"It may seem incredible, but it's real: the offices of the State Public Employment Service (Sepe) - the former Inem - have been without serving the public for five consecutive days." This is how a reader begins his complaint, who has addressed the Tú también haces LA VOZ section to denounce that "since last Saturday and until this Wednesday, January 2, none of its offices are open."
In his complaint, this reader relates that after the weekend, the office was also closed on Monday. "Apparently, due to those privileges that public employees have, the last day of the year is non-working for that administration." The next day, being a holiday, it also closed its doors, "but the most incredible thing of all is that on January 2, the Employment offices are not open either!", he criticizes. And in this case, according to the Sepe explains on its own website, due to "maintenance tasks".
Faced with this situation, this reader criticizes that "the most demanded State service today can afford the luxury of being five consecutive days without serving". "Their employees must be delighted after these mini-vacations", adds this neighbor, who also points out that "no one even bothers to answer the phone this January 2 (at least in the Arrecife office)", while "those who are unemployed and must carry out procedures before said administration" suffer the consequences.
"Enormous privileges of public workers"
In the opinion of this reader, "this fact constitutes a clear example of the enormous difference between a public worker and a private worker, due to the enormous privileges of the former compared to the latter, and the lack of reaction from our rulers to put an end to such nonsense." "And not only a lack of reaction, but also the shameful decision to establish a "maintenance" day on a day that coincidentally comes after four non-working days for that sector", he adds.
In his opinion, "it is something outrageous, especially for those of us who are unemployed and see with impotence how the State and public workers keep the money that we have contributed for years who have worked in the private sector, sometimes up to 12 or 14 hours per day, seven days a week, with salaries infinitely lower than any of the people who serve us in the offices of the former Inem and who have been on holiday for five days".
In addition, he warns that "when I go to the offices of the former Inem tomorrow Thursday", he will ask "his employees how they have spent these five days of rest and, above all, if they are not ashamed". "Let them not complain later if they are put in an ERE, because obviously, if they attended every day, about 20 percent of the staff would be left over, so they themselves should be the first to ask that those privileges be taken away from them", he points out.
