Lai CF wrote:
Work Ethics?
Sure, if all SIngaporeans are promised annual bonuses of 5 months
to 10 months if they "work hard", why not?
After all, civil servants are on 5-day week, whereas Private Sector
like marine, construction, oil & gas and some manufacturing are
on 24/7, rotating shift.
Don't those Private Sector employees deserve 5 to 10 months annual
bonuses...on par what all those 5-day week civil servanst are
collecting?
You are absolutely right - civil servants enjoy the best of both
worlds by doing less and less but are still asking for more
salaries and more bonuses.
Most of the government services are nowaday being passed to some
GLCs or private companies given all the right to charge lands and
infrastructure costs all over despite citizens having paid for such
facilities years back under taxation.
Duties and responsibilities of government are getting lesser with
MND, URA, HDB, MHA, passing all kinds of duties to various agencies
like GLCs and Management Corporations who would have to answer for
their duties like breeding of mosquitos, or work site safety or
breaches of security or others. Even immigration check were passed
to landlords who could be jailed for so-called renting of premises
to foreigners which MHA has failed to carry out.
Facts speak for themselves. With such reduction in their duties and
works, Ministers have lesser problems and worries but citizens are
being told they are the great talents who should be paid more
salaries and bonuses.
There is no more fair play in our present system with the ministers
doing lesser but able to engage in power game of promoting
themselves and protecting their own interests. All the rewards are
going to the ministers and the civil servants.
Morever whenever anything goes wrong they would take the easy way
out by denying problems with the newspapers keeping quiet about
real problems for years or ministers coming up with excuses as
being uttered by V Balakrishnan or Yacoob to justify the civil
servants' pay increases despite the people's dropping wages and
indebtedness and all the high costs of living caused by unnecessary
taxes in the face of all the hidden surpluses and
profiteering.
The only talent our ministers have seem to be their ability to
enslave the population, hypocrisy and blaming problems on the
people or giving of quick excuses of one kind of another with
problems remaining unsolved for years.
