China engineer in New Zealand boasts about ‘skiving off’ work during office hours, triggers official probe
- Woman brags about cinema, gym, car wash visits while she should be working
- Lazy employee faces angry public backlash in both countries
A woman from China who works for a publicly-owned water company in New Zealand has sparked an online storm after boasting about skiving off work on mainland social media.
Her antics at Wellington Water have touched a raw nerve because they came at a time of water shortages in the country.
The employee, who recently earned a Master’s degree in Operations Research and Analytics, joined the company as an engineer last May.
In a now-deleted video posted on the Xiaohongshu social media platform the woman laid out her plans to be lazy on January 5.
It said: “Council Engineer – Challenge one day slacking off and doing no work. Making money while I play.”
She first noted that on her arrival at the office, it was almost empty, with just one other person in the work area, implying that everyone at the company was slacking off.