Impending Million-$ Pay Hike Mentioned in Foreign Press

last SG · 2007-04-09T13:32:29+00:00

but now is u ownself say u get pay increment. + increment for all ur frens that work with you in engineering and go drink kopi after work one.

laurence82 SG

need good doses of incompetent gahmen?

we are already experiencing it what

Laughing

Joshua1975 SG

it clear cut.corruption will set in IF I DON'T GET PAID, I WILL GET CORRUPTED.

but for publics, SINGAPOREAN to be competitive, SINGAPOREAN must lower his and her pay. Singaporean are being look down by it own GOV. they themselves are elites that why higher pay where else it people need to go lower?
The whole of Singapore "work force" are corrupted because we did not get pay rise?
Only a YES MAN will be rope into, to become members of man in white.

he TCH can go and sleep with snake and fark spider.

airgrinder SG

Perhaps I am not clear in my post. I meant it is never about right or wrong. To the parties receiving, it's right. To the parties that did not get, it's wrong. Of course our government will give all sorts of reasons to justify the increment. To us who are not getting any, we complain in sgforums, to friends, to collegues, to maids, to dogs.

Say if your current company gives you a 33% increment, doesn't matter whether if you had been doing a good job, (maybe deep down inside you know you fu-ck up) would you reject? Laughing

airgrinder SG

A quote from this yakuza (jap mafia) documentry i watched long long time ago goes something like:
"...I make alot of money, but there are even more money to be made...but if got less money to be made, i'm also interested but only out of convenience..."

==Doesn't matter how much money one makes, if one is corruptible, even if the bribe is small, and not too troublesome, one will still do it.

SevenEleven SG

A vision from an outsider - ST Forum 11 Apr 2007

I AM a national of a neighbouring Asean country, though a Singapore resident.
The principle of paying competitive salaries for ministers and civil servants is fair. If this ensures integrity, zero corruption and reasonable competency, then it is well worth it.

I would gladly pay S$1 million, $2 million or even $5 million for each minister of my country if they could guarantee one thing: integrity.

The cost of a lack of integrity runs into billions and billions of dollars in wasted government expenditure - expenditure that is driven not by genuine citizens' needs but by juicy procurement contracts and associated kickbacks - let alone the cost of the culture of corruption that corrodes the whole civil service.

The only issue Singaporeans should debate is what is the relevant benchmark. Whether it is two-thirds of the median pay of the top eight earners in each of six professions or of the top 80 earners in each profession, should be up for parliamentary debate.

My benchmark for my country is how much it would cost our taxpayers to make sure our ministers and civil servants do not stray off the narrow path of integrity. This, currently, is a very, very large figure.

Malek Ali

LazerLordz SG

ever heard of ghostwriters? Laughing

robertteh SG

By conveniently benchmarking salaries against the best paid avoiding comparing with the dropping wages of the 80% of the suffering population, is there any integrity among our ministers?

Coquitlam SG

Why bother with all this petition thingy....I would say, live and let live...we already know no matter how much we complain, things will never change here so I'd rather work hard, migrate and go to some other country that pays its leaders lesser and still we would enjoy a better quality of life....

In fact many of us including myself have already done that and encourage you all to join us. After all, the PRCs and Indians from Bangalore are coming to colonize this tiny red dot

Joshua1975 SG

robertteh SG

Absolutely right. Such comparison is totally illogical and downright ridiculous. The benchmarking scheme simply falls flat for lack of substantiation by kpi and logical linkage between the salaries of top earners and the ministers.

Every success story has its own unique circumstances. There is a Chinese saying "Circumstances make the heros". Each CEO climbs his own career ladder based on his own unique set of attributes and circumstances. A subsequent CEO cannot emulate him and expect to be successful and must apply his own special attributes depending on new and changing needs and circumstances.

So, if today LKY is to try to gather a crowd with shouting of merdeka he might not create that much following or excitements. Today, if he wants to be charismatic with his followers, he may have to try much harder and lead by examples or some real abilities in getting everyone to apply practical knowledge and not show off his rhetorical or scholastic attainment.

greengoblin SG

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