The So Called Premier Service

alert - no holds barred entry.

As most of us know, the current hoohaa in the news is about the Skim Saraan Baru Perkhidmatan Awam (SBPA). I am not going to blab into details because you can find all kind of posting by googling it. I am writing this for only 1 thing.

I know the implementation period was only 2 weeks for the HR of the Ministries, Agencies and State Secretaries to make sure all civil servants received, understood and signed the papers on accepting / rejecting the scheme. This was a top down directive to ensure all staff will receive their new salary no later than February pay day.

After receiving few feedback on the lopsided salary scale for few service schemes, it was then being asked for a revision under the direction of the PM and on March 8th, it was scrapped.

I went to this blog which supposed to fight for the rights of civil servants and I saw all hell breaks loose. However, one thing caught my interest after reading all comments and jeerings about the cancellation of the scheme; the scapegoating of the PTDs.

While it was not a surprise that the so called Premier Service scheme were labelled as the Judas for it, the amount of condemnation has reached to a level of absurdity.

Folks, this is what I called 'kerana nila setitik, habis susu sebelanga' generalization by the public perception. While most of them went berserk with the comment and stuff, did the know that it was not solely done by the PTDs on the preparation?

Do you know in order to make a policy, it needs to go through various procedures before kicking it into action? Legal, monetary, meetings with the stakeholders etc. were part of the preparation. The stakeholders are not only PTDs my friend, it involves all the big wig in the government.

I've read the whole circular regarding the scheme and to be honest, it was a good first step into making the civil servant more competitive. The problems that I found was 2, the salary scale and the Prospek thingy. I will not go to the 2nd thing as the 1st problem will somehow relate to it, so here it goes.

I don't know how the monkeys in Bahagian Saraan can come up with this bracketing and standardizing the salary scale without taking the dynamics of the civil services. If you are in a private organization, YES this can be done because you are the MASTER; but this is GOVERNMENT for f**ks sake. I also know this is a copy paste with some tweaks scale because this is a standard private HR Payroll and Benefits procedures that I learned during my study years and it gave me a bitch slap right at the nuts when PSD released the Lampiran C. MANGKUK AYUN BERTINGKAT BETULLAH!

I did some basic calculation on the salary adjustment and it was no near to be fair at all. At first I admitted I was happy with my so called 'new salary' but when you are in the HR, glancing through other schemes salary adjustment, it was atrocious!

Back to the comments on the blog. Folks, this is not about PTD, this is about the arrogance of the people in PSD; in particular Bahagian Saraan monkeys. The macai PTDs (those who are not in PSD) have no clue whatsoever about the salary scale until the offer period commence.

The called for the KSN and KPPA to resign is understandable as both of them are the head of the civil services and this is a bad image reflection for Government. KSN himself has lost the touch with the lower ranks with his tantrum throwing attitude and he never make himself as part of the civil services. At least this is what I see about him.The KPPA? Well, he is just at the wrong place and at the wrong time. He is new to the post and to get things work with his inspiration takes time.

Another person that I feel has somehow contributed to this mess is the Pengarah Saraan. How come other Division in PSD was not being briefed prior to the implementation on the Lampiran C? Are you stupid or what? Bahagian Perkhidmatan for example will be the one making rounds to Ministries, Agencies and State Secretaries Dept on the scale adjustments. They are the expert of HR Operation, not you! And to learn with your 'beyond the world' arrogance is unacceptable. WTF were you thinking when you blamed the ministries HR for the failure of the SBPA? Such a douch!

However, whatever done is done. I have no longer hold any respect to people in PSD who think that they know it all about the civil services. Especially to those who was never been in the Ministries, Agencies or State Secretaries Dept in their life.

My suggestion, transfer all the officer in PSD to Ministries, Agencies and State Secretaries so that they can learn a thing or two about the 'real' civil services. I believe this might resolve some of the sectarian attitude among the division in PSD. When you are too long in the same place, you will become complacent and arrogance (talking through experience :p). And stop putting the PTDs in non strategic post, bring them back to their glories. Hire the best of Malaysian to be in the scheme, not some KSU's, KP's, TKSU's or TKP's children (unless they are super awesome).

I'm done. time to sleep. same goes to you who read this. :)

Curiousity Pikopong

Actually, blogging makes no sense to me at all. I am an avid reader of other people blogs especially my wife but I don't call myself a blogger.

Blogging for me is a source of letting go all your so called 'anger' to the cyberworld as an anonymous person. Due to the nature of me not letting the world to know my real world, I blogged out of curiosity.

So that's it. I blogged when I am curious.

Till then.

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This blog is dedicated for all random shits that I encounter daily/weekly/monthly. It might not be updated for years as the writer sometimes has a withdrawal syndrome to the internet.

And please don't mind the grammar. I talk shit like this everyday. :)

Happy Belogging Y'all.