Papirex
Dec 29, 2009, 6:21 AM
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Free gasoline? Please elaborate, I'm sure my nephew and his co-workers would like to know how to get their gasoline free.
Mortgages at special terms are nothing new for federal employees here.
Pemex does have one hospital in México City for their employees. As to “fabulous retirement” benefits, surviving on the job long enough to get them is problematic. About every four or five years my nephew has to fight to keep his job. The last time he needed to do that was 3 or 4 years ago. He worked in a small, but critical division with only six engineers in it.
The six engineers were all in different disciplines of engineering, they were all experts, and very experienced in their fields and they were all needed. One day their boss (Gerente) called a meeting and told them that “a very powerful man” wanted him to fire one of them and give the job to his nephew. The nephew had just graduated from university as an engineer and had zero experience.
The Gerente told them that he was going to fight to keep them all, but he might need to fire one of them since it was a “very powerful man” making the demand. The Gerente won his battle and did not need to fire anyone.
The “powerful man” got his revenge though. That entire engineering division was dissolved, and everyone but my nephew was fired. That incident says volumes about the inefficiency of any government owned enterprise. My nephew has a critical engineering specialty, and he was hired by a different engineering group at Pemex.
There is nothing like a civil service program in the Mexican government. All jobs are only good for a maximum of six years, the term of a President of The Republic here. All federal employees must be rehired every six years, and they may be terminated at any time and no cause must be given. My nephew had to change his political loyalty from the PRI to the PAN 9 years ago to keep his job, in 3 more years, who knows? Surviving long enough to get a federal pension is tricky.
I am not defending these practices. I am merely pointing out that federal jobs, no matter how good they may seem to be from the outside are no bed of roses for the workers, maybe they are for the politically appointed supervisors, but not for the workers.
Rex
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved" - Victor Hugo
(This post was edited by Papirex on Dec 29, 2009, 6:23 AM)
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