“Dear Mr. Wayan Balmond,
Your job application has been reviewed and approved.
We are delighted to inform that you are selected for the job.
Please confirm your acceptance for final check.
Best Regards,
HR of Zayno Partee. “
The long-awaited e-mail finally rings on the phone of a Gen Z from Canggu, who just starting to have his career as a chef in a vegetarian restaurant in South Jakarta (Jaksel). No wonder, his LinkedIn portfolio shows enormous achievements in fruit carving competitions.
Maybe he is not as privileged as those who can be a startup coffee shop founder from their parents' savings, but he managed to complete his scholarship to become a Bachelor of Culinary Arts Management. His recruiter had no doubts about his quality, especially based on his impressive interview and no track record of hate speech using Twitter alter accounts.
However, one day he complained, "Why is my salary ends up being deducted for taxes higher than my co-workers?"