Public Servants Wearing Tuxedoes Now?

Imagine next time you visit some government offices, and the public servants are all wearing tuxedoes, with shiny shoes, shiny hair, stuff you only get from Shanghai’s mafias in the 30s. When they talk to you, you get the same freaky English ascent from MAS flights. What do you think of our public servants’ quality then? Better? More high class? And of course, do you think agree that your tax money, or your parents’ should be spent in such way?

According to New Straits Times online, apparently that’s what some of the smart-a** officers in KL City Hall did. According to them, they gave 31 of their workers training on "Corporate Grooming and Social Etiquette", which involved lunch and dinner in fine restaurants, karaoke sessions, and the participants were required to wear formally, and their tuxedoes were provided, each cost RM1200.

The first session was at the Equatorial Hotel Bangi from May 5 to 7 which cost RM78730. The second phase was held at Sheraton Imperial Hotel on June 19 and cost RM23863.

So, these public servants Generation-X will be dressed like James Bond, able to bulb with class, to fart with class, sing like Nat King Cole, and know tango and cha-cha as well. Pretty cool, but just in what way is this going to benefit the people?

Maybe after another session, the o-bah-san who cleans the toilets will be wearing prom dress or cheongsam. Walau!

I say hor~ just teach them three things: (1) teach them to eat and drink faster so that they can finish their lunch break earlier and get back to work, (2) teach them some basic English vocabularies like ‘Sorry’, ‘Thank you’, ‘Excuse me’, and ‘Please’ so that we can realize that we are dealing with normal human beings, and not apes or our local orang utans (actually apes and orang utans are more gentle) (3) make them realize that they don’t have to work like dead people, and some extra walking to fetch some files or documents won’t possible take up to a few hours.