stour

(Place, tavern, firm, Yugoslavia)

Just as oour was your basic organization of united labor (and the professor would fail you on your economy exam if you said "enterprise"), several of those could be united into a larger system, a SOUR (i.e. "složeni" - compound, or complex, oour).

Now STOUR has one more character - T for trgovinski, i.e. trade, commerce, wholesale & retail. My favorite take on it (which reached Žića during one of the occasions when we drank on the premises) was "složena i teška organizacija ugroženog rada" - complicated and heavy organization of endangered labor. Which it actually was, at least in the case of our "labor community of common services", as the central administration and IT department were called. Our labor wasn't on the market, we were servicing the actual members. We didn't get to decide about anything much, we were decided upon by workers' boards of the members and the central workers' council (of which I was a member, near the end). Our salaries were to be in the same average as theirs,... etc etc, the whole story is at may 1988. and 10-II-1989..

This is the entrance to the erc - the Vaha was in the house to the right, and internal bank in the lower house in the rear. The offices of directors, the coffee kitchen and Radoje were in the narrower part in the middle. I parked my bike by the door in the corner, behind the slim tree. Of course, back then the gate was not automated, it actually never was closed.

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