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3 minutes ago, Mike Teavee said:

I believe Citibank is growing it's CSC (Citi Support Center) in Costa Rica including roles in Network Engineering & Operations, have no idea what the salary is like but there may be an opportunity there for you.

 

I worked for them in Singapore so know they have an external site with their job opportunities for ASPAC, would imagine it's Global so any roles available in CR would show up on there.

 

I still have friends at Citi, PM me if you're interested but can't find the site & I'll ask around for you.

 

Good Luck 

 

MTV

I have a friend working for Citi in Manila. He was relocated there from Singapore after they set up their 'Center of Excellence' (i.e. cost cutting). I'm pretty sure you'll know him too. Small world eh? I'll blast you a PM in the morning for a chin wag.

On 9/18/2019 at 3:33 PM, kotsak said:

A new TM30 app?!

 

 

 

 

Haven't you noticed, all the immigration apps are run by a developer with a gmail address. Now, I'm an IT consultant, so this is glaringly obvious to me. That being said, any idiot can set up a gmail address. Phuck, any idiot can set up a gmail address and pretend to be working for immigration. If you ever needed any more evidence of how grossly incompetent Thai immigration is, just digest for a moment, the fact they're not using immigration.go.th addresses. Don't get me wrong, I don't doubt the apps are genuine, TiT after all, but you won't find me trusting any personal details to them.

On 3/4/2019 at 3:38 PM, Jingthing said:

Please, for obvious reasons, this topic can't be focused on sex tourism or sexpats.

Forgive me, I think the above is not realistic. Full disclosure, I've been posting on this forum under various guises since the IT Manager days (dirty word, I know). My original membership number was in the few hundreds. Me, like many early forum members quickly realised, some of us the hard way, that this is not the place to give up one's anonymity without careful thought. I took a break from this forum for over ten years, now I'm back, because I find the electrical forum interesting. I work very late on a daily basis, occasionally while I'm downing a cold one in my office I'll look for a distraction and get sucked into the silliness over here. As I'm quite sure you know, the actual poster count here is remarkeably low, all things considered, and the thoughtful poster count even lower. I'm an IT guy, so I spend a lot of time on Cisco, Ubiquiti, Mikrotik customer forums, places like that. That's where I put my thought. TV is where I have my beer, and only because I'm stuck in the stew like the rest of us. The point I'm making is, I don't come here for intelligent conversation, I come here expecting to be trolled by bored whorists, but I appreciate it when when someone's head pops above the chaff, so thanks for the interesting read.

As a near direct result of TM30, I'm looking at options to uproot my family and move on, the sheer stupidity, it's just gone too far. I'm not some sex pest on an extended vacation, I have a lot invested in Thailand and my Thai family, emotionally, financially, whatever, so it's not something to be taken lightly and if we move on Thailand will be losing a family of hard working professionals. We'll see what happens but I'm looking at Australia and New Zealand, but I'm already familiar with those countries. Latin America is somewhere I've never been, so although middle aged, I still have a sense of adventure. I'm following this topic. Costa Rica is interesting, but I'm nowhere near retirement age. Opportunities are a must. I'm a family man, so whoring is not a priority.

On 9/3/2019 at 8:42 AM, OneMoreFarang said:

Guys are free to enjoy life here - even if it is not politically correct. Who cares!

I'm bored so I'm reading through this topic. The advice I gave to newbie boobies evolved over the years, as I went through the whores, the wars, the mistakes, the marriage, the kids. It boils down to this, and indeed, who gives a phukc. . .

• Never try to reason with a whore
• Never try to reason with a whore on drugs
• Never try to reason

Follow these simple bullet points and they'll get on just fine. Personally, these days I would baulk at even setting foot in a bar full of skanky whores with attitude issues and being forced to converse with a hirsute westerner asking me where he can buy drugs. It's much more fun seducing respectable married women.

6 minutes ago, FredGallaher said:

Well, I studied Spanish at the university for 2 years and can't order a Taco.

Yeah but he has a degree that says he can speak English. Do you have a degree that says you can speak Spanish?

As I said to my daughter, a Thai degree, generally speaking, is worthless. She's applying to Chula, probably the only university here that can award degrees that are worth the paper they're on.

22 hours ago, BritManToo said:

I've got a Thai cycling pal, taught English for 30 years before retiring, can't speak one word of English.

One of my Thai nephews, now an engineer in our company, studied Ingrish at University. He can't string together a single sentence in English. And Thai people wonder why Farang-kind are critical of the system.

5 hours ago, NanLaew said:

My sister, replete with teaching degrees and a Master's in English Lit was denied a teaching position in Hawaii because they reckoned her Englsh speech didn't SOUND English enough.

 

She got over it eventually.

