110/forget-quiet-quitting-now-we-re-quiet-cracking
…”People are cracking under the pressure but staying in the job because unlike quiet quitting, where it would be a bit more ‘I’m going to look after me now’, this is more to do with the fact that… it’s a culmination of work pressure you can’t handle any more but you can’t afford to throw it in.”
He said managers needed to regularly check in with their workforce about their wellbeing.
“Especially now in winter, if someone is sick and still coming into work, say to them ‘You’ve got sick leave, please use it. Stay home and recover’.”
He said even if people were just tired, booking in some time away could be very beneficial…./i>
This plastic overuse is a real problem.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/570161/un-nations-plastics-pollution-talks-a-flop-some-blame-tough-us-stance
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/570160/police-use-new-dna-tech-to-re-examine-death-of-6-year-old-45-years-on
45 years – that is just make-work. I wish police would put work into running boys clubs – and girls clubs. Take an interest in live children, in a healthy, accepting, respectful way, and requiring the same back. and call it after the dead child. It will be a memorial to Alicia and other children who haven’t lived long enough to grow into a capable, happy adult. And every time they shoot someone or ruin them somehow, when they were able to use a less punitive method, they can set up another Fit Club, and from what I have read, there would be a good sprinkling around the rohe.
Let us be kinder to each other while we are ‘helping’ them to do better.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/screens/tv/was-there-a-problem-with-reality-tv-show-the-biggest-loser
When it first hit screens in 2004, The Biggest Loser was a ratings winner. Audiences couldn’t get enough of watching unhappy and overweight people compete to change their lives and have a chance at scoring a $US250,000 prize.
We watched them working out to the point of vomiting, being berated by fitness instructors, pulling two-ton cars, tackling temptation challenges, and gorging on desserts. The show, which ran for 18 seasons, tread the fine line between mockery and entertainment. …..
“…I look at it and just think, oh my god, I remember those days just being so long and so gruelling and not to make any excuse because I’m not making an excuse, but, yeah, that wasn’t one of my finer moments.
“But I look at the whole of it all, and I knew that, like, when it was time to do the on-camera workouts, our job was to make it as crazy and as exciting as possible.
“Those were the producer notes that I would always get.”…