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▲ 227 r/coworkerstories

Part 3: Coworker had conflict with the entire team over lunch arrangements, escalated to top management, and pulled the "Back in my days" card

This is part 3 of working with one of my colleagues - Pantry Queen R.

First, she had a break down over an empty ice tray in the pantry fridge.

Then, she whined about not getting promoted and then whined when she finally got her promotion.

This time round, it was drama over lunch arrangements.

Bit of context - our worksite is at a remote location with very limited dining options, hence we will either pack our own lunches, send someone out to buy from town, or order via food delivery.

The practice is for someone sitting in Desk M to head out to buy lunch or to set up a food delivery order (here, our food delivery apps allow you to send an invitation link to many people and we can order as a group). However, this is not a hard-and-fast rule. Anybody can set up the food delivery order or head out to buy lunch. If the person at Desk M doesn't need to buy lunch, someone else that needs lunch can set up their lunch orders or head out.

(In our dispatching office, we take care of different things from different desks on a daily rotation, and the person in Desk M usually has a lighter workload - it was set up this way on purpose)

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Few weeks ago, we had a team reshuffle where people are moved around the team to balance out the seniors and juniors in each team. R's team had a clean reshuffle except herself, and since she is the most senior member in the team by seniority, she tried to boss people around.

Then the drama started.

On one of the day, everybody in the team brought their own lunches except R. Nearing lunch time, R asked Desk M coworker (a junior) to set up a food delivery order so that she can order her lunch. The coworker said most of the team is not ordering lunch, so R can set up the food delivery herself or head out to buy lunch, and Desk M can cover her duty while she's away.

R became unhappy and asked why did the Desk M coworker not want to order lunch for her when it is his duty to buy lunch.

The other seniors then stepped in and said that there is no such written rule that Desk M must buy lunch. In any case, since Desk M does not need a food order, why should Desk M set up the food delivery order and pay food delivery fees for R?

For the rest of the week, R made a fuss over the matter and went to see the manager for 2 hours to complain the Desk M coworker for not ordering food for her, and told everybody (including people from other departments) that the junior did not want to order food for her.

One of the seniors in the team - G - was tired of her harping on the issue and sent a 600-word, 10-paragraph text in the Whatsapp work group emphasizing company values, sharing how each team has handled lunches, that there is no hard-and-fast written rules on lunches and people have been doing on goodwill, and ended saying that food arrangements are a very trivial matter and having even to have a debate over that defies common sense, decency as mature working adults.

R then replied to the text with a 300-word text that basically said (quote):

>When I applied for this job x years ago, one of the interviewers asked me if I am okay to head out to buy food for everyone?

>Back in my days, I always went out to buy food for everyone when I'm on Desk M despite my huge body size

>Life is getting better these days with more new bloods (smile emoji) that they don't need to set up food delivery orders.

>As a big-sized individually that is usually HUNGRY MOST OF THE TIME, I sometimes can't figure out what I should bring to work for lunch, so I had to order food.

>New bloods nowadays have good lives that their mommies can cook lunches for them to bring to office.

>Moving forward, I will settle my own lunch when I'm in this team. Peace (emoji).

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u/earth_wanderer1235 — 6 days ago
▲ 263 r/malaysia

Kad Fon

Back then, I had to use one of these cards to use the public phone to call my parents to fetch me from the mall. But most of the time its me using this card on a public phone in school canteen to beg my mum to bring my homework/book to school 🤣

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 21 days ago
▲ 12 r/AirportPorn

Melaka International Airport (MKZ) - just 6 short international flights per week and no domestic flights

Just a simple airport that has the bare basics for international flights.

(Btw, I don't think you can fit more than 300 people in this building at any single time)

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 25 days ago
▲ 851 r/singapore

In memory of my un-vintage physical tokens

I was decluttering my room recently and I took photos of many items from the not-so-distant past that are no longer in use and I had no space for them.

First on the list were these physical tokens.

I vaguely remembered that when 2FA became the thing, internet banking users had 2 choices for OFA - SMS OTP or physical tokens (or what they call in chimnology - "Secure Devices" or "Secure Keys").

If you had opted for physical tokens, the bank would mail you a small box with a digital token inside plus a few skins (stickers) to personalise your token.

Depending on the type of banking transaction, I remembered 2 ways of using a physical token:

  1. You press a button to generate an OTP

  2. You press a button to key in a 6-digit number provided by the website, then you press another button to generate a set of numbers to key into the website.

In addition to physical tokens with the bank's name, there are also OneKey tokens for SingPass transactions and, IIRC, SGX had also issued OneKey tokens to people with CDP accounts.

