The recruiter reached out to me and seemed not to be in a hurry to schedule things even though I told him I already had an offer and needed to decide soon. One or two days before the originally scheduled interview with the hiring team, they shifted it out to a day after. I went home from a nice outing specifically to make it to a quiet place just in time for the rescheduled meeting at 6pm, only to read a text asking if I could make it an hour earlier. This text was sent about 3pm. Another recruiter still showed up at 6pm telling me about the latest change and that the hiring folks couldn't make it. After I told her how inconsiderate it all felt, and that it seemed that it was taken for granted I'd be willing to do calls outside my time zone, she told me to take a chill pill. And to think she had wanted to reschedule to after the weekend, a few days later, at 8pm too! She said this 8pm meeting would've been to rush my interview with them so that they could potentially compete with the other offers, but I had never once heard them moving things around to accommodate me, and I was aghast that I would've had to attend an 8pm meeting especially after things had already been moved around twice. She said it was concerning that I was not OK with being flexible on time 'coz the shipping industry apparently is round-the-clock. (I've seen this excuse used on their Singapore employees especially in the Glassdoor review, whereas I've seen nothing about this industry that would make it any more round-the-clock than any other industry. Also, the status quo does not justify continuing unhealthy trends.) After the whole call with her, I was handed back to the original recruiter, who asked how the call went. I told him about it and he said he'd check with the folks but just presumed that I was still interested after it all! (I also commonly face assumptions in Singapore that we're still interested in a job no matter what, after the reams of criticism we've already meted out. I guess locals and foreign counterparts alike take lots of Singapore employees for granted, first with the round-the-clock hours and then with the presumption that we'd want any job no matter what. I am writing on a more general situation here but it is my greatest hope that this will change, and that Singapore recruiters are no longer complicit in treating employees here like choiceless indentured servants when the reality couldn't be any more different, given the high educational standards and easy alternative of moving abroad in the face of all this crap.)