JJ_BPK
02-17-2019, 09:46
It's hard to be a Ruskie sometimes..
LMAO :]
UPI Archives, Sept. 22, 1998
Russian teachers paid in vodka
MOSCOW, Sept. 22 -- Teachers in Russia's Altai ('ahl-THAI') region, in southern Siberia, are being paid in vodka after the regional authorities said they had no funds to pay wages.
Over 8,000 teachers in Altai's Maima ('MY-mah') district, who have not received their salaries since February, have accepted an offer of 15 bottles of vodka each as part payment rather than continue waiting for cash.
Contrary to some expectations, the desperate teachers are unlikely to go on a drinking binge, preferring to sell the bottles or swap them for food.
The teachers had earlier been offered payment in TOILET PAPER AND COFFINS, but politely declined, suggesting members of the local government receive their own wages this way.
link: (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1998/09/22/Russian-teachers-paid-in-vodka/9432906436800/)
LMAO :]
UPI Archives, Sept. 22, 1998
Russian teachers paid in vodka
MOSCOW, Sept. 22 -- Teachers in Russia's Altai ('ahl-THAI') region, in southern Siberia, are being paid in vodka after the regional authorities said they had no funds to pay wages.
Over 8,000 teachers in Altai's Maima ('MY-mah') district, who have not received their salaries since February, have accepted an offer of 15 bottles of vodka each as part payment rather than continue waiting for cash.
Contrary to some expectations, the desperate teachers are unlikely to go on a drinking binge, preferring to sell the bottles or swap them for food.
The teachers had earlier been offered payment in TOILET PAPER AND COFFINS, but politely declined, suggesting members of the local government receive their own wages this way.
link: (https://www.upi.com/Archives/1998/09/22/Russian-teachers-paid-in-vodka/9432906436800/)