36 minutes ago, Yesitisdakid said:

A couple of them told me they had to sign a resignation letter when they were paid out so they probably won't go back to work based on that alone

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Sneaky way to get out of severance payouts, disgusting business practice.

3 hours ago, Thai Spice said:

That was my next question. Means business is still good.

 

When it is good both shifts do 4 hours over time each, they are not at the moment.

1 minute ago, Thai Spice said:

As I said only a minority will manage.

Note that a important number of people have the British Overseas Passport. Not sure about how many kept it renewed and "active".

Hence you can read about those people now asking UK for the right to abode. Quite a number have a Canadian passport. I knew a HK girl who had both, she was aware this shit might happen one day and wanted to keep her options open. 

But again, "forcing" an important part of the population to volonteerily emigrate is just a "soft" form of ethnic cleaning....

You probably know also that Aus is heavily influenced by mainland China, that there is a huge community (students) of mainland Chinese there, so as a Honkie it would  not be my 1st choice.

Canada seems much better.

 

 

To be honest I dont really care.. my post was merely implying emigrating to Aus is not a cheap or quick exercise so surprises me it is a desired destination.

They must have plenty of time and money if they are emigrating to Aus.

9 minutes ago, Thai Spice said:

 

This may also mean that there is slowdown in business.

Sure if there was demand, factories would run on Saturday to fulfill the demand, and employees would be happy to make.O.T. 

O.T. was a big part of my guys salaries.

 

 

Not sure if it a thing every Saturday as this past week the roads have been quieter than normal as most of the Japanese companies have been closed due to  some Holiday back in Japan so maybe the traffic for me this morning is a flow on from that.

Our production staff here do work Saturdays though... both day and night.

14 minutes ago, KWA said:

 

I remember around 12 or so years ago a mate changing from 5.5 to 5 day weeks and being over the moon that there were no more Saturday morning shifts.  It doesn't seem to have caught on.  This was in electronics manufacturing in Chiang Mai.

Seems to be a thing here in Amata Nakorn... this morning the roads were deserted so that tells me not many companies are doing the 6 days thing.

I would not go as far as calling them dummies but.........................

Just now, fygjam said:

 

Do they do humor?

 

They do spell words incorrectly.

4 minutes ago, Thai Spice said:

Relax.... Try humor ?

 

Seppo's dont do humour.

5 minutes ago, Thai Spice said:

Not too bad .

Most companies work every Saturday.  In construction overseas standard is 12h shift x 6 days.  When in Thailand as workshop / maintenance manager, I usually dropped in on Sunday mornings as.well to get the Sunday O.TN team in motion.

When I moved back.to France 35h weeks were like holiday !

 

Yeah work week as stipulated by the Thai labour dept is 48hr with a max of 8hrs per day so a 6 day work week is the norm........... for Thai staff.

The 1st company here I worked those hours, the 2nd and 3rd do not (office staff/management).

Getting ready to head to work. Hate working saturdays but it some weird company thing where we work some saturdays  during the year and we get the whole Songkran week off as a holiday............ Bit shit that I started work after Songkran but I have to take one for the team I guess.

Shit news mate but you kicked its arse once so am sure you can do it again.

48 minutes ago, Thai Spice said:

Hahaha....  I knew it, its Obama's fault !

You Americans, include the adopted ones, are really funny.

 

calling them funny is a stretch.

9 minutes ago, galenkia said:

Note sure why a Dane is so concerned about a country you were not born in.

 

Cause Trump has expressed interest in buying Greenland.

2 hours ago, Thai Spice said:

Reading the news... and just when you think you saw it all 😱😱😱

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/aug/14/australian-farmers-jailed-for-smuggling-danish-pig-semen-in-shampoo-bottles

Farmers jailed in Australia for smuggling Danish pig semen in shampoo bottles

 

Better than filling condoms and swallowing them !!

Thanks, not quiet the info I was looking for... as iam a supplier employee I already get 100k discount.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/2019/8/11/20792881/mass-shootings-el-paso-dayton-northwestern-university

3 minutes ago, Glasseye said:

Local sausage (loaded with cheese). onion, mustard.

 

reminds me of the hotdogs I buy at costco.

1 minute ago, dcfc2007 said:

Wages rising faster in the UK as less and less positions are being filled by eastern europeans. Priti Patel announcing that new immigrants to the UK will have to earn at least 36k per year. Finally the tide is starting to turn in favour of the ordinary Brit.

😎

Does the ordinary brit want to work for min wage ?

6 minutes ago, Glasseye said:

Is that attached to your own personal room ?

 

I've been looking for something like that in Patts.

Tried I-Spa sauna and spa house  ?

http://www.ispapattaya.com/

1 minute ago, Glasseye said:

Where is that located ?

2 hours ago, thumper63 said:

Saw these at the store today and had to try them. Seared on each side for 4 minutes and then into the oven at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. They were damn tasty. Had with a store bought ceasar salad and a roll

Store in Pattaya ?

Looks amazing and I'd love to try em.

8 minutes ago, thegrogmonster said:

That is the name of the company in Pattaya that sells western food.

Siamburi often have decent specials as well, picked up a 2kg block of mild cheddar cheese for Bt.225 the other day... makes great toasty sammiches.

5 minutes ago, RR007 said:

although I wouldnt personally want to hang around at a TT booth holding 40 large lol

hahahahaha I know that feeling, when I was made redundant and went home end of 2017 I had 1 million baht in cash to take home (proceeds of selling my stuff) and Kbank had decided that as I no longer had a work permit I was unable to do an international transfer so off I went to TT and exchanged it for AUD.... that was a nervous scooter ride !!

On 8/10/2019 at 3:31 PM, RR007 said:

Is that 20.46 from Saturdays update at TT  ??  Weekends is not a good comparison normally because they whack down the exchange in case of any crash come Mondays opening bell etc

I try to do any comparison on a weekday when markets are flat if possible

ok today is a weekday, I need to move $40,000 AUD.... TT is giving me Bt. 826,239.97 (20.656) and TW is Bt. 828,144.81(20.703) after fees.

However if I lower that number to $1000 TW is giving me less that TT (20.630 vs 20.656).