My company wants my passport on record

[Mr Smin]

Guess I've been in the same job too long - this is all news to me, although HR did send out a form to fill in which I ignored as they had printed it too small to write in the boxes (it wanted a lot of information I don't trust them to hold). These are the same plonkers who sent a letter inviting me to transfer to the new contract recently, although they transferred me to it about 6 months ago.

Pretty harsh this scheme as it's quite normal not to have either a passport or photo driving licence.

 

[fela fan]

Have these things been rolled out yet?

http://www.secureidnews.com/weblog/...oduces-national-id-with-biometric-technology/

Thailand is far less a police state than britain mate. Far far less.

No, not heard of them yet, but id cards by themselves are no measure of how far a state is a police one.

 

[Yossarian]

I disagree - the police have always had pretty sweeping powers in Thailand but the Internal Security Act, together with the continued repression in the south, destroy pretty much any claim Thailand has to being a 'free' country, even if there's no longer a military junta running the place. Of course, much of this stuff doesn't affect the lives of the average person in the slightest, same as in the UK.

 

[rennie]

A british birth certificate after 1983 does not necessarily entitle its holder for British citizenship or the right to work in the country.

The UK, thanks to Mrs Thatcher, is not longer like the US when all you need to get a passport is to have been born there (legally or illegally).

 

[fela fan]

I disagree - the police have always had pretty sweeping powers in Thailand but the Internal Security Act, together with the continued repression in the south, destroy pretty much any claim Thailand has to being a 'free' country, even if there's no longer a military junta running the place. Of course, much of this stuff doesn't affect the lives of the average person in the slightest, same as in the UK.

I wasn't talking about how free each country was, just the relative degradation towards police stateness. The police are so much more in my face in britain than in thailand. Never mind the huge amounts of surveillance that goes on the motherland, so much so that nowadays britain is recognised as a seriously watched country by the state, if not the most watched.

But if you disagree, fine, nothing will come of this wee discussion! But what i do know is that in thailand police are so rarely part of every day life, whereas that is simply not the case in britain.

And we can't even begin to go into what 'free' or 'freedom' means on this thread...

One major difference between the two police forces is that in thailand they don't really care about the laws unless they can make money out of them. That is, they don't do the government's bidding. In britain the police people act as if they are mini-governments themselves. They absolutely love enforcing the law. The thai police are naturally lazy like most of the population, so only do what they have to.

You don't need a military junta in britain when you already have a police one.

 

[jæd]

I wasn't talking about how free each country was, just the relative degradation towards police stateness. The police are so much more in my face in britain than in thailand. Never mind the huge amounts of surveillance that goes on the motherland, so much so that nowadays britain is recognised as a seriously watched country by the state, if not the most watched.

But if you disagree, fine, nothing will come of this wee discussion! But what i do know is that in thailand police are so rarely part of every day life, whereas that is simply not the case in britain.

Not if you're law abiding, or just stay out of their way...

And we can't even begin to go into what 'free' or 'freedom' means on this thread...

Yep we can. Just that Fela will wriggle wriggle out of a definition he likes. Usually one that includes "people being able to vote in democratic elections".

One major difference between the two police forces is that in thailand they don't really care about the laws unless they can make money out of them. That is, they don't do the government's bidding.

A corrupt police-force is better than the British one...?

The thai police are naturally lazy like most of the population, so only do what they have to.

Isn't that statement a tad racist...?

 

[StanSmith]

Yeah the company I work for wanted a copy of my passport as wel to see if I had the right to be there!, this was due to them being busted a couple of weeks prior to them asking us.

 

[scifisam]

Yes, they just need to provide different documents i.e. the combination stated in list 2.

Ah - I misread it as requiring you to provide one document from combination 1, and one from combination 2.

 

[cesare]

Ah - I misread it as requiring you to provide one document from combination 1, and one from combination 2.

Ah, right. It's not as onerous as it seems once you look at it closely, but I've a sneaking suspicion that many employers/HR will just demand a passport to save time and effort.