Dear Customers/Partners/Readers

Remember us? It’s been a long time since our last post on disHonestbee. You might be wondering why are we still working for them. Well they made ‘some’ effort to ensure we shoppers were paid fairly after that awful saga. All was ‘good’ until today.

An email was sent from disHonestbee to every shopper this evening. Point number one sounds reasonable. No comments on that.

Thought that was it but NOOOOO. Here comes the big shocker. Seriously disHonestbee. How could you?? After all the shit we have been through together, you want to break up? T_T

Let us clarify what point number two means.

A shopper has to grab the shifts that he/she wants to work for the following week every Wednesday. Fastest fingers wins. disHonestbee will release shifts per location every 15 mins starting from 3pm to 5pm on When I Work app. Shifts comes in 2 hour slots each day beginning from 845am to 845pm. With us so far?

Once a shopper has grabbed the shifts they want, he/she will be required to turn up for the shifts at the specific location and complete grocery orders from NTUC Fairprice (their biggest partner).

What disHonestbee is trying to implement is that should there be no orders for that timeslot, the shift will be removed from the shopper. Instead of paying shoppers the basic of $5 per hour x multiplier + bonus line
incentives, shoppers now have to suck their thumbs and be paid a measly $2 per hour instead.

How in the world is that even fair? How do they even come up with this kind of proposal and informing us only one day in advance?

We shoppers invest our time and effort to travel down to these locations to work and yet they intend to do this to us. Grabbing the shifts itself is not an easy task thanks to disHonestbee’s endless hiring of new shoppers when the shifts released are so minimal like literally only one shopper per hub every hour. The last figure last year was 1200 which we all know is bull. We wonder what that number has turned into now. Once grabbed, that shift rightfully belongs to the shopper. How can it be taken away? Is that even legal?

We pity the new shoppers coming in. Everything looked so lucrative during the orientation process. Well not anymore once they realize it is freaking damn difficult just to grab one bloody shift. How is this fair?

Another ongoing implementation from disHonestbee are the standby shoppers slot. If a shopper grabs these shifts, he/she will have to standby near the location without being paid a single cent and wait for activation only when needed. And guess what? Once activated, standby shoppers will be paid higher than normal shoppers. Sadly, activation does not happen very often. Then again how is this fair?

With thel new implementation starting this Wednesday means that when a normal shopper shift gets cut back, a standby shopper will be activated should orders come in? If so, how is this fair?

We realize a pattern that whenever disHonestbee changes to a new boss, we start seeing all these crap ideas of theirs coming out. Just when we feel comfortable and adapted to the last payment scheme changes, they decide to flip the tables again.

disHonestbee should be ashamed of themselves. Instead of finding solutions on how to bring in more sales, they keep on taking the easy way out which is to cut us off. We bet their partners will be ashamed of them too especially NTUC Fairprice when they see this.

Very Disgruntled Bees

Reader Contribution by Alice>

A restaurant owner is looking for 2 crooks who stole a Macbook from his Siglap store.

Restaurant name: Eat First
Date & time: 10/09/2017 3.37pm

The owner and his wife left the restaurant at 3pm to run errands, leaving the owner’s mother alone in the back of the kitchen to tidy up after the lunch crowd. She was in the kitchen the whole time without realising the 2 men enter the restaurant and stealing the MacBook.

Their actions were however, caught on CCTV.

The owners made a police report but to no avail and are thus seeking help in identifying these thieves.

Have you seen them?

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27-year-old Mohan Maheswaran, a restaurant executive, molested 3 teenage boys whom he stalked and intimidated with his lewd advances.

According to court documents, Mohan pleaded guilty yesterday to 3 charges, 2 of outraging the modesty of 2 16-year-old boys and a third of using criminal force to grab the arm of a 13-year-old boy.

During his molestation spree against the boys, Mohan used trickery and force on his younger and frightened victims.

In one case, he asked a 16-year-old boy to help him carry some things down the stairs. The boy agreed but was molested by the men when he was taken to a deserted staircase landing, where Mohan revealed that he had lied and told the boy, “I just want to play with you.”

The boy pushed Mohan away and ran to a nearby hair salon, but Mohan stalked the boy and hung around outside the salon, looking at him and smiling. The boy, who was with his siblings, reported the molest to his father.

Mohan’s second victim was on his way to school when he stopped to use a public toilet at Commonwealth Avenue West. There, Mohan approached the boy and made an indecent proposition, but was ignored by the boy. Mohan then forcefully molested the victim.

The last victim, aged 13, was also told to help Mohan carry some things and lured to a deserted staircase. Suspecting something was wrong, the boy tried to run but Mohan grabbed his arm and told him not to be afraid. The boy shoved Mohan’s hand away, but Mohan followed up by offering to perform a sexual act on the boy. The boy pushed him again and fled.

Mohan, who came to work in Singapore since March 2016, could have been jailed up to 2 years, fined, caned or received any combination of the sentences.

“On 08.09.17 around 12.38am. I pick up a indian lady from Chinatown to Serangoon Ave 4. Upon reaching there, she refuse to tell me her Block no. As i had no choice but to pull over. As such she just open the taxi door and walk away quickly without paying the meterfare of $17.35. I gave chase saw her waiting for lift at Block 223A Serangoon Ave 4.

