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I am absolutely disgusted in the poor service as an Krisflyer Gold elite member I am getting from Singapore airlines/ Scoot and lost bag services Sydney Airport.

I arrived at Sydney Airport from Cape Town vis Singapore flight TR 20 on Tuesday night 29th of November .

My luggage never turned up at the carousel. After an equerry at the lost baggage kiosk, it turned out that they cannot track my bags because Scoot being a low-cost airline does not pay for baggage tracking.

The gentleman at the lost baggage kiosk registered a delayed arrival claim and promised me that my bag will be delivered to my temporary address a soon as it is located and delivered to Sydney airport. The following day after many phone calls to the airport I was told that the bag was located and at the airport since 10 am Wednesday. It is now 48 hrs later (Thursday) and my bag has still not being delivered.

Having to spend an couple of hundred dollar to buy the basic personal items and cloths to get along since Tuesday I have lost a lot of faith in Singapore Airlines but especially Scoot who should perform at least at an higher standard .

It should be an embracement to Singapore Airlines that Priority baggage are not treated as priority baggage given the price I am paying for flight tickets and the amount of support I have being given to Singapore Airlines over the past year.

Here are what netizens think:

• Back to what you mentioned, often it is a mismanaged by the airport group/services. It has totally nothing to do with the airline, be it a full board service or a budget airline. Airline do not take care of your luggages. It’s the airport takes care of it.

• A similar SQ experience happened to me, still no resolution. Nov 16-21 Gold Coast-Sydney-Singapore-Phuket. You can see my VDO post here around 20/11

• Actually it’s nothing really to do with you as a Elite Gold nor not. Things do happen when there are multiple carriers involved. Am sure the statistic goes higher with other carriers, especially in US and Europe.

Men, I know you’re not attracted to me be but there’s no need to be an a-hole

-the fat, ugly woman

Dear men,

I get it – you’re not attracted to me, you’re not trying to hit on me, I am not your type, etc. You got the message across the first time you accidentally locked eyes with me and looked away awkwardly.

Or the first time you laid eyes on me and quickly had to hide your expression of disgust. I GET IT! But not showing basic human decency and treating me like something not worthy of living is not alright.

Don’t be afraid to be nice to the fat, ugly girl in case she might think you’re flirting with her (because in your world being nice equals flirting). In fact, we would never think that you’re flirting. Instead, we’ll think you’re being nice out of pity towards us.

With love,

The Fat, Ugly Woman

Edit: because a lot of people are misunderstanding my post: I am not complaining about men not giving me attention or finding me unattractive.

In fact, I could care less whether someone finds me unattractive, unless I have feelings for them then that hurts af 🤣. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and their preferences.

The thing that bugs me and a lot of other (unconventionally attractive) people is the fact that (some) people and in my case (as a female) predominantly men chose to be rude and condescending towards women they do not find attractive.

Everyone should be treated with respect no matter what. But unfortunately, that is not the case. Hope everyone has a nice evening or whatever time of day it is for you <3

How do I reject a girl without hurting her?

I’ve been talking to girls but I realise halfway through I might feel that things will never work out be it because of dealbreakers, looks or other reasons.

But I’m quite new to dating apps and I don’t know how to end things.

I used to just ghost the girl. But I soon realise it’s actually quite hurtful to the girl, especially if you’ve been talking for like weeks. Sometimes telling them the honest answer feels worse cause like after a first date you realise there’s no attraction how do you tell her? I don’t want her to feel bad about her looks. Saying something like “I’m not ready for a relationship” is kind of bs also

This is not a troll. Any suggestions for how to politely end the talking stage?

Here are what netiezns think:

• No matter what, rejection is going to hurt. And sometimes, no answer is ever good enough. So be prepared it will not end well no matter how careful and prepared you are to respond and end the interaction.

• I think it’s a nice gesture for you to not want to ghost her but to offer some words to part and for closure instead.

• Don’t say it’s not you, it’s me. Most won’t accept that standard reply.

• If you don’t feel a connection, just say so. Avoid talking about her flaws, someone else may find her “flaws” attractive. Also don’t give her half hearted replies to stay friends when you don’t mean it.

• Whether I’m the one who wants out or I’m the one on the receiving end, I’d prefer to just ghost or be ghosted. I don’t need to know what is the dealbreaker for him, neither do I want to hurt anyone’s feelings with the real reasons. (it’s never pretty) Just let it die a natural death. This is the most pragmatic way, knowing the truth won’t really change anything.

• Just be straight forward. You can keep the reasons to yourself, but you need to make it clear that you want to cut the deal now.

It’s better to end things early before it’s too late.

I’m a 30F and still can’t move past some awful things my parents said to me when younger

I still think about it and I feel like it’s definitely effected my psyche in some way. Some background, I’m also Asian American with immigrant parents.

1 major thing they’ve said to me is that I’m not “smart enough to be a doctor” and that my mom thinks I’m “smart, but not very smart.”

When I didn’t get the job I wanted, my mom told me that I’ve never been the type of person to get a good job right away after college (whatever that means).

These were said about 10 years ago at the beginning of my young adult life.

I made my husband promise me that he’d never say things like this to our son, who we’re expecting next month as I’m currently 8 mo pregnant.

