Government employees seem to be hard to deal with

You've got that correct! Greeks are annoying at the best of times, but in Government service they just become unbearable! Here they have a nasty habit of putting the mentally retarded (and there are a lot of them in Greece) in the highest positions. So it is pointless to ask to see the boss.

Not all government employee are acting something like what you think, friend. But I agree with that there are some government employees really hard to deal with. They don't respect people who is paying their salary. They are arrogant and don't mind how they can serve effectively and efficiently... I hope the government will have the opportunity to assess government employees to make sure those people in the government always carried the principles of Public office is a public trust

Aha! This is quite common for Philippine government employees. I think they are, actually the worst to deal with alright. We would often see them stalling, and sometimes they would not even mind letting the people wait and they would chat and walk around and so on.. but they do not start on time and end their office a few minutes before the office hours! see that is really something, eh! I wish they'd be regulated, or checked and seriously dealt with. private companies have appraisals and they don't so probably that is why they slack off during their work.

It is about the same here, the government employees here believe they deserve everything like the highest perk, benefits and salary and air conditional offices provided by our tax dollars in order to carry out their public services. They like to frown and lecture the public whenever someone try to ask them more than a question, they always have extended lunch break and break time during their work day, it is always a pain going to the government office trying to get things done. I am seriously doubtful those government employees really think we pay their salary, it is them that need to serve us, instead they always expect the public to serve them, it is especially true for those working in the inland revenue department, post office, custom office, police department, and car registration office across the country. It is a totally stressful event for everyone to go to government office especially the federal government agency. Sigh!!

I think this is universal on this planet. I find that these people get their jobs based on who they know not what they are capable of doing. That usually means they are often incompetent, and if they are competent don't really care if the job gets done right or not. Their customer service skills are usually non-existent. To Joe Blow citizens like us we would think they would be motivated to do well because they have pay and job security most of the rest of us can only dream of. Yup I hate dealing with them myself.