Whatsapp and social media get domestic workers in trouble

24 January 2013 - 17:00
By IOL

Domestic workers – one wearing her employer’s clothing and the other posing on a bed during working hours – have been busted after posting pictures of themselves on a social networking site - The Daily News writes.

Both maids had not realised that they had not deleted their respective employers as their “friends” from the cellphone application WhatsApp.

André Snyman of eBlockwatch, a national community network organisation, said a domestic worker photographed herself wearing a dress she had stolen from her boss and posted it as her profile picture on WhatsApp.

“Her employer was shocked when she saw her wearing her dress. She now plans on bringing criminal charges against her.”

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