Disgusted is an understatement. Our senior colleague is a total creep who “hunts” students in China every leave cycle.
I need to get this off my chest because the guys in my office and I are actually reaching our limit with this absolute “reproach” of a human being. We have this senior colleague—let’s call him Tan—who is your typical, middle-aged, sweaty “Uncle” type. But it’s not his hygiene that’s the problem; it’s his disgusting “hobby.”
Every single time he has annual leave, he doesn’t go for a nice family trip or a relaxing staycation. No. This man bragged—yes, BRAGGED—to the junior staff that he flies straight to Tier 2 or Tier 3 cities in China specifically to “scout” for 18-year-old “students.”
His Little Flowers
He literally sits there during lunch break, sweating through his office shirt, scrolling through his WeChat or some dodgy apps, showing off photos of girls who look like they haven’t even finished their A-Levels. He calls them his “little flowers” and has the audacity to talk about how “pure” and “traditional” they are compared to local women. It is actually stomach-churning.
What’s worse is the power dynamic. He thinks he’s some big shot because he’s a Singaporean man with a decent salary. He basically treats these girls like commodities he can purchase with a few luxury handbags or “allowances.” He talks about their age like it’s a vintage wine—the younger, the better. He specifically targets students because he says they are “easier to manage” and “grateful for the opportunity.”
The entire office is disgusted. The ladies in HR won’t even look him in the eye, and the rest of us just try to keep our distance. But because he’s technically “productive” at work, management just closes an eye. We’ve tried to drop hints that his “travel stories” are inappropriate, but he just laughs it off and says we’re “jealous” or “too woke.”
Jealous? Of what? Looking at a 40-something-year-old man hovering over a teenager who is clearly only there because of the wealth gap? It’s pathetic, and it makes all Singaporean men look bad when people like him represent us abroad.
He came back from his latest trip last week and had the nerve to complain that one of the girls “became too demanding” once she turned 19. Like, she’s literally a child becoming an adult and he’s already bored because she’s “too old” for his sick taste.
Honestly, how do people like this live with themselves? He spends his whole life in a cubicle just to save up enough money to go be a creep in another country. I genuinely hope he gets blacklisted or blocked from entering. Absolute disgrace to the company and the country.