A Choa Chu Kang resident lashed out at a foreign worker who was laying a makeshift path from his flat to the lift, as a video of the encounter went viral.
The man claimed he had been trapped in his unit for an hour while the corridor was being painted on Nov 13.
A video of the incident, apparently filmed by the resident, was posted by @SG Daily on TikTok on Dec 4, garnering over 602,800 views and 19,700 likes as of press time.
“12pm corridor painting triggers dispute after resident claims he was ‘stuck’ in his unit for 1 hour,” the caption read.
‘How am I supposed to go out and have lunch?’
The 28-second clip shows a foreign worker, wearing a T-shirt with the logo AR-Crete Flooring Specialist, laying planks on a freshly painted floor to form a makeshift path from the man’s unit to the lift.
The man is heard asking the worker: “So did your supervisor ask you to do it? Yes or no?”
“You put like that, how am I supposed to go out and have lunch?” he asks. “I only have one hour lunch break, you know.”
The worker finishes laying the planks, dusts his hands and walks away without a word.
