Unexpected Offer as a State Director With Higher Grade

Thank you boss for offering me a State Director post in the metropolitan state with a higher grade than I am currently holding it. 

Boss, as I informed you over the phone, I just accepted a new posting order to a rural state where I am from, as the new state director and will be carrying my existing grade. 

I want to tell you boss that I was really moved with your call offer yesterday. It came after a deep inside emotional farewell bidding session by MyTeams in the office hours earlier. I did not mean that I refused your offer or did not appreciate it boss. Of course, I must be appreciative when it is about a privileged offer and unexpected promotion. But boss, I have mentally committed to my self to be in my hometown for reasons I could not explain here. 

You gave me 2-3 days to rethink about my decision. I appreciate your patience boss. I must say a big thank you to you boss for thinking of me as the candidate for that director post. I would love to be there but.....if not because of pre-planned and approved posting order, i will without question and beyond doubt, accept the offer. 

Maaf boss...looking forward to be part of your team in the near future. 

Notes: The offer call by one of my bosses came in on 25 November 2016, Friday, at around 6.20pm, the day my current office held a farewell party for two other officers and me who are leaving to other work place. 

An Interesting Thing About China

I learnt something interesting about China last couple of days. The country appears attracting high interests among Malaysians. May be because of the official visit by Prime Minister Najib to China since two days ago. Local newspapers seems give a wide coverage on this historic visit that had attracted 144 billions of ringgit worth of business deals between Malaysia and China.

Last week, I met a group of manufacturers led by its Chairman who came to my office to express their dilemma and difficulties in getting their factories running because of shortage of workers. They said, locals are very complicated to retain and not willing to work in dusty and dirty environment. Thus, they are left with no other options except for hiring foreign workers. However, their choices are limited although there are 15 source countries they can source from. I mean to recruit foreign workers. They said they can bring in foreigner from any one of these countries but they more prefer the workers from B country. One of the reasons was that the workers of the other 14 countries are costlier, more difficult to recruit and bla..bla..bla..which only them know better unlike the workers from B country.

That is not the interesting point that I intend to write about it here.

The shocking point is that China also will soon import foreign workers to meet their demand for labours!!! And "China has approached the government of country B for supplying work forces to China.", Said the Chairman of the group of manufacturers. "The Government must be fast to resolve this issue.", He chipped.

I said, "What? This can't be true!"

The Chairman further said that because of the China's One Child policy since last four decades, had caused labour supply constraints to their booming industrial expansion. Though, China's population is 1.3 billion, the most populous nation on earth, it cannot self fulfill their own labour needs.

He pointed out that, the policy has made Chinese people more educated, prefer to work for better jobs in a better place, higher salary, career advancement and so on. Their parents who have only one child to feed, surely will do everything for their son or daughter not to grow up and end up becomes just a general worker. The high expectation, pampering and concentration has been going on for three generations.

I didn't blink my eyes upon hearing this!

To me, it means, coming soon not only Malaysia, the other developed and developing countries will have to compete with China to lure low skilled foreign workers into the country. When the demand is higher than the price will go up.

So, you "pikir lah sendiri" what should we do. Continually depending in foreign workers or improving ourselves to do things differently, automation is inevitable. 

Another 'cepu emas' question is what the country B is?