they are all equally bad.
some forumers would know my family's backyard and kitchen got
totally reworked a little while back. For a few months we had to
tah bao everyday and we had a mixed squad of banglas and ah tiongs
in the backyard working under a couple of johorean
in-charges.
At least the ah tiongs pretended to work. The banglas, they did
not even pretend to work when the boss is not around, they'd lean
on one arm against the wall or by the fence with towels on their
heads texting and calling on their hps non-stop, you'd think they
were conducting bigger businesses than their boss. They'd come
asking for water and soft-drinks in english, but when the johor
supervisors gave them any instructions in simple english they'd wag
their heads and pretend not to understand. So after a while they
wer reduced to being gofers and cleaning up jobs. The renovation
work on our house was completed two months late, not
surprisingly.
And the goverment wonders about falling productivity, in
particular, in the construction industry ? *snorts ....
And now that work's started on the circle line there are hordes
of banglas squatting in the public park behind my house every
night. Last time young ladies and school girls used to take the
short cut through this park to the next estate in the evenings, but
now most of them would take the longer route along the main road
instead. With the banglas come the shoals of maids too, I've seen
bangla-pinay couples making out at the kid's playground in the
park. Some family's gonna lose their MOM deposits soon ....
