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Story of an unemployed PMET, lessons for all PMETs


August 7th, 2015 |
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I had worked many years in APAC, holding middle and senior positions. In
2011, I was invited to help a Japanese MNC start its operations in China. By
2014, they had relocated to Taiwan and asked me to move. I decided to resign and
come back to my kind of town (Mr Chiam’s slogan). My parents were getting old
and I couldn’t be based overseas forever.

I returned in May 2014 and sent out a few hundred applications and got not a
single interview. For your information, I have a good masters and bachelors
degree. My job experience is quite extensive, in many areas, and I had worked
for the same company for many years (never job-hopped).

It
has been 14 months since I came back and still, I have not got a single call
from any company. I did a lot of research and found many of the companies I
applied to are headed by foreigners. And a lot are from Malaysia and third world
countries like India. I don’t think they are better or more experienced than
myself. To rub salt into my wound, a China company then called me and offered me
a senior executive job!!! They said they prefer Singaporeans who are more
professional and hardworking and don’t understand why Singapore companies are
not hiring me. They would never hire those third world PMETs in China.

Lim Swee Say said that FTs need to impart skills to locals. In the first
place, Singapore achieved first world status without these third world FTs.
These FTs can’t even improve their own countries, and yet our government tells
us to learn from them? Come again? I believe this is all propaganda to justify
their massive import of foreigners to eventually convert them to new citizens.
Most of these third world FTs I know are new citizens. But strangely, only one
person in the family would convert! You probably understand why.

At 5.5M, I am one of the unlucky PMETs with a wealth of experience who are
discriminated against by our government and the companies. We are heading to 7M
and there is another 1.5M to import, how many other local PMETs will be
displaced? If you have a job, do you believe that sometime in the future, you
might end up like me? If senior PMET positions are held by foreigners aka new
citizens, do you think they might discriminate against locals? My dad works for
a Fortune 50 oil and gas company, it was 60% locals and the rest foreigners just
a few years ago, now it is 70% India Indians, and only less than 10% locals.
Most of the locals are fired in the name of restructuring!!! Never trust what
the Ministry of Manpower tells you, they don’t practise what they preach. The
company writes any sort of excuse to hire FTs and they are approved immediately
without any question, this is why it is now 70% India Indians.

I believe the government wants foreigners to control or manage locals,
therefore they keep telling you not to send your kids to university while they
spend a whopping $500M to sponsor the education of foreigners. More than 50% of
our workforce are foreigners (PRs and new citizens are not considered local
core), and they are in middle and senior positions, which means they are
managing locals. This sinister plot is really evil, don’t you agree? I have seen
a Pinoy supervisor screaming at our local auntie at Macdonald’s. How pathetic
have we become that now these foreigners are managing us and we look like their
servants in our own backyard.

For a lot of locals with a job, think carefully, another few more years,
another 1.5M foreigners, what might happen? Will you end up like me? When your
kids finish university or poly, are they going to find a good job or be
discriminated against by these FTs (PRs or new citizens) who prefer to hire
their own. Are you going to listen to Chan Chun Sing’s bullshit and go and work
overseas and come back jobless like me???

Anyway, my options:
1. Be a taxi driver
2. Be a property/insurance agent
3. Migrate

All PMETs, think long-term, for our people’s survival, this election, you
need to tell them how you feel. If not, sometime in the future, you might end up
like me or your kids will be
impacted.

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