Helpful tip, Connie: replace your keyboard, the caps lock and question mark keys are stuck.

Peppina, you might want to know that poisonous and toxic mean the same thing and that this is a blog not a chatroom.

As you say, how many of us have worked for bosses that are far less skilled and able? Sadly the norm. I once told my boss in all seriousness ‘Int imissek tbus l-art li nimxi fuqha’, after increasing his revenues by millions of liri. I never got any respect and left a couple of years later. It pains me to think of the utter lack of respect that so many people have in Malta. It is truly appalling.

you cannot see light with mercury bulbs – they are poisionous and toxic like some of you in this chat room

[Daphne – Oooooooooh. Nesty! At least some of us use our real names, sweetheart.]

True. It still seems to be a bumpy road to achieve some improvement regarding the infrastructure…and what there is of it is not being maintained.

Yes, hopefully he will crack this one as well. Unfortunately many people who own buses are going to be very badly hurt financially. People who bought buses seven years ago, when none of these reforms were envisaged, at Lm 70,000 a bus. People who took out loans based on the situation at that time.

Instead of making a clean sweep, there should have been some mitigating factors in place. Riding roughshod over these people will not do the government any favours at all.

People want these positions because it looks good on the CV, and because of what perks remain. They can keep them in my opinion. But f it had to be me in the driving seat, I would put people who question my judgement but who are loyal, not glorified yes-men.

Recognition does not mean money, or titles, or anything else. A good morning is enough sometimes. Even that is not forthcoming.

[Daphne – That’s just bad manners. It has nothing to do with politics, because it’s right across the board in Malta. In the course of my work, I often have to tour the premises of large companies and corporations, accompanied by a senior executive. I am invariably negatively impressed by how these senior executives walk past their employees in corridors, halls and rooms without greeting them or so much as nodding in acknowledgement. I don’t expect them to be able to greet them by name – when there are hundreds of people around, this is difficult, though heaven knows our headmistress, with her 400 pupils, somehow managed it. But a simple good morning would be enough. On one or two occasions I found myself saying hello automatically or exchanging a couple of words while my host blanked his personnel as though they were invisible.]