As temperatures soared a few weeks ago, a staffer at Wellington Water, the capital’s water services provider, published a video on social media titled “Council Engineer –Challenge one day slacking off and do no work. Making money while I play,” explaining that she spent her working hours catching up with friends, lying on the couch and watching movies.
This came at an awkward time for the organisation, which was –and still is –in the midst of a water crisis. There’s a serious risk that the region will enter a state of emergency in which residents will need to boil their drinking water. But to walk around the city