It doesn't appear to bother my daughter at all actually, it's me that gets my pants in a twist. Her English is so perfect, if you spoke to her on the phone you'd think she came from Richmond upon Thames, yet her teachers, who's English is so bad you'd think they'd been dropped on their head, think they can correct it. Good grief it makes me angry.

2 hours ago, yogi100 said:

Most of us are miserable old gits who are never happy unless we're moaning about something or someone. It's all some of us have got left to do in life.

Yinn, no one in Thailand, NO ONE, understands the frustrations of living with a Farang quite like my wife does. I'll put you in touch.

9 hours ago, RideJocky said:

 

I like the plugs you referenced, the only thing that bugs is the pin orientation always seems 90 degrees out from the receptacles, and two often don’t seem to fit in a duplex.
 

 

That is not part of the spec, it's a manufacturer preference. For example, all Dell monitors sold in Thailand have that moulded plug with the cable coming out at a straight 90 degrees from the socket surface, as does my Electrolux drip coffee machine.

Just to add to the above, it is acceptable to completely bury an earth connection in certain circumstances and if certain rules are followed.

Number one, the ground conductor must be exothermically welded to the ground rod itself. This eliminates corrosion completely, but it's difficult and dangerous to do it properly. Any local PEA supplier will have the exothermic weld kits, they're inexpensive and commonly know locally as 'one shots'.

Secondly, you must install a ground disconnect box. Inside it will have one of these: https://www.an-wallis.co.uk/products/earthing/disconnecting-link

This facilitates an easy method of disconnecting for tests to be carried out.

On 7/24/2019 at 12:34 PM, NCC1701A said:

yes it should be driven into the earth (soil). two meters is typical but some are 3 meters. It should not be encased in concrete, it can be covered at the top with concrete.  

Not wishing to be a pedant but IMO a ground rod should never be covered in concrete. It makes inspection impossible.

I've not read every post so I apologise for any repetition. I have a lot of experience with various brands of LED lights available in Thailand. I run a large hotel, we switched completely to LED technology.

Initially we purchased a shed load of Eve brand spotlight for outdoor use. 80 percent of them failed within a year. You will notice this with most brands, particularly outdoor luminaires.

All of the Philips outdoor light, and I mean 100 percent, are still going strong after three years. Sometimes you've just got to stump of the money or pay double later.

There's a reason these cheap LED lights are cheap. The drivers are garbage.

One gotcha though. No matter what brand you buy, LED lights are sensitive to nearby lightning strikes. It seems that this is presently the Achilles Heel with LED lighting. I've been losing loads of LED lights this rainy season from lighting surges. It's costing us a fortune. 

As I already have some 16mm copper cable that I could use to run to a new ground rod, I think the 16mm is over kill but as I already have it why not.

As an aside, bigger is always better with a CPC (ground cable) purely for the mechanical endurance it provides.

You sure did it the hard way. There are official resellers in Malaysia and Hong Kong which I sometimes use, but the easiest route is to just order from Lazada. This store has the genuine item: https://www.lazada.co.th/-i213958831-s323335900.html?urlFlag=true&mp=1&spm=spm=a2o4m.order_details.item_title.1

Is there any legal precedent for that? That's like saying the hotelier will be prosecuted for a customer downloading child porn. It's nonsense.

Pfft, I've been working in IT since 0 said hello to 1. God himself couldn't break my safeguards, even if anyone did give a hoot. If the lawyers ever give me the chance, I'll hand them the low hanging fruit on a plate, for fun, not money.

No. If so they'd be cutting every hotel corporate client off from the internet. For example, at any one time there may be 50 or 100 users on our connection from CAT. Contrary to popular myth, copyright laws and punishments in Thailand are pretty harsh. However, ISPs don't want to keep records, and don't want to stop copyright infringers, not because they willfully neglect their civic duty, but because it costs them resources and money. They'd have to come to me to go through my system logs, pull up the MAC of whoever was doing something wrong, only to find they checked out and left the country 2 weeks ago.

Myself I use the BBC iPlayer. I have a background in IT and know how to get the very finest connection to the UK. My connection, which goes via one of my servers in Singapore, consistently gives me round trip ping times of 190 milliseconds, close to the theoretical best case for that distance, and I enjoy British public broadcasting at an unbuffered HD reliability most British expats can only fantasise about. . . completely illegally of course, but seriously, who gives a $#!t. Your ISP doesn't.

Learning Thai over the decades has been an uphill struggle for me because my wife and kids speak English, as do my staff. My Thai stepdaughter speaks English like she was raised in Richmond Upon Thames. I'll never forget her taking the oath during her British citizenship ceremony in her received pronunciation. This has not removed the motivation to learn Thai, but provided and easier way forward in conversation. What you really need is no option but to learn Thai. I managed to learn, but I'm still illiterate in Thai. Nevermind, I guess.