No offense to the newspaper but I don't think this guy is a "kingpin," even if he has a swanky car. Fake degree certificate kingpin arrested
I belonged to a union once. I'm not really sure they did much for me but it's hard to say what the job would have been like without them. I think they helped a bit with safety stuff because there were things you couldn't do or had to do in specific ways to protect people. Of course, they were good at collecting dues.:irked:
I somewhat understood this before experiencing the callousness of overseers and more so after. And add to that the idiocy of too many co-workers. Genuine protection of workers is, IMO, most of what unions should be doing. I apologize for having driven this thread so far off topic.
When I was closing in on 64, and had been retired for 14 years, I had to go back to work for a year-and-a-bit. Got my first and only union job. I'm sure they fought long and hard to get us statutory minimum wage. Useless. Made me pay for some "mandatory" supplemental health insurance I had no need of, too. I was covered by the Province, plus all the extras covered in my retirement package. Employer was bad enough. Union was worse. J.
Yes, it's off-the-wall, by our standards, but I wouldn't be so hard on the journalist. It appears to be fairly standard South Asian journalese English. India has more English-speakers than any nation in the world, (800 000 000 +) but they all put their own spin on it. In India, English is not spoken/written as it is in London, Los Angeles or Toronto. To us, it can sound stilted, adhering partly to an obsolete British mode of yesteryear. That's not surprising, is it? :smile: The webpages of perfectly legitimate Indian schools often contain the same strangeness, including my favourite, "Lovely Professional University," a fully UGC-approved school. If you examine the article, I don't believe there are any spelling mistakes or incorrect grammatical relationships -- but yes, it does sound odd. Odd, but understandable. One gets used to it and makes allowances, I think. J.
I get quite a few phone calls out of India - legit telemarketers hired by North American businesses - and also FRAUD calls, "your computer has a wery bad wirus, etc." Most callers, legit or not, use familiar-sounding names like "Jack" or "David." Lately, a few callers have acquired somewhat convincing accents. The best attempt was by a bogus "Officer Dan Ryan" who threatened to have me arrested for alleged income-tax fraud if I didn't call back. He was obviously reading from a script, but his accent was quite good. Perhaps a struggling Bollywood actor, between jobs, who didn't like being called "waiter." Maybe he should try Axact - the pay might be better. :smile: Crooks are getting (a little) smarter - at least some of them. J.