I’m making this post because I wanted to share some insights I have on the MINO situation as someone who’s relatively more in-the-know about working in an administrative office as a social service worker.
I don’t condone negligence of duty, but I also think there are some aspects that are being too demonized from some commenters especially after reading the Dispatch article myself.
- “MINO is receiving preferential treatment by virtue of him being assigned to the district administrative office.” (partially agree)
You can divide social service positions into two broad categories. The “cushy” positions being a city’s or district’s administrative building and the “hell” positions being places like senior homes and institutions for mentally challenged people. (yes, it’s literally called he-“hell-muji”). The former is preferred imo for 2 main reasons: The first being that they don’t expect you to do anything since the work government workers do is too professional for social service workers to perform and I doubt they want you rummaging around their spreadsheets after the nth room incident. The second reason being that government workers being the most risk-averse people on earth will hardly ever reject your request for leaves. The same can’t be said for the latter where most of the work involved is manual labor and leaves are often rejected for “reasons”.
Now, administrative offices usually take in more applicants, upwards of 8 in my case. However, in most cases, everyone except 1 or 2 people will be reassigned to more unfavorable welfare institutions mentioned earlier. The decision on who gets to stay is 99.9% political and I think what happened was I doubt the guy in HR wanted to take the blame if something wrong happened to the high-profile celebrity who’s been very vocal about his mental illness after he got assigned to a “hell position” so they decided to keep in the offices.
And this is what is mean about partially agreeing with the preferential treatment. It probably wasn’t MINO’s call on whether or not he would be reassigned, but there’s no doubt the other option would’ve been far worse and the others who did get reassigned might’ve needed it more.
- “He doesn’t come in to work most times.”
You can actually split your leaves in half and take half-leaves either in the morning or the afternoon. So since social service workers get 15 days of leave on their first year, and say MINO decided to split all of them, then that 30 days of leave where he could have theoretically signed in at 9 and left at 12. But that’s just a game theory.
- “He signs his attendance all at once.”
Playing devil’s advocate here, I think this is a pretty standard practice. Firstly, government workers are just kinda lazy or at the very least kinda complacent with the paperwork regarding attendance. My supervisor never even checked my attendance until the last week of each month. Second, it used to be standard procedure, at least where I worked, to prematurely fill out the last week’s attendance since the person responsible for our pay needed the month’s complete attendance before the end of the month. Of course, I don’t know if this is what the article is talking about, but if it is then yeah it happens.
Related on the topic of supervisors. I saw some people saying Manager L snitched which I don’t think is the case. When I read the comments before reading the article I thought this L guy was a fellow social service worker, but no this guy’s a government worker. Why would he of all people snitch? That like incriminating yourself on your negligence of duty.
- “He used too many sick leaves”
This is a divisive topic even among social service workers. Some would say using all your sick leaves, even when you’re not particularly sick is a scummy move while other would argue that they’re just exercising they’re rights. Now, I don’t know how many sick days MINO used, but if it was within his legal limits, then I don’t really see the problem myself especially in the environment he worked at where I think having more hands on deck wouldn’t have been particularly essential.
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