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Young graduate gets offered $3K for an office executive job, asks ‘how to survive’ with a take home pay of only $2.4K

 

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A young graduate took to social media after getting worried that they were being lowballed on the salary offered for a new job.

In an anonymous post to popular confessions page SGWhispers, the netizen who had graduated from a private university asked if being offered S$3,000 for an office-based executive job was considered to be low pay, especially taking into consideration today’s market and inflation.

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Chicken rice stall to shut down after hawker suffered $3000 monthly loss for relying on kampung chicken during chicken shortage

 

Photo: FB screengrab/ Hawkers United – Dabao 2020

The shortage of chickens in Singapore, which occurred after Malaysia stopped exporting in June, has taken its toll on one Telok Blangah Market hawker, who will be ending his business.

“My favorite chicken rice and porridge stall is closing on the 27th. The price of chicken is too high to survive,” wrote one netizen on the Hawkers United – Dabao 2020 Facebook page.

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Maid asks for help because her employer promised to transfer her to another employer, but now refuses, wants to send her back home instead

 

A foreign domestic worker got another friend of hers to post on social media asking others for help with her predicament. Her employer, who previously promised to transfer her instead of sending her back home, went back on their word, saying that they were “not used to transfer(ring) maids”.

In her post on Monday (Aug 22), the helper had been working for three years with her current employers. After her two-year contract ended, she asked her employers for a transfer, but they asked her to stay for another year as they were not able to find a new helper during the Covid-19 pandemic. She then agreed to stay another year on the condition that they transfer her to another employer after the three years were up.

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Bandits smash S$5M Bugatti to steal S$200K Rolex

 

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We know the many tactics of bandits riding motorbikes and smashing car windows to steal valuables, but this time they targeted a Bugatti. Sometimes, these bandits go even further, attacking while occupants are still in the vehicle.

However, for it to happen in the middle of a busy road in London is something else. And on top of that, the armed thieves, riding mopeds, attacked a millionaire’s Bugatti supercar in a broad daylight in an attempt to steal the owner’s £110,000 Rolex watch.

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Is Kenneth Ma really a mama’s boy?

 

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Hong Kong superstar Kenneth Ma spoke to talk show host Sharon Chan recently, and the introverted artist confessed that there were only three female artists that he counts as good friends.

These include Chan herself, Natalie Tong and Halina Tam. Tong was his co-star in the Big White Duel series.

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