Nepal Bans Airline Staff Pockets

In an attempt to stop wide spread bribe-taking, staff at Nepal's main international airport are being issued pants without pockets. Nepal's Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) sent a team to the airport to "observe the growing complaints about the behaviour of airport authorities and workers towards travellers." "We discovered that the reports were true," said spokesman Ishwori Prasad. I have a feeling that staff will also find themselves wearing mittens soon.

Comments

What possible good will that do?

[Q-Hack!]

I stuff my bribes in my underwear.

Re:What possible good will that do?

[Anonymous Coward]

I stuff mine in condoms and shove them up my ass

Re:What possible good will that do?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's why they've issued pants without pockets.

Airport Bribes

[bjb]

Now become a foreign traveller in a country that has as unorganized an airport as Nepal or (in my case) Mumbai. I would have spent 2 hours in an unregulated, disorganized line waiting to get through security if it wasn't for a staffer offering to accept a small bribe for me to cut the line. In reality, it was probably about $1 USD and completely worth it.

Re:Airport Bribes

[droopycom]

Good for you, bad for Nepal and the Nepalese... You are the one perpetrating the bribe culture...

Absolutely true

[dargaud]

I concur at how bribed the airport people are in Katmandu. I was there a couple of years ago, and we had to pay several people 'directly' or I'm not even sure we would have boarded the airplane. They were bickering for all kind of shit: do you have radios in your luggage ? No, here's a $. You luggage looks like it may be over the weight allowance. No it's not, here's a $. Fuck them.

Useless gesture

[meerling]

Now that's a totally useless gesture on their part.

If an exotic dancer in nothing but high heels, g-string, and garter belt can accept the tips from 20 horny guys, then a bribe taking suit wearing airline employee has lots of places to discreetly stuff bribes, as long as it isn't a live chicken.

Not bribery

[kylemonger]

If they are going to screw you over if you don't pay and you know this, then what they are doing is not "taking bribes", it is extortion. Call a shakedown a shakedown, otherwise the extortionists win the rhetoric battle.

Tipping is the same damn thing.

[EWAdams]

I have to hand some guy outside a hotel dressed up in what looks like a Napoleonic cavalryman's uniform, a couple of bucks to wave his arm and blow a whistle for a taxi? What's up with that? Last time I didn't have the bills and handed the guy a 50c piece; he made sure that my taxi door wasn't closed properly after I got in.

New Zealand has no tipping. Instead they have this amazing concept called "paying their employees a living wage." I hate tipping. It's the modern-day expression of the master-serf relationship, without much in the way of privileges for the masters.

Re:Tipping is the same damn thing.

[oldspewey]

"Mr. Pink: I'm very sorry the government taxes their tips, that's fucked up. That ain't my fault. It would seem to me that waitresses are one of the many groups the government fucks in the ass on a regular basis. Look, if you ask me to sign something that says the government shouldn't do that, I'll sign it, put it to a vote, I'll vote for it, but what I won't do is play ball. And as for this non-college bullshit I got two words for that: learn to fuckin' type, 'cause if you're expecting me to help out with the rent you're in for a big fuckin' surprise."

shirt pockets then?

[Anonymous Coward]

OK so no pants pockets, what about shirts, gun holsters, etc?

How about firing the bribe takers?