My very dear friend, Jackie, once fondly known as the Reading Raver, has succinctly reminded me that giving jobs to ones totally unqualified relatives without any open search for real candidates: then, making sure that they're paid not just more than they're worth, but more even than the job would pay a qualified person; then, being aghast that job performance is any basis for anything...like keeping the job;then going ballistic when the completely unqualified job-filler gets fired and screaming cultural insensitivity and the 'r' word.........ALL of this is simply institutionalised, small-scale corruption!!!!!
And to dress it up in other smart-ass terms just makes it more difficult to recognise, and to fight.
..so there..i DO get it!
(..course, what i actually do, and how i actually fight it are yet to be figured out...but they will)
Whew..a short post..aren't you pleased for me?
Course, i could talk about the strange weather. It is the season of Harmattan ..one of the winds discussed in 'The English Patient' and it is full of dust and sometimes quite cold.
But enough, RW..just press the 'Publish Post' button and consign this latest insight (blather) to posterity.
Hello Mr. K! I'm laughing as this so hits home. There has been much discussion regarding "Ethics" in Int'l adoption and I can't even convey to highly intelligent people that cultural differences go far- vastly far- beyond music, food and women's rights. ugh! aak.
ReplyDeleteBTW- forget about strange weather. Be happy you aren't on the island these past 3 weeks.