Chiam liao, Singapore on a downturn, Many companies cutting job

[bushtucker]

Many won't believe me when I tell them many Sinkies are still living in their dream land.
Early this morning my bitchy female colleague "cry father cry mother" saying .... "Bloody hell, next time won't vote for PAP already, my BTO application for flats got rejected".
Each time when my younger colleagues talk about how wonderful their bf/gf is and planning to get married, buy their dream HDB flats to settle down, I can't help but wondering if these young chaps really knew what's going on with the society of Sillypore. They are either ignorant or didn't see far enough that whatever HDB flats and cars they bought does not belongs and own by them even after fully service the loan for 30 years for the house and 10 years for the car. They are simply renting a HDB flat and car from the PAP and the irony is their don't own anything at all after spending their life savings on that pigeon hole and a piece of paper to drive around.

They don't even bother to think far enough what's going to happen if one day they lost their job and with such a huge debt and expenses as burden living in Sillypore, can they still take it easy and live life as normal? They still think that jobs are easily available for them and they have no worries about paying for their house and car for the rest of their lives and live happily ever after in Sillypore.

you can see many of these examples on facebook. take so many pictures of hdb queue ticket, collecting brand new pigeon hole keys, renovation, etc.

 

[shittypore]

you can see many of these examples on facebook. take so many pictures of hdb queue ticket, collecting brand new pigeon hole keys, renovation, etc.

Die in the hands of PAP.

 

[blackmondy]

Whenever bankers lose jobs, all those from IT and Engineering industries are glad they stayed on.

Less dirty money to launder these days for these bankers it seems.

 

[frenchbriefs]

I suggest that with a bit of brain left just live a simply low key life and focus on your personal improvement. Think yourself as a global citizen instead of a shittyzen to survive for the next phase (meaning if you need to move to another country, go for it).

"numero uno", you forgot to add one more passe strategy this government is still chasing. The strategy of given perks and tax breaks (typically directed by EDB) to Multinationals so as to "create jobs".

Unfortunately Singapore is a very expensive place now with mid to senior executives salaries on par with people in US and Europe (which suffering economic contractions since the financial crisis in 2008). Thus this MNC just parachute lots of angmos into Singapore (partly to save their jobs in the west). Worst is because the economic downturn, the angmos who came here now behave even in a more racist manner (tribal mindset which will typically increase when people are fighting for resources), either prefer to hire their own or some bootlickers (Ah-Neh, Pinoys). I will advise you to walk into any Angmo MNC (which is part of my job, and also info from friends), you will find Singaporeans a minority (20-30%), with even junior HR/Finance executives also foreigners. Mind you, these are not lousy blue collar or service industry jobs but actual white collar corporate roles. Singaporeans too fussy to choose them?

You can ask around and will find alot of these angmo (not all) playing politics, relax relax lifestyle, fly around to exotic holidays (Bali, Phuket), party all the time and rarely work (other than management by Excel Sheet and Powerpoint Presentations). The lower ranking Pinoys and Foreign Indians (again not everyone) are so ineffective in their work which is the culture brought in from their homeland ("yes yes" but then never actually complete the work when timeline is due).

The whole strategy has broken down so much (compared to back to 80s/90s when only senior management is angmo), that government agencies like IDA and stat-boards are creating lots of bullshit "program manager/project manager" etc jobs to save some PMETS who are laid off or politically pushed out from the MNCs.

To be fair most Singaporeans basically lack vision or guts. The local management mindset is still stuck in the 80s and all the "innovation" or "entreprenuership" talk are just lip-service. Plus I personally think many locals are frog-in-the-well, lack sense of artistry or quality. Just look at our local food brand companies like Super Group and BreadTalk. The branding and quality is like shit. SuperGroup products are so bad tasting that the Malaysian brands are killing them (just look at their share price and mumbo jumbo talk about building markets in South East Asia when even "third world countries" like Malaysia and Thailand produced far better packaging and tasting brands). Ding Tai Fung branding and business processes were created by the Taiwanese and only franchised by the local BreadTalk owner. You can walk into the Thai luxury malls which has the wow factor way way ahead of Singapore. The local mediacorpse content has the ugliest actors and worst acting capability in the region (compare to the actors in Thailand and Philippines). So there really nothing about quality or innovation. I laughed so hard when LHL went to Silicon Valley and ask those Singaporeans to come back. PLEASE!

Just look after yourself, your mind and your body. Be ready for the next massive tremor to come.

u know why they can do that?hire so many of their worthless ang moh expats to come here and do nothing,eat all day and party all the time?because our country is a tax haven and our government loves to give billions of grants and subsidies.....these companies are literally saving hundreds of millions in taxes and our government is subsidizing all the holidays and jobs for them.....no wonder ang mohs love fucking asia so much.

 

[chootchiew]

if coys dun cut jobs, den ah woodrow wud worry ...

Any idea worry about what if no jobs cut ?

 

[tonychat]

Love to see sinkies having their ass screwed while I am enjoying my self sufficient life and showing the sinkies my middle finger... That is what being stupid gets you.

 

[winnipegjets]

Heard stories about how the Ah Neh and Ang Mo securing their jobs by cutting Singaporeans from the workforce first then their own kind.

Many Sinkies will suffer in this coming downturn.

The Ah Nehs will keep their jobs - backed by the Indian government - while locals will get cut. Thanks to the free trade agreement negotiated by the PAP Ah Neh ministers who gave the Indian government unfettered control of our immigration system.
There is NO other free trade agreement that gives one country the right to send unlimited people to work in another country. Only Sinkapore does that. And the world thinks the PAP government is smart!