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Old 20th Feb 2009, 02:33
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southernmtn
 
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The sooner folks stop clutching at straws and raising hopes, counting bodies and airframe numbers, the better off you will be. Do positive and proactive things for yourselves and about yourselves, instead of moaning and complaining about the Company, or comparing contracts to see who stays and who goes. Convert all that negative energy into something more useful and that can fetch some good results.

No one is going to teach you what to do. One thing you can do is to make yourself more desirable to the Company - make yourself more indispensable so that you will not be the first to go. There has been an increase in the "free labour movement" - more and more people are joning the various groups created to provide free service and expertise. Boot-licking is older than the oldest profession, and will make you stand out to all - that's all it does, obviously without foundation or value. Few will suggest to you what you should do; it is the survival of the fittest at a time like this.

Those who gripe about the company not giving them more notice about their concluding contracts are just moaners. They are so short sighted that they have stopped thinking. Even if the Company had given them 9 months notice prior to now, they would not have secured jobs. Even if they obtained an offer, it might have been reneged by now; or if they are new employees, they would be in a tenous position now being among the most junior in their new company that would most likely be reducing numbers.

Almost all airlines have stopped recruiting and are doing the opposite to reduce numbers. Those that are recruiting at a time like this were the last resorts of yesterday; and should be considered only if you cannot afford to be un-employed. I leave you to figure out why they were the last resorts.

Those who say that SIA is not a reliable employer for the expats and telling all the expats not to come in future, hoping that the Company will reconsider their present employment, are only wasting their time and effort. When better times come around and SIA starts recruiting foreign workers again, do you think people the world over will remember this? The fact is, there will be no lack of numbers, period.

Don't blame the Company or anyone else. Do yourself a favour, no one's going to help you, you just have to help yourself, that's all.
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