I am SO not surprised. Government employees here often get their jobs via friendship or nepotism, and they don't consider themselves civil servants in the sense of having to serve the citizenry because their salary is paid by their taxes. On the other hand, they often do not get money for gas, mileage nor anything of the sort. They are expected to take a bus (unless they get a car from the government). Police detectives, for example, are expected to go everywhere via bus, so they don't get gas money. The whole system is dismally corrupt and inefficient.