How I Lose Jobs

Isn't it tragic how contemporary society can't find use for literature and humanities? For the sake of argument, I will say we - we are so myopic that we devastate indigenous plant seed banks, be this Croatia or Iraq. The new seed, as I hear, you have to buy each year, so the question is now: "You want to eat? You buy."

But let me tell you how this works on micro-level, for the ordinary thinking individual. (I'm sure the upper rungs contain anything from treats to threats.)

God, at least four or five years ago I was interviewed by a German "consultant" for an interpreter post in a project within the Croatian pension fund. Some reorganisation of a kind, that would last a year, and that I had witnessed enough in the national oil company. My personal belief is the woman was in and out without figuring out anything, destroying boxes of paper.

Full 30 minutes into the interview, obnoxious German woman: "So, you really don't have any further questions about this wonderful project of mine?"

Obnoxious me: "Well, I was actually present at many meetings and sometimes you feel like saying something - but this is not my job. I say what you say."