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.
Exactly
Why blow the matter !!! Just forget it, all ready know the reasons
anybody who cares and respect individual knows how to handle things without making a scence. confront the individual with discrete not on social media.
In this case she was on her holiday
Very true.
Many employers really criticizing maid. Many employers think they are intelligent and their maid is dumb. Wat the……..
If the helper was taking selfies with a friend during working hours she should be fired. It is her working time and not her social time.
He confronted already but maybe he was not satisfied to what the lady told him about her ward’s condition as normal
RammoyanMalinang…ang wagas ng comments mo dai…sarap mong sabonotan…matapobre..grabidad
Why Wong didn’t ask directly the elderly why she’s shaking?
Good give a lesson that Chinese man.
As far as I know cAnnot post any video without a person knowledgemr ricky. Wong just concern. The only thing that is wrong is he post the video
Correct!
I wished the helper took photo of this guy and post it too���
Rammoyan Malinang akala ko dati amo ka un pala katulong din you the maid ha hahhaha katawa kala mo cnu magsalita eh katulong ka din kagaya namin elderly din ang inaalagaan ko hawak ko din ang phone ko khit my work alangan nmn magtitigan kmi maghapon eh wala magawa what do you think? wag magmalinis huh pare pareho lng tau nabobored sa work and need ng libangan so better think before giving comment to others use ur brain not you finggers��������
yes good job .bring that people is very busy body like him.
Rammoyan Malinang such a hypocrite! Dont tell me that you do not TOUCH your phone in your working hour. Ipokrita!
Mind your own f***** business simple as that.
Very well said..
Hahaha.. Hipokritang katulong din sa hk friend.. Ayos mgcomment..parang tanga lng.