Municipal Service of Cleaning and business cleaning, or cleaning business
Emzar Jgerenaia
Why is business a stepchild and a bourgeoisie in close relation to our SSBD (soviet socialist business department) space
We have left snow and socialism behind long time ago. Serf ownership fall (well, at any rate it is said so), we have taken a deep breath of air full of free market oxygen (although it depends on oxygen as well) and got down to building a new country. And where the jackal was wailing, we have rooted out a tea plantation. So, there is neither jackal nor tea. Pure European penalty system and utility or administrative tariffs, transitional economy and socialistic approaches – this is what mixture we have got as a result. We have business, private property and free market. Ah! I’ve recited it as a Marx manifest! Business! Sounds well! The same can not be said about ‘Market’! We don’t need anything that is related to ‘market’ and discussion, that’s it! Besides, it pronounces roughly. The word reminds me of piglets and cheese – Sulguni and Satsivi spices at a market. I don’t want to hear about a Georgian word ‘Bazari’, English version – Market sounds far better. It is more convincing. So, we have sown market economy and democracy on a soil saturated by socialist mentality. Anyway, it didn’t turn out to be free! Why? How do I know? We say we need freedom, but do not act… and!
Let’s take our Administration code or tariffs, if you would like, as an example and everything will be clear: an individual pays 1, 4 Gel for water, legal person – 4,8 Gel per 1 kbm water. But what do you think, what is the amount of water the company needs? a lot if it is a large consumer. But if otherwise, we could at least leave equal. One more national characteristics of business – it is mostly discriminated in Tbilisi. They don’t have similar tariffs in Poti and Kutaisi. Let’s take another example: gas supply – population pays 210 USD and companies pay 360 USD. The same is true about electricity: those who use more – the companies, have to pay more. Strange, it will seem to you that these blessed people do not want to sell and earn more.
Now take a look at fines in case the sealing of your numerator is out of order – the one that is installed outside and may be damaged by any neighboring mischievous child. No matter an individual (physical person) has stolen a gas or not he/she is fined with 600 Gel. A company is fined with 5000 Gel. It may take a company a whole year to get this amount and its blame may not be confirmed just because it is a legal person – representative of business. Experienced lobbyists of Mayors office have added to it fines related to cleaning. Oh, you should see that! Kekelidze- Zhvania Street has been full of dust, garbage and mud for a half century. Millions of letters have been sent to the Mayors office. The street is named after a mother of previous mayor – Mrs. Nina Jhvania. Anyway, no rescue, neither then, nor now. In spring when it is raining the place is so flooded that it will remind you of Amazon delta. the following famous people living there: State ministers (Gagoshidze) and MPs (Kakha Giuashvili) may confirm that it is a perfect place for constructing electric stations on hydro flows as well as on garbage. What a pity, what a waste of energy!
Municipal Service of Cleaning can not remember this street! Actually, it’s not exactly so. It really depends on the type of cleaning. The other day, in the beginning of November one of our neighbors have neatly collected 7 packs of garbage and put them in the corner of the street. Then he called to a service of cleaning to take it away. They sent their inspector the very next day instead of taking garbage away. They even wrote a minute: how did you dare to put these sacks of garbage in the tidy Kekelidze Street and you didn’t even call. At the same time they warned neighbors and made them sign a paper that implied taking the garbage way next day. They didn’t even utter a word on minute, complain or article 52. So, there was a notice from a court after three months informing on a debt. It said that there were some sacks of garbage put in a street three months ago. The most amazing part of the story is that the fine was delivered to a neighbor, not to the owner of sacks with the notice: Without right to appeal. You have to walk down Kekelidze – Zhvania streets with magnifying glass to find the above mentioned sacks. Dogs and special equipment were probably hired by those ‘garbages’ to find that garbage.
And so, they cleaned 1000 Gel out of the pocket of the organization. If it was an individual they would have demanded 200Gel from him/her. Upper neighbors constantly throw garbage in this street and none of them has been fined yet. You know why? Probably because only business is chased and cleaned in this country. Therefore one more word should be added to the following title: Municipal Service of Cleaning – Business. it reminds me of an old joke: in a compartment at a socialism time a General, passenger tells to the other passenger (it’s a real joke, otherwise why was the general in a compartment): take this bag away form the table. The other responded : no, I will not take it. The angry general threw the bag out of a window. The other passenger responded with a smile on his face: ‘Eta ne moi chemodan’ (It is not my suitcase). Socialism does not leave; it remains in jokes, in business and of course cleaning. The main content is that we hate business like a stepmother hates her stepchildren. There is a refined, exquisite , fine stepmother with a very long tongue stating that she adores her stepchildren. What she really would like to see, is their dying out. The same is true about our Service of Cleaning and Administrative Code – they say they prey for business (it fills their budget) but they discriminate and sap its development.
No, free market economy is strange for us. A businessman is still a bourgeon. I am sure lots of officials read Marx manifest and work by the great leader ‘Socialism and Property’ at night thinking: Wow, what a great people. They enjoy it a lot.
They have texts prepared by neat, sexy press service instead of coffee in the morning. The text is about market economy, support of free entrepreneurship development and of course on cleaning – taxes on the one hand and fines, as well as keeping lawyers and notices on the other hand.
We have only taken number of fines from Europe, that it. Nothing else. Anyway, we have taken business discrimination from socialism – ‘Tsekhaviks’. Just confess, maybe it is even better. They correspond the word to business. That’s what they are probably thinking of while ‘Cleaning’.