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Russia: dung instead of
salary?
Due
to the deficit of cash money many Russians receive their wages in the form of
various products, which they later convert to money.
In addition, strange and vague stories happen.
However, foisting dung, even as salary, off on Russian doctors does not
work out, newspaper notes.
Surgeon
of a regional hospital Yuri Zotov expressed his negative attitude to the
proposal of the governor of Vachi, near Nizhni Novgorod, to clear salary
liabilities, accumulated since December last year, with three tons of manure.
"If
it were lump sugar or granulated sugar, I wouldn’t mind.
But manure?” Yuri Zotov was outraged according to the data of “Moscow
Times” newspaper. Governor Aleksandr Abrosimov estimated this amount of manure
at a minimal cost of 500 rubles (38.50 marcs).
“Maybe, dung smells unpleasantly but every gardener needs it,” he
thinks.
There
are other weird methods of paying salaries.
According to the newspaper’s information workers of Podolsk factory of
sewing machines near Moscow are paid wages with sewing machines.
Here is an even more amazing incident: in 1994, loggers in the northern
part of Russia were given packages of tampons in the form of wages.
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