Reply To: Sonsub Singapore, again again

They are bringing in more and more locals and this is partially because of the Singaporean Ministry of Manpower.

Oh come on!

Singaporeans are the biggest bunch of hypocrites in the Asian region. You are trying to tell me that the Ministry of Manpower limits the amount of foreigners working in Singapore – bullshit!

It does not seem to be a problem when they want cheap Indonesian or Fillipino maids (that get treated like shit by the way), and the whole of Singapore Building, Shipping, manufacturing industries etc. is built on cheap slave labour from India and Bangladesh. That they are quite happy to cart around in the back of those open trucks everywhere.

When I was at Sonsub Singapore, the Indian workers in the workshop used to live in A/C Sea Containers at the back of the workshop, and the one Indian guy that looked after the Staff House used to live in the closet on a single bed with just a fan out in the laundry!

The bottom line here is that the Italians are limiting the budget of Sonsub Singapore, and therefore as always they have a few experienced Supervisors being paid at near market rates who are on shift with cheap "make up the rest of the team guys".

This is the main reason they have a high turnover of experienced guys.