u/Alarmed_Swan_4315

my mom always nags at me whenever I get iced teh or milo beng to have with my food and she will wag her finger at me and say "when you grow old you will know, don't say I never tell you" or in hokkien "drink cold, eat hot, say also no use"

When I mean by lying, I mean white lies and I wouldn't under any circumstances tell an actual lie but to me, a white lie is still a lie

I've always gotten into the habit of telling white lies like when someone texts me and ask me where I am, I'll say that I'm at the city centre while I'm actually at the waterfront by the ocean or when my mom asks me if I've hung out the laundry I'll say I have but in actuality I haven't and I quickly go hang it out before she comes home. These sorts of lies with a few times that I would embellishing part of my personal experience for jokes by adding a few extra details

I know that these aren't very good examples but I absolutely hate myself for doing that, I wouldn't lie to get myself out of actual trouble like at work or something else as I feel that if I have done something actually wrong I will own up to it but these little white lies are quite literally making me feel bad

hello!! is there much of a difference between going to imm at JE than jb for shoes? I'm looking to buy a pair of shoes most likely something on the formal side but I'll take what I can since it's just for work and it's pretty casual there, I spoke to a family member about it and they said to just go to jb for them instead of going imm. I'm learning more towards imm since things tend to be on sale a lot there and there's a bata there

btw if you guys think jb is better, do let me know which mall since iirc city square at jb is still under reno

This happened to my friend before I met him and we were talking about bad bosses to pass time so I'll keep it brief. So my friend worked as an intern at this company for 6 months and had to take 4 days of no pay leave due to compassionate reason but since it's within his probationary period, he accepted to just take no pay leave and he left the company once his contract was up but nearly a year later, the HR contacted him to ask him to pay up for "Lost profits" which according to him was nearly 1/3 of his salary as an intern at the time

He told the HR that his pay for the month he took no pay leave was prorated and already deducted from his salary, to cut to the chase, he didn't pay up and said he has no obligations to that company since his contract was already up and it's been nearly a year, he blocked the HR and nothing came of it

It's illegal right? I haven't heard of any company doing this and my friend didn't breach the contract by damaging company property or poaching employees or anything, he simply took no pay leave and it was an fnb role I think

a bit of a dilemma, I just put in my 3 calendar day notice on thur last week on a contract/temp job with a recruitment agency, I've texted the recruiter last week on where I should give back the keycard but still no reply and even texted them this morning but no reply. I still got the keycard and I'm not sure whether I should mail it to the recruitment agency or the client company

edit: Just to add, I told my supervisor at work on where to return the keycard and they said to ask the recruiter

Also wanna add that I have no contact with the hr of the client company, just my supervisor and the recruiter at the agency

I gotta make this clear, my dad is alive, he is still in my life and he is NOT dead

I often tell people that my dad is my hero and role model but I prefer to tell people the version of him that I have in my head. When I was a kid, he was someone who tried to be as active in my upbringing as possible, him having declared bankruptcy when his business failed around the time I was born meant that he was always working odd job to improve our social economic situation, I grew up in a room in an apartment that my dad had rented from his friend and no matter what he always came home with a smile and I remember when I heard the door being unlocked, I run towards it to hug him

He'd always try to take me and my sister out as much as possible when we didn't have school, to the playground to teach us how to ride a bicycle, to fun fairs, take us swimming and the such. Fast forward a couple years and my dad managed to buy a bigger apartment in a newly renovated neighborhood and this is when the version of my dad which I looked up slowly became someone who was weighted down by the decades of hard labor and a wife who has very frequent mood swings has changed him

I'm much older, I'm 22 this year and my father is 62. I'm sorry if this post is a bit bleak but I just wanna ask if you guys have a more naive view of who your dads are since my dad right now is an entirely different person, he has always said "don't be like me, study hard and get an office job"

