Picture: Manager

 

Pattaya is so desperate for workers that Thais can get up to 700 baht a day just for washing up. 

 

November 1st was supposed to be the grand reopening of Thailand and Pattaya was also supposed to be ready for the foreign arrivals.

 

Just one problem - there is a massive staff shortage in the sector and at the hotels, said the eastern seaboard hoteliers' chief.

 

Phisut Sae-khu said this was a good and optimistic time for the tourism industry what with the reopening.

 

But there was just no staff.

 

Picture: Manager

 

He reckoned there was an unwillingness among Thais to return to former jobs as they were adopting a wait and see approach after the pandemic showed signs of abating.

 

Waiting to see if it was worth their while to put in a day's work or just keep riding out the pandemic.

 

This despite the fact that if they do come back they can expect DOUBLE what they earned before - daily rates of 600 - 700 baht as opposed to 350 baht before.

 

The higher rates are as a result of hoteliers and other operators desperately trying to find Thai people to work for them.

 

Manager said that many people had tried to get into other industries unfamiliar to them and this was further adding to the drain. 

 

Phisut said that if it continued then operators would have to turn to vaccinated migrants to fill the jobs. 

 

That would be especially true in jobs that Thais were "unfamiliar with" - like washing up and cleaning. 

 

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That amount won't last long once word gets out.

Buckle up folks, they will pass the higher salaries onto the customers bill.

They suddenly realised that working is.................................

 

Hard work 

 

 

 

Thaifriendly is much easier bt1000hr

Can't help wondering if any expats would be willing to work for those wages if they were allowed to. Not too proud to do menial work myself, but the snickering and guffawing you'd have to endure from hotel guests would make working anywhere in front of the public intolerably humiliating.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

November 1st was supposed to be the grand reopening of Thailand and Pattaya was also supposed to be ready for the foreign arrivals.

 

Just one problem - there is a massive staff shortage in the sector and at the hotels, said the eastern seaboard hoteliers' chief.

Don't worry, there might not be that massive a tourists exodus as predicted...????

I smell bs sorry.

 

I'm sure all the 7/11 staff would jump at the opportunity. 

Ah yes, the pandemic has awoken people all around the world with most of them now realising that during the lockdowns, that they can actually survive on the basics and not needing to do 8-12 hour shifts per day, 5/7th, sometimes 6/7th of their weekly lives. 

 

The shortages will of course push costs up on basically everything, fuel prices already rising, electricity prices already rising, imports already rising, interest rates will be next as inflation starts to show it also rising, wages having remained low for so long, now also starting to rise.

 

Sure are going to be interesting times ahead for some, I just hope for me that I can repeat my last years (Nov20-Oct 21) total living costs to be no more than 10 baht per day, that is the worst it's been for me in the last 6 years when I woke up and said, working is no longer for me, sold up and relocated here, happy days ever since.

News next week .

500 000 people from Issan move to Pattaya in the hope of finding work, but due to there being very few tourists , there's little work available and peope are fighting over 300 Baht a day jobs 

But if they work they always end up in the same depressing situation, as not working.  So, why bother?  

 

Yes, 700 baht this month, but as soon as the employers have the upper hand they'll be ditched. And it will be back to square one.

 

Millions, perhaps tens of millions, are now in this poverty cycle.

 

The trials of climate change will also make the pandemic look like a picnic imo.

 

 

25 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

Ah yes, the pandemic has awoken people all around the world with most of them now realising that during the lockdowns, that they can actually survive on the basics and not needing to do 8-12 hour shifts per day, 5/7th, sometimes 6/7th of their weekly lives. 

 

The shortages will of course push costs up on basically everything, fuel prices already rising, electricity prices already rising, imports already rising, interest rates will be next as inflation starts to show it also rising, wages having remained low for so long, now also starting to rise.

 

Sure are going to be interesting times ahead for some, I just hope for me that I can repeat my last years (Nov20-Oct 21) total living costs to be no more than 10 baht per day, that is the worst it's been for me in the last 6 years when I woke up and said, working is no longer for me, sold up and relocated here, happy days ever since.

10 baht a day!?!

That's it, when the schools open, the wife's cleaning some dishes 

2 hours ago, smedly said:

They suddenly realised that working is.................................

 

Hard work 

 

 

 

Thaifriendly is much easier bt1000hr

You can expect doubling prices also on TFwith now tourists flocking in .... ????...

