The sexual consultants
Our Administration has finally decided to do
something to improve recruitment. Up
until now, it was well-known that the United
Nations only recruited the riff-raff found in the
seediest neighborhoods who spend their time
raping and robbing widows and orphans. Now,
this period is over! Our Administration has
decided to issue an infallible form.
In the first instance all consultants and
UN contractors will be obliged to sign a
paper saying that they have read the Secretary-General’s bulletin of 9 October 2003,
ST/SGB/ 2003/13 entitled: “Special measures
for protection from sexual exploitation and
sexual abuse.” They must also conform with
the terms of this circular. Who can, except a
bureaucracy far away from real life, expect
that by signing a form a potential “Sadistic”
consultant will refrain from doing any harm?
What’s more, sending such a form to a
young female professor of a well-known University
who has to prepare a document on
quantitative analysis of investment criteria,
to a Nobel Prize winner who is invited to
make a presentation, or to the CEO of the firm
that is supposed to repair the lifts, is so
ridiculous that only a Kafka-like Administration
could survive it.
But fear not, dear colleagues, because after
a test period involving only the consultants,
from the end of May the form will have to be
completed by everybody.
The only question which remains is, what
is this test? Is the Administration going to
measure whether there is a decrease in
sexual harassment in the coming weeks?
Or is the whole point to find out whether
the United Nations, which already pays its
consultants very badly, can still find good
people prepared to work with it after they
have had to sign such a vexatious form and
seen the absurdities that our Administration
can generate!
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