Eskom can't take back white engineers without jumping through hoops

grok said:
Just today a circular advertising some jobs from the company I currently do work for..

We all know this means whites need not apply..

Then the manager at the client side whom I've known for years since we've worked on more than one project together phones me last week, 'please bear with me boet I just have to vent..' one of his BEE developers on our level just doesn't perform, his stuff keeps getting sent back so much so that said manager had to work last weekend to catch up on his work, but he can't do anything about it, so the rest of the developers have to take up the slack, wham bam 2 of his deliverables moved to my plate this week..

I can be fired in an instant & am performance checked regularly.. we are so equal lol.
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It's so ****ing unfair that useless people are protected by law :mad::sick:.
 
The Scorpion And The Frog is a fable about a scorpion that stings and kills a frog that was trying to help it and dies in the process. The scorpion is often interpreted as representing the nature of humans to go against their best interests, and the frog our willingness to be too trusting.

For me the scorpion is the ANC government obsessed with race while the frog is us whites. While we have critical skills shortage we still forced not to hire whites, rather go sink.
 
You I agree. You cant just take back retired engineers. You may think I am nuts, but I am not.

Many of them are in their 60-70s easily enough. And some may even have early onset Dementia or Alzheimers.

Now have you ever met a mechanic that has dementia. I have. Worse if you have a dad that has it too.

My dad took his car to his friend who was and is a mechanic. The mechanic keeps forgetting this and that and replace parts with incorrect items because he cant remember what it should be. Car stuffed up. Take it to another mechanic on my dad's behalf and get it all fixed up. Then a year goes by, try arrange my dad to take it back to the working mechanic. Following day I found out he took it to the other, and car messed up again. This is a viscious circle.

Now think about Eskom. Any little mistake and we may have a meltdown or a blown up power plant.

Thus there is a reason why we have an old age cut-off. All engineers would need to be monitored continuously for early onset Dementia or Alzheimer. Because you may laugh thing it cant be that bad.

But it really can be. One minute they know who you are and then next they dont. My dad used to goto one mall every friday. He can drive home quick. But he took 2 hours to find the mall 10 minutes from his house, yet he shopped there often before. He simply got lost.
 
Corelli said:
You I agree. You cant just take back retired engineers. You may think I am nuts, but I am not.

Many of them are in their 60-70s easily enough. And some may even have early onset Dementia or Alzheimers.

Now have you ever met a mechanic that has dementia. I have. Worse if you have a dad that has it too.

My dad took his car to his friend who was and is a mechanic. The mechanic keeps forgetting this and that and replace parts with incorrect items because he cant remember what it should be. Car stuffed up. Take it to another mechanic on my dad's behalf and get it all fixed up. Then a year goes by, try arrange my dad to take it back to the working mechanic. Following day I found out he took it to the other, and car messed up again. This is a viscious circle.

Now think about Eskom. Any little mistake and we may have a meltdown or a blown up power plant.

Thus there is a reason why we have an old age cut-off. All engineers would need to be monitored continuously for early onset Dementia or Alzheimer. Because you may laugh thing it cant be that bad.

But it really can be. One minute they know who you are and then next they dont. My dad used to goto one mall every friday. He can drive home quick. But he took 2 hours to find the mall 10 minutes from his house, yet he shopped there often before. He simply got lost.
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Yea. My Dad had Alzheimer's before he died @72 yrs. Also got lost driving to the shop up the road. :crying:. My Mom said no more and than she had to drive them around. She had not driven in 15 years. Had to start doing it again. Such is life.
 
Fred07 said:
Yea. My Dad had Alzheimer's before he died @72 yrs. Also got lost driving to the shop up the road. :crying:. My Mom said no more and than she had to drive them around. She had not driven in 15 years. Had to start doing it again. Such is life.
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My dad had early onset Alzheimers...he was an electrical engineer...made to age 65 then it was his time...
$h!t disease...For everyone involved...
(small mercies but he passed away just before Covid otherwise we would not have been able to see him...)
 
Howdy said:
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SA Titanic is going to be the name of a new movie. It's going to be how a huge ship with a promising career sank because it could not stay afloat anymore with all the overweight fat pigs aboard. The fat pigs aboard were stealing everything. Even the life rafts.

