เด็กฝาก: Dek Phak

ผู้อ่านท่านหนึ่งถามผมถึงคำว่า "เด็กฝาก" เช่น เด็กที่พ่อแม่มีอำนาจ สามารถเข้าเรียนในสถาบันชื่อดังโดยไม่ต้องสอบเข้า หรือบุคคลที่เข้าทำงานได้ โดยไม่ต้องผ่านการสอบคัดเลือก

ผมเปิดพจนานุกรมเพื่อที่จะรับใช้ท่านผู้ถามถึงคำนี้หลายรอบ แต่ก็หาไม่เจอ ผู้ใดทราบ กรุณาส่งอีเมล์มาช่วยผมด้วยครับที่ nitipoom @ gmail.com

ผู้ อ่านท่านที่เคารพ เรื่องอย่างนี้นะครับ It's not what you know, but who you know. ไม่ใช่เรื่องท่านรู้อะไร แต่อยู่ที่ท่านรู้จักใคร There are people who use these methods to advance themselves for jobs, promotions, famous educational institutions etc. มีคนใช้วิธีการนี้ให้ตัวเองได้งาน ได้เลื่อนตำแหน่ง และให้ได้เข้าในสถาบันการศึกษาที่มีชื่อเสียง

อีกคำหนึ่งซึ่งผมว่า น่าจะใกล้กันกับเด็กฝาก ก็คือ wasted space ท่านคงเคยเจอศัพท์ waste เวซท นะครับ หมายถึง เสีย ทิ้ง ใช้อย่างฟุ่มเฟือย ส่วน space ซเพซ ก็คือ ที่ว่าง ช่องว่าง Somsak is a wasted space in that reputable school. He was born with no brain. He doesn't have sufficient I.Q. to be there. An important minister pressured the school to accept him. สมศักดิ์เป็นไอ้ที่ว่างเสีย (เด็กฝาก) ในโรงเรียนดังที่ว่า (ที่จริง) แกเกิดมาไม่มีสมอง ไม่มีไอคิวเพียงพอที่จะเรียนที่นั่นได้ รัฐมนตรีคนสำคัญ กดดันโรงเรียนให้รับแกนั่นแหละ (แกจึงถึงได้เรียน)

นิติภูมิ นวรัตน์
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"Dek Saintn" เด็กเส้น or "dek phak เด็กฝาก" = a person gaining some kinds of advantages in having connection/network in order to get job, get job promotion, get seat to study in highly famous school, ect. We call this kind of person as "Dek Saintn" or "Dek Phak" (connected person)

ประเทศไทยก็ด้วยที่ต้องการคนที่่มีความสามามารถที่แท้จริง Thailand too wants more real talented people. แน่นอนว่าเราอยากได้คนอยากได้คนที่มองการทำงานเป็นการให้บริการ มากกว่าการมองว่ามันเป็นอาชีพ We certainly need more people who view the job as service, rather than as a career. (modified from Jim Graham's e-message, see below)
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This is exactly as Michael describes it as, "it's a serious case of
Enron-itis". Executives at every corporation or government level who are
simply not worth it. But Michael, you do not have to hire a less
"qualified" person. You have to hire a less "connected" person. You could
probably hire a MORE qualified person for half that amount. I had to
absolutely laugh at the hullabaloo about the Minneapolis School
Superintendent and that garbage about competing for her services against
other Cities. There are people who are just as qualified as that person
already in the system. These people might do the job just as well, and
possibly better, for half the amount.

Why do we need "connections" for management positions? Fundraising and
political graft and lobbying probably need "Connections", but where else?
An exception might be when a person is doing such a GREAT job that the
product improved instrumentally in that year. Has education or reading
improved that much in this past year? I don't think so. After reading this
list I would say the taxpayers have the opposite opinion.

Speaking of political graft, when are we going to make City Council and
Hennepin County positions pay what State Senator pay is? The position should
not be so lucrative that a Lawyer or Real Estate Salesperson would want to
hold the office for more than one or two terms. Some say, "well look at
the quality of people the salary attracts". My answer is not to pay them
more, but to pay them less. Make the job something you only intend to do
for a very short time and then get back to the real world. That way you get
"real" people with "real" qualifications, not "Connections". Some will say
that paying them more keeps them from defrauding the taxpayer or selling
favors. It is not high pay that keeps street workers in the City from
defrauding the City. Is it? I think for lower level workers it might be
called "Honesty" and "work ethic". If politicians want to make more money,
let them go out into the "real" world. Not rob the taxpayers.

Same thing applies with corporate executives. It should be fraud to take a
higher salary than 100% more than the lowest level worker, unless you do
such a good job that you improve the earnings of the company. There is a
trust function of the oversight function of government for "publicly" held
stock. If someone uses "connection" to get a huge amount of money from a
corporation without corresponding benefit in the form of new dollars of
profit then they are defrauding the individual stockholders. If an
executive wants to make more money, let them start their own business. Not
rob the shareholders.

I have never met an administrator, a politician, or a corporate executive
that was more than 100% smarter and more gifted than those below him or her.
I have never met one who was more than marginally more gifted than people
two or three levels below them. So why should they make more except by
fraud and graft? No, lets offer that Library job at 70 thousand and just
hire the "Best" person that applies. Lets pay a School Superintendent twice
what a starting elementary teacher makes and hire the best that applies.
Lets pay Hennepin County Commissioners 50 or 60 thousand dollars and elect
the best ones that run. And lets pay City Council people their 50 or 60
thousand and elect the best person that runs.

If City Council or County Commissioner is too big a job for the pay, how
about if we make it part time, and elect twice as many to fill the position.
That way they will be more responsive to those who elect them, and we will
get politicians who have real jobs to support themselves. We might get real
talented people. We certainly need more people who view the job as service,
rather than as a career.

Jim Graham,
Ventura Village

>>Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
- Frederick Douglass
>>Without conflict communication and novel synthesis of information cannot
take place. Conflict is the fertile soil in which creativity grows.
- Master Toe paraphrasing Zimmel

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