Maths and science tutors in Hamilton

I’m looking for maths and science tutors for my 13 year old. Preferably current or ex teachers from high schools in Waikato,New Zealand who are doing private tutoring. Any leads/recommendations are highly appreciated.

If so where is good to see them

Looking for recommendations for top taa moko artists in Hamilton

Hello, everyone!

Anyone near Tattersfield/ Madison Pl / Jasmine Ave? How is the neighborhood like?

Looking to purchase a house around that block. Just worried with the rep I hear with Dinsdale.

Thank you.

As I missed it yesterday, just checking whether Aurora lights going to appear tonight or not? Any expert here?

Hi! Just wondering if anyone has any good recommendations for dog friendly places outside of parks & walks?

I know Kopi cafe let you bring dogs in, and make Puppaccinos, and Brewaucracy are awesome with dogs too.

Any suggestions welcome!

I live out of town and am in the process of trying to convince a very stubborn father to get help with his hearing. He's missing lots of conversation, driving mum crazy, and I know a hearing aid can help avoid onset of dementia and isolation.

Any recommendations? Or tactics?

What best part of Tron to see the aurora lights tonight?

Any idea for lookouts or Hills facing South for Aurora views tonight? Will to drive 30 mins out of town.

NB. Update I went to lake Kairapo , to see it, could see much at first, then green lines and red appeared as my eye adjusted to the dark. Beautiful sky.

Wanting to get and maintain my hair silver/grey. I THINK this is easy enough to do, but hard to maintain. Getting a silver toner through lightened/highlighted hair every 6 weeks odd?

My questions are... Is this close to correct and can anyone recommend a hairdresser that does the best deal for just getting a toner? Pref a toner and straighten/finish, but would also be interested in toner and rough dry to keep costs down 😆

Keen to get into Dungeons & Dragons but don’t know where to start? Played in the past but could do with a refresher? Well, we have just the thing for you.

The Waikato Role-Playing Guild is running an Introduction to Dungeons and Dragons hosted by our good friends at Brewaucracy in Hamilton. This event gives you the opportunity to get an understanding of the game and hopefully give you the knowledge to start playing yourself. You’ll have the rules explained to you by an experienced Dungeon Master who’ll then take you on an exciting adventure purposely designed for beginners.

Intro to D&D starts at 1:30pm, and will run you though a 3-ish hour game. Space is strictly limited so book your spot by filling in the registration form above, and make sure you buy a ticket!

Register here: https://forms.gle/Fv1UpFpUUz7SWqb49

Worked there for a couple of months, it was the worst job I’ve ever had in my life.

On my very first day, a manager who was supposed to introduce me to fellow staff members instead sat me down and went through a list of all the employees and complained about every single one of them. “This person is shit at their job, this person smells like shit, this person never listens”. It was my first day.

My second day, a coworker started playing that dumb hentai song and talked about how it was “so him”. It made me super uncomfortable cause I didn’t even know this guy and he was openly sharing his masturbation habits.

Several other instances happened with hentai guy, where he was a misogynistic creep. He’d make weird as fuck comments to me and my underage coworkers, and say shit like certain coworkers only got sales because they had boobs.

Eventually, when I worked counter I had a lady scream at me (as normal in retail). It was a bad day for me, so I started crying and went out the back to calm down. I got scolded by the head manager for not being able to handle it and asked when I was going to get back to work.

I initially felt really upset but didn’t say anything, until I told some other coworkers what happened and they told me about similar and worse experiences they had with this manager, including him making unwanted sexual comments. Including him talking about the amount of sex he’d had with his partner on holiday and another MANAGER telling me he used to smack girls asses in the workplace.

I thought this was terrible, so with these girls permission I contacted HR (however they wanted to remain anonymous). I had to ask the manager I was REPORTING for HRs number because he didn’t have it hanging up out the back (even though it said in our starting pamphlets that this was a necessity for the company).

I told HR about this manager and they told me that possibly a member of HR would come to the workplace to personally speak with all the girls. This never happened, of course.

I decided to go to a different manager about the “hentai” coworker, after I had gathered enough courage. I also decided to report multiple misogynistic comments he’d made at the same time.

The following are pieces of the email I sent to HR about what happened in that meeting, since it was so fucking terrible that I couldn’t even explain it from the top. I’ve censored the names for the safety of the girls involved.

