Remember how, not so long ago, there was this popular genre: a principal scolding a student for attending protest rallies. Here’s a good example.
And here’s the next evolution of the genre: a kindergarten director scolding a teacher who is complaining about low pay. Watch and listen — it’s astonishing.
It’s the dialogue of all dialogues. Live and keep quiet. If you ask for more, things will only get worse.
Here’s 18 thousand rubles a month — be grateful. And this, mind you, is St. Petersburg. How are you supposed to live in St. Petersburg with a child on 18,000 rubles?
What I’d really like is for St. Petersburg’s acting governor, Beglov, to come to this kindergarten and find out why, when you complain to Putin about low pay, they “cut it even more.”
By the way, the head of St. Petersburg’s Teachers’ Alliance has publicly appealed to Beglov about salaries. Is he running for office? He is. Well then, here’s a question from a large group of voters.
And while I’m on the subject.
I strongly recommend reading this piece from the “internet shame” category:
I don’t want to pick a fight with Meduza: things are hard enough for them as it is — but this is just disgraceful. If it were an opinion column, fine — any fool can write any nonsense there. But this is an “explainer” section. In other words, it reflects the editorial position.
They are trying to convince us that raising salaries for doctors and teachers would hurt education and healthcare, and that fighting for higher pay is harmful because it’s populism.
They literally write: if Navalny’s proposal can expand his base of support, then it is harmful to the development of healthcare, education, and culture.
And how do they prove it? Good Lord, I haven’t read such feeble nonsense in a long time.
The whole thing consists of powerful analytical statements like:
- after the 2014 crisis, there’s simply no money left
How much money would it take to implement the decrees the way Navalny demands? In short: hundreds of billions of rubles a year.
Did the May decrees have any effect on the quality of healthcare, education, and culture? In short. They did — mostly a negative one.
And here’s the most amazing part — I’ll even post a screenshot of it:
A hospital orderly from some place like Bataysk gets 9,500 rubles a month, but apparently she shouldn’t fight for a pay raise. The clever journalists from Meduza come up to her and say: Nina Petrovna, just wait. Someday there will be more money in the budget. And in the meantime, Nina Petrovna, we’ll create a system that ties your 9,500 rubles to your work performance. We’ll set up KPIs, standards, and metrics.
Well sure, of course. What kind of idiot would raise the salary of a hospital orderly from Bataysk? Salaries should only be raised for Meduza journalists in Riga. After all, they’re the only ones who need to buy food, rent an apartment, and go on vacation. Why would anyone else need that? Out of curiosity, I googled the fool who wrote this. And I see that in 2015, journalist Kuznets decided to quit journalism and take up grilling meat.
I see. So journalist Kuznets didn’t succeed at grilling meat either, and now in Meduza’s “Explainer” section he gets to tell a hospital orderly from Bataysk that she isn’t entitled to a salary that would let her occasionally buy some cooked meat.
I like Meduza, which is why I’m saying this to everyone there: guys, shut down your “Explainer” section. Its editor is foolish, and he has hired equally foolish journalists. They don’t understand a damn thing, and they aren’t even trying to.
Just don’t write to me saying: oh, Navalny is attacking journalists, and his supporters are starting a harassment campaign.
To me, a journalist is no different from a kindergarten director. I will defend them. But if that director is a fool, like in the video above, then I say so: fool. And I can say the same about a journalist: fool. Equality.
“We have to wait until there’s money in the budget.”
But the national budget is running a surplus right now. The surplus is almost 2 trillion rubles.
The national budget has money for RT, Kiselyov (a pro-Kremlin TV host), the National Guard, internet isolation, the war in Ukraine, and support for Venezuela. It’s possible to find places to cut spending so that a hospital orderly in Bataysk or a teacher in Ozyorsk can be paid properly.
They do not want to wait, and they should not have to. They only have one life.