EARTH travel is dangerous right now...
Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:30 am
there is too big a proliferation of weapons and most of those weapons end up in the hands of third world toilet savages.
That being said you just do your homework and PAY ATTENTION. If you do that and keep your ears down, your eyes open and your ego in check you should be fine.
That being said you just do your homework and PAY ATTENTION. If you do that and keep your ears down, your eyes open and your ego in check you should be fine.
Sat Mar 14, 2009 10:51 am
keep your ears down, your eyes open and your ego in check you should be fine.
A classic example this month ...
Fly 500 miles for a confirmed 10am meeting to do an inspection , wait 4 hours in this officers waiting room , when he arrives he decides to be difficult and says although he knows we have permission and clearance etc the official letter hasn't arrived on his desk , get on the plane and fly home.
I know a lot of foreigners would probably explode in that situation , it happens regularly.
When I did my first project in Indonesia I flew all the way from Sydney to Jakarta for a confirmed meeting and the guy made me wait 3 DAYS (I sat in his waiting room during office hours not back in the hotel) to try and get me angry and make the project fail but I sat there patiently and eventually got to see him.