For every one of you claiming to have such and such education we have another 1000 locals as qualified and waiting for such jobs.Singapore managers are well ahead of you expats - what they lack is the confidence to talk in public and breeze through interviews.
What social convention - like smoking pot on the quiet and jumping bail?
Your employment is based on your given home record as say Sales Manager but your strength lies in delegating local underlings to make the performance indices while you expats rub and bend elbows in some joint with running beer and dancing bar top local sarong kosongs.
I have met many of you not only in Singapore but also in Bangladesh, Manila, HK, Taiwan, UAE, Malaysia, Jakarta, Maldives etc and everyone of those I met are nothing but gasbag blowers and beer guzzlers
I once competed with top US and Continental companies in a particular logistic environment and beat them out to the project and I found you are all wanting - not only in your standards of English but also in your ability to take stress and communicate with the locals although they give you a head start for your Caucasian colonial heritage but then you are unable to sustain it.
In most other locations your colonial heritage goes a long way and you can last say 3 years before they catch up to the deficiencies.But in Singapore we feed such colonial complexes to the dogs.It is still the foreign employers who fall foul for such expats.
Of course I have met some really sound expats like one in a hundred.The rest of you are nothing but cheesy womanisers and bar top elbow benders.
The ones that come out East here are the dregs of their home countries. .
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