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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. 

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.

 

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.

2 hours ago, faraday said:

The election, promised next February, will be in 2029.

 

Unless there is a revolution before that time. In my opinion they won't t be able to hold on to power for that long especially with how things are going currently.

Not sure

8 hours ago, mstevens said:

- The cost of living in Thailand (particularly in Bangkok) will be significantly higher due to inflation running at a higher rate than the West and the baht increasing in value against all major currencies.  Thailand will not be the bargain it once was.  Central Bangkok rents and the general cost of living will push many expats out in to the suburbs and expats living in central Bangkok will be those with money / professional expat positions / those who purchased property back when prices were much more reasonable.

Plausible points however I don't agree with your first point. In my opinion the oligarch elites will be pushing too hard thinking about the short term and blow up their own economy and cause a real estate crash. Ever increasing household debt will increase and banks will stop providing loans for people without strict requirements due to too many people defaulting on their loans for real estate, cars and other purchases. The only way for this to be avoided is more income and asset equality however with the current military government they are doing their best to avoid any improvement for 90% of the population.

The rich are becoming ever increasing too greedy with rental prices pushing out people in the restaurant and entertainment business. More people will shut down due to unable to make enough to cover their costs (mainly rental as wages will remain low) with more empty commercial and residential real estate becoming vacant. The wealthy will try to keep up this fake market as they can afford to keep these spaces vacant and not drop down on their rental yields as it lowers the value of the property. People will catch on to this and refuse to pay the ridiculous prices as supply vastly outweighs demand which will be ever increasing as more units come on the market while the older ones remain empty.

19 hours ago, sletraveler said:

I live near Chiang Mai.  Night market vendors say that Chinese are much bigger spenders than westerners.  I can't disagree with this article and yea Chinese are like locust in some spots.

Night market vendors? Great 40 baht kao moo deng together with the mama noodles from 7/11 to eat in their hotel rooms.

Sorry for bumping this topic but I thought it would be better than creating a new one.

Are there any judo classes in Sathorn/Silom currently? I work at Rama3 area till about 6-6:15 pm so some of the options above are out of the question when taking in account travel time in Bangkok evening traffic... I'm a brown belt who has been doing judo since primary school although I haven't practiced in 3-4 years now.  

Tops Central Chidlom and Foodland  stores but limited supply.

*bumping*

I am in a similar situation trying to change my TR visa (15 days remaining) into a Non-immigrant B at immigration. I have a Dutch degree (in English including the curriculum so no translation needed) and they say they want it stamped by the Dutch embassy which supposedly is a service which they don't offer. The 2nd option is to apply abroad for a non-immigrant B however they wont give my company the letter of approval from the labour department while I am still staying in Thailand which is complete nonsense. This 2nd option means I need to stay outside of the country for around 10 days while I wait for the letter and get it mailed to me. Does anyone know a better solution ?

Yes try to do the WP1 application.

The company can do the WP1 application for you if you sign the power of attorney for them to do it but they will normally need your passport when it is done.

The power of attorney is in this file for the WP1 application, http://wp.doe.go.th/wp/images/form/Form_tt1.pdf

Thanks, much appreciated. I will let them know.