We still have honest employees, but need more

In Iraq, to find a good employee who listens to you and does his job perfectly without asking for a bribe is the biggest and the greatest miracle. In fact, I thought for a long time that such governmental employee had perished with the Dinosaurs but it looks I’m wrong.

Like everyone in Iraq, we suffer the lack of electricity in my neighborhood but there is something else increased our suffering, in fact it increased the suffering of one part of the neighborhood. There are two power lines supply the neighborhood with electricity.

My first neighborhood is connected to a different line than ours. The strange thing is they have electricity power for almost all the day after linking the whole neighborhood to the new system which is to supply the houses with 10 amperes only. At least, they used to have it for at least 16 hours a day which is considered a very high average of power supply while t. All the families who are connected to the other power line including my family suffered the lack of power. In fact this thing got many families crazy and they started asking the normal question (why).

Why do they have electricity for more than 16 hours a day while we have it for four or five hours as a maximum. I wished I could do something but I don’t know those people who work in the control station to complain. I searched the newspapers looking for some help and I found it only three days ago. I found three phones numbers.

I called one of them and I started talking to a man who was really a good listener. I gave him full details about the situation and how people started talking about giving bribes to some employees in the control station to provide them with electricity for more hours and how did this thing affected us and deprived us from our share of electricity. The man simply said “I can do nothing now because its night but I promise you to check about this tomorrow morning when I go to work”. I thanked him and gave him all the details about the address.

The big change happened the next morning. We had electricity for two hours in the morning then it was off for about two hours. We had it for another two hours after midday. At night, we had it was much better and for the first time I could see that my neighbor doesn’t have electricity. At midnight, all the neighborhood had electricity according to the schedule. My sister in law said “it looks that the employees had done real good job.

I felt happy to have electricity but I was very happy for another reason. I found out that we still have good people who think about the others and do their job. I called the guy again to thank him but I couldn’t get him. Today, I tried to call him again but a female employee answered me and I couldn’t talk to her because of the bad connection.

I wrote these lines to thank you Mr. X and to tell the world that we still have good people who love their people and country. I hope that we soon will have X politicians who love Iraq as much as Mr. X, the honest employee does.

Comments

[noor]

alsalam alaikom MR.Laith iam so surprised that u r still have some hope in good life in our country >for me i lost this hope `cuase one hand is uncapable to clump alone.today when i went to university in the morning the way was very crwaded and ine man was crashed by the car but the god safe him when he was try to cross the road . i haered his words from the window of the car he was asking the god to die h.He wished that . Can u tell me or give me any one in the out side wish to end his life in the beginning of the day?????????So finally we lost most important thing "the taste of the life "

[Chris Baker]

Some US politicians are also corrupt, especially when it comes to Iraqi oil and gas. For example I know of no American who cares at all about this Iraqi oil law - only the corrupt US politicians do. The Iraqi parliament seems to have recognized that and quite rightly blocked the oil law as not in Iraqi's best interests. Now however they have apparently passed it and I hope they weren't misled by corrupt US politicians.

[BurningFeet]

I just discovered you folks doing the real work of reporting life in Baghdad and am mightily impressed. Stories about Iraq without American Generals in them are very hard to come by the in the USA and are very welcome. Items like the fellow who can turn on the lights resonate loudly in ears that have heard a different kind of story from Bush and friends.

Keep up the great work and stay safe.