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Just plain evil
Feb. 13th, 2009 10:00 amForgive me, flist, for another rant about the Ambassador. There won't be many more, since I've only got three more months. But that woman still manages to amaze me with her evil pettiness, at least from time to time, and now is such a time. So I have to rant.
This is the situation:
One of our local staff (factotum, i.e. part driver, part receptionist, part errand boy) , let us call him Hasan, earns about YTL 1500 (€ 750) per month. It's not a bad salary, but with a wife and two teenaged daughters he can't put away much. The wife and one of the daughters need medical treatment - I'm not sure what it is, but it has to be rather serious, and he was so distressed and visibly unwilling to say more that I didn't prod - which is going to cost between 5000 and 6000 YTL. Turky does of course have a public health care system, but those of you who remember my tales of woe of last July, when I had to go to a public hospital for a rabies shot, will understand that no responsible father/husband would want his precious ones to be treated there. Especially since Hasan has grown up in Germany and is therefore able to judge the quality of Turkish public hospitals by comparison.
OK, so he decided that they'll have to be treated privately, which costs a shitload of money.
It is not uncommon for the ministry to grant interest-free loans to both expat and local staff. The instalments are then deducted from the salary. Usually, depending on the monthly income, such loans are paid back in 20 - 40 instalments. In Hasan's case it would be more like 40, of course, considering his salary and the sum he needs to borrow.
So the bitch writes me a mail, requesting me to prepare the necessary paperwork, and states explicitly that "20 instalments are out of the question. The number must be significantly smaller."
Apaper from the fact that it isn't up to her to decide the number of instalments, how vicious, cruel and antisocial do you have to be, even to try and make the man pay back between 400 and 500 YTL per month, i.e. a third of his salary? I'd like to see *her*, if she desperately needs money and has to take out a loan four times her monthly income, and then having to pay it back in ten instalments.
People like that make me sick to the heart.
This is the situation:
One of our local staff (factotum, i.e. part driver, part receptionist, part errand boy) , let us call him Hasan, earns about YTL 1500 (€ 750) per month. It's not a bad salary, but with a wife and two teenaged daughters he can't put away much. The wife and one of the daughters need medical treatment - I'm not sure what it is, but it has to be rather serious, and he was so distressed and visibly unwilling to say more that I didn't prod - which is going to cost between 5000 and 6000 YTL. Turky does of course have a public health care system, but those of you who remember my tales of woe of last July, when I had to go to a public hospital for a rabies shot, will understand that no responsible father/husband would want his precious ones to be treated there. Especially since Hasan has grown up in Germany and is therefore able to judge the quality of Turkish public hospitals by comparison.
OK, so he decided that they'll have to be treated privately, which costs a shitload of money.
It is not uncommon for the ministry to grant interest-free loans to both expat and local staff. The instalments are then deducted from the salary. Usually, depending on the monthly income, such loans are paid back in 20 - 40 instalments. In Hasan's case it would be more like 40, of course, considering his salary and the sum he needs to borrow.
So the bitch writes me a mail, requesting me to prepare the necessary paperwork, and states explicitly that "20 instalments are out of the question. The number must be significantly smaller."
Apaper from the fact that it isn't up to her to decide the number of instalments, how vicious, cruel and antisocial do you have to be, even to try and make the man pay back between 400 and 500 YTL per month, i.e. a third of his salary? I'd like to see *her*, if she desperately needs money and has to take out a loan four times her monthly income, and then having to pay it back in ten instalments.
People like that make me sick to the heart.