About two weeks into us setting up the Te Awa store, myself and coworker [UNDERAGE COWORKER] were sitting in the food court on a lunch break, which all coworkers took at the same time because we weren’t open to the public. [HENTAI GUY] came to sit with us, and started pointing to girls in the food court and asking “how old do you think she is?” [UNDERAGE COWORKER] answered “probably 17 or 18 I guess” and [HENTAI GUY] began to complain about not knowing girls ages, and being afraid of finding them attractive when they might be children. I pointed out that he had a girlfriend, so he wouldn’t be acting upon any crushes he had on passing girls, and that if he somehow did find out one he thought was cute was a child, he just wouldn’t be attracted to them anymore. He proceeded to try and continue the conversation by complaining some more about his possible attraction to younger girls, and [UNDERAGE COWORKER] and I both felt uncomfortable and weirded out by this topic choice that was bought up unprompted. Eventually, [UNDERAGE COWORKER] and I began to ignore him and talk about our own topic and he stopped.

HENTAI GUY was strangely protective of what music was played in the backroom, when I asked to queue a song he adamantly refused but when a male coworker asked to play music he promptly allowed him to queue one. I ended up queuing a song that I hoped he’d like (I didn’t know him very well yet) as it was similar to one’s he had already been playing, and when it came on I asked if he liked it. He started talking about how it was so “basic” and continued to be pretty elitist about his music tastes, before complaining about it being too “woman”.

when we were setting up the new store we were able to hook music up to the speaker system, as only the merch team and the builders would be in the store. We were playing popular music from a playlist on a coworkers phone, one that was generic as to allow most everyone to enjoy it. [HENTAI GUY] walked past with [MALE COWORKER], complaining about [FEMALE COWORKER] music being too “teenage girl” and talking about how his taste was superior. The way he talked and talks about women left me and my coworkers often feeling uncomfortable, as he has a habit to bring gender into the discussion when it is not relevant.

There are more examples, but this post is already so long.

When I bought up the (how I saw it) misogynistic comments, I was very quickly shut down by [MANAGER], him saying “I don’t think that’s misogynistic” even when I had tried to express that I didn’t think it was INTENTIONALLY misogynistic, it just made me feel as if he had a bias. [MANAGER] then said “it’s probably an OUTDATED way of thinking, but not misogyny”. I felt immediately shut down, as I hadn’t even started and was already shamed for trying to bring up a concern. From there, I explained the two problems of my own that I had faced with [HENTAI GUY], and [MANAGER] started to ask me what could have possibly happened more recently to prompt me into coming to him. I told him that there HADNT been any more recent events, but I had only just now built up the courage to come to him about what had happened. He then started to berate me about not coming to him earlier, as it’s harder to investigate when “it was months ago”. He seemed to insinuate that if I thought it was so serious, I should’ve come to him sooner.

I tried to remind him of how difficult it was to find the courage to come forward and he said “I understand, but this still makes it far more difficult for me when this could’ve happened forever ago” (it had happened a month before)

When I told him I also wanted to bring up two stories that bought me concern from two of my close coworkers, he told me that he thought I should be “careful i wasn’t going on a witch hunt” and continued to lecture me about how trying to receive support from other women in my workplace was actually a witch hunt for something that “isn’t actually a big issue)

He said I shouldn’t go around asking what other female workers felt, that I could create a “witch hunt” that could spiral. I told him I didn’t intend to do that, that I just wanted to tell him what TWO other girls had told me because I was concerned by it, and he said that he couldn’t take them seriously because the girls weren’t coming to him themselves. I said that I understood if he didn’t want to take them at more than face value, but I was only trying to look out for my coworkers who were too afraid to come forward. I told him their stories, and I then started expressing my concern with a general lack of empathy in the work place, that I personally felt that the girls in the workplace didn’t feel comfortable coming forward because they felt as though they wouldn’t be listened to.

