Important safety tip. If you fire a Filipino guy for doing a bad job he might come back later to kill you because you made him feel bad. That's why the Pinoy workers are so bad because no one is brave enough to tell them the truth.OutWest wrote:Taco wrote:If you want your house to be built correctly in the Philippines you have to manage the construction yourself or hire an engineer. Its the engineers job to make sure the workers don't screw anything up. Also, you need to tell the Filipino workers if they don't build the house correctly they won't be getting paid. Maybe 1 out of 10 Filipino construction workers does good work. I'll also mention there's hardly any cement mix in the hollow blocks they use in the Philippines which means the rebar and cement poured inside the blocks is what's holding up the walls not the hollow blocks themselves.OutWest wrote:My father-in -law calls it an "honest built house". Unfortunately, that is hard to find in the Philippines. I have seen some German expat built houses here that were of high quality also...again, I am sure they managed the construction of it themselves.starchild5 wrote:How true...Philippines and other third world countries offer more ways to go to the dark side....I could also marry a filipina even if I don't love or like her and get permanent residency and then fool around her back...Most guys I know are cheating on whatever they are doing in Philippines to make quick money...BUT they are completely missing the plot on their existence itself...Yeah...I'm quite high on Philosophy and all that to come to terms being shady ..I cannot change the way I think now..Its too late...even though I know.If I change life will be lot more easier...Taco wrote:
Everything in the Philippines is a lie. You need to change they way you think if your going to survive here.
Manila is basically a scam city with good souls aka women around...Outsiders mostly Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Indians completely exploited it with now Filipinos joining the fun...All the greetings and smiles are basically to buy their crap...I shouldn't complain as I'm from a much worse place...where both outside and inside is rotten...its just the observations....
I know about Cebuexpatservices..its good
It will be incredibly hard for a good guy to do anything here unless he makes compromises in quality of services
I think your estimate of 1 in 10 workers being good is on a very lucky day...1 in 50?
I just heard about a German expat that had a business in Cebu. He made the mistake of firing his Filipino security guard for doing a lousy job. The fired employee came back later and shot him dead.