Female PMET: Ever since I got retrenched during CNY, I felt ashamed of myself!

[makapaaa]

Jobless graduate don’t feel proud to be a Singaporean anymore
Hi Gilbert,
I chanced upon your website while Googling support for unemployed.
Your website appeared before my eyes and I read the posts with a sharp pain in my heart.
Your website gives me an avenue to voice my inner feelings that I have been concealing.
Letting go is important, but it’s hard for now.
Being able to air it out helps alleviate the build-up anger and pain within my heart.
As a pure Singaporean, it never dawned on me that I would someday become a part of the unemployed community in my very own country.
Despite the changes in our environment and leadership, I have always loved my country.
In fact, I feel very proud of Singapore, especially in the way she has marketed herself to the world in recent years.
Wherever I was, I was always proud to say that I am a Singaporean.
But ever since I got retrenched during Chinese New Year this year, I felt ashamed of myself.
I’m educated and experienced, yet I’m jobless in my own country.
I have friends who are foreigners in Singapore. They have jobs, but here I am — jobless in the country I was born, bred and educated.
Some years ago, when I went overseas to work, I always missed Singapore.
I always felt good hearing SQ saying “Welcome home”.
Even when I was out of Singapore for a mere two weeks, I would still miss my country — not just the wide array of fantastic food, but the sense of safety when walking alone in the streets.
In fact, I even missed some of the nice government leaders.
This freedom and security are not always present in certain countries like the one I went to work for for two years.
The country is so unsafe to be alone in the streets.
Life then was just work and work.
Born in a poor large family, my demise Dad ,who belonged to the past era , had repeatedly emphasized to us the need to work hard in order to stay alive.
I was a faithful follower of my Dad’s guidance.
I worked my way up, through part-time studies to secure my hard-earned diploma, advanced diploma and degree.
Sadly, even being equipped with these plus overseas exposure in leadership position is no immunity from retrenchment.
Welcome to the real, transformed and rapidly evolving world.
While it is only human to feel down, let’s solidify as one and support each other in the search of hope.
Our lives are worth more than our jobs and it is time to reinvent ourselves.
I am still finding myself but have decided to have a career switch by doing something I enjoy — like teaching, writing and researching.
Again, it is going to be challenging.
Because I lack the typical 3-5 years experience expected from such jobs.
But let’s press on.
Being alive itself is a hope.
Together we can build hope for our fellowmen and women.
Let’s jia you!
Tomorrow will be better.
Cheers,
Annie
Editor’s note: The writer has 20 over years of experience in procurement in the engineering industry and a degree in business administration.
- See more at: http://www.transitioning.org/2014/0...e-a-singaporean-anymore/#sthash.i822EgqC.dpuf

 

[Pinkieslut]

Can tell she is a staunch PAP supporter (in the past?).

 

[kryonlight]

Pride of a Singaporean = Having a good job.

How pathetic is that?

 

[escher]

Be a prouder Singaporean in seeing the bastard PAPs swing under lamp posts.




Hang those PAP maggots cockroaches with piano wires from lamp posts to make them dance before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
BBQ those PAP maggots cockroaches before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Cut a few more arseholes into those PAP maggots cockroaches to let out their shit before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.
Make those PAP maggots cockroaches eat joss sticks and candle wax before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.


GET RID OF THE POISON IN SINGAPORE
HANG ALL THOSE FUCKING PAPs AND THEIR COLLABORATORS
BBQ THE BASTARD PAPs

AND SINGAPORE CAN BE AS GOOD IF NOT BETTER THAN SWITZERLAND

OR REMAIN HEAD DOWN DOWN AND ARSEHOLES UP HIGH HIGH TO BE FUCKED TO BE TIEWED TO BE KANNED BY THE PAP MAGGOTS COCKROACHES

Kill them all PAPs
Let GOD sort out the good from the really bad ones
The good PAPs can then eat joss sticks and candle wax from time to time
The bad PAPs like smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY will be raped and tiewed and kanned by legions of ghouls and demons and not ever
get time off to eat joss sticks and candle wax

Hang those PAP maggots cockroaches with piano wires from lamp posts to make them dance before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.

BBQ those PAP maggots cockroaches before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.

Cut a few more arseholes into those PAP maggots cockroaches to let out their shit before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.

