The Real Reason Why the Philippines is a Poor Country

07/2/2015 | 11:48 0 Posted in Local Issues

This article is a personal experience that I want to share to every one. -Marissa Mendoza, Malvar, Batangas

If government employees only work and do their jobs like private company employees, the Philippines could be a better place to live.

Yesterday, I went to DTI and BIR Lipa City to process new business registration. At DTI, I waited for more than 4 hours because of the system failure (always). I let it passed.

BIR is worse like SSS Lipa City. You have to wait indefinitely because the person in-charge at counter 6 was busy texting and calling in front of people waiting for him. What a shame. Do private company employees work like this? He then left wandering around for about 20 minutes without saying anything, and the pile of people lining-up was increasing every minute.

The same happened in Malvar Licensing Division. I went there five times and also waited five times because that person is not staying in his office. I don’t know what makes him busy that even his co-workers didn’t knew where he was going. I went four times without meeting him because I didn’t want to wait for more than an hour. On the fifth time, I took a nap on his table… LOL…. and after more than 2 hours, he finally arrived with full of excuses…

SSS Lipa is worst. They issue numbers up to around 100 and if you missed to be included inside this count, you have to go home. The funny thing is, at 3PM, all transactions with 100 people are done and they don’t want to issue additional numbers because according to them, they have daily target. So from 3PM to closing time, they do nothing….

Why the Philippines is poor? Because we are giving our taxes to lazy and incompetent people.

If this same thing happens in your local government offices, please share.