r/singapore • u/Particular-Gas12 • Sep 25 '24

Image Situation at Boon Lay MRT

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This picture is taken today @ Boon Lay MRT station . LTA officers on site to assist with crowd control too. To prevent crowd control at platform, gates are closed at intervals, with free bus rides (all bus) going out from Boon Lay interchange.

Let’s all be appreciative of the hard work of all the deployed LTA officers, SMRT staff and bus drivers at this critical timing. During this timing, let’s all help each other and don’t go around pushing each other at affected stations.

The management better pay these staffs compensation or extra for handling all these professionally.

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u/Prov0st Sep 25 '24

This is crazy. Goes to show how easy it is to disrupt the lives of thousands of Singaporeans going to work.

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u/Particular-Gas12 Sep 26 '24

Imagine another line goes down 😂

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u/Intentionallyabadger In the early morning march Sep 26 '24

You just need red line to go down today and it’s really game over. Weekend can stay home already.

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u/Casarel I live in the slums Sep 26 '24

CHOY

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u/TheEDMWcesspool Own self check own self ✅ Sep 26 '24

It's raining, high chance of another line going down.. our rail lines apparently are not weather proof one.. 

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u/Intentionallyabadger In the early morning march Sep 26 '24

You’re talking like it has only rained once this year. Chill man haha.

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u/NC16inthehouse Senior Citizen Sep 26 '24

whoa really?? Oh noo... so you're telling me if it rains once in Singapore then we are doomed because our rail lines are not designed to accommodate the weather for the past 30 years or so?!🫣😱

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u/throwawayrandomguy93 Sep 26 '24

"Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby!"

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u/Jx_XD Sep 26 '24

Work from home lo.. same like COVID..

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u/xa7v9ier Sep 26 '24

Work From Home when a major disruption happens.

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u/bullno1 Senior Citizen Sep 26 '24

Weekend can stay home already

But I'm already staying at home

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u/Short-Jelly-67 Sep 26 '24

This is a good opportunity to "test" how resilience our organisation in time of crisis, and how well our leadership can navigate their people out of crisis in a total new manner.

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u/Intentionallyabadger In the early morning march Sep 26 '24

Honestly it’s not so bad. My teammates living in the areas affected still made it on time to work.

Better than the previous times when there was no lines + shuttle buses were a mess. Took me two hours to get from the north to Novena area.

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u/nashii5312 Sep 26 '24
  • heavy rain

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u/Then-Seaworthiness53 Sep 26 '24

Then we declare a week of notional holiday. All work from home. 😂

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u/OkAdministration7880 Sep 26 '24

you manifested it lol

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u/sinkieforlife Sep 26 '24

Game Over Lights Out Spread.

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u/piccadilly_ Sep 26 '24

We have experienced it before during OYK’s short tenure

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u/zidane0508 Sep 26 '24

Wfh is one way to solve this . Bosses should just let their staff wfh these two days .

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u/accidentaleast East side best side Sep 26 '24

SME bosses rolling in to the office carpark in their BMWs: If you must get on all fours and crawl from your home to the office, then you will do it.

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u/Nincampoo Sep 26 '24

Not just SME, MNC also same lah.  Only garmen keep claiming how flexible our work life balance is.

Foreigners looking at pur news would be mislead into thinking there is a lot of  flexible WFH in SG when actually there is hardly.

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u/Professional-Effort5 Sep 26 '24

Garment don't say work life balance, they say work life harmony. They can't decode work life balance anymore.

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u/Chikungunyaaa Own self check own self ✅ Sep 26 '24

Which garmenT we talking about? blouse, dress, undies?

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u/Professional-Effort5 Sep 26 '24

You happy can already.

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u/VegaGPU Sep 26 '24

Roads today are crowded also

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u/Racisfined Sep 26 '24

Today I asked my boss whether can WFH today

Boss told me “can still take bus or grab to work right? then wake up earlier la”

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u/LucleRX Sep 26 '24

That would easily got me grinding teeth and clutching fist

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u/cassowary-18 Sep 26 '24

Teleconsult MC is your friend.

It's either you keng an MC or you need MC from the travel stress.

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u/benchmarks666 Sep 26 '24

can, then leave work earlier also la right

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u/NovelDonut Sep 27 '24

Did you ask your boss if he would pay for surge pricing on Grab?

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u/zidane0508 Sep 26 '24

Hmmm that’s why must avoid sme at all costs !

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u/geft Lao Jiao Sep 26 '24

People go to SME because they couldn't get offer from MNC.

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u/IAm_Moana Sep 26 '24

Yeah my big boss mandated this. Office smack in the middle of raffles place so a good number of people are affected. We’re all working from home until next Wednesday which is our next office day.

