Tuesday, March 1/2016

Well, maybe not ONLY in Cyprus. Inefficiency is international. Actually what is unusual is the frankness of the individual concerned. I don't buy the ministry's statement. He obviously had a useless supervisor and probably useless deputy minister or eauivalent. If he'd been given any guidelines at all, the ministry would have said so:

"Marios Dhrousiotis, the government employee who complained to President Nicos Anastasiades that he is given no work to do despite his €5,000-a-month salary, heads a critical unit of the Energy ministry and should have taken it upon himself to promote his department, instead of waiting to be assigned work, the Energy ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.

"A letter Dhrousiotis sent Anastasiades featured in daily Phileleftheros on Tuesday, in which he complained that he had been transferred to a ministry service centre as a supervisor a year ago but not a single file or any work has been assigned to him by his boss since.

“In my opinion, the state would save money if it asked me to remain home and sent me my salary as it would not incur the operating costs of my office such as lighting, heating, and consumables,” he said in his letter. “This is unacceptable. An employee to want to work and illegally prevented from doing so.”

 - Cyprus Mail