We should be very proud

[$Pripps]

I am just curious to know what type of jobs Singaporeans really want?

When we had an add in for .NET programmers a few years ago out of the 40 or so applications we got, 39 were foreigners.

[Mr Singers]

Another problem with singaporeans is they love job hopping. Some resumes I recieve are hilarious. 3 months, 6 months, 3 months again. Yah, ok I'll hire you with a long term objective and career plan. Not!

[$Pripps]

Yes that also explains why you never can find good service anywhere, once they learned something they move on. Try finding somebody who is a bit knowledgeable at Best. Once when I tried to buy a DVD player at Best there was this young guy there to help me out, he thought reading the little signs attached to each player for me was his way of showing great customer service.

[intanglin]

Sadly what Mr. Singers says about job hopping is true.  I can see that people in the early stages of their careers may like /  have to do that.  
But when somebody in their mid-thirties is still at it, it undermines your confidence in their commitment and staying power.

[L is for]

What's really hilarious is when a guy is on a constant mission to tell the world how awful people's English is and then spells "recieve" himself.

[Agent007]

Same happens in every country. In UK a lot of people have now stopped job hopping and prefer to receeve the dole instead.

[Pol-Asylum]

I recently met a Singaporean in the US. Turns out he was a political dissident when he lived in Singapore. Hauled off to jail, fined, humiliated, etc. Eventually he applied and was granted asylum in the US and now is a permanent resident.

My mind boggles at the disparity between what each side claims. I leaned towards believing his story.

[El presidente]

I met the president a few years ago, during the national day. They had open doors at the president's house (or whatever it's called), so I went to have a stroll with my then girlfriend. We looked around for a while, and then someone started to clap and run in some direction. So I did the same, just for a laugh (it seemed that everybody was clapping and running without knowing what was going on, so in the spirit of sheepish imitation I did the same). It was the president who was coming out of his house. He went to his cart and started being driven around.

I continued visiting the gardens, and at some point he ended up stopping his cart near me, and shaking hands of the people who were assembling near his cart. So I approached and when it was my turn to shake his hand I put it forward, looked at him and said (very politely): "It's a pleasure to meet you!". He looked at me in the eyes for a few seconds, turned around without shaking my hands, and started to shake hands on the other side of his cart.

True story!

[Try harder!]

The problem we have had in running a business is finding Singaporeans who are willing to work and that is a sentiment shared by other employers.  I am talking F & B industry here.  It is incredibly frustrating.  Unlike their equivalent in other countries, MOM does not assist employers identify people looking for jobs.  So you scour anything to find Sngapreans but in the end you end up hiring Malaysians and in return get stung by the govt on levies which are designed, we are told, to encourage you to hire Singaporens.  We would love to employ more Singaporeans but cannot.  And the government says it is also going to cut foreign workers?  How will this assist people running businesses in Singapore I would like to know.  

You could try to pay them a decent wage.  

[Mr Singers]

What exactly does the President do for his $3millon of tax payers money? Shake hands and drive around in a golf cart? Pose for photos to hang in the police stations?

[$Pripps]

What exactly does the President do for his $3millon of tax payers money? Shake hands and drive around in a golf cart? Pose for photos to hang in the police stations?

well for one thing he can't be corrupted, so the shaking hands is something reserved for the really deserving.

[ha ha ha ha]

That is why Singapore is what it is today. Without highly paid Ministers and zero corruption at these levels, you expats would not be in Singapore getting rich and living a luxurious life that most of you can only dream of back home. Kubes will still be back home with a beer belly and living on welfare payouts.

[$Pripps]

Without highly paid Ministers and zero corruption at these levels

that is as true as saying it always rains when you wash your car.

there is no proven correlation between corruption level and minister salaries, at least not in other countries, on the contrary the more money people have the more they seem to want.

[Uncle Lim]

All your bickering about what is right and wrong is useless.  Stop thinking that this is a country but instead a nice big family business.  The rest of us are workers.  Does it mean sense now?  Management gets the dough.  We get a few Singtel shares and tax breaks if our wives bear more children.  What a great place ! 

[stoned glassed houses]

Why is having high paid self-elected politicians something to be proud of?

people like you and and Kubes have missed the irony behind OP's (hou lian's - meaning to brag in hokkien) post.

when you guys complain the locals don't get tongue in cheek, or cannot read between the lines ..