Thursday, March 25, 2010

Resting bandit

What were you doing yesterday around 10am? I know what I was doing: I was saving poor children, because that's my job. It's also the roving bandit's job. Except the roving bandit clearly doesn't care about his job, or about poor children. And so yesterday, Wednesday, a WORK day, between the hours of 10:00 - 10:30, prime poor-child-saving time, the resting bandit took his girlfriend for masala tea; his desk, prime poor-child-saving real-estate, left lying empty and ineffective beside me.

It's a recognised problem in Southern Sudan that work is not perceived as a 'priority event' by employees. How can we gag this gaping mouth of inefficiency when the Technical Assistance we provide exhibits the same insatiable appetite for slacking?

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Roving b*stard

It would be naive to imagine that everyone working in development necessarily cares about the plight and suffering of poor people. For some, development offers a low pressure, sunny environment in which to concentrate on their other priorities. Blogging, say. But I was a little surprised when I got home yesterday to find that the roving b*stard had stolen the toy car made from a empty juice carton from a small child that lives in the neighbourhood. The result was a heart wrenching duet, with the b*stard providing the baritone chortle to the child’s soprano sobs. He must be stopped!

Friday, February 5, 2010

Ascendency

Friends, for too long I have withered in the digital shadow of the roving imbecile. No more. This blog is dedicated to the shortcomings of my bearded, back-stabbing colleague. Herein I hope to find retribution for the Betrayal of the Mo.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010