Survey: HK and Singapore bosses most demanding

There is also a bad side of it. We need to understand they are a person, a human they also have personal things to attend to. It depends on the situation, but too much is bad. It can create stress, and stress is unhealthy and it can cause cancer. Life must be balance, money is not everything, well it depends on the person if he/she is to materialistic, if he finds money as a comfort, or to be recognize and appreciated. I dont think that Singapore is a place for rich. I have seen a lot of poor singaporean.

Ha ha ha calling for work life balance... no one seems to know what is work life balance anymore. My wife's boss expects her to have her hp with her all the time. I dont understand, she needs to bring her hp even when she goes to the toilet, have it besides her bed, while we are eating. The boss also loves to give the staff work on Friday afternoon and expects it on Monday morning. She is not paid to work on weekends! I am glad that she quits! and now happy studying full time in Australia. I am working in Australia now and life is so much better... a lot more work life balance and we are happy. I am happy working for an ang moh boss now. If i need to work during my weekends, he ensures that I am paid. Other than that... what I like is that my boss asks me if it is ok to work on a certain weekends and he will be there together with me... working together... that is what I call GREAT BOSS who cares and sweat it out with people under him.

No matter either in m'sia,s'pore, korea or more........some company boss is very UNREASONABLE,SELFISH & take thing for granted. demanding very high.ask his subordinates to do extra work or do some personal problem for him (No extra OT). if he treat this subordinates so bad.don't expect his subordinates treat him well also. maybe even resign join other company for better benefit. not all the subordinates are very STUPID.

I had a boss who asked me to cancel my leave for my wedding and honeymoon and I was like "@#$%!!!!' Worse still, he had to cheek to say that he did the same thing when he got married even though his wife was unhappy. I wished him all the best and slap him with "The Letter"...... these bosses are really crazy...... might as well ask me to sell my life to the company..... A**HOLE!!!! =X

Why there are demanding bosses? Simply because we have many demanding people. Also our govt is striking for the best result and always want to be rank No 1 in the world.

Actually it is very tired to work in Spore, especially in the service line. Any mistake made, they are expecting "heads to roll". However, if you are rich, this place is best for you. You can complaint and demand and you will get the service much more better in other countries.

Singapore is a place for the rich - not for the poor.

If you got money, you are a honey.
If you are broke, you are a joke.

I must be very fortunate. My boss is not demanding at all. All of us love her. She comes in morning, say a few words to us and then disappear for the rest of the day. Fantastic!!!

Some bosses keep asking for things you have already given them in soft copy. Trouble is when you sent them attachment they never bother to take note. worst some never bother to open. They just file and forget to read. Few days later they ask for the same thing again. Sigh.......

I ganna call by my boss even though I am on overseas leave, he expect me to come back straight from my overseas leave because his laptop is not working ........

Uniquely Singapore ......

So, many bosses expect their staff to be contactable on their off days but how many bosses can be contactable on their own off days? They call you, you are expected to answer without fail. You call your boss on an off day? They will get impatient and angry even for disturbing them (Golfing takes a lot of concentration after all). I love how this double standard is widely accepted here.

Once I got a call from my boss while I was on an overseas shopping trip and I was in a fitting room trying on a dress. She asked me to locate for her a document which I have already placed on her desk two days before I left for my vacation. Everyone in the fitting room area could hear me coaxing a 50-year-old disorganized 'baby' into finding her 'lost' document.

Oh come on! Bosses have to realize that there is life after work - for any human being. Whatever it is, can wait. If my boss needs to call me on Sunday, she will apologize and explained she only does that in an emergency. I remembered once when she needs to leave the country on Monday morning, and just wanted to check on her itinerary. I, in turn, felt good because my boss respect my personal space and time away from work - physically and emotionally.

Most company don't even pay a single penny for the phone bill but boss will f'__k u upside down if u never response after office hr or off day.. like u own them something.. think government will try to make s'pore to be rank no '1' in 5 yrs time

My boss is a yes man to big boss but no to their subordinate. He came in just an engineer and garrantee promotion every 3 years as for now he is Senoir Manager.
He is good friend for the Big boss so Company give him 500 dollar transport allowance and free parking in the company and yet he ask my fellow colleage to fretch him go and back on any meeting or company activities so as to save his parking and petrol chaeges.
He save company budget by cutting our overtime and deprieve some people from promotion even working more than 10yrs in the company. When there is problem arise he became fretting and falter and start calling for us to help him to follow up and help him to solve the problem and as well to write the report to him asap.
He is a good apple polishing especially the big boss is going to play golf he is always there to entertain. Company paid huge salary to him to let us do more of his secondaty row of duties and so he have more time to play golf and have free lunch treat from our vendor and contractors.
My boss is lucky as most of the employee are old and had no alternate choice, and to stay on in this company to survive, as they unable to find other job elsewhere. Now we got more FT coming in to my company to work and when we ask for raise in our salary or incentive. my boss will threaten to cut or remove the allowance if we will to ask more. Who knows one day he may remove local talent.

Working long hours regularly is one of the reason's why so many families are dysfunctional and most likely one of the causes for teens jumping to their deaths, as parents hardly spent time or communicate with them!. There has to be a balance between work and family life. Staff should be compensated in hours if they have to work beyond the normal working hours, so they can spent more time with their family.

My Boss is a Foreign Talent ! So the FT comes in late for work and leave early and still expect me to be contactable and check emails after work. The best part I do not understand what talent do they bring to Singapore : ). Something is very wrong with our Foreign Talent Policy

My boss forgotten to bring her store keys and expect her staff to rush from home to the store to open the door for her. Then she conveniently checks in her timing as though she was punctual

wow simon i like it man : If you got money, you are a honey.
If you are broke, you are a joke. A GOOD ONE..

My husband's so call HK FT boss. After helping them set up factory & make millions, cut his 13 mth pay. Always make calls after work, weekends & even holiday. Holding a managerial post, 6 years no salary adjustment, full of additional jobs. He, being a work slave would rush down for anything they ask him to do. Earlier years, link his contact to factory security expected him to rush down from east to west after work shld that be an alarm. When he left, they also 'eat' his annual leaves. Thanks God that the factory was caught fire after a year he left.

Work-Life balance??? MY FOOT...

Printed my personal mobile number on the office name card without consulting and paying for my phone bill.

It comes down to personal incompetence.

If you are disorganized, or if you do not know how and when to say no to a client, of course you need your minions to be contactable even outside of office hours.

In other words, these are the countries with the most incompetent bosses.