There were 4125 black, wealthy ANC connected members aboard. Cadres. There was one white ANC member aboard. Carl is a ****. Wikipedia taught me that.

They all died. Good riddance.
May SA Titanic happen soonest.
 
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Fred07 said:
SA Titanic is going to be the name of a new movie. It's going to be how a huge ship with a promising career sank because it could not stay afloat anymore with all the overweight fat pigs aboard. The fat pigs aboard were stealing everything. Even the life rafts.

There were 4125 black, wealthy ANC Rev1.0 connected members aboard. Cadres. There was one white ANC member aboard. Carl is a ****. Wikipedia taught me that.

They all died. Good riddance.
May SA Titanic happen soonest.
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SA Titanic part 2:

Now ANC Rev2.0 hopes changing captains on Titanic will make it a fully functioning luxurious ship again.
 
Corelli said:
You I agree. You cant just take back retired engineers. You may think I am nuts, but I am not.

Many of them are in their 60-70s easily enough. And some may even have early onset Dementia or Alzheimers.

Now have you ever met a mechanic that has dementia. I have. Worse if you have a dad that has it too.

My dad took his car to his friend who was and is a mechanic. The mechanic keeps forgetting this and that and replace parts with incorrect items because he cant remember what it should be. Car stuffed up. Take it to another mechanic on my dad's behalf and get it all fixed up. Then a year goes by, try arrange my dad to take it back to the working mechanic. Following day I found out he took it to the other, and car messed up again. This is a viscious circle.

Now think about Eskom. Any little mistake and we may have a meltdown or a blown up power plant.

Thus there is a reason why we have an old age cut-off. All engineers would need to be monitored continuously for early onset Dementia or Alzheimer. Because you may laugh thing it cant be that bad.

But it really can be. One minute they know who you are and then next they dont. My dad used to goto one mall every friday. He can drive home quick. But he took 2 hours to find the mall 10 minutes from his house, yet he shopped there often before. He simply got lost.
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And many are not. Give the healthy able body whites a chance and tread them with respect, we need all the help we can get.
 
TheChamp said:
Well fighting fire with fire is allowed, the gang of white academics went out of their way to try and dig dirt on him because they were triggered by the magic word, transformation. The allegations were never proven.

He was amongst those who defended De Ruyter when false allegations of racism were brought against him so he isn't on a crusade to get rid of white people, yes I feel that he handled the Wits matter very poorly but it is clear the white guys were out to get him.
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Could be and I understand why he may hate whites and wants to "transform" organisations but Eskom hasn't done too well while he's been there. He maybe misses that it is key to SA's economic wellbeing, despite his doctoral brilliance, race prevailed. How he suffers de Ruyter is beyond me.
 
Howdy said:
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Reality is 27 other captains declined the position before AdR, so where will we find this magical captain that could weather the ANC's perfect storm of commie control & corruption & deliver us from loadshedding forever and ever amen?
GrootVoet said:
And many are not. Give the healthy able body whites a chance and tread them with respect, we need all the help we can get.
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Pfft.. who needs help when you have Queuebins?
 
grok said:
Reality is 27 other captains declined the position before AdR, so where will we find this magical captain that could weather the ANC's perfect storm of commie control & corruption & deliver us from loadshedding forever and ever amen?
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Do you think changing the captain will ever get it ship-shape once again? I believe that's the point. FUBAR
 
Thus there is a reason why we have an old age cut-off. All engineers would need to be monitored continuously for early onset Dementia or Alzheimer.
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The retirement age of 65 is entirely arbitrary. It's not even legal anymore in some countries to force people into retirement just because they're 65. They can also test people during the interview process.
 
neoprema said:
Our "empowerment" laws directly resulted in putting people into positions they knew nothing about, and now the chickens have come home to roost.
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Those laws created a hurdle, but for most companies that end up in that situation bad management put people into positions they knew nothing about. Some companies were so eager to check the boxes as quickly as possible that they just stuffed the staff with anyone the right colour. They didn't have to do that and plenty of companies did it the right way.
 
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