Compiled by HO JIA WEN, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
A COMPANY owner in Taiwan drew flak online after making a post slamming employees who fill up their water bottles using the office water cooler before going home, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The man posted on social media Dcard saying that his employees would fill up their water bottles at the dispenser at 3pm, which was two hours before the work day ends.
“Do you think us bosses are blind? This is not how company assets should be used!” he wrote.
The man added that the water provided by the company should only be drunk during office hours and should not be taken home.
His post did not elicit sympathy, but rather criticism from Internet users for being a miser.
“Does it mean the company would shut down due to skyrocketing costs just because employees fill up their water bottles?” one netizen wrote.
Some Internet users pointed out that other companies offer benefits, including gym membership and even snacks, just to retain staff, and that providing water is the bare minimum.
Another netizen said that rather than stopping them, the company he works for encourages the employees to drink more water.
“My bosses noticed I don’t like drinking water and were concerned about how much I consume each day.
“They even asked if I had a water cooler at home and urged me to fill up my bottle before leaving the office every day,” one netizen wrote.
> A woman’s body was found at the bottom of a cliff in China’s Sichuan province, some 40 days after she was reported missing, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The incident captured the attention of Internet users after 23-year-old Chen Xiaojia went missing on Feb 7 while hiking Mount Emei, the tallest among the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China.
Every day, netizens eagerly awaited updates on Chen’s whereabouts.
On March 25, Chen’s mother announced that her daughter’s body had been found at the base of a cliff at Mount Emei.
The mother, known only by her surname Li, said Chen last contacted her on Feb 7 and informed her that she was going to “hike on a mountain”.
She got frantic when she was unable to contact her daughter later that evening as her phone was unreachable.
Chen’s last ping on her phone showed that she was near Lingjue Temple, which is located atop Mount Emei, at 9.40pm before the signal disappeared soon after.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.
