On Filing for anything in a government institution

Just a precaution.

It seems government offices have a precluvity to lose documents.
I can give you a million examples but the main thing to remember

Murphy's Law reigns supreme.

You dont want Murphy's Law to apply to you so ...
when you transact with a government office,

make copies of your documentation (that you will submit to the government office) and have that stamped received by .... with date and all.  that is your documentation backup.

If you dont know Murphy's law ....

click here for Murphy's Laws

1st Debt Anniversary on their 56th

............... was a remark overheard at the ladies ....

 room of  a government office that will soon have their 56th anniversary

for the first time in the longest time, this institution does not have any anniversary bonus at all
only in the time of PNoy.

morale is at an all-time low

Survey Shows ....

This is the other topic a friend wanted me to write about....

do you remember the tv show ..... that had the host saying

"Survey shows ...."

do you know why the producers of that show think you should be able to guess at the answers

yes, certainly.   it is because the survey is supposed to represent "your" population

This implies that the sample covered by the survey is the "same" as that of the population, and stat-people, as opposed to cat-people, hypothesize by saying that the population follows the normal bell curve and taking a random sample will have the same characteristics, and hedge their bets by specifying a degree of error, expressed in standard deviation, such a plus-or-minus 3% margin of error.    

Did you know that when one designs a survey, they have a hypothesis?

what is the hypothesis, you say. you mean you dont know, and there you are, making a survey

Surveys are supposed to be impartial unbiased samples of a population. Otherwise, if the survey is biased, then no significant conclusions can be made.  So the survey design is important because this allows conclusions based on the sample be applicable to the larger group.

Are you disabled? or have a loved one who is?

if you are and you find it difficult to access government buildings, or if they do not provide sufficient access to the disabled, please report them.  by law, government buildings must provide access to the disabled.

also, if any employee of that institution ridicule or yell at disabled persons and you bear witness to this abuse, you may likewise report the employer.  i do think it is best to complain to the media, since - like he-man, they have the power. *grins*

i was at the North door of the SSS building.  Just in case you did not know it, this entrance/exit provides disabled access.  It has a ramp for those in wheelchairs.  Also, there are fewer steps up than the main entrance if the disabled person can manage the stairs.

at any rate, an SSS employee - she was in uniform - was screaming at the driver of a tricycle for letting off passengers by the stairs, and it seems that SSS issued a memorandum where passengers can disembark.  What this SSS employee ignored -  is that the person exiting the trike was disabled, managing by utilizing a cane.

i wanted to report this woman, this SSS employee for being discourteous, and for harassing a person, a member with disability. there is a disability law that disallows persons to harangue, abuse, or make fun of disabled persons.

it is unbecoming of a government employee to harass persons with disability as this person was certainly doing.  she should be censored by their human resource head.  Perhaps it is time for SSS to remind their employees to practice courteous behavior. 

as for this employee, i decided not to report her for one main reason - one day she will pay her debts, and i did not want to be responsible for her possible reprimand, or possible admin case .....

Post Office Blues

It takes forever for an overseas package to get delivered to recipients in MetroManila.
this particular fact highlights the fact that Service in the Philippines is NOT to International Standards
SAD, but true.

How can we market services and products by little intrepreneurs if our post office is slow?  Businesses require fast service to-and-from supplier/vendor.

For example, businesses in Mainland China and Hongkong offer free delivery.  They offer tracking services of parcels as well, for example i tracked a parcel that was sent off last April, it was enroute for delivery to the post office last April 13.

well, ladies and gentlemen, lapis and fountain pen, i have not yet received the package as of this date.
hello???? how efficient then is our post office? 

and this is not just for a single package.....

and guess what?  the post office uniformly charges 50 pesos for each and every parcel, no matter how small.
so is that further tax on us poor consumers?


not only this, but the post office loses packages.  good golly gee.
no wonder i have the post office blues

RA 10524

Wow.  Did i call it or what....didnt i just post something on this last April 30?  But the doing, or the teeth of such an Act depends on its implementing guidelines.  Filipinos are over-taxed because regular employees are taxed under the Gross Income Scheme, and yet, we pay real estate taxes with monies that have been already grossly taxed and poor working PWDs are even worse off, they are over-over-taxed. No additional benefit because they work and no VAT relief on the medicines they have to purchase, unlike the Seniors?

Burdens upon burdens indeed.

However, as they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and this Act depends on the IRR that will be drawn up hopefully soon.

The agencies involved in drafting the IRR  are:
DOLE (Department of Labor and Employment)
CSC (Civil Service Commission)
NCDA (National Council on Disability Affairs)
GCG  (Governance Commission for Goverment-Owned or Government-Controlled Corporations
DOH (Department of Health)
DSWD  (Department of Social Welfare and Development)

and the most burdensome agency
BIR  (Bureau of Internal Revenue)