I’ve talked to therapist about it before and understand that my parents were just projecting their own insecurities onto me..doesn’t stop it from hurting all these years later though.

And yes, I’ve brought it up with my own parents before who claim they don’t remember saying these things.

My uncle who is my mother’s only brother is quite well to do as compared to my family as his business was doing pretty well ever since I was in Primary School.

My cousin, his only son has been living a luxurious lifestyle for the longest period of time.

He had always been driven around in luxurious branded cars and has never taken the MRT before in his whole life.

If he had no one to fetch him or could not get the car to use, he would just hire a car from any of the ride hailing apps even if the place that he was going to was very accessible by MRT.

Every time I asked him if he wanted to take the MRT when we went out, he would always refuse and say that he hates to squeeze with so many people and smell their odour.

Even when taxis and private hire services are at a high surge price, he would rather pay the extra prices than take the MRT.

He got his driving license suspended a while back because he accumulated too many points and had his credit card cancelled by my Uncle because he was spending too much and had no choice but to take the MRT.

He would go on complaining and raging on our family group chat on how ‘handicapped’ he felt without a driving license as he could not drive to wherever he wants to go and had to take the MRT.

He would also blame my Uncle for cancelling his credit card making him unable to book private hire rides or taxis, resulting in him having to take the MRT.

It has been a while since he lost his license, and he is still feeling ‘handicapped’ till today.

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I used to work in a bar/bistro somewhere in the city area as a waiter for almost a year before I had enough of my boss not paying my salary on time and always finding excuses to delay payment.

I shall not name the place because I don’t want to have any trouble since I have already left the establishment and got all my overdue wages back.

Business as the bar/bistro is not bad to be honest, we are always full house and have many loyal supporters who always come back to give us business.

Our boss is a watch lover and likes to judge people based on the watches they wear so for example if you wear luxury watches like Rolex or watches which are priced in a close to five figure range, he will think that they are well to do.

If your watch is not a Rolex or equivalent, he will not even bother to talk to you.

He will then start to ‘carry the balls’ of all these Rolex wearers and try not to say no to their requests be it how absurd it is.

Every time when it is time for everyone to get paid, the boss will come out with excuses like ‘business is not doing well’ or ‘the company is not making money’, but still appears with a new Rolex watch to show off to his friends and those customers.

Since he is a ball carrier, some of the staff assumed that he would also like his balls to be ‘carried’ and so they start to compliment him on his new Rolex watch purchases and will always find the chance to suck up to him whenever they see him.

To these staff who always compliment his Rolex watch, they will always get extra ‘bonuses’ every pay day and their pay will not be delayed for too long.

For people like me who does not compliments his Rolex watches but rather just want to work properly and be genuine to everyone, we will always face his many excuses when it comes to receiving our pay.

We suspect that he has been taking money out from the business secretly to fund all these Rolex purchases and has not been accountable to other of his business partners since he is in charge of finances.

The longest I got my salary delayed is about 3 weeks, and because of that I ended up having to pay interest for my own bills due to late payment.

I’m just so glad that I am out of that mess after almost a year.

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My boss recently terminated a colleague of mine, lets call him JJ, because he had enough of his ‘punctuality issues’ or so he says.

What is even funnier that or job allows us to Work From Home during this period of time because it is the World Cup Season and because almost everyone in our department watches football, my boss approved of this arrangement just for this one month.

His only condition is that we all gather on Zoom at 10am everyday for a short briefing before we go on to work on our respective tasks for the day.

Ever since the first day of the World Cup, JJ has not attended any of the meetings and would wake up as late as 2pm on certain days and only start working at around 3pm.

He would often apologise to all of us saying that he overslept or come up with some excuse that he is feeling unwell or something last minute cropped up etc.

This made our whole team unable to function properly and affected our productivity as what we do is reliant on each other’s effort and because of that, we had missed a lot of important deadlines.

He would also go missing in action when we asked him for something or needed him to do something and only reply at 6pm when the first World Cup game started.

In actual fact, we all know that he dozed off again due to watching every game of the World Cup.

We know this because he can update our group chats whenever something ‘major’ happened in certain games which start as late as 3am.

I think he really deserves to get the sack.

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The biggest sporting event in the world, the FIFA World Cup, held once in every four years is now at the phase of the last group stage game.

People from all walks of life, even my friends and colleagues who do not gamble will gamble a little during this once every four year tournament just for the fun of it while watching the game.

I usually make quite a few thousand dollars from major tournaments like the World Cup and thought of making an even bigger killing this year.

Hence, during the build up to the tournament, I decided to read up a little to see which teams to put my money on.

However, I finally got the meaning of the ‘ball is round’ this World Cup as a lot of results did not go as I would have expected it to be.

I punted big money on the powerhouses such as Argentina and Germany which turned out to be a mistake.

Like how in the world can Argentina lose to Saudi Arabia and Germany lose to Japan?

As the results turned against me, I decided that I had to punt even more to try to recoup my losses, I started to do ‘live betting’ and I would ‘play big’ when the game time was just a few more minutes to go before it ended, thinking that there would be no last minute goals and I would surely win.

I guess luck is really not with me as those games I lost a lot on those live betting games.

I am down about 20K now, which is almost half my annual income.

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