All computer work is voluntary work

Due to involvement of the trade Union known as HK it has become difficult to get a decent salery as computer specialist in Denmark. They have betrayed the workers in the computer business when they made a deal with the computerfirm CSC about a very low pay for computer work.

Now you can work in a shop or as an ordinary office assistant and get the same salery as if you was working as computer specialist.

It leaves no future for those considering that line of work.

Also it seems that they have imported a lot of small people from India working a cop of rice who took the work from Danish workers. Where are the politicians in this game? Shouldn't we have some kind of Green card system? Where are our border control? Was we betrayed by the European Union?

I am afraid of the future and I would certainly recommend that my children stay out of the computer business now where any work is paid with almost nothing.

They came to town with the 4 o'clock train

We had quite a laugh in courts this week. Some might have heard of the former humanitarian and author Niels Holck who is wanted because he aided MI6 and the central government who wanted to destabilize a region inside their artificial country.

In reality there should not have been any India. They are a bunch of small former kingdoms put together for some kind of political purpose none seems to remember and people who just want to live apart from New Delhi are forced to be citizens like the people in Punjab who would be better of being a part of Pakistan.

But anyway he should have been the nice guy regardless of the fact that MI6 should have been our friends and the communists who ruled that part of India used to kill whoever dared to cross their path.

One of former prime ministers visited India some years back wanting India's support so Copenhagen could host COP15 and to let their experts pull our old ships apart in quietness. He came back with a prize. We should start an extradition case so they could silence him. The operation went wrong and someone covered for him. He simply knows too much. Putin and Tony Blair rescued their citizens and properly got a good deal in the process.

But there was a problem. In a superior culture and democracy like ours we do things by the book. So when they came by this week with an expired warrant they were sent home being told to doctor new charges against the Danish humanitarian. It took them almost a full week.

I remember reading a book by Georges Remi where a reporter ended up in India following a drug lord. This rather accurate picture of the India culture left an impression telling me that they live a rather simple life down there trying to find simple solutions for their problems.

Newflash!

The world is complicated. Paper work needs to be in order. Otherwise you may just as well stay home.

CBI as their police seem to be named learned a lesson when they came to town with the 4 o'clock train.

But the real issue is that tourist, students and other Danes should stay away from India. It is easy to feel sorry for them regardless of the fact they don't burden themselves with real issues like our pension problems in the 2020-plan

Source:
CBI team in Denmark with expired warrant for Davy (Deccan Chronicle, may 19, 2011)

Yes! You can get a career i Denmark as an immigrant

Some might have heard about the scandal in a firm called Gate Gourmet, which lives of delivering food to passengers on airplanes.

Gate Gourmet keep fraud case behind closed doors (Google translated article from business.dk)
Gategroup-Betrüger ausfindig gemacht (NZZ Online)

I am happy to say that for the first time I feel that I have a real chance of getting a well-paid career in Denmark. All for too long the politics designed by the people in the Danish people party has told us that our parents came to Denmark to work in low paid jobs and as result we are expected to serve in such jobs too.

And it is true that it is difficult to find a country where the social heritage matters so much as in Denmark.

Youth who manage to get a higher education is most likely to have parents with the same level of higher education. It you are from the working class, then forget all about education.

The rich people have hired students to hunt down classmates who have copied books instead of buying them because the books used in education in Denmark are overpriced because they are a part of the salery the teachers earn.

The government has recently worked to remove student grants for people over 18 expecting their parents to pay for them which would be possible only by rich parents.

Most immigrants and poor people have given up about their education as they could see that it would be impossible.

Now Amanda Jacobsen is living proof that you can break that circle. She arrived in Denmark in 1984 from Iran. She changed her name to a Danish one as recommended by many teachers because most Danish firms would prefer Danish workers and she made her resume quiet colorfull because a lot of firms are in fact lazy and have outsourced the work of hiring people to various firms competing for the cheapest price.

Resumes in Denmark are not checked as they should be. In the old days the firms took in new workers when they knew the parents of a applicant or the stole workers from a competing firm. But in the end they had too few options when the old workers retired and now it is way easier to fool yourself into a Danish firm because the firms believe that they need foreign workers and new inputs to compete in a globalized world.

Amanda Jacobsen did show us the way to money and jobs. She has made us believe that we have a chance.

Reliving the worst time as a parent

When I read the newspaper of today it is impossible not to be reminded about the worst period of my career as a parent:

Danish Dragon boat capsized by wave, Politiken, 14 Feb. 2011

My son was at one of these schools. I remember that fear that you feel when you know that your child is isolated from the warm and love in your family unit. I remember how difficult the logistic was. He smoked tobacco which is a human right and they had to stand out in the cold long before it became law for the rest of the population.

