My Little Black Box

This
is another funny story about Vietnamese worker. I know some interesting stories
from my friends regarding their Vietnamese staffs. A guy told me that his
employee has the courage to see him and tell him: “Boss, if I don’t get any
raise next month, I’ll quit!” and he’s not even a hard working employee! I find
that hard to believe, until now.

Since
I’m planning to set up some kind of Marketing Institute in Vietnam, I am collaborating with my partner here
in Vietnam
called Customer Insight. We are looking for a full time staff with a certain
requirements. So we put an advertisement in the newspaper and waited for the
outcome. Actually Victoria-my counterpart in Customer Insight-who’s the one
handling the interviews. After a while I was wondering about the results… and
she told me her unique experience interviewing in Vietnam.

The
things that we can only find it here is that we actually need to treat the
applicant nicely! It’s quite funny when you interview them; you are the one who
have to convince them to work for your company! Even though they sucks! I mean
they don’t really possessed capability to work! We even got an applicant who
put a full body photo of himself lying on the front of a sports car! Please!!!
Who the hell they think they are??? And what the hell they think this is???
They are still so far away from the thing we called professionalism! You’ll
even find a freshman who asked for at least USD 500 per month where the normal rate
is between 200-300 USD per month for a fresh graduate. Some of them don’t even
know why they come to the interview for Christ sake! And actually there’re so
many other stories.

If
you want to make a research on employee’s loyalty index, I think the result
would be so obvious! It’s not even a plus! I think the result would be MINUS!
Do you know the fact that most of the CV’s that I read; they only stay in a
company for several months??? Something’s gonna have to change! And fast! Since
the economy is growing so fast and they are facing the WTO soon.

Those
things make me wonder… who’s the boss
here? Who’s paying their salary???

Well
of course this can’t be considered to be a precise measurement for all
Vietnamese (sure hope so…) Let just hope things would improve! For their own
good!