Comment by oneeyedpigeon
10 years ago
Sorry, although I buy the human nature argument there, from a government organisation point-of-view, that kind of behaviour is utterly unacceptable. If it's too difficult for people to do their jobs properly the way the system is set up, change the system. This isn't an impossible problem; we have many state bodies that have to deal with similar situations - police - and they simply should not be able to get away with this.
But - given the rules in place, she actually did not have the right paperwork to give a paid talk at the conference.
Ie I think the majority of the ordeal stems from this - not ill-handling on the part of staff who work there.