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Originally Posted by plsureking
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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Yea, construction here can be a real nightmare. They are farmers with hammers. You literally have to be with them every minute or they will take a short cut or mess something up. One project we were working on, I couldn't even go to 7-11 without these idiots going off the plan and messing something up in such a short amount of time. It was unreal. Had a polished concrete floor put in another place. It took 3 different contractors and a total of 8 times they had to break it
all up and start again.
When the first crew broke all the tile out, three of them had to be rushed to the hospital for deep cuts on various parts of their body. All working in flip flips, no eye protection, breaking tiles that were flying all over the room and laying about like razors. Pure shit for brains.
If you want basic Thai style, they are decent at that. But western or modern style... sweet Jesus. You better bring a lot of Xanax.