Small-town professionalism

Here’s a snippet of last week’s meeting at the municipality. This is not to poke fun of anyone or anything of the sort; it’s simply a way of demonstrating the meaning of professionalism between my old office and the new. The structure of the meeting was as follows (roughly translated):

-Mayor invites all employees into office for impromptu meeting with the words “EVERYONE GET IN HERE NOW”
-Mayor opens meeting by first berating every employee on what they’re doing wrong, except his protégé employee who gets of scot free.
-Mayor then turns to two employees and tells them to decide in which position they want to work: in tributaria (tax collection) or in catastro (property zoning). “Give us time to think about this,” they said. "No," he replied. "Decide now."
-Mayor tells head of environmental unit that he’s going to villages all too often. Environment guy protests by saying that his job responsibilities largely take place in the villages, and by the way when does he get a motorcycle?
-Mayor then tells chief of police to help his star employee in making a list of businesses in the area. He responds by saying he wants to quit. Mayor responds with “Go ahead!”
-Throughout meeting cell phones are answered, eyes are rolled and paper is doodled on. Mayor tries to wrap up meeting but everyone’s already gotten up and left.

Just your typical meeting in San Jose!