Office gatherings can be difficult to navigate, as one Hong Kong office worker has discovered. Photo: Shutterstock
A young Hong Kong officer worker has generated a buzz on social media after complaining that he was being victimised by his boss because of an etiquette faux pas on a work night out.
On the city’s anonymous forum Dcard, the confused office worker posted message thread titled: “Offended my boss by not knowing the rules when drinking with him.”
The apparently put-upon poster claimed that his manager had proposed a dinner for the whole team, adding that: “Of course, you have to drink at a dinner, and of course, you have to drink a toast.”
However, he said that during the office night out he had failed to observe an “important piece of etiquette” in the eyes of his elders during the toasting process.
The disgruntled worker went on to claim that his drinking faux pas caused his boss to single him out for scolding at work.