IamRoach

3 hours ago, jaiyenyen said:

So, bars that serve food are still open?

Yes everyone with restaurant license. Malls, Cinema's and Chatuchak are all open. 
Chonburi (Pattaya) overturned restriction on dine-in yesterday. It seems like there is a lot of pushback as these sectors have already been badly hit and another shutdown would cause utter devastation economically especially as the government has no plans of pulling their wallet to support people financially. Only people under SSO will receive up to 15,000 baht up to 90 days.

On 11/29/2020 at 6:22 AM, ezzra said:

So far Thailand have been extremely lucky with the pandemic, the question is for how much longer?.. the borders or Myanmar is so pours and void of protection that a parade of a elephants can get trough and no one will care or notice where by border runners, refugees and criminals go through it everyday, so it will be not surprising if Covid is getting through with no one the wiser....

Under no definition is there a "pandemic" in any South-East Asian country. Cases are irrelevant and deaths insignificant when looking at deaths/million.

These completely delusional ideas and "solutions" for a time where quite funny but now it's just becoming annoying and frustrating. Thailand is causing unnecessary damage by keeping the country closed if they open now or in 6 months there will not make any difference.

On 5/30/2020 at 3:01 PM, ncc1701d said:

If there weren’t so many deaths in Sweden, it would be laughable that all the anti lockdown people were hailing it as being the way to go. 

I still believe it is the way to go but it's easy to manipulate figures to make Sweden look worse than it actually is.

65% of deaths in Sweden are people over the age of 80 and new infections & deaths are following the same downwards curve as other European countries. The only reason for the high number of deaths is that they didn't protect homes for elderly people earlier on. If they did that they would hailed as the winners in all of this.

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/09f821667ce64bf7be6f9f87457ed9aa

Reading articles like these makes me think that logic and common sense is unlikely to come to Thailand for at least a few more decades ...

On 5/5/2020 at 10:00 AM, Susco said:

Meanwhile in Sweden

 

It's pointless and silly, leaving every other seat empty does nothing. If you want to be precise there needs to be 1.5 meters between each person which would be impossible as you would have a plane occupancy of 20%. Only logical option is to provide masks for each passenger and ask them to wear it for the duration of the flight (unlikely that would last long either)

13 hours ago, Boomer6969 said:

So only "Street food", don't think I've ever eaten in a "non-air conditioned" place in Bangkok. Sad joke again, I am sure there are places with AC systems that produce an air much safer than outdoor Bangkok.

If that is the case it would be completely absurd if anything "air-con" restaurants are much more likely to provide proper hygiene standards than "non-aircon". The way to go is no more than x amount of people per sqm but the incompetent prayut govenment is clueless to what they are doing. The paranoia is surreal in Thailand and more people are catching up to this.

Chamchuri is not asking for TM30 and i wouldn't encourage them. 

Co-worker did visa/wp renewal last week no mention about TM30 and another co-worker did his 90 day report and nothing mentioned either. 

20 minutes ago, Oxx said:

 

Just curious, but can you or anyone else name a condo building in Thailand that's 30 or 50 years old that is still attractive?

Somkid Gardens in Chitlom is from 1991? Not really a good comparison as it was probably the most expensive condo you could find back then and even now it's probably massively expensive.

20 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I would say 7-10% embodies quite a few assumptions, e.g. no agent fees, full occupancy, low condo maintenance fees, no breakdowns etc.

My landlord would be making about 8% net out of me. However, he bought the condo 10 years ago when the price was half what it is now. On today's prices, he would only be making 4%. In Chiang Mai, rentals have not gone up for years - if anything, down because there is a glut of condos here.

I'm not familiar with CM however if it's similar to BKK then even then the rental prices are too high looking at the overall market. They should be even lower looking at the sheer amount of empty units available however landlords in Thailand can afford to keep units empty rather than dropping the price as this would lower the market value of their unit.

