Reply #16: Well, I was working [View All]

[spindrifter]

overseas for an NGO. The Chief of Party was from a different English-speaking country. The boss begins by telling me how much she dislikes Americans. Okay. She only has 10 years of experience with overseas work, including a stint with the UN. She decides to get some jewelry repaired, so one of the national staff finds a jeweler for her. She gives him the piece. He returns it and tells her it will cost $15. Boss lady pitches a fit and throws $6 dollars at him, telling him he can take it or leave it. It's national staff payday. Two guys who had been getting a couple hundred dollars a month show up and she says she's not paying them for the past month, and their services are no longer needed. It's a Muslim country. She wears jeans out in public with huge holes cut in the butt and across the legs along with a tank top. She tells everyone that two other internationals on staff don't think "like us,"--i.e., linearly, even though they are accomplishing the tasks in their contracts. She yells at national staff in front of their peers. And that's only the tip of the iceberg.