I don't remember exactly when, but it was probably in around 2021 that banks started to phase out physical tokens in favour of Digital Tokens in banking apps.

Before this generation of tokens, I remembered DBS having an earlier generation of tokens that came in the size of a thumbdrive and only had a single button to generate OTP. I also can't remember the specifics, but I remembered that if you pressed the button for fun to generate an OTP, then you can't use it anymore because the OTP will be out of sequence (correct me if I'm wrong).

I'm not sure whether such devices are still being used in corporate, will love to hear this from people who use corporate internet banking!

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 26 days ago
▲ 210 r/malaysia

ETS Business Class food - before & after Stesen rebranding

1-2: before rebranding

3-4: after rebranding

KTM has launched "Stesen" brand in Apr 2026 for their revamped F&B service on board ETS trains. Some of the new items under this Stesen brand include tomyam-flavoured popcorn and Santan (AirAsia) food such as Pak Nasser's Nasi Lemak, Uncle Chin's Chicken Rice, and AirAsia's Zero Teh Tarik.

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 1 month ago
▲ 293 r/MalaysianFood

ETS Business Class Food before and after Stesen rebranding

1-2: Before rebranding

3-4: After rebranding

KTMB had launched a new brand called "Stesen" in Apr 2026 to revamp their food offering on board their ETS trains. Some of the food items are Santan (AirAsia)-branded food such as Pak Nasser's Nasi Lemak and Uncle Chin's Chicken Rice. Santan's Zero Teh Tarik is also sold on board.

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 1 month ago
▲ 148 r/SMRTRabak

Singapore's fare system is actually straightforward and idiot-proof (sharing other interesting fare systems I encountered overseas)

Distance-based fares are imo, quite straightforward and idiot-proof. You pay by how much distance you have travelled, the further you travel, the more you pay, subject to a minimum distance fare (3.2km) plus some other exceptions.

Just like to share about some other interesting fare systems that I have encountered overseas.

Hong Kong

I think the transport enthusiasts here may have an idea of how transport fares work in HK.

When you take a bus in HK, you pay a flat fare based on distance from the last stop. If you board at the 1st bus stop, you pay (for example) HK$15 regardless of whether you are alighting at the 2nd stop or at the last stop. But if you board at (example) the 6th last stop, then you probably only need to pay $6 instead of $15.

KMB now has something called a Sectional Fare - if you are only taking the bus for short distances within a town (which differs by route), you pay full fare first, but then tap your Octopus card or credit card at a card reader at the bus stop that you alighted to get a partial refund so you only pay a lower fare.

HK's buses do have transfer discounts or transfer fares, but the transfer discounts differ from service to service, like if you take bus A, you can only get transfer discount for bus B at certain bus stops and within certain minutes of boarding bus A.

As for MTR, they also have monthly passes similar to the Adult Monthly Travel Pass, but the ones in HK come in different variants and only apply within certain range of stations on one line or across specific lines only. Of course I'm not talking about Airport Express or the cross-border stations... even if you need a monthly pass for travelling within HK only, you also need to check to see the type of pass you need. For example, the MTR City Saver allows you to take MTR 40 times within 40 days between 67 selected stations for $460.

If you are transferring between MTR, Light Rail, and buses, there are also specific transfer discounts but they apply to transfers to/from specific bus routes at specific stations only.

Sydney

Sydney charges distance-based fares but with a few differences:

- If you board/alight at the airport stations, you need to pay an additional Airport Access Fee ($18.61)

- If you travel on off-peak hours, a 30% discount applies

- If you transfer between modes (bus, ferry, train, tram, metro), a $2 discount applies

- There are daily and weekly fare caps where you pay a maximum $19.30 per day and $50 per week. After that, you travel for free until the end of the weekly cycle.

However, fares in Sydney are expensive - a short distance ride can easily cost A$4 or more!

Adelaide

Adelaide uses a time-based fare - when you tap in, you pay $2.60 (off peak) / $4.55 (peak) and that fare is valid for 2 hours of travel on all public transport modes (bus/train/tram) regardless of distance and transfers. There is no tap-out, but you need to tap in every time you change to a different bus/train/tram. As long as your tap-in is within 2 hours of the first tap-in, you will not be charged a new fare.

Adelaide also has a Daytrip option where you pay $12.50 which is valid for unlimited rides until 4am next day.

Adelaide has ticketing machines on board trains and trams, and their buses are fully cashless. You need to get a travel card before you can take the bus.

