Why would anyone complain about that?!Wd40 wrote:...where people are underworked and overpaid.
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Because good things dont last longthe lynx wrote:Why would anyone complain about that?!Wd40 wrote:...where people are underworked and overpaid.



Not to mention, underworked means you are not gaining enough skills commensurate with your experience and overpaid means you are priced out of the market when you are forced to look out for a change
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I'm underpaid (due to crappy salary negotiation when I was just fresh out of school. The company has a reputation of overpaying perm employees, so ironic!) but work-life is pretty balanced. The company doesn't have this overtime mentality. But I don't have enough to save. Hence a big dilemma I have been thinking about over and over again for some months now.
If you experience being underworked for any significant amount of time, you will know. It is boring as hell. Being overpaid cannot make up for that. Also, you are not gaining enough skills/experience in that case, though of course depends on how you sell it afterwards...the lynx wrote:Why would anyone complain about that?!Wd40 wrote:...where people are underworked and overpaid.
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They have to leave at 12pm on the dot as well ..........Addadude wrote:For most Singaporeans, lunch hour is sacred. Don't ever expect them to work through lunch. Even if there is an urgent deadline they would prefer to have their full lunch hour and stress themselves out completely trying to meet the deadline afterwards.
Similarly, you can get Singaporeans to work long after 6pm without too much difficulty but woe betide you if you try to get them to skip lunch. It is a cultural thing. It's not going to change anytime soon. So you just have to accept it.
Very very odd
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