I've come across MANY Jamaican workers who are just as lazy and maybe even more corrupt and thieves at the end of the day...Haitian, not so much. Knock on wood, had a pretty decent run with the Haitians we've worked with. But, I am sure there are a bunch of bad apples out there as well!!
As stated ad nauseum in the other story blog...was the UBS guy wrong...YES...legally he should have had his papers...did it have to end up the way it did with him being detained...NO...lack of common sense and power hungry spiteful officials is basically what it boils down to. Unfortunately, that is the way the past few generations have been raised, and we are stuck with it...pig headed egotistical people who have risen from some nobody in the inner city to an immigration officer or police officer and want to make your life miserable just because they can, instead of approaching the situation in a calm and professional manner.
I can go along with that...assuming they are able to provide all the proper papers, there should be an apology given...also depends a lot on the circumstances still though and that apparent lack of common sense. If you know it is an obvious situation of the guy being legal but not having his papers on him at that precise moment in time, then maybe cut the person a bit of slack and let them go secure the documents and remedy it. If there is any reason to doubt the persons genuity, then maybe haul them in...but the people enforcing the laws have such a chip on their shoulder and are so power hungry, they'll lock you up just out of spite...because they can and you can't touch them.
But I can see what happens...take Bankers shake down...tongue in cheek...
Good Afternoon Sir, I am an immigration officer, and we are checking people to verify their residency status. Are you a Bahamian sir?
No.
Are you a legal resident.
Yes.
May I please see your work permit sir?
I do not have them with me.
May I please see some identification.
Yes (p*ssed off).
(Immigration officer...Did he just roll his eyes at me or say something cheeky....I'll show his white a&$ who is boss)
Please get out of the vehicle sir, we need to take you in for processing, at which point a couple police officers armed with machine guns spin the guy around and put on handcuffs and probably grab him up under his arms and shove him on a bus.
You are missing my point...it's a foreign investment bank...not a retail bank, dealing more than likely with foreign clientele who are also not Bahamian...they will fullfil the image of what they are needing to portray for their clients...now...retail banking is completely different!!
OK so...you have a bank like UBS...which for the Nassau branch is purely a 'wealth management' branch, all they do is have high level consultants on hand to be in office for when a client walks in and wants to assess his existing portfolio and change up some investments...those people will never be Bahamians, so of course they will be paid big bucks...the clientele does not want to come into a Swiss (Investment) Bank that handles their multi million or billion portfolios by some Bahamian that can't string a few sentences together. But, on the flip side, they built and paid for a multi million dollar building, they employ Bahamian security staff, clerical staff, gardening teams...all sorts of people in so called 'skilled labour'...but you are going to piss them off and drive them away. Very intelligent train of thought.
Yeap...and to really add fuel to the fire...the majority of the population would not be on this island if it were not for some of those elite white folk that they keep raging about that bound them to slavery and imported them to the Bahamas...but that is another story altogether...but one that is often overlooked at the convenience of a lot of the people who rail against the nasty white foreigner taking all those Bahamian jobs...
B_I_D___ says...
Good man!! Hang 'em high!!
On Commissioner would back return of death penalty
Posted 16 January 2014, 12:59 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
I've come across MANY Jamaican workers who are just as lazy and maybe even more corrupt and thieves at the end of the day...Haitian, not so much. Knock on wood, had a pretty decent run with the Haitians we've worked with. But, I am sure there are a bunch of bad apples out there as well!!
On Union accuses hotel of racism
Posted 16 January 2014, 12:56 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
Shock and awe!!
On Rise in complaints against officers
Posted 16 January 2014, 12:53 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
As stated ad nauseum in the other story blog...was the UBS guy wrong...YES...legally he should have had his papers...did it have to end up the way it did with him being detained...NO...lack of common sense and power hungry spiteful officials is basically what it boils down to. Unfortunately, that is the way the past few generations have been raised, and we are stuck with it...pig headed egotistical people who have risen from some nobody in the inner city to an immigration officer or police officer and want to make your life miserable just because they can, instead of approaching the situation in a calm and professional manner.
On Govt says sorry to UBS executive
Posted 16 January 2014, 12:51 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
I can go along with that...assuming they are able to provide all the proper papers, there should be an apology given...also depends a lot on the circumstances still though and that apparent lack of common sense. If you know it is an obvious situation of the guy being legal but not having his papers on him at that precise moment in time, then maybe cut the person a bit of slack and let them go secure the documents and remedy it. If there is any reason to doubt the persons genuity, then maybe haul them in...but the people enforcing the laws have such a chip on their shoulder and are so power hungry, they'll lock you up just out of spite...because they can and you can't touch them.
On Govt says sorry to UBS executive
Posted 16 January 2014, 12:19 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
But I can see what happens...take Bankers shake down...tongue in cheek...
Good Afternoon Sir, I am an immigration officer, and we are checking people to verify their residency status. Are you a Bahamian sir?
No.
Are you a legal resident.
Yes.
May I please see your work permit sir?
I do not have them with me.
May I please see some identification.
Yes (p*ssed off).
(Immigration officer...Did he just roll his eyes at me or say something cheeky....I'll show his white a&$ who is boss)
Please get out of the vehicle sir, we need to take you in for processing, at which point a couple police officers armed with machine guns spin the guy around and put on handcuffs and probably grab him up under his arms and shove him on a bus.
Kinda thinking that's more of how it happened.
On Top bank executive detained at immigration road block
Posted 16 January 2014, 11:22 a.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
You are missing my point...it's a foreign investment bank...not a retail bank, dealing more than likely with foreign clientele who are also not Bahamian...they will fullfil the image of what they are needing to portray for their clients...now...retail banking is completely different!!
On Top bank executive detained at immigration road block
Posted 15 January 2014, 6:43 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
OK so...you have a bank like UBS...which for the Nassau branch is purely a 'wealth management' branch, all they do is have high level consultants on hand to be in office for when a client walks in and wants to assess his existing portfolio and change up some investments...those people will never be Bahamians, so of course they will be paid big bucks...the clientele does not want to come into a Swiss (Investment) Bank that handles their multi million or billion portfolios by some Bahamian that can't string a few sentences together. But, on the flip side, they built and paid for a multi million dollar building, they employ Bahamian security staff, clerical staff, gardening teams...all sorts of people in so called 'skilled labour'...but you are going to piss them off and drive them away. Very intelligent train of thought.
On Top bank executive detained at immigration road block
Posted 15 January 2014, 6:28 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
Kind of guessing that is a file photo of him from the bank...and he is Swiss...not French.
On Top bank executive detained at immigration road block
Posted 15 January 2014, 4:31 p.m. Suggest removal
B_I_D___ says...
Yeap...and to really add fuel to the fire...the majority of the population would not be on this island if it were not for some of those elite white folk that they keep raging about that bound them to slavery and imported them to the Bahamas...but that is another story altogether...but one that is often overlooked at the convenience of a lot of the people who rail against the nasty white foreigner taking all those Bahamian jobs...
On Top bank executive detained at immigration road block
Posted 15 January 2014, 4:25 p.m. Suggest removal