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I have noticed as I walk around PP that there are so many businesses, factories, hotels and bars, all advertising for staff. A quick look on the internet also shows
hundreds of jobs advertised and yet tens of thousand of Cambodians go overseas to Malaysia and Thailand and Cambodia and even wanting it's workers to go to Arab countries. I always thought that when there was a shortage of workers, salaries ended up going up, as some businesses poached the workers off other businesses by offering higher wages, and offered their own good workers higher wages just to keep them. I guess I'm wrong, as this does not appear to be the case here in Cambodia.

What's your thinking on the subject.
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They can earn more working elsewhere.
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They hire people before the busy season. It is not the same all year round.
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Isn't it desperation driven? I mean, for example, a worker out here on $150 for a 30 day month....
Food's gotta be costing $2 / day. One might save $90 / month. With no fun or accidents. Hard to get ahead.
At the other end, people only get poached if they are, in fact, capable. A rarity here.

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Barang chgout wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:01 pm Isn't it desperation driven? I mean, for example, a worker out here on $150 for a 30 day month....
Food's gotta be costing $2 / day. One might save $90 / month. With no fun or accidents. Hard to get ahead.
At the other end, people only get poached if they are, in fact, capable. A rarity here.

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If that was the case, how come everyone has new model motobikes , smartphones and can eat at Pizza Hut.
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Duncan wrote:
Barang chgout wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:01 pm Isn't it desperation driven? I mean, for example, a worker out here on $150 for a 30 day month....
Food's gotta be costing $2 / day. One might save $90 / month. With no fun or accidents. Hard to get ahead.
At the other end, people only get poached if they are, in fact, capable. A rarity here.

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If that was the case, how come everyone has new model motobikes , smartphones and can eat at Pizza Hut.
Do they? Can they?
I guess we move in different circles.
Even I dont have a new phone or moto.

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Duncan wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 8:32 pmIf that was the case, how come everyone has new model motobikes , smartphones and can eat at Pizza Hut.
Borrowed money. Pawnshops and microloans are doing a booming business. Cambodia is one of the most indebted people in SEA. And what do a lot of locals spend their borrowed money on? New motorbikes, smartphones, and Pizza Hut.

Unfortunately lots of short term thinkers. ‘Now’ is the operative word. Saving and planning are in low supply.
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Anyone of you happen to come across any opening for screw salesman please let me know. Thank you.
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:beer3: Cambodians who work abroad make mega money,nearly as much as the best hookers on 136st,my mates brother in law goes to scandanivia every year planting trees for 4 months comes back every yr with 10k :please:
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