Population woes
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Well... what to do if the average taxi driver would rather queue for more than 1 hour at Changi Airport at say 9.00pm than go down to the UDMC seafood centre 10 mins away where there is inevitably a queue of people waiting for taxis? If taxi drivers refuse to go to where the customers are...
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Not yet 6 million leh, we locals haven't crack up and a foreigner went berserk? :?
Expat goes berserk over construction noise :siao:
http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Singapore/Story/A1Story20121102-381083.html -
Actually I feel nothing wrong with the article mah…
he said it is possible… with hard work… he didn’t say sit inside taxi not moving can earn so much mah… -
For self-employed… not really "impossible"…
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limlim:
In that case, it is something like skill level right?
In your previous post, why would the family situation cause a downgrade of competency level? it is more like commitment level lower only rite?
yes more like commitment level.. as in order to practice competency 3-5 you really have to commit a lot of your time, probably even sacrifice weekends (unless you are a seasoned ang moh-- can sweet talk anyone so they have to do less) -- opps quite xenophobic of me to say that...! -
\"Soon Heng Restaurant closes, no S'porean wanted job.\"
http://www.soshiok.com/article/21193
Need to restructure our economy, industries who cannot survive without employing Singaporeans should either relocate or close. -
I don’t believe a biz will close bcoz of cannot find workers.
biz only close when there is no business…
Take the case of the restaurant. If the food is good, there will be customers. At most the queue or waiting time is longer.
btw, last weekend got this 财经追击 talking about small biz innovating and emerge stronger with smaller workforce and finding the right workers.
If there’s a will, there’s a way.
Quoting what was mentioned in other forums… biz have too long been addicted to cheap workers like drugs… when the supply is cut, all the withdrawal symptoms appear.
Another one talked about his friend complain to him that biz is hard hit, workers asking more salary, biz cannot survive. So he asks his friend, "Didn’t you just changed a new car? how much do you take home every month?" His friend diam diam.
So, can only ask the workers to face the competition and adjust their salary expectation… cannot ask the employers to bite the bullet and accept the challenges (of restricted access to cheap foreign labour)? -
limlim:
Surprise surprise.... shortage of appropriate labour IS a BIG reason businesses close (or don't come in the first place), regardless of what you think.I don't believe a biz will close bcoz of cannot find workers.
biz only close when there is no business..
What irritates me most about your post is that you make grand sweeping statements without even trying to understand what drives the business for that particular shop.
He sells mass market food, there is a price ceiling. In order to pay his rent and fixed costs like electricity, he needs to turn over a certain amount of revenue. In order to sustain that level of turnover, he needs his business to be at a certain scale. To be at that scale, he needs a certain number of employees. This is a food business, it is labour intensive. Even a 3-Michelin star restaurant in New York needs cooks and chefs, servers, front of house. This guy needs a minimum number of staff. If he can't be at a certain scale, the restaurant closes. It's not just about costs.
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limlim:
So what?
Another one talked about his friend complain to him that biz is hard hit, workers asking more salary, biz cannot survive. So he asks his friend, \"Didn't you just changed a new car? how much do you take home every month?\" His friend diam diam.
He opened the business, he takes all the risk. Who knows he had mortgaged the house to get the thing off the ground in the first place, he doesn't have a right live off it? If the business folds, the workers walk away, the business owner may be saddled with a ton of debt.
Don't make it out as if the workers are always the victim. -
3Boys:
Other restaurant can survive and his can't.
What irritates me most about your post is that you make grand sweeping statements without even trying to understand what drives the business for that particular shop.
Simple.
Workers cannot be the only reason.
What irritates me is that biz owners are always complain about not enough workers, why they cannot reflect on their operations?
What is the profit margin of a biz like restaurant? $10k? $20k?
If there is 10 workers, each one pay rise by $200, it adds $2k to the cost. the biz go bust?
Of coz, all these are empty talk.. unless someone comes in with a statement of accounts for a restaurant, then, we can judge.
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