There are really no "Exception" on treating people differently
by their ethnicity or race there will be Jerk in all
walk of societies you just have to learn to deal with them
individually rather than Sterotyping as a Group.......
If you continue to stay at your level of complaints it tell me
all of you don't have the maturity, Emotional intelligent and
communication skills to deal with these people.....
There are some facts remain :
Careers are no longer permanent that is a fact. Look
at the last 10 years Singapore had gone thru the world
experienced.
1) 97 Asian financial Crisi
2) 2000 Dot com burst
3) 2001 9/11 aftermath.
4) 2004 Tsunami aftermath
4) 2007/8 global recession and financial crisi.
Singapore depended on MNC; MNC have very little
commitment or
Royalty to local residents - Singaporean. When is time to pack
up they will packed up and leave. Singaporean don't leave.
Some time in the futures most of you will be working for
Chinese owned MNC they are not going to be run like a
European or American MNC.......so learned to work and compete
within a much lesser structured enviornment .....
The entired idea of "fairness" arrived when there is a structure
but SG govt is moving out from the environment.
SG Govt operates like corporate so they only look at
final result.......rather than looking at the social outcome.
Until SG Govt could help to establish
local companies....the downward spira of workplace will
continue...
Very soon we will all be Contractors.
SG Govt operates like corporate so
they only look at final result.......rather than looking at the
social outcome.
I agree with you on this. Most of our PSC scholars had been trained
in this manner and had not place priority on the social angle, and
believed that somehow it will 'all fall into place natuarally'.
While none of us citizens will want Singapore to be a welfare
state, paying higher taxes, but there is a need to ensure these
officers pay more attention in that sector and do make serious
attempts to balance it out.
I dont have any solutions to do so, thus our civil service needs
the best and brightest, if possible, more sensitive, to serve and
not run to the financial sector and lavish themselves on high
incomes and neglect the very society whom had given them the
opportunity to excel in life.
Social responsibility must be taken seriously at ALL levels in
the employment field, from the worker to the bosses to the
ministries.
As for MNCs, it is a fact we need MNCs. Post independence, the
richest Singaporeans were bankers and landowners such as Mr. Ng
Teng Fong. Do you think Mr. Ng would create SIA, which needs a
whole lot of different skillsets to manage, let alone have the kind
of money to run an efficent and hi-tech operation such as SIA and
not one like the languishing MAS flying fleet? I sincerly doubt
so.
Are the govts then to just simply use our $100 million then in
our kitty, and give it to any Tom, Dick, Harry to run it or set up
industries, the way Malaysia is now being accused of cronyism and
corruption? No, its better elected representative be held
accountable for our funds.
Growing Singapore companies take time. It isnt going to happen
overnight, as our market is small and no single local company can
survive on our own market alone, with no resources to sell even,
and have the sufficient capital to go global.
The govt's direction is the only way to go for now. First they
venture out with elected or accountable representatives onto the
world's stage with our massive collective society funds, make them
profitable, then sell it to our local talents. This is one way to
'entreprenuerise' and grow our Singapore brand.
There are other ways I suspect. But certainly not for local
talents with their small capital and market base to set up shop.
Good and chest thumping only for a while but suicide later on
extended unsupplied lines, causing massive unemployment later.
We have best be realistic. We are a nation of no resources
except for a tiny port. Our best resources are our people, whose
forefathers were only peasants and coolies, and it would take time
to groom them up to be on par with the best in the globalised
world.
Do be patient and give encouragement. Bear the unbearable for
now. There is a future for our nation, which had constantly improve
itself, not out of nationalism, but for survival, and within a few
more generations, we may even conquer the world, the
way our youngsters had proven themselves better than others of
the world in the academic fields and military
prowess in competitions or attachments.