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Maid insists during interview she can care for children but after 5 days says she can’t; employer asks why she must still bear cost of meals, insurance & paperwork fee

 

Photo for illustrative purposes only – A filipino domestic helper (background) during an interview at the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME) in Singapore 12 January 2006. AFP PHOTO/ ROSLAN RAHMAN (Photo by ROSLAN RAHMAN / AFP)

 

SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic helper’s employer took to social media after the maid wanted to be sent back to the agency after barely a week of working.

In a post to a support Facebook group for domestic helpers, the employer wrote that during an interview with the maid, she conveyed that the main job scope would be to care for her two children. The maid agreed and was hired to look after her two daughters. The employer wrote that during the interview, she warned the helper that her two daughters were “quite naughty”.

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Woman says that even after her company “broke” her, she still returned to it, trying to further her career

 

Office workers walk out for a lunch break at Raffles Place financial business district in Singapore on May 10, 2022. (Photo by Roslan RAHMAN / AFP)

SINGAPORE: A woman who left a company after it “broke” her decided to return to it anyway.

In an anonymous post to popular confessions page SGWhispers, the woman wrote that she considered herself a “boomerang employee”. She added: “Yes, I regret returning to the Company. It was the place that broke me and I walked right back in”.

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Diner complains after being served chicken with feathers & blood

 

Photo: FB screengrab/COMPLAINT SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE: An unhappy netizen took to social media, posting a photo of a chicken piece he had been served that still had quills (that are found at the end of feathers) in the skin. Netizens commenting on the post also pointed out that the chicken pieces still looked bloody.

Served by Fernvale Hawker 东风發! I think the feathers are so obvious that they should remove before serving right? To make things worse, the uncle who served rice and soup was extremely rude,” wrote Facebook user Ong Kai Wei on the popular COMPLAINT SINGAPORE page on Wednesday morning (Apr 12).


‘Luckily I’m not dead yet’ — says woman after her upstairs neighbour drops bag of rubbish that almost landed on her head

 

Photo: FB screengrab/COMPLAINT SINGAPORE

SINGAPORE: A woman took to social media to complain after a bag of trash dropped from the upper floors of her HDB block landed close to where she was.

Happened in AMK Ave 10 Block 578 9/4 Evening. I was talking in phone downstairs and suddenly this pack of garbage was dumped from upstairs, and i was only 1 meter away. Luckily im not dead yet. Lol,” wrote Ms Pei Sing on the popular COMPLAINT SINGAPORE Facebook page on Tuesday (Apr 11).

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‘These are very down to earth MPs’ — Singaporean on Jamus Lim’s Easter snippets of community celebration

 

Image: FB screengrab / Jamus Lim

SINGAPORE: In response to Workers’ Party member Jamus Lim’s recent Easter celebration post, a Singaporean has pointed out that such politicians are “down to earth.”

Member of Parliament for Sengkang GRC Jamus Lim took to Facebook on Tuesday (April 11) to share snippets of the Sengkang community celebrating Easter. “Over the weekend, #TeamSengkang participated in an Easter fiesta at one of our local #SengkangGRC churches, St Anne’s,” his post read.