Perth

Perth has recently restructured their fare system. If you travel less than 3.2km, you pay $2.40 "2 Section" fare; If you travel beyond 3.2km, you pay $3.50 "Go Anywhere" fare which is valid for 3 hours of unlimited transfers;

The maximum fare you pay per day is $7. Every Sunday is free. All bus stops within the CBD are part of the Free Travel Zone where you can board and alight without paying (and don't need to tap in too! You just tell the bus captain that you are alighting within the CBD, but most passengers don't bother to tell the bus captain too.... they just board without tapping in).

In Perth you need to tap in and tap out, but there are some stations that are integrated with bus interchanges where you don't need to tap out when changing between bus and train, but you need to tap out when you leave the bus interchange.

Bangkok

Bangkok has 4 different fare systems - SRT Red Lines, ARL, BTS (including 2 of the MRT lines) and MRT (excluding 2 MRT lines). Some systems have single-journey tickets but others don't; some systems accept credit/debit card payments but others don't; and BTS uses Rabbit card which requires you to register with your passport or Thai IC and can only be used within BTS (+2x MRT lines) network.

Jakarta

Jakarta has a mix of flat-fare or distance-based fare systems. What makes Jakarta unique is the dizzying array of payment cards called "electronic money". There are currently 7 types of cards where you can top up and use on public transport in Jakarta - BRIZZI, TapCash, e-Money, Flazz, Blink, JakLingko, and JakCard.

My experience with using them is you can buy a card easily from convenience stores, but topping up is a whole different story - some cards can only be topped up at certain convenience stores, banks (like queue at the bank counter to top up with cash, since visitors like me don't usually have an Indonesian bank account), etc, and even the public transport stations don't offer top-ups for certain cards or only allow top-ups for a limited type of cards only.

What other fare systems have you experienced?

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 1 month ago
▲ 229 r/malaysia

Mid Valley Southkey telling visitors that they have a Tourist Privilege programme, but it's printed in BM without English translations.

Mid Valley Southkey has a Tourist Privilege Card for foreigners (need to present passport at the counter to get this card and some gifts). However, it is printed in BM... so unless someone bothers to use Google Translate, he/she may not know about this.

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 1 month ago
▲ 89 r/MalaysianFood

Stumbled upon this place with legit good chicken parmi (Dave's Bistro Bar & Grill, 1U)

Visited 1U with my SGrean girlfriend (I'm from JB) and came across this shop. Ordered a chicken parmi and a fish & chips.

The chicken parmi was spot on! It reminded me of the chicken parmi that I have eaten in Perth. I have tried a few food places in JB and SG but their chicken parmi all missed by a mile.

Unfortunately the fish & chips weren't to my liking. The batter was too thick and became too greasy (jelak).

Both dishes were served with truffle flavoured fries which were good.

Water was not free (RM1) but they provide unlimited refills.

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 2 months ago
▲ 254 r/KualaLumpur

Update on my friend's disastrous trip plan

Hey folks, this is an update to https://www.reddit.com/r/KualaLumpur/s/nzSvH1lxaB where TLDR - the partner of a friend made a disastrous plan and said she doesn't need a Malaysian to tell her what to do.

Here's a bit of a plot twist:

The trip was the first time that I met Y in person because our friend had not introduced her to us before the trip and had kept his relationship private.

On day 1 where she planned to check in at 3pm, head to a cafe Taman Mutiara at 3.20pm, and then to Central Market at 4pm followed by Pavilion at 4.30pm.... well, as many of you guys who followed my previous post expected, it didn't happen.

What happened was we checked in right on time, but Y complained that all the walking up and down the stairs (quote: "Why KL have so many stairs unlike SG where government build lifts?") made her tired and she took a nap. We ended up staying at our accommodation until 6pm before we went to Pavi.

At Pavi she insisted on having Oriental Kopi because she remembered her SGrean friends telling her about how good the outlet was in JB. Honestly, it's meh to me.... but her 2nd choice was Uncle Roger's restaurant so.... oh well.

After the Oriental Kopi dinner we walked across the Shibuya crossing to FamilyMart and Y was like an overexcited child that simply got amazed by everything in FamilyMart (quote: "Why Malaysia 7-Eleven so advanced one SG don't have") and also got amazed by my partner (I'm a JB-ian and my gf is SGrean) using TnG e-wallet and Familymart app like a local lol.

(I'm soooo proud of my gf at her efforts of getting Malaysianised btw...)

