{"id":3068,"date":"2009-01-09T23:57:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T15:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/?p=3068"},"modified":"2009-01-12T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T04:24:15","slug":"quit-your-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/borninmalaysia\/2009\/01\/09\/quit-your-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Quit your jobs!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow…wonder how many people are up to the challenge Mahathir has thrown<\/a>. I kind of agree with him on this one. Berani buat, berani tanggung (Dare to do, Dare to face consequence). No pointing boycotting this and that – symbolic acts that only serves to cause negative impact to local economy. So what if you don’t drink Coca Cola? Well, 60% of its staff are Malays and there’s 1700 Malaysians employed in Malaysia. Its the same for many other “american” brands – Starbucks (I wonder why no one talks about Coffeebean), KFC, McDonalds, Citibank, IBM, Intel, Nike, etc. The local establishments employ tens of thousands of Malaysians and our boycott will only serve to impact the local revenue. So what? Its like meludah ke muka sendiri (spitting on one’s own face). Who’s going to support all those folks who were getting good salary and bonuses before this?<\/p>\n

Now, if Mahathir can guarantee another employment (of equal status) for those who quit these American companies, then its another story. Let’s go for it!<\/p>\n

If our politicians ARE really serious, then pass a law in parliament to chase all these “American” firms. Who wants their money and infractructure? Who wants their technologies? Who wants their sponsorships and taxes? Chase all of them out of our country. IF the politician are really serious \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

The “American” brands have all diversified. There are factories and plants in many countries thus these are global brands in the real sense.<\/p>\n

Its far more logical and practical to hold protest and signature campaigns to voice our unhappiness over the Gaza situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow…wonder how many people are up to the challenge Mahathir has thrown. I kind of agree with him on this one. Berani buat, berani tanggung (Dare to do, Dare to face consequence). No pointing boycotting this and that – symbolic acts that only serves to cause negative impact to local economy. So what if you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-3068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-borninmalaysia","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3070,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3068\/revisions\/3070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}