CariKerja: Should you really be doing difficult and dangerous work?
No one can or should blame you for not choosing to work for people who don’t care if you fall off a 20-storey building that you had to climb, in the dark, without safety gear. And who think you should be grateful for the privilege.
Erna Mahyuni, The Malay Mail Online
A recent post that went viral was a woman’s (apparently) sarcastic response to people objecting to the government bringing in yet more cheap foreign labour.
She said her husband was looking for 200 labourers and said that if there were any Malaysians willing, all they’d need to be able to do was:
1. Be able to tie up stones
2. Do plastering work (inside and out)
3. Be willing to work on high-rises
4. Be willing to live in shared dorms
5. Be paid the same as workers from Bangladesh and Indonesia
6. Be willing to be treated/ordered around the way said workers were
I am sorry, fresh graduates, that women like her love to get on the graduate-shaming bandwagon. That people make excuses that our young people are too spoiled, lazy and picky, thus employers are “forced” to hire cheap labour.
No one is “forced” to hire cheap labour. Let’s call out the real reason here: greed.
