Awarding Incompetence

It's better to deserve honor and not have them, than to have them and not deserve them..... Mark Twain

One of the reasons I left our institutional party was because I did not want to witness further injustice and greed permeating the entire hall as the leeches geared up for awarding ceremonies. These leeches who are my colleagues ensured their victory by being part of the selection committee, screening committee, preparatory committee, and all other committees that has something to do with giving the the awards. Isn't it required that committee members are inhibited from being part of those that will be entitled to possible benefits or windfall from an activity that they are organizing or judging? In terms of callousness and shamelessness (grabe ang kakapal ng muka), this fiasco will put the 1994 MMFF scam engineered by Lolit Solis when her ward Gabby Concepcion won Best Actor while the irreverent Ruffa Gutierrez won as Best Actress. This is the event where Miss Mauritius Viveka Babajee uttered the famous "Take it, take it" line.......

And boy did they have it all. Imagine an office full of awardees...... isn't that a dream team. Even our Secretary expressed mock surprise saying our office is so good that the staff should be spread all over. I hope he does it.....

A teary-eyed top employee awardee who wasn't expecting her award so fakely said so in her well-prepared speech. Rumors have it that said speech was prepared by their fairy godmother, the mother of all scams.

Wagging tongues talk about the recent fiasco within our hearing distance. The air is abuzz with awards talk. You hear people in the building saying"....... the best of the best". The leeches still feel they deserve their awards and do not show any tinge of remorse about the machinations they did to win. They had the galls to put a box full of certificates that they themselves prepared which they now own. Talk about awarding mediocrity and ass kissing. And they have to show an entire audience of weary employees their audacity to flaunt their undeserved award.

Let's discuss why?

The Department has enough good people truly deserving of an award helping people in a far-flung barangay or rebel-infested area under a cloak of obscurity. Yet, these people were denied their chance to be recognized for what they are worth.

We belong to a support office that requires various report from other offices to count their accomplishments and ensure that targets are met? We couldn't even tell them if what they are doing is right because this office lack the analytical minds.... For all the shallow ranting, please stop making life difficult for the burdened frontline staff who serve the public with all our reportorial requirements that simply counts outputs. How could people who fuel the bureaucracy be more deserving of awards than the people who serve the public?

Simple..... hide information, bend rules to feed their greed for recognition.

There were a lot of first in the fiasco that we witness.

It is the first time that almost an entire office won almost all the awards. They must really be good.....

It is the first time that an office that everyone loathes for making life difficult won bigtime ....... But hey, they are the masters of scams and so they got away with it by changing or bending rules, hiding some information, eliminating the enemies, and ensuring a foolproof approach to cheating to get ahead......

It is the first time that the Head of the department would notice such anomaly and say something publicly..... Our good Head, however, still had the good sense to let them carry on with their show......

It is the first time that we encountered people so thick-skinned and callous and so stupid to think that we would not notice that they were putting one over us and get away with it......


It is providential that this thing would happen during the yuletide season. They probably think we would be so generous to let them have their cake and eat it too..... Unfortunately, we are not....... Now that the season of giving is over, it is time that the perpetuators of the scam face the consequences of your action if karma hasn't caught up with them yet.........