I saw this very well written family issue in a comment in Yahoo. It was posted in PM Lee's Facebook but his admin had it deleted. Below is the full Singapore Issue face by the Singaporeans:
Yang Yuwen: I have a family issue. I was part of a closely knitted single child family until my dad says "Let's adopt another brother for you" since he likes big families. As I was quite young at that time, I didn't have any say. Things was okay until my dad started showing favoritism towards my adopted brother.
My dad owns a company and immediately appointed my adopted brother as a manager in the company and paid him well, as for me, he said in order to train me well, I should start working from bottom up. So I became a warehouse assistant in the company, drawing a mere $480 a month. So I work 5 days a week and sometimes burning my weekends because our security guards in the company are limited, while my adopted brother is drawing a high salary and is always taunting me.
I tolled day and night for years and 1 day I broke down completely, accusing my dad of favoritism. That was about 3 years ago in 2011. He cried as well and said he was sorry for all the wrong things that he had done and asked me to give him another chance for him to put things right. Finally, I thought my dad had saw my plight and that would be the end of my misery. I was wrong. Very wrong.
Fast forward to now, 3 years on, I still live the same life working bottom level jobs in my dad's company, while my adopted brother is promoting his biological cousins to my dad so that my dad can adopt them as well.
The final straw is when my adopted brother decided to hold a birthday celebration for his BIOLOGICAL parents in my OWN house. My first reaction was to tell him off, telling him that it was obviously a disrespectful act to my family and my parents in particular. I complained to my dad and to my horror, he says that I should be ASHAMED of myself and he promptly gave the go-ahead for my adopted brother to hold the birthday celebration.
What would you do if you were me?
http://singapore-lighthouse.blogspo...rch+(Singapore+Social+and+Political+Thoughts)
Yang Yuwen: I have a family issue. I was part of a closely knitted single child family until my dad says "Let's adopt another brother for you" since he likes big families. As I was quite young at that time, I didn't have any say. Things was okay until my dad started showing favoritism towards my adopted brother.
My dad owns a company and immediately appointed my adopted brother as a manager in the company and paid him well, as for me, he said in order to train me well, I should start working from bottom up. So I became a warehouse assistant in the company, drawing a mere $480 a month. So I work 5 days a week and sometimes burning my weekends because our security guards in the company are limited, while my adopted brother is drawing a high salary and is always taunting me.
I tolled day and night for years and 1 day I broke down completely, accusing my dad of favoritism. That was about 3 years ago in 2011. He cried as well and said he was sorry for all the wrong things that he had done and asked me to give him another chance for him to put things right. Finally, I thought my dad had saw my plight and that would be the end of my misery. I was wrong. Very wrong.
Fast forward to now, 3 years on, I still live the same life working bottom level jobs in my dad's company, while my adopted brother is promoting his biological cousins to my dad so that my dad can adopt them as well.
The final straw is when my adopted brother decided to hold a birthday celebration for his BIOLOGICAL parents in my OWN house. My first reaction was to tell him off, telling him that it was obviously a disrespectful act to my family and my parents in particular. I complained to my dad and to my horror, he says that I should be ASHAMED of myself and he promptly gave the go-ahead for my adopted brother to hold the birthday celebration.
What would you do if you were me?
http://singapore-lighthouse.blogspo...rch+(Singapore+Social+and+Political+Thoughts)
