A Facebook post about an Indonesian domestic worker – taking selfies with a friend at a shopping mall in Chai Wan on Hong Kong Island during working hours – has gone viral on social media recently.
On Wednesday afternoon, Ricky Wong Sze-chin, a former member of the Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong (DAB), uploaded a video and photos about the maid and her friend on his Facebook account.
According to his post, the maid was supposed to be taking care of an old woman, who was seen shaking on her wheelchair. Worried that the old lady could be feeling cold, Wong suggested to the domestic worker that she take the old lady home, instead of spending time taking selfies.
But the maid replied to Wong in Cantonese that the old woman’s condition was normal. “She is always shaking like this. Why did you scold me?” the maid said, adding that she had not left the old woman alone or unsafe.
The video had been viewed 1.8 million times and shared more than 15,000 times as of noon on Friday.
Netizens had different views about the incident. Some criticized the maid for neglecting the old woman and taking selfies with her friend during working hours.
But others slammed Wong for wrongly assuming that the old woman, who could have Parkinson’s disease – which causes patients to shake –was feeling cold.
Some netizens said Wong had opened a “public trial” against the maids by posting their pictures on Facebook.
She on off day but still taking care of elderly
Alright… they also don’t know a grandma is like this..
That way i hate a kind of peoples like this
Some employers never follow the rules,,
Helper and employer have the same right to follow this rules,,but why even they know that holiday is holiday,,,like my employer,they leaving without any food allowance because she said it’s my holiday,,replacement deduction for my upcoming statutory holiday,, but still doing home work,,they are so damn,,,cannot recontract again
Tlgang search m sya ah hahahhaa
Very well said
correct
Right
True ! This man being a hongkongnian thinks maids owe it all to them and they can control everything maids do…he is stupid because he doesn’t know not all employers are very strict to their maids.others are considerate enough to allow their maids to have fun with taking selfies or photos even they are at work…
busybody are like that. some people they don’t like to see other people happy believe me if they see someone dying on the street i don’t think he will butt eyelid. he will just take a picture and post it ha…i take care an elderly too and she also shaking but i can see the different between the normal and feeling cold. to some people when they see a maid playing mobile phone it’s such an eyesore believe me even if we are playing mobile phone we are still responsible to our job. you are also working for other people office right and i think you also using mobile phone too but you still finish your work. we are also like that.
Just want to be famous through social media without knowing the fact, have personal interest in posting the photo and can be sued. Some people should understand and be considerate knowing that being a domestic helper isnt that easy its a tough job i can say. Taking selfie while taking care of an elderly or a kid is not a crime. Domestic helper is being paid by their employers and only employer who signed a contract with that helper has the right to confront her helper.Just wondrin how this person treat her own helper if he has one.