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2006-05-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

No planes or pay, but Gaza airport workers carry on

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Posted by Fred 2006-05-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 So, do they practice losing luggage all day?

They could hold a competition with the guys at Tehran airport.

Posted by Omomolet Hupolush6487 2006-05-02 00:26|| 2006-05-02 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks a lot like working as a french civil servant in that administration/social-model-the-whole-world-envies-us, except you're not paid. Bummer. So they perform an imaginary job, and they get an imaginary pay? Fair deal, no?

Posted by anonymous5089 2006-05-02 06:02|| 2006-05-02 06:02|| Front Page Top

#3 Old Soviet saying - 'They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work.'

Posted by Raj 2006-05-02 09:19|| 2006-05-02 09:19|| Front Page Top

#4 I consider myself a fairly lazy person but I doubt I could do nothing for five friggin years. After the first two I would get the message that this is not a profitable endeavor and move onto something else. I bet they were hoping for advancement! FYI there is no way we can help these people if they are content to just sit and do nothing to help themselves. How about (while your at work doing nothing) research ways to start a business, study to better yourself, or maybe search for a better job? A total write off of human DNA.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-05-02 12:29|| 2006-05-02 12:29|| Front Page Top

#5 "Every morning, we still come to work. We just sit and wait,"

...and you speak how many languages? Please send me your resume and salary requirements.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-05-02 12:50|| 2006-05-02 12:50|| Front Page Top

#6 How many more salaries for no work has the international community been paying for - five years minus 2 months of pay for nothing. What a crock. Now they're bitchin about not being for doing nothing.

Posted by Shuns Uleating3851 2006-05-02 12:59|| 2006-05-02 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Every morning, we still come to work. We just sit and wait

Sounds like my first tour in Germany. Worked at Borfink bunker, Nato Primary Static War Hq. Sat around waiting for WWIII to start, dust off the gear every week, exercised twice a year, got most every NATO nations holidays off. Nice job. Of course, if the balloon did go up, we figured we'd be a smoking crater within 30 minutes, Static Headquarters meaning fixed target and all.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2006-05-02 13:46|| 2006-05-02 13:46|| Front Page Top

#8 Imaginary airport for an imaginary nation.

Posted by gromgoru 2006-05-02 13:56|| 2006-05-02 13:56|| Front Page Top

#9 They must have an excellent view.

Posted by wxjames 2006-05-02 14:37|| 2006-05-02 14:37|| Front Page Top

#10 CS, we're talking the Palestinians here. If it doesn't go boom or involve killing Jews, they're not interested.

Posted by Desert Blondie 2006-05-02 15:31|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com] 2006-05-02 15:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Awwwww............

Yee gods! There oughtta' be a sympathy meter for the sheer pathos of this stupid waste of electrons posing as a journalistic report...

Had me almost in tears, I tell ya' - tears!

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