Make those PAP maggots cockroaches eat joss sticks and candle wax before it is too late and we have no more CPF to get back.


None of those in PAP work for anyone but that smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY, to help him hold down Singaporeans to screw and fuck hundreds of BILLIONs from us all into smear of shit on sole of shoe LKY stinkapore sovereign funds.

They are there in PAP because LKY know that they are a bunch of self serving greedy bastards and scrapings of scums of society. To call them maggots cockroaches will be to insult real maggots and real cockroaches.
LKY will never allow good decent people into the PAP and good decent people will not want to get into the PAP.

Those in PAP are the most corrupt and moral degenerates and moral bankrupts and moral filths that are being presented to stinkaporeans as moral compasses.

Despite the leeching and fucking of singaporeans by the cheebye PAP and LKY, Singapore still managed to survive to date.
Despite their being hung as a fucking millstones around the necks of Singaporeans and the idiocy and corrupt manipulations of PAP and LKY, Singapore still not dead yet.

WE ALL ARE NOW WAITING FOR THE DEATH OF LKY IN COMING DAYS OR WEEKS.
WE ALL WILL YUM SENG AND YUM SENG AND YUM SENG AGAIN AND AGAIN DANCING SINGING ON TABLE TOPS AND STREETS

WE THEN WILL SEE THOSE IN PAP WITH SHARPENED KNIVES HOOTING ARSEHLOON A DOZEN NEW ARSEHOLES AND THE DEATH OF THE ENTIRE LEE KWA CLAN

WE THEN WILL PICK UP PIANO WIRES AND HANG ALL THOSE REMAINING PAP AND THEIR COLLABORATORS FROM LAMP POSTS AND SEE THOSE BASTARDS AND BITCHES DANCE.
AND HAPPINESS WILL RETURN TO OUR LAND.

AND STINKAPORE WILL BECOME SINGAPORE ONCE MORE.

https://www.torproject.org/about/overview.html.en

 

[GoldenPeriod]

Simple truth is Singaporeans don't want hand-outs, unlike what the government says. We just want a job and an opportunity to work. But even that is taken away from us.

 

[king_of_abalone]

The proliferation of these part-time degrees has sunk the local PMET job market in recent years.

Because of low entry barriers, this kind of degree is now commonplace, every ah kow and ah ngiao has one.

Employers have became aware of the need to be discriminating when hiring PMETs. There are degrees, and there are degrees.

This woman's case is a sad one, but it is one that resonates with every person who does not hold a "proper" degree. By "proper", I mean the usual full-time college-life type of university education that people usually go through, right after A levels and NS. People who somehow did not do well in their O and A levels, who went through the alternative route to get a degree (via poly/SIM or some Stansfield kind of distance learning method) usually face a lot of discrimination during interviews. They are deemed "not as good" as those "proper" degree holders.

 

[bic_cherry]

Failed gahmen policy makes hiring foreigner PMET a cheaper/wiser option.

Failed gahmen policy makes hiring foreigner PMET a cheaper/wiser option.
The letter by Mr Lim Kay Soon lists 3 (if not 4) important reasons:
- The company did not need to pay CPF contributions for them;
- Their salary expectations were lower than Singaporeans'; and
- Their skill sets and experiences were on a par with those of Singaporeans.
4th reason: just like Singaporean workers, foreigner PMETs DO NOT CURRENTLY ATTRACT ANY PAYABLE WORK LEVY.
He ends with:
"At the moment, the local PME retrenchment rate is still high as employers are hiring foreigners for the cost savings.
Over the medium to long term, this will weaken Singapore's economy as local PMEs will become structurally unemployed as they lose their skills and employability."

