I am proud to be a public servant

Today at the bank, I was asked by a personally known teller when will there be a vacancy of position in our office. I sadly informed her that maybe not in the near future will there be a vacant item in our sala. At most that she can hoped to is if our clerk of court will be promoted if ever he passed the bar exam. And by then of course a tedious procedure will still happen as there will be a reshuffle among the positions inside our office. While I was at the middle of my explanation, she suddenly remarked that that really is how government offices are ( Ganyan talaga sa gobyerno.) It then came to me that people think that we are like crawling insects who just stick to their jobs no matter what happen and not human being who have qualifications to be promoted and earn positions for ourselves. It appears to me that citizens think government employees, like I am, are just easy workers who are not serious on our job. I was hurt by that snide remark. May be she did not realize that I am sensitive when it comes to issues like degrading the capabilities of government employees. That is why I opt to stand on my position that we deserve our job. 

We give back to you by means of service what you people pay for us. Yes, we are not like private staffs that usually devote their lunch breaks at their desks working, but we work hard with the compensation that usually is not enough and boarders to being meager.

Yes we are not like the private companies that are usually quick and fast when it comes to service but will you blame us if in the first place we are very much exhausted working in a hell like place where we stay for eight hours (or less) together with the termites and all those pests dwelling with us in our offices. 

Yes, we might not be as effective as your fortune 500 companies but we are the one doing all the jobs that enables them to at least have a policy that would look over all their graft and money making practices.               

You may degrade our being as simple and humble public servant but you cannot also refrain me from talking back that we deserve to be here. I may even say that maybe that snide remark is just a sign of jealousy because I belong to this elite team.