why do public servants think they are so important?

Question

they are their to serve the public but they seem to think they are better qualified to judge than their masters
Sorry but sometimes they are so inefficient they would not last 5 minutes in the private sector
It was funny i initially typed pubic sevants

Answer 1

Because they can. "Public servant" is a misnomer. What it really means is the public is their servant.

Answer 2

If you think public servants are arrogant and condescending, you should visit some country's consulate, even our own!

People who work in Embassies and Consulates have this idea that they are better than everyone else. They know there is absolutely nothing you can do to get around them, and I think they take some sick, perverted pleasure in giving people problems.

Recently, I was in a foreign consulate. They would only let 20 people inside at a time. Once you were inside, you would probably have to wait an hour for them to return your papers and passport. Guess how many seats they had for people to sit and be a little comfortable. Twenty? Ten? How about TWO!! (no cushions, either)

They never told the people left outside when they would be served. It was as if the employees took great delight in making them feel insignificant. At one point, after the people who didn't get in when the doors opened at 9am started knocking on the door, an employee opened the door and threatened to call the police if they didn't settle down! Can you believe their attitude? They create the problem by maxing out everyone's frustration level, and then they want to chastise these poor saps like they were illiterate boat people.

Yeah, public servants have this incredible attitude problem. Maybe they take lessons from the kings of bad attitudes: airline employees! AARRRGgghhhhh !!!!!!!

Answer 3

I think it is due to the fact that many people think that the better pay/benefit to actual work ratio you have the more important you are. Since government employees typically have good pay, and great benefits while doing very little work due to red tape and unions they must be very important.

Answer 4

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.



Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.

Answer 5

Kind of a loaded question. It's a bit like asking someone "So, when did you stop beating your wife?"... if you get my drift.

Answer 6

When we don't think they're doing a good job then we need to do our job and elect someone else.

When we don't.....they think they're important.

Answer 7

Because they know that no matter how horrible they are they will never lose their job and we still pay them through are taxes.

Answer 8

Because they are. That is why all the laws they pass, they make themselves exempt.

Answer 9

because no matter what...you still voted for them...nothing will make them more especial than that.

Answer 10

you pay them but can not tell them what to do - quite the opposite - they know this and like to let you know it