Competence

Facebook has become a powerful tool. The idiom "the pen is mightier than the sword" has taken on a different level with facebook. My office has not been spared from issues that cropped up in facebook and in other personal blogs. When in other facebook pages shout outs are often comic and other times profound, issues on competence, fair csw treatment, retreats and others are in my office. You see, the office where I work is flailing between the "old school" and "new school". I'd like to believe that I belong in the "new school" of thought and I believe that service to the public should not depend on the position one hold but on one's depth of commitment to serve. I am one of those that wrote my opinion in facebook on the way things are happening in the office and what I thought about it. When PNoy got elected I prayed that change will come and the changes will bring hope to my family and to the rest of the Filipino people. I am hopeful and I'm clinging on to that hope because letting go of it is like letting go of my dreams for my children.

In flailing between schools, competence of employees are questioned. When the opportunity presented itself, I declared to a room full of division chiefs and 3 directors that I am competent and I deserved my salary. Even more as one friend added. I sympathize with those that have been treated unfairly because I, too, was treated unfairly more than once in the last 9 years. May be PNoy's promised "change" will also rub off to people who still think that the right to demoralize, insult, abuse fellow workers, and to shamelessly glorify oneself comes with the position and the paycheck.