The Ministry of F*** All
The Ministry of F*** All
Anyone ever been in to the MoFA&IR ?
I had to go there today to get some docs certified . I was instructed to do this by the Viet Embassy who have had westerners do this before.
I arrive at the Minsistry and I am quizzed by the 20 year old security guard. Why am I here , who do I want to see etc and this gem " You are not dress correctly". I am wearing Nike, cargoes and a polo shirt so i laugh at him and tell him i am a tourist and he accepts this and motions me across the carpark to a row of ten odd doors..all are shut. I walk over and have no idea which one to go in and so i yell over to the guard and we play guess the door. I eventually get the right one and I knock and enter a 3m x 3m office with two desks in it. There is a guy sitting at a laptop watching some horror flick or gore video and he barely looks up. "wait". He says. Eventually a young lass walks in and she speaks very good English. She knows what I want and I am relieved until she says " it is over my head, you need the Consular dept". She gives me directions and this is where the real fucktardery begins. Yet another guard points me into a hallway with a thousand doors on either side, all shut , and simply says " straight". I eventually locate the Consular section after a feww false starts where I knock and open the wrong door only to startle silent groups of people doing,.nothing, The consular section is a dingy office with two guys in it and they are deep in their laptops facebooking or whatever the fuck it is they are doing, Eventually I interupt their doing nothingess and ask if i am in the Consular Section. Yes. I am. I explain whatg I need and as I profer the docs I am told " no...we don't do that here....two doors down". I go two doors down and i start again and i am cut short "no,,,,we dont do that here...two doors up". I tell him i just came from that office. He is adamant. So i go back to the first office and...laughing..I tell them what has just happened. " no....you need to go back to that office ". I laugh ans suggest he throws me a bone and he makes me wait while he goes and has a word with the other office. He comes back and says " we cannot do it....not possible". I tell him it must be possible and...hint hint I WILL PAY. He says NO NO cannot and offers to go speak to "admin". He comes back and says ...yes...we can do it but I will need to write a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs himself requeting such. I bang one out in handwriting and give it to him and beg him to get it done today. He laughs. I laugh. I tell him I know the Minister will be away / sick / busy for the next however many weeks and that this will drag in. He says three days. We await.
I had to go there today to get some docs certified . I was instructed to do this by the Viet Embassy who have had westerners do this before.
I arrive at the Minsistry and I am quizzed by the 20 year old security guard. Why am I here , who do I want to see etc and this gem " You are not dress correctly". I am wearing Nike, cargoes and a polo shirt so i laugh at him and tell him i am a tourist and he accepts this and motions me across the carpark to a row of ten odd doors..all are shut. I walk over and have no idea which one to go in and so i yell over to the guard and we play guess the door. I eventually get the right one and I knock and enter a 3m x 3m office with two desks in it. There is a guy sitting at a laptop watching some horror flick or gore video and he barely looks up. "wait". He says. Eventually a young lass walks in and she speaks very good English. She knows what I want and I am relieved until she says " it is over my head, you need the Consular dept". She gives me directions and this is where the real fucktardery begins. Yet another guard points me into a hallway with a thousand doors on either side, all shut , and simply says " straight". I eventually locate the Consular section after a feww false starts where I knock and open the wrong door only to startle silent groups of people doing,.nothing, The consular section is a dingy office with two guys in it and they are deep in their laptops facebooking or whatever the fuck it is they are doing, Eventually I interupt their doing nothingess and ask if i am in the Consular Section. Yes. I am. I explain whatg I need and as I profer the docs I am told " no...we don't do that here....two doors down". I go two doors down and i start again and i am cut short "no,,,,we dont do that here...two doors up". I tell him i just came from that office. He is adamant. So i go back to the first office and...laughing..I tell them what has just happened. " no....you need to go back to that office ". I laugh ans suggest he throws me a bone and he makes me wait while he goes and has a word with the other office. He comes back and says " we cannot do it....not possible". I tell him it must be possible and...hint hint I WILL PAY. He says NO NO cannot and offers to go speak to "admin". He comes back and says ...yes...we can do it but I will need to write a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs himself requeting such. I bang one out in handwriting and give it to him and beg him to get it done today. He laughs. I laugh. I tell him I know the Minister will be away / sick / busy for the next however many weeks and that this will drag in. He says three days. We await.
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I presume you know about the notary place next to the Myanmar embassy?
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Spitthedog is right. This could have been done by any notary or the Australian embassy in twenty minutes.
Wrong.alanclarke72 wrote:Spitthedog is right. This could have been done by any notary or the Australian embassy in twenty minutes.
These documents needed the ministry.
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You should ask her to proofread your posts.ricecakes wrote: Eventually a young lass walks in and she speaks very good English.
prahocalypse now wrote:You should ask her to proofread your posts .ricecakes wrote: Eventually a young lass walks in and she speaks very good English.
I could ask her to give you some bitch tips.
Actually..no...you're doing fine.
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I almost always try to do stuff like this alone. i don't need an educated Khmer friend that could tag along with me, speak proper Khmer, help smooth things over and get the details.
I left out the bit where the guy at the Viet embassy said I had to go to the Philippines embassy for a certification and when I got there the little flipper prick says "oh that needs to be done in manila"
Sorry to anyone copping my spray. It was one of those days.....before midday.
I left out the bit where the guy at the Viet embassy said I had to go to the Philippines embassy for a certification and when I got there the little flipper prick says "oh that needs to be done in manila"
Sorry to anyone copping my spray. It was one of those days.....before midday.
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What a pain in the ass! Hope you get it all sorted out.
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
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I have had so much fun over the years in administrative offices that nowadays if I don't personally know someone smart that will chaperon me insitu , I go with an administrative outsider, that can pull enough weight to get things done pronto or at least with a good degree of commitment.
Better still, I do as my father in law big boss and have him run the administrative things for me.
My last great adventure of the kind was when I lost my car reg card. Since it was done in PP, it could only be redone in PP. However as I had officialy became a SHV resident since the car was registered, it wasn't possible at all. After half day of brainstormings with quite a few high ministry officials, the only possible solution found was to become a PP resident again. That implied a false job and false adress through the local sangkat etc...
These are called kafkaiene situations and can be found in every state administration but communist or former communist states are the undisputed champions.
Better still, I do as my father in law big boss and have him run the administrative things for me.
My last great adventure of the kind was when I lost my car reg card. Since it was done in PP, it could only be redone in PP. However as I had officialy became a SHV resident since the car was registered, it wasn't possible at all. After half day of brainstormings with quite a few high ministry officials, the only possible solution found was to become a PP resident again. That implied a false job and false adress through the local sangkat etc...
These are called kafkaiene situations and can be found in every state administration but communist or former communist states are the undisputed champions.
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I have Morticia run my paperwork through the MInistry of Fucktardary. If I go back, I will crush somebody's head like The Mountain did in GoT....I shit you not. The worst Ministry in Cambodia.
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Why are the gods such vicious cunts?
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Why are the gods such vicious cunts?
Where is the god of tits and wine?
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Sounds like the civil service in most countries, an American friend told me tales of horror re the Department of Motor Vehicles (MVA?) reg in
LA.
LA.
ירי ילדים והפצצת אזרחים דורש אומץ, כמו גם הטרדה מינית של עובדי ההוראה.
Yes it sounds like it was a roaring success.ricecakes wrote:i don't need an educated Khmer friend that could tag along with me, speak proper Khmer, help smooth things over and get the details.
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