I was listening to a song by Victizzle a British Gospel rapper. It’s called “Take you to the Future”. One of his first lines is “I don’t get writers block, ‘cause then I would write about writers block”. And it got me thinking, hey! I haven’t posted anything in ages. It’s been like 3 years since anything was put up and I think it’s time for me to break my silence and start a wild posting spree. I was thinking about writing something spectacular but then I was thinking too hard … so … let’s just chat.
There are a couple things on my mind today, first up is, “are Ghanaians workers efficient?” I mean if you take the average day at work, and I don’t have any evidence to back this. How much time does the average Ghanaian actually work? 1 hour, 2 hours maybe 3? I don’t know for sure but out of the 6 or 7 hours a day we are supposed to be working (lunch break not included) I have a faint feeling that we work (optimistically) 50% of the time. And when we are working, it’s sometimes suspect. I mean, I went to a DHL office and spent 10 minutes listening to the woman there talk to a friend on her cell phone just for her to finish and tell me that she can’t help me. I think I was pissed off but I cannot remember exactly.
So many companies these days are prohibiting their employee’s access to the internet, and those that do make sure to kill all links to …. FACEBOOK (and its friends Twitter, LinkedIn, hi5, etc.). The reason being, of course, is that Facebook gets more time than official work. This would be useful if every working Ghanaian didn’t have a phone that they can use to access Facebook. By the way someone should teach me how to use twitter …
I went to a particular ministry on 2 occasions (I won’t mention the one since this is embarrassing) in fact, now that I think of it I will, I went to the Register Generals office to pick up some documents at 2:30pm on a working day and was told that it was TOO LATE FOR THEM TO FIND THE DOCUMENTS and that I should come back in the morning. I asked them what time they close and was told between 4:30 and 5. Hmm makes you wonder how Ghana works if you can’t take 2 hours to find a document. ICT please come and rescue us. Anyway, enough about working. Its Friday! On to more interesting things.
No what interesting thing can I think of? Hmm…
Ooo yes I am introducing something cool to the general public and it’s called MODART. Actually it’s been around for a long time it’s just not been commercialized. You’ll hear more about it in the next post!
