The bachelorhood of the catholic priest is
well-known, however after 2007 we will get
to know the bachelorhood of the UN civil servant.
Why? Simply because who would be willing
to marry a UN staff member and be obliged
to quit his/her job every five years, leave his/her
house, friends, change the kids’ school, change
his/her environment and language, become permanently
homeless, just for the sake of a UN
rule? The answer is simple: nobody.
That is why only bachelors will be working
for the UN, because they are the only ones
that will have no problem in living in a camping
car, the only home that a civil servant will
be able to have to avoid packing and unpacking
boxes to move all the time.
This entire operation, whose absurdity
does not have to be demonstrated, is discriminatory,
it favours bachelors with a nomadic
spirit, to the detriment of men and women
who want a family base. It is to be expected
that at one point the UN will be sued by a
civil servant who is getting divorced for “destruction of family life”.
Some highly skilled bureaucrats have
already invented the 360-degree mobility,
which consist of moving from one side of the
desk to the other, but this invention is still
inapplicable, because it is no secret that OHRM
is so weakened that it would not be able to
manage such a masquerade. At this moment,
the New York chief of personnel has resigned
since last June and has not yet been replaced,
while in Geneva we have not had any chief of
personnel for months. The weakness of OHRM
is such that it is obliged to rehire retirees to
manage a few recruitment cases which are currently
needed. At this rate in 2007 the UN will
have to empty the retirement homes to cope
with its new rotation system.
At a moment when the organization is
passing through difficult times, it seems to
me that there are more urgent things to do
than implement a totally useless and
impracticable system which in addition will
totally disorganize the work of the UN and
demoralize its staff.
