The Games People Play

[rbrooks]

He is still on the Government payroll doing nothing and still getting paid what is new? The only people really getting hurt are the stupid taxpayers paying his salary.

[hellodolly]

He is still on the Government payroll doing nothing and still getting paid what is new? The only people really getting hurt are the stupid taxpayers paying his salary.

Good one.

How do the smart tax payers get out of paying his salary.

[kimamey]

His bare office desk provides evidence of his inactivity. There are no piles of documents and no computer, just a telephone, a simple stationary set, and a box of tissues. Thawil himself is reading a court verdict and making notes on a pad.

His desk resembles what most senior pooyais does.

Answer their own emails? Receive their own faxes? That's what underlings are for.

Files are presented for cursory attention and removed forthwith. Maybe this job doesn't give him a stamp to keep under lock and key. You really are a no one if you haven't got a stamp.

A stamp? What only one? You really have no idea do you?

[Joe Mamma]

Brave and noble man, to set up shop in the enemies camp. Looks like anyone here with guts and determination, can't be bullied by the oppressors.

We need people like him for leadership, not the puppet regimens we are stuck with today.

[Noistar]

Isn't he a Civil Servant, not a politician?

The thread seems to ignore that he is using the law to defend himself against what he considers to be the illegal actions of the politicians.

Surprise, surprise, what the Government says about his new role, and what the reality is, are 2 completely different things.

This is a principaled man, who after years of serving his country will not lay down to keep Thaksin happy.

Whether time means he will or won't actually get back to his previous role, doesn't matter. A ruling in his favour will set a precedent, taking away another tactic to ensure the 'right' people are in the right jobs.

[hellodolly]

Isn't he a Civil Servant, not a politician?

The thread seems to ignore that he is using the law to defend himself against what he considers to be the illegal actions of the politicians.

Surprise, surprise, what the Government says about his new role, and what the reality is, are 2 completely different things.

This is a principaled man, who after years of serving his country will not lay down to keep Thaksin happy.

Whether time means he will or won't actually get back to his previous role, doesn't matter. A ruling in his favour will set a precedent, taking away another tactic to ensure the 'right' people are in the right jobs.

I agree with what you say he is indeed a heroic man. Win lose or draw the government can not look good in this.

How ever it can also set up a precedent to keep the wrong man in a job.

[Noistar]

Isn't he a Civil Servant, not a politician?

The thread seems to ignore that he is using the law to defend himself against what he considers to be the illegal actions of the politicians.

Surprise, surprise, what the Government says about his new role, and what the reality is, are 2 completely different things.

This is a principaled man, who after years of serving his country will not lay down to keep Thaksin happy.

Whether time means he will or won't actually get back to his previous role, doesn't matter. A ruling in his favour will set a precedent, taking away another tactic to ensure the 'right' people are in the right jobs.

I agree with what you say he is indeed a heroic man. Win lose or draw the government can not look good in this.

How ever it can also set up a precedent to keep the wrong man in a job.

Part of the Government's problem was the way they dealt with this. At no point was he deemed the wrong man (lack of anything to support that argument). It was the 'promotion' to use his skills where the Government deemed them most appropriate.

Of course, this Government thought the task was complete when he cleared his desk. They didn't think further. Most unlike this Government to be guilty of not thinking.