" the mrbrown show: leave no man behind
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Serious matters require serious solutions brainstormed in serious meetings. Serious!
Podcast: the mrbrown show 16 Nov 2006: leave no man behind (MP3, file size: 2mb, Time: 00:04:09)
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November 16th, 2006 at 8:34 am
LOL!… Very funny! Had a good laugh listening to this podcast. Hope to hear more of such “EGM meetings” of yours. LOL!….
November 16th, 2006 at 4:39 pm
haha cool
November 16th, 2006 at 8:00 pm
You guys rock!… Sure takes lots of hard work writing e script and sitting down to do podcasting.. But, I am sure ur efforts will be appreciated by many of us, the Mr Brown supporters..
November 17th, 2006 at 1:58 pm
Hahah…
good one!
I especially like that:
“Are you sure???”
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“Are you sure 10k is enough???”
November 18th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
“ARE YOU SURE?” =p! coolies!
November 18th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Interesting, but futile. What’s the point of making so much fuss over the internet? Are you planning to just to make noise? They’ll go ahead with the gst hike anyway. Those who dare protest openly, get arrested. The rest are either too clueless, powerless, timid or disunited to do anything about it.
November 19th, 2006 at 10:18 am
Excellent man! Especially “Hip hop lessons won’t pay for themselves!”
November 19th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Ha! Real farrneee! Enjoyed it thoroughly!
November 19th, 2006 at 12:35 pm
To Hannah:
At least Mr Brown is raising awareness of social issues. What have you been doing besides bitching?
November 20th, 2006 at 10:25 am
Hannah: which category are you? ” too clueless, powerless, timid or disunited”? or maybe everyone else but you is to blame?
December 20th, 2006 at 12:23 pm
How come only civil servants get their income increase?
All our young graduates went to sign on cos their starting pay are higher, no one wanna join private sector. All u need to sign on is a good cert and you will be guranteed a “rice bowl”. Have anyone notice tat those who married as young as 23-28 are mostly civil servants? those working in private sector cant, they have to work in their field for at least 5 yrs in order to get a reasonable pay.
Government always encourage young generation to start a family early but can we afford? If we can, who dont want to start a family early, retire early, have kids early.
Example, I work in a shipping line after completing my NS, that time i am 22yrs old. I had a diploma. My starting pay is $1600 (market rate). after 5 yrs, 27 yrs old now. My current pay is $1800. I am planning to start a family soon and i am worried abt the GST hike and the family load that I am going to carry.
My younger Bro, he signed on when he went in NS. That time he is 19 yrs old. He is also a diploma graduate and his starting pay is $1800 + “Guranteed” Perfomance Bonus and increment of $100 each month every yr. Now, 5 yrs later, he is 24 yrs old with a pay of $2300 + “Guranteed” Perfomance Bonus. He is getting married in 2 months time. He is under the “Government encouragement policy”
I am really puzzled by the decision to increase civil servant pay to match the market rate. but has anyone take a closer look at the private sector pay?
January 8th, 2007 at 6:48 pm
I am a neutral party in the debate of this topic of ‘Pay rise for civil servant’ and would like to share some of my thoughts. Firstly, I must clarify that I am not making an argument on right or wrong rather I am looking for interested parties to constructively discuss about this hot topic.
I personally too agree that there should be someway to demarcate a reasonable pay packet for civil servant but how should we define a ‘Reasonable’ pay and who should have a say to it. Is it the President, Prime minister, the government body itself or the members of public?
Should the pay packet be based on qualification, experience, risk involved, courage or the willingess to take on jobs that others would not want?
If we leave the decision to the government, the members of public might be unhappy as it would be deem to be unfair. If we leave it to the members of public to decide then most of them might probably suggest to bring down the civil servant’s pay to the minimum possible. Thereafter they would be able to pay less for taxes or the difference in savings can then be channeled to other areas e.g helping the lower income earners, which is one of government’s intended move.
Now let’s make a comparison on the private sectors. If we were to allow consumers to decide on the pay packet for the private sectors, which do not affect themselves then I believe most of them would also want the pay of the private sectors to be brought down to the minimum possible. This will definitely lower the cost for the manufacturing of products and the cost of service, which will in turn lower the cost price of products and services . Needless to say, the consumers will benefit from it.
My view is that there is no right or wrong to both thinking. Its only how one looks at a similar problem. In fact, everybody would most probably put themselves as a top priority over others. This is inevitable as this is human nature.
There is no one thing in this earth that can make every individual happy. Nothing is perfect. Maybe you would say that pay rise to everybody will do it but have you given it a deeper thought? Pay rise will only positively affect the employees but not the employer, who will have to give away more, meaning employers will earn less.
I think this is the current trend or behaviour in society. You are expected to do more than what you are being paid. Does it ring a bell to you? Workload increases unknowingly and within seconds but when comes to pay rise, bosses will consider a hundred times (Maybe takes months or years).
I often hear people saying that which line is better…… maybe easy life or earning easy money … so on and so forth. But have you tried it? It always looks brighter on the other side of the river until you step foot on it. Do you know how much the workers are putting in and their sacrifices, be it in the private or government sector.
Lets highlight one example. If we were to set a pay of $3000/mth for a refuse collector or an undertaker, would most of us make a fuss over it? Would we say that they are over paid in view of their education and job scope? What if you are paid the same to do their job? Are to going to undertake the job? Frankly speaking, I will not even if I am paid much more than that.
So is it high time, we look outside the box and at the bigger picture as to what could happen or what would have been the difference if we change the present. Would it be better or worse?
Maybe somebody can shed some light on this matter.