[http://www.straitstimes.com/premium/forum-letters/story/local-pmes-dont-have-it-easy-20140531
Local PMEs don't have it easy
Published on May 31, 2014 1:22 AM
I REFER to the report ("MPs want more protection, support for local PMEs"; Tuesday)
When I was the general manager of a local IT company and, subsequently, a financial controller for a Dutch multinational corporation, I preferred hiring foreign mid-level staff for the following reasons:
- The company did not need to pay CPF contributions for them;
- Their salary expectations were lower than Singaporeans'; and
- Their skill sets and experiences were on a par with those of Singaporeans.
The total cost differential between local and foreign professionals, managers and executives (PMEs) was 20 to 40 per cent.
An Asian foreign employee with a degree and work experience can easily afford a city apartment and family sedan in his home country if he makes $200,000 during his stint here.
In Singapore, $200,000 would allow a Singaporean with the same qualifications to buy only a three-room HDB flat in outlying regions like Woodlands or Jurong. A family car would set him back by $120,000.
An Asian foreigner's cost of living back home is so much lower than ours. Hence, he is more willing to work for $3,000 to $5,000 a month. But a Singaporean graduate earning $4,000 a month will be trying to keep up with inflation.
It does not make sense that a foreign PME working here has a bright future, while his Singaporean counterparts are struggling with their living expenses, unless they are in strong sectors like banking and health care, where pay is high.
A levy is imposed when one hires a maid, but there is no such tax for hiring foreign PMEs. No wonder foreign PMEs were replacing local ones at an increasing rate until tighter restrictions were imposed last year.
At the moment, the local PME retrenchment rate is still high as employers are hiring foreigners for the cost savings.
Over the medium to long term, this will weaken Singapore's economy as local PMEs will become structurally unemployed as they lose their skills and employability.
Lim Kay Soon

The quoted report:
MPs want more protection, support for local PMEs
May 27, 2014. ; Janice Heng; The Straits Times

SINGAPORE - More protection and support should be given to professionals, managers and executives (PME), urged several MPs.
In the face of foreign competition, this "sandwiched class" needs more attention from the authorities, they said yesterday on the first day of debate on the President's Address.
Ms Foo Mee Har (West Coast GRC) made one of the strongest calls, saying firms should give qualified Singaporeans priority over foreigners for PME jobs. "It is time that we move our manpower policies for PMEs from a defensive, anti-discrimination position to one where we actively promote and champion the hiring and development of Singaporeans."
She noted that from August, firms will have to advertise on a jobs bank for 14 days before applying to hire foreign PMEs.
Yet the eventual decision is still up to them, she said. "The Manpower Minister further emphasised that (this) is not about 'Hire Singaporeans First' - but many are asking, 'Why not?'"
She wanted employers to have to prove that if a foreigner is hired, it is only because there are no suitable locals. Firms that hire foreigners should also be obliged to have a formal system for training and developing Singaporeans, and to ensure skills from foreign hires are transferred to locals.
"I believe that the current negative sentiment against foreign talent will ease when Singaporeans no longer feel that their livelihoods are threatened," she said.
If the issue of jobs for Singaporeans is not managed well, such resulting sentiments "can send the wrong signals to employers and foreign investors", noted Mr Zaqy Mohamad (Chua Chu Kang GRC).
Labour MP Patrick Tay (Nee Soon GRC) proposed several ways to help PMEs.
The Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications framework of training courses should have a greater focus on PMEs, not just rank-and-file or mid-level staff.
Government funding should be more accessible to individual PMEs, and not just for firms.
Companies should be given incentives to let employees pursue a "second skill" during work hours.
And industries which regularly lay off employees - such as finance - could provide better support for the retrenched, he said. This could take the form of subsidies and payments, to act as a form of "unemployment insurance" to tide them over. "If the PME is laid off with no fault of his or her own, employers have a moral responsibility to see through the career transition for them."
For Non-Constituency MP Lina Chiam, the issue was that firms are being treated too well in comparison with workers. She called for "policies that favour Singaporeans, not an absolute growth model" for the economy.
This article was first published on May 27, 2014.
MPs want more protection, support for local PMEs, AsiaOne Singapore News

 

[rushifa666]

Re: Failed gahmen policy makes hiring foreigner PMET a cheaper/wiser option.

Typical office slave who will develop dementia once she stop working. How bout travel? How bout volunteer work? How bout you learn to cook at least one decent dish? Retrenched? Good. Welcome to singapore

 

[xebay11]

The proliferation of these part-time degrees has sunk the local PMET job market in recent years.

Because of low entry barriers, this kind of degree is now commonplace, every ah kow and ah ngiao has one.

Employers have became aware of the need to be discriminating when hiring PMETs. There are degrees, and there are degrees.

