‘Hong Kong bosses are getting crazier’: grave situation as city employer demands tombstone photos ahead of granting leave for ancestor festival
- Staff member asks for 12 days off to go to mainland to pay respects to ancestors and is shocked when boss asks him for grave photos as proof
- Bosses’ request sparks heated online debate in which most side with the worker but some see employer’s point of view
Hong Kong bosses are coming under fire online for making increasingly strange and unfair demands on their staff.
The apparent rise in unjust, top-down demands has led one city worker on the receiving end to complain online that “Hong Kong bosses are becoming crazier”.
On a Facebook page which shares experiences of unfairness in the workplace the city worker said: “I took time off to pay respect to my ancestors, but my boss made me take photos of the graves to prove it.”
His anger reflects that of many Hong Kong residents returning to the mainland for this month’s “tomb-sweeping” festival, Ching Ming, for the first time in three years following the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions.
The poster said: “Hong Kong bosses are getting crazier, they are driving me crazy too.”
He said he asked his boss for 12 days of leave to pay tribute to his ancestors in Foshan, a city in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong which borders Hong Kong.