A colleague unabashedly decided to hitch a ride and join another staff member on their way home without even offering to pay.
In an anonymous post to popular confessions page SGWhispers, a netizen wrote that after he went to a seminar with some colleagues, one of them, A, asked how he would be going home since she stayed in the same area as well.
When he explained that he would be calling for a private-hire car home, she asked if she could “tompang”. (Tumpang/tompang is the malay word for hitching a ride, especially if it’s along their way).
The netizen was taken aback and wondered what A meant to say.
“Did she mean sharing the cost of the grab? But nevertheless I was caught off guard and said ok. During the ride, i kept thinking if she was going to say anything about sharing the cost. In the end, she did not but at least she didnt ask to be sent to her place”, he wrote.
“I reached home feeling kind of disgusted. Am I wrong to think that A was ‘buay paiseh’ (not shy), cos this is something that i will not do”, the netizen added, saying that he would not want to trouble others.
When he asked his family members for their opinions on the matter, some agreed with him, but others also said he was too calculative. He added that he paid for the private-hire car out of his own pocket and that it was not a claimable expense.
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