Modern Coding

Alter Schwede!

Knowing that in France, the police does not help, knowing that in France, the court does not help either, knowing that in France, victim blaming is the norm, especially if the victim is female, it should be no wonder that abroad, the embassy would not help any further, knowing that for simple paperwork, it is already extremely challenging for French citizens!

That would put them in the same bag as ladyboys and transwomen who completely transitioned. I do respect ladyboys and transwomen, I don't respect pedophiles. As someone suggested, they belong to an isolated island and "god" have mercy.

Mother is to blame?? Pedophiles are not?? One might think, mother appeared to be unwise to send her kid alone, or in this case, to let her kid go alone to get back the key, as he per story volunteered. But hey: 10 meters away! Everywhere in this world, parents or grannies send their kids to the grocer's next door, or kids volunteer to go there. I guess the guy at the shop noticed, they forgot the key. I guess he saw a great opportunity for a "great deal": "You can have your keys back, but in exchange, you do me some pleasure!". I guess, if the mother had gone there instead, this "great deal" would have been for her, don't you think so?? As long as people like you keep blaming victims, pedophiles have long days ahead of them.

This is exactly this! I would even say: many of them cannot even code! And this is not specific to Thailand: this is global! I have witnessed it at several different places: no matter, whether developed or under-developed countries! I can confirm that the West is not different. And here in Thailand, as well as in other ASEAN countries where I had been staying before, a certain number of professors have graduated in the West: they have just turned into the same kind of idiots as over there... I mean: myself, I did not graduate in IT, but in Chemistry in France and Germany. Upon graduation, I decided to switch to IT; I was hired by an IT company who was looking for COBOL developers for their customers in the bank, insurance and financial industry, but could not find any. They gave me a six-week intensive training in the IBM Mainframe technologies; with that package, I had been working for 7 years in this field. Of course, during that period, I had kept training myself in the web technologies, through night courses in Germany and Portugal. Plus I went to Brazil for one month to take many intensive classes: EVERYWHERE, really EVERYWHERE, the instructors told me I had learned much more in 2 weeks than IT students in 5 years! Regarding the few of the professors [that] have ever been in a professional programming environment: if it were specific to IT, this world would be better off; unfortunately, it is general to all domains. When I was a chemistry student, I took my balls and managed to find a summer job at the HQ of a famous name of the chemical industry in Germany, doing lab related work. Great experience, which none of my German chemistry professors have had until now. All of them were complete morons, who had never stepped foot at even the tiny private chemical company next door, but who believed to know the private industry much better than I! When you think that precisely these idiots are training and instructing our young people... And there is even worse: when I was in Vietnam and Cambodia, I was teaching at universities; the respective Deans exclusively wanted experienced people from the field who would come as guest lecturers, not professors who had just learned programming from books. Which is great. So on top of programming, I had accumulated experience teaching, transmitting knowledge, skills, experience and values. Exactly with that experience, I had to work at an "organization" in Cambodia providing IT courses, in which I was in charge of the training. Except that this "organization" was led by complete morons who had no clue about the IT field, but who claimed to know everything better, just because they had some weird degrees from some weird so called "prestigious" French business or management schools. Plus there was another idiot with a useless MBA and a 9-year history at non-private environments also willing to teach me lessons. No wonder, I, as the only person experienced and qualified for the position, I was kicked out of that stupid place. Hence my preference to hire junior non-IT people and giving them training while paying them even during the training. This is very true if these people live in Bangkok. This is why I chose to operate in the province, where food and accommodation costs are much lower, and where traveling costs and commuting time are close to zero. I am just 5 minutes away by walk from the University, so that students can even do internship or part-time job.

Aw yes, you're right.

Business owner here. So, fresh graduates are to be paid a monthly target salary of 25k. People with no degree would be at a daily wage of 0.04k, which means a monthly wage of 12k on a 30-day monthly basis as per law. Well, I would be better off waiting for kids to finish their school, then give them a proper training, instead of hiring fresh graduates, to whom proper training is also needed!

Yes, it did! BEFORE covid: it used to be easy. DURING covid: it used to be easy. AFTER covid: it has become challenging.

One simple solution: avoid Bangkok like the plague. Sure, Bangkok is a great and exciting place to be, with many spots to enjoy. The main problem, however, is to GET to these spots! And let alone to work places! Commuting in Bangkok is just a pain in the rear part of the anatomy each time I come to Bangkok for business purpose; I wouldn't like to literally be in the shoes of all Bangkokians having to commute every day to work! Taxi? While I have faced only once the no-meter issue, more and more taxi drivers just refuse the ride, And maybe you have noticed, but it has become a little more challenging to find an available taxi with the time. And when I got one, while the experience has mostly been OK until now, I have faced the same as anyone faces here: stuck in the traffic jam! Public transportation? As someone who wanted to become a bus driver and who respects the profession, I have never seen such a bunch of morons: complete idiots on the wheel who do not even stop, even if they are hailed. Yes, HAILed: you have to do the nazi salute, as if you were shouting "heil hitler" if you want to stand a chance to get the bus stopping. Why is that so? Because either they are not looking in the right direction, or they are too busy racing with their colleagues to focus on bus stops and driving on the proper lane! So you have been waiting for 20 minutes? You are bound for another 20-minute waiting time! If you are lucky... And shall I tell about those fare ladies who do not even know their lines?? Fully unprofessional! The overground? Not much better. Each time it is a pain to get a receipt for my company. Then, that same stupid security guard always asking me to open my same bag again and again, and making me miss the train, and the next one comes only 10 minutes later because the system, as it becomes to be known to more people, starts to be broken! As I was learning Thai, the overground being broken was a recurring topic! As if Bangkok's public transportation organizations' main mission were to collect all the failed incarnations of the nation! And after all this, as a business owner: expect your coworkers to show up on time?? And wonder why they leave without notice just because they found a better workplace closer to their home, that pays 10 bahts more?? Operating business from the province, where my coworkers are only 5 to 10 minutes away by walk or scooter ride is the best decision, one entrepreneur running business in Thailand can make!

Welcome to global socialism: taxes, taxes and again taxes. France has been taxing foreign incomes for ages already, US has been practicing double taxation for ages as well, Myanmar is now requiring all abroad-based Burmese citizens to pay 25% of their income back to the country, now Thailand is taxing foreign income as well,... And this is all just about to start. Next step is global communism: "you will have nothing and you will be happy".

Go to Hua Hin, the Scandinavian boomer colony that doesn't tell its name, and visit any tailor shop. This could give you a tiny idea about how ex-Danish wife could have looked like: definitely not the cliché or the general idea one might have about nordic women.

For no apparent reasons?? Really?? Or rather for no appearing reason? Namely the one hidden between legs...

Ugh... wait... foreigner owning business here in Thailand: hair salons, taxi firms,... aren't they supposed to be restricted to the Thais only?? I thought only Thais would be allowed to run these sorts of business, so how could Russian get the permits to run Thai-only businesses?? And please don't come with the common brown envelop explanation: the Labor Department has become very strict with this! Regarding people working illegally: in that case, the Russians would have gotten their visa and work permits removed by the authorities. I mean, every foreign business owner knows that you need to have at least 4 Thais registered per foreign owner or employee, declare them every month for the Social Security and so on, yearly audit, half-year financial statement and so on... everything getting stricter... So if the Russians in Phuket are running business illegally, how come they have not been kicked out yet?? I must have missed something...