Reader question: Can you buy employment in Thailand?

In Thailand everything revolves around money. Hirings, promotions, extra favors. This is how sons and daughters of wealthy families receive their diplomas and later jobs and positions. In this way, senior officials in the civil service, police and army move a step higher on the Thai social ladder. Besides money, origin is important as well as the ranking of influential families and clans.

I am 100% sure that my Thai brother-in-law's compulsory military service was bought off by my father-in-law.

As mentioned above, everything can be arranged with the necessary money under the table, especially in Thailand. If you have the necessary money you can certainly (mis)use this. These are not corridor stories. Sometimes corruption also has its advantages if you ask me 🙂

Have heard from a lady that she paid 600.000 baht for her son for an administrative job with the army. In principle, he has that job for life. Seems like a good investment…. TIT.

My wife has absolute integrity in her work, labor officer.
When a few years ago there were 4 jobs to be forgiven, she was allowed to get involved
Well, sometimes you suddenly change jobs, it turns out in Thailand.
So there is no HR there. She made the first selection based on the application letter.
On these 4 job opportunities, she had to process about 2000 applications.
So there is no money involved. However, what happens next, decision boss, is another story?
Can imagine that with some money, things in Thailand will work out more favorably for an applicant. TIT

My stepson's wife had a civil service position in Thailand. When she went to the Netherlands, her parents invested an amount of 500.000 baht to keep her position for 5 years afterwards. It may cost a bit.

This also happens at banks, because the family of a prospective bank employee is sometimes asked to store their savings, etc. at the bank where the applicant will be working.
You often see that not always the smartest people work behind the counters at banks.
If Daddy is wealthy and his son or daughter wants a job there, Daddy will change banks if necessary.
A cousin of my spouse is a Katoey and they certainly don't like conscription, that's why my spouse's brother, the father of the Katoey, sold a buffalo to buy his son free, it worked.
Now he works at a branch of a large bank in Thailand and after only starting there they regularly came to my door asking if I wanted to switch banks.
So I say I'm not participating in this, I'm satisfied with my own bank branch and why should I also go to a branch that is far from my hometown.
I therefore think that a lot of money is made with this form of corruption, with the major disadvantage that you never get the good and capable people in the place where they should be.
Perhaps also one of the main reasons that Thailand never gets a step further,

Jan Beute.

I have met many Thais who have paid money to get a certain position. The amount of money they have to pay depends of course on the position they have applied for and the salary they earn with the position. But they must also have the qualities that the position entails. For that money they get a contract for many years and often good health insurance. Thailand still corrupt? Yes for sure. Personally, I know someone from a “fortunately” wealthy family who has killed someone drunk behind the wheel. Bought off death with 1 million baht to the “fairly poor family” as compensation for the loss and received 120 hours of community service. In short, everything can be bought or bought in Thailand if you have enough bath. Thailand is still a country where the legal system depends on how much money you are willing to pay to not end up in jail for years. And if you don't have the money, you will also end up in jail for years. Will anything change in that area in the near future? I don't think so myself.