[FEMALE COWORKER], the admin who was also in the office while this talk was taking place, decided to interject, and promptly began raising her tone at me, telling me that I was being very rude by saying that I felt there was no empathy, scolding me for it, telling me how “I stay here and listen to girls half the day” (untrue) and “we used to do ‘how do you feel Wednesdays’ before you started working here so you don’t even know what we try to do” and when I said I was concerned that there was no number for HR up out the back, she continued to aggressively tell me off for being rude, telling me that she was still trying to sort out everything that needed to go on the cork board, and that the number was available through backstage (which I didn’t have access to yet) and that that should’ve been good enough. She then told me that overall my concerns were “not on”. Throughout this, she told me that I had “no idea what they do” and “how much work goes into this” and was shamed for bringing up any concerns.

Alongside this, previously in the conversation [MANAGER] had told me I could contact [ADMIN] if I didn’t feel comfortable going to him. I informed him of how I DID, initially, message [ADMIN] when a coworker suggested I do so and gave me her number. I didn’t realise the protocol about reaching out, and did so around 10pm at night over text, hoping [ADMIN] might see it in the morning. It wasn’t my intention to disturb her, but she made very clear through multiple sarcastic comments after I told [MANAGER] that I HAD tried to contact her, that I had disturbed her. I did apologise profusely to her two weeks ago when she initially texted back telling me she was on leave, but clearly she was still pretty angry about it since she made multiple comments about how I should’ve known better, and it’s clearly not her work hours and she shouldn’t have to “deal with drama” when it’s outside of them. I understand this, but felt it was disrespectful and cruel to continue to berate me for it, and quite clearly hold a grudge against me for an honest mistake that I had already apologised for multiple times. She was needlessly rude and aggressive towards me for this.

I started crying eventually. [MANAGER] proceeded to try and say that he CANT bring empathy into this, because it won’t work, because he needs to be logical about what steps to take in these situations. He told me he cannot have empathy and logic in situations like what I’ve bought up as they’re too serious of accusations to have empathy involved. I sincerely couldn’t breathe or pull myself together for probably going on ten minutes, ten minutes where I tried not to hyperventilate in front of both [ADMIN] and [MANAGER]. During this time, [MANAGER] continued to say more about how he can’t bring empathy into this.

I just barely was able to ask to be allowed to go home early, still hyperventilating and [MANAGER] asked if I could “just hold on to the end of the day” because he believed that sending me home was an “easy out” but he wanted me to “persevere”. I insisted on going home, still barely able to talk because of the hyperventilating, and he said if I really had to.

In retrospect, I personally felt the discussion with [MANAGER] was incredibly manipulative. I felt as though I was shamed for speaking up, not just for myself but on behalf of my coworkers. I also felt as though I was not taken seriously, as [ADMIN] was present in the office while I shared these concerns and at the start of the discussion, I was told [ADMIN] was non judgemental and was just there to do her work while we chatted, but instead she intervened with multiple sarcastic comments that I found disrespectful to the nature of the discussion we were having as well as needlessly aggressive and defensive when I shared my concerns.

I personally felt the way the situation was handled was intentional, as it puts in light for me many of the reasons why the girls in the store don’t feel comfortable speaking up. I was appalled by the way this entire situation was handled by [MANAGER] and [ADMIN], as I didn’t intend to intentionally offend anyone, only share my concerns with someone who’s job it was supposed to be to listen to me before I found it necessary to go to HR. I felt I was taken advantage of when I was unable to defend myself as I was already terrified coming forward with these stories, and felt as though I was manipulated into believing it was my fault for making it a big deal, rather than the big deal it needed to be treated as.

Here are the accounts from two other female coworkers, which as they are second hand from me, maybe be taken at face value. I still felt personally concerned by them and also felt as though they weren’t out of character for [HENTAI GUYS] behaviour.

First account: Underage Coworker said “pog”and [HENTAI GUY] recounted a story of when he had said “pog” after ejaculation during intercourse with his girlfriend. Coworker who this happened to was 17 at the time, and had only first started working at JBHIFI. the event took place around midday at the Barton street store.

Second account: [FEMALE COWORKER1] is a very talented salesperson, and very good at her job. This account took place at the Barton street store, around the afternoon to evening, several months to nearly a year ago. [HENTAI GUY] expressed to [female coworker2] that [FEMALE COWORKER1) was only good at sales because she “had her boobs out all the time” and continued to mock her, pointing out the way she was standing and saying “look, she’s doing it now!”. When coworker expressed discomfort and this, [HENTAI GUY] later expressed “don’t tell [female coworker2] about that, she can’t take a joke”.

