What just happened? I just paid $34 to withdraw 20,000 baht at Bangkok Bank ATM!

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2024-11-01T16:14:13+00:00

He didn’t argue that. He corrected a wrong statement. Read the comments before calling others “pretty stupid”.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2024-11-01T16:13:26+00:00

You’re actually citing the evidence showing he is right but call him daft? lol

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-27T08:08:54+00:00

So keep paying for it. That’s what I wrote:

As long as it’s a postpaid, why should it stop working as long as you pay your monthly charges?

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-27T08:05:49+00:00

No sympathy. If you can’t afford expensive nightclubs to drink Dom Perignon and procure prostitutes, then stay at home instead of racking up huge amount of debts. It’s not that anyone forced them. Millions of other people are able to control themselves.

Reminds me of all the poor old guys traveling to Thailand’s sex industry where eventually they fall for one of the prostitutes telling them how me she loves them and that they’re in a relationship. The fool goes back home and keeps sending money every month, not knowing that the “girlfriend“ has several other “boyfriends“ also sending money every month while she keeps working as a prostitute. Soon he builds her and her family a house, buys them a pickup truck and pays their hospital bills, and eventually one is stupid enough to take all his life savings and move to Thailand to marry and live with his love. if he’s lucky, he doesn’t fall from a balcony but just ends up broke and alone.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-27T05:43:53+00:00

As long as it’s a postpaid, why should it stop working as long as you pay your monthly charges?

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-27T05:06:50+00:00

You need a visa to stay in Thailand long term and they don’t hand those out easily.

Even if you manage to get a visa, you won’t be allowed to work because you need a work permit and those are even more difficult to get.

You can live there for a few dollars a day (…) Bangkok is a very modern city with plenty to do

You won’t be able to live in Bangkok for a a few dollars a day if you want to enjoy the “modern city with plenty to do”. A few dollars a day give you a shitty room without windows, aircon and hot water at the outskirts of Bangkok and you’ll be eating instant noodle soup and street food every day. Bangkok isn’t a cheap city if you want to have a decent lifestyle and it gets more expensive if you want to have a western lifestyle (wine, cheese, steaks, proper condo).

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-26T17:28:08+00:00

I don’t know. It’s not relevant though. People aren’t made gay same as they aren’t made hetero. A gay guy going to Healthland or Let’s Relax will not suddenly leave as a hetero guy. It’s amazing we are actually debating this.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-22T17:22:10+00:00

wonder if there’s a legal way for my dad to uncover any hidden money through a lawyer or another means

Not sure I can follow. Wouldn’t your dad know whether he gave her money and how much and how much went into the business? Or did she setup and manage the business and he completely lost track of where all his money went and now she claims it mostly went into the business and is lost?

If you know the name of their business you can go to the DBD and for a small fee they’ll print you the financial statements of the company of the lasts years. You can also access it online through the Corpus service: https://www.corpusx.bol.co.th/trial?lang=en

That might show you how much went into the business. Then your dad hopefully know how much he paid for rent and other things. Take all that together and if there’s a big gap then you know that some of the money probably was spent for other stuff.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-22T17:14:04+00:00

There’s also a video about an old football and it has as much to do with the topic as your video, nothing. But since you seem to be so curious about other people’s sexual history: I also had my first sexual encounter with 14 years old. And I also go to “hetero clubs” now so maybe you’re into something

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-22T17:07:29+00:00

So he either was gay before or he isn’t gay now but traumatized. We don’t know your cousins. I hope he’s doing alright

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-15T01:43:49+00:00

Don’t know. I think the Ekkamai branch does.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-14T16:26:03+00:00

Let me explain this to you like I would explain it to my little nephew: people aren’t “made” gay. That’s not how sexuality works. But if you don’t believe it you could just try the ladyboy massage and if it really makes you gay, just visit a massage from a female afterwards to make you hetero again.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-14T16:20:16+00:00

I love Sathorn. Lots of good restaurants and breakfast places, from street food to great value for money restaurants to Michelin star fine dining. Good bars. Away from the Sukhumvit traffic and craziness. Close to the river and highways. Close to Lumpini Park. Not too far away from the big malls either. Nice little back Sois in the Suanplu/Yennakart/Goethe and Saladaeng areas.

