HAVANA, February 5 (Luis Viño Zimerman) Contradictory government
egulations cost two grocery store administrators their jobs; they were required
to fill out forms in ink but there were no pens to do it with.
Juan Carlos Ladrón de Guevara, 59, and José Luis Amado Cortés,
45, were fired when they were found to have been writing their inventory figures
in pencil on plain paper.
The Ministry of Internal Commerce requires grocery store administrators to
enter the figures for sales of rationed foodstuffs in ink in a prescribed form.
The problem is that the forms are not supplied and neither are the pens. The men
could have bought the pens themselves in a dollar store or cheaper, in the black
market, for 8 to 10 pesos. On a salary of 198 pesos a month, they decided they
were going to write in pencil.
They were declared untrustworthy and are now inelegible to work in any
activity in commerce.
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