Q. Was the job a hard one that the last person hired walked out?
(This is question was asked by Lady Anne in her comment to my previous blog. The answer to this question requires a space of a blog itself, so here is my Answer).
Yes Anne that was a pretty complicated job I was assigned by the company. I will try to make it simple in statement so that my readers can understand easily.
The company I joined was a group of industries (textile). Besides other different works I was assigned to arrange the remittances to a sub-office of the company located in London, UK, say its name was Cosmic Trading.
They used to make grey cloth (cotton), which was exported to different countries including Ireland, where they had a bleaching and printing factory of their own, in which the exported grey cloth was bleached and printed for onward export to other countries.
My boss briefed me that they have an office in London, which supposed to act as a middle agent for all the import of grey cloth to Ireland for which the company had to pay 2.5% commission on the invoice value.
So far it was so simple, but my job was to act as the company’s employ here in Karachi as well as an employee of Cosmic Trading. But there was only one employee in London, whose responsibility was to take care the account of the commission I supposed to remit.
Complicacy started now. My boss asked me to get the necessary stationeries of Cosmic printed here in Karachi, because it was too expensive there. From there my actual work started a brief account of which is given as under:
1. I had to make the invoice after a consignment was shipped. This invoice was made on the company’s letterhead. I had to sign it myself.
2. Then I had to make another invoice on Cosmic’s letter head demanding to remit the commission. I had to sign this invoice myself, too (but not my own signature - a fake one).
3. Then I had to make an acknowledgement of this Cosmic invoice intimating that the remittance is under process. (I have to sign this correspondence with my own signature).
4. (For this bilateral correspondence I had to keep the record of designs of signatures to avoid the coincidence.
After making this set of documents the case was sent to Central Bank who were supposed to allow the remittance. The export transaction pertained millions of dollars of 2.5% was again come back to the owners account in the shape of commission.
My readers may be thinking that this was illegal. The answer is yes and no. Let me explain it, too.
The Cosmic Trade was allowed to establish by the competent authority and they have issued the N.O.C. So what was illegal? That was the amount in the name of commission, which was coming back in to the pocket of the owner by legal ways.
This was one of my assignments, which I assumed the other guy could not cop up with and left the job vacant for me.
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That's OK, May Allah bless you.
No Mohammad, sorry, you understood all WRONG. That business was all legal even the remmittance of commission was also legal, and what I was also doing as my job was also legal. My reservation was that the commission was coming back in to the Owner's pocket.
Thanks for your elaboration, though it was wrong and not complicated as you have made in your comment.
Dear Mishaikh
I read your blog exactly. Suppose there is a factory in country A which produces X-product. Then the country A (the owner) wants to export X to another country named B ,,, right ? ,,, Ok
An agent in country B must be existed (as a middle part) who delivers the product X from the country A and distribute that in the country B, or whatever wants to do with X (like bleaching and printing which you said). Anyway that agent itself buys the product X from the country (company) A. Generally the agent of a typical product (from other country) can be monopoly agent or several agents can be existed for a same product. These agents as you know because of costs of marketing (finding customers for the product), distributing and ensuring the order of products, buys the product LESS than its real sale price (the 2.5% which you named it commission) and it is their right, because if they weren't, how the products can be sold in other countries !? ,,, anyway they guaranty that your product will be sold.
Here, in your story I didn't get exactly that now 1- you want to bleach and print the cloth yourself in Pakistan and export it yourself to other countries in the name of Cosmic (and without paying that 2.5%). or 2- you want to export the gray cloth to Ireland without paying that 2.5%
I think both of them are illegal. in the case 1, no company can export its product with the brand or name of other companies. and in the case 2, when a company exports its product to other countries, it must pay a cost to the agent who delivers and buys the product in destination country, as the marketing, distributing and other costs.
But about your work, as you have the Bc. in law, you must know that the signer undertakes the responsibility of what s/he has signed ,,, right !? ,,, in your work, the illegal part for you is forging the letter of Cosmic's head. Why your boss doesn't sign the Cosmic's letter head demanding himself (I mean you prepare that letter and he signs) !? ,,, ha, why !?
See, in future if this story will be showed up, your boss might deny all your claims and easily proclaim that he didn't aware about anything and his employee (you) has done that forging himself. Then what do you wanna do !?
On the other hand think about when the destination of that money (2.5%), find out the story and complain your company. Then it is too late.
Even if no one understand that, God sees.
The last recommendation from a fiend: Importunately and meticulously be careful about your income, which you and your family (especially your children) want to use that to live.
Have fun
Thanks saba for your comment.
I agree with Lady Anne, it was good you didn't work with them anymore.
Own signature (or official signature is considered the one which we adopt to sign official paper, like passport, National Identity Card, cheques etc. Other signature though pertain the name of the ower, and it is allowed to use, but they are not official and also not considered illegal. I used the word 'fake' as my concience made me say so, but they were not illegal and could not be challanged in any court of law with the perspective of forgery. I write different signatures but I have only one as my official signature which appears on my passport, national identity card and cheques.
Forgery is called if I copy someone else's signature to gain some benefits. This is illegal.
My Lady: I have two bachelor degrees on my academic credit, and one of them is Bacheler of Law.
Yes, Mishaikh. I would like to hear, too. :)
I had to sign this invoice myself, too (but not my own signature - a fake one).
Any signature not your own and a fake one is considered as a forged signature. The sentence above (taken from your blog) clearly states that you are using a signature not your own.
But since you indicated in your reply that it was your own signature signed in a different way, then it wouldn't be appropriate to call it as "fake" because it is yours. We can write our own signature in different strokes but that is also valid.
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Yes, when a child is ahead of his classes in terms of academic performance, he should be accelerated to the section where he fits. But this case is applicable only to a child who did not stop from schooling. Even in our country, it will only be a repetition of the grade where you stopped. Acceleration will be availed on your next school term.
Sad but true, schools have protocols, too and headmasters/head teachers are just following the rules. This is the Philippine scenario regarding the education system. I am not sure if your country follows the same system.
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You did not finish the story, I want to know what happened next. Did you enroll to another school and was accelerated?
My lady I would like to tell you something. You will guess what I want to point out.
I was behind six years in my acadamic life, because of sickness, and economical problems. But I was good in my studies, so in one of my results I changed the class and jump over to other class. But this was caught by the headmaster of the school, and they asked me to bring my father. I told all the situation to my father, he asked me to leave the school, because it was not up to my level. But on my request he visited the headmaster. The headmaster was expecting that when he tell the story, my father would extremely get angry, but what my father said to the headmaster is the bottom line;
My father said, "Sir, doesn't it indicate that this boy is very intelligent?"
The headmaster was shocked and said that they can't keep that intelligent boy in their school.
"Come son, lets go, I already told you this school is not up to your level." And we left.
Eva, main kissi surat say be cheating nahin kar raha tha.
Eva I was not cheating in any way. Please read my explanation given below.
It like listening Urdu from you Eva. How did you learn this? And thanks for the comments.
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