On Tuesday evening I first heard about 10 students, a teacher and an instructor missing during a camp at the Sir Edmund Hilary Outdoor Pursuits Centre. By Wednesday morning the news was all bad. 6 students and a teacher from Elim Christian College in Auckland died during a canyoning exercise in a flash flood. The instructor managed to help 4 students to safety, so much kudos to her for managing that. Unbelievable grief.
Yesterday 1000 job losses were announced in NZ - 450 of them in Dunedin. The Fisher and Paykel manufacturing plant and Tamahine knitwear both announced plans to close/move production off-shore this year. The other 500 jobs are to be lost from ANZ bank shifting part of its call-centre to India. Welcome to the recession, the weather's looking dodgy and unstable.
This morning we heard that a body found just out of Christchurch is probably that of a 15 year old girl who has been missing for 12 days. The early days of the search were hampered by all sorts of weird coincidences about her imitating a movie in which a teenager was kidnapped, speculation it was a run-away hoax etc etc. But it turns out it was probably something much more simple, brutal and tragic.
Sadness.
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3 comments:
Wow, I'm so sorry to hear about such terrible things! Our news here is never very rosy, but I bet it hits closer-to-home in a smaller country... And I feel for you with the Indian Customer-Service thing. Ugh. They have issues, I think, with women - I've had them speak pretty derogatorily (is that a word?) to me in the past, and/or treat me like some simple-minded fool.
I will be adding the families of the lost to my prayers...
Funnily, you and I have parallel blogs today... you're right though, a pretty rough week in NZ.
Yes, a sad week.
Off-shore call centres has been happening for years. I've never had any problem with them, aside from the sort of incompetence I'd also expect from On-shore call centres :)
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