Loyalty (to the bone) is a prized commodity. A person you can depend on when you are in need is a treasure. Yap, the quality called loyalty is worth its weight in gold.
Competence is also a prized commodity. Inefficient people will bring a business to ruin. So, when we have a person who is efficient, and visionary, we go to great lengths to keep that one on the team. The competent person is worth his or her weight in gold.
The person who is both loyal and competent is platinum. We move the earth for such a person.
Every organization, if it will succeed, must have a dedicated, competent person at the wheel. In the world of work, competence at the wheel is a commodity more desirable than loyalty (to the bone). Because of its importance, this job is usually a relatively lucrative one, well remunerated with high salaries, perks, and the like.
Now, you have heard it said that in Belize, it is not what you know, and what you can do; it is “who” you know. Such a statement means that in Belize, loyalty is to be preferred to competence. We have seen new governments play this game. The “end” of this game is mistakes, and sometimes crookedness. With such a bad end to this system, why do we persevere in preserving it? It is because it is not that easy to deal out the faithful when the time comes to share around the pie. Fortunately, there is a mechanism…a V.P. valve to protect the integrity of the workplace.
The intent of this piece is to “inform”…apprise the new government of a system little used in Belize that can satisfy loyalists…and keep them out of harm’s way…lest they are Peter Principled and they cause the whole boat to sink. It is properly called “kicking them upstairs.”
Kicking people upstairs is a favorite system in the famous America. This system is employed in all their businesses, and is especially prominent in their sports organizations. Here’s how it works. Say you own a baseball team, and a special favorite of the fans and the organization has been placed in the driver’s seat (manager) …and he is turning out to be a dud. The brother has to go! But, how to fire him without causing undue stress on the organization? The answer: kick him upstairs!
Firing such a person is the proper thing to do. In a business it is the proper thing to do BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT IS POOR PEOPLE WHO PAY FOR EVERY FAILURE. It might seem cold, but in business, cold is sometimes necessary. Then you have to be like a bookkeeper…or an accountant…or an economist…types who relish cold (maybe next week I will devote my entire space to get you updated about that crowd).
Tender gloves are necessary when handling party favorites in the politics business because you will need them when you have to go begging for votes again. But you can’t risk spoiling the whole soup with a lot of mistakes with loyalists who might be a little shady, or not be up to the task. Yap, the thing to do is to give them an upstairs job…and the upstairs job specifically created for this purpose in most organizations is the office of vice-president. The loyalist who is absolutely absorbed by ego might have difficulty, might know the smell of V.P. and have a little difficulty accepting it. However, the perks, and the rubbing noses with top brass usually are enough soothing. And if those are not enough, there is the balm of promises. Good luck, UDP. You get this free advice because I don’t want unu fu goh du fool. Unu si weh happen tu da other crowd.
Lesbians working very hard
If you have those PG-13/R-rated movie channels, you’ll have seen a heavy dose of girl on girl these past few weeks. You know what we can expect a little down the road….BOYS messing! Really, it isn’t fair. There you are innocently watching a movie, when they sneak up on you. Give an A for decency to FRIGHT WEEK…you know when they are on. Maybe we can’t stop these people, but they should announce themselves so innocents don’t get caught.
I should have smelled the rat when pretty what’s her name number one said to pretty what’s her name number two, who is drunk like a skunk, by the way, that she can’t go to bed without undressing. Of course she can go to bed without undressing…and of course all male types hang around to see what happens next. Bah, what happens next is a passionate kiss (miss drunk as a skunk revives 100% for that), and what’s her name number one discovering the truth about herself. I didn’t stick around to watch the end of this show, so I can’t tell if wires got uncrossed in the end.
I got caught by another one of these shows, too. Imagine my shock when the true love that pretty what’s her name A leaves her devoted man for, is another her. Even the parents are in on this romance, to save “true love.” In the center of town they cause traffic jam just so pretty what’s her name A can link up in front of the world with her true love, miss pretty what’s her name B.
You can push like poles of a magnet together but they’ll never stick. You can push the button on a flashlight all night and you won’t fire a bulb if the batteries are not set right. But faultily wired humans can produce sparks.
Anyway, males know that this girl business is our failure, so we don’t hate girls for their confusion. It’s homosexuality we have problems with. Where that is concerned we’ve gone so far as to allow privacy of the closet for their rudeness. Now they are pushing it in our face. It isn’t funny. How absurd to find glory in human failure.