Been here a few months now and experienced the delights of the head-banging bureaucracy that keeps the chosen ones in dirhams, but I thought I'd try to find out just what is the most useless employment of people who earn a few dirhams an hour to do, well, not very much.
My nominations are:
- toilet "attendants" (not cleaners) who stand around offering paper towels when they'd be much better clearing the knee-deep water and muck all over the place.
- the lift operators in the Burjaman Centre. Obviously someone thought it'd ber chic like a posh hotel but given there is only a choice of 4 floors, a man sitting on a stool pushing buttons for 12 hours a day is ridiculous. Even in this lazy age, pushing a button is not beyond most people.
- the guys who stand at road works waving red flags to tell you to slow down. Well, I say flags, often it's a piece of material about the size of a postage stamp and you don't know what he's doing until you're about 2 metres away. In other countries we have novel inventions that do this job better without the need for a daily wage, they're called road signs.
Any other "delights" I've yet to experience?