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Overlooking the obvious
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Posted on Oct 05 2011
Regarding the poor MVA website brought to our attention by an alert reader of your publication, I suddenly remembered a story told to me by an elderly person that gives some credence to our indifference at MVA. The story told was about a professional criminal being held in a holding room at the local precinct, awaiting disposition for a crime committed and the offender is being readied for court proceedings. All the time being wasted by the detective and prosecuting attorney meant that the criminal in the holding jail would have to be processed a little bit longer than usual. It turned out that the professional criminal was also busy on a plan to escape the prison walls. You can imagine how the skillful criminal would go about with this type of thinking. All escape route and all spaces within the four corners of the holding cell, like the barred window, were closely examined for a way out. But all his efforts failed. It turned out that when it was time to remove the criminal from the holding jail, the correction officer who came over to remove the subject from the holding cell simply opened the jail’s door without a key and escorted the criminal for the scheduled court hearing that day. The moral of this parable is, “People with false pretenses and good intention do always overlook the obvious.”
How does this relate to the MVA? I know that your reader who brought this up in your letter-to-the-editor section is mad and furious about the lack of simple information technology at the MVA. But certainly, there is more to this than just lacking IT. It boils down to capacity makeup and idiosyncrasy of the person running the place. For this, I will leave it for your intelligent readers to fill in the blanks and enjoy the rest of the amusement, including whether we would see some actions by the bigwigs who may also be failing to see the obvious. In the private sector, unless you own a majority stock of the company and even in that situation, the top of the chain would have no way to challenge any adverse job action a long time ago. What do you think?
Francisco R. Agulto
Chalan Kanoa, Saipan
