Entrenched public sector employees

The Issue: Arrogance among entrenched public sector employees in the provision of public services.

Our View: Must learn courtesy and facilitation of public services to taxpayers who pay for your salaries.

While a good number of public sector employees go the extra mile to assist the general public seeking assistance, there’s the entrenched group who have nothing but arrogance in the way they provide public services.

This group displays an unearned royal attitude that their jobs is both a birth right and power pinned on their collar and all must recite the mea culpa on their jerky laps. They won’t offer to assist and would find every means available to either derail assistance they must provide or throw the books at you every which way imaginable.

This is the bunch who definitely and rightly deserve immediate termination. Their attitude is even worse when dealing with people other than Chamorros and Carolinians. There’s the seeming instant amnesia of their fiduciary responsibility. They are far from being proactive facilitators and take preference in derailing assistance a member of the public pays for by way of taxes.

If anything, this entrenched bunch must be taught common courtesy in the disposition of their fiduciary responsibilities. This lesson requires a follow-up: basic lessons of who Mr. Public is and his role in paying taxes so that public sector employees can receive their biweekly paychecks. Another follow-up seminar must be had so that entrenched public sector employees can understand with clarity that unless they become proactive in helping Mr. Public, business activities would further contract and may trigger a reduction in force in the public sector (RIF).

It must be understood by this entrenched bunch that the business community has had to endure more than its share of bureaucratic abuses. Each of you must be proactive in rolling out the red carpet to assist them in their efforts to spur revenue generation so that they can be around to assist the NMI meet its needs on basic public services.

Arrogance and indifference are certainly not the answer in the assistance that the business community needs from the public sector. Let’s work together. The local government needs revenues to make ends meet and this equation begins with you as public sector employees. Si Yuus Maase`!