I was contacted on Telegram by a random stranger asking me if I wanted to try a review job. She claimed that the job was easy and I could earn $110 or more daily.

The same usual tactics, I then received a Whatsapp msg and she linked me to a website. Was guided to register (use fake name and contact number as no otp needed)

it’s a very simple website which will generate random hotels for you to rate, just give it a 5 star and you get paid per rating.

I did 30 ratings and earned $11 on my account. The minimum withdrawal was $10 so she guided me to withdrawal the $11 to my paynow.

She then added me into a telegram group whereby every member were sharing their success stories (earning $200+ coz only have 1 hour today, $500+ coz tired after rating for 2 hours… Etc) and raving to continue topping up their experience gold.

She then told me that i have to topup my experience gold in order to continue rating hotels and earning money. It’ll be $111.

I ask her why and she told me it’s to “ensure the authenticity of consumption data and generate effective traffic to increase turnover and visibility of hotels” …

Which I don’t understand what she meant. She then said it’s to ensure that it’s not robots doing the ratings.

Anyway, I turned down the offer and she backed off. The website I registered was quickly taken down the next day.

Tinder horror story. Okay so TLDR we met on the app and during our convos we hit it off quite well.

So we decided to meet up and eventually, we started going out. Initially, due to a bad experience I had emphasized that I wasn’t looking for any rs in particular and our rs was purely platonic and she was free to date anyone she likes and she didn’t have to tell me anything about her dates.

However she continued to tell me about her dates. Even to the extent of asking me to bail her out on certain occasions. She also did made known her feelings to me, however I still maintained my stance.

Recently she fell sick and I decided to pay her a visit as she said her house didn’t have pi pa gao and herbal tea of course as a friend. At this point in time I could say I developed some feelings for her but decided to wait it out to see what happens. Then came after she got better and she decided to ask if I wanted to go to a concert with her. I agreed and paid for the ticket.

One day, while I was browsing through Instagram I chanced upon her story and she posted her holding hands with another guy. Feeling confused I decided to ask her about the guy whom she didn’t tell me about. I was perplexed as to who this guy was and how he suddenly surfaced. And out of this I felt it was uncomfortable for me to attend the concert with her. I told her this and made my feelings known to her as well. Undeniably putting us in an awkward situation. I stopped talking to her for a week.

I did some reflection and I thought this whole thing wouldn’t have happened if I was open enough and if I wasn’t so close minded. I bashed myself pretty badly for this and I decided to approach her for it. We had a long talk and agreed that both parties were at fault. I apologized and she did as well and she went on by saying if I needed someone to talk to or anything she would be happy to be a listening ear.

Then came when the concert date drew closer. Since I had already paid for the ticket so I decided to ask her if I could go but prior to that I foolishly said that if it was awkward she didn’t have to reply me. I was lowkey expecting a reply however since there was money involved.

All I got was no replies. And because of this after the concert ended those feelings turned into disappointment and anger. How can a person be so shameless as to ignore and go with another person to a concert whose ticket I paid for? So I decided to text her to express how disgusted I was. If she had already found a person to go with at least a reply would have sufficed? Thereafter she finally replied by insulting my manhood, calling me childish and asking me to grow up. The nerve of her, saying all this was a result of my own actions and if I was unable to attend the concert I had to make my own arrangements and she had already “offered me and olive branch”. However the ticket was with her and she deliberately ignored my messages.

After the series of insults by her and she even went to the extent of poking at my past wounds (previous rs) which I shared with her, she blocked me off completely on all social platforms and messaging apps leaving me with no way of contacting her. Not sure what to do about this, the fact that this whole thing unraveled like a train wreck. Or a person’s true colors were finally revealed.

More regulation is needed in the insurance industry

In my group of friends, there are 2 of them working as insurance agents, they are both in the same company but not working together.

I chose to buy all my policies from one of them because he is newer and I wanted to support him. The other friend has been working as an agent for much longer and seems so successful so I felt he doesn’t need my business.

Said senior agent did approach me before but I rejected him. But all is good, and we have moved past it.

The newer agent recently quit less than 2 years in this line. Now some random stranger agent is assigned for my policies. I asked my senior agent friend, from the same company, if he would take over all my policies because I don’t want to work with a stranger.

To be surprised, he rejected. Got agent reject client meh?! I asked why and his response was coz he doesn’t earn anything and still needs to do the work. Still has the cheek to claim that he is 100% honest because we are friends.

Can I complain to MAS and to the insurance company?

Such unprofessionalism. Refusing to take care of a client just because there is no commission to be earned, just because his sales is huat huat. Is this what insurance companies are teaching their agents? I asked for my friend because I dont want a newbie agent to service me.

Here are what netizens think:

• I think I need insurance from the cancer I got from reading this.

• Lol you sound super self-centred and entitled. If you’d thought so highly of this guy, you would have chosen to work with him in the first place.

• First 3 years got commission. After that near to zero. So no point servicing a client that u not earning commission. First 2 years ur “newer friend” already earned the commission.

