The employer demanded headstone photos.
It is common practice in the business world for employees to submit proofs of sick leave and bills for expenses, but in an unusual pattern, a boss in Hong Kong demands a bizarre proof from his employee, which is completely unexpected anywhere else in the world.
According to the South China Morning Post, a boss asked his employee who wanted 12 days off to participate in the Ching Ming Festival, an event in which Chinese families visit their ancestors’ graves to clean the graves and make ritual offerings to their ancestors.
“But to the surprise of the employee, his boss asked him to send pictures of his ancestors’ tombstones before his days off to prove the purpose of his break.”
The man wrote about his boss’s strange demand in a Facebook post outlining his encounters with unfairness at work.
“I took time off to respect my ancestors, but my boss made me take pictures of the graves to prove it.”
His post went on to say, “Hong Kong bosses are getting crazier, they’re driving me crazy too.”
His boss asked him, “Do you really have to take 12 days off to respect your ancestors?”
The news outlet further reported that Hong Kong residents are returning to the mainland for the first time in three years after the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions for this month’s “grave-sweeping” festival, Ching Ming.
The man, who hails from Foshan, a city in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, which borders Hong Kong, received many sympathetic reactions to his post; some of them also proposed to resign.
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