self righteous blabber

Maybe i am wrong, I just do not understand it.
Maybe it is my Australian education at work here.
Maybe not.

So what was this article saying. I will tell you what it was not.

It was not saying sorry.
It was not saying that what these people are doing is wrong
and it definitely was not giving us the real story.

A lame attempt at justifying the spending the millions on these elitist
Ass wipes in singapore.
First they siphon our money, then they screw our system and after
they are done monkeying and using singapore as their testing ground they leave.
Now the Govt wants to pay them more??!!

Ok.
Why not start paying the monkeys at the zoo more?
"peanuts" perhaps?

Let them go, stop their funding , let rich daddy and mummy pay through their asses for their education.
I am sure they won't mind selling their Ferraris and what not.

Give our own people, the poor, the family Man and woman a chance to study.
sheesh what a Drama.
The rich screwing the poor and using lame excuses to leave.

Do i look like toilet paper?
Am i worth less?
I would not even give these people my used toilet paper much less an increment.

Like they always say, it is not all about money, please pray tell me what IT IS about.

Hang them i say.
Better yet, Wax their balls then hang them.

Bloody mangkuks, Scum from the bottom of my pond.

It really pisses me off how these rich screw us around.
I am getting so stressed i think

i will go and soak my tooshy in my jacuzzi






http://sg.news.yahoo.com/070329/5/singapore267135.html

A mandarin's temptation


As jobs go, he was enjoying the one he had, but Mr Gerald Chiu had a decision to make.
The former Public Service Commission overseas scholar was about to complete his six-year bond. At the time, he was a deputy director in the Ministry of Manpower.

The money was good, but he could always earn more outside.

He was helping formulate policies addressing retirement issues for Singaporeans. "The thing is, whatever I did was only going to have an effect in, say, 30 years ... But I'm the kind who likes to see results fast," he said.

The choice before him was simple. "Either you choose public service because you feel the calling, or you want to do something else," said Mr Chiu, 33.

He decided to do something else. He packed his bags and accepted an offer to work in Kuala Lumpur with private equity fund Navis Capital Partners. Mr Chiu gets a fixed salary as well as a share of the profit when his outfit has turned a company around and sold it at a profit.

He likes the buzz. The money can be considerably better than what the civil service would have paid him. He has no regrets about his decision to join the private sector last year.

Last week, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke of the need to retain talent in public service and suggested competitive wages as well as the need to enthuse staff. The exact pay revisions will be announced on April 9.

But as the case of Mr Chiu suggests, it will not be an easy battle to win.

Some 21 people left the administrative service last year. Of these, 13 resigned, while the others retired or transferred out of the service. In 2005, too, there were 13 resignations.

The two other administrative service officers in Mr Chiu's batch resigned after completing their bond — one left for the private sector while the other became an academic.

He acknowledges that in many cases, people leave because the money is better in the private sector. "But when people leave it is not always about the money," he said. "It is a big consideration, but it isn't everything."

For one, it needs a special kind of passion and patience to remain in the administrative service. It is like royal priesthood: Not everyone is cut out for it, former civil service chief Sim Kee Boon once said.

More immediately, almost every administrative service officer — typically a high-flying, high-achiever in his early 30s — reaches a career crossroad, usually after serving out his bond.

It has just been revealed, for example, that 43-year-old Mr Ravi Menon will take over as Second Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Trade and Industry from July 1. The high-flyer candidly admitted that when he first started out, he had intended to use the civil service as a stepping stone. "Every now and then I would have these musings about trying out something in the private sector," he said.

What kept him back? Mr Menon told Channel NewsAsia that while the private sector was exciting, "whenever I go through that, I invariably come to the conclusion that no, maybe I'll stay back a little longer because this is meaningful work".

The question is whether everyone is equipped to deal with the public sector's unique challenge.

As a junior civil servant more than 20 years ago, a young Mr Chan Soo Sen, then with the Ministry of Defence, recalls that he put up some proposals on National Service.

His boss thanked him for his hard work, but eventually chose not to approve any of his ideas. But over the next ten years — even after he had left the Ministry — many of his proposals were eventually implemented, one by one.

"The policies were then all announced by other people. I was not involved anymore, but there was the satisfaction of knowing I was the one who drafted the idea and seeing it have an impact on others," said Mr Chan, now 50,who served in the elite administrative service before joining politics and eventually moving to the private sector last year.

He acknowledges that not everyone can handle rejection so easily, he said. And the unique constraints of civil service could prompt some to seek their destiny elsewhere.

Interestingly, instead of trying to block out the "temptation" of the private sector, the Government posts some of its administrative officers to private sector companies on attachment. Some never come back. Those that do are more committed than ever, said Mr Chan.

MP Lee Bee Wah, herself a former administrative service officer who left to start her own company when she was in her 30s, told 938Live recently: "If we don't do anything about it now, we'll lose more capable civil servants."

As Mr Chiu said, it is not just the money ... - /sh