Allegations On Facebook Picked Up By Other Media

A shop assistant was accused of issuing a receipt filled out with vulgarities instead of the normal details.

The recipient was a foreign worker from China who didn’t know how to read English. He showed the receipt to his friend and asked him what it said.

A volunteer that helps foreign workers was then informed. Angered by the remarks made, she confronted the sales assistant and posted the receipt on her Facebook profile.

She told The New Paper, “I posted it on my Facebook profile so people could read it, know what happened and discuss what incidents like this mean for us as a society. I didn’t expect it to become this big.”

Unsurprisingly, the sales assistant denied such allegations and took out all the receipt books the shop uses. They didn’t match the one that he was accused of issuing.

The shop owner and assistant also emphasized that they had nothing against foreign workers or foreigners.

“She just accused us without any proof and is now shaming us online. That’s not fair,” they said.

If the allegations were false, that’s really too bad for the shop. The Facebook post got widely circulated online and picked up by newspapers and a blog site called The Online Citizen, where it attracted more than 5,100 views and more than 160 comments.

Whether the allegations are fair or not, the shop was unlucky to get the hit on Facebook. They admitted that most of their customers are foreign workers and the media coverage is definitely going to take away many customers.

Source: asiaone digital