Pecking Order
There is so much labor here in Kuwait, and often, they do so little. I cannot imagine what it would be like to have a job, for example, sweeping the parking lot at the Avenues Mall, but I think, being who I am, I would push hard to get all the garbage and trash picked up, and the lot swept. It’s a job. It’s what I am paid to do. I would find hanging around, pretending to push a broom just too boring.
I can only guess that so many do so little because they are paid so little. It’s a kind of passive-aggressive way of getting back at your employer, who may have you bunking with 10 other men in one room, sharing one bathroom, trying to cook food on one hot plate. Men end up killing each other in these situations, as you might imagine.
What astounds me most, in Kuwait, is how some sort of pecking order develops, and you will have one person supervising one person. Or, as in this case, two people supervising one person.
One person fixing the bricks, one person watching him do it. That does not seem like a smart use of human resources to me.
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When I was in college, I worked as a student assistant to one of my professors. I would go to “work” with a slogan t-shirt with the following words printed on it I pretend to work, they pretend to pay 😛
Passive-aggressiveness at its best!
Good catch 😉
LLLOOLLL, Kinan.
Don’t you HATE jobs where there isn’t any real work to do? Have you ever had a job you loved? When you love a job, you love going to work, you feel good about the work you do. It’s not like you love everything about it, every job has it’s bad moments, but there are actually places you can love to work. I think I would love to work in a library, or at Amazon.com, or . . . like my lucky nephew, at GoogleEarth!
Yeah, I would love to work at a library or a bookshop 🙂
I had another part-time job during college where I tutored English. Probably the best job I ever had. Loved every second of it.
I hope you teach, Kinan. 🙂