I wanna say this first that I am not hating on dan, I just wanna get some updates on him since I stopped watching him around 2016-2017 because my parents wanted me to focus more on my studies. I'm an older fan, used to watch a lot of his minecraft mod reviews as a lot of kids during that time did and his gameplay of other games like skylanders, spore, that one stakeboarding game which I can't remember the name of and a lot of other games, I even remember seeing a video of him getting a cast removed after I think he tripped or something and smacked his hand on his table in his kitchen

okay so to the point, since I haven't watched him in quite literally a decade now and besides the whole lunchly drama with ksi which I think he came out as the better one, was there ever any other big updates on him? Btw the only drama I could think of besides the one I mentioned above is when he swore in his earlier videos, calling a dog in minecraft a crazy son of a bitch but it wasn't a big deal to me at least

I was recently hired as a temp worker at a warehouse and tbh a lot of stuff happened and it kinda pisses me off since today was supposed to be my second day but I couldn't go in since a family member entered the icu and I did text the supervisor yesterday whose number I didn't have and wasn't even listed in the contract until I asked for it from a colleague before work ended

so I texted him after work since I got the message that a family member had entred the icu around the same time, I told him that I couldn't go into work tomorrow and he just sent laughing emojis and when I told the recruiter about it, he ghosted me. So this morning, I got a message from the supervisor asking where I am and why I'm not at work and I told him about the message I had sent him yesterdat and he just said "OK" added on "you should have informed the recruitment agent and me before you started working"

Oh yeah sure sure, inform you guys like I can predict the future about my very own family member entering the hospital when they were perfectly alright. Tbh I knew something was up since on my first day, there wasn't any onboarding while my colleagues said I was supposed to have and when I first reached the location, I waited in the lobby for over one and half hour for someone to get me while constantly being told by the front desk to keep waiting

I already felt like quitting but if I don't put in my 3 day notice, I'll need to forfeit my pay which tbh I don't even care about that but somehow if I wanna quit early and cancel the contract I would need supporting documents for it and without it I would need to pay a panelty

edit: I know that it's my second day of work and it does look bad especially to a supervisor since someone like me not coming to work on the second day is a red flag but he didn't need to be that big of an asshole about it especially when someone's family is quite literally in the icu and he replied with laughing emojis

I was hired as a contingent worker for a medical manufacturing company and yesterday was my my first day of work but I can't help but to think that it was very weird day. So I'll just list them down

• was told to wait in the lobby which turn out to be over an hour before anyone came to get me
• The person who eventually came to get me was not the assigned manager I was told to report to but a senior technician with a similar name who manages for the manager who is almost never seen
• Received my keycard and locker, the safety boots which were supposedly already prepared for me when I gave them my size last month but was never ordered and was told to just do the work without them
• Was not given the standard, mandatory onboarding and tour of the bulding that I was told all new hires and even contingent workers were supposed to get
• Was just told that I wouldn't be paid for the first day of work since the clock in system didn't have my name in it yet

So according to my colleagues in the department, I was supposed be given a tour of area and onboarding which they said it was very weird and out of place for someone like me to not go through one but my colleagues were really nice and went out of their way to improv most of what the onboarding would be and even gave me a tour of the building that I was supposed to have but still said that there was still a lot that only management could do

They even messaged the senior technician and they never got an answer. Strangely the agent at recruitment agency I got the job through didn't even have a line of contact to the manager. A couple of other contingent workers I spoke to said they never got an onboarding either and was just thrown into work without any training but they are in a different department than me

but there is a kicker which is if I were to leave without valid supporting documents I would need to pay a 200 dollar penalty even if I did serve my 3 day notice

I'm sorry if this is a very basic question but so I'm making a transition into the supply chain management/logistics industry, I've only worked as a low level/entry jobs since I don't have the paper qualifications for higher positions but I'm planning to go to school for it, I'm mostly doing packing, scanning, inventory updates and such. Do I list down the systems and softwares I use to do those tasks? Besides excel spreadsheets, just the inventory and the scanning software

Something came to mind lately because when I was in school, we had 3 'Jun Jie's in my class which the teacher dubbed 'The 3 Tua Pek Gong' and everyone else would call them by their surname since it'd be confusing

hey all, I recently just started a job in manufacturing medical devices as a technician, I've been doing odd jobs here and there to figure out what industry/career I wanna work in and after getting some advice from a former colleague, I've decided on supply chain management and planning to go to school for a diploma in it

I used to work at a bookstore as a logsitics assistant doing book returns back to the suppliers and now this job. I'm sorry if this is a bit confusing but I sort of feel lost about whether this job I'm doing is a beneficial experience for me so if someone could chime in, it would be great and also I'm in singapore if that matters

