How it feels like to Dive into National Broadcasting Cooperation of the Maldives

In the end of last year, Mnbc broad casted an advertisement for apart time news caster. When I saw the advertisement I thought to my self that it could be the perfect job for me with me being a mother and all ( this was when my son was 6 months old), so I applied to the job praying that I could convince them in the interview that I could write for English news.
My motive was to become a journalist and not a presenter. Which I thought was selfish of me until I began to work for them. But before beginning to work, I waited three months for them to call me back after the interview, which turned out very positive. Then after I was shortlisted (in march 2011) I was called in for another test ( a screen test) which was very lame. Around somewhere in the April, me and another four people were called on a meeting to confirm that we have been selected for a trail period of one month. The head of the department clearly said after one month of evaluation they will decide on who will be staying and not. At first it sounded all OK until one of the head mentioned that our contracts will be handed over a weeks time and they will call us to sign the contract and to start on the job.
Some were not very happy because most of us signed in just to be news casters and I was the only one who wanted to be away from the camera and working on the content. The contracts never came to life but we had already been called in for the job. We were put on radio for training and given as dhivehi scripts/news stories to be translated. When it came to dhivehi stories, most journalists highlighted facts only to give some structure to their own opinions. One thing I was clear of that most Mnbc journalists could not separate opinions from facts.
One journalist writes, the new head of the MDP parliament group is admired by oppositions and the public. Now, this is what he wrote literally without quoting any opposition or referring to public polls. Because there was no poll on the issue and no opposition who confirmed that its true, which in this case makes the journalist a liar who is lying to the public. My problem was that I didn't translate that very sentence into English news because I thought that what he stated was an opinion. As a journalist when it comes to breaking news u don't add in Ur opinion with facts. My responsibly is to report unbiased true facts. And that is what Mnbc lacks. In my first week I was sexually harassed multiple times by my co workers. some of them used very trashy language and others in action. For the record they never accomplished in touching me, I was told by my heads that I will get paid not less than a hundred for an hour. 2 months passed without a contract or salary. When I got pissed of and stayed home, they called me and told me to report to work. I did report to work and I said to my head that I will not show up the next day if they don't give me a contract. She kind of announced to the whole office - to quote her exact words - " why would you need money. You are married to a very rich mans son". All I could think at that moment was why would she need money when she is the sister of tourism minister. I never said it. I should have but I didn't. I just want to say now to all those people out there even if I am married to a rich mans son, it doesn't mean that he is responsible to look after me. I want to be independent and make something on my own because I have responsibilities of my own family. I came from a poor family and it doesn't mean that i am nobody.
Anyway, she always made these kinds of comment in the office, she wanted me to write the exact thing which is in dhivehi content. She didn't want to give me the freedom to state too much of facts. She wanted the news to be biased. Well for two months I took it all in only because I wanted a partime job that i had to work only three hours and do what I always loved to do. But after two months I realized that I was on too much pressure because the national broadcasting cooperation of the Maldives was shit and unstable like hell.
The quality of content, let's not even go there. Now imagine me on tv as a news caster reading all the crappy news stories from the auto script. I didn't want to do it. So I called my head and gave her a good lecture and the next day our contracts were ready to sign. But in the contract it said we are getting paid only 22 rufiyaa per hour. In three hours we translated more than three to four stories. Recorded our voice for reports. But all the other journalists get paid to do just one story for the whole day while they get paid around 8 to 10 thousand a month. Oh and there is this one guy whos job is to copy paste international news and he gets paid more than us. It was frustrating to acknowledge that the whole process of getting connected to this media cooperation was giving up my rationality and surrender to be brain washed. so I yelled again that I won't be coming if they dont pay me my salary and this was after a week I signed my contract. It was not even 24 hours of my warning they called me in to collect my check. Seeing my cheque was very demotivating and I thought I am not going to go in. I'll quit.
Next day our third head, head of the head head ... ( they have so many head of departments who actually guides you in three different directions - if one say to just copy paste the press releases other would advice you to rebuild the whole story)... so anyway this head calls and ask me whether I am coming or not. I said to him the truth of what i have experienced and that's where it ended. They still owe me 15 days on money. A lot advised me to file for a court case, but honestly i don't have time for that. why would i express this experience in my blog if i had time for court. court is as corrupted as the national media.