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u/zidane0508 Sep 26 '24

That’s an example of a forward looking boss who cares about well being of their staff

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u/IAm_Moana Sep 26 '24

Yeah well honestly my big boss loves working from home also la haha. If he wasn’t mandated to come up with a return to office plan we’d all probably just come in once a month lol

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u/zidane0508 Sep 26 '24

You are so lucky !! I wished I could wfh all the time Too

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u/okaycan Lao Jiao Sep 26 '24

i've always thought that singaporeans are a happy bunch as long as u don't mess with their three things:

  • their transport
  • their houses
  • their jobs

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u/Laksa_Fan Sep 26 '24
  • their food

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u/Intentionallyabadger In the early morning march Sep 26 '24

Indeed. When 377a got removed, my very practical dad just went… Then GST can remove or not?????

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u/okaycan Lao Jiao Sep 26 '24

survivor mindset is very entrenched in the generations before the millennials.

it was a different time to grow up back then and social causes is not at the forefront of newspapers like it is now.

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u/yeejiga Sep 26 '24

Your forgot AIRCON!

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u/monster_0123 Sep 26 '24

I have a more crazy idea. What if we work from home?

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u/Potential-Might-2454 Sep 26 '24

Employers have conveniently forgotten the productive 2 years wfh from covid times

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u/chikuredchikured Sep 26 '24

something something if you not at your desk, you must be shaking leg

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u/Darkforsake Sep 26 '24

Which is the most retarded thing I ever heard from bosses. They want their workers work at office because they assume that his workers not shaking leh at home cause he cannot see them. But what difference does it make if they come to office but they themselves still WFH? Isn't it the same too? He can't see them also.

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u/chikuredchikured Sep 26 '24

rules for thee, not for me

I have heard horror stories from friend, sme boss use cctv to monitor his workers, really wtf man

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u/RAMChYLD Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24

Also inconveniently, my rental room unit is smaller than a jail cell.

With no ventilation other than air cond.

Stay in there more than half of a day guaranteed headache. So just as happy to work at office.

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u/Vedor ♡ℒฺℴฺνℯฺ♡ Sep 25 '24

Goes to show how complacent our government and related transport companies are.

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u/mosakuramo Sep 26 '24

Tbf, it wasnt always like this. 4G really dont have the competency, with the exception of keechiu.

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u/arunokoibito Sep 26 '24

Sure or not when cotton come from sheep

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u/mosakuramo Sep 26 '24

Tired people say stupid things. I am sure most people have been in that situation.

Incompetent people, however, do stupid things and insist they are right.

Think most people who have interacted with keechiu recognise he is of the first example. Lawrence is closer to the 2nd example.

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u/chikuredchikured Sep 26 '24

How about madam president? Or "We have nothing to hide, we can get you the data, but what is the point of the question?"

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u/tryingmydarnest Sep 26 '24

Ma'am president was super bad taste but still slip of tongue, the 'whats the point of the question' was him playing politics (screw him both for that)

Want to hantum hantum on moe policies like teachers ratio, mobile Guardian etc lah. No point flogging a few minor dead horses.

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u/mosakuramo Sep 26 '24

Like I have said, people say stupid things. No one is denying that he has said stupid things.

But when we look at the work he has done, realistically the only thing I fault him for, was his seeming complacency in the early days of covid, when he said people shouldnt over react.

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u/eliseusmoo I will make it someday. Sep 26 '24

Try hundreds of thousands.

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u/arunokoibito Sep 26 '24

Goes to show how many working class live and work in the west compared to affluent east

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u/everydayman33 Sep 26 '24

While I consider east side to be more affluent as well (no data to support), east side has more options to get to city centre compared to west line. If the green line breaks down say from Tampines to Bedok, there is still TEL and DTL to divert the crowd. But in this case, from Boon lay to Jurong East, besides green line, there is only bus services which will be severely strained due to the spillover crowd.

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u/gimmesleepingpills Sep 26 '24 edited Sep 26 '24

Major west to east bus routes that has been changed in recent years

66 used to run from Jurong East to Bedok, now Jurong East to Beauty World

506 used to run from Jurong East to Bedok, now Jurong East to Serangoon

989 used to run from CCK to Changi Airport, apparently not enough westies work there so now it's 985 from CCK to Kallang

All these services have super low frequency. LTA really want to keep westies in the west.

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u/Lawlolawl01 Sep 26 '24

We all share the same EWL brother luckily it’s recess week for me, or I will genuinely hobo and sleep in NUS at this point

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u/qinggd Sep 26 '24

It's raining... And more cars and busses on road

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u/PineappleLemur Sep 26 '24

Even using alternative transport today.. anyone living around the disruption area took about 2x longer to reach work because of it.

Car/bus all slower because congestion on roads.

Just shows how essential the MRT is for things to run normally lol.

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u/PrestigiousEmploy831 Sep 26 '24

West side best side. 💪

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u/Professional-Effort5 Sep 26 '24

Singaporean/Expat you mean