I'm helping my parents look for a licensed gas service worker to do a gas inspection of their hawker stall, I have a link to a list of gas service workers on the energy market authority (EMA) website but I don't know which one to engage. So just wanna know if any of you guys have done this before and could recommend one that charges an affordable fee and speaks mandarin since my parents' isn't very good at english

I've already emailed a few and I'm waiting for a reply in the meantime

My secondary school got merged with another a couple years back and the premises was moved to the other school but what happens to the staff and the premises after the merger?

people who have spend time within the anime community will have at one point encountered the ghost stories english dub, after reading the wikipedia page for it, I have a question, how was it OKed by both the japanese and dubbing studio?

I mean don't get me wrong I like the english dub and I find it very glorious compared to other dubs like black lagoon or even fan made abridged content

hello so I'm part of the chinese branch of mahayana buddhism, I grew up with it and everything so anyway, I disagreed with someone who is a convert belonging to the theravda branch of buddhism. We disagreed on the meaning of a word (dukkha) while talking about the writings of buddhism and to stop the agrument from getting worse, I said "let's agree to disagree" and the other guy accuse me of attempting a schism within the groupchat and I was kicked

I sat there for a min thinking, "how is it a schism?" it was a buddhism groupchat that I had joined since I just simply wanting to know people to talk about buddhism and from what I gather there are more people belonging to the theravada branch than there is people from the mahayana/chinese branch in the group chat

Not sure if it's considered overbearing but I'm having trouble talking to people especially online or while texting since I tend to say whatever's on my mind and I feel like I can't read the room while texting whether it's to a person or groupchats such as on whatsapp, instagram or discord or other messaging apps

I don't tend to have this problem in real life since I've been told that I come off as welcoming/friendly and even very inviting to talk to. For the longest time I thought I am just a horrible texter since reading text messages from over a decade ago, I come off as very sarcastic and tbh I really don't wanna sound like it

if it helps, my native language is mandarin

Hello I'm just gonna leave this here since I don't really have anyone to tell or say this to. So my parents and my sibling practically doesn't talk to me anymore and they ignore me when I talk to them, the thing I really don't know what I did wrong actually like being the oldest child/son of the family they don't talk to me anymore

thinking back, the communication between me and my family has slowly died down over the past year. I think it started when I said to my mom that I was going to go through a career change from the food industry to logistics and my mom has troubles with her mood and she goes through mood swings very easily and she start berating me saying how I won't be able to make in the logistic world and other unrelated stuff. My dad was very indifferent to me and tbh he doesn't talk to me much and I haven't been able to talk to my sibling since the mid 2010s since they would just outright ignore me

Ever since I told my mom about the career change, she has slowly stopped answering me and I can feel the indifference spreading throughout the household. I've always felt that my parents were very harsh on me since I'm the only son and they expect me to be the "success story" of the family since all my other cousins are successful but I've always been the type to feel a lot you know? The emotional type of guy, even my mom once told me when I was younger that "being nice doesn't get you anyway, you must step over people to get to the top"

I mean right now, I guess I have to admit to myself that I'm probably estranged from my family despite being under the same roof, I don't rely on them for anything but besides the roof over my head and the utilies I guess. I really hate that I lie at work about my family since I don't want to tell anyone about my situation at home, I would lie about dinners with my family and how I'm treating them right and so on

I really hope one day, I can really rekindle with my family since I really don't have anyone else besides my coworkers but you can't really consider colleagues friends can you. That's all I have to say for now

Hello fellas, I'm making a post on behalf of my friends rather than myself so according to them, I have this ability to remain usually calm under pressure and I don't know how to explain how I do it to them despite how much I tell them about it

The best that I can say is that I imagine putting the stressor into a figurative box and forgetting about it which my friends still don't understand how I do it. I feel like me being able to remain calm is due to me growing in an uniformed youth group and then spending 2 years in the army as part of my mandatory military service.

Oh btw my friends aren't from my country so they didn't go through the mandatory service and tbh I just find it very hard to describe how I do keep calm under pressure, any ideas on how I can describle it to my friends?