Its inevitable. Almost all developed country bar maybe Germany has a negligeble manufacturing industry. SG is no different. You want to be a developed country, then you have to have high value economy i.e. services

I wonder what is the employment prospects for the pinoy who got sacked by TTS hospital for posting sensitive FB remarks about sinkies. Maybe he can go back pinoy land for a couple of years then when all is forgotten, come back to work in SG?

This post has been edited by robertchoo: Jan 16 2015, 12:41 PM

Min SGD8kp/m. Nothing below that

You should count your lucky stars to even get a job in the first place.
If you don't want, I know of 3-4 other indian nationals or pinoys with more experience who wants your job for the same pay.

CPF is a big ponzi scam. Just becuase you think its Singapore you think they are clean?
Well not quite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_count..._by_public_debt
Singapore internal debt is 111% its GDP. What that means is that the SG gov borrows more than 100% of its GDP from its own bodies like Temasek, CPF, etc. The govenment cannot afford to repay those debts. They just can't.

Why do you think they keep rising the min age of withdrawal and now they even set a min sum for withdrawal under the pretext of helping or preventing their citizen who would spend all their money away? THe min sum keeps increasing and increasing every year. Why is that? Its becuase the gov cannot repay their citizens should they choose to withdraw their CPF lump sum en mass. That is why they try to smoke.

Nope. But Singapore will just raise the min age for withdrawal and raise the min sum to be kept in your CPF lo.
Effectively you cannot withdraw your CPF if it is below SGD155k currently i think. And the amount is rising.

There is another choice. Don't be a pr. This is not a rant this is a response to someone who asked what are the pros and cons of cpf and these are some of the cons.

This post has been edited by robertchoo: May 25 2015, 04:45 PM

No I'm not bashing SG. I'm merely pointing out the flaws of CPF in response to someone who asked what are the pros and cons of being a PR and CPF.

This post has been edited by robertchoo: May 25 2015, 04:38 PM

Then you already answered your own question.

Becuase they know precisely that if they convert its bye bye CPF.

This post has been edited by robertchoo: May 25 2015, 08:39 PM

If you want to know the cons of CPF then you have to weight what I just said. I've said it before and I'll say it again. Cpf is one big ponzi scheme. Your money may be still there but you may not withdraw it until either you pass the min sum or you reach the age of 55 and give up your sg pr. If you think you can live with it then by all means take up the pr and start contributing to cpf.

If you decide not to then you won't be subjected to such laws. As to whether you want to be in SG until you retire, only you can decide.

This post has been edited by robertchoo: May 25 2015, 08:38 PM

Rules can change and change fast. You never know when sg gov will disallow malaysian pr to take out their cpf even after 55. With all the negative sentiments among singaporeans I won't be surprised.

All employees funds are ponzi schemes.

For those who did not know if u are west m'sian you cannot withdraw your CPF until age 55 even after you renounce your PR
http://mycpf.cpf.gov.sg/CPF/my-cpf/Overseas/LivO9.htm.

Actually its 50k
http://money.cnn.com/2015/06/09/investing/hsbc-job-cuts/

This post has been edited by robertchoo: Jun 12 2015, 12:04 AM

blue collared worker yes. white collared worker no. generally, i wouldn't say look down. its how you present yourself to them. if you speak good english, are knowledgeable etc then they will not look down at you. but if you can't speak english, speak broken mandarin like most malaysian chinese do and generally present yourself as shabby then they are going to look at you like how we look at banglas. they are humans too.

Actually on a recent business trip to the red dot, I am quite astounded that I met alot of Malaysians who cannot speak a proper sentence in english and/or malay or understand english or malay without asking for clarification in mandarin and yet claimed that they graduated from local university in malaysia. Is the standards these days really that bad? No wonder Singaporeans look down on Malaysians.

Does it matter? I expect ALL malaysian grads to be able to speak and understand english. Failing which, they should not be allowed to graduate

i only noticed such discrimination in a situation like i have mentioned before i.e. they can't speak proper english or understand english. otherwise its fine. can't tell if one is malaysian or singaporean as we speak with same accent

well nobody could tell i was from malaysia until they asked which combat unit i was attached to for NS during one of those tok kok session after official business. then they were all surprised when i told them none. i'm not singaporean.