Man Requests Leave To Pay Respect to Ancestors, Boss Demands Gravestone Photograph As Proof

Employees are expected to submit proof for sick leaves and expense bills in the corporate world, but in an unusual pattern, a supervisor in Hong Kong is demanding one bizarre proof from his employee, which is unexpected anywhere else in the world.

According to the South China Morning Post, a supervisor asked his employee who wanted a 12-day leave to participate in the Ching Ming Festival, which is an event in which Chinese families visit the tombs of their ancestors to clean the gravesites and make ritual offerings to their ancestors.

But the worker was shocked when his boss requested that he submit pictures of his ancestors’ gravestones before his days off in order to justify the reason for his break.

The man detailed his experiences with unfairness at work in a Facebook post, including the peculiar request from his supervisor.

He said, “My boss made me take photos of the graves to show that I had taken time off to pay my respects to my ancestors”.

“Hong Kong bosses are getting crazier, they are driving me crazy too”, he continued in his post.

“Do you need to take 12 days off to honor your ancestors”, his supervisor questioned him.

The news source added that once the COVID-19 limitations were lifted, Hong Kong residents were coming back to the mainland for the first time in three years for this month’s Ching Ming ‘tomb-sweeping’ festival.

The man, who is from the bordering city of Foshan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, received a lot of supportive comments for his post.

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