Why FDH no need to go through a probation period !

[chingleutsch]

Wow, wish I'd had time to catch up with this thread earlier (except then I would have spent all the time I didn't have writing inflammatory posts ).

As the thread is on the social welfare tack again, here's another tuppence worth from someone who remembers HK 25+ years ago (even then was working part time with an NGO heavily involved in both poverty relief and helping substance abusers):

It's true that government benefits here aren't as generous as in many other developed areas of the world (if you don't count health, education and the amazingly wide work of the LCSD, where we do much better than lots of "rich" countries), The other side of the coin is that a huge amount of slack is taken up by a large number of charities, large and small, which would have been red-taped out of existence elsewhere. The government also gives "passive" support by things like providing peppercorn rental leases of currently unneeded properties to those charities. The NGOs in turn, funded by private and corporate donations rather than by The Taxpayer, provide vocational skills training & other educational resources, material goods from food to white goods, subsidised or free housing/ shelter, help with utilities bills and credit problems, legal advice, and who knows what else.

Sure, there's room for more to be done, but when I compare here with places which expect the government to provide all those services, I really think HK manages amazingly well without the red tape, tax bills and layers of bureaucracy you find in Australia (the other place of which I have most experience).

Disclaimer - yes, I work for an NGO that operates from a government owned property!

And I'm aware that housing conditions here are ridiculously crowded by the standards of other countries, but I've written elsewhere of the amazing and continuing strides forwards that I've seen here over the years; blowed if I'm going to do it again here.

[juergenw]

Sorry you are talking nonsense - a helper 6 years in HKG dont know what a FRENCH TOAST is ??????

How do you survive, life must be so terrible? All the troubles in the world, all the suffering and you are complaining about lemons not limes?

1) send her back to get 5 lemons or even better buy them yourself
2) send her back to get 10 more
Explain to her what French toast is she has probably never heard the expression.

[juergenw]

Sorry you not even get the point at all - I very much know how to cook for myself ! Think twice.

[jimbo]

Sorry you are talking nonsense - a helper 6 years in HKG dont know what a FRENCH TOAST is ??????

Somebody not knowing how to make a French toast by themselves now that's nonsense!

Seriously Juergen, You're crazy.

[juergenw]

Are you nuts - you are employing BUTLERS ? You call me an idiot ? I guess the idiot is you in not understanding a SINGLE POINT what this is all about. Cheers and stay stupid !

[juergenw]

NOOOOOO - we asked her to go to FAIRWOOD and buy that stupid fucking FRENCH TOAST - how I dare to ask her to make it by herself !!!!!! Read carefully before stupid reply !

[TheBrit]

Sorry you are talking nonsense - a helper 6 years in HKG dont know what a FRENCH TOAST is ??????

I've been in Hong Kong for that long and I don't know what French toast is either. Unless you have come across it before, I wouldn't expect most helpers to know what it is either.

Take a chill pill juergen. Look at yourself before you conduct your next interview.

[si0001]

Now that we've established that your helper is stupid/lazy/incompetent, what is it that you need from this board? Do you need advice? Are you just looking to vent?

[Mat]

Well I still stand by the wind up....

[MovingIn07]

Sorry you are talking nonsense - a helper 6 years in HKG dont know what a FRENCH TOAST is ??????

I lived the first 20 years of my life (in the UK) with parents who ran a hotel and had no idea what french toast was. Turns out it was what I called "eggy bread" at home. You really do need to assume less about people if you want them to do what you want.