surprised at some social behaviour

one of the things that people do normally is to blame the government.. . and i believe it is a universal phenomenon that poeple blame the governmnet for everything that goes wrong.. which is ok.. i believe that the government plays the major role in shaping the deterioration in a community.. especially one where we lack the implementation of the rule of law... however, dealing with Egyptian workers in the last few months led me to an astonishing outcome... i wouldn't say it is out of a social study, proper research or out of using methods and criteria to measure the behaviour of these workers.. these are just observations with regard to the attitude of these workers.. which to an extent saves the government a bit of the blame,. or we can say the onus is on both the government and the people of this country..

first of all.. let me note that in poverty... poeple act differently that those who are at least can live ok.. so, it might be understandable that they will try to grasp as much money as possible in the shortest duration of work possible.. but it means they will do the job to get the money...
some of us may think this is greediness.. which is true.. however, it is also a very short sighted way to proceed in life.. if a worker doesn't do the right job because he or she blieved that they were not compensated properly.. although they have agreed with the employer about the value of their work before hand.. the employer will never deal with this worker again.. same if it was a rip off and an abuse of a situation.. so.. to sum up this point.. it is part of a whole value system that is built on spend what you have in your pocket .. you will get the unkown.. that is an Egyptian proverb.. but it is deep.. if we analyse this proverb.. we will find that it is really initiating dependency on destiny without an effort and not devaluating the effect of the material, which in this context is money.. but it actually incites short sightedness..

if those workers receive 1 pound, 10 pounds, or 1000 pounds in a day.. they will spend them all.. they will leave nothing for tomorrow.. although.. they may not have any work for weeks.. beyond my comprehension!

second, getting back to the poor worker, who actually stays all day long smoking and drinking coffee on a local cafe until he might be requested to do a job.. he doesn't have a permenant source of living, he doesn't have an income and he awaits the mighty god to send him a job where he can earn a little bit to feed his family... this worker, if lucky in his childhood, might have had a chance to receive a little bit of education that left him barely able to read and write or is totally illiterate.

now.. the all mighty sent a guy looking for a worker, so he asked in the local cafe the guys and he was able to spot that poor worker.. asking him pls can you carry some stuff for me.. can you bring some guys with you to assist in the job.. so, the response will be sure.. anything .. ..then he starts asking .. where is the place? how far is it from his location? how long will the job take? and what type of goods he will carry? and to which floor?.. etc.. which is ok, because he will need to make an estimate to the labour hours and the effort he will exert in order to request for the right amount of compensation to his work.. then he starts by a gross lump sum... and he requests that this should be what he recevies from the employer to do the job.. bargaining starts.. the funny thing is.. at a certain point.. which is actually somehow is the majority of those workers.. they will insist on a gross amount and if not they are not interested.. does that mean they are just waiting for a miracle because maybe someone else will come in the following hour requesting workers to do similar jobs and will pay more.. which might not happen of course.. because the poor worker can stay in this cafe for a week or 2 penniless and drinking the coffee without paying for it until he gets a job.. so no sustainbale income.. but he rather prefers to stay there doing nothing than go work for 2 or 3 hours that will get him an amount of money that he believes less than what he deserves!

third, they look at the employer.. who will be mostly one of those who occupy a white collared job or his tools for survival might be a pen, paper and an office.. as if he or she is a relaxed individual, who earns a lot of money for little work.. and we should do what we can to pull out as much money as possible from that employer.. they don't see that this employer might be working 15 or 18 hours a day to afford the kind of living he or she leads.. yet.. this is not forseen as well...

for me.. the real puzzle is.. how can a human being prefers to live penniless, suffering humiliation because of lack of any financial support to his living, yet when he gets a job .. he is like the king of consultants and the world will not be able to function without him! is it the doom of the pharaos or what? i don't have an answer to this dilemma.. but this is only one thing that i note that people are to be blamed for thier deterioration.. there are jobs to be done but they don't want to do them.. they look down at these jobs although these might be the only things that they are qualified to do! i will end up by raising one question.. how many people in this class of the community are really interested to work to afford their living?