I’m trying to make a list of funny and absurd of annoying workplace experiences in Singapore. It can be anything about office pantry disasters, meeting mishaps, annoying bosses, annoying colleagues or any uniquely Singapore/general workplace moments.
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I’ll start:
- Receiving a text/call on the weekends.
- Your boss scheduled a 1-1 with you in 10 mins with no agenda or explanation.
- Due to budget cuts, everyone is expected to clean your own table and take turns to clean office.
- When it’s 6pm but everyone appears to be busy because boss is still around.
- The annoying person who sets up meeting at 9am
- I see people online on Teams at 10-11pm at night and emails being sent at wee hours at night. Sad life
Some positives ones
- Your boss is out of town for 2 weeks.
- Team dinner got cancelled
- You’ve been told to WFH for a week
- Free lunch today!
Here are what netizens think:
- From my ex-boss who begrudgingly gave us a day off (I assumed after receiving complaints from some colleagues, as we had been working many weekends consecutively for the past few months).“I give you all off ah, is out of goodwill hor. Not every time this will happen ok. You all can take one day off, but you all cannot go overseas, must stay in sg. If office calls, you all must be contactable and pick up hor.” She’s serious. Lol wtf, give until so unwilling and still wanna stipulate criteria on usage after we burnt many of our weekends for her. It’s not like our job is essential services that requires 24/7 standby some more
- None of your examples are uniquely Singaporean though, could happen anywhere leh. How about: boss calls for team meeting to get everyone to help him beat DISTIC and secure Jacky Cheung concert tickets…
- my boss asking for help on his kid’s math homework in our office whatsapp group. and we all trying to solve it without algebra. the kid’s primary 3 so algrebra solutions are rejected lol.
- As a foreigner, having a client set up a project meeting starting at 5pm on a Friday was an eye-opener. In Australia organising a meeting after about 3pm on a Friday would be considered rude, unless it was an informal event with drinks and food.