Tuesday, 25 September 2012

ARE WE TAKEN FOR GRANTED?

I read this article the other day and few things crossed my mind.
1. This company is willing to spend S$3,400 a month for dish-washer (if you read the article till the end then you find out that its for Singaporeans and PR status citizens only). This alot of money to Cuci Pinggan! Thats RM7,500 a month! If you are a local graduate you can't even command this salary! It relates to this question? Why is that companies in Singapore are so conscious of having Singaporeans to work for them and yet in Malaysia its the total opposite? The cheaper the better, thats the Malaysian motto! That guy is not even customer fronting, he is the lowest ranked worker in the restaurant!!
2. I read a facebook ad, offering  a nursery helper position for RM500 a month!  RM500 a month? You pay your maid more than that!(the maid even gets food and bed!!!) Pretty sure the ad was not for some non -educated foreigner as it was written in Malay and posted in the FB! So, where's the logic behind all these? Then if the nursery does ever get one, what do you think that person would be like? I would definitely NOT send my kids to this nursery!! (where's the minimum salary wage thing that they talked about?)
3. If a dishwasher gets S$3,400 a month pretty sure a 5-year experience Accountant will get some S$20,000 a month salary. So, do you think that TalentCorp will be able to bring the best overseas Malaysians back to our shores? They just need to go across the Causeway! Sure, they'll get a lower salary than their Singapore counterparts (maybe S$15,000 a month) but still much better than any Malaysian company willing to pay them! Some, 15 years ago I used to be paid a mere RM4,000 a month to manage a multi billion dollar Country Fund!!! Just imagine how sickening it was then, just to get those experience. ( few months later I was offered to stationed myself in Indonesia by a Hong Kong Investment House for US10,000 a month plus perks). Being Malaysian in Malaysia is simply no class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

At the end of the day, we Malaysians have always been a second class citizen in our own country! Foreigners (especially the KwaiLos, Mat Sallehs) get better salary, they even been better treated! Will this ever change????

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