Boy blocks train door and delays MRT just to make YouTube video
SINGAPORE: A local boy is receiving brickbats online after he posted a YouTube video that showed how he blocked an MRT platform screen door, leading to train arrival delays. The boy has since deleted the controversial video but a copy is still circulating online.
The video shows the child deliberately blocking the screen door at the Jurong East MRT platform, while an East-West Line train is preparing to depart the station. The boy’s interference causes the door to become stuck. He then moves further away, saying that he does not want to look “too much like a suspect”.
Netizen asks why engineering graduates in Singapore earn $4.5K while in the US they make more than $7K
SINGAPORE: A lively discussion was spawned when a Reddit user posted a question asking why the salaries of engineering graduates in Singapore are lower than in other countries.
“Why are engineering salaries so low in singapore compared to US/Australia?” asked u/Hurt_cow in a Reddit Singapore thread on Wednesday (March 1), adding, “According to the GES, the median starting salary for an engineering student in singapore is $4.5k while in the US the overall average is more than 7k. Why are engineering salaries so low here?”
Maid wants to know if her employer will still pay her salary when she goes for a month-long vacation to her hometown
SINGAPORE: A foreign domestic worker took to social media asking other maids and helpers for advice.
In her post to Facebook group FDW in Singapore (working conditions forum), she wanted to know if her employer still needed to pay her salary when she went on leave. The maid explained that she was going for a month-long vacation to her hometown.
Netizens on “Badge Lady’s” claim that her image on CCTV footage could have been superimposed: ‘Love her resolve! Never say die attitude’
SINGAPORE: While many online have perceived the antics of Phoon Chiu Yoke, aka the “Badge Lady” to be ridiculous or even dangerous, some have expressed admiration based on her latest actions after she objected to the admission of CCTV footage as evidence during her trial last Monday (Feb 27), as she said her image could have been superimposed onto the video.
Phoon, a former naval officer, first made the news in May 2021, after she refused to wear a mask and then demanded that the safe distancing officers who asked her to cover her nose and mouth amid the Covid-19 pandemic produce and show her their badges.
Woman finds out that her husband’s colleague flirts with him and sends him inappropriate photos and texts
SINGAPORE: A woman took to social media asking others for advice on whether she should trust her own husband after he revealed to her that his female colleague was flirting with him.
In an anonymous post to popular confessions page SGWhispers, the woman wrote that she recently discovered “my husband’s colleague is trying to hook up with him”. She wrote that she found out when her husband came clean and told her that “one of his colleagues has been texting him inappropriate things and sending him suggestive pictures recently (think sexy lingerie, cleavage shots, suggestive poses etc)”. Her husband has known his female colleague for about four years and she had just gotten married.