Singapore job dilema

[Xenophon]

Dont drink the water without boiling it twice first. When I was there, ten years ago, I had a bath in the(swinky) hotel and the water looked a bit off-colour. There are these tiny parasitic fish that live in the storage tanks and they swam down the end of your pen 1s. They have tiny barbs so they can not be expelled and it's agony every time you go to the toilet.
I had to have the full umbrella treatment once a week, just to keep myself clear.

A friend ate one of those little white chicken sausages and contracted liver flukes. He is still completely yellow, and his hands shake and he looks about eighty years old. Shocking.

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[Bagpuss]

Not actually expecting anything other than a flaming, but sometime you cuk slackers surprise me.

Got a job offer, very good firm (Up and coming technology company, who all the big boys want to buy because their technology is very much in demand), good salary (Contract there is like temp here, crap money and low prestige), give me share optins and all sorts and everything looks rosy.

Except they do local conditions on holidays, which are basically 15 days off a year.

I'm truly torn, I want the job, but I don't know if I can handle 15 days off a year. Esp given my missus is on 25 days off ...

What about public holidays, how does that weigh up with the UK?

[Andy2]

What about public holidays, how does that weigh up with the UK?

They have lots of chinese and indian holidays

[BoredBloke]

I'd do it like a shot - 15 days holiday is 3 weeks paid holiday - more than you'll see contracting. Plus you could do this for 6 month to test the water and see it like a 6 month paid holiday.

[MarillionFan]

Fill yeh boots.

Of course, its bloody expensive, you cannot chew gum and its a flogging offense if you leave a floater in the toilet.

Enjoy.

[TheFaQQer]

If it's a show stopper, then you can't take the job. You've told them this, so if you back down now, you'll have lost all credibility before you even start.

Or you could look like a wimp and back down gracefully, tell them you were bluffing badly, and apologise.

If you take the job, don't play poker with any of them, if this is your best strategy.

[EternalOptimist]

If you take the job, don't play poker with any of them, if this is your best strategy.

It's true, they are inscrutable, these little yellow fellows. I was there for a while and I never saw one of them get scruted once.
Also, watch out for the feral cats. They live wild in the drainage ditches and forage from the bins and such, but they all have the cat-mange.

A fellow contractor had one rub against his leg, through the trousers, and he came out in open ulcerated oozing sores the size of saucers. If we hadn't gotten him to the hospital quick, he might have lost his leg. be warned

[DS23]

eternal optimist by name...

[threaded]

Not actually expecting anything other than a flaming, but sometime you cuk slackers surprise me.

Got a job offer, very good firm (Up and coming technology company, who all the big boys want to buy because their technology is very much in demand), good salary (Contract there is like temp here, crap money and low prestige), give me share optins and all sorts and everything looks rosy.

Except they do local conditions on holidays, which are basically 15 days off a year.

I'm truly torn, I want the job, but I don't know if I can handle 15 days off a year. Esp given my missus is on 25 days off ...

Good god, take it man. Go up to the Orchid park and have a walk around at least once a week. Same with Raffles, have a Singapore sling, get lots of photos doing it to show your grand-kids. Walk around for a good few hours in the Sun and then straight into a fully air-conditioned Ice cream parlour, erm maybe not that one.

[EternalOptimist]

eternal optimist by name...

Yes, but I have seen it with my own eyes.
What about the guy I was drinking jugs of Tiger beer with down at Shady Ladies ?
He fell asleep at the bar and a centipede crawled into his ear. He woke in agony and had it removed in the A&E department.
They handed it over to an entymologist from the natural history museum who identified it as a 'red stinger' . He asked where the eggs were.

He said it was clearly a female that had laid a thousand eggs somewhere recently.

just beware Snaw. Beware. I am not trying to put you off or anything