PPE means personal protective equipment and you'll be trained to catch those who flout the rules when it comes to PPE. If you could earn a commission from fining those who violate safety rules within the shipyard, you will be a VERY rich guy since at least 1/2 of them flout the rules, one way or another and a typical yard has thousands of workers.

Best place to catch these buggers are at scaffolding areas since everybody who goes up one are fed up with using the body harness and even if they do use it, they dont anchor themselves to at least to separate safety points.

Why dont you try balut, its fantastic and adobo as well.

This also tells alot of singaporean employers in the SME department, their main concern isnt looking for the best but for the cheapest overhead cost.

This post has been edited by crapp0: May 10 2011, 11:17 AM

I too find that this is a very good generalization of them since i too more often then not encounter this kind of situation. Talk till your ears fall off but the result are basically diddly squat.

So you confirmed working with jurong shipyard? I pity that your going to work under the current weather conditions.

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Added on May 10, 2011, 2:19 pmDont worry, alot of employers are now moving towards hiring more PRC's and burmese since the indians are getting more expensive and bangla may not have certain prerequisite skills.

This post has been edited by crapp0: May 10 2011, 02:19 PM

You forgot stomp.com.sg

The best place to find local absurd news.

So you confirmed with them verbally on your salary but not your benefits?

Thats rather dangerous since nothing is final until you get the black and white. When i was first venturing out as a freelance guy, the No.1 tip that was given by all my peers were, "It aint final till its in black and white" since they "cheat" you on your benefits or even your salary since "talk is talk". Saipem is know for doing this about u-turn funny business, the HR guy may say your getting this and this, but when you see your contract, your getting less then what was agreed upon during the interview.

This post has been edited by crapp0: May 10 2011, 04:32 PM

I usually interact with china chinese engineers, surveyors or superintendents. It depends whether their on mainland china or working overseas since most overseas china people would pick up english since its a necessity in order to do their job properly. The mainland fellas on the other hand are tough to work with since their not very proficient in english and they like to "skip" the rules and regulations more often then not.

Even in singapore with the local chinese or malaysian chinese people, if they can get away with it, they will.

This post has been edited by crapp0: May 10 2011, 08:28 PM

But if you noticed, there seems to be a trend whereby indian restaurants are now hiring china workers to do work normall allocated to their own indian brethren such as making roti canai or being the waiter.

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Added on May 11, 2011, 8:37 amIs this 1 full day or the whore package?

This post has been edited by crapp0: May 11 2011, 08:37 AM

I've seen 4 people stay in a single common room. I've heard you can fit around 6 to 7 in a room since i know a guy who sub let a condo with 4 rooms to 22 china labourers.

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Added on May 11, 2011, 3:45 pmWhy cant they hire an indian worker on a work permit at the same salary range? Why does it have to be from china?

Most indian welders and fitters in shipyards and construction workers are indians and they basic pay is around 700-900. With OT their salary goes above 1000.

Plus employers can get around the high cost of minimum wage for an s-pass guy.

Say the s-pass gets $ 1800 a month according to mom law, the employer can state on their pay slip that they get that amount but in reality they may shortchanged them.

I know a couple of SME's which does this. I know one guy who's an S-Pass who's supposed to get $1800 and his pay slip states that same amount but every month is bank account is credited with $1500. No guesses where the balance $300 goes.

This usually happens to banglas, china, indians and burmese people since alot of singaporean employers know they can bully them since those people need the money and cant afford to job hop and to pay back the loan they took to get a job in singapore in the first place.

This post has been edited by crapp0: May 11 2011, 03:54 PM

I just passed by the area at around 3pm. One of the open air workshop at that yard was totally collapsed.

Looks like only a big explosion will warrant something news worthy. Just last week there were 2 deaths in keppel shipyard within one week but no news was reported about it. You can only sweep the dirt in your own carpet so to speak, a large explosion is harder to hide.

You should change from "smart" to "modern day salvery". But i doubt singaporean employers will change their stance of this, its easy for them to exploit foreign workers for cheap labour since it would mean they would have to face a cut into their revenue which is unacceptable as is kaisu tradition.

I also found out that you can bribe your way during a commercial vehicle inspection for around 100 dollars. I know a sub-con whose vehicle i had the "pleasure" to ride in and they guy told me that the engines busted, the steering is whacked and the radiator needs topping up every few days and he told me that his company made a "special" request to their mechanic to help them pass through the annual vehicle inspection. He even saw the vehicle report which initially stated that the vehicle inpection failed, after his boss called his mechanic to sort it out, the vehicle passed so in that one day, that vehicle could have failed and then passed the inspection.

This post has been edited by crapp0: May 13 2011, 04:40 PM

Anybody interested in purchasing 2nd hand ps3 games in singapore?

Im looking to sell of some of my games since i dont play them anymore.

I currently have Assassin creed platinum edition, heavy rain and uncharted 2 platinum edition.

For more details such as price and meet up location, please PM me.

Not really since im only selling it for those who are working in singapore. No point i goto the traders page since thats exclusively for items to be sold in malaysia.

If you work for an employer, then the rate is average to above average in a shipyard working environment. If your in the private contractor situation, your usually paid according to your contract agreement which usually entails a daily rate. One of my former colleagues who left the company to do freelance work is now getting at least minimum 300 dollars a day as a WI, working on behalf of BP.

That rate is within the yard, it only goes higher if he works overseas which there are no shortages of available contracts.

This post has been edited by crapp0: May 28 2011, 10:04 AM

The worse off would be the burmese since they have to pay tax to their government since their working overseas.

S Pass fellas have to pay 80 dollars a month in "income tax" to general than shwe.

At last PSN is backup, i can continue playing black ops.

This post has been edited by crapp0: May 28 2011, 11:49 AM

Geylang is nothing compared to Sydney's night life. The korean hostesses are super hot, too bad their basically "barbie" dolls.

Anybody heard of a Work Permit holder getting PR status?

This post has been edited by crapp0: Jun 1 2011, 04:57 PM

Oh ic. So its not so uncommon to get PR eventhough your on a work permit.

I recently had a chat with one of my former colleagues whos an indian national who has been trying very hard to get PR but has failed twice, so he got in contact with one guy who got him PR status within 3 months of filing his application for around 10K. Talk about being efficient.

This post has been edited by crapp0: Jun 2 2011, 08:36 AM

Its actually none of my business. As they say, it takes 2 hands to clap. So one guy is giving the "under table Money" and another fella is the willing recipient of said money. It boils down to that individuals integrity or lack thereof.

There are quite a number of these cases, you just dont know about it since its kept in the down low so to speak.

At least now my former colleague can go freelance since he has his PR and isnt tied to his current company.