Can landlord raise rent in the middle of a contract?

She raised my rent by $200. She said that the main lord has raised her rent therefore she has to raise mine to keep her contract.

I do not want to burn this bridge, but I also cannot afford it. I am thinking of moving out. I am in the middle of a job transfer with a possibly lower pay.

I really regret my decision.

What can she do if I refuse to pay the extra? She might make my life hard? Or refuse to return the deposit once I leave? (I’m aware for the 2nd, small claims court may help but it is a tideous process)

Netizens’ comments

• She cant do that. If your contract says $x for 1 year then it is $x for 1 year. She can only raise it after the contract ends.

• It depends on what your contract says. If it says the landlord can raise rent midway through the term of the lease, then she can. If it doesn’t, she should not be able to.
• The legality of the situation greatly depends on your answers to these questions.
  • Are you subletting illegally?
  • Sounds like you’re a subletter, do you have a contract with the main tenant?
  • Is she raising the price because the main contract with the actual landlord has ended thus the increase in price?
    • Not that I’m aware of, I don’t know what that means..
    • I have a contract with the property agent (her- the one who is raising the rent for me)
    • Yes correct.
    • So what does this mean? Is it illegal?
      • Your contract should not be with the property agent, it should be with the owner. The property agent is the one handling the owner’s business with you.
      • If they are raising the rent because your contract has ended, that is legal. They are setting a new price for a new contract period, not overiding your old contract that has ended. It’s not surprising cause rent prices have gone up in the last couple years. Time to find a new place.
        • My contract has not ended, it ends in december, I’ll just find a new place and avoid contracts with agents in the future…

I’m (25F) working as a temp office staff (25F) and it’s my last day at work tomorrow, and I’m going to be wearing as revealing as possible while still following the company’s dress code.

I’ve been working in an office as a temp for four weeks. I often wear button up shirts with the top few buttons undone.

I like it, and I can tell some of my temporary colleagues enjoy it too. Last week an email went around reminding us of the dress code, including pants for men and high-collared shirts for everyone.

It’s clear to me that despite the general email, it was directed at me and my shirts. Well, last night I read the entire dress code and for my last day I have a shirt planned that I know complies with everything in the code.

High neck, shoulders covered and a neutral colour. There is absolutely nothing in the dress code about how thick material should be or about wearing bras under your clothing.

It’s my last day and I hated the work, so f it. Today the office will be seeing the shape and colour of my nips through my code-compliant, semi-transparent top.

That will be my revenge to the management and my parting gift to all the guys in my department.

Netizens’ comments

1. Please update with a follow up! I want to know how they react and if they tell you something haha
2. You’re a braver woman then I’d ever be at that age. Hope you enjoy the reaction!
3. That’s how you do it! Nicely done, I am looking forward to hear the results of your efforts 😉
4. We support this 100%! Let them look and remember you!
5. You’re my kind of person with an intelligent sense of humor. Please let us know how it goes okay!

So my husband, who I’ll call “Jake” for this story, have been together for 5 years and married for 3. We have recently started trying for a baby as we both felt like that was the next step in our life together, and 3 weeks ago I got a positive test back. We were really really happy and told our families, and now my mom and mother in law want to throw a big baby shower for us, it was just super good news all around.

Well 2 nights ago Jake and I were getting ready for bed when he reminds me to go through the house and make sure all the lights are off. Now he can be a little lazy at times, and it has become a nightly routine for me to make sure all the lights are off that he leaves on before we go to bed. I wasn’t feeling very well and asked if he could just do it since he wasn’t doing anything and was literally standing by the door.

He then tells me “No, this is what is expected of you every night.” I was a little hurt but I didn’t want to fight with him so I just did it. When I came back Jake goes on this very long and unprovoked rant saying things like “Just because you are pregnant does not mean anything will change” and “You are still expected to cook, clean, and do all the chores every day because how can you be expected to be a mother if you can’t handle a little work.” He wasn’t yelling or anything, he was talking to me quietly like a was 2 inches tall.

I was shocked because I had never heard him say anything like this. The rant went on for about 30 minutes before I interjected and asked “Well what do you plan on doing to help me with all of this.” He then got extremely defensive saying he works his brains out at his job to provide for me and what is going to be our future children. (For context I don’t work)

He ended by saying that it doesn’t matter how I feel physically or mentally, it is a mothers job to push through, and if he helped and babied me I wouldn’t be a good mother.

