I broke my hand on purpose to avoid going to work but still get paid.

I worked as an agent in a call center. I hated that job. It was overwhelming, everyone would just call and complain.

It was a Sunday night. And after a soothing weekend. I did not want to go to back go work. The only way to avoid going to work and still get paid is to provide a sick-leave attested from the hospital.

I already had a tough week and I was going through a lot. I was mentally Exhausted! As time was passing rapidly, I desperately wanted to skip work on Monday.

I was so desperate that I was was trying to get myself sick However, getting sick only lands you a 1 approved day sick leave.

Then that’s when I got the IDEA to break my hand. I got a spray to kill bugs and a perfume and sprayed the PIFPAF on my hand so I couldn’t feel anything and took the perfume bottle and jacked my hand with it for 5 times constantly.

At first, I did not feel a thing, because the bug spray caused my hand to be numb, then I tried moving my hand but I couldn’t move my hand and it started to pain and my hand started to swell. Like really really bad.

I drove to the hospital and was xrayed. Nothing was broken, just dislocated. I ended up getting a 15 days paid sick leave. I missed 2 weeks of work !

Was it worth it? Yes. Would I do it again. Definitely. Recommend. No. Stay safe kids!

My wife came out to me two years ago and I’ve just been pretending it never happened

My wife and I have been together for 13 years now. We have three kids, and our marriage has been mostly good. I am still so in love with my wife, and I’ve been very happy in our marriage and with the family we’ve created.

A couple of years ago, my wife told me she’s been confused but now realizes that she’s far more romantically interested in women than men.

This revelation didn’t come out of nowhere, and I’ve been accepting and supportive of my wife’s evolving identity. I’m proud of her, even, for having the courage to redefine herself at this point in her life.

But I’m also deeply devastated by it all. I thought I had the life that I wanted, but now I have doubts about the entirety of our marriage. Was she ever really in love with me? Did she ever really enjoy sleeping with me? And what does the fact that she settled for me say about me and my masculinity? It’s hard for me to conceptualize any of this as something other than the result of my inadequacies as a partner.

My wife redefining herself means that I have to redefine myself, too, and I just don’t feel capable of doing that. I don’t want to separate from her — I can’t even bring myself to sleep in a separate bed.

I still love this woman with all of my heart, and I don’t know how to just turn off my feelings for her and transition our relationship to something platonic. I can’t bear the thought of starting over or of being alone. I cherished my marriage and the stability that it brought to my life, and I’m so terrified of moving forward that I’ve just been avoiding taking any action to change my situation any further. I know my inaction is frustrating her, but I feel incapable of doing anything about it.

A few netizens shared some of the horror stories that they faced as teachers when dealing with unruly and self-entitled parents.

The self-entitled one

My friend is a teacher at an atas kindergarten. Because of covid she now stands outside to take the kids temperature before going in.

There’s this woman that drops off her son in a bmw. But won’t come out and open the car door for him. Neither will she let him open it himself.

Because she wants my friend – the teacher, to do it. My friend refused to, and the woman legit sat in her car for 10 minutes until she couldn’t take it anymore. She came out and scolded my friend and complained to the kindergarten. They told her the teachers are not chauffeurs lol

The no-boundaries one

Was a contract teacher in 2012 in a primary school. I’m so glad I did not go into NIE. Anyway it’s a good thing I didn’t because I couldn’t see myself being a teacher.

One parent called my personal number at night asking whether her son needed to bring the textbook the next day. She didn’t want him to carry a heavy bag. I asked how she got hold of my personal number and please don’t call me at night except for emergencies. She proceeded to tell me as a teacher it’s my job to care for the students and especially so for her son because he’s mildly autistic. He deserves more attention than the other students.

This parent was also one annoying one that requests the school hold monthly meetings with the teachers who taught her son for updates on his progress.

The on-the-dot one

I’m working at a Student Care centre in primary schools now. Some self-entitled parents expect their kid to be punctual on the dot (dismissal 3:30pm means to their hands at 3:30pm)

Some text at 3:27pm where the centre phone will be boomed with messages. So they expect their child to fly down within 3 minutes to the gate.

What they don’t know is, when they send the msg, we forward the msg to the class teacher, then the class teacher will send them down.

Sometimes, the class teacher is preoccupied with something, imagine taking a class. If they wan their child to come on the dot, then message early lah pls.

Some parents also cannot wait, 3minutes pass the dismissal timing shouting at us, “why i message already still not OUT YET!!!!!!!”

Omg parents can come late but expect us to get the kid ready on time