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employment woes
so while i was working i overheard my boss lamenting about the rising cost of wages and hiring foreign labour. it's crazy. apparently there is a levy to pay for hiring foreigners and the levy is only set to increase. and i think there are all these manpower laws about having to hire a certain number of Singaporeans before employment passes for foreigners will be given to companies.
that begets the question, would Singaporeans be willing to put in and endure the long hours in a hot stuffy kitchen? when they see what their peers are earning - threefold or even fourfold of what they would earn without all the sweat and menial tasks needed, most would choose the most pragmatic option. chiong to the business schools because that's where the money is; in banking, in finance and then you can eat at all these fancy restaurants and drive fancy cars.
so how does this even make sense? it's practically stifling all these budding entrepreneurs. you want creativity, you want talent, you want innovation? then it's not going to happen overnight, and all the more it's not going to happen if you don't allow foreign talent to come in. Singaporeans should also wake up their idea. i mean you want the atas jobs ONLY. don't you realise that making a huge fuss out of foreign talent and being xenophobic is only going to hurt you. who's going to wait tables? who's going to put on a friendly smile and put you on the pedestal you deem yourself worthy to be on?
i'm not saying that everyone should start waiting tables. just... don't treat wait staff like dogs. and don't expect world class service when there is a manpower crunch in the service sector.
/k rant over.
/k rant over.
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