Scores of unsatisfactory Seoul city employees will be ordered to meditate and to work in farms or factories to improve their attitude, officials said Thursday.
The South Korean capital has this year singled out 88 employees, 0.9 percent of its 9,844 employees, who are allegedly incompetent or lazy or truculent towards residents.Their three-week "soul-searching" reindoctrination programme will include a trek across the country and meditation aimed at "changing their attitude and enhancing patience," the city said.
Lessons in information technology, foreign languages and 50 hours of volunteer work at farms and plants will also be included, it said.
Mayor Oh Se-Hoon launched the campaign last year, purportedly to improve efficiency.
The first-year programme ordered 102 employees to do menial jobs such as sweeping streets or picking up litter. Some 44 of these workers were eventually sacked or resigned.
But a new programme was launched after critics said menial work humiliated employees without improving their attitude. "Critics said?" I love how there's always a "critic" whenever some liberal knucklehead is asked to perform duties in an efficient manner. Somehow, there's ALWAYS a reason why they can't. And "psychologists" (the mystical gurus of the 60's) always have some mumbo-jumbo crap they try to pass off as "science."
If only my father had known about how menial labor humiliated me without improving my attitude -- he was fooled though, because my attitude kept improving every damn time he did it.
The JoongAng Daily said this year's programme includes six senior officials.
The city government's labour union reacted angrily, accusing Mayor Oh of penalising workers to impress voters and advance his political ambitions. He is seen as a future presidential contender.
Psychology professor Whang Sang-Min of Yonsei University said many South Korean companies and government agencies resort to a boot-camp style of retraining.
"There is no scientific evidence that this kind of military-style retraining has any effect, aside from scaring trainees to pretend to follow their directions," he told AFP. Right -- no scientific evidence whatsoever -- you know -- except all the military recruits that go through the training somehow end up as responsible, dependable, high performers with great morale -- other than that though, it's all anecdotal -- right? ... "Professor?" Just pipe down, jackass.
"This country must graduate from this anachronistic phenomenon." Into what, "professor?" Into your idea of a utopia where everyone is happy and gay? A place where there are no lazy peeps? Look here, "genius professor" -- because of you idiots who keep telling people it's someone else's fault they aren't happy, we have a bunch of lazy pecksniffs who are waiting around for someone to help their self-esteem. And, while they wait, instead of busting their ass for the company, they think they're being cool to bitch and complain about "the man keeping them down."
Oh, they're all too cool for school -- whining and sniveling -- as if they're above it all -- expecting to bitch about the company all the time yet still demand their paycheck -- and making fun of anyone who outperforms them. Well -- now they can do it in the rice fields -- think of how much farther their voices will travel out in the open. This will be great -- the rise of the proletariat against the evil corporations -- with air conditioners -- can't wait.
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