A lady resigned from her job after 5 years.
Her big boss called her into his office to dissuade her from leaving. On the other hand, her manager on work permit can't wait for her to leave the company. He said will do background check on her if she has committed offences at her previous company. few foreign workers were queueing to top up their MRT train card at a machine.
Something happened and the machine is not working. The staff came out, opened and check the machine. It's still not working. He went back to the control station, made a call and continue with his work. Three persons were left standing there unable to take train as their card do not have enough value for deduction. Guess how long they waited? What would you have done? A man is planning a trip to visit companies in Vietnam.
One of the objective, he said, is "To find out the motivations behind the local companies in setting up operations in India." A Head of department sent out an invite to her subordinates for a sharing session on the company's KPI.
One of the Vice President has not accepted the invite. The Senior Vice President came to ask why the Vice President did not accept the invite and ask her to explain why. Beware... When your subordinate is too eager to pander to you. There is a receptionist at a dental clinic.
She is in charge of scheduling appointments, answering calls, dispensing medicines and processing payment. When she is processing the treatment charges, she will says to every patient, "Your total damage today is..." A man was having difficulty sending fund to a Thailand mobile number using Promptpay on his mobile banking app.
After selecting Promptpay, he was brought to a screen where he could select the bank account he would like the transfer to debit the amount from, key in a Thailand mobile number to receive the fund and the amount to send in Singapore dollar. But when he clicked to select the bank account to deduct the fund from, it just went to a black screen and the app hanged. He was unable to select the account to deduct the fund. He called the bank's hotline and his case was escalated to the technical team. Someone called him back and asked him to send a screenshot of the black screen to him. He told the staff, "It is just a black screen. Totally nothing and no error message." The staff said no problem and asked him to send the screenshot over via reply to email the staff sent. He complied. The next day, the man has to make a transfer urgently and decided to use the default bank account without selecting another different account to deduct the fund from. The transfer was effected but the fund was not received by recipient. He wrote back to the same email address to feedback on this as he wanted to make sure that no fund was deducted from his account before he try sending another transfer to the same recipient. He received a call from the same staff. The staff checked and said there was no transaction pending in their system. He asked the staff if the problem he feedback has been resolved. He then asked if the staff has two bank account with the bank. The staff told him he has but he couldn't use Promptpay as he did not have a Thailand mobile number to send to. He told the staff that he did not need a Thailand mobile to simulate it. The problem is that he cannot select the bank account to debit the fund from. He then guided the staff to click on the Promptpay option and the click select bank account. That's when the staff finally understood what was the problem. Megastructure engineering feat is chicken feet.
Try building something at close to below cost. What do you do if you picked up a wallet in a train station?
Some may take the money inside and throw away the wallet into rubbish bin. Some may return it to the control station staff while other may try to search the wallet to find if there is any contact number of the owner. Of course the last method is the most inconvenient as you may have to arrange to meet the owner. But that is also the fastest way and can saves the owner tons of efforts and time to recall what cards he or she has in the wallet and calling all the banks to cancel his or her cards and the banks re-issuing new cards. Most importantly, it also reassure the owner that his important identification card is intact. When someone lost his or her wallet, the first reaction is panic and try to recall where was the wallet lost. That means tracing back the journey and whatever things the person has done from the moment he or she stepped out of the house. The person will most likely panic and unable to think clearly or miss out a detail or two. A man picked up a wallet at a MRT platform seat. As he was rushing to work, he just took the wallet and boarded the train without returning it to the control station. He thought that there might be some contact details inside which he could call to inform the owner that his or her wallet is found. It turned out to be a wallet of a student. There was a student transport concession card, a game card, a bank's debit card and $16 cash. A train of thoughts ran through his mind. As he picked up the wallet at an interchange station, he was not sure if the owner stays nearby or making a transfer of train. Would the student be able to recall where he dropped his wallet? If he returned it to the control station at the same station, what if the student could not remember where he dropped it and did not return to check with the control station? It was early in the morning and the student must be probably on his way to school. So he called the MRT hotline and asked what they would do if he returns the wallet to the control station? After verifying the student concession card number and name, the staff told him that they will send it back to their HQ and wait for the owner to call as they do not keep contact detail of cardholder. That means if the student never calls, he will never be able to find out that someone found his wallet until he reapplies for another concession card. He decided to call the Ministry of Education to check where the student is studying so that he can return it to the school. The staff at the hotline told him there is a record but they do not call the school. If they were unable to reveal the school name, then they could have asked the teacher from the school to contact me instead. But no. In the end, he contacted the bank and told them he found a wallet with a debit card. He provided the card number and name on the card to the staff and asked them to get the owner to contact him directly as he picked up his wallet. The staff agreed and proceeded to suspend the card temporarily for security reason. Half an hour later, the student called the man and arranged to get back the wallet. It turned out the student is staying in the same estate as the man and studying at a school nearby. The power button of my Samsung Note 9 dropped off recently.
Most of the time it came off at home and I was able to find it easily until two days back, I dropped it outside. Now I use this button to do screenshots, restart my phone and put it to sleep. Without the button, I felt quite handicapped. That is until I found out other ways of performing my usual functions. Now when you lost something A very big company appointed a new head of a business unit.
In the introductory email to welcome her, a brief description of her credential, education, work experiences and achievements are listed. Upon seeing the email, an ex-colleague of this new head said the lady was never involved in one of the project listed and was not instrumental for its success. How many recruiters actually verify a candidate's achievements on resumes especially the higher the position? They cannot measure what is important so they go for skills and experiences that's not important.
An office lady was on maternity leave for four months.
She was rather ambitious and worked hard for the eight months she was back from her maternity leave. She asked for a promotion in view of the hard work she put in. It was not approved as there is an unspoken rule that one won't be promoted if she goes on maternity leave as the company is unable to assess performance for whole year. She was very unhappy and said she would be offered a senior position back at her old company. An elderly man sold off his dried goods provision shop due to health issue.
The new owner revamped the store with addition of new shelves and rearranged the goods. He also immediately raised prices of all the items between 5 to 50%. The customer base that the previous owner built up is slowly being eroded. Covid19 is not a lesson.
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