I got extremely upset and started yelling and I said that “I wish I would’ve known this is how you felt before I got pregnant with your baby.” There was a moment of silence before he started crying and he left for the night to stay at his mother’s house. He hasn’t been back yet and my mother-in-law have called me berating me and saying I broke Jakes heart with what I said and I need to apologize immediately, and until I do he isn’t coming home. I don’t know how to feel.

So am I wrong for yelling at my husband after he said he isn’t helping me with anything during the pregnancy because “it’s a mothers job to deal with it”?

Is it normal to feel sad for quitting a job

I’ve been working at a company for a year and I had to quit the job suddenly due to personal reasons. I wasn’t feeling anything until I suddenly feel very upset on my last day of work, I can’t help but to cry non stop after leaving work which really shocked me, idk why I’m acting like this suddenly.

It’s my first full time job and I have never acted like that for previous internships. Does anyone act like this when you quit your job too?

I act as if I went through a breakup haha. Please let me know if it’s normal or I’m just being too emotional for no reason. Help appreciated thanks.

My colleagues are really nice to me compared to previous internships so maybe that’s why I feel attached to them. It’s great to know that it’s actually normal.

I’ve calmed down now and hopefully I’ll totally get over it soon. I also hope I won’t act the same way for my next resignation lol, it’s a terrible feeling.

Netizens’ comments

1. It’s perfectly normal to have an emotional reaction when you are leaving somewhere you have become used to. You are voluntarily giving up certainty and a familiar space, for uncertainty and change.
2. totally normal. It means you like that workplace and it makes you feel comfortable. You have some attachment to the place.
3. Every time I jump job, I think about the hundreds of dollars of monthly increment I get and the one month of stress-free work. It brings me joy to be honest.
4. I teared up leaving intern cus my colleagues were the best and I felt bad leaving but they wouldn’t want me to stay either and one by one they left aft me
5. Continue to keep in contact with the folks and friends you made at the company, you never know one day you might bump into them again!
6. Yes, I was happy and sad, it’s weird, sad because I’m leaving behind a bunch of awesome colleagues that are pretty much friends at that point. But happy because it was a new start, a next stage of my life/career.
7. When you have worn a pair of shoes for some time, you may feel sad when you need to replace them.

The week after I got the news that my mom died, I put in a request for time off to my manager. She approved it through the program we use to put in time off requests.

I knew that I needed this time to settle all of my funeral plans, and I made that very clear to my manager in the email I sent her. This was about a month ago.

She called me into her office yesterday during my shift to tell me that they “cancelled” my two weeks off because they’re understaffed.

I was absolutely shocked. The first thing I asked her was why she didn’t tell me this news sooner. I sat there explaining to her that I needed, NEEDED! these two weeks for my family.

She gave me the whole manager tone with the “I understand that, but we need you to understand this too.” I got extremely angry sitting there listening to her go on and on about how she’s just the “messenger” and how if I have a complaint, I should let her boss know.

I snapped at her and said “isn’t your job organizing these things so that your employees can take time off for important things”

She continued with her corporate tone, so I just told her that I’m done talking, and that I’m leaving for this funeral whether they find someone to fill in or not.

She said “that’s all good and well, but if you take off unapproved time then we’ll have to let you go” so I just said that’s fine and walked out of her office.

Wtf. It was approved and when I checked the program, she somehow removed the status where she approved it. Wow. Idk what to do.

Netizens’ comments

1. I had a coworker ask for 2 days off for her dad’s funeral and our boss denied the leave due to staffing shortage
   We went around her and covered her shifts for entire week (despite the supposed “shortage”)
   She quit right after and we fully supported her.
   The rest of us quit soon after
2. Their staffing issues is a them problem, not a you problem
3. Just imagine how many people have rolled over and said “ok.” and just accepted this after she put this BS on them.

I’m not from Singapore and currently got a job here. I want to quit already just a week into my new work. On the first day I got nit-picked on everything, didn’t have a proper on-boarding and got alot of passive aggressive comments toward me. These are just a few of the things that happened.

Today, I feel like they’ve reached my limit. I couldn’t properly do a certain thing and they commented ‘do you want me to slap you’ with a smile on. I understand colleagues joke around but noticing how I felt this vibe from the beginning has made me lose my patience.

I’m on an EP pass, my medical report is yet to be sent to the MOM.

Has anyone been through this situation before? How would you go about it?

