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The government appointment of various new positions has given me nothing more than this impression. Perhaps, I should even say it's self-inflicted. The person(s) in charge of the whole process is/are likely to be over-confident of the government's authority among the society. Personally I have sympathy for all the candidates if the government officials did tell them their background, qualifications, experience etc were sufficient and problem-free for the positions. When the candidates entered the selection process, all these were inherent and supposedly known factors. It was up to the government as the future employer to decide if they were fitting the "criteria". The biggest problem lies in the unseen "criteria". I have never been a government official. And I really have no idea how public administration is different from corporate management. Asking new resources including adding new headcounts should be discussed, justified and budgeted for in any organization? What has made this incident an exception? If I were one of the candidates, I'd have lost my faith in the organization which had made such a mess in the whole recruitment process. I'd have second thought in accepting the position.
Didn't we all know somebody who tried to manipulate an organization's resources, without transparency, in our own employment history? How did we feel about them and their doing?
香山阿黃 2008-06-09 11:28
Totally agreed with your observation although I did not want to hi-jack your post with a long response. Hence my angle.
>When have we started to have such low level management?
Longer than you are aware of. There is no news under the sun. Politician is a strange breed and politics is a game that I am never aspired to better understand, even at a layman's point.
香山阿黃 2008-06-09 08:45
>If I were one of the candidates ... I'd have second thought in accepting the position.
Perhaps I was born 'stateless', I always think that citizenship is an honour and a duty. If one can in a matter of weeks contemplate and 'give up' his/her citizenship and all the professed commitment - (yes, oath) that went with it in the naturalization process, I am having serious doubts in their commitment to any country. Take an opposite angle, what would be the position of a country when a national subject publicly disown you?
Kiki2008-06-09 11:19
When I said that, I was thinking about the whole recruitment process, not only on the issue of nationality. The point you raised is actually 2 sided. If the candidates did think in your way, they probably would have thought it a problem to enter into the selection process. When the government said there was no problem and the candidates accepted the explanation, both sides simply considered the offer as a "job". Their mentality is obviously far from your angle. What irritates or worries me in this government is its intention to interpret (& manipulate) things the ways they see fitting their ends. So what they did yestereday is in conflict with what they do today and what they'll propose to do tomorrow. They don't even think that matters. When have we started to have such low level management?