A 26-year-old domestic worker was found in a queue – and sleeping on a street for about a week – in Whampoa in Kowloon in a bid to buy concert tickets.
Ta Kung Pao received information from a local citizen that a domestic worker was found staying outside the Tom Lee Music store on Wan Hoi Street in Hung Hom’s Whampoa for at least a week.
After observation on Monday and Tuesday, a reporter for the paper found that the domestic worker had been staying at the back-door area of the music shop for several days and nights. The retailer has a concert ticket counter at the shop.
The woman was seen to rush around when she went to a washroom or had her lunch and dinner, before returning to her spot. At night, she slept on pieces of cardboard on the street with a blanket over the top.
The reporter approached the domestic worker on Monday and was told she had been in the queue for “a few days” after a request from her “boss” to buy tickets for a concert next year by Taiwanese musician and singer Jay Chou.
The worker showed a photo of Jay Chou’s concert information. But the report did not mention the nationality of the domestic worker.
Police also received a report on Monday night that a non-Chinese woman, aged 26, had been staying on Wan Hoi Street for several days. Officers were told that she had queued for concert tickets. They classed the case as miscellaneous.
At 4:30am on Tuesday, a reporter saw a middle-aged woman talking to the domestic worker for 10 minutes, who later went into a building at Whampoa Garden. However, the relationship between the women was not clear.
The concert organizer said tickets for Jay Chou’s concert, which will be held in March 2018, would be available in early December via Urbtix counters and websites.
Staff at Tom Lee said they didn’t know the exact date of sale but people interested to get tickets could wait at the back door area until they are available.
Lawyer Albert Luk Wai-hung said if a domestic worker was not happy to queue up for tickets in such a manner – voluntarily – her employer could be prosecuted for aiding or abetting a worker to breach the condition of his or her stay.
Helper should know very well her limitations in following orders from employer…if it can bring danger to your life and health you can refuse to follow ..poor helper..just to please employer..or just to continue her job and earn money for her family.. she let this crazy employer ..she follow her crazy order…????????..heartless employer and maybe also this employer is brainless…forget to use internet to avail the ticket for herself ????????
How stupid this bulshit employer!????????????????
Sometimes I wonder why they don’t usually mentioned the domestic helper came from which country?!? suspense ????????
Must report to labor department.
So insane!
the helper must be Indonesian. smh
Know your right girl
Ahjumma Ahjumma mark your word! Someday you will eat those word coning from your mouth???? Your not rich though… Wear her shoe first so that you will know how stupid helper following thier boss not just to kick out from thier work
Another kind of abuse domestic workers have to endure to make employers happy so they can keep their jobs. smh
Did u noticed anything fr.news?if the helper is aggravated or is a victim and foremost;if a helper did a heroic act,they will never mention there nationality but if a helper did something awful,they indicate or even shout out to the world which nationality is he/she.isn’t it so unfair?
Ahjumma Ahjumma how you that the helper is STUPID? Must watch your word.
Idiot employer such kinda of animal behavior????
Wow. Who would be happy to sleep outside in cold season with just cardboard and a blanket? No one… Her employer is insane. Her employer should be ban in getting a helper..
This employer should be lock up in jail and compensate his domestic helper.This is inhuman and selfish. Hope the helper can find a better job and leave this crazy employer.
Employer don’t have internet that she can buy her concert ticket?she should give a credit to that poor dh to help her buy the said tickets
She should que there for herself instead of asking her maid.Ridiculous.
The employer is heartless…the maid is stupid…
It’s better to kick out my self… Stupid employer! So heartless????????????
Totally inhumane just to get the concert ticket she let her maid slept in the street! Heartless!????
This is insane