Hope he stays off welfare
July 15th, 2010 at 3:12 pm by David FarrarThe Press reports:
Lance Bradford says he was so determined to get Metallica tickets that he quit his job before camping overnight at a Ticketek outlet.
His employer would not give him the afternoon off to set up camp outside Canterbury University’s student union, so the driller quit.
Bradford, 23, said he was “ripped and angry” when Metallica said they were coming to New Zealand, but not to Christchurch.
This month, his favourite band announced a surprise Christchurch date, with tickets going on sale at 9am today.
“When I found out they were coming, I thought if they are willing to come down here, then I’m willing to quit my job and come down here to line up,” Bradford said.
While admiring of his tenacity and determination to get Metallica tickets, I do hope he finds another job and doesn’t plan to go onto welfare anytme soon.
If he does, he may get a nasty surprise, discovering WINZ staff do read newspapers.
Another solution may have been to keep the job and pay a friend to queue up for you.
Incidentally if I was his employer, I’d definitely give him leave to queue up for music tickets so long as the absence was not going to critically affect things.
July 15th, 2010 at 3:15 pm
He’s a Metallica fan. That suggests a deep lack of intelligence, a liking for loud and unmelodic noise and most likely a lack of personal hygiene. He probably has no friends.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Might turn out to be an expensive 15 minutes of fame.
Hope he enjoys the concert
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
He will probably get his job back anyway (good publicity for the employer if they spin it right) or just find more work otherwise WINZ will make him find some work as he was obviously skilled enough to have been in a job recently.
I hope the concert is worth it for him though…
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Typifies the sense of entitlement and lack of discipline and reason so many people hold and which seems to characterise our times. Lala land.Couldn’t be much of a recession on or his skills are in high demand.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
rex – i hope that was your attempt at trolling!
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 3:31 pm
It’s a free country. Last time I checked it wasnt a crime to quit your job.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 3:35 pm
kowtow – willingness to make the sacrifice to get what he wants out of life = HERO.
Brings a tear to my eye really.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Sheesh, you’re slow today DPF – I’d blogged about this before 7am, which probably explains why I didn’t immediately make the connection with the name – BRADFORD
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
I don’t know what a Driller is exactly, but I note they didn’t say “CHCH labourer Lance Bradford” or “CHCH arts graduate and temp worker Lance Bradford”. For all we know, he has skills that will see him walk straight into his choice of 3 new jobs on Monday morning.
Assumption he will go straight on the dole = sad.
What Stephen said @ 3:35pm = win.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 4:09 pm
A legend in his own lunch time.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 4:12 pm
@dime
Let’s just say my CD collection is noticeably lacking in Metallica albums and of course my mp3 collection is entirely lacking their music since the spoiled crybabies set about trying to knobble P2P file sharing and killed Napster.
However, while I’d like to claim it’s a principled political stance I’m taking, it actually has more to do with the fact that they suck
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
rex – I’m scared to think what garbage you have in your mp3 collection.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
I doubt that this idiot is related to Comrade Sue Bradford.
At least he did have a job.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 4:38 pm
Maybe an indication of age, but I have to side with Rex on this one: Metallica is not music, but mindless noise, it is caterwauling.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 4:39 pm
Have a thought for his employer. The poor guy will have likely contracted and planned work ahead (he could not give Bradford time off). Bradford has walked and left him high and dry. The employer has no comeback; imagine the fuss if he had treated Bradford with the same disregard.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 4:43 pm
He can’t go straight on to the doll, he chose to leave his employment and that means a nice big period of stand down for him.
And actually Metallica has more in common with classical music than pop does. Small yet technically true factoid. Tehy’re entirely capable musicians.. which begs the question why they choose the play the crap they do.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Do you see how the free market could have saved this “poor employer” trout?
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
I didn’t realise how many old fogies were on Kiwiblog until this post. Metallica is much better than that hip hop crap!
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 5:34 pm
@AlphaKiwi
See, you’ve just made a rookie mistake. We were debating music, and you come along and introduce “hip hop” into the discussion
@dime
Are you knocking my “Celine Dion’s Greatest Hits Volume 4″ collection?
Not really… at present there’s a bunch of stuff: Rage Against the Machine (of course
), Lupe Fiasco, Regina Spektor, Nick Cave, Muse, Hugh Dillon, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, The Bloody Beetroots, Jim Steinman, Florence & The Machine, Angus & Julia Stone, Washington, Vampire Weekend, Tame Impala…
I suggest you head to Triple J and get your fill of free mp3s. And check out the many talented unsigned bands on Triple J Unearthed with more free mp3 goodness. (Why can’t NZ have a Triple J?!)
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Yuh just can’t go past ABBA singing “Fernando”.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 5:37 pm
Christchurch. The bogan capital of the world.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Maybe he can join the Harris gang and get paid by WINZ for being a low life scum of the earth gangster? Oi, Oi, Oi !!!
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
He could have got tix on the Net easily if he joined the Metallica Club for $60 U.S. Plus, you get a bunch of stuff sent to you too.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Nothing wrong with Metallica and nothing wrong with hip hop if you are listening to the right shit. Lupe Fiasco is dope as fuck.
Vote:Some of you dicks sound like Michael Laws, your prejudices against certain genres say more about you then the shit you listen to.