This woman's case is a sad one, but it is one that resonates with every person who does not hold a "proper" degree. By "proper", I mean the usual full-time college-life type of university education that people usually go through, right after A levels and NS. People who somehow did not do well in their O and A levels, who went through the alternative route to get a degree (via poly/SIM or some Stansfield kind of distance learning method) usually face a lot of discrimination during interviews. They are deemed "not as good" as those "proper" degree holders.

And the millions of foreigners who have degrees and steal our jobs went through the "proper" path?

 

[eatshitndie]

contrary to the opinion (not fact) that o-and-a levels through 4-year university route that leads to a "fuller, better" degree for employers to favor over lesser mortals and half-baked degree holders, some of the most sought-after tech workers in silicon valley (of all places in the world), the epitome and epicenter of innovation and invention, are sinkies with a poly-then-uni education and background. even those with a poly background that complete a 2 to 3-year college program are hot stuff. you can meet them in apple, facebook, google, and start-ups all over the bay area. when it comes to work, management and tech team leaders can separate men from boys easily within the 1st week. when it cums to tech work, either hardware or software, i'd rather have a team of poly grads than 4-year uni grads. poly grads helped me design the boards, interpret the cavium instructions, code the software, program fpga chips, and get a prototype out in weeks while 4-year uni grads with more general and shallow tech education were only good in office work, makan and socializing. if i find them (poly grads) promising for tech management or tech lead/sme roles, i would recommend them for part-time hardcore classes offered by berkeley and stanford. once they graduate from a series of hardcore classes that lead to a diploma or degree, they would get poached by competitors and other upcoming outfits in the valley. stars of tech cum from hobbyist and practice-type education, not from theoretical bookworms with years of straight a's.

 

[frenchbriefs]

Re: Failed gahmen policy makes hiring foreigner PMET a cheaper/wiser option.

Typical office slave who will develop dementia once she stop working. How bout travel? How bout volunteer work? How bout you learn to cook at least one decent dish? Retrenched? Good. Welcome to singapore

u are right,sinkies are descendant of coolies and illiterate farmers,born to be slaves,even though we are a so called first world country,sinkies will always have the instincts of peasants and farmers that they have to slog and labour hard in order to survive.especially those born to poor families.they have the worst mindset.

another reason why the west will always be superior to asia and that u will never have true peace of mind or security is because asia believes in capitalism and not socialism,ur well being depends on urself,no one else will help u,which is why despite some asian countries achieving phenomenal GDP,the gini coefficient is so high and the rich poor gap is so wide,ur no better off than if u were living in a 2nd world country.

i am truly afraid to live in singapore,because there is a more than real chance that a average singaporean might have to suffer poverty,to live in filth and a meagre income,that a person's basic rights to decency and needs are not even guaranteed even though singapore's gdp is 70,000 per capital,i may be living on 290 dollars a month when im old and eating canned dog food.

 

[winnipegjets]

contrary to the opinion (not fact) that o-and-a levels through 4-year university route that leads to a "fuller, better" degree for employers to favor over lesser mortals and half-baked degree holders, some of the most sought-after tech workers in silicon valley (of all places in the world), the epitome and epicenter of innovation and invention, are sinkies with a poly-then-uni education and background. even those with a poly background that complete a 2 to 3-year college program are hot stuff. you can meet them in apple, facebook, google, and start-ups all over the bay area. when it comes to work, management and tech team leaders can separate men from boys easily within the 1st week. when it cums to tech work, either hardware or software, i'd rather have a team of poly grads than 4-year uni grads. poly grads helped me design the boards, interpret the cavium instructions, code the software, program fpga chips, and get a prototype out in weeks while 4-year uni grads with more general and shallow tech education were only good in office work, makan and socializing. if i find them (poly grads) promising for tech management or tech lead/sme roles, i would recommend them for part-time hardcore classes offered by berkeley and stanford. once they graduate from a series of hardcore classes that lead to a diploma or degree, they would get poached by competitors and other upcoming outfits in the valley. stars of tech cum from hobbyist and practice-type education, not from theoretical bookworms with years of straight a's.

That explains why Silicon Valley is successful while sinkapore alley is going nowhere. The mindset of management here cannot get over the paper qualifications. These managers have relied on their papers to climb the corporate ladder and thus are unable to get out of that mode. That mindset is also a product of the governing culture.

