- Most govt. offices work 9-1 (4 hours). Most private offices work 8-5 or 9-6 (8 hours). Why shouldn't a LUMS/NUST/IBA graduate get twice if he/she is putting in twice working hours? Plus the charm in government service is pension, government provided housing (or rent allowance) wherever you are posted, easy and relaxed work attitude (you got no deadlines to meet customer satisfaction), free PTCL, free gas (don't know of it is nowadays), free electricity, employee exchange programs with other countries, education/training opportunities in other government institutions/other countries, allowances and/or fee reduction if the employee's child studies in a government institution, quota for employees' children in educational institutions, concession on railway tickets, cheaper cereals/washing powder/items of daily use in staff colony general stores (similar to those in cantonment areas), most govt. institutions give a plot (military/forces give 2) in any of their employees cooperative housing schemes for nearly free after a fixed number of years of service, authority to attest somebody's NIC/passport/degree/matric cert/inter cert after reaching grade 17, job security even if you under-perform somewhat (remember private company would immediately fire you if you under-perform for two consecutive days) and some other perks I don't remember. (Many govt. officers don't get the compensations on time because corruption is rampant there, too. The same corruption that they use to hurt others is a vicious cycle which in the process hurts them too).
Now please tell me which private company would give you all those things?
Dude you'r generalizing too much in your post. Also, which Gov job gives ALL of the perks that you mentioned? What are you talking about? Which gov job gets FREE Gas, FREE electricity, FREE Phone? I know many Gov employees from Grade 1 to 21. I can confirm that none of them is getting FREE things. They do get LIMITED perks.
Your post gives the impression that ALL of the perks are given to ALL of Gov employees of EVERY GOV Org. That's not the truth. Gov Grade 20 officer in wapda gets 1100 units a month of electricity. Enough to operate ONE 1.5 ton AC in summers. If they install a second AC they have to pay for the extra units consumed. They don't get free GAS. They get limited amount of phone calls that too at GraDE 20.
Similar situation prevails in other GOV orgs. Gas employee will get some amount of gas free. NOT UNLIMITED FREE.
It's far from truth that private org fire you when you under perform. If you have good relations with some higher ups you can sit all day, enjoy ur office, take countless tea and cigarette breaks, gossip, look busy do nothing. and don't worry about performance. I can say that level of productivity in some private orgs is higher than Gov orgs but to say some other breed of people work in pvt orgs is not true.
But none of my friends wants to go to public service because it is understood that only those people go to government who can't fight in the fierce competition of private companies. Govt. officials have things in common and that are tea drinking, being unhelpful (won't tell you what you have to do straight-forward), gossip, talking politics, being slow-motion (looks like you're seeing a replay of something) and making others feel small in front of them. That combined with only 24-hours working week (4 hours a day for 6 days) makes us see what we see in govt. offices: pathetic level of service. This is just because the people (not all of course, but majority rules) are incompetent or challenged enough to work in services anywhere but since all the sharp people has been taken by private companies because they pay more than public institutions government has left only these people as a choice.
Fierce competition in private orgs? Is'nt that fierce competition of who knows who? What "reference" you have in Pizza Hut or Nestle or Metro an others? All of the negative points that you listed for GOV employees are true for PVT employees. It's absurd to think that public orgs get their men from entirely different pool and and private orgs get their men from another alien race. Both get their personnel from PAKISTAN.
They are all the same. They do corruption all the same way. They do good things same way. They insult their sub ordinates same way, they practice favoritism same way. they misuse their positional power same way. They are UN Just in the same way. They are same people in two different places. One system is slightly better than the other, that too in some aspects.
Haven't you seen horrible customer service from Pvt sector? Haven't you seen extreme cases of evil from pvt sector? Haven't you seen high levels of corruption in PVT sector? Haven't you seen extreme abuse of employees in Multinationals and other pvt orgs?
Incompetent people are in both places. It's plain arrogance to think that people are dumb on one side. How do you suppose such large public infrastructure is maintained and run? It's not comparable to developed nations but it still works. Who is managing it? The power plants, the dams, the military and other countless stuff. I agree they don't do it at level which is required but some level is being maintained and mind you they have extreme limitations.
I am NOT with GOV or PVT. My objective is to give REAL situation on both sides.
It's illogical to segregate the two into GOV and PVT. Parents from both love their children and lie to make them feel secure.
It's naive to generalize things.
Guys let's stop this GOV and PVT war and start doing the RIGHT things on individual level.
It's sad we "talk" about doing the right things but do evil and wrong in our own backyards.