Right now Denmark is in lockdown. Thanks to the COVID-19 virus we are barred from almost all aspects in our social life.
For many it is time to look why this situation happened so fast and what we can do in the future from allowing this to happen again.
What the crisis did show us, is that is DENMARK FIRST!
We as member of The European Union saw no country speaking about what all countries should do as a Union. Instead we all each country fencing themselves up preventing people from entering their country bringing the virus in even when the country inside was suffering.
The countries who are doing best right now is the countries who were the fastest to block foreigners from entering their country. In Denmark the number of people committed to the hospitals are dropping. Denmark was very fast blocking their borders. The results are clear. The European Union is dead. The countries within the Union are not because they skipped the thoughts of an union and acted selfish.
This the lesson we can provide to our children and it is the very lesson, they can use to survive the next pandemic. Because there will be a new pandemic. I will not make theories about the cause. Was it Mao's final revenge after his approach forced people to eat whatever could be eaten so illness can pass between animals and humans? Is it the new 5G network? Was it an attempt to make people think less about how Hong-Kong should be handled by the government in China that went out of control?
We can only speculate and it is not really important.
What is important is how we live in the future. What will we do to prevent virus from spreading in the future. How can we isolate ourselves from the rest of the world? How can we motive people to travel less and conduct less business with firms abroad?
These are the questions we need to ask ourselves.
I wish you the best and will go back in isolation again.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Thursday, July 4, 2019
in France your title matters
In France, your title matters. People who have worked for French firms know that the distance from management to employer on the floor is very long.
In many even big companies, you can run a firm with 4 or perhaps 5 layers between the top management and the people working on the floor. In French firms 7 or 8 such layers are not uncommon.
So when a Danish truck driver - Torben Nielsen - drove on his first job as a truck driver, he stood no chance when the truck was stopped in customs and they found drugs. He had just been hired and ordered to drive a truck to Denmark and had no chance to know what was inside the sealed truck. Now he will suffer 6 years in prison in France.
In fact the local Danish job-center had ordered him to take the job or suffer punishment work without pay as it is common in Denmark.
The Danish job-market
When you are fired and unemployed in Denmark, you have to report to the local job-center. Here the case worker has a long list of personal friends where you can be sent to be "job-tested" working an ordinary job but your salary is in fact the unemployment benefit and you do not earn the right to vacation. Sometime like in the case of Torben Nielsen, they send you to an employer telling you to take the job or lose your benefit.
Normally the employers working close together with the case workers at the job-centers are in the export business where salary levels are important, so by hiring a large number of unemployed people while they "job-train" them for free, they can get an edge in the international business.
The losers are of course the unemployed people who in the long run will be unable to pay rent and move out of the cities to the parts of Denmark called "The Rotten Banana" robbing not only themselves of a future but also their children because out there you find no schools beyond elementary levels.
This situation is a result of labor reforms made in the 1990's. Labor reforms, the French president Macron are pushing for in France too. However unlike the Danish trade unions which are good for nothing, the labor movement in France has been able to stop this degrading treatment of ordinary tax-payers.
Did Torben Nielsen have any chance of preventing being a part of a criminal organization?
No. Once ordered by a job-center he had to report to a job appointed to him by his employer. In such a situation, he was not allowed to ask questions. You might ask yourselves if picking something up in Spain is not being guilty because earlier cases have shown that tourists in Spain has been blackmailed to collect drugs in South America based on photos hacked by the smugglers where the criminals claim that they will kill someone at home if they do participate.
Spain is the center of most criminal activities in the drug traffic, so yes - Torben Nielsen should have been suspicious. No Danish truck driver has any business south of Germany. That is something which should be left to drivers from the eastern part of Europe who are willing to take risk without thinking of the consequences of other people who might be on the road that day. But then again: We do not know what connection the case worker in the job-center had with Torben Nielsen's employer. Could it be that the case worker actually was in on it and wanted to frame Torben Nielsen? Or are Torben Nielsen one of those people who is not aware about the world outside Denmark and believe the best in people?
If you are unemployed in Denmark and do not behave
The case-workers have punishment in mind of those of the unemployed who do not accept everything the case worker says.
They can be force people into training sessions. Often firms are hired to punish people. Some people were ordered to sit with their feet in cold water all day "to improve their stamina". It did not matter if they caught a cold or even got pneumonia. If they quit, they could lose their unemployment benefit.
Is Torben Nielsen victim of xenophobia?
A bit. He is a foreigner in France. But he also just doing an ordinary job with no good job-title. Customer care, shop-assistant and truck driver are not considered something you choose as line of business for other than fun. He is a victim and now he has six years to accept that.
Sources (In Danish)
In many even big companies, you can run a firm with 4 or perhaps 5 layers between the top management and the people working on the floor. In French firms 7 or 8 such layers are not uncommon.
