The Struggle Of The Simple Filipino

Comment from a reader on "US Unemployment - Is Guam The Answer?":

Subic Bulletin, when you're talking about the hardworking filipino that works a 12 hour day for only 150 to 300 pesos(a standard set by your own people) are you talking about the guy beating with a hammer on the SCTEX expressway with 15 others standing there only watching him.

Or maybe you're talking about the 3 or 4 workers at the checkout counter more interested in chika chika than their job, when only one worker from most countries is really needed to do the job. In any case, I'm not aware of very many in your country putting in an honest, hardworking 8 hour work day much less the 12 hours you claim.

By then most of your workers are drunk on something like Ginebra gin.

[The Subic Bulletin] Thanks for your opinion but we think your more than a little misguided and quite offensive.

Firstly you missed the point that our post was about Filipinos that do work overseas, but having said that there are certainly many hard working Filipinos that are responsible to there families.

Jobs like the checkout counter you refer to are usually brought about by casual staff on a "six month contract" to avoid labor laws, a whole different story.

We suggest you try living their life for a couple of weeks, taking home a couple of dollars a day that doesn't even make a dent in the expenses lease pay for an educations for your kids to have a better life, you wouldn't survive. Maybe we could make your attempt into a reality TV show, would be good for a laugh.