One of the first things I started doing when I arrived here was to start looking around for someone that can start helping out at the gallery on a temporary basis. Now, you would think coherent English speaking candidates are easily available. Well, alas… I had various people walking into the gallery looking for work and starting their first sentence with “I want job”. Now, wanting to work in a gallery where you will be in contact with people from all over the world; that is not the sentence to start with… And then a young, fresh, English speaking woman suddenly stands in the door, enquiring if we are maybe looking for someone. My hopes go UP. She just got married at Internal Affairs in Hazyview this morning. My hopes go DOWN… Anybody that gets married on a Monday morning quickly at Internal Affairs in Hazyview (the last place you would want to be, EVER) spells trouble.
So I have noticed that the general recruitment process in the area is to steal someone else’s coherent speaking employee…
But not wanting to make enemies immediately, I am taking the risk of trying out our shopping centre’s accountant’s husband (sjoe that is a lot of words) who is unemployed at the moment. Very friendly, very Afrikaans, very dependable chap (so far) who is willing to work at very short notice. Did I mention he is a police reservist? Yes, I have a dark blue police clad man with bullet proof vest and an R5 assault rifle (when did they stop issuing plane old 9mm guns?) in his hands regularly visiting the gallery to come say hallo. More than one foreign tourist in the gallery has had quite a surprise when he suddenly stands in the door!
The upside is that we will have the whole Hazyview police force at the gallery door at a moment’s notice, with R5s in hand. So, don’t make any sudden movements in the gallery, me included J
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