So when a Danish truck driver - Torben Nielsen - drove on his first job as a truck driver, he stood no chance when the truck was stopped in customs and they found drugs. He had just been hired and ordered to drive a truck to Denmark and had no chance to know what was inside the sealed truck. Now he will suffer 6 years in prison in France.
In fact the local Danish job-center had ordered him to take the job or suffer punishment work without pay as it is common in Denmark.
The Danish job-market
When you are fired and unemployed in Denmark, you have to report to the local job-center. Here the case worker has a long list of personal friends where you can be sent to be "job-tested" working an ordinary job but your salary is in fact the unemployment benefit and you do not earn the right to vacation. Sometime like in the case of Torben Nielsen, they send you to an employer telling you to take the job or lose your benefit.
Normally the employers working close together with the case workers at the job-centers are in the export business where salary levels are important, so by hiring a large number of unemployed people while they "job-train" them for free, they can get an edge in the international business.
The losers are of course the unemployed people who in the long run will be unable to pay rent and move out of the cities to the parts of Denmark called "The Rotten Banana" robbing not only themselves of a future but also their children because out there you find no schools beyond elementary levels.
This situation is a result of labor reforms made in the 1990's. Labor reforms, the French president Macron are pushing for in France too. However unlike the Danish trade unions which are good for nothing, the labor movement in France has been able to stop this degrading treatment of ordinary tax-payers.
Did Torben Nielsen have any chance of preventing being a part of a criminal organization?
No. Once ordered by a job-center he had to report to a job appointed to him by his employer. In such a situation, he was not allowed to ask questions. You might ask yourselves if picking something up in Spain is not being guilty because earlier cases have shown that tourists in Spain has been blackmailed to collect drugs in South America based on photos hacked by the smugglers where the criminals claim that they will kill someone at home if they do participate.
Spain is the center of most criminal activities in the drug traffic, so yes - Torben Nielsen should have been suspicious. No Danish truck driver has any business south of Germany. That is something which should be left to drivers from the eastern part of Europe who are willing to take risk without thinking of the consequences of other people who might be on the road that day. But then again: We do not know what connection the case worker in the job-center had with Torben Nielsen's employer. Could it be that the case worker actually was in on it and wanted to frame Torben Nielsen? Or are Torben Nielsen one of those people who is not aware about the world outside Denmark and believe the best in people?
If you are unemployed in Denmark and do not behave
The case-workers have punishment in mind of those of the unemployed who do not accept everything the case worker says.
They can be force people into training sessions. Often firms are hired to punish people. Some people were ordered to sit with their feet in cold water all day "to improve their stamina". It did not matter if they caught a cold or even got pneumonia. If they quit, they could lose their unemployment benefit.
Is Torben Nielsen victim of xenophobia?
A bit. He is a foreigner in France. But he also just doing an ordinary job with no good job-title. Customer care, shop-assistant and truck driver are not considered something you choose as line of business for other than fun. He is a victim and now he has six years to accept that.
Sources (In Danish)
- Fik nedslående besked i fængslet: Brød sammen (Ekstra Bladet)
- Aktivering fik ældre dame til at græde (Ekstra Bladet)
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Brought down by political corruption in Zambia
Kim Andersen was an ordinary business man selling helicopters in Zambia. Suddenly a rigged election brought a new tribe came into power and ended his business career. He tried to go into other business ventures but in the end the new political elite in the country cooked up charges and he ended in prison.
Long gone is the structure and peace created by Cecil Rhodes. The entire country is a turmoil of political corruption. Not even the railroad built by the cost of Chinesee lives are properly maintained.
Of course he should have left the country once the so-called election went against his backers. In fact such countries deserve neighter our business opportunies or the money from tourists.
Now Kim Andersen is back in Denmark where the state of Denmark realizing that unjust was done has given him a small apartment and a plan to be reintegrated back into the Danish society.
Hopefully his story will be a warning against young people trying seek careers outside Denmark. The business ethics which he worked by, is typical for people with modest social heritage. If you are born poor, your life will be served if you serve in a Danish firm in Denmark than living abroad and taking chances, which can make you vulnerable toward obviously unfounded criminal charge.
Long gone is the structure and peace created by Cecil Rhodes. The entire country is a turmoil of political corruption. Not even the railroad built by the cost of Chinesee lives are properly maintained.
Of course he should have left the country once the so-called election went against his backers. In fact such countries deserve neighter our business opportunies or the money from tourists.
Now Kim Andersen is back in Denmark where the state of Denmark realizing that unjust was done has given him a small apartment and a plan to be reintegrated back into the Danish society.
Hopefully his story will be a warning against young people trying seek careers outside Denmark. The business ethics which he worked by, is typical for people with modest social heritage. If you are born poor, your life will be served if you serve in a Danish firm in Denmark than living abroad and taking chances, which can make you vulnerable toward obviously unfounded criminal charge.
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