What is the gap between politicians and citizens? Put a few senators together and you get exactly the same whining about the terms of employment as in any office in the Netherlands. Annabel from business development doesn’t like her desk chair, Rik from accounting whines about the crowds in the canteen, while Henk from sales doesn’t like the food there and whines about his salary. Annelien from purchasing complains that the meetings take too long and Paul from marketing prefers to work from home every day, but that doesn’t sit well with near-retirement Peter, who has been coming to the office all his life. And then we have elitist Annemarie who, despite the new climate policy of marketing, does not want to sit among the mob on the train and simply wants to fly on her business trips to France. It is exactly the same grumbling that you can hear in every office, with the big difference that the MPs only work one day a week for their 34k per year (excluding allowances). They are just ordinary citizens with their typical citizen problems and citizen frustrations, but for an uncivil salary. Complain like an office slave with an office manager’s income. Do they still show their human side just before the planned reorganization of March 15th. After all, you don’t determine what the canteen serves, but you do, indirectly, whether this complaining club keeps their job. Choose wisely.
