Brushes with the law
Hi all,
Need some advice from folks from the civil service. Recently, I had a brush with the law. What happened was I had a quarrel with a cab driver (who endangered my family's life with his reckless driving). To cut the long story short, I confronted him and, in the fit of anger, I kicked his door although I did not touch him at all. He subsequently lodged a police report and now I am being investigated for road rage. I explained to the police my side of the story as well as submitted the video footage of the cab's reckless driving. I also admitted to the police that I have over-reacted and am willing to apologize and make restitution to the cab driver for the damage done to his door. Personally, I do feel that I have made a mistake and should not have taken the law in my own hands. Anyway, the police has asked for my particulars, including my ministry. The officer said that the decision to inform my ministry lies with his senior management. The outcome of the investigation is still pending. My question is what happens if they do inform my ministry, even if in the end, I am not charged. What's the worst that can happen? Is my career in the civil service down the drain already? Thanks. |
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Hi Everybody,
I have a total of 5 yrs working experience and I just graduated from NTU part-time engineering degree with second upper honors and 'A' for FYP. If i am going to apply for gov job, how much salary must I ask for? Maybe $3200? My Current Pay is $2600. I am 27 this year. Is it very hard to enter gov job with my current age? Will they even want to consider NTU Part time? Thank you |
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do you serve NS?? the ministry will probably hire you as fresh degree grad, with NS, 2nd upper will get between 3.3k-3.6k |
I don't think your employer (the civil service) will impose any punishment on such an infraction that took place outside of office and work hours, especially when no jail time is involved. People do get involved in fights but they don't necessary lose their jobs. What about the tons of traffic and parking offenders ? If I recall correctly there was a public figure who abused her maid, was fined but still in the employment of a stat board.
The other issue is honesty. Being honest is the best and you did right here. When you start with one lie, you have to cook up more and more lies to cover the earlier ones. At the end of the day, you have to answer to the maker. Quote:
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#9 is University of Queensland Ranking is one thing but Australian degree is super common in Singapore. Nparks has many UQ graduates already because they liked sending their own scholars to UQ a few years back. Dime a dozen. All similar background and education and training. And it is not hard to get a first class honours degree. So, sorry you\'re nothing too special on this count. TBH, UQ caters itself a lot to singkie poly students so you will find a lot of them around. You should be getting low to mid 3k starting pay. Normal degree, second lower, second upper and first class all got incremental increases of about $200-300 each step. Your credentials will get you a job I am pretty certain. But your career progression depends on your performance on the job. As a non scholar you will have to earn your opportunities unlike Nparks returning scholars who are automatically given plum high visibility assignments from which to score points. But I noticed you asked nothing about the job requirements, nature of the job, routine, and content. Since you\'re all about salary and career path, there\'s plenty of other places that you can consider. Part of the job assuming you\'re in Operations will be similar to Miwashi supervising foreign workers cutting grass, checking toilets, looking at construction plans, being on construction sites, out in the hot sun, this is the core business of Nparks. Assuming you don\'t screw it up, you should get confirmed after a year. If you expect to manage a park from behind a desk, find another job. You may be considered for promotion after 4-5 years if you are good by which time you should be earning double your starting pay. If you\'re not, and you still manage to hang on, you might get promoted before 10 years. The organization\'s not particularly bad. Par for course with the rest of the civil service and stat boards. At least you get an office in nice surrounds. |
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