Saturday, February 07, 2009
WHAT'S NEW?
Shall we talk about what's happening to our world and country? My company has not been doing well since late last year when this whole economy came to the picture. So yesterday, some of us got lay off because they have to cut down on employments and i'm one of them. Since i am only a part timer there, it doesn't affect me that much caused it's expected you see, part timers will surely be asked to go. Just that some unexpected people was asked to leave and i thot it was on a personal / political basis. Which i thot was very unprofessional but why should i care anyways? They make the decisions and they will have to solve this themselves when one day problems arise. And of course, BOOT LICKERS stays. Boot lickers who can't seem to do things right got to stay while the seniors was told to leave.
I heard that Singapore is one of the worst country to get hit by this Economy Crisis. Preliminary estimates show that 7,000 workers were retrenched in the fourth quarter of 2008. For the whole of 2008, 13,400 workers were retrenched. (Taken from MOM website) We have an estimated total population of 4.84 million people here and only 2.96 million are employed. So what happens to 1.88 million? Ok maybe 1 million are childrens and those who chose not to work but what happens to the rest? Why Singaporeans are demanding and asked for a higher pay? Our standard of living here is very high. How can we afford to live if our basic pay is only $1000 - $1200 per month? We have bills to pay, we have parents to support, transportation tru and fro are not cheap either. How about our lunch? Even if we tapao from home, we still need some money to buy groceries and it doesn't come cheap either. We only left with a few to save and maybe not a single cent for our wants. Living here has never been enough. Alhamdulillah that we live comfortably but the standard are just too high that some of us can't seem to catch up and afford it. Like now, with so many people jobless how are we going to survive? Even with the G money that they going to give us to somehow help us thru this will not and might not be enough. So what happens next?
And this economy crisis all started with the shares thingy? Was it the what brothers? Was it because of all this that the world got affected? Ni semua da takdir ALLAH SWT pada kita semua. insyaALLAH everything will go back to normal soon. Of course in a way this is affecting me. But i hope this is temporary if i stay home for too long, i'll be so lazy to start work again. hahaha!
Hugs N Kisses,
Lina with Love
Lina with Love
sin-fullybeautiful.
