General Director of "Kamvol" complains Belarusians work too little — but should work like Ethiopians and Indians
"When we come to work, we first drink tea, tell our neighbor how we pickled cabbage, but at work, you need to work at least 8 hours."
General Director of "Kamvol" Tatiana Lugina reflected that Belarusians don't work as diligently as others.
"In February, our partners from India visited, a company that supplies wool tops, they have a large factory in India for the production of wool yarn. I asked this Indian, he is quite young, a businessman of global scale. I said: can he give me a few spinners for a year or two, in their country men are engaged in this work. I want to see their competencies, qualifications, speed of work. Maybe they are faster, more agile. And it would be pleasant or even useful for our women to watch. Maybe somewhere in equipment setup. That is, experience.
To which he told me: I would gladly give them to you, but I cannot, because you work for 8 hours, and we work for 12. Everyone works slowly with you, I don't want my people to slow down their pace," she said on STB.
Lugina notes: a lot of time at work is spent on conversations and tea.
"When we come to work, we first drink tea, tell our neighbor how we pickled cabbage, but at work, you need to work at least 8 hours. I tell everyone, we often work a lot not because managers force us to stay, to come out on Saturday, but because we simply don't even put in 8 hours sometimes."
She gives Ethiopians as an example.
"We have Ethiopians who, by our standards, perform this work for an acceptable level of pay and feel great. And at first, they kept saying: 'Give us more work, give us more work'."
"In other words, people from those countries work a lot. We live in a socially-oriented state, which not everyone fully understands, in what happiness we live, working 8, and sometimes even fewer hours, and knowing all the working conditions that should be provided to us," Lugina summarized.
Shraibman: From some, I hear that Minsk has become empty and everyone is waiting for people to return. Another position: everything is normal, if they left — good riddance 99
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