On Day 2, my gf and I bailed and went on our own itinerary where we went up to 1U and took LRT3 down to Klang for brekkie at Chong Kok kopitiam, walked around the area and I showed her a few BKT places around the area plus the Hakka Paikut store (its a shame that Nasi Lemak Lido was gone for a very long time, if not she'd love the nasi lemak for sure). Then we took LRT3 up Stadium Shah Alam and Grabbed to Raja Tun Uda library (childhood memories of its 4D cinema), and then we went back to 1U and had our dinner at Dave's before returning to our accommodation.

As for them, Y had originally planned:

12pm: Lunch at a specific fast food place in KLCC

1pm: Grab to Botanical Garden

3pm: Grab to a specific cafe in Seri Kembangan, then to a book store in Jalan Sultan

4pm: Bowling at Berjaya Times Square

6pm: Dinner at a certain place at Berjaya Times Square

7.30pm: Watch light show at KLCC Park

Well it didn't happen.

They left the accommodation fairly late, went to KLCC (where Y complained afterwards, quote: "why KL so many complicated train lines like KTM, MRT, LRT, Monorail not like SG only got SMRT"), then took a Grab to Berjaya Times Square (where she complained afterwards on the different ticket prices for MyKad and foreigners, quote: "Why Malaysia theme park all charge foreigners so expensive to help locals?"), and then returned to accommodation.

As for food, they didn't visit K Fry and ended up eating at KLCC's food court, and then they had Mekdi for dinner (for which Y complained there was no curry sauce and that the ayam goreng was too spicy).

On day 3 she had initially wanted to visit TRX in the morning but ended up terlajak so there wasn't time to visit TRX. We checked out and had our lunch at KL Sentral's KFC. Me and partner wanted to try Krapow at NU Sentral but Y insisted on KFC. We know that we will visit KL again in the near future so we decided that eff it and just let her have her KFC.

During the train ride to JB Sentral she suddenly thought of wanting to eat Meng Meng Roasted Duck at City Square JB. Me and gf decided that its enough and we bailed again -- we alighted at Kulai and Grabbed to my home to stay overnight before we both returned to SG this afternoon.

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u/earth_wanderer1235 — 2 months ago
▲ 221 r/KualaLumpur

My friend just made a very disastrous KL trip plan

4 of us (me from JB, the other 3 are Singaporeans) are planning a short 3D2N trip to KL. I (Malaysian) have visited KL very frequently with my girlfriend (Singaporean) and have our usual hangouts, but to friend T and his fiancee Y, they are visiting KL for the first time as a couple of 8 years and its their first overseas trip together without their parents in tow.

The initial agreement was for T to plan the itinerary and for me to touch up and adjust it. Then, Y came up with her own itinerary and insisted that everybody follow her itinerary.

When I told her that her itinerary was not realistic, she balas that she knows what shes doing and "don't need a Malaysian to tell her what to do".

This is her itinerary:

--- Day 1 ---

2.10pm: Arrive KL Sentral

3pm: Check in at an AirBnB near Maharajalela

3.20pm: Grab to a certain cafe at Taman Mutiara

4pm: Take train to Central Market

4.30pm: "Will reach Pavilion"

5pm: Shopping and dinner at Pavilion

(Rest of the day's plan omitted because she just wrote some random thoughts and ideas of things to do and eat in the itinerary like how an angry man named Adolf wrote a book called Mein Kampf).

--- Day 2 ---

9am: Breakfast at Airbnb near Maharajalela

10am: Petronas Twin Towers Skybridge

12pm: Lunch at a specific fast food place in KLCC

1pm: Grab to Botanical Garden

3pm: Grab to a specific cafe in Seri Kembangan, then to a book store in Jalan Sultan

4pm: Bowling at Berjaya Times Square

6pm: Dinner at a certain place at Berjaya Times Square

7.30pm: Watch light show at KLCC Park

8pm: Supermarket

--- Day 3 ---

12pm: Check out from Airbnb at Maharajalela

12.30pm: Lunch at a specific cafe at KLCC

2pm: Travel to KL Sentral

3.15pm: Train back to JB

So me and my girlfriend have decided to just buat bodoh and watch this disastrous itinerary play out later. We also have plans to bail from T and Y during the trip to visit the places that we want to visit on our own at our own pace.

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u/earth_wanderer1235 — 2 months ago
▲ 35 r/trains

Literally a "diesel-electric" train (Malaysia)

Problem statement:

- The government wants you to run a passenger train into an un-electrified freight line

- You do not have enough carriages to do it

- You have a couple of EMUs lying around

Solution:

Hook the EMU to a power generator car and use a locomotive to haul it

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 2 months ago
▲ 95 r/transit

Freight yard converted to a temporary passenger station and electric train hooked to a power generator and a locomotive, Malaysia

Pasir Gudang is a port city at the southern tip of Malaysia and is served by a 40km (~25 miles)-long goods railway.

