The employer asked for a photo of the tombstone.
It is common in the corporate world for employees to submit proofs for medical leave and expense bills, but in an offbeat pattern, a boss in Hong Kong is asking for a bizarre proof from his employee, which is completely different elsewhere in the world. than is unexpected.
According to South China Morning Post, A boss asked his employee who wanted 12 days off to attend the Ching Ming Festival, which is an event when Chinese families visit their ancestors’ graves and clean the graves and perform rituals to their ancestors. Are.
“But to the employee’s surprise, his boss asked him to send photographs of his ancestors’ graves before their days to prove the purpose of his vacation.”
The man wrote about his boss’s strange demand in a Facebook post, outlining his encounters with unfairness at work.
“I took time to honor my ancestors, but my boss asked me to photograph graves to prove it.”
His post further said, “Hong Kong bosses are going crazy, they’re driving me crazy too.”
His boss asked him, “Do you really need to take 12 days off to pay respect to your ancestors?”
The news outlet further reported that Hong Kong residents are returning to the mainland for this month’s “tomb-sweeping” festival, Ching Ming, following the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions for the first time in three years.
The man, who lives in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, a city that borders Hong Kong, received a lot of sympathetic comments on his post; Some of them suggested that he resign.
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