Sanctions Hit Blue Fingers from the Most Unexpected Sides

The authorities themselves are pushing the workers to strike.

At the Belpochta offices at the airport and the railway station, people are sent on vacation at their own expense, since there is no work at all. Nothing arrives, there is nothing to unload and register.

It's even more fun at Belavia. The number of flights dropped by half. There was still some demand for Turkey and Egypt, but Russia lifted the restriction on flights to these countries. There is going to be a setback here too. Some people leave on their own, others are fired or their contracts are not renewed. As always, at the start, there was a lot of bravado from the director Charhinets, that he would never have to cut the staff back. In the end, life forces him to act as the broken economy demands.

The situation with the international representations is funny. We had them in almost all European countries. After the blockade, Belavia tried to close them, but the workers of the representations showed solidarity - and it worked again. For now, they left them alone.

Belarusbank had fun even before the sanctions. Every department and every department has its own plan. Retaining customers is very difficult. Attracting new ones is even more difficult (“we don't do business with the state”). But indicators are needed. Take the corporate business department, for example. Siarhei Pas, its head, constantly gathers meetings demanding higher figures and new clients.

As a result, in order to show the numbers, employees of corporate departments, by hook or by crook, persuade the legal entity to conclude a service contract. And they pay themselves from their own pockets. The math is simple: spending 80-100 rubles, you can get a bonus 2-3 times more. Banks know how to count. Only in this case, the entire statistics of the National Bank raises a big question.

Well, the junta itself continues to escalate the personnel problem. "Letters of happiness" are coming in about the signatures for the wrong candidates for the most various organizations. We have already mentioned that, at the end of last week, one of the foremen of the capital's construction department was arrested at his workplace. Letters are coming to the tax authorities of various districts (in the Minsk district, the head of the inspection was fired). They are waiting for such a letter in the Main Department of Internal Affairs.

Another problem is territorial defense. In small Masty, where 15 thousand people live, several hundred men have been recruited, which seriously hit the enterprises. For example, five people were taken from the meat-packing plant, who were engaged in slaughtering livestock. There is no one to replace them, so, for a while, production will simply stop. But it doesn't matter when you are confronted by an invisible enemy.

In general, on the one hand, the junta is trying to intimidate the Belarusians on the eve of the anniversary of the elections. However, it is trembling like an aspen leaf.

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