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January 05, 2005

Make time in your day

to read each day The Diplomad (now added to my blogroll) ...

...as long as your stomach is strong enough to look at the squirming, maggoty UN in all its repulsive glory. Today's post is another spectacle of depravity.

UNIDO's office was run by a former Minister of Industry from another West African country. This man was known in his home country as "Mr. Ten Percent," which was roughly the amount of his personal kickback from any contract he awarded. On Mr. Ten Percent's UNIDO staff was a young, idealistic European career UN worker, thinking she would help the poor in a needy country during this particular assignment. But Mr. Ten Percent had other ideas. The UN system had taught him that for someone from his continent, international affirmative action had no limits. He insisted that she have sex with him as part of the regular work routine. She refused. He proceeded to wreck her UN career, and then as a reward, was promoted to a very senior position at UNIDO headquarters in Vienna. It's possible that he's still there, earning big bucks.
Lovely.

Posted by Darleen at January 5, 2005 06:45 AM

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