Comments on: Keppel Offshore & Marine: No job listings “available” at the moment

By: judy

judy — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:28:41 +0000

“anonymous on Sat, 20th Mar 2010 11:58 pm

Yawn.. so cham ah. Who you kidding?”

the fact is there are really such people in sg and im on of them.

By: just

just — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:09:04 +0000

90% of KeppelFels employees is FT from Malaysian, India, china, Phillipine, Myanmar, Bangladesh. I am not saying labour. It is middle management level.

By: Lesser Mortal Kombat

Lesser Mortal Kombat — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:03:17 +0000

That’s hilarious! Thanks TR for exposing this, you guys are brilliant!

Now.. if only you could run a printed newspaper.. haha

By: Pte&confidential

Pte&confidential — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:15:33 +0000

Keppel is not the only GLCs/TLCs that prefer to employ FTs/FWs. Many other GLCs/TLCs are also doing the same. This advertisement in Msia indicates that the floodgates are still wide open as per normal.

Keppel may have made a mistake in not using an employment agency to source for their overseas talents, otherwise this pte and confidential information about their foreign preference would not have been easily exposed. The Linked companies should learn something from this and be more discreet with their advertisements; do it in private henceforth.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:58:53 +0000

desperate in SG on Sat, 20th Mar 2010 8:01 pm,

Yawn.. so cham ah. Who you kidding?

By: Kaninah

Kaninah — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:39:55 +0000

My homeland brother, Amin. I take pity on you. Too bad, your government favors foreigner more than you.

By: stupid-son-of-Singapore

stupid-son-of-Singapore — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:34:05 +0000

who benefited in Keppel from such cheap cost of biz ???
who in Keppel has the high salaries, bonuses and perks ???

By: stupid-son-of-Singapore

stupid-son-of-Singapore — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:32:36 +0000

Is Keppel a traitor all these years; hiring cheap foreigners to depress locals ???

By: desperate in SG

desperate in SG — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:01:38 +0000

i am a graduate with 2 years working experience and my pay is $1,600. i started off with $2,200 and 2 years later, here i am with $1,600. after deducting cpf, i really have peanuts to bring home.

i am really worried because my wedding is april 2010. i have housing + study loans(saw myself through school) to service, on top of utility bills. this leaves me with no money for entertainment. i dont even dare to think of saving money because every cents and morsels goes into paying stuff. im really living hand to mouth. my husband to be is also facing the same thing as me.

we dont even have kids. i dnt dare to think what if a kid comes along. how can we give birth under such circumstances? no wonder our fertility rate is dropping.

my workplace is dominated by foreigners. i cant even understand them 1/2 the time. to be fair to them, some of them are really nice. i dont blame them. they are just carving a future for themselves. but then, what about MY future? the future of my kids? the future of true blue singaporeans, who, like me, work hand to mouth?

i blame myself for not saving much when i was younger. i grew up in a condo and living quite okay. that was before all this bullshit started. my life took a turn for the worst when my mom(working in top postion in mnc) was retrenched, my dad(a self employed) found operating costs in singapore too high and found profits dwindling, with 3 kids to feed and put through school, everything fell apart. now my siblings who are still schooing have to pay for sch themselves, just like me.

im starting to panic as i dont knw what to do after my wedding is done. i dont even look forward to my wedding as i am afraid of what future brings. welcome to singapore – i cant even enjoy and relax at the happiest day of my life.

By: Fugazzi

Fugazzi — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:50:55 +0000

Some here blame the Labour Mininster but many forget that there is no honour among theives lah. They (the others like MPS, mayors and ….) are of the same species and hence the flip-flops, the contradictions, the lip service . They are all together in it and some of them are blatantly hypocritical n constantly dodging issues that are of importance. All these whining, crowing about inequities and what-not,(in Malay there is a phrase – sampai tuah) – ie, till we drop dead or something to that effect, is going to persist and probably change ONLY and IF and WHEN we vote wisely and then there is a possibility for life as a whole to improve.
We have been ‘daft’yes, very much ‘daft’to have trusted in this one-party system. Vote wisely!