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10-12-2011, 02:22 AM
Though I'm not in IT line, I'm able to see what inside a call centre for an airline. More than 90% of them are from one country and same colour. I can't comprehend if there is a quota, why majority are not Singaporean?
Are they busy? No, they are not. They can chit chat and having breaks anytime they like.
Where is the control?
Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle is missing in our country's policies. We plan our policies, do (implement) but no thorough check and hence ineffective Act.
I attended Chan YC's seminar in 2-days seminar in 2005. He said that Singapore need to increase population to a critical mass in order to has a sustainable internal consumption. I do agree to his view but I never expect that, suddenly, 1 or 2 years later till last year, floodgate open so wide that Tom & Harry also become Singapore PR. There's no Quality control.
What's pain me more is that in past 10 years, my block has 2-3 cases of people committed suicide by jumping from high levels. I knew one of them who was a manager but lost his job and become a taxi driver. His wife is doing well but I guessed he couldn't swallow his pride and took his life.
Another image still imprint in my mind is how a little bit plump man with black hair, after losing his job, degenerate into a skinny man with all white hair. His face crumbled and he talked to himself. A few years later, he died. Due to depression, a man can simply deteriorate and collapse. How many unemployed Singaporeans get depressed and become mental patients. Mental illness is difficult to cure than normal illness.
Job loss does not happen in Manufacturing but in outsource industries like IT, Logistics and etc.
Our text book tells us that Singapore has no other resouces and Human is the only valuable resources and we have to treasure it. What the country preach and treat their citizens is 2 totally different things. How can you get us to believe in you?
I talked to a taxi driver and he grumbled to me that he was formally a Supervisor working for a company which provide engineering services to oil industry. His salary is a fixed $3300 and no overtime. He has to fletch foreign workers to Jurong Island from their hostel and send them to hostel after work, 7 days a week. He had to work 12 hours per day. His Philipino foreign workers earn more than him.
He told me an Ang Mo told him one word that describes Singaporean perfectly i.e. PATHETIC.
I'm pro-government but a lot of incidents have changed me completely. In the past, I'll argue with foreigners if they said anything wrong about us. Now, I don't. WHO'S CARE?
煮豆燃豆萁 豆在釜中泣。
本是狮城生 却成次公民。
Are they busy? No, they are not. They can chit chat and having breaks anytime they like.
Where is the control?
Deming's Plan-Do-Check-Act Cycle is missing in our country's policies. We plan our policies, do (implement) but no thorough check and hence ineffective Act.
I attended Chan YC's seminar in 2-days seminar in 2005. He said that Singapore need to increase population to a critical mass in order to has a sustainable internal consumption. I do agree to his view but I never expect that, suddenly, 1 or 2 years later till last year, floodgate open so wide that Tom & Harry also become Singapore PR. There's no Quality control.
What's pain me more is that in past 10 years, my block has 2-3 cases of people committed suicide by jumping from high levels. I knew one of them who was a manager but lost his job and become a taxi driver. His wife is doing well but I guessed he couldn't swallow his pride and took his life.
Another image still imprint in my mind is how a little bit plump man with black hair, after losing his job, degenerate into a skinny man with all white hair. His face crumbled and he talked to himself. A few years later, he died. Due to depression, a man can simply deteriorate and collapse. How many unemployed Singaporeans get depressed and become mental patients. Mental illness is difficult to cure than normal illness.
Job loss does not happen in Manufacturing but in outsource industries like IT, Logistics and etc.
Our text book tells us that Singapore has no other resouces and Human is the only valuable resources and we have to treasure it. What the country preach and treat their citizens is 2 totally different things. How can you get us to believe in you?
I talked to a taxi driver and he grumbled to me that he was formally a Supervisor working for a company which provide engineering services to oil industry. His salary is a fixed $3300 and no overtime. He has to fletch foreign workers to Jurong Island from their hostel and send them to hostel after work, 7 days a week. He had to work 12 hours per day. His Philipino foreign workers earn more than him.
He told me an Ang Mo told him one word that describes Singaporean perfectly i.e. PATHETIC.
I'm pro-government but a lot of incidents have changed me completely. In the past, I'll argue with foreigners if they said anything wrong about us. Now, I don't. WHO'S CARE?
煮豆燃豆萁 豆在釜中泣。
本是狮城生 却成次公民。