8 New hires to get SMRT on track - 4 from military

[laksaboy]

A piece of advice to everyone: if you have SMRT shares now, sell them immediately.

When SAF idiots take the helm of any organization, it will not end well. Trust me.

 

[rusty]

A piece of advice to everyone: if you have SMRT shares now, sell them immediately.

When SAF idiots take the helm of any organization, it will not end well. Trust me.

but the fuck thing is Temasek owned shares do not react to market sentiments, they move with government's intervention.

 

[halsey02]

The CEO spent all his life in SAF so these are the only 'good people' he knows.

What do you expect...swines will only know fellow swines from same m&d pool...where else do you think they will mix around??

 

[Seee3]

He's only 35 and there is no mention about his previous post in HK MTR so you don't even know whether he's a technical guy.

There is this application called "Google". Quite useful. I have used it to find this :

Simon Tang's Overview

Current
Depot Manager at MTR Corporation Ltd.
Past
Depot Engineer at MTR Corporation Ltd.
Rolling Stock Design Engineer at Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation
Graduate Trainee at Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation

Simon Tang's Education

The University of Hong Kong
Master of Science (MSc), Electrical and Electronics Engineering
2000 – 2001

The University of Hong Kong
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical Energy Systems Engineering
1996 – 1999

Ya maybe it is the wrong fellow. There is also an actor HK called Simon.

 

[commoner]

now the CEO Desmond kuek can blame 8 persons before get kicks out,,,,

same as pinky last time, 1 mm, 1 sm, 2 dPMs,,,,

this guy more kilat

 

[cunnilaubu]

Eight new hires! What happen to those they replaced. Were they fired or still on the job.
Are we seeing a bloated SMRT Management Team?

 

[jw5]

Eight new hires! What happen to those they replaced. Were they fired or still on the job.
Are we seeing a bloated SMRT Management Team?

During Saw's time not so long ago, they had quite a number of resignations. Then some new hires and promotions to fill up those positions.
The SGX announcement pages for a couple of days then were filled with SMRT management movement announcements.
Looks like it's deja-vu again, and it wouldn't matter if the primary purpose of providing efficient public transport services were to improve.
But would it?

 

[Loofydralb]

This guy is the only one with real world experience:

Director of rail infrastructure Simon Tang, 35, who was previously with Hong Kong's MTR Corp and Kowloon Canton Railway Corp.

The rest were obviously buddies, selected based on paper records and past university majors which have long been thrown away.

Desmond in his first management moves has failed. In real world operations, you need to motivate. Bringing in regiment, will kill motivation and usher out talent, which SMRT may not be able to cope. But the direction he is going is by knocking heads and breaking skulls. There will be challenges by unions which will be killed off by NTUC.

Then the whole saga will repeat itself like the past when the trains almost came to standstill due to industrial action. Things may repeat.

Don't they ever learn?

 

[songsongjurong]

just hope they SMRT wont co-share kranji detention barracks!

 

[red amoeba]

Ok,col Kuek, tell us the pain now...fare increase to pay for these blubber I suppose ?

 

[steffychun]

One LG and so many COLs could not put Humpty Dumpty together again

 

[GoldenDragon]

Expect this - more breakdowns and damage control.

 

[steffychun]

Expect this - more breakdowns and damage control.

Yes they will bring in SAF cookhouse aunties to fix it