Netizens’ comments

1. Read MOM official guidelines on quitting. Pray that your contract didn’t specify a notice period, otherwise you’d have to pay/serve the notice period
2. I didn’t have the same problem as you, but I too had terrible onboardings. Like once, after a few short session with my superiors they didn’t gave me anything substantial to do for 2 whole months, was bored to death.
   Another time I had no one to guide me along, so i need to learn everything from scratch using playbooks.
   Another time I started work for just awhile, we agreed on a certain task to be completed with the set period of time.
   When i finished my work they told me i could have done it way earlier, they didn’t give me the proper tools to do it and I had to do it way more tedious and manual than i ever have to. So they put me on a Semi-formal performance notice straight after, wanted me to work from office all the way instead of the agreed hybrid arrangement.
   I had thought that they really want me to leave so much that they decided to put me in such arrangement. End up within 4 months they announced retrenchment and i was caught in it, It totally suck because once they announce the layoff i had no motivation to do my work anymore. I then left a few months later as part of the exercise.
   Singapore company suck at onboarding. They think that it’s the employees individual responsibility and their colleagues and superiors most of the time are too busy to help you around. Remember In singapore you are always working 1/3 of your proper workload.
   Singapore 2 person work 3 person job, or 3 person work 4 person Job. Thus also this might be the reason why your colleagues may be frustrated at you because they find you too cumbersome to handle.

I’m 9 weeks pregnant and my fiancé (28m) passed away in my arms (28f) 2.5 weeks ago. He had a pulmonary embolism, we had no idea he had any clots in his legs and it was very sudden.

I called for help immediately and did everything I could, but he passed away in my arms and I felt completely helpless.

Two days after he passed away his family completely cut me off. They took everything of my partners from me and even some of my personal belongings too.

They took all of his clothes, our shared electronics, shoes, undies, bathroom stuff, photos, and furniture….even our shared dog of years.

They have not picked up any of my calls and I have no idea if they have even laid his body to rest yet.

His brother texted me that he will not pick up any call or tell me what is going on. I found out how my fiancé passed away from one of his coworkers telling me.

I went almost 2 weeks not knowing what caused it because of the lack of communication from his family.

Three days after he passed away I took a pregnancy test since my fiancé had been making jokes to me that I might be pregnant for a few weeks before he passed away due to my nausea and fatigue. I took 6 tests and they all came back positive.

Since we were not married yet I have no legal rights to anything and have been left with nothing. I feel very scared and alone.

I’m not only mourning the death of the love of my life and losing everything we built together for years, but I’m carrying our child.

This is the first time I’ve been pregnant and l’m not sure what to do. I have a doctors appointment scheduled for next week.

Do I tell his family I’m pregnant? I initially wanted to because I want this child to know where his or hers father came from, but with how I’ve been getting treated I’m now feeling very hesitant to tell the family.

What if they fight for the rights to my baby? I don’t even want to tell them anymore because of how they are treating me since his passing away.

I accidentally stared at my co worker’s chest for a second,she noticed and kept her hand on her chest hiding it for at least 5-10 minutes .

I, a 26M, started a new job and I have a huge crush on a coworker, today she was explaining me few company policies and while talking to her i noticed her cleavage unintentionally, I was not even observing her, but my eyes went there for a second, as soon as I look up she kept her hand on there while talking to me for until the discussion was over.

Even after an hour when I talked to her again, she kept her hand on her chest to cover it.

I feel really bad I made her uncomfortable. I am planning to shift my seat away from her from next Monday.

Edit – For those people who are blaming me or her, let me share some more details. She is a 24 years old , professional, and she was dressed modestly , but there are always some angles for every dress, and it was that angle today. She was not showing her bosom “Intentionally”.

Me, i cannot hold on eye contact with someone for more than a minute, my eyes keeps rotating, and while rotating it went over there, and idk why but they stopped there for a second. Definitely not more than a second.

Netizens’ comments

1. If you don’t want people staring then cover them up.
2. It was a trap and you were snared. Unfortunately she’ll spread rumors that you’re creep very soon if not already.
3. Is….it really hard to not stare? I say this as a guy, sure I’m ace and uninterested. But I usually pass people over with just a glance.
4. My wife, a very respected high-tech worker, loves dressing provocatively at the office. Men look, she pretends she doesn’t notice their looking (but she tells me later). She especially likes working close, such as when both are leaning in to see a screen, and the man gets to see extra (or more).
   He pretends he’s not peeking, and she pretends she doesn’t know. Her co-workers are her friends. They do compliment her appearance, nobody has ever complained.