IS THIS LOVE AS CLAIMED BY THE CEO OF TWELVE CUPCAKES?
3 articles are published by TRS from contributors, which the CEO of the cupcake joint is unable to figure out what is happening. He ends up just bitching in his company FB page.
Simply Unprofessional.
There's no smoke without fire. My interest in this topic is on the labour abuse that has been claimed to happen here.
We should be alarmed that people are writing of labour abuse with such big differential in wage as claimed between the article in TRS versus the CEO of Twelve Cupcakes.
As readers, there is no way to verify unless full evidence is displayed. Till then, it is one person versus the next person. No one is the winner, but the loser is? Some will say, the company, some say the informers. To me, the losers are Singaporeans.
Singaporeans condone labour abuse as we watch this like a drama, unaware that to be paid $800 is unsustainable in expensive Singapore. And why should a foreign worker be paid less than local for the same job? Common sense should tell that it is not right. Singaporeans have allowed our country to pay ridiculous low wages to hardworking people. Of course there will be unhappy people.
FYI, I have verified that some of the information written by the workers from Twelve Cupcakes on TRS to be true. You guys can have fun figuring this out. Even if you believe Daniel's version that cleaners and bakers get $1.1k, ask yourself ... is this sustainable? Ha!
Below is what is written by Twelve Cupcakes CEO Daniel Ong on his company's FB page (source)
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"All of the previous authors of the letters are also made up names, with made up details attempting to sow discord within our company and try to put us in a bad light with you.
In fact, this same person whom is behind all of this was dumb enough to announce it on his own twitter account before sending in letters to TRS under the fictional names of his favorite sportsmen.
On top of that, he has a history of sabotaging his previous work relationships (which we found out by chance).
This guy called NEA on people who was working with him after they parted on bad terms.
He forged evidence to try to get them in trouble with NEA in July this year.
We unwittingly employed him as this "little" detail was omitted from his resume.
We also found out he was dumb enough to tell people around him, that he "franchised" Twelve cupcakes at Junction 8 , AND that the store was his. I literally laughed out loud when i heard that.
This person who is doing all this was an Ex outlet supervisor.
He wasn't very good at his job, and was not well liked by his colleagues.
He left his position with a "Whatssapp message" , with immediate affect, jeopardizing operations and with no regard to his team.
I accepted on the spot , and i believe he was angry there was no counter offer.
He then held on to Outlet keys and our petty cash for weeks. Our HR team sent him a dozen emails, calls and messages...to no avail. Untill we said we would have to go to the authorities, only then did he relent. "
Singapore Singaporeans
*Article first appeared here.
Editor's Note: It is highly unlikely that the contributor was an ex-worker from Twelve Cupcakes as claimed by Daniel Ong. If he is indeed an ex-worker, TRS wouldn't have recieved these screenshots of text messages conversation between the outlet managers and the company CEO/Directors. Till now, the CEO Daniel Ong has been avoiding our questions about his switching statements about his workers' work hours and overtime pay and also about those leaked screenshots. (Find out more here)