Greek Government Technology Rises to New Heights

We are all used to the often comical and sometimes tragical and most always catastrophic bloopers successive Greek governments of the past 4 recessions years have been making.
There is great material here: "invest in Greece" only to find that the tax burden you used in your business plan no longer applies; Greece relies heavily on tourism and the VAT for Food & Bev services triples (from 8% to 23%).

There is no lack of misconduct, incompetence and, sometimes, just sheer idiocy to satisfy the most demanding of comedians worldwide.

But this one is a really good one, it stands out above the rest: original, unique, and going against anything anyone can fathom, including logic and its corollaries; it is unique in the recorded history of mankind. These people surpassed themselves...

Read on:
Recently, the Greek administration (laughter) implemented a new, on-line system to follow and control employment in the private sector. What was a half filled "EDP" hard copy form from the '80s now is 6 ASP and the central system of course crashes as it does not (yet) has the bandwidth to repsond to employers' efforts. But that neither here nor there: in Greece no one expects a Public Sector system to work. Ever.

The great, beautiful and unique aspect of this new data-gloat system is: it will not recognize youth employment!
That's right.
IN GREECE YOU CANNOT OFFICIALLY REPORT (i.e. RECRUIT) PERSONS FIRST ENTERING THE JOB MARKET! DO SO AND YOU RISK A HEFTY FINE! *

 I leave it up to you to choose your response between the two pics.






(* Ministry of Labour official declared (10 days ago): "we'll fix this in no time. Meanwhile, relax -- just don't recruit new market entries...")