Monday, January 21, 2008

Overweight Butterfly


Surprise - surprise, I am unemployed yet again! Or as high rank Greek public servants would call it in between employments. Or as the average 8-month contract employee in a crazilly good mood and after a couple of stiff drinks would call it 'in jobless limbo'. Project proved trickier than expected, schedules are tight and european money will stop flowing next September but there's trouble in our castle and all advanced troops have been cut off any supplies.
The fact is that our Ministy's General Secretary had been porking his contract secretary for some time while ofcourse engaging in the usual "accomodating" of enterpreneurial party friends. All this happening with very little respect for european fund expenditure regulations but with european money nevertheless. The little lady eventually got ambitious started pushing for a permanent office and eventually got to the point of filming one of their "to know us better"s and threatening to go public with that and a lot more dirtier, I'm sure, stuff. The video was indeed launched, was tossed around like a hot bun by the usual suspect journalists for a while only to land on the prime minister's communications officer desk hotter still by all this friction. Poor GS, the weight of these revelations and their consequences was insupportable, what could he do?. So as this burly but generous butterfly was flapping its wings in despair on its way down from the 4th floor somewhere in Kolonaki two poor souls were left stranded, jobless and confused in the southernmost town of Europe. Talk about chaos theory...