i am sorry but what planet is this Bickers guy from??? the first part of the latest joke/ brief states how they are going to use HALF A MILLION DOLLARS of over charged feesfrom last year to reduce the up coming years licence fee!!! wtf!!! then check out the table on page 2!!! oh we charged you $102.22 PER licence last year(making a huge proffit ) and where going to charge you $108.00 but look we have decided to ONLY charge you $101.00 this coming year!!! you think where thick!
this is not good enough.!

Linkback: https://www.plumbers.nz/pgdb-new-zealand-plumbing-gasfitting-and-drainlaying-board/30/pgdb-latest-jokenews-brief/1300/

These people have no respect for or understanding of a tradesmen, we are just thick scruffy tradies to them in their suits, crawling around under floors while they are in their mirrored skyscraper with air con......they cant even shit without us or wash their hands, un-yet they think they are far superior to us....just look at Bickers at the Wellington meeting, shouting at a room full of fully grown men and women......to "shut up. I am speaking", like some headmaster to a bunch of unruly school kids.

And the ones who were once tradesman....turn coats....who think they have moved up the ladder, so to speak. Some of them professional board members, check out what they get paid for shitting on their own....tossers.

At my hearing they said I had called my self a "mere plumber", but when I asked them to show me where I had said it....they couldn't. Because I never said it.

I think this comment reflects their attitude to us more than anything I have heard them spout.