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Originally Posted by kurtov
Don't deal with Filipinos unless you or another westerner is managing them personally. I'm Canadian and lived in the PH for a year managing 10 Filipinos, my friend managing around 30 in the same building.
You always have to keep your foot on their neck to make them work. They like money & despise work,(the most retarded calling in sick excuse i got was "it was my first time drinking powerade last night and it made me sick") you're 100% right when you say "an entire country with a work ethic below mine".
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that's funny i have the same problem hiring people to get work done on my property in Thailand. i pay 2-3x the rate for any work - construction, landscaping, cleaning - but i can't get people to show up.
there's a 20-yo unemployed kid who lives in the village with his family. the dad is the only one with a job. household income is under $200 a month. i offered the kid $100 a month to be my fulltime gardener. easy 6-hour days trimming bushes, cutting grass, watering plants. he worked 3 days and didn't come back. i drive by his little hovel sometimes and i just see him sitting out front staring at a tree or sleeping. most younger Asians are pretty lazy.
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