Vacancies!

One quick note. While looking for a place to have dinner in the mall next door Sunday night, I saw this sign at a large electronics store called Sen:

Obviously they don't have the same laws about equal employment! Or I don't quite understand why being 20-35 is a requirement to be a salesperson.



Many places here seem to be hiring, which is a good sign. But, there was a place around the corner from this store that was also hiring a salesperson - but only women need apply!

You can also tell that "people are cheap" here. They have people doing all sorts of trivial jobs we would never pay someone for in the US. And MANY people working at the same time when fewer would certainly have been sufficient.

For example, there is a gellatto stand just outside the mall. Pretty much one freezer case of gellatto, about 10 flavors to pick from. 5 people were working beind the counter! 2 or maybe 3 would have been more than enough.

Other unrelated/random things I've noticed: while people may "speak English" here, a lot of times you know all the words they are saying, but they don't make any sense together. Also, Malay has no articles, so native Malaysians often don't use them (or don't use them correctly) when speaking English. And Malay has no plural - you say the word twice to indicate there are more than 1. So ayam is "chicken," and ayam-ayam is "chickens".