During this holy month of Ramadan, it is not uncommon for people to hold special gatherings between family, friends or even work colleagues to Iftar or break fast together.
However, what if the break fast event was organised by the company you’re working at and required you to fork out your own money to pay for the gathering?
Company buka puasa event, but employees have to pay RM100+ each
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Well, that’s exactly what happened to this Malaysian at his workplace, though he ain’t having none of it.
Sharing his protest of his company’s culture during Ramadan on X (formerly Twitter), the Malaysian, @iqmalxxx further revealed that the buka puasa gathering for the department at his workplace required employees to pay over RM100 each.
In the X post, he asserted,
“I don’t understand this culture of buka puasa with the department but using our own money. Why would I pay RM100+ just to break fast with people who are jealous of me?”
Malaysians resonated with the X post
It seems that @iqmalxxx resonated with fellow Malaysians on the social media platform, whereby as of the time of writing, the X post has garnered over 10,000 likes and more than 5,300 reposts.
In fact, even @iqmalxxx was surprised by the post going viral, but took the opportunity of the high engagement to advise employers out there to not ask money from employees for such gatherings.
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He asserted,
“Oh this is doing numbers. Bosses, if you see this tweet, I have nothing against the idea of improving the camaraderie within the team but money contribution from the team should be the last aspect that you should consider…”
“Team events should be fully sponsored by higher management or have allocations provided. Thank you.”
Malaysians share their opinion on the matter
In the replies to the post, many Malaysians agreed with @iqmalxxx and chimed in with their own two cents. One commenter said that if it’s a a company or work event, it must always come from the company budget.
Meanwhile, another commenter said that things that happen in the office should stay in the office and shared their experience of work colleagues not even saying hi to them when they see them outside of the office.
Besides that, one commenter shared that they had never experienced this situation throughout his 15 years of working, as all office buka puasa event were sponsored by the company.
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So, what do you guys think of the whole situation? Share your thoughts with us in the comments!