Such hardship proved to be an awful test for him. It was certainly not something I as a responsible parent ever would have allowed my child to be exposed to.

Back then I feared for his life as he was forced to eat some different food than we as family was used to. They also had some wilderness expedition where he was exposed to the harshness of the elements.

In the end he survived although marked by the difficult period away from us.

I understand that the level of danger for the students involved in the capsizing in the ocean of course was higher. I pray that all the students will survive and return safe to their families. I hope that this episode will serve as a warning for other families considering allowing their children to study away from their home at such boarding schools.

You cannot be that lucky twice.

Sharing public cuts

In Denmark we have some boarding schools called "Efterskoler". They are not as strict as boarding schools abroad or at least so I am told.

But they do offer a some alternative lifestyle suited for those in our society who wants Danes to forget their social heritage and position themselves to a more globalized world where traditions and social standings in every of our small communities are forgotten and erased.

But do we not have a thousand year old culture which we need to deliver knowledge about to our children before they go out and make their impact on the world. How can we give them good tradition Danish values when we back out of the parenting role before time and leave it to some closed boarding school environment to give our children our values and learn our firm standards of character?

I fear that they are left without essential parts of their social heritage if they leave the family unit too soon. Denmark is a society where social heritage matters even up to the royal family. The result is peace and low crime when people in general know what they can make of life and how important it is to act properly because you know that your children will not be born equal with the rest of the children but they will start out from the level in our society you have achieved.

The youth culture of a country must never been equal with being confined in a boarding school where their individual character is shaved off so they can fit in the enclosed group at all cost. We need people who have a social heritage which stand out, so they can be leaders rather than just anonymous followers. You cannot create a peer group leader; you can only find the individual.

Some Danish firms use a lot of money trying to build the careers of their employees. It is a fatal mistake. Team-building based on sharing a single glass of wine or a beer Friday afternoon is the only thing which works. Luckily most firms realize that.

The families can learn from the firms. They can keep their children in the local schools. They can improve the social status of their child by hosting parties at home instead letting the children hang around in the cities. They can cooperate with volunteers in biker clubs who host parties for the local youth now where most of the parties hosted by schools or the authorizes has been targeted against minorities in the society which practice a more restricted form of partying.

The government has realized that the numbers of teenagers attending the boarding schools are too high and it has proven to be too costly for our society. They have introduced cuts and of course the boarding schools are protesting. It is a shameful form of marketing because the reason for the cuts is not ideology. It is necessary because Denmark almost singlehanded has decided to pay the debts of countries like Greece for no reason. We in Denmark all have to bear our burden. The boarding schools should take responsibility instead. It would certainly suit them.

They are complaining about risk of losing clients. They should not fear. The authorities in a lot of towns have troubled teenagers which they can ship to the boarding schools instead of the juvenile halls. There are parents who originally wanted to ship their children off to some third world country where they could be teach into submission by the use of corporal punishment which is forbidden in Denmark and therefore under watch by the social services. They can use the boarding schools instead. So where is the possible lack of students?

I had a son in one of these boarding schools, which you can read something about if you two years back. It was a terrible ordeal for both him and me as parent, which I wish for no other parent to relive.

Therefore consider me biased, but I truly believe that we all have to bear the burden our politicians have put upon us - also the boarding schools.

I did only believe it could happen in the Middle East or Africa

I recently saw this page about schools in Somalia:

Domestic prisoners of conscience's blog

Here in my town our social services are involved in trying to get children back home to Denmark from various countries in the Middle East or Africa. I didn't believe it could happen inside the United States too.

Rather shocking.

Just imaging how to be the child who find him or her-self cut totally off from what they have known so far.

Awful!!

It has become more difficult to raise a child

I remember when I had a fight with a boarding school years back. My son did smoke and at the time our so-called parliament suggested to raise the agelimit for tobacco to 18, which would have meant that I should had driven to the boarding school which was rather remotely located a lot of times.

I was lucky to have him back before the politicians decided to remove this freedom from our teenagers.

However they didn't stop there. Now they are looking at the alcohol our children consume. What is their point? Do they want us to integrate and become real Danes or is it just another excuse to toughend up against immigrants. The only way we can get native Danes to open up is to drink beer or wine with them. The same goes for our children. They will forever be known as the foreigners if they don't drink with their peers.

In many towns groups of parents arrange bag-parties for teenagers. It is a secure party-environment where the teens can enjoy themselves with alcohol but without any greater risk.

Those parent groups are under fire right now. The police wants more money from our politicians and it demands crimes committed. By disallowing the parties and suggesting that the teenagers might party with various youth gangs it is certain that a raise in juvenile crime is waiting just around the corner.