#9 Not a Good Morning

This morning is definitively not a good one. Somehow I didn't manage to catch a good sleep last night, my shoulder is aching badly now.

Worst, reading today's national news is so not helping. A friend of mine once said, Malaysian's news is nothing than jokes that ours newspaper itself are The Onions.

This is what got my attention today:

Friday March 13, 2009
Subra: Locals shun jobs with ‘artificial conditions’

KUALA LUMPUR: Employers complaining about Malaysians shunning jobs now held by foreign workers should change their working conditions to meet local requirements, said Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subra-maniam.
He said some employers created “artificial working conditions,” like requiring workers to work “12 to 24 hours a day”, which was why locals shunned the jobs.
He added that employers should accept the move to double the levy on foreign workers in certain sectors, and be positive about it.
Speaking after opening the Federation of MLVK Accredited Centres’ (FeMAC) annual general meeting yesterday, Dr Subramaniam said the move under the mini Budget was for the country’s good in the long run.
He said the move to double the levy would also, in the long run, mean higher wages for locals, as instead of paying more for foreign workers, employers would then pay higher salary to locals for the same job.
Dr Subramaniam said the hospitality, restaurant and furniture industries had started voicing out their difficulty in operating without foreign workers, and expected other industries to join the chorus.
Citing Indian restaurants as an example, he said they employed cooks from India when they could employ locals.
To address the restaurant problem, he said the ministry was carrying out an aggressive campaign to recruit local workers, who would be provided training.
As an incentive, both the workers and employers would receive allowances during the training, thus cutting cost for the employers.
(source: The Star Online)


I’m sorry Sir, aren’t we suppose to elevate our local human resource to be more efficient and higher value work force instead of putting us back into such labouring job?

Not to forget, my shocking surprise from Google. My mails are all gone!!! I quickly did a search on Google help and found out that I’m not alone but was abandoned by the dearly Gmail team. No one has got any feedback regarding to this matter to date from Gmail team. Luckily it’s just my personal email account but I’ve lost quite a reasonable amount of vital information too. Just hope I have a back-up somewhere or another copy elsewhere which include my flight itinerary, PADI stuff, some important conversations log etc. Thank you Google!

What a nice morning to start my weekend.