”Office hours”

...will keep their toll

Another Kasku in Finnish language

”Office hours”

I called today 8:44am to our parliament (in Finland)

I asked (I am not crazy so I speak politely trying to progress my issues) if they have any suggestion to receive guidelines or perhaps a printed letter for those who are wanting to set oneself a candidate in a parliamentary elections.

The helpful operator guided me saying ”You can not WANT to be an candidate in Finland*”. I was thinking to myself this
delay when switiching to a perosn but agreed she was probably right no-one really can WANT to be an candidate in Finland.
Whatever she tried to switch further to connect someone. When the phonecall hit back soon to operator she told me that the "office hours will start from 9". I asked while
we are so close to the starting point of the official offuice hours could she have in her mind any other person or office where clerks or secretaries. Suddenly nearly angrily the reply was
from the parliament operator with finnish slang words (unable to translate) " Hey like I toldya we start the wrokingsay from ..**" I thought this was too much of an insult for Finnish Parliament and our Citizens and hanged up the conversation.

However this is not an peculair and random phenomeon in Finnish Governing Institutes.
The national social security office, the unemployment office even at some places the post office clerks will not wake up until for 9 am. However they closed their doors often 15.45 pm.
And the lunch hour is probably for an hour. I guess this is a common disease in a bureacratic insttues offering a safe place to practise things which have receiuved the label to be mentioned for a work.
If You call to the Hospital You never reach the doctors at morning either. Last time I visited the hospital to bring my reclamation I faced up the slight suggestions of the core of the bureacracy when the elctricity was down. The doors of the entrance of the emergency were jammed and people who were seeking help was turning away thinking the place was closed. I approacghed the clerk and suggested that perhaps a good idea would be write a in a sheet of a paper that "Please knock and wait peacefully, we have electricity down" or perhaps You might arrange
a portier so that the customers does not have to work for free. The thing which happens
is a symbol of the core of our bureacracy which waits a healthy political litetrary attack
to make our society more workable. I admit I was not too much surprised but howveer a little bit, when the clerks who seemed to have nothing to do in their reception raised literally their both hands in the air and gasp in panic that it is not their job we have to wait their portier.

I admit being 10 years unemploeyd in a homefront I suddenly find myself burning of desire
to use a slightest amount of intiatitve, independence and leadership and as I find out it is so easy to be a hero in Finnish Bureacratical Offices I suggested with a slight punctutaion (howveer I had to levelized not taking to a shrink being too enthusiastic) "You surely can not seriously claim this place is so burecratic that You can not make a move to handle the minor crisis and let people come in, at least this is an emergency". I find out later that someother nurse had heard and been probably being shamed and then the door were opened.

As an overenthusiastic unemployed I unload my emotional burdens rather in here than speak them to the wasteful basket of the shrink which bear no development of our society with an inch to bury our problems. Even a tehoretical and minor, howver before the occurrement I had discussed just for
a small talk if they have need educated for the case of an emergency and do they know where the
spare electricity is produced and does it continue for ever or what happens if the alternavative electricity source will be jammed. The poor nurse of course did not know and she
said they have had do education of whatsoever.
So I guess there is pklace for a critic for more or then I have been in the homefront too long
while there is so much more activity that people seemed to be less alert at the workplaces.




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