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Recently, someone in the transport department thought of the idea of running passenger trains on this goods line. The grand plan will have a total of 4 stations on the line, but for now, they decided to start a shuttle service, possibly due to an upcoming state election.

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To get this service started, they converted a freight yard into some sort of a temporary station by erecting a sheltered walkway and platform using sheet metal roof, using shipping container offices as passenger facilities, and built movable stairs to allow passengers to get on/off the train. It even has a ramp that allows wheelchair access.

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As for the train, they took an electric commuter train, isolated its pantograph, hooked it to a generator car, and used a locomotive to haul it. Someone even came up with the idea of mounting a large portable power generator (the ones that you see on construction sites) to a flat wagon and then wire it to the commuter train to power the lights, AC, and doors.

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While the exact plans are not known, it looked highly possible that the passenger service is being run as a trial and was probably being run this way to meet a tight deadline and a tight budget. There is a possibility that if the passenger demand fails to meet expectations, the train service might be axed and the temporary passenger facilities removed.

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 2 months ago
▲ 6 r/Copilot

Are there usage limits for work account users?

My workplace has provided us access to Copilot (Basic) under our work account. Recently I have used mine as some sort of knowledge database by opening around 50 chats (each chat for a subsystem that I'm involved in), feeding each chat with around 3000-5000 pages of technical manuals, design documents, etc. and then asking Copilot to find specific information from the sources.

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Another way that I frequently used Copilot for was feeding it email correspondence, pdf, or spreadsheets and asking it to generate spreadsheets to a specific format.

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These have helped me a lot in my daily work, particularly the knowledge database because there's just too many documents to go through to find the info I need.

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Then it suddenly dawned upon me that apps have a token/credit system and sometimes I do hit the daily usage limit on my other apps that I use for non-work things.

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So my question is- is there a strict daily limit for Copilot Basic users under their work accounts? and will the token usage cost a lot to my employers from my usage?

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u/earth_wanderer1235 — 2 months ago
▲ 20 r/SMRTRabak

PSA: BPLRT trains being manually driven now, CCK to BP took ~30 mins! LTA website still says train services running normally.

It has taken me close to 30 mins to travel from CCK to BP on BPLRT and all trains are being driven manually.

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No announcements at stations, and LTA website said that BPLRT is ✅

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 2 months ago
▲ 53 r/singaporeairlines

Unverified reports that SQ114 had blown its tyre on landing (SIN-KUL, 13 Jun 2026)

Hey folks, aviation groups from KL have reported of a SQ 737 MAX (SQ114) blowing its main landing gear upon landing at KUL a few hours ago.

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SQ114 was scheduled to arrive at KUL at 1335 and depart as SQ113 at 1435.

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Per KLIA website, SQ113 had been cancelled.

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Aviation groups had also reported a runway closure at KUL at the moment.

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u/earth_wanderer1235 — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/malaysians

The way my friend on FB uses AI is very concerning

One of my friends on FB has recently made her profile public (probably due to her business, and also because she needs to livestream for her business very often). She has posted a lot of AI videos of her and her family, **including** her 3 kids!

I'm not sure which AI software she used, but it's definitely something from China because the videos produced have China-based sceneries, backgrounds, characters, etc.

The dangerous thing is, the AI was VERY accurate in generating her entire family's faces and voices!

AI is a powerful tool and I personally use Gemini AI and Copilot to help me in my work. But my friend's case is a very concerning one.

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u/earth_wanderer1235 — 3 months ago
▲ 254 r/SingaporeEats

Sukiya Brekkie Teishoku ($5.90)

I first came across this brekkie Teishoku set a few months ago, and now I'm sorta addicted to it. Well, a $5.90 breakfast with this variety of proteins in a mall is rather difficult to come by nowadays....

u/earth_wanderer1235 — 3 months ago
▲ 1 r/singaporejobs

Will you choose AWS or MWS?

The company that I'm working in will be implementing MWS soon, but we will be given the option to choose whether we want an AWS or MWS payment and once chosen, it will be locked in until the next calendar year.

Currently, the policy regarding AWS is that if you resign before 31 Dec, the AWS will be clawed back.

For the new MWS option, the AWS sum will be split into 12 monthly payments. If you resign before the year ends, you get to keep all the MWS that had been paid out.

What will you choose?

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u/earth_wanderer1235 — 3 months ago