[chapter-delegates] FYI - in the coming discussion of the WGIG questionnaire

[Franck Martin]

You forgot, that if you work for 5 years in the UN system, then you have 
won a retirement package valued to your last pay...

And most reports in the UN finish by:
"More consultancy is needed"

But it is a great forum where small countries seat besides big ones, and 
even this is the only reason why Castro can travel to the US. Keeping 
the communication channels open is important.

Cheers

Irwan Effendi wrote:

>I  strongly disagree if anyone says that the UN is uninterested
>"financially". They are running on deficit, we know that several nation has
>not been paying their membership dues for quite sometime, and this has put
>the UN book in the red for several million USD, the exact number is hard to
>determine due to the fact that many numbers are kept in secret.
>Thus, controlling DNS will give them a whole fresh income to blow over some
>more projects with overpaid and underworked staff. For instance, do you know
>that UN team leaders working in East Timor earns as much as USD 15000 per
>month? compare that to the average local salary of USD 100 per month, you
>got the picture.
>and no, this is not a hearsay. I have been there, I have worked alongside
>them, and I have seen their paycheck, in fact I was typing several budget
>requests in relation to their work.
>
>Capability and Performance ?
>They are 8 to 5 people, every weekend they will be somewhere in Thailand,
>Malaysia or some other nearby tourist site. Their deliver the same quality
>of work with those who work in the US for USD 3000 per month
>
>Sincerity ?
>let's jut put it this way, how often did you heard that people apply to work
>for the UN because they worry about what happen in the world ? or because
>they want to work toward world peace ? and how often you heard that people
>apply because the pay is high and they get to travel around?
>
>of course, this is not to say that there are no good souls there, because
>indeed, there must be several. But bottom line is, I wouldn't trust them to
>take care of my ISP, let alone DNS
>
>Regards,
>
>Irwan Effendi
>
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