A lot can happen in the first hour of waking up that determines your mood for the day.
Today my bawab (door man) decided to interfere with my daily rituals that set me off to a good or okay day.
He volunteered to tell me that the guy from the phone company that came to fix my phone (2 weeks late by the way) was pissed that i did not give him any money. So my bawab gave him money. So i told him not to go around giving money on my behalf or for me, it's his JOB to fix phones and i pay his company enough. His justification was that if we don't tip him then the next time a phone stops working in the building he will not come straight away and will stall for a couple of days before coming to fix it.
This is just classic! if the bawab expects me to give him his money back then he is WRONG! if he has too much money and wants to be charitable, he can do so on his own budget not on mine. And if he can do that then we are obviously paying him too much, that an electrician working for the phone company is getting charity from a bawab!
As for that idiot phone guy - if he wanted a better job, he should have studied well in high school and got into a good FREE university and make more instead of playing in the streets, smoking up and watching porn and end up in some technical institute that would make him blue collar for the rest of his life. I shouldn't pay for his poor choices. And i know the bullshit about him not making enough money and life is expensive and he has to feed his family - but he should have thought of that when he smoked his J instead of going to class!
I hate that everyone expects a tip to do THEIR FREAKING JOB!
I really hope Nasser is burning in the depth of hell right now with whips and hot flaming stones being constantly thrown at that fragile useless communist body of his, and when i meet him there i will give him a nice big kick in the crotch...
I am having a bad Egypt day!
3 comments:
Though I agree with you in the broad lines, but I have to tell you that I wish you the best of luck next time the phone line is broken!
I know that you are probably not in the mood to hear my opinion.. but I am that bitchy friend that will be honest with you...
So, first of all.. .I love ya babe!!
Anyway, don't judge the guy. Maybe he wasn't out smoking a joint. maybe he was taking care of his family because his father passed away. maybe he had to work since he was a kid to help make ends meet and could not study harder. You cannot make money to buy dinner when you are stuck studying. Sometimes it could be a matter of life or death...
Maybe the guy had a hard life.
Now, as for tipping him. Yeah it sucks ass to tip people to get them to do what they are paid for. It pisses me off too.. But, I would much rather give him the cash and get my shit done.
Now, as for your doorman. He made a bad decision. i do not know why but they always do. but I think he made the decision with good intentions. It does make a difference. He thought he was helping to make your life easier.
So, he can also make your life a living hell.. just give him back the cash and ask him not to do that again.
It mighr save you from having another shitty Egypt day sometime soon...
Hope your day gets better!
So move to the US of A!
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