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Feb 20, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
In the Stabroek News of 17 February a cartoon depicting a drunken person, sprawled on the ground, apparently just jolted out of drunken stupor by an irate employer, has apparently touched “corns”.
At the same time as the MARRIOTT construction barring local workers from employment is a hot topic, the cartoon was condemned by some individuals as ILL-TIMED, not in BAD TASTE or UNSUPPORTIVE of local expertise or even plain ANTI-GUYANESE, but ILL-TIMED??
That says that these critics of the said cartoon KNOW that the cartoon depicted the general attitude toward work in general by many Guyanese, eg: It is almost a culture with hired workers that at the end of a work week, when workers are paid it is VERY LIKELY that they don’t report for work at the beginning of the new work week, either ON TIME or NOT AT ALL. The usual trivial, flimsy excuses abound… “not feelin’ good…” or “…trans-p di’ li’l hard…” and it goes on…when the truth is they were heavily hung over from a weekend of drinking.
Some even go so far as to cease returning altogether since barrel or family come in from “foreign”. The point here is that many Guyanese do not have the WORK ETHIC they so readily and eagerly adopt when they leave these shores for those abroad and they KNOW that arriving to work ON TIME, EVERY DAY is VERY important and no flimsy, trivial excuses-PERIOD!!
The Brazilians, the Chinese and others who have their work ethics at heart are aware of this fault of local workers and the cartoon is showing the possibly “funny side “of such situations.
But believe me folks as long as we keep cussin out each other about colour of skin and texture of hair, and not noticing that foreigners recognise the value of our great country to them, cartoons will be drawn about exactly that, and you lnow what? It won’t be funny anymore…
P. Harris

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