Many developed countries face the challenge of generating sufficient jobs for their population. A high proportion of the people are unemployed and under-employed.
The young people, who are the first time job seekers, find it difficult to get a job in a sluggish economy. There is the fear that automation will destroy many of the existing jobs.
The above problems have been evident for many years. The pandemic of 2020 made the matter much worse.
Singapore is now facing the above challenges. It will be very tough for the people, for the young and for the retrenched workers.
What can be done to ensure that there are sufficient jobs for the people?
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Shops are crowded. Ppl remained within here this festive season, as they are not able to go home or travel overseas. Businesses are doing good trades. Ppl are spending locally. The economy should pick up?
If it is a sale the items going for 30% discount, I usually checked the price-tag. If the tag is new, I usually don't buy it. They inflate the price recently and then give the discount.
A customer went to a meat shop. He saw a type on meat going for buy 2 pieces, with 1 free.
He told the butcher he wanted 9 pieces. (meaning 6 with 3 free)
He paid for it thinking that the butcher had weighed 6 pieces, got the price before adding the 3 free together. (only one packing.)
Two days later, liking the taste of the meat, the customer went back for the same promotion.
A different butcher attended to him. He was told he needed to buy 10 to get 5 free. 9 means 4 and a half piece free.
Sounds good. He loves the meat anyway.
Being a man, and not liking the hassle of the going round in a circle, he paid for the items. This time he received 2 packings. One pack with 10 pieces of meat with a price on it and another pack with a 5 piece price with free marked on it.
A few days later, his wife questioned him why it was the same meat, but not the same calculations.
She took the two receipts back to the store. ( luckily he still had them in his wallet)
She showed the boss. The first receipt had only one price (9 pieces). The second one had two prices add on(10 plus 5), with the price of the free 5 pieces minus off after, ended with only paying for 10 pieces.
The boss went to check with the butcher. His answer was they priced the meat by weight, not by pieces?????????????? Hello, the size of the meat was about the same and there couldn't be a new weighing scale in a difference of two days.
If only the machine could just minus 33% of the total?????? At the end of it all, the man realised whether if he paid for 6 or 9 pieces of Wariba Organic meat. The first 9 pieces, price cost average $12 and the second 15 pieces average(subsidized) $8.50.(-_-)
Watson also bad business practice. Aiyo give this type of voucher spends $40, $8 off. If the customer spend $130, the cashier do 3 bills. One bill add a few small small thing add amount $40 use one voucher.Pay. After that start again. Instead of want people to buy q behind left. Angry wait so long. lose business.
Vet Fees
A woman brought a very limp duck into a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest.
After a moment or two, the vet shook his head and sadly said, "I'm sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away."
The distressed woman wailed, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead," replied the vet.
"How can you be so sure?" she protested. "I mean you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something."
The vet rolled his eyes, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.
The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out of the room.
A few minutes later he returned with a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.
The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry, but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck."
The vet turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman..
The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "$150!" she cried, "$150 just to tell me my duck is dead!"
The vet shrugged, "I'm sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now $150."
I have a list of people
All written in a book -
And every year at Christmas time
I go and take a look.
And that is when I realise
That those names are all apart -
Not of the book, they're written in
But of my very heart.
For each name stands for someone
Who has crossed my path some time -
And in that meeting, they've become
A treasured friend of mine.
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