[quote=nekrobutcher2411,Sep 11 2012, 04:18 AM]Hello everyone. I didn’t feel like im too late to speak out my personal view regarding employment  in Scope international. I am an ex scope employee, just resigned last month (during Ramadan). At first I joined scope as an intern, to fulfill my university requirements, after 3 and a half month they offered me a job there in the International  trade dept. during my internship I worked for normally 10 to 11hours a day and not including weekends. I was given proper class to improve my understandings in the international trade flow. Many of the new joiners are just like me, still naïve and only wants to work there to gain the recognition of “saya orang bank” by people around me. The first month was honeymoon-ish. The people gives warm welcome to us new joiners, then came the second month when us interns have to work in odd hours. Some of us still think its okay to work during night shift (9pm-7am). Few weeks later  I came to my sense , realizing this job is quite ” rabak”. Came home early in the morning only to sleep while others have just woke up and getting ready to go to work.  Good thing there’s night allowance for us.
Before completing my internship, the boss makes an offer to work there. Us interns are quite happy since we haven’t graduated yet and already got ourselves a job. Half of us accepted the offer (<15 people) and the rest rejected. I accepted the job but under one condition, the job must be during daytime. Well I did get the daytime job, covering hongkong transactions. When I started the job is was hell already. My team have 7 people in it, 1 of them are already planning on quitting the job.  My shift according to the offer letter is from 9am to 6pm, but If required I must stay longer. Imagine, on the first week only I worked from 9am till 10pm. This gives me quite a shock, since I am new and all. And I thought to myself, “mula-mula je kot. Takkan hari-hari macam ni”. Well, it did. Everyday I was working from 9.30am till 9.30pm. that’s 12 hours guys. Every f***ing day. NO OVERTIME. Night shift allowance are only applicable for other countries and not hongkong, since it is quite illogical for the management to believe we worked that long. The night allowance only valid if we stay more than 1am. And I can’t easily apply for holiday, must ask for permission from my team whether I can have a rest day or not. It’s because someone have to cover the workload for me while im gone. And I must finish the day’s work by the same day to get the day off. Tiring I as hell tell you! My personal record is 15hours which is from 9.30am till 12.30am.
Working 12 hours a day sure is demotivating. Unless you are a workaholic, doesn’t have a lovelife, hates your family and friends, and doesn’t like to go out. Just kidding. This is the job for robots. Well, not all of the team works 12 hours. The rest who handle countries like UK, US, Singapore USUALLY works 10 hours a day. And the increment is damn puny! We are bonded for 18 months after signing the agreement and if we quit earlier, we have to pay the bond (pro-rated). This is to prevent the high turnover here in scope. Thank god my boss kaw tim with me. I get to leave without having to pay.
ONE THING I CAN SAY, THE WORK HOURS IN TRADE IS HELL.


Hi Neckobutcher,
How you got kaw tim with the boss to leave the company without pay. Any tips to share?

This post has been edited by green purple: Jul 11 2015, 05:46 AM

transportation been provided btw. Environtment seem good. But i think its depend on which dept are you.

Stanum you r working with SCOPE right. What happen to those resign 24hr as we all know that we are bonded with the company for 18months and some reimbursement to be paid off.

Nope. Its permanent but you r bonded for 18months.

7 days working? no life at all...

If not mistaken...AL will be 21 days.....you are entitle to take mandate leave of 10days....benefit quite good....not sure what kind of benefit that u preferred most....some ppl they only care about the hospitalization n medical wise...if you are thinking on bonus n increament package...i heard they dont give much...bonus around 1 month only...increament not sure....