Monday, October 22, 2007

"SCAM, SCAM, WHO GIVES A DAMN?!"

The need for employment has a way of reaching into one's life and beating the crap out of all forms of pride one might possess to attain the simple needs in life-in other words-you'll accept what you can get until something better comes along. Well folks, this is a story about a huge project to repair, rebuild, and restore ancient walls completely surrounding a city in Spain-the city I live in-Daroca. This place has walls which were used to protect the city from invasions back in the Xth century and a "EUROPEAN" project was created, funded, and approved in order to fix the walls in the same way they were built so long ago. Can you guess where the money ended up? If you can, please tell me, because I am on the 10 person team that is supposed to be doing the work and we haven't even approached one of the walls yet. The only thing we have been doing is working like I imagine slaves did so many years ago with a pick, shovel, hammers, and lime, dirt, sand, and rocks to simulate the process used back then to restore the walls. We have so far created a single wall, and are working on another in the middle of nowhere. The "LEADERS" we have to work for have a brand new 4-wheel drive vehicle to go back and forth all day while we pick at dirt and pile it high to make walls. It takes any competent ass about a day or two to get the jest of the whole opporation, yet we laborously dig on day after day. No one picks us up in the morning to take us up on the mountain-yes mountain where we work. We have the option to walk-20 to 30 minutes, depending if you want to breath or not-or you may tear up your own personal vehicle on the shitty dirt roads leading up to the project-all at your personal expense. How much money was funded for transportation? The whole thing is so unbelievable-it's like living in a nightmare because once I've walked the 300 meter plus accent each morning, I then have to walk another mile to the place where we have our huts-no electricity-no water-only a port-o-potty that we have never used. Their excuse for our mandatory treck is that we must sign in on a sheet of paper every day like we are going to lie every day about our attendance-give me a f#^%ing break! These people are either theives or retarded-I haven't figured it out yet. The only reason I even signed up for the job was because it is the only employment in this city that has been offered to me in 8 years. I am a graduate of the University of Maine, City colleges of Chicago, and have thousands of hours logged with Technical schools from Atlanta, Georgia to Orange County, California in Electronic systems. I even went to a 500 hour course in Computer Science over here in Spain to attain local paperwork for a better resume and it hasn't accomplished anything. I have been registered in their unemployment office for 8 years and they called me to work in this pitifull labor camp-talk about your third world country. They say we'll be paid a thump just above minimum wages once a month-I'll believe that when I see it in the account. I just wonder how much total funding was provided to save the walls we haven't even been a part of yet. If you know, by all means, let me know too.