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Re: Understanding Vietnamese Life Partner

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Originally Posted by Golden question View Post
i have to agreed on this.everything ok but when proceeding,all the bull shit things start to come in

remind me of one of the incident when my wife build a 2 sided wall to cover her land and also some drainage .i went there and notice that my wife was serving them some coffee or drinks in the morning and afternoon,i ask her why have to serve them like that,she say if she dont serve them drinks,they will go and order and pay by her and they will do 'magic' on their job.i am not against her giving them drinks but their attitude towards their job really sucks

7.30am start work
11.15am disappear for lunch
1.30pm return to work
5pm order noodle to eat
5 30pm go home

in between got take 15 minute break

at first my wife told me they say need 8 days to complete,i ask her from what i see though i am not an engineer,i think it takes the most 5 days to complete and i ask her to check with them.they say they will try to complete.5 big man doing it some more.then 2 days before completing,ask for payment,my wife told him not to worry cos she wont run away.knn,not yet finish job,want to take money.my wife say no choice cos have to use him as the surrounding land belong one of the owner and he want to give all this job to someone he know,what else but to eat money lah,sell the red book to her and pocket 2k and still want to continue eat and laze around at home see tv
hahha, tell me about that. its their working attitude there and it really makes you want to vomit blood. I remember i talked to a Singapore construction company manager in HCM, he told me , for the same type of work, VN needs double to triple the time to finish the project. For example, building a similiar building in Singapore may just need 3 years, but in VN, they will need 6 to 8 years to complete.

When i went back with my wife to her province, i observe how her BIL (construction supervisor) comes to work with his workers. Starts work at 9am, but takes 30 mins break for tea first. work until 1130am, go for lunch. Come back at 2pm, work till 330, tea break again. then 450pm, stop work. With this type of working attitude, how to get the work done? For my office, my staff comes in for work at 830am, off for lunch at 12 noon till 130pm. Then work until 5pm. considered very good roi. My first office in HCM many years ago, i remember they come to work at 9am, off for lunch at 1130am till 130pm, then off work at 5pm. Very good life.