Lies

The National Employment Rights Authority (NERA) is working to secure better compliance with employment rights legislation through the provision of information and inspection service. NERA Inspectors called to you premises today with a view to carrying out an employment rights compliance inspection.

This is their duty and they carry it out by inspecting the shops. TianDu Hair Studio was called on 20 Sep,2012, Thursday. Receiving a note requested to provide all the employees' name, address, tax record, working schedule, payslip, etc. for their second visit in 7 days. They were all frightened of course, deceiving all the Irish bodies, escaping tax, and all the wrong doings....how could they have no trace of panic?! But then why should they have any worries, they know what they have been doing were totally against Irish laws. Lies can't lie underground for forever.

Today, 13 Nov, 2012 they have arranged the inspectors from the authority to come to the shop for inspection again. Mark, Sing and me are rescheduled to avoid seeing the inspector. I am fine in any case but I am not necessary to be there as the owner will be doing my position and more importantly, to tackles the inspectors. So only Fiona, William, a guy brought from Dublin, and Vina, the boss or the boss' wife are working today. I didn't witness the process and the "amazing play of lies" went on as I am off but was told by Fiona that things have gone through "okay". Although it wouldn't bother me whatever the result (got caught or through) is, I am still interested to know. Its a drama of my 6 months life in Athlone in a sense. Somehow I feel like missed something important today.

Anyway, the point of the entry does not lies how dramatic it is and how I am amused by their panics, but the how sad that all the wrong doings of Asians or Chinese are winning in this so called Catholic country. What's more frightening though, was the fear that I have to be one of them if I plan to stay in Europe in the next 10 years.