SSS, BIR and their evil stepbrother, NBI.

One of the ardous task of going to work on a new place is completing your pre-employment requirements. And since more than half of those requirements are processed via government offices, expect that you're on a one-way ride to hell.

My theory is, companies makes you transact with government offices, not really to obtain vital information and documents, but that is your initiation rite to their company. You think hazing in college is the bomb? Try completing your SSS, BIR and other stuff. Paddles are like cotton candies compared against transacting business with a government office.

Also for your employers, making you go to that hell and beyond will make you stay in their company for the longest time just to avoid interacting with those government offices again. And besides, if you went through all of that and survived, you must be made of steel, again, a gauge that companies can know that they can abuse your limits.

It is sad to know that your monthly salary is massacred in half due to many government mandated thing-a-majigs. I'm not really against it, but heck, it's a lot of money off my paycheck, at least I should see my taxes and other contributions work for me, right?

But noooo sir. Seeing the dismal state of those offices and the kind of atrocious service they provide? They are not even worth a nickel off my hard worked paycheck.

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Special mention is the NBI clearance. i know, it is an invaluable tool in determining whether an applicant was a past felon or something. But then again, don't you guys feel the thing is reversed? You getting an NBI clearance is a way you proving your innocence on any charge. But if I'm not mistaken it says in the constitution that there is a principle that says "everyone is innocent until proven guilty." So, me asked to obtain an NBI clearance means I still have to prove that I'm innocent against any charge. I hate being in a society where I am assumed guilty and I have to prove my innocence.

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Anyway, I still need to line-up again for my SSS number. This might take a year. Gotta go.