@M1766,

Just be a good Bajan and grin and bear it. Hold on to your job until the economy improves and you can find another job or start your own business.

Most Trinidadians have always considered Bajans to be small islanders while their capitalist vultures and predators are now feeding on” The Best of Barbados.”

PHD can’t sell milk in Trinidad, Bajans can’t fish near Trinidad but there is no boycott of Trinidadian products.
The “catch 22” is a boycott would also hurt Bajans who work for Trinidadian companies.

On a related subject. Oil.

“Oil in New York tumbled below $80 a barrel and Brent crude under $90 as economic reports increased concern that demand will slow amid rising supplies.”

This is the thing. People talk about workers and complain etc, but a culture of a workplace is guided by good management.

Anytime there is management/ worker animosity it is POOR management and greed that is the cause.

Doubt me? I can imagine all the naysayers now.

Yes, there are always a few rotten eggs, but generally workers are very willing to do good work and enjoy and take pride in good work.

Sour faces and bad attitudes result from bad management methods, driving people rather than guiding them etc.

How do I know? I deal with people and I have worked internationally. Barbadian employees arte no different to others, dont listen to crap about Barbadian workers not interested or whatever.

Unfortunately, one thing that Barbadian workers do not have is the huge selection of choice of jobs.

Overseas, you can get another job in another company ‘fairly’ easily, depending on job skills, then walk in and quit the old one.

Here, there is not so much opporunity for that, so Barbadian workers are more or less between a rock and a hard place sometimes.

Barbados workers are just as good, just as willing as any other nationality.

As for companies, sadly many directors and managers forget a few important things:

– you can catch more things with sweet than sour

– life is a mirror, what you send out, will come back

– cheapness and greed is shortsighted, a bit of generosity and understanding goes a long way, in return

– workers are people

I am always reserved about ‘surveys’ etc. Always there is a motive. Is the driver of this one good? Dunno, on the face of it yes.

But one thing I have learnt, is that in such surveys, be honest (as always), dont sugar coat things. One should ‘hope’ that such individual opinions are confidential.

– life is a mirror, what you send out, will come back
– cheapness and greed is shortsighted, a bit of generosity and understanding goes a long way, in return
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YOU BET….it will come back to haunt ……..take care it is not by big rocks, sabotage, no patronage, boycott….and piss on your grave stories….

IS this the Unity Workers Union !