Maybe I have been here too long alternatively I am becoming Smeg - maybe both! I have worked for a variety of companies in varies positions.
1. They can't multi task. Everything is completed one after the other. Send a fax to Jack then call Jill. If Jacks fax is busy they continue to try until it is done before they call Jill. Sometimes I wonder if they can take a dump and a piss at the same time.
2. Horrendous work ethic. They arrive on time and leave on time and get nothing done in between. They sit on MSN Chat before anything else gets done.
3. They don't think in the present. The company has spent 500,000 Baht on a reception area and the twat behind the reception desk is having a slurpy behind her desk in front of waiting clients.
4. They refuse to learn anything more than what they already know. He knows photoshop, he knows photoshop and that is about it. Try finding a multi skilled Thai.
5. Urgency is not a factor. No concept of getting anything done today.
6. They have this sense that their 711 degree is the highlight of their life. I have an MBA so I want 40,000 Baht - fuckall experience in anything. I am a programmer with a degree in IT. I want 20,000 Baht then does not show up for work for 4 of her first 2 weeks. I am good at photoshop and I have a degree in computer science - then spends an entire day making a blue rectangle with rounded corners. A 7 flucking hour rectangle. Then gets pissed off when it is said to be blan.
7. Unproductive - I am certain that for the one company I worked for they would be able to replace 3 Thai's with a (normal) Westerner and it would cost them the same except things would get done faster.
Westerners:
1. They live in an alternative reality. Thailand is perfect, Thailand is perfect because I don't want to go home. I fear going home where people will see through my bullshit, laziness and I have to live in my bedsit.
2. Classless fucks. I have never met so many low class white riffraff in Africa than what I have met in Thailand. Real filth! I kid you not. They can hide in Thailand because the Thai's cannot see a class structure between Westerners.
3. Bullshitters. Met a guy who was teaching at a school and said he was a stock broker in New York. Never knew what the S&P 500 was. Met a secret service agent who could not demonstrate water boarding. Met an attorney who apparently used to shag USD1,000 a night hookers but was teaching at a government school for 25,000 Baht a month. Met a man on a secret mission who was working in Iraq. When he was pissed it transpires that he was part of the kitchen cleaning crew of KB(?). Ahh fluck!
The list just goes on!