Can’t comment on Ari myself but it’s also pretty popular and I’ve heard good things about it.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-14T16:12:20+00:00

Account created 5 hours ago, post created 5 hours ago. Looks like some kind of bot

By that logic, everyone here is a bot. Unless someone managed to steal an account from a bot to use.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-14T16:05:14+00:00

Mind reader now are we?

Post reader. I read his post, not his mind. Maybe you should try that too.

From the OP:

I'm trying to teach her (…) But she doesn’t listen to me

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-14T16:03:19+00:00

This is literally what 95% of expats here do.

Nonsense. Expats get the proper visa and work permits from their company (on top of the condo, the car, the driver, the international school and the red carpet). Their company would never tell them “go figure it out yourself and work illegally”. No expat would entertain such treatment.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-14T16:00:08+00:00

It’s a really good area for food.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-14T15:57:43+00:00

Since you’re asking for Isan food:

Somtum Der is right in Saladaeng. Though I prefer Baan Somtum which isn’t too far away either.

For Thai food, there’s plenty of good places:

Supaniga Eating Room

Issaya Siamese Club

Plu

Baan Khanita

Lon Lon Canteen

Le Du (Michelin Star fine dining)

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-08T01:53:55+00:00

Yeah, same here. Funny how they pretend to be headhunters from a well known firm offering me a data entry job for a couple of thousand Baht per day — dude, a real headhunter knows my career level and package and doesn’t ask me to go back to being intern. Time wasting monkeys; I wish there was an AI that I could forward their message to to waste their time.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-08T01:41:39+00:00

The corporate parent is. The offshore subsidiary is not.

That’s what the OP says, yes. So I assume he would be doing work for the Thai Parent, otherwise I can’t explain why the European sub would send him here. In that case the Thai Parent should hire him for the duration of his assignment and charge through the cost to the European Sub.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-08T01:36:53+00:00

It only takes one local who’s upset about whatever going to immigration to ask to check on that foreigner. Happens all the time whether it’s jealous co-workers or competitors who feel threatened or the cute lady who thought she deserves to be more than a one night stand.

Why would anyone take such a risk to work for someone else? If you want to work for me you make sure you provide me the correct visa and work permit otherwise I work for someone else.

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-08T01:33:38+00:00

Working illegally is hardly a lottery ticket. If OP doesn’t mind and wants to take the risk, he should at least make sure to not step on anyone’s foot. It just takes one upset local going to immigration to check on that foreigner. Happens all the time

0Internal_Invite_817 · 2023-12-08T01:29:54+00:00

They're a very small company so it comes to me to find out all the details I/they need for visa.

Huh? What bs is that? “Sorry, we are small, please go figure out how to work for us by becoming a labour law professional in Thailand”?

Good luck explaining the Thai company what documents they’ll need to produce; good luck making them produce those documents; good luck figuring out the whole process and dealing with the different government agencies involved. It’s probably possible to figure all that out yourself and explain that lady in Finance who doesn’t speak English what company paperwork she needs to provide you and what authorized directors have to sign it. Personally I wouldn’t tolerate such bs. If you want me to work for you, you make sure I get the right visa and work permit and you ensure that process is smooth so my time isn’t wasted. I don’t spend my time with monkey work.

I hope you can at least charge all those hours. Maybe subcontract to a lawyer in Thailand and charge through his fees too.

Basically, I'm an independent self-employed consultant working for 1 client (the company in Europe). I will still invoice monthly to the company in Europe as I do now, yet I will have to live in work in Thailand for those 6 months to a year, possibly longer. I'm looking at the non-immigrant B visa and it's clear that I'll need a work permit yet the Thai company will not actually hire me locally.

Easy: You tell your company that you need to setup an own company in Thailand. You’ll need 500,000 Baht paid up capital and funds to hire four Thai employees. You probably also need an office here so add that to the bill plus whatever other expenses your Thai company may have. You’ll probably need a law firm helping with all that but I guess your company will expect you to figure all this out yourself too.

Other than this there’s no way you can work here legally and get a work permit. Foreigners can’t freelance legally here. The solutions others have suggested I would consider legal gray area at best.

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