Hi,
I had a nightmare.
I work for a company that wants to sell all its employees its own product due to sales plunge.
The sales man said, if you dun buy, the company will exit and relocate company to malaysia , china and indonesia. Like this , he said, you loose your job. To prevent this happening, he wants me to deduct 10% of my salary to buy its product, 1 every month by giro.
i dun want and feel very unfair situation is set upon me and all our colleagues.
but as I am weak , I gave in to the pressure since everyone who is approached by the salesman records our employee serial number to indentify who is for or against buying from my company our own products.
being a weak person, i scared to offend the company and scared to loose my job, my rice bowl. so, i signed relunctantly. like this, every month, my salary reduced by 10%.
so did majority of all employees. we all kiasi type.
sales plunged and investments gone haywire, our company continued to practise this 'extortion' on all employees, who as expected by my boss, will comply. 6 months later, they upped the selling price to 15% my salary. i LL complied in order to protect my ricebowl and even publicly have to praise my boss whenever the opportunity arise, being a sarka type of singaporean that I am. i thought, pride does not matter more than money and salary. so, I 'prostituted' my soul. my boss said well done and keep it up.
our boss next invested heavily in womanising and bad investments in china. The company went into the reds again.
understanding the mentality of us employees, having many team leaders on the ground who understands us thinking and get the feel of the ground, they assessed that even if ask us to buy another 7% more of our salaries to buy our own products, we wont mind, at least wont show we mind. Main thing will sign.
And they did. And I complied once more. Many of us, have no place else to go. We can only survive in this 1 company.
But this time some 10 employees got fedup and voiced dissent. kpkb in canteen. The ground hogs overheard this and feedback channel supplied info realtime to management. the 10 were asked to meet the boss for coffee at the canteen at 3pm teabreak time. They were told, either sign or their children's scholarship they applied to the company will not be approved and they will be marked and never get any career advancement. Their housing loans also no privilege. Their bonus and benefits will be gone. no more salary increments. of the 10, 5 have children and all of them applied for their children the company scholarship. They would never be able to send their children to good universities without this scholarship and their pay is peanuts. The other 5 were single and too Righteous minded. They have too much self respect and integrity and they gave management their middle finger. that same day afternoon, those 5 people left the company all of a sudden and our team lead told us that was their last day. the other 5 with families were told to tell the rest they did something wrong and not the company's fault.
The whole company went silent. Everyone looked pale. Other than the 5, all signed to get their salaries eaten to buy our own products to support company sales results.
2 years later, the company bankrupt and the boss ran away , sold everything in singapore and migrated to australia. The employees were left in a lurch. All their pension and retirement gratuity all gone.
many committed suicide. They say, before they die, why they want to die is not because they lost the money. Its because they could not forgive themselves for prostituting their souls, over and over again.
