I have landed a nice consulting job. A large factory in the Judean mountains is being harassed by the Environmental Authorities (what is to say that they are violating environmental regulations). The management invited me to a meeting and the CEO lamented that instead of focusing on production and sales, he spends his nights worrying about the regulators. After nerve-wrecking negotiation, our native EPA agreed that they hire an expert and carry out his recommendation. Faking absolute self-confidence, I said: "Let me take this environmental burden on my shoulders. You do what you know how to do, and I'll do what I know to do which is to deal with environmental regulators, so worry no more." The next question was how much, I said a number, and wasting no more words, I was sent to tour the factory with the maintenance manager, a soft-spoken green-eyed Arab.
As it is always the case, the management was clueless and believing that their company had been singled out for a shakedown or whatever. The people actually doing the work in the shop floor knew exactly what was causing the problem. The Arab and his collegues proposed very sensible ideas. Now all I have to do is to put all down in an expert report format. A cakedance for J.
Most of the floor workers are young females. Jewesses of different tribes, Russian new immigrants, veiled Arab girls, tattooed Ethiopian negresses, anorectic Sudanese refugees. The dark Arab with disturbingly green eyes stopped near every attractive girl and flirted with them (should I say he sexually harassed them? but the girls seemed to play along.). I asked him how he can work in this Mohammed's paradise on Earth? "
Ze Kashe", he answered. "It is difficult."
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I joke with my clients that they should spend all their time attending to legal matters and none on their business. This is certainly how the bureaucrats would prefer it, or at least they are indifferent to whether you remain in business or not - this is not their concern.
K
Government employees think of business as a given, they imagine that it is a natural and inevitable phenomenon, such as the sun rising each morning.
"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on."
When a parasite thinks nothing of its host except how to extract more resources, now you have a problem.
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