Man earning $12.5K monthly says there are days he works until 3am taking calls, asks if he should quit

SINGAPORE: A man working in a big company said he felt burnt out because of his lengthy work hours.

In an anonymous post to popular confessions page SGWhispers, he wrote that he drew a “decent annual pay of 150k pa” (about $12,500 monthly). “Everyday from 9am to 9pm is normal there are days I need to work past 12am to 2am. I can be on call with boss at 3am discussing work. Recently, I tender without having any new job. My friend said I’m impulsive but I felt mentally drained”, he added.

While his peers in management urged him to reconsider his decision, some of his friends felt he was just trying to get a promotion or a pay increment. “I am just purely tired. I just end work on Sunday night typing this at 1.30am. Just because I need to prepare for presentation that change timing from late afternoon to early morning, so need to work on Sunday night”, the man wrote. He asked netizens if he should just quit or retract his resignation and try to hold on until he finds something better.

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A man wrote in an anonymous post to popular confessions page SGWhispers of something he termed ‘The Great Resignation’ in Singapore and said he is an “experienced professional with international working experiences across Asia”. “Both myself (<40) and my wife (<40) are working in the private sector, and our monthly combined income is around $25,000. My last annual income was $240,000 alone,” he added. He then said that his family lived in a resale HDB flat and drove an old MPV. “We are doing well financially and is able to make several overseas trips in a year”.

The man explained that things went downhill for him when he took up a similar salaried role in a different company that required him to go to office daily and take up responsibilities which were not within his job scope. “I was working almost 80 hours weekly on average and this long period of work culture has resulted me in getting sick very often, losing hairs and feeling the sense of uselessness. I was at the brink of giving up the job and focusing on my mental health”, he added.

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