July 15th, 2010 at 5:57 pm
(Actually mikeysmokes I agree with you… at least insofar as some hip hop goes. I have the Hilltop Hoods on my mp3 player at present. It’s just that admitting to it may cause apoplexy amongst some of our more delicate readers so let’s just keep it between you and I
)
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 6:05 pm
you listen to rage but consider metallica noise?
manolo – funny how a band that “is not music” did a bunch of shows with a 78 piece orchestra backing them!
i couldnt care less if you liked metallica or not, but to label them noise and not music is just plain ignant
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 6:15 pm
This is not the public service RRM; this is private enterprise where jobs have to be done in time and on time. The boss would probably have had a good reason to refuse time off. Try this; Bradford is a ‘driller’; probably on a piling job. The weather is good, the holes have to be drilled; the rebar cage goes in tomorrow, the concrete the next day. ‘ If we don’t get it done before the rain comes we are in the shit’.
Vote:Young employees tend to require the boss to make allowances for their private activities but do not feel the need to reciprocate by supporting the business.
July 15th, 2010 at 6:19 pm
Heh heh… we can just about get away with politics and even religion, but start discussing music and it’s pistols at dawn
@dime – Yeah I don’t like Rage’s music but I identify with their lyrics. Maybe I should suggest Celine does some covers
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
Covers like this Rex?
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July 15th, 2010 at 6:26 pm
Alternative and equally guessworthy scenario:
Boss: Work’s slow, we have maybe a week left.
Employee: Oh, really? Fair enough how about I leave on Wednesday. Would co-incide with something I have to do.
Boss: ok then.
Later that evening…
Employee: Yeah so I said to him, I’m off on Wednesday, can’t miss Metalica for nothing, eh.
Sexy bystander: You are so cool. [This guy is such a dick]
Gormless employee: [this chick is all over me. I am so cool]
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
I’d sell the firstborn to see this live.
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July 15th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
“- funny how a band that “is not music” did a bunch of shows with a 78 piece orchestra backing them!”
Vote:So did Enya (arghhhh). I rest my case.
July 15th, 2010 at 7:17 pm
Remember the New Zealand group Stellar*? They were half decent.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 9:18 pm
Johnboy:
I actually don’t mind Rolf’s interpretation of “Stairway to Heaven”… quite toe-tapping.
I draw the line, however (and refuse to link to… it’s in the “related” category of the video Johnboy’s linked to above if anyone’s SICK enough to click on it) his version of Chrissy Amphlett’s “I touch myself”.
Jibbering Gibbon: I ROFLed. You got it in one, I suspect.
Vote:July 15th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
You cruel bastard Rex. You knew a sheep shagger was SICK enough to give anything a go.
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July 15th, 2010 at 9:36 pm
those heavy metal
Vote:fellas are all a bunch of
fucking socialists
July 16th, 2010 at 8:22 am
Do I want to employ someone who thinks is rostered hours are negotible after they’ve been agreed to and will use the threat of quiting if he doesn’t get what he wants? Hmm thats a HARD one.
door hit ass the way out hit on let don’t your. Rearrange to suit.
Vote:July 16th, 2010 at 8:37 am
Have a thought for his employer. The poor guy will have likely contracted and planned work ahead (he could not give Bradford time off). Bradford has walked and left him high and dry.
Well IMHO its his own fault.
Vote:Had the guy just called in sick the employer would have been in no worse situation but now he is. Has to find a new person with all the costs involved. (recruitment, gear, saftey training etc etc. say $3k,. versus a small inconvienece.)
Has he allowed his staff to meet their personal goals and thus be satisfied with their life and therefore more productive to the employer.
Hell no, just made an arse of himself.
And before you all get the fucking hump and go feral, how many of you would or have in the past taken the time off for RUGBY tickets and GOING fishing/and or whatever else is your passion in life. Duck shooting comes to mind.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:15 am
You put it very well Viking2
Strikes me as typical of the poor management common in NZ business.
Vote:July 16th, 2010 at 11:00 am
No relation to Sue, but more like to be related to Max, I’d have thought.
Vote:July 16th, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Trout – maybe if the remuneration was more attractive than queueing for Metallica? Just a thought…
Vote:July 16th, 2010 at 1:26 pm
Generation Y syndrome. Think they can get their way anywhere anytime.
You can’t just walk out on a job to que up for Metallica concert tickets?
I want to go to Stdney everytime there are cheap flights…wouldn’t t be nice if I could just down the tools and march out…
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Vote:July 16th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I reckon he’ll regret it.
Not the job mind you, it’s just that watching Metallica these days must be like going to a rest home talent show. The place will stink of stale piss and old people with catering by meals on wheels.
They haven’t released a decent album for over twenty years either so he may be lucky to get a classic or two sandwiched between all that shite they’ve been spewing out since …and justice for all, I dunno, kids these days.
Vote:July 16th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
What happened was that Lance Bradford said to his employer;
Vote:“Boss, I will be leaving this job tomorrow afternoon.”
His employer replied;
“Who told you? It was meant to be a confidential.”
July 16th, 2010 at 11:11 pm
Heh heh, what a mug! This will be a growing lesson…probably a very hard one.
Vote:July 16th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Well done lad.
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