 

[frenchbriefs]

its true,in the tech corporate world,the dumber u are the better u succeed.too intelligent u might be relegated to a worker drone role like steve wozniak.

for example,alibaba,jack.billionaire cum tech magnate is the ceo of the biggest tech startups in china despite having not even the braincells how to troubleshoot his home pc and configure his modem to surf the internet.

contrary to the opinion (not fact) that o-and-a levels through 4-year university route that leads to a "fuller, better" degree for employers to favor over lesser mortals and half-baked degree holders, some of the most sought-after tech workers in silicon valley (of all places in the world), the epitome and epicenter of innovation and invention, are sinkies with a poly-then-uni education and background. even those with a poly background that complete a 2 to 3-year college program are hot stuff. you can meet them in apple, facebook, google, and start-ups all over the bay area. when it comes to work, management and tech team leaders can separate men from boys easily within the 1st week. when it cums to tech work, either hardware or software, i'd rather have a team of poly grads than 4-year uni grads. poly grads helped me design the boards, interpret the cavium instructions, code the software, program fpga chips, and get a prototype out in weeks while 4-year uni grads with more general and shallow tech education were only good in office work, makan and socializing. if i find them (poly grads) promising for tech management or tech lead/sme roles, i would recommend them for part-time hardcore classes offered by berkeley and stanford. once they graduate from a series of hardcore classes that lead to a diploma or degree, they would get poached by competitors and other upcoming outfits in the valley. stars of tech cum from hobbyist and practice-type education, not from theoretical bookworms with years of straight a's.

 

[eatshitndie]

its true,in the tech corporate world,the dumber u are the better u succeed.too intelligent u might be relegated to a worker drone role like steve wozniak.

for example,alibaba,jack.billionaire cum tech magnate is the ceo of the biggest tech startups in china despite having not even the braincells how to troubleshoot his home pc and configure his modem to surf the internet.

the top tech founding billionaires in the valley except for page, brin, yang, khosla, are college dropouts as they don't have the patience for grunt work and daily routines. and they don't have to be subject matter experts in their fields. so long as their minds are prepared for once in a lifetime opportunities and seize them, their opportune visions and gutsy executions (and learning from failures and mistakes) will carry them through.

 

[frenchbriefs]

the top tech founding billionaires in the valley except for page, brin, yang, khosla, are college dropouts as they don't have the patience for grunt work and daily routines. and they don't have to be subject matter experts in their fields. so long as their minds are prepared for once in a lifetime opportunities and seize them, their opportune visions and gutsy executions (and learning from failures and mistakes) will carry them through.

that is nothing but bullshyt management talk from business admin people who do not know jackshyt about the thing they are managing.....when u love a certain field/subject nothing is grunt work to u,if steve wozniak had to put together an entire computer from toaster ovens and car stereos,he would do it lovingly.because he loves what he does.thats how u make the world a better place,when u understand something down to its very basic elements and screws,u will somehow think of better ways to do things.

 

[eatshitndie]

that is nothing but bullshyt management talk from business admin people who do not know jackshyt about the thing they are managing.....when u love a certain field/subject nothing is grunt work to u,if steve wozniak had to put together an entire computer from toaster ovens and car stereos,he would do it lovingly.because he loves what he does.thats how u make the world a better place,when u understand something down to its very basic elements and screws,u will somehow think of better ways to do things.

while woz toiled away hours at tinkering and putting things together, jobs was dreaming big, visualizing the product, creating the market and buzz, getting the funding, and convincing others to part with their money.

 

[eatshitndie]

being a star employee with companies fighting to hire you and being a billionaire start-up founder are two different animals. my long initial response was geared towards the former.

 

[frenchbriefs]

while woz toiled away hours at tinkering and putting things together, jobs was dreaming big, visualizing the product, creating the market and buzz, getting the funding, and convincing others to part with their money.

and yet till today i still can never understand the hype behind steve job's products,its something i will never understand like religion or faith,however when i see steve wozniak's genius i see true beauty.

which is why songs like party rock in the house have 300 million views but songs like this which deserves 300 million views but will never see the light of the day.

[video=youtube;_FT45noJ67c]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FT45noJ67c[/video]

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

This whole letter is meaningless.

A retrenched writing to a jobless man for career advice.

 

[JHolmesJr]

Lol....absolutely.