The Men working "in the tombs" (you men = entum) north of Khartoum restoring the monuments to the ancient rules had to use port-a-potties that didn't smell very good in the hot sun while they worked to prepare the site for tourists.
I. The workers were creating a beautiful park where the ancient rulers tombs still rose from the earth like smaller versions of the pyramids to the North in Egypt.
II. But before they started their work, they had to specify and designate a place for their ugly smelly port-a-potties away from their work, so that it wouldn't contaminate their sense of awe and beauty while they worked.
III. They had negotiated with the ministry of tourism to try persuade them to have the restrooms constructed first, but alas, the ministry of tourism said they needed the gardens and the park completed first,
IV. So that they could inform tourists abroad of what awaited them with beautiful photographs.
V. They didn't care that the smell of the outhouses in the hot summer African sun permeated everything. There are no smells in photographs they had replied.
VI. At first the disappointed workers grew slack, let up, and languished in their efforts on the job site
VII. because they were disappointed at the reply.
VIII. Management saw this attitude however, and warned the workers that unless they will finish their work quickly and efficiently every day, they will get fired and have no work to do at all.
IX. After this warning, work on the park picked up pace greatly, and soon the formally barren landscape around the tombs turned green.
X. Management was happy that they had used the threat of job loss to get the most out of the workers that they had employed, however, the workers started to wish that they had a union to appeal to for better working conditions.
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