Instead of giving me the full fare, she took out only $9.00 and flash her wallet proclaiming thats all she have. I told to pay by others like atm or ezlink. She started to turn violent towards me as she knows that i was filming her.

As she is lady, i walk away. The case has been reported to Police and according to them, it will handle to LTA.

Should any netizens knows her whereabout, it will helps to expediate the case.”

<Facebook post by Goh Meng Seng>

Open Letter to Halimah

Dear Madam Halimah,

At this very moment when I pen this letter to you, I still have the opportunity to address you as Madam Halimah instead of Madam Kelong President Halimah and I hope NOT to have that unfortunate opportunity to address you as such.

There is absolutely No Glory nor Dignity for you to become our First Lady President under the current circumstances. Your eventual “acceptance” of such farce arrangement of “Reserved Presidency”, apparently meant for you, by submitting your nomination papers tomorrow, will be seen as an dishonorable act which will undermine the Presidency even before you begin your tour of duty.

Most important of all, your nomination and eventual acceptance of this Presidency now will cause more hurt and damage to the very Malay community which you claim to represent and lead. The implicit humiliation and hurt suffered by the Malay community will never recover fully due to the disgraceful ways of political manipulation by the power that creates unfavorable inferences upon the Malay community throughout the process.

You have said that you want to be the unifying figure for ALL Singaporeans but ironically, if you accept the “reserved appointment” of Presidency under such circumstances, you will not gain any substantial respect from any Singaporeans from any race. Your role of unification of Singaporeans would ironically be a figure head that every Singaporean stand in unity to disrespect or even despised!

The damage to our foundation of Core Values based on Meritocracy is just too great to quantify. This is one of the biggest damage your acceptance of such reserved appointment would do to our nation.

I would urge you to reconsider on submitting your nomination papers on 13 Sep 2017 because such move would only bring damaging consequences to everyone, to the whole Nation because it would be seen as the ultimate sophistry of rigging a simple electoral progress that would bring shame and disgrace to our Nation. A President-to-be who would put the whole Nation to shame and anger, is definitely not a good start for your six-years term which would be void of any legitimacy in the eyes of Singaporeans and the whole world at large.

I would urge you NOT to submit your nomination papers tomorrow so to trigger the mechanism to open up the Presidential Elections to contest by ALL qualified individuals from all races. Then you should contest in a fair and open elections to exemplify the values of meritocracy we hold so dearly for the success of this Nation.

Respect, dignity and legitimacy are earned, not Reserved in appointment. You will do yourself no justice as well as harm and damage to your Malay community as well as the Nation at large if you do not really understand this simple value.

Regrettably,
Goh Meng Seng

An unemployed man who threatened to burn his house down and went on to cut the LPG gas cylinder hose in his house kitchen was jailed for 15 months. Khairudin Mohamed, 39, carried out the rash acts at his Tampines Avenue 4 home earlier this year, because he was angry that his mother did not give him more money.

He had demanded money from his mother on that particular day, but she only had $40 and gave him that. He had demanded more, but became angry as she did not have money. He left the house, but returned later in the afternoon. He then flared up after his mother told him his girlfriend had looked for him. He threatened to burn the house down. He went to the kitchen and cut the hose of the LPG gas cylinder which supplied gas to the kitchen stove.

He then carried the gas cylinder, with the hose cut, and said to his mother in Malay: “You thought I was just joking. This time, it’s for real.” He then entered his bedroom with the gas cylinder while Madam Safiah called the police before leaving the flat. Police subsequently arrested him.

IRAS has issued a warning to the public that an email on tax refunds supposedly sent by IRAS is a scam. It may even contain a computer virus. The email asks recipients to download an attachment or click on a link to view their tax refunds.

On its website, IRAS said there have been reported cases of scammers sending emails, letters, text messages or phone calls purportedly from the authority to members of the public. These scams asked people to transfer money for tax purposes to other bank accounts; pay money before an inheritance or estate of a deceased person is released; provide bank account numbers for tax refund claims, cash rewards or to pay outstanding taxes; and provide information such as personal particulars and passwords.

IRAS has reminded the public that it does not send official emails from personal email accounts, and that IRAS will also not ask for personal information via email. However, there have been cases where scam emails have been sent mimicking the Board’s email addresses, ending with @iras.gov.sg. Anyone who has received a suspicious email, letter, SMS or phone call purportedly from IRAS should not respond, and immediately contact the authority

Not the first time going for a doctor’s appointment at Changi Hospital so I am aware all those before me may have tolerated the long queue but I was told when asked about my 11:40 am appointment delay to 12:15 pm. I was told tat “it is not even one hour delay!

Anyway, there were many patients so I just have to wait. Ok I am waiting and it is up to 1 pm, but still no signs of me being called to see the doctor. And then, from where I am sitting down, I saw this notice board right in front of the counter staff “Mutual Respect – our employees deserve respect. ” Here I am, my appointment time supposed to be 11:40 am, and now past 1 pm and still no sign of the doctor, so now I am wondering how about the hospital showing us some mutual respect for the time some of us took off from work and some took time off from things to do at home.

Surely better time management and effort in enhancing the system is in order. Mutual respect goes both ways, right?

Mag