Pyramids....

Whoever saw Alpha Channel last night, the programme "Documents".... Its theme was the mysterious industry of the various pyramid companies that you find in all the advertisements in the newspapers and promise lots of money. What I watched yesterday night was exactly the same with what I have experienced some 5 years ago by myself while searching for a job. You call, you go to a meeting where you see some "simple" people that tell you they have won thousands of euros in one month. They tell you they were civil servants and they abandoned their safety for money. In 2007, in Greece, where unemployment is thriving...this is ridiculous. The story is very long as soon as you are completely unaware of who these people are, what are the products they offer, what your job consists of, and especially, how are you going to make all these money. Of course they do not tell you but only making you enjoy the meeting and feel happy with clapping your hands after each one of these bastards announces his/her monthly achievements, you are very close to be deceived. And all these in the very first briefing. That was funny, I left the place immediately, those people looked like extraterrestrials. Coincidentally, 3 years later while I was in the army, I met the "President", the big man who had made some tenths of thousands of Euros last month. He was an army officer...
Unfortunately, if you read greek newspapers in the advertisement column you will see tenths, maybe hundreds of such companies. Multinational companies that work with a franchise system completely untransparent and untraceable both by the workers and the state offices, be tax or health and safety (H&S) public services. The latter is especially important since the products that are supposed to make you rich are usually nutriments of disputed quality. Who produces them, in what country, in what factories, under which H&S provisions? Nobody knows....
Nevertheless, these people (how much do they get paid to say all these bullshit infront of us) are free to expand their networks. No legal obstacles. And the government keeps telling us that unemployment is diminishing. Did you ever have such an experience?