YOURSAY | ‘If no one patronises Malindo Air, it will revise its policies and change.’
Malindo Air denies 'strip check' report
Anonymous #44199885: On Tuesday, a certain BN parliamentarian apparently supported a rapist marrying his victim as ostensibly the criminal has repented, the crime purged and the victim has gained a good husband (barring the fact that she only gained him because he raped her).
On Wednesday, we have an airline showing its alleged perverseness by requiring women and girls to parade before them near naked so that they can be assessed for suitability in customer service.
Sex madness is a disease that seems to be very contagious. It has now jumped from the BN parliamentarian to the private sector. Health Minister Dr S Subramaniam should take immediate action before this becomes a pandemic.
Anonymous_3f4b: Everything is done above board and the job applicants know what is expected of them. They are not forced to do it. It is all voluntary.
In a free enterprise, if you do not like the way the interviews are handled then you have the right not to attend. If you want the job, you must adhere to procedures. Simple as that.
For every complaint, there are hundreds lining up for the jobs. If Malindo Air is wrong, the customers will be the final arbiter not this forum.
AP: The candidate who complained is probably a disgruntled person as she was not selected. Those who are commenting, please get the facts right.
The candidates are just checked only by women staff and not by any male interviewers.
Drngsc: Let the airline run its business the best way it knows how. Let all the holier than thou people who cannot stand to see a girl in a partial see-through uniform go and travel with other airlines.
They have choices. If no one patronises Malindo Air, it will revise its policies and change. Please do not try to manage the market.
Worldly Wise: Women interviewers examining the bodies of women interviewees seems in order.
Body scars and body fitness ought to be examined before appointing any airplane staff because passengers need to be well attended to in a pleasant environment.
Tony Soprano: Unlike Singapore Airlines, Malaysia Airlines and all the other Asian airlines, US airlines are not even allowed to screen flight attendant applicants according to their looks or age, let alone race, religion, etc.
NNFC: It’s a job and there are many more if the applicant does not wish to comply with the interviewer's request. I am sure the reasons were all properly explained. So, what is the fuss?
BernieBaby: Appearances are important in some industries. Even in the airline industry, there are differences between regional requirements and local cultures.
Let Malindo figure this out themselves. I am booked on an International Malindo flight very soon, for all you know whilst they may have checked all assets (head to toe), what's most important is attitude.
That would be my first criteria for quality service.
Abasir: Malindo, with this interview process, has seemingly given new meaning to the term ‘take off’.
MPs urge gov't to probe Malindo Air over strip-check interview
Mushiro: If Malindo was worried the women applicants had any scars, pimples or tattoos that could be seen when wearing their flight attendant uniforms, then just give them the uniforms to check.
Asking them to strip just to check this is perversion. And this is a most stupid excuse.
Anonymous #44199885: The girls come to apply for a decent job and not to sell their beauty or bodies but to provide customer services professionally - they are fully clothed when working.
Would not a simple question about existence of tattoos and scars be sufficient, and checking to see whether these will show through clothes can be simply determined by asking them to wear the uniform.
Dkay: Choose a job which will suit oneself. If one is scared to expose minimally, then don’t work for Malindo.
‘Only 6pct of M’sians have sufficient savings to last six months’
Thickskin: Organising programmes on financial management? Those who have no savings have no time to waste on these programmes as they are busy holding multiple jobs just to keep afloat.
If the Finance Ministry and Bank Negara suggest increasing the Bantuan Rakyat 1Malaysia (BR1M) 10-fold, it may help.
Bob the Builder: It all boils down to individual earning capability. If you can't earn a reasonably good salary to keep life going, how on earth you can talk about savings?
Worse still, if it is a case of hand-to-mouth existence, these people will not even think of saving. They will think, maybe a second job instead (for those who are hardworking and can think).
The training programme is nice to look at it but in reality it won't do any good to those affected. So it still boils down to a good education from young to prepare for the future.
This what education is all about and this is what the government of the day must come in to pave way for a proper and good education system for the rakyat and their future generations.
Dkay: For one to save, the banks must help out. Look at the pathetic interest rates banks are giving on savings.
Anonymous #45522856: We save and save, but at the end of the day our ringgit turns to ‘shrinkggit’.
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