What an absolute load of bullshit this thread is. Led by people who obviously have NFI.
BKK Trapper, there isn't a bartender in town in an ordinary bar making $300 a month let alone $500. Management is different, but you were never anything but a slave. You never made even $100 cash. Now f off .Oh, you already have? Great news for us, not so good perhaps for the local Malaysian forums, but you are their problem now, not ours thank fuk.
Richard, I've been trying to leave you alone, but you consider $3000 a month a decent wage here? When have you ever made that? How many people do you actually KNOW that make that here? Scobienz? Playboy? Yeah, thats a fair sampling. You talk absolute bullshit mate and you should just stick to the Thailand forums too. You have NFI about contemporary Cambodia.
The old adage that " It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool, then to speak and prove to them you are" applies equally to both you 2.
There are a fair few number of people here who work not because they need to financially, but because they are smart enough to know that if you don't work, you fall into the trap of drinking/ drugging/ whoring.
Would I work for food/bed/hammock? Not on your fukn life. Would I work for $10 a shift to keep myself out of trouble? Fuk Yeah. Do I need to work for that now? Generally NO, but it's taken a few years to become known and earn a good enough reputation so I can ask for and expect more.

Hotdigr wrote: Would I work for $10 a shift to keep myself out of trouble? Fuk Yeah. Do I need to work for that now? Generally NO, but it's taken a few years to become known and earn a good enough reputation so I can ask for and expect more.

Its taken you a few years to be worth more than $10/day?

You must feel genuinely appreciated at the end of every night.

Digg3r wrote:

Hotdigr wrote: Would I work for $10 a shift to keep myself out of trouble? Fuk Yeah. Do I need to work for that now? Generally NO, but it's taken a few years to become known and earn a good enough reputation so I can ask for and expect more.

Its taken you a few years to be worth more than $10/day?

You must feel genuinely appreciated at the end of every night.

Diggr, you obviously have comprehension problems. So I'll make it simple for you mate - Go and get comprehensively fuked you wanker

Hotdigr wrote:What an absolute load of bullshit this thread is. Led by people who obviously have NFI.
BKK Trapper, there isn't a bartender in town in an ordinary bar making $300 a month let alone $500. Management is different, but you were never anything but a slave. You never made even $100 cash. Now f off .Oh, you already have? Great news for us, not so good perhaps for the local Malaysian forums, but you are their problem now, not ours thank fuk.
Richard, I've been trying to leave you alone, but you consider $3000 a month a decent wage here? When have you ever made that? How many people do you actually KNOW that make that here? Scobienz? Playboy? Yeah, thats a fair sampling. You talk absolute bullshit mate and you should just stick to the Thailand forums too. You have NFI about contemporary Cambodia.
The old adage that " It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are a fool, then to speak and prove to them you are" applies equally to both you 2.
There are a fair few number of people here who work not because they need to financially, but because they are smart enough to know that if you don't work, you fall into the trap of drinking/ drugging/ whoring.
Would I work for food/bed/hammock? Not on your fukn life. Would I work for $10 a shift to keep myself out of trouble? Fuk Yeah. Do I need to work for that now? Generally NO, but it's taken a few years to become known and earn a good enough reputation so I can ask for and expect more.

i was on 18.25 USD for a 7 hour shift plus 4 $ tips on average a night so thats around 22.25$ a 7 hour shift not bad when you throw in beers a free moto to rent and free snacks but hey thats sirm reap where theres less dodgys around and constant cash flowing in because temple tourists.

John Bingham wrote:

bkktrapper wrote: i was on 18.25 USD for a 7 hour shift plus 4 $ tips on average a night so thats around 22.25$ a 7 hour shift not bad when you throw in beers a free moto to rent and free snacks but hey thats sirm reap where theres less dodgys around and constant cash flowing in because temple tourists.

It's not bad, it's terrible. That's a slave wage.

In Siem reap ? for a person in his 20's travelling ?

John Bingham wrote:

bkktrapper wrote: i was on 18.25 USD for a 7 hour shift plus 4 $ tips on average a night so thats around 22.25$ a 7 hour shift not bad when you throw in beers a free moto to rent and free snacks but hey thats sirm reap where theres less dodgys around and constant cash flowing in because temple tourists.

It's not bad, it's terrible. That's a slave wage.

Fuck me! Foreigners working for 3-10$++/day, thinking they've got it made! People in most western countries are increasingly bitchin' about immigrants coming to their countries, as happens when the economies deteriorates, but I'm surprise it doesn't happen more here in Cambodia! That'll be the day...third world cambodians complaining about first/second world foreigners stealing their minimum wage jobs! Soon the factory managers will be scouting ocheateal...
For the record I don't frequent any restaurant/bar that hires young westerners at low wages, there are some great foreign business owners that purposefully only hire Khmers at above minimum wage salaries. These businesses are to be commended!