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Today I finally understand the true meaning of that.


Today I was helping out my colleague at my company, a global logistics company, global sales department, with some HR stuff. They were hiring an accounts personnel. They placed an ad in the ST for it. And today they were sorting out the CVs people sent to apply for the job.


Just 1 opening.


NINETY SEVEN people applying.


It was my first time reading people's CVs. Interesting.


There were many foreigners applying. In fact, i think almost 90% of the CVs came from non-Singaporeans. There was even an American... or was he Brit? Can't remember. Caucasian. Living in Singapore. Weird.. I thot all whites in Singapore are expats. Aint that supposed to mean they came here with a job already? Why come here to look for a job? Weird. And he stays in this nice landed property... those only affordable by the comfortable upper middle class. Hmmm weird.


Anyway, most of the applicants were not PRCs. There were some PRCs. But SURPRISE SURPRISE! Guess who Singaporeans have to fight most with for their jobs??? It's Filipinas!!! LOADS OF THEM! At least 80% of the CVs I estimate. There were native Indians too. And there was even a Singaporean Tengku. Tengku means Malay prince right? COOL!


And you see some of the pictures they attach to their CVs. OMG some were friggin ridiculous la! HAHA imagine A3 size photos! My colleague had to resize them to A4 but that was the smallest she could make them. Damn farnie. Dont understand why these people are so erm... proud of their pictures. Photowhores? I'm one too.. haha but definitely not to that extent.


And then came the expected salary. Some were degree holders. Some were fresh grads. Some were diploma holders. Some of the degree holders expected 2k to 3k salaries. Same for some of the fresh grads. Some expected around 4k, which was somewhat on par with their last drawn salary. Sorry for sounding sarcastic, but some of the diploma holders stated their expected salaries as 3k. HELLO they dont even have degrees or good credentials to show for... degree holders expect 2-3k and diploma holders expect 3k+?? The most ridiculous one I saw was this person who asked for 4k+. Eh u go be boss la. Starting in a company only u want so much. Please.. this kinda pple will never get a job ok! If its some specialised job scope maybe yes.. a bit higher pay. But this kinda job is that kind almost everybody can do! Just need a general degree!


Singaporeans.. I dunno wat to say man.. actually not just Singaporeans. Filipinas as well. PRCs too. I saw the CV of this PRC deans lister from triple E, NUS! OMG! Just kinda gagged. But well... I wonder. triple E deans lister.. what the hell are u doing in a logistics company working as an accounts personnel???


K anyway enough about my job. It was good for a while.. but well.. it's damn sian to work.. keep having OT and more OT. First day only OT non stop. KNS! And there are those demanding customers. OK i know. Those courier services are really lying when they have all those ads about wat living to deliver and showing all those superman-like couriers braving rain and sun and tornadoes and what not to deliver stuff on time. Cos in real life they dont. They arent always able to deliver on time. And my job is to find out what went wrong.


But surely... demanding that things get delivered from an address in Singapore to one in the States in 22 hours flat is really mission impossible aint it?! Little wonder most of the time my company isnt able to deliver. Then you have these ridiculous customers demanding that you account for every single minute that you are late. Cos the plane was late, cos of the weather blah blah... totally ridiculous. Then they came up with this system called a deductable timing system. They excuse my company for certain things like extreme weather and customs issue (means the package to be delivered gets delayed while passing thru customs) etc. These are the deductible times. If the amount of time that my company delivers late is more than the deductible times, then we have to compensate them. So poor me will have to calculate every single minute of deductible time from all those times that we are late, down to the last second!!! WHAT THE HELL!! Ridiculous or not! And the dumbest thing is, this is one of the smallest global customers that we have la! 嚣张什么嘛!!!


My company employs me solely to deal with this customer. An American company. Now you know why they say Americans are ridiculous.


K anyway I'm home now. Stop thinking about the depressing stuff from work. BTW just a passing thought.. the coffee at the pantry at work SUCKS! YUCKS! And its located in some 鸟不生蛋 place that has just one teeny coffee shop in a 1km radii.. so unless you wanna eat the same thing every single day u gotta drive out for lunch. For me, I just bring food from home. Save money. Good.


K I said I would stop talking about the depressing stuff from work. I mean it! I shall stop now! YAY BYE!!! Wait for my next entry about this COOL BAR!!