Saudi company dresses man up as hand sanitizer, faces flak on Twitter

The company called the act abusive and put an immediate stop to it

human_hand_sanitizer Man dressed up as human hand sanitizer dispenser at Aramco, Saudi Arabia | Twitter handle of @HishamFageeh

A man dressed up as a human sanitizer was seen walking the office of Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco. The images of the same have surfaced on social media, where people are calling it an act of racism.



In the images, the worker can be seen wearing a face mask and dressed up as a large hand sanitizer dispenser with a real hand sanitizer dispenser attached. In another picture, a man can be seen using the dispenser.

According to local media, at least one of the images appears to have been taken in