Sadly, very accurate and true article. The point of going to work in Sudan is to somehow just pass time, its no more about doing something and being productive! well done Mr. Yasir.
لم لاترفقون ترجمة بالعربية للمقال هذا؟الشعب السوداني أصبح ضعيفا في اللغتين …العربية والإنجليزية….و العربية أسهل على الكثيرين في القراءة و الفهم…شاكر تفضلكم بقراءة تعليقي
So true… Moreover, if we consider the consequential reproccussions of the “Breakslow”… Sadly, the same happens in lunch and dinner… The official time of Lunch in our beloved Sudan is 5 & for some 6…. Dinner is sometime around 12… Our bio-clock is totally messed up… Leading to unproductivity and constant laziness which eventually led to self-centered negative thinking…. I truly beleive that alot of our problems lay in our eating habits… It might be the one thing stopping us from moving forward… So spread the word… Let’s change the way we eat… Let’s change the way we live… Let’s change the way we treat each other…
DONT FORGET after the breakfast time by an hour the prayer time which takes another hour. Which you always have to sit and waiiiiiiiit.
da shno da ya isho and kutkut.. wallai great job in the magazine lakin is it u didnt tell me walla me didnt use the net for a while! i just realized i have a published thing after almost a month! and yes.. sadly but true + the praying time which becomes almost a taraweeh, haha. thanx for the comments people 🙂
Employees should always have breakfast in their home before reporting for work and can take a cup of coffee or tea on the desk while working. It is worse in South Sudan where an employee has no time to attend to you because he/she is either watching TV, is on facebook, hopelessly laughing on phone with earpieces hanging from the ears, gossiping with a workmate or a personal visitor, negotiating private deals at work, talks to you arrogantly and thinks everybody speaks arabic. God save South Sudan!
Well said, Yasir Elkhider, Lingering breakfast hours seems like a work place tradition that’d never go away. It only grows fringes like the prayer time, the tea lady show..etc. You’re telling this story in 2012; we did so in the 90s, and others have in the 70s and 80s. If u dig deeper, be ready for the bag of worms; poverty, underpayment, unfair working conditions, nothing to have for breakfast at home, poorly defined job description.. Oh, is there something like a JD or ToRs in the public sector in Sudan? PS. Just discovered ur magazine. Cool work, folks.
Interesting; and a bit funny; great writing. Also, It’s NOT a typical Sudanese breakfast (z picture); not any more. In my opinion, it’s not the breakfast that make the civil services poor, there are many rational reasons made it so. Inaddition, the Sudanese are not lazy, or at least most of them are not. look!!! this is very important, it’s not Genetic, not from “the fool” by the way, because it’s a protein and they feed HORSES with it. Sudanese are lazy is scam; a BIG SCAM and we have to stop it. There isn’t a nation or even a tribe could be called “lazy”. the phenomenon of eating breakfast @ lunch time is wrong; I agree, but the services are bad because: () Employee are not responsible () becoming unresponsible became habit and as you said ( human right) () the solution is to teach our people to be productive ( teach them) () if the employee refused to be productive and do the job for the people (has to be ready to serve them) () replace him/her (the lazy employee); fire him/her () the problem is who could put the law on the table and enforce it? () indeed not the BROTHERS.
LoooL yasir, GOOD ONE I tell what to do business with a breakfasters in SUDAN all you need to do is to BREAKICE