The public "servants" are demonstrating

Hat tip: SIC Noticias

Today the public employees (remember they are not servants in Portugal) are demonstrating.  I applaud citizens in Portugal using their civic rights - that happens far too little.  One of the reasons we are in this mess.

I also applaud the public employees for demonstrating on a Saturday.  Because, taking the current situation into account, striking like the privileged transport (public as well) employees have being doing on working days, is a bit like shooting yourself in the foot.  If you don't understand that - then shooting yourself in the head is quite safe.

I feel a bit nasty this morning, so let me suggest the following.  We should register the public function employees at the demonstration today.  I have a feeling all the absentees and terminal ill will show up.  The absentees can be recognized on their new jackets.   They are the ones who arrive in the morning to hang their jackets on the back of the chairs and then leave only to come back at the end of the day to pick up the jackets again.  The terminal ill can be recognized by looking exceedingly healthy and by being unknown at their places of work as they are on indefinite sick leave since forever.

To be fair, a large number of public employees do a terrific job.  I can mention police, nurses, doctors, teachers and so forth.   I know the absentees are not popular among these hard workers.  They make everybody work twice as hard as they ought to.

But another number of public employees, with an overweight of bureaucrats and managers, seem to either have no function or have the main function of keeping the hard workers from doing their jobs.   Were I you, I would go to my desk this Saturday and start working (for the first time in your life on a weekend).  Because hopefully somebody will look over your shoulder soon and ask: What's the purpose of your function?  How efficient are you?

We, the producers -  us who generate the products paying everything - have met you, we are tired of carrying your weight, we are tired of the ways you have invented to hinder us in producing, and we are not amused.