Since last Thursday, we’ve been trying to open a new account for the
kids. All documents were complete. On Thursday, it was an hour waiting
to be attended (and no, it didn’t get to our turn after an hour). On
Friday, it was another 45 minutes, with the banker (customer service
representative?) disappeared most of the time, until they said they had
a problem.
My Dell laptop battery is going bananas. I’m not sure what’s really
happened, but in the past three or four weeks, the battery life has
gone from nearly two hours to only 45 minutes, right after being fully
charged.
The irony of a recent UNICEF report is that the two, arguably, most
pursued places for work are the two worst places for children to live -
among wealthy nations. They’re the U.S. and Britain, at 20 and 21 out
of 21 nations.
The British government, of course, said that the data used by UNICEF was outdated. Duh!
Read on…
In my previous post,
I was curious whether countries that supply (low-skilled) foreign
workers would benefit from these individuals. One thing for sure, the
receiving countries would, by allowing the local workforce to pursue
higher value activities.
Seems like a good thing.
