Friday, November 5, 2010

social & political issues arises in Singapore

Since 1988, the global economic recession, till today.  Many issues had poke-up without resolving it.
People character and behaviour had changed to worst. Businessmen became shrewd and unethical.
Government are narrow-minded and incompetence. Numerous of issues and unhappiness and dissatisfaction
remarks can be found online. They are:

1) Foreigner invasion into our society : I had witness my neighbour who are old and unemployed; had to sold theirs HDB flat to Indian PR. Their present caused lot of nuisance to our lifestyle. They will hang underwear in front of my doorway and chatting into midnight along the corridor. Worst, less than a month, they rent out room to their native people.
I have been to many workplace and noticed that foreigners outnumber local workers. These foreigners lack of local content and can't communicate proper language. They are unhappy and refused to integrate with the local people to learn and upgrade themselves. Instead, they bring their culture and habit to Singapore and expect Singaporean to accept theirs.

2) Businessmen :  They practice unethical way by importing inferior products to Singapore. Knowing that these could cause serious consequence. Example : water-heater sold at lower cost of $20 each compare to Japanese heater that cost $80 each. Conceal are rusty metal that heated water for consumption. Electrical wire are easily cause short-circuit that led to many houses caught fire in recent years.
Bosses practice favouritism by hiring siblings and relatives to manage the companies. These people lack of the necessary qualification and education. They set poor example for the staff by turning up late and left the office as their will. They will suppress the capable and qualify staff  instead of groom and attract talents. Because, they lack confidence and are lazy.
As for some employers, they act alike hooligan and practice high-handed method the exploit their employees. They are solely profit maximum without social responsibility. They do not provide job training and tools for employee. Imagine, cable drum of 2 tons are handle manually instead of forklift. Many workers hurt their back and waist by doing so. All these issues happened in Vector Infotech, DHL. Fedex and more.
Employers flirt with employees and married couples that led to confrontation in public and workplace.

3) Government : They are aware of the issues but turned a blind eyes. NTUC should help workers in plight but instead they keep expanding their businesses as the way Temasek Holding did. Ministers attended forum just to lip service and calm down the public with their stupid and irrational answers. How many time, after the forum , did they serious resolve the issue. Answer : "NONE".

In summary and conclusion : All the above-mentioned, short without elaboration , did affected me personally.
I have gone through traumatised and experience sadness, agony and disappointment.  However, still determine and hopeful, that I faced on and learned to be a better man. I would like to share with you that no matter how harsh life is. We must be calm and rational. Show compassion toward our colleagues. Respect other opinion and be courteous in your personal dealing. Sincere in your communicate and be trustworthy and honest person. All these virtue will help us overcome any obstacles in life. Since it is difficult to change others, why not change our mind-set. It is easy to do so by turning to different perspective and desired in our attempt.     It is always caused and effect theory that applied in our daily dealing. Treat people nice and in return they will do the same.

You are welcome and free to comment. Greatly appreciate if you could enlighten me. Wish everyone is happy and healthy forever.

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