The Bush administration has made an overhaul of management a centrepiece of its UN reform programme. John Bolton, US ambassador to the UN, once said that if the New York headquarters lost 10 of its 38 floors, it wouldnt make a bit of difference. He is leading an effort to move the UN towards the efficiency of a private company, including transforming the deputy secretary general into a chief operating officer and demanding that tasks are done by merit, not geography.
At first I thought this was Scrappleface.
"...have their work done more cheaply overseas."
Does that mean when you call the United Nations you will talk to a guy named Raj in India?
It would be a laugh a minute to see all those staff people able to run all over China with diplomatic immunity!
End it, don't mend it!
The UN is USless.
If you aren't informed about this stuff, you will be made sick. If you are informed, you will be made mad, all over again.
What Koffi is really after is a UN global tax on every living human being, regardless of country. He'll say how much and when. Reach right into your pocket and grab.
The first 200 laid off are the car valets, aren't they????