 

Normal Thai habit to anticipate a bad economy ..????

27 minutes ago, mommysboy said:

10 baht a day!?!

Luxury. 

 

Well somebody had to say it. 

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

Ah yes, the pandemic has awoken people all around the world with most of them now realising that during the lockdowns, that they can actually survive on the basics and not needing to do 8-12 hour shifts per day, 5/7th, sometimes 6/7th of their weekly lives. 

 

The shortages will of course push costs up on basically everything, fuel prices already rising, electricity prices already rising, imports already rising, interest rates will be next as inflation starts to show it also rising, wages having remained low for so long, now also starting to rise.

 

Sure are going to be interesting times ahead for some, I just hope for me that I can repeat my last years (Nov20-Oct 21) total living costs to be no more than 10 baht per day, that is the worst it's been for me in the last 6 years when I woke up and said, working is no longer for me, sold up and relocated here, happy days ever since.

Does that 10 baht a day include electricity, fuel for a vehicle, food for 3 meals per day, mobile phone usage, internet usage etc?

wage inflation and short supply is an opening up problem everywhere and yes it will be passed on to customers especially in bars and resturants

3 hours ago, smedly said:

Thaifriendly is much easier bt1000hr

Thanks for the tip, that's where you get your income, is it?

2 hours ago, khunPer said:

Don't worry, there might not be that massive a tourists exodus as predicted...????

It's an inflow of tourists that they're expecting, not an exodus!

2 hours ago, Pravda said:

I smell bs sorry.

Don't apologise, shower.

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

The shortages will of course push costs up on basically everything, fuel prices already rising, electricity prices already rising,

Where are those commodities "already rising"?   I've had no increased electricity rates.

3 hours ago, Gecko123 said:

Can't help wondering if any expats would be willing to work for those wages

They'd have to be 1000+ baht a day to compete with the minimum Westerner teaching salary, workers who are still in short supply. I know because one at my school just jumped ship to another for a slight bump in pay.

1 hour ago, mommysboy said:

The trials of climate change will also make the pandemic look like a picnic imo.

"The trials of climate change..."  

??   Hahahahahaa.....

42 minutes ago, billd766 said:

Does that 10 baht a day include electricity, fuel for a vehicle, food for 3 meals per day, mobile phone usage, internet usage etc?

The 10.86 baht to be exact multiplied by 365 days = 3,964 baht to be exact for the year.

 

Yes it includes everything, private health, car, house insurance, food, domestic holidays, school fees, car registration, maintenance, anything and everything you can write down on your daily spent list.

 

I am not on a pension as I am not old enough, so I have to invest my own savings to make money so as to survive here.

 

It's basically a 50/50 split in shares and banks, the banks aren't paying any interest, but that money is there in case the markets collapse and is plan B, the back up plan, albeit it I also use some of it when markets are way down to pick up some cream on the way up.

 

So far it has worked to a T, albeit my savings aren't really growing, but they aren't going down either, so it works for me and hopefully one will be able to realise capital gains when markets settle post pandemic.

13 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Where are those commodities "already rising"?   I've had no increased electricity rates.

Globally speaking, as was my post. Google electricity rises and you will see what I am talking about, also Thailand will feel the pinch soon.

1 hour ago, mommysboy said:

10 baht a day!?!

Returns from investment vs money spent for the last 365 days, or 2,070 baht out per day, less 2,060 baht in per day = 10.86 baht per day to be exact.

 

Not on a pension, having to use own savings to invest to obtain a return that will allow me to survive here as opposed to watching my savings go south, and that was never the plan as out is out, we also need in to counter the out.

25 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

39 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Where are those commodities "already rising"?   I've had no increased electricity rates.

Globally speaking, as was my post. Google electricity rises and you will see what I am talking about, also Thailand will feel the pinch soon.

Fuel and electricity prices are not rising in Thailand.   Your post in the Pattaya News Forum didn't suggest that you were referring to global prices as you were commenting on your remarkable living costs in Thailand.   

3 hours ago, Pravda said:

I smell bs sorry.

 

I'm sure all the 7/11 staff would jump at the opportunity. 

But they are "unfamiliar with" - washing up and cleaning. 

57 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Don't apologise, shower.

 

You need 700 baht?

1 minute ago, Pravda said:

59 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Don't apologise, shower.

 

You need 700 baht?

No, why do you ask?

2 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

No, why do you ask?

 

You offered me a shower. Maybe you're desperate for 700 baht