Thursday, November 1, 2007

Administration /The african way

This is my personal experience and hearing from others at diner table in Central Africa. I met a chinese office lady who told me that her office hours is Monday till Saturday from 8 am to 6 pm 6 dayand a half days a week. Yes she also work on SUnday morning. She said this is African hours. The five days of the week she work on her own job the Saturday whole day and the half day on Sunday morning is reserve for reviewing teh work of the locals ( Congolese) and correct the mistakes. This is smart of them. I remember Daniel and his wife from Socofran they went on holidays to Nairobi /Kenya with Hewabora air lines got their tickets and even book their seats on business class but never check. The day they showed up at their seats on the plane check in and suitcases check under the plane ready to go,they found out that their seats have been occupied by someone else. SO they ask to check their boarding pass and everything and they saw that these people got the right seats. How about Daniel and his wife they also got the same seats in the same plane but with different destination. The Hewabora ticket lady put them on teh same plane but to Brussels not Nairobi. And that's the lesson of not have the habit of checking twice. So I think teh Chinese are smart to set aside one day and a half each week to do just that. I don't know about other companies but the checking is better be done by expat. That's why so much expats is needed here. Simply to check thing like destination on plane tickets is just one of many example. Everything need to be check if anything at all will go forward.

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