THE PRIVATE SECTOR CRISIS

For those who dont know i am in a new job.The company i am now with has offered me a part time job while in school but requested my services in the month of August. I now know the meaning of culture shock. The public sector is, in comparison, a wonderful lixurious world of order and supply. I order, and the purchasing department supplies. Not so in the world of the private sector.

I get the feeling that wasting funds is contageous or i have caught the youthful exuberance of our wonderful minister Paulwell. At my old job when in need of equipment and other ammenities i simply place an order for the best, most technologically advanced and user friendly (i worked at the Scientific Research Council- we should be at the cutting edge). Here at my new job i find myself cutting the corners of a circular object.

They asked me to set up a microbiology lab. Being youthfully exuberant i in my infinite wisdom make a detailed list of the equipment needed to set up an efficient well functioning laboratory that would run as a well oiled engine. With confidence i presented this budget to the director. She smiled. i have discovered in my short experience with directors, that it is never a good thing if they smile when discussing money. BE WARY OF THE SMILE. She inturn gave me a budget, i smiled.

So if you see me looking a bit perplexed and frazzled, know it was because of the smile.

P.S. i need someone who works at customs to help me out with a thing.