I don’t come from a rich family background.

When i go out i would normally choose the cheapest to okay priced item to eat and drink.

For this reason I don’t have anymore friends that invite me out with them because they know I won’t be able to afford stuff at the places they go to.

Last night i found out from a mutual friend that some of them were making fun of me not being able to afford branded goods like them buying hermes or popular brand phones which made me think, why do they hate me just cause im not rich like them?

How does it affect them?

Is it because they would look poor if they hang out with a poor girl? Embarrassed to have a meal with someone who has a $10 budget per meal? Because i use a Huawei phone? Use fake shoes from shopee?

I keep thinking what i did wrong for my friends to hate me to this point where they are making fun of me behind my back. Its okay if you don’t want to invite me out. But don’t make fun of me for not being able to live a comfortable life like you. It hurts.

Does it matter how I spend my money and What I wear?

The world seems to be so superficial always comparing on measly items. I am happy for who I am but I just don’t get how people could treat someone badly just because of personal life choices.

I don’t think I want to be a mom, but my family insists on it.

I (27F) don’t think I want to have children. There just seems to be more cons than pros. I always hear of how stressful motherhood is. I don’t trust that I can handle it.

Having to take care of a human for 18 years seems like too much.

Plus I’m not sure if I can even protect them from all the dangers in this world. I’d be absolutely devastated if anything happened to this person.

Even if they’re an adult. I’ll never be able to stop worrying about them, which is really irking me.

Being without children seems way more freeing. I can basically go and do what I want. If I ever get married, I can spend time with my husband without worrying over the kids.

Our Life will be significantly better. We can make more money since kids are very expensive. Just seems more peaceful and ideal for me.

But my mom keeps telling me it’s my duty to have children. I might change my mind, but I hate how she’s trying to decide for me.

Im 31yo, female, and recently started a new job. (Well, a few months ago).

Its a 5 guys office, plus the boss. The boss is one of those guys who think has a natural charm that ladies would instantly fall for, but he looks like a thumb, and has a lot of dumb confidence for making inappropriate comments, even when talking to me about work issues.

I keep him at arms length, and I’m very professional with my workmates.

Some days ago i was chasing after some workmate, because was procrastinating about sending me a document. I went to him to make him send it, and he said “Ok”. Took his phone, opened the messages’ app, and sent me the file, but looking at it, I noticed that he saved my number as “sibei easy”.

I asked him about it, confused, and looked at me, shocked, eyes wide opened. Just said “Im sorry”. I didn’t let him go, and interrogating him until he confessed that the boss always calls me “sibei easy”.

I am outgoing but I don’t sleep around.

To be clear, im naturally curve, got it from mom, but I dont look like a “sibei easy” girl, yes, I had trust issues about it, and worked very hard to like my body. I despise the thought of being compared to a easy kind of girl.

I talked to my boss when he came into the office, and asked about the nickname. He just said “Because you potray yourself as that?”, I told him to stop it, because I don’t feel safe, he just said “why are you so angry? Its a compliment” I said its not and stormed out.

I went to HR to do a formal complaint, the HR lady said that she’ll process the complaint, but that it was worthless, because “Boss is just like that”. I told her that I dont like my boss’ attitude, and need a warrant to stop.

Since then, my boss stopped talking to me, and my workmates say that I’m way too dramatic, and dont know how to take a compliment, they also complained that don’t feel safe around me, because they dont know if I will twist their words somehow.

my Boyfriend (26m) said he’d break up with me if I (22f) got my hair cut

Hi all, So the other night my boyfriend and I were talking about style and fashion. I asked him what he thought of short hair (slightly above or above the shoulder).

He said that it was a deal breaker and that he would probably break up with me if I got my hair cut that short. This surprised me since we’ve been dating for 1.5 years and it’s just a hair cut. I have been thinking about getting my haircut shorter since the ends are dead and unhealthy. I had told him this too.

I then asked him to explain more. He said that it was not “his preference” and “I’d look like a guy” if I got my hair cut above my shoulders and it’d take too long for my hair to grow to an “acceptable” length and he doesn’t want to wait.

He then went on went to asking me why I wanted to do it. I told him my reasoning again, and he got mad saying”It’s not like you have cancer and have to cut your hair.” This rubbed me the wrong way, I mean, it’s just a hair cut. I told him I felt this was really superficial and that I still wanted to get it cut. He then said that I was just doing it to cause problems since I “knew he didn’t like it ,” and I’m directly doing something he doesn’t like.

I thought this was really controlling and it triggered a lot of self esteem issues because he kept saying how I wouldn’t be attractive if I cut my hair. I explained to him how I already don’t feel attractive and I wanted to cut my hair to try to mend that.

It also made me question the relationship since something like a hair cut would be enough for him to break up. I left that night sad and he was frustrated at me, and said that I always pick fights.

I want to talk with him more about this, but I’m not sure what to say or even if it’s a good idea to continue this conversation. Should I just drop it?