Judging from the opening stock and closing stock, the stall operator manages his business and the Myammese do the cooking job. He hangs around in another outlet, where he took care the business there. He cook there as well. And of course, he makes his money there. To him, its an extra income over the stall here. He arranged the deal. And the Myammese couple work for him. He makes half of the money. He does not employ the workers. Instead, the Myammese are his so called "business partner". Pointing the finger of working towards the deal, it is common now in Klang Valley, that the food store and eating outlet - flooded with Myammese and Indonesian immigrant. Some of them speak Cantonese dialect fluently now. It is not surprise that this mother land of us will be shared by all later.
I was with an executive officer of an local employment agency just now. He told me there are about 300,000 Myammese working in Malaysia. Some of them came in as "tourist" and its without proper working permit. Some of them that with expired working permit. Some of them without any passport (that the passport is kept by the original employer).
Illegal immigrant issue has been a critical problem herewith. Business entities and household (on maid) employ immigrant because its cheaper to employ foreign labour. The unwanted jobs then will then pass on to the respective foreign workers. The dirty, demanding and dangerous (3D) jobs like the one in construction field and mass factories have employed mostly foreign workers. Our local people are fond of putting a smell on higher income but lesser, safer, cleaner, easier and more comfortable working environment yet more commanding order job reference.
Most local people seek middle income status. Most of us want to "enjoy" the privilege of executive and management people, rather than the so called "general labour". The middle income trap rose rapidly because local people find difficulty to get proper job. One may start to manage the work than doing the job. A friend of mine employed his friend to work as general worker in his construction site as tiler for RM80 per day (although he can employ a foreign worker for RM40 - and did the same job). For the first few days, he saw him working over at the construction site. Later, he found that he did not worked at the site. Instead he was just sitting down in the coffee shop - playing mahjong. He then asked him why he was absent from the construction site. The friend of my friend said he had 'subcontracted' to his Indonesian labour for RM40 per day. And his worker did the same job as expected. Then, he can stay in the coffee shop, but the job done. And he made RM40 out of it.
There was this joke that the middle income trap scenario perceived a resillience among the local people. Everyone of us thought the tough job should be done by the foreigners. Its the norms and behavior, that limiting us from moving forward. Our generation will definitely not allowing our children to work as construction labours. We shall definitely ask our children to become doctors, engineers, economist, bankers, lawyers, accountants, system analysts, etc....., but not kopitiam waiters, general sweepers, general factory labourers, etc.
Thus, they will rather sitting down at home, jobless, unemployed, doing nothing but playing computer games, chit chatting and face booking with friends. They will rather pay their children the household need than asking them to work in the construction site. They prefer them to look for some store and outlets - become 'boss' of his kind. They seldom consider to work alone. The generation after us have emerged as the most toughest yet more critical middle income trapper. The government find hard to believe, and critically wanting to solve this before it was melted down. The frustration and anger over the rising stress and pressure of high cost of living, high standard of living caused the mere spell of unsatisfactory scene in the last general poll (March 2008). Singapore experienced the same story in the recent 2011 poll. The yardstick come close to critical moment - the moment of truth - that the people will no longer want to stay put and look after the adminstrators. They want more and they demand better and greater financial freedom. They show cause the situation in the coming general poll. The existing adminstrators find hard to accept this frustration. They are subjected to change. And they must change or they will be changed.
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