r/newzealand

I’ll go first: why the heck do pastry sheets come in shrink wrapped plastic - it enrages me so much and I have no idea how to store the remaining sheets?!

Just spent 14 hours across a medical center and Auckland's North Shore Emergency Department followed by a quick stint at home then 9 hours sitting in Starships ED waiting room.

Having not set foot in one since being a child my god its grim and the facilities battered. 95% of staff interactions were amazing, especially at starship my god the women there were saints.

Those places need funding, and perhaps people need educating on what should actually be clogging up an ED and what shouldn't, but so grateful for their service as painfully slow and creaky as it is.

CONTENT WARNING: suicidal ideation/attempt

Well, I talked to AI. AI said to contact the helplines. Messaged 1737 - no response over an hour later, so I gave up and in the meantime talked to Youthline. Told them I tried hurting myself. Their response was get someone to check on you, why wouldn't you want someone to check on you, how can you keep yourself safe, and here is the link to the crisis number (followed by nothing then oops sorry here's the link). That was a waste of an hour. I literally tried to strangle myself twice, but fuck me I guess. This is why I use AI, because at least it's immediate responses with manufactured empathy, which is more than actual humans can muster up.

Digital billboards are awful. Drivers are already distracted enough with their phones, infotainment in their cars and screaming kids.

Streetlights are required by councils to limit light projection upward to avoid light pollution - these things glow full noise outward at night.

Anyone else hate them as much as me?

Hey all, flowers don’t seem like a good idea because allergies etc.

But my medical centre, from admin staff to Drs have gone above and beyond and even though I say thank you is there some kind of gift I’m allowed to give them?

I guess the first question is if it’s actually allowed. Next is any suggestions ?

Thanks

We just sold our first home to what our agent and lawyer told us was a lovely young couple looking to get on the property ladder. Awesome right, anything we can do to help because we know how tough it can be! We allowed them to do multiple building reports at times that were inconvenient to our family, accepted less than 10% deposit and we even agreed to bring the settlement date forward. We were going to use the upcoming long weekend to move but when they asked to bring forward we agreed thinking they wanted to use the long weekend. We don’t work jobs that allow much time off so we packed and cleaned late into the nights to make sure everything was spick and span for the new owners and ensure that they’d love the house as much as we have..

We moved last night.. only for our agent to phone and ask if we would approve the new owners (who don’t actually settle until later this week) to use the photos from the listing to rent the property out!! We feel like we’ve been taken on a bit of a ride considering the stress we’ve been through in the hopes of making everything as convenient as possible for the new owners only to find out they aren’t even moving in!

Has anyone else been in this position? We know there is nothing we can do but our hearts hurt knowing this couple isn’t going to love the home as we did

Thanks

https://www.nbr.co.nz/law/wealthy-family-member-jailed-for-child-sex-offences-gets-parole/
Shocking... apologies if that has already been posted. I couldn't see it anywhere.

Hello, looking for some opinions and advice.

We were booked on a late (10pm) flight to return from Rarotonga to Auckland with Air New Zealand yesterday, however, the flight got cancelled.

Air NZ claims it was due to reasons outside of their control, because the runway closes after a certain time or whatever, but surely it was their fault to begin with that the inbound flight got delayed in the first place. Moreover, why cancel the whole flight instead of just delaying it for a couple of hours until the runway opens again?

Anyway, they notified us by text a couple hours before the flight, and then put everyone on a 5am flight instead, telling everyone check in would be at 1am.

Not only did this ruin our whole night of rest, they booked it such that they wouldn't have to arrange a hotel for everyone, because we would all have to be at the airport from 1 to 5am.

Moreover, we had a hotel booked in Auckland for our arrival which we had to cancel, and Air NZ refuse to reimburse us for it.

As a final straw, they told us they only had enough food on board the airplane for half of the passengers (from the original flight, not the cancelled one). So here we all were, dead tired, hungry, while they're serving hot meals to the other passengers. We had to make do with a pathetic bag of crisps.

And all of this without any offer of compensation.

Surely we paid for a service, and that service included a meal, so if we don't get that service we should be at least partially refunded?

And surely if a flight is delayed because of engineering issues with the plane itself, it's Air NZs fault if they then can't land on the airport anymore. It's not like those rules suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Lastly, the plane that got cancelled ended up flying out of Rarotonga empty anyway, which begs the question where did it fly to if the runway was allegedly closed?

Feels like they created a problem and then found the worst possible way to solve it, leaving passengers hungry and sleep deprived, and refusing to compensate for anything.

Thoughts?