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  • Confessions Of A Former Law-Intern: Bosses Used Young People With Financial Obligations As Pawns

    Confessions Of A Former Law-Intern: Bosses Used Young People With Financial Obligations As Pawns

    I had the misfortune of working at a boutique IP law firm for two weeks back in the days as an intern (hated it), and I noticed how strongly the bosses encouraged the young, unsuspecting associates to buy cars, buy houses, get married, and have kids. And whenever any of the senior associates had a new kid or purchased a new car, they were praised and glorified, so this created a peer pressure system where every employee competed with each other to see who can “establish their lives” and “live it up” the quickest.

    If you work in one of these companies, be very careful about listening to your boss.

    Well, OF COURSE they want you to increase your financial obligations/liabilities or at the very least sink into a consumerist mode where you’re unable to live frugally anymore even if you wanted to. If they had it their way, they want you to also surround yourself with equally-high-paying friends and friends who’re married with kids, so that you yourself are also sucked into these high-spending, low-happiness lifestyles.

    The more money you need to spend each month, the more dependent you’ll be on your job. The more dependent you are on your job, the weaker your bargaining power vis-a-vis your boss. The weaker your bargaining power vis-a-vis your boss, the less you get paid, the rarer you get promoted, and the less balls you have to leave your job or even demand better working conditions that you rightfully should be entitled to for working hard. Family men with mortgages and car loans and young children are the best candidates for employers with a power trip — it’s like the ultimate wet dream to push these sorry men around, because they have no choice but to swallow their pride and put up with all the bullshit you can rain on them. It even becomes a game to these bosses: they try to push the limits more and more (watch “Office Space” where Bill pushes Milton to the edge, and Milton still takes it) just to see what they can get away with, gleefully.

    I feel like an idiot for having to say these explicitly, but the behavior of some of my peers just convinces me that they don’t even know what’s going on.

    Source: NUS Confessions #39374

  • Enterprising Singaporeans Reselling Limited Edition NS50 G-Shock Watches At Huge Profits

    Enterprising Singaporeans Reselling Limited Edition NS50 G-Shock Watches At Huge Profits

    A limited-edition Casio G-Shock watch model released to coincide with 50 years of national service this year has proved popular with Singaporeans, with several stores selling out the timepieces within hours of sales starting. The watches cost $269.

    A check by The Straits Times on online marketplace Carousell at 9.30pm on Friday revealed seven people selling the coveted watch at higher prices ranging from $280 to $400. One seller was offering his at $2,699.99.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • PRC Guy Cheats Taxi Of Trip To Airport, Fly Back Home Without Paying

    PRC Guy Cheats Taxi Of Trip To Airport, Fly Back Home Without Paying

    Be carefull of this PRC guy .

    Book grab cash taxi no money to pay, 6A boon tiong road to airport.

    When reach airport he say he got no money .he going back to China.he say I come then pay u.

    What can u do !! call grab cannot do anything . Grab say they try to contract him but cannot reach him..

    CB Grab system fxxk up.

     

    Source: Justin Chua in SMRT Taxi Share

  • Man Wears American-Flag Polo While Taking National Day Photo With PAP MP?

    Man Wears American-Flag Polo While Taking National Day Photo With PAP MP?

    Dear All Singapore Stuff,

    Please see the attached photo. PAP is celebrating Singapore’s national day and US Independence Day in August.

    The guy on the National Day banner next to the PAP MP is wearing a shirt with the USA flag.

    Grassroots leader forgot which flag is Singapore’s?

     

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • SDP: Support For Unemployed – PAP Follows SDP’s Lead, Again

    SDP: Support For Unemployed – PAP Follows SDP’s Lead, Again

    The latest scheme adopted by the NTUC to provide professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) who are retrenched with financial assistance is a modified version of the SDP’s proposal launched 2010.

    The PAP’s idea, called Returner Work Trial, will assist employers to offer job training for the individuals who have been unemployed for at least two years. The trainee, who must be 30 and above, will receive

    • $1,500 per month from Workforce Singapore
    • $1,000 per month from the potential employer
    • a $2,500 allowance

    The payout period for trainees is limited to six months.

    Compare this to the SDP’s RESTART (Re-Employment Scheme and Temporary Assistance for the ReTrenched) programme where retrenched workers will receive:

    • 75% of last drawn salary (capped at median wage) for first six months
    • 50% for the second six months if still unemployed
    • 25% for the third six months if still unemployed

    The payout period is capped at 18 months and MOM will help match retrenched individuals with jobs. The job-seekers can only reject up to three job offers.

    Read also SDP proposes RESTART to support retrenched workers

    The NTUC’s idea is essentially an unemployment benefits scheme similar to RESTART but with the difference that under the Returner Worker Trial programme, a retrenched worker has to undergo training in order to get the financial support. There are many problems with the measure:

    One, it is restricted only to PMETs. There are many retrenched workers who are not PMETs. They also face the same hardships when laid-off.

    Two, the payout-training period lasts for only six months after which the employer has no obligation to offer the trainee a permanent job. This is especially salient as Singapore’s economy contracts with job vacancies continuing to fall.

    Three, how are retrenched workers expected to survive if they have to remain unemployed for two years before they qualify for the scheme? A study found that 50 percent of households have little or no savings due to the high cost of living to tide them through difficult times.

    In addition, why is the government using taxpayers’ money to subsidise businesses? Companies can use the scheme as a cheap source of labour. Also, will this not encourage companies to lay off workers and then profit by “training” others under the scheme at a state-subsidised rate?

    Given such loopholes, Temasek Holdings needs to state how many of its Government-linked companies are participating in the scheme and the government needs to tell the public how much these GLCs will stand to benefit from it.

    In the past, the PAP has also followed the SDP’s lead on minimum wage, universal healthcare, and employing Singaporeans first.

     

    Source: http://yoursdp.org