These are the top ten companies Thais want to work with, according to jobsDB

By Prae Sakaowan

 

Photo: jobsDB

 

BANGKOK: -- JobsDB, the largest recruitment network across Asia Pacific, revealed the list of ten companies Thais want to work with the most — and the results are what you might expect.

 

In the survey released yesterday, PTT Public Co. Ltd., the state-owned oil company, is pinned as the most-wanted company to work with for Thais. The second place goes to Siam Cement Group (SCG), the Thai-owned, largest cement company in Southeast Asia while Toyota Motor Thailand, which currently produces nearly 800,000 vehicles per year, was in third place.

 

The poll was conducted via interviews with 446 participants, mostly Thais who are in senior and management positions in their workforce.

 

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2016/10/27/these-are-top-ten-companies-thais-want-work-according-jobsdb

 

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Management maybe,Round here at PTT its mostly Burmese selling the petrol.

4 hours ago, poohy said:

Management maybe,Round here at PTT its mostly Burmese selling the petrol.

PTT gas stations are a tiny part of the PTT group business. Besides, I think they are run as a franchise let, think 7-11store business model, or other such chains.

There is a lot more to PTT, and not just related to high street fuel delivery and sales.

4 hours ago, poohy said:

Management maybe,Round here at PTT its mostly Burmese selling the petrol.

Correct. They want to be managers in suits, then they will have status and even more time for FB and smart phone. Too bad a far greater emphasis isn't put on training Thais to build and make  things properly. There are many talented people out there, but being a skilled artisan or tradesman is not seen by many as a good job.   

37 minutes ago, BlindMagician said:

PTT gas stations are a tiny part of the PTT group business. Besides, I think they are run as a franchise let, think 7-11store business model, or other such chains.

There is a lot more to PTT, and not just related to high street fuel delivery and sales.

Have oil rigs up around timor

2 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

Correct. They want to be managers in suits, then they will have status and even more time for FB and smart phone. Too bad a far greater emphasis isn't put on training Thais to build and make  things properly. There are many talented people out there, but being a skilled artisan or tradesman is not seen by many as a good job.   

"far more time for smartphone"?

 

You obviously were / are not in management.

 

I do agree that there should be more emphasis on training and doing things properly. Seems tradesmen here are qualified if they have a screwdriver and a hammer. 

...unclear where they sourced those surveyed....

 

...were they PTT employees....???

 

...then would they be expected to express any desire to change employer....???

Edited October 27, 20169 yr by SOTIRIOS
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1 minute ago, GAZZPA said:

"far more time for smartphone"?

 

You obviously were / are not in management.

 

I do agree that there should be more emphasis on training and doing things properly. Seems tradesmen here are qualified if they have a screwdriver and a hammer. 

Sorry for being facetious, I do realize some managers, if not all managers, manage. Maybe it's the staff who seem to have the phone to the ear disease/

I would surmise that they want to work for such companies mainly because they believe they would secure comfortable jobs in a nice cozy office environment while the work environment is fun and cheerful ......and most important..... do not have to do too much work...rather just show up everyday for work and get paid while doing as little as possible.

In my experience the ones with the university degrees come with an attitude that has them thinking their supposedly hard won degree entitles them to do as little as possible and get away with doing as little as possible.

The girls are much worse than the men in that respect.

In my experience, maybe10 percent actually perform their jobs well such that you can not help but notice that this person or that person is sharp and they mean to get recognized and genuinely want to work hard and diligent and work their way up by way of proving themselves and proving their capabilities in many aspects.

They easily take on responsibilities and they get the job done and the bonus is: "They" fix all the other peoples mistakes and help resolve all the  gross incompetence practiced by all the other workers.

They have leadership qualities.

Meantime the rest of them perform poorly but want to be paid well for basically doing as little as possible and actually resent being told what to do by others while they all think they should be the boss while those that do perform well and get recognized for their extra efforts and receive the higher wages then become the enemy of the rest of the workers.

Then the silly office politics start to evolve with the "them verses us" mentality and developed attitude and the end result is the non performers start to deliberately perform even less while they try to sabotage the good workers with gossip and slander and displayed resentment while trying to be uncooperative while they form little groups of like minded thinking co workers who all go to lunch together and gossip and or more or less less plot and scheme with one another as to how to do as little as possible but try to look busy while passing the buck off to other workers and often outright refusing to do what is asked of them by the person they dislike.

This goes on in office environments all around the world ...but point is, it is so common here in Thailand in the types of companies that are mentioned in this post.

They seem to thrive on this large company office environment that seemingly suits their personalities that brings out the worse in them all too often ...but seldom brings out the best of them.

Strange stuff...but witnessing it is even stranger.

Cheers

Edited October 28, 20169 yr by gemguy

No 7-11 ?

Worked for PTTEP in Myanmar.

The people I reported to that were the ones to make decisions were absolutely helpless.

They always asked me what I would do, if I were them.

They were all young guys in their twenties with degrees from prestigious Thai universities.

The tremor of terror in their voices and that barely concealed panic in their eyes as it dawns on them that they are way out of their depth.