Faithfully giving your company 8 hours or more a day so that some time in the future, you’ll become one of the bosses, where you’ll then start working 12 hours a day. haha.

But you know what? Alot of people are content with that way of life. Especially here in Malaysia.

We’re pretty content with working and working, getting a regular pay check and one day retiring. One day very very far away that is.

But that’s pretty normal in alot of other countries as well.

In Malaysia however, I feel we are guilty of one more thing, which is alot of people are scared to voice out their opinions, especially in the work place.

In most peoples’ minds, they think ‘why bother?’ or ‘nothing’s going to change anyway’ or ‘I’ll just accept it like that’.

There’s an intimidation factor that Malaysian executives have against their bosses which gets me and some of my friends pretty angry.

What they don’t realize is that if they keep quiet, their superiors are just going to get away with it over and over again.

And seeing as most people don’t stand up for themselves, when someone eventually does (and these are the people who are worth something to the company… because they have a voice) they seem like someone shouting in a library – loud and completely out of place.

So remember, if your boss is treating you like shit, instead of taking it, stand up for yourself. Sometimes, if your boss deserves to eat shit, then you should tell him to eat shit.

Hey, who else is gonna do it?

-William

Nowhere has the sheer number of people who have lost their jobs been as large a number as those in China. Unemployment is usually given as a percentage of the population, 1%, 2% etc.

So to many, it seems that the unemployment rate in America seems high, with the latest released numbers being 7.2% or 11.1 million people.

I’m not sure what the percentage of unemployment is in China, but I read a recent article the other day that claimed that 20 million people have lost their jobs. As a percentage of their total population that’s nothing, barely 2%.

So what does 20 million people out of a job look like?

So how bad is the recession going to effect you? Well with Internet marketing, you can lessen the blow, or even avoid it altogether. I’ll tell you why in a later post.

Recession Schmesession,

-William Lee

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