Singapore couple row over husband's colleague calling him ‘baby', argues it is workplace norm
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Footage released on a leading social media platform in mid-May shows the man standing on the ground floor near a car park while a woman, thought to be his wife, confronts him from the first floor of a building.
The infuriated woman's voice is so loud that she can be clearly heard berating him in the clip.
Video footage online shows the man standing near a car park as his wife harangues him from a balcony. Photo: Instagram/tiagong_sg
When the woman questions him why a female colleague calls him baby, the man asks her to lower her voice. But this only irritates her more.
'I want to let everyone hear. You betrayed me!' shouts the woman.
The man says: 'She calls everyone in the office baby. Everyone.'
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The woman apparently does not buy it, and asks: 'She calls everyone baby. Are you sure?'
While the man begs the woman to stop quarrelling, she continues: 'You do not tell me what to do. I tell you what to do.'
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