Australian business owner Allen Fu calls workers ‘lazy’ and entitled in TikTok rant
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The businessman criticizes Australian workers as lazy and claims the government pays people $1,000 a fortnight to sit at home and do nothing: “In America, if you don’t want to work, you’re dead.”
- Businessman Allen Fu calls Australians ‘lazy’
- Claims that Australian workers are ‘expensive’ and ‘entitled’
- Centrelink pays single people much less: $668.40 per fortnight
An Australian businessman has criticized the nation’s workers as ‘lazy’, ‘expensive’ and ‘entitled’, arguing they need to be more like Americans, where if you don’t work, ‘you’re dead’.
Allen Fu, co-founder of CheekyGlo, a Sydney-based exfoliating glove shop, shared his low opinion of the work ethic of Australians in a Tik Tok rant on Thursday, arguing that Centrelink pays them too much welfare.
Mr. Fu said: ‘That’s why Australians are lazy, brother. If you don’t want to work, don’t worry, we’ll give you $1,000 a fortnight so you can live. If you go to the United States, don’t you want to work? You are dead. It’s crazy.
‘Every country I’ve visited, when they meet Australians, their first perspective was ‘oh, you’re lazy.’ Everyone is lazy: at 5:00 p.m. and that’s it.
Mr Fu’s $1,000 figure is an exaggeration: Centrelink’s JobSeeker or ‘dole’ program pays a maximum biweekly amount of $668.40 to a single person with no children.
Australian businessman Allen Fu (above) said Australian workers are ‘lazy’, ‘expensive’ and ‘entitled’
The federal government welfare agency pays $608.70 for a person with a couple and $915.40 for a single primary caregiver who is caring for a large family or has other responsibilities, such as foster care arrangements. Payments are also paid with requirements that job seekers apply for a certain number of jobs.
In his video, Fu explained how the work culture in other countries he has visited compares to that of Australia.
“They continue to work there, they go to get drinks, they work at night,” he said.
‘Your boss calls at 1 am, they will work. Here’s ‘what do you mean you can’t call me? I’m out of work.’
‘The work culture here in Australia sucks. Staff are expensive, they are entitled, anywhere else on the planet they are grateful for a job.
“It’s not even our fault, society and the government have conditioned us to be that way.”
However, hundreds of commenters pointedly took issue with Fu and mocked him for belittling Australian working conditions.
He applauded overseas workers, like Americans, for working overtime, being available at all times of the day and acting “grateful” for the job.
“Never in my life have I seen someone so upset about being treated well,” one person wrote.
“The work culture is amazing bro, you should work for a living, not the other way around,” said another.
“Either this guy doesn’t realize he’s being exploited or he lets money run his life,” another person commented.
A fourth commenter wrote: ‘The workers are not overworked and can still keep their job. Are they even paid correctly? This is terrible.’
Another said: ‘Man thinks he’ll be on his deathbed wishing he’d only taken one 12+ hour shift.’
But several other commenters said their own businesses are suffering because dedicated workers are hard to find.
‘It’s true, I agree, the staff have the right and they don’t want to work but they still want to be paid. Small businesses are hurt,” wrote one commenter.
‘It’s the same in the UK. That is why the economies are falling and the rest are growing,” said another.
“It’s 100 percent true, it’s too easy to get unemployment (payments) here,” a third person wrote.