After I went to HR with my concerns HENTAI GUY was spoken to. After this, however, he would make “jokes” around me about “appropriate workplace discussion” (the topic he was talked to about).

There were many problems in the workplace, including the way everyone would be mean about each other but claim to be friends. Managers I talked to would say [X] worker is useless, unhelpful, etc. and then also put an arm around the same worker later on to show camaraderie.

I didn’t initially intend to come public about my experience, however I heard after I left that management continued to push the “witch hunt” rhetoric they tried to use to manipulate me into silence when talking to my old coworkers about the why I left and I’ve decided it was time to share.

I eventually left, the last straw being a simple meeting with a manager where I was scolded for “having an attitude” when I asked “what do you want me to prioritise?” (Verbatim). I note that this manager participated with [HENTAI GUY] in the “appropriate workplace discussion” jokes after my talk with HR. I personally felt this manager had it out for me for reporting their friend.

All in all, fuck jbhifi. Worst job I’ve ever had, with only a small minority of coworkers being kind and supportive people. Also, most people there are super unhelpful anyways. I was doing like 4 different jobs because none of their staff wanted to cover security guards on their breaks. Fuck jbhifi

EDIT: thank you all so much for the overwhelming support on this post, and thank you to the previous coworkers/workers that I didn’t personally work with who messaged me to corroborate what I went through and what they went through too. I’m so glad this post could be validating to some of you who went through all the BS and had no one to turn to since management didn’t want to do anything about it. Thank you as well to the moderators for being so onto it!! You guys are awesome. Love to you all <3

Woke with a random hankering for it.

Hello all,

Could you please tell me where I can get a decent jug of beer for a decent price in Hamilton? Can't afford The Helm anymore. Or at least a place that sells towers of beer for decent price?

Many thanks

Whats up all. As a kid, and even now as an adult. I always enjoy looking up at the stars at night and just feel a sense of serenity. Was passing through Glenview ways at around 6.45pm, stepped out of the car at the Urlich shops and something intriguing caught my attention.

A string of lights, effortlessly drifting by slowly not too far off in the sky. One could easily mistake them for drones but they were not as bright nor grunty, and I can't say they were stars either...too low/close the earth and not as bright. These lights moved too swiftly, almost too natural to be drones. Anyway, I called out my friend in the car to come witness this fascinating phenomenon. We both stood there gazing in awe, tapped into our inner childhood element and inquisitive as ever. 😁.
Staring at these motion starry phenomenons drift by and calmy blend into the evening darkness, one by one, you had to see it to believe it. Coincidentally the stars are out tonight, haven't seen any in a few days.

I wonder if anyone else spotted this also?🤔 Take care ya'll🤙🏾

Found this on my morning smoko stroll to get a pie in Dinsdale. Thanks to whoever made this.

I ordered from dominos hillcrest at 10.21pm and it's still not here at 11.22, they only have one driver today unfortunately. I'm just so damn hungry I have to vent.

Is anyone else suffering a pizza-less death tonight?

Can I get my money back and still eat this order?

God only knows

I'm a stay-at-home dad with a shaved head so it's been a long time since I've been near any kind of haircutting establishment. Any recommendations for a place to take my 3y/o daughter for her first hair cut?

Hello Hamiltonians, seeking help from anyone that might have vagcom or vcds that can do an adaptation for my throttle bodies or look into an over revving/surging issue I have with my Audi S6? If there any knowledgeable Audi enthusiasts any other advice is welcome also. Thanks in advance

please delete if this is not the right forum to ask. i am asking here because i live in Waikato, so it made sense to me to ask NZ'ers. i am wanting to make my mother's favorite eats to celebrate her life with family. she loved mussel fritters and sea food chowder. my question: how do you make yours? thank you!

Hey all,

If anyone knows the words to this haka, can I please get a copy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azheB2D0Wy4

TIA

Just looking for a cheap hairdresser

Hey - wondering if anyone knows any decent foraging courses/recommendations? Ideally Waikato/Bay of Plenty/Coromandel but if its good I'd venture further out.

Hi there, anyone know of a company with grey vans and blue cursive script on the back? I think it was North xxxxxxx school?

They just ran a red light and nearly hit a friend