mrcfo
12-25-2005, 07:24 AM
My old lady works for a DISTANT relative who owns a rather large clothing chain store, it was the experience that opened my slitty eyes to the world of Asian Nepotism and how it just truly sucks.
In this rather large chain store (which he brought off a Caucasian about 15 years ago), he has employed ONLY relatives and friends he knows of or anyone who is related to these people, basically all employees are Asian except for a few token non-Asians here just to pass the "anti-discrimination" policies here.
To get to the real "beef" of this story and what irked me to write this post is that my neighbour - 20 year old second year uni drop out who is currently working as a sales assistant there along with some lifiting duties applied for a position as advertised as an office clerk. She was rejected, primarily and indirectly because of the fact that she was not a family member, the foilage provided to reject her? She's not qualified enough? EXCUSE ME? FOR AN OFFICE CLERK????
As my mother is still fairly close to the owner's family (but I think genetically we are about 5-6 generation apart despite sharing the same surname), she knows that the applicant (my neighbour) was purely rejected not because she wasnt qualified as such (really, you only need a pass in final year of high school for this job), but rather because the owner didn't like her and more so, because she wasn't a relative.
However, this doode has employed a few relatives who are outright spoilt brats, screwed up at uni and is now only in such a position due to being born in the right family. He is employing
* 2 nieces who have foked uni - pretty much coz they clubbed virtually every weekend and refused to study as well as behaving like a subruban version of Paris Hilton. Didn't last over a semester 1st year at university and hopelessly bad in terms of even basic written communication. Poor performance, lack of respect for colleagues and is horrendously impunctual and incompetent of holding their somewhat high positions. One is a marketing strategist and another is a management accountant, yet my mother tells me that colleagues have to spend half the time cleaning up their shiet and mistakes.
* A newphew who is a known thief running one store as a manager. Now how silly is this?
In a way I felt VERY sorry for the applicant (my neighbour whom I knew very well). So she's not academic, but she's extremely hard working from what I've seen her, has a good working attitude and almost a model employee (from what she previously did at this chain's store). However, her potential in this firm is cut short only due to short sighted facism/nepotism.
So I accept nepotism is an old Chinese addage to do business and some may say, to survive in a Western world. I do concede that other from Nepotism, the firm operates in a very Western system and adopts mainly Western methologies and strategies. Management are highly educated and it has helped countless overseas students survive in a Asian-unfriendly part time job market (often requires a working visa or apporval of some sort here before you can work here).
With all due respect to management, the entire upper echolons and "ministers" if you like are all strictly relatives or friends the main owners trust. I find it rather sad and bizarre management have employed such a backward approach. Most of all, I feel for my friend who has all the ethics and attitude for the position but limited by a silly nature.
For all it's worth, every cloud has a silver lining and I believe her talents would be much better served in a fairer working environment. In some ways I'm happy she didn't get the job - cant imagine the politics she'd have to go through.
In this rather large chain store (which he brought off a Caucasian about 15 years ago), he has employed ONLY relatives and friends he knows of or anyone who is related to these people, basically all employees are Asian except for a few token non-Asians here just to pass the "anti-discrimination" policies here.
To get to the real "beef" of this story and what irked me to write this post is that my neighbour - 20 year old second year uni drop out who is currently working as a sales assistant there along with some lifiting duties applied for a position as advertised as an office clerk. She was rejected, primarily and indirectly because of the fact that she was not a family member, the foilage provided to reject her? She's not qualified enough? EXCUSE ME? FOR AN OFFICE CLERK????
As my mother is still fairly close to the owner's family (but I think genetically we are about 5-6 generation apart despite sharing the same surname), she knows that the applicant (my neighbour) was purely rejected not because she wasnt qualified as such (really, you only need a pass in final year of high school for this job), but rather because the owner didn't like her and more so, because she wasn't a relative.
However, this doode has employed a few relatives who are outright spoilt brats, screwed up at uni and is now only in such a position due to being born in the right family. He is employing
* 2 nieces who have foked uni - pretty much coz they clubbed virtually every weekend and refused to study as well as behaving like a subruban version of Paris Hilton. Didn't last over a semester 1st year at university and hopelessly bad in terms of even basic written communication. Poor performance, lack of respect for colleagues and is horrendously impunctual and incompetent of holding their somewhat high positions. One is a marketing strategist and another is a management accountant, yet my mother tells me that colleagues have to spend half the time cleaning up their shiet and mistakes.
* A newphew who is a known thief running one store as a manager. Now how silly is this?
In a way I felt VERY sorry for the applicant (my neighbour whom I knew very well). So she's not academic, but she's extremely hard working from what I've seen her, has a good working attitude and almost a model employee (from what she previously did at this chain's store). However, her potential in this firm is cut short only due to short sighted facism/nepotism.
So I accept nepotism is an old Chinese addage to do business and some may say, to survive in a Western world. I do concede that other from Nepotism, the firm operates in a very Western system and adopts mainly Western methologies and strategies. Management are highly educated and it has helped countless overseas students survive in a Asian-unfriendly part time job market (often requires a working visa or apporval of some sort here before you can work here).
With all due respect to management, the entire upper echolons and "ministers" if you like are all strictly relatives or friends the main owners trust. I find it rather sad and bizarre management have employed such a backward approach. Most of all, I feel for my friend who has all the ethics and attitude for the position but limited by a silly nature.
For all it's worth, every cloud has a silver lining and I believe her talents would be much better served in a fairer working environment. In some ways I'm happy she didn't get the job - cant imagine the politics she'd have to go through.