Personally I stay in Lumpini building (10 years old) which has an about an 90% occupancy however there is a 2 bedroom unit next to mine which has been empty since I moved in two years ago. A Supalai building 400 meters down the road struggles to get a 50% occupancy as they are asking about 4,000 - 5,000 more per month than my building. Looks like a ghost town (almost no lights on at night) and looks already a bit run-down despite it not even being 4 years old. The biggest joke yet is that Supalai has already started construction on new towers on the same road not too far from this one.

The oligarch Thais will continue to manipulate the real estate market however in my opinion this is a bubble ready to burst. I have seen condo towers in Hua Hin with not a single light on from the outside (middle of the week in low season).

I'm not an expert on this however as you have fixed contract they can choose not to renew it without paying you anything. As you are still currently under contract if they want to get rid of now they will have to pay you 3 months of severance pay.

Don't turn in your work permit yourself as this means you resign and they don't have to pay you anything which is what they are hoping for.

I guess if you have been there less than 3 months they can get away with paying you only 1 month of severance.

4 hours ago, blackcab said:

 

Would you care to share some recruitment ads? While I'll go with mid management being paid up to 150k, I don't see Thai nationals at that level commonly being paid over that.

 

I'm very happy to be proven wrong though.

Go to Jobsdb, select minimum salary 130k, click jobs and you will find hundreds of job postings(even after taking out top management jobs) of which half have Thai nationals in their descriptions. Then you don't even take in account that many positions are not advertised.
 

5 hours ago, blackcab said:

 

I don't think there are that many mid management Thai staff earning 100-250k a month.

Sure there are you just need to look at international companies and brands not the Thai Chinese owned mickey mouse businesses that would save 1 satang on toilet paper if they could.

2 hours ago, jackdd said:

How do you get these numbers? Because they told you?

From foreigners working with these people, what Thais say I take with a pinch of salt. Personally I work with a brand manager with very little executive functions that does about 2 hours of work/day and makes about 100k + expenses.

On 3/27/2018 at 12:29 PM, ostyan said:

Farang teachers, yes, but here we are trying to trace the Thai salaries. I have been living here since 2010. I am quite positive; Thai teachers almost irrespective of their qualifications cannot get more in a private school than 10-15K. Government schools can pay more. Foreign teachers are divided into 3 main parts, Fillipinos, Indians and Africans- they get 20K normally, however, I know a potential analphabet Filllipina collecting 30K for nothing - Europeans, depending on their qualifications - 30-40 K, and NES teachers 35- whatever.  Thai teachers, what we are talking about here, depending on the school 10-25K is the average. My wife gets 14K and she has almost the highest salary in her private school and her salary is considered to high here. Gow, again, pais far much more, but it is really difficult to get a job there.

The numbers you mentioned are really the bottom of the barrel rates. Also your wife only gets 14k as a teacher ? Even the lowest scumbag delivery drivers who get smacked on lao khao on a weekday make around that figure at the company i work for.

There are quite a few Thais in mid management positions like sales manager, area manager, HR manager, warehouse manager making 100-250k a month and even secretaries to top management are in the 80-120k bracket and these are not even people necessarily super high skilled at their job either. Just because the majority of the population is getting ripped off doesn't mean there aren't Thais living well earning good wages on par with the West because let's be honest besides rental, public transportation and gasoline prices not many things in Thailand are cheaper.

 

Extended? Two of the songkran days fall on a weekend this years which makes it shorter than usual

When it's 3 days + connecting weekend then many people bridge the remaining 2 days to make a total of 9 days off.

6 minutes ago, possum1931 said:

There will always be ex pats here for the foreseeable future, as many Thai families depend on them, maybe will gradually fade out in about twenty years. Thailand authorities will always be against us as they do not want us here, they only want our money.

No doubt about that however in my opinion one of the main reasons will be because neighbouring SEA countries will become more livable for expats with more opportunities becoming available. Expats will be more spread out rather than being centralized in the same locations.