I refer to the Malaysiakini report PM ticks off lazy civil servants.

Dear Prime Minister,

I am from the private sector and like all other citizens employed in the private sector am affected by the recent economic downturn.

What does not make any sense to me is that whenever an economic stimulus package is introduced, I instead see and feel the effects of rising prices. Bear in mind, unlike the public sector, our salaries in the private sector are not adjusted accordingly.

The last time you introduced a salary increment scheme for the police force to curb corruption, did you succeed in doing that?

One thing for sure is that before you introduce an incentive package of any sort, there must be a yardstick for the measurement of its success rate - the ‘before’ and the ‘after’ scenarios so to speak.

If the ‘after’ scenario shows no improvement, the incentive package must be withdrawn. Not introduce yet another incentive package.

As for us in the private sector who are not unionised, who will take care of our needs? The human resource managers? No way, as they too cari makan and are employees like anyone else.

As for government servants, what is their productivity level now after you have introduced new incentive packages and salary schemes for them? What should the change be?

As for me, a man-on-the-street working for a non-unionised industry, the effect of a salary increase for government servants would mean an increase in prices and an erosion of my real income level.

But government servants would be smiling their way home with their knitting sets, or direct sales books or a famous recipe book without any notable change in output. This because their productivity is not measured and there is no way of measuring them.

If you ask me, civil servants are already overpaid based on the work produced.

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said the government introduced a RM7 billion stimulus package last year and would be tabling another package soon.

Just how is this going to help those workers employed in the manufacturing sector?

The call of the day to the civil service should be: ‘Justify your existence or get shipped out’. This might bring about some changes.