In an ideal world, everyone would get what they deserved.
To be more specific, in an ideal workplace, only the truly deserving would enjoy advancement, the hardworking would be given additional pay for the extra hours spent slaving away at work, and only the competent would enjoy job security.
Conversely, the undeserving would not get promoted, the lazy unable to produce any output would be subject to pay cuts, and the incompetent would be fired.
Unfortunately, for those of us who work in government, the opposite is more often than not the way things are.
We wonder why this country isn't going anywhere? Look at Congress, Malacañang, and yes, even the Judiciary. The ranks of government service are filled with lazy, incompetent (not to mention, corrupt) idiots who couldn't write a memo if their lives depended on it.
Of course, not all government employees are a waste of taxpayers' money. There are those in the Supreme Court who've worked here since graduating from law school, and have shunned higher-paying jobs in the private sector to serve the public. They put in long hours and work their butts off for measly salaries and poor benefits.
But for every dedicated public servant are dozens of NPAs (Non-Performing Assets)-- individuals who collect their pay every month even though all they do is stare at their monitor pretending to be working.
It's bad enough that these dead-weights in the Philippine bureaucracy do nothing but contribute to our ever-expanding fiscal deficit. Worse, some of them-- by virtue of their ability to kiss-ass and act busy-- even get promoted! Others, simply by holding on to their jobs, get raises through "stepping," a process by which one's salary is upgraded after a number of years, regardless of one's salary grade. (Under this system, it's possible for a lazy secretary who's worked in Congress for a loooong time to bring home more than a newly-appointed congressional chief-of-staff.)
Then there are those who, despite being obviously incompetent, get promoted after earning the title of "attorney." Their output (zero) may not change, their attitude (impolite, bastos, uncouth) may be the same, and their hours (in at 8:00, out by 4:30) remain unchanged, but lo and behold, they're suddenly considered for promotion?
Bloody hell.
Nothing like a cold dose of reality to kill whatever's left of one's idealism.
To be more specific, in an ideal workplace, only the truly deserving would enjoy advancement, the hardworking would be given additional pay for the extra hours spent slaving away at work, and only the competent would enjoy job security.
Conversely, the undeserving would not get promoted, the lazy unable to produce any output would be subject to pay cuts, and the incompetent would be fired.
Unfortunately, for those of us who work in government, the opposite is more often than not the way things are.
We wonder why this country isn't going anywhere? Look at Congress, Malacañang, and yes, even the Judiciary. The ranks of government service are filled with lazy, incompetent (not to mention, corrupt) idiots who couldn't write a memo if their lives depended on it.
Of course, not all government employees are a waste of taxpayers' money. There are those in the Supreme Court who've worked here since graduating from law school, and have shunned higher-paying jobs in the private sector to serve the public. They put in long hours and work their butts off for measly salaries and poor benefits.
But for every dedicated public servant are dozens of NPAs (Non-Performing Assets)-- individuals who collect their pay every month even though all they do is stare at their monitor pretending to be working.
It's bad enough that these dead-weights in the Philippine bureaucracy do nothing but contribute to our ever-expanding fiscal deficit. Worse, some of them-- by virtue of their ability to kiss-ass and act busy-- even get promoted! Others, simply by holding on to their jobs, get raises through "stepping," a process by which one's salary is upgraded after a number of years, regardless of one's salary grade. (Under this system, it's possible for a lazy secretary who's worked in Congress for a loooong time to bring home more than a newly-appointed congressional chief-of-staff.)
Then there are those who, despite being obviously incompetent, get promoted after earning the title of "attorney." Their output (zero) may not change, their attitude (impolite, bastos, uncouth) may be the same, and their hours (in at 8:00, out by 4:30) remain unchanged, but lo and behold, they're suddenly considered for promotion?
Bloody hell.
Nothing like a cold dose of reality to kill whatever's left of one's idealism.
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