Poster Girl

Has everyone seen this netball tournament poster that's on the walls of the MRT stations? Man I love that girl. I think her name is Lin Qiuyi. I don't even care where she's from or how old she is. For me, that face is to die for. Especially when it has went through Photoshop in the hands of an advertising agency employee.

So to something more serious: the government's new birth and childcare policies. The bonuses are awesome. Maternity and childcare leave, not so much.

I mean, let's take for example: you are a woman just got married and looking for a job to supplement the income of your new family.

You go for an interview for a permanent position, and then in the middle of the interview the interviewer notices your marriage status and asks you, "How many children do you intend to have?" You start thinking to yourself, isn't that a tad too personal a question?

So it might be not so likely as an actual scenario but you get my point right? Finding a permanent job as a woman is going to get incredibly tough from now on. I mean, can you just put yourself in an employer's position, and just think about what it's like paying someone to not be here for about a third of the year?

I don't care if the government would help me with some of it. Even if it's all of it, I'm still effectively throwing money away. Now that my regular is gone, first thing I have to do is to get my HR department to run an advertisement for a temp. And the temp would come in, and even fast learners have to spend about two weeks to sync in and find out what's going on.

Meanwhile I'm paying for both my perm on maternity and that temp. Then when the temp sets in by the end of the whole of the sixteen weeks, I have to get rid of her because my regular's coming back. Then the regular comes back, spends a week catching up for the last four months, and then proceed to taking her infant care leave randomly and give her colleagues massive headaches.

So say she already gave birth before joining. Kid's growing up, need more income. She comes in, she can take child leave and child MC, and I can't do anything about it because it's a couple of days is long but not long enough to warrant temporary replacements.

Tough being a woman man. But hey, anything they can get to be unreasonable bitches.