The nays are ahead 54% - 46%, but that may change when the embassy dudes show up for work Monday morning and start voting.keeping_it_riel wrote:This has got to be the tightest poll we've ever run. The nays are sneaking ahead again.
Should Western embassy personnel hang out in hostess bars?
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Today is a public holiday so voting patterns may be slightly skewed as a result. The broader picture will most likely emerge tomorrow.
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How does what the average 440er thinks matter? Why not ask a random sampling of Americans outside of Cambodia what they think of their tax dollars going to pay embassy staff who live like ballers and spend their evenings hanging out in houses of ill repute? I don't think you'd get a lot of yeas there.
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What holiday? The official font of official stuff, this forum, shows these
Public Holidays in Cambodia for the Year 2012:
January 01 International New Year Day
January 07 Victory over Genocide Day
February 07 Meak Bochea Day
and nothing for today.
Public Holidays in Cambodia for the Year 2012:
January 01 International New Year Day
January 07 Victory over Genocide Day
February 07 Meak Bochea Day
and nothing for today.
The official holiday was on Saturday, but many places are closed today.... I'm off today too!BubbaRamDas wrote:What holiday? The official font of official stuff, this forum, shows these
Public Holidays in Cambodia for the Year 2012:
January 01 International New Year Day
January 07 Victory over Genocide Day
February 07 Meak Bochea Day
and nothing for today.
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Most of us on this forum are off every day, and I don't mean not working.cambod wrote:The official holiday was on Saturday, but many places are closed today.... I'm off today too!BubbaRamDas wrote:What holiday? The official font of official stuff, this forum, shows these
Public Holidays in Cambodia for the Year 2012:
January 01 International New Year Day
January 07 Victory over Genocide Day
February 07 Meak Bochea Day
and nothing for today.
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Public Holidays that fall on a Saturday or Sunday (if they are non working days for your company) then roll over to the Monday - hence most busiinesses being closed today as a roll over from Genocide Day on Saturday the 7th.BubbaRamDas wrote:What holiday? The official font of official stuff, this forum, shows these
Public Holidays in Cambodia for the Year 2012:
January 01 International New Year Day
January 07 Victory over Genocide Day
February 07 Meak Bochea Day
and nothing for today.
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Odd that. Since they go to the trouble to actually publish the holidays, it might make sense to publish the actual day people get off, rather than the date it would happen if it happened that day. Of course, we are talking about a government.
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Some businesses are open on Saturday and Sunday, hence the roll over to Monday if you actually have a weekend.
Keep in mind that two of Tue largest employment sectors are tourism/hospitality and garments, most of which run shifts and are open at weekends.
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An embassy staffer, presumably male most of the time, has needs to entertain/satisfy/relax himself. You go into a bar (not just hostess bars), you take a risk, as does everyone. If the staffer goes in for a chat, drink, laugh and maybe goes so far as to make a (discreet) booking, I don't have a problem with it.
It's the public extremes (of anyone) -- aggressive acts, drunknessness, fighting, swearing, threatening, and other acts of unbecoming behaviour -- that ought not to be tolerated in embassy staff. I think staff at many embassies know where the border line of discreditable public behaviour is. But I also think they hire people who are at low risk of embarrassing the country they represent.
In summary, the perpetrator will never get another federal job and that's a career changing disincentive in the extreme.
So "yes".
It's the public extremes (of anyone) -- aggressive acts, drunknessness, fighting, swearing, threatening, and other acts of unbecoming behaviour -- that ought not to be tolerated in embassy staff. I think staff at many embassies know where the border line of discreditable public behaviour is. But I also think they hire people who are at low risk of embarrassing the country they represent.
In summary, the perpetrator will never get another federal job and that's a career changing disincentive in the extreme.
So "yes".
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I've not voted for the very good reason that it's absolutely none of my godamned business. I refuse to have an opinion on the matter.
It's a very well-written article though.
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It's a very well-written article though.
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Voted 'No', but only because of the US policy on reducing trafficking. I'm not equipped to make any moral argument, but if those are the terms of their employment then they should probably stick to them, since it's taxpayers money n everything.
So that would have made Christmas day the 26th of December just gone? Or is it the 27th since the 26th is already a holiday? Shall we move the king's birthday by a day or two as well?Since they go to the trouble to actually publish the holidays, it might make sense to publish the actual day people get off,
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