When Cain and Abel Tango
It isn’t surprising that locals are their worse own enemies at a time when the economy is down and the job market turns into a venue to deny locals employment opportunities.
Even employers have treated new job openings as renewals in order to avoid hiring locals whose employment would require training and other expenses. More often than not, new employees would use this opportunity to bounce around until they find some meaning in their jobs.
It is really sad though that our very own local managers have found it appropriate to deny jobs for retirees who wish to secure gainful employment. For instance, a vacancy announcement sought for a purchasing manager in one of the hotels. A local applicant with years of purchasing experience submitted an application only to be told by the personnel director to “give it up”. In fact, he was told that he doesn’t have the requisite qualifications as per the vacancy announcement.
Then another vacancy was out for an administrative assistant with wage offer of between $5-$10 an hour. An experienced local applicant submitted his application with more than 18 years as an administrator who subsequently was quizzed whether he would like to work for $5 an hour. He replied that he’s had more than 18 years of experience and it would be foolhardy to accept the menial offer for a job he knows through and through. He refused to accept the salary being offered by the local manager.
If we’re our own worse enemies, then there’s really no room for positive development and assimilation of the local work force in a rather very tight job market. Apparently, we’ve seen fit to play-up the Crab Mentality of denying our very own the opportunity to get off the welfare rolls who longed to be productive members of this community. It was really the saddest day of my life to learn that in fact we are our own worse enemies who still boast that the Crab Mentality is well and alive!
This qualitative issue is definitely a matter that most elected leaders have seen fit to ignore and neglect altogether. What good is progress if in the process it leaves most US Citizens (Chamorros and Carolinians) to fend for themselves? What’s even most egregious is our apparent ability to sport and revive the biblical story of Cain and Abel. I find this despicable and for once in our lifetime, let us learn the essence of our goals which simply means that we can forge brighter tomorrows by allowing our people direct participation in all that we call progress. I still find this juvenile attitude a bad nightmare. And we can only move forward together by transcending the scarcity mentality.
Of role models in our community
We hold our teachers and principals with high esteem for their roles in preparing our children to deal with new challenges ahead. We hold them dearly in our hearts because of this role–models our children emulate despite the myriad of issues they must deal with in their dedicated efforts to be good citizens.
It is for this reason that I find it highly offensive to see a principal of a certain school here arrested for juvenile behavior as a result of consuming one drink too many. I’m going to probe this issue to see who is this person and even insist that he either stays away from binge drinking or submit his resignation as principal of the school.
Indeed, as head of a reputable school, I can understand going off the ranch behavior every once in a full moon. But your position of responsibility must take first fiddle as to even transcend human fallibility. Imagine the discipline you’ve imposed among students who hold you in high esteem because they’re convinced that you’re a role model to follow. Well, no harm intended here. I certainly understand and despite the recent infraction, your students still hold you in high esteem.
