Impressions and images from Belpaese
Try to understand what Italy is today is something not easy at all. Disorganization or superficiality could be the right terms to use in order to explain to what Italy correspond. But the key point is maybe another one: Italy is turning from bad to worse with no stop. This is the impression a traveler has once he’s in the country, especially if the traveler is a “commuter”, a person coming quietly often in different moment of the year. Every time there is something incredible, impossible to see in any another civilized country in the world. Or in Europe, if we prefer. Take an office, any office you want, and take staff working there. It will sound weird, maybe ironic, but no one in that office will have any idea about the working plan. Rotation, holiday period, time table… Nobody will can tell you when the office will be open to public. No way: that’s Italy. We are talking about the professional association of the Italian journalists, which is the body responsible for all the issues related to this job. Payment of the annual quota, registration, unemployment benefit, regulation, rights and duties, trade union, legal assistance… This and much more is what the professional order is focused on. Now, journalism foresees people can go working abroad, so it happens some Italians come back just for a short period (Christmas break, for example!), and need to go to their professional order. First of all, practical information are kept on the website: there, on the home page, a short description of the working period appears. Closed from the 24th of December to the 2nd of January. Apparently. Because once called to have some preliminary information by phone, the clerk on the other side states offices are opened the 29th and the 30th of December, something not communicated on the website.
«We’re here», the voice says. Ok, but who is responsible for the website? «I don’t know. It’s not me». First Italian national unwritten rule: I don’t know and I don’t care. Second Italian national unwritten rule: no one is responsible for anything. This is the legal lesson offered by the professional association of the Italian journalists. After the conversation there’s the need for a second phone call, in order to understand where the black-out is. The answer is simple: black-out is everywhere. The second clerk from the professional association of the Italian journalists will explain it’s true the 29th and the 30th of December staff will be in, but just for «technical internal work» and the office will remain close to public. Ok, be ready to come the 3rd of January. No. Offices will remained closed until the 7th of January. That’s what the voice on the other side will underline. Impossible. When it is specified on the website there are other information, people from the headquarter of the Italian journalists will be surprised even more than the counterpart. «I’m sorry. Someone made a mistake in updating the website», the explanation offered. So, since the 7th of January the Christmas break is over and people have to come back to work, at last the truth is correspondents will have no time to do their administrative stuff. But this is a correspondent’s problem: the professional association of the Italian journalists is responsible for payment of the annual quota, registration, unemployment benefit, regulation, rights and duties, trade union, legal assistance… The same office is not responsible for your staying abroad. This is Italy. Indeed, something difficult to understand.
«We’re here», the voice says. Ok, but who is responsible for the website? «I don’t know. It’s not me». First Italian national unwritten rule: I don’t know and I don’t care. Second Italian national unwritten rule: no one is responsible for anything. This is the legal lesson offered by the professional association of the Italian journalists. After the conversation there’s the need for a second phone call, in order to understand where the black-out is. The answer is simple: black-out is everywhere. The second clerk from the professional association of the Italian journalists will explain it’s true the 29th and the 30th of December staff will be in, but just for «technical internal work» and the office will remain close to public. Ok, be ready to come the 3rd of January. No. Offices will remained closed until the 7th of January. That’s what the voice on the other side will underline. Impossible. When it is specified on the website there are other information, people from the headquarter of the Italian journalists will be surprised even more than the counterpart. «I’m sorry. Someone made a mistake in updating the website», the explanation offered. So, since the 7th of January the Christmas break is over and people have to come back to work, at last the truth is correspondents will have no time to do their administrative stuff. But this is a correspondent’s problem: the professional association of the Italian journalists is responsible for payment of the annual quota, registration, unemployment benefit, regulation, rights and duties, trade union, legal assistance… The same office is not responsible for your staying abroad. This is Italy. Indeed, something difficult to understand.
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