Seriously Fatum, as an employer do you want to keep hiring and
training because people just walk out on you?
And we are not even talking about freezer temperatures but
chiller temperature. They have warm clothing and how dangerous is
stickering stickers on a small retail pack of pork? Ya you might
catch a cold. Same like you walk out of a cold office to our hot
weather outside and you might catch a cold.
Sure if you want higher pay, your output have to make up for it
too. You cannot just pay more because that fella is a Singaporean
but his effeciency is just not there.
Well for higher pay you would expect better output too
right?
Why are the Americans able to have high pay and yet remain so
competitive?
That's because they are very efficient and fast workers.
In a busy resturant you can see like maybe only 1 waitress and
she takes orders and get the bills etc and does it with a smile. In
the cutting plants, you will be amazed at how they work and the
workers there are all Americans.
On their fields, 1 man can harvest acres and acres of land.
Speaking from the employer point of view, the typical blue
collar worker here, expects to be treated nice with light work load
because he is Singaporean and most of the time they bo chup and
just tell you 'Dunno la' so they don't have to do it.
Sure the pay for them can go up, but at the same time one has to
be realistic that attitudes have to change and seriously a lot of
Singaporeans need to realise that our world is becoming borderless
now.
Anyway the Chinese are not just invading Singapore. They are
invading everywhere. Even in Canada, for Maple Leaf Foods, with
their major restructuring, most of the traders I deal with now are
PRC and mind you they are very sharp traders and write better
English than most Singaporeans in SgF
show them the high pay, and people will follow, pay them a good
wage and their output will increase ... why are people willing to
work and slave long hours, like my cousin, as an investment banker,
being on call 24/7, getting maybe 3-4 hours of sleep a night,
getting your work faxed to you if you call in sick ! .... cos they
are being paid 800k US a year .....
if you pay peanuts in Singapore, what kind of locals would you
get, but the truly lazy and unambitious ? .....
imagine, pinky, if you're being paid 1/4 of your current
earnings, would you still be putting in the long hours you're
putting in now, and putting up with ham murderer besides ? ...
