Comments on: How UN consultants get laid http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/05/14/how-un-consultants-get-laid/ Global risks and how to respond to them, edited by Alex Evans and David Steven Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: duh http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/05/14/how-un-consultants-get-laid/comment-page-1/#comment-10670 duh Wed, 20 May 2009 20:37:22 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=9619#comment-10670 I don't know...It is beautiful to see aid workers flying on coach, but we may want to bring in productive people to aid as well. By productive people, I mean to say about the people who have the ability to work hard to get the results, who also happen to get good offers from the private sector. C-class is not a perk, but a part of remuneration. If we don't give them, only productive people we get for aid will be the guys like Blattman who are willing to sacrifice personal amenity over a higher goal. Vast majority of people, I believe, is nothing like Blattman. Remember, there's always arbitrage with other labor demand, and aid sector is no exception. Blattman should know this better, given he's trained in economics. My bet is that he knows all too well, but somehow not being explicit about it in his blog. I don't know... I don’t know…It is beautiful to see aid workers flying on coach, but we may want to bring in productive people to aid as well. By productive people, I mean to say about the people who have the ability to work hard to get the results, who also happen to get good offers from the private sector. C-class is not a perk, but a part of remuneration. If we don’t give them, only productive people we get for aid will be the guys like Blattman who are willing to sacrifice personal amenity over a higher goal. Vast majority of people, I believe, is nothing like Blattman. Remember, there’s always arbitrage with other labor demand, and aid sector is no exception. Blattman should know this better, given he’s trained in economics. My bet is that he knows all too well, but somehow not being explicit about it in his blog. I don’t know…

]]> By: TA http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/05/14/how-un-consultants-get-laid/comment-page-1/#comment-10648 TA Wed, 20 May 2009 13:22:54 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=9619#comment-10648 "The cost differential between business and economy should also factor in the extra night or two of accommodation and DSA that travelers would need to rest and adjust to the time difference." I laughed when I read this excuse....Can such a delicate person be a aid worker? Most of us "regular people" go to work without "rest" after 13 hours of economy class flight. Well, maybe because we are not "saving the world" like them.... “The cost differential between business and economy should also factor in the extra night or two of accommodation and DSA that travelers would need to rest and adjust to the time difference.”

I laughed when I read this excuse….Can such a delicate person be a aid worker? Most of us “regular people” go to work without “rest” after 13 hours of economy class flight. Well, maybe because we are not “saving the world” like them….

]]> By: Claudia http://www.globaldashboard.org/2009/05/14/how-un-consultants-get-laid/comment-page-1/#comment-10556 Claudia Tue, 19 May 2009 11:30:17 +0000 http://www.globaldashboard.org/?p=9619#comment-10556 Oh my, aid workers flying business is a shock like catholic priests who have sex... Both groups aim the good but just can't make any. Oh my, aid workers flying business is a shock like catholic priests who have sex… Both groups aim the good but just can’t make any.

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