Thursday, May 04, 2006
11:56 PM
Election Fever - A Forgiving Society?
Well i noe im not supposed to blog abt wad is deemed as 'sensitive' stuff and all the talk abt OB markers...but i'll still do it anyway....juz living up 2 wad i had learnt all semester - deviance! haha
You know, it bothers me abt the fact that the James Gomez furore seem to illustrate one simple, often overlooked thing. Of coz the govt emphasizes transparency, honesty, integrity, accountability and the likes of it...but i feel it boils down to the fact that efficiency and perfection converge to carve out an unforgiving society. Don't u think so? i feel that mulling over and focusing on the mistake (honest or not is beyond my comprehension) accounts for how much tolerance or leeway the government sheds.
Lemme juz reflect on some experiences in NS life that attribute to this unforgiving nature of society. The civil service thrives on excellence and especially competitive during audit checks to be the best. This may be a biased view but its juz my own experience. We had a Police Technological Department Audit where the PTD team goes ard every division ensuring that IT security is of high standards. Well one of the criteria was to test officers security about their computer passwords. I was the UNLUCKY ONE dat dey chose to call and i made an HONEST mistake in revealing my password to the auditors coz i was super bz at dat exact moment dey called and i was like doin 3 things at one time. So of coz when the results came out, our head S&T who oversaw the entire process was enraged that i blatantly gave my password away. I was hauled into his office to give him an explaination to my error and he criticized me for my lack of judgement and blamed 'points lost in the audit' on me and oso threatened me wif a warning letter which diden materialize *phew* but my point is, this audit exercise shows how security can actually take 2nd seat while 'how well u do in audit' matters a great deal more and how small errors are aggravated and how unforgiving bosses can be coz dey feel it hurt their pride dat the audit results diden do well haiz...
i actually hav more examples but i guess dis post is too long....ahahahaa
.sincera fazzy.
