Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Signs you work for a third world country

1. An out of touch dictator allows lieutenants to run things while he enjoys life.
2. Vast amounts of money is spent on prestige projects to lure unseen foreign investors, while priorities go unfunded
3. A bribe is the starting point for everything
4. The peasants are exhorted to produce more for the good of the party/homeland/hotel
5. Wages were frozen in 1964 shortly after the revolution and the rise to power of dear leader
6. The inmates are quite literally running the asylum
7. The staff cafeteria is serving brown sludge for the 856th day in a row, including holidays. 857 days ago the sludge was green, it might be the same sludge
8. Holidays have been abolished in favor of additional revenue periods
9. Nepotism runs rampant
10. Warlords / Department Heads jealously and violently defend turf while ensuring everyone else's turf is lower on the hill for when the shit starts rolling
11. Approval for anything takes 6 forms in triplicate, four signatures and a purchase order. And that's to buy toilet paper
12. The oft mentioned glory days were all before you were born

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13. Internet service is seen as purely optional and occasional.
14. Your desktop computer was new in 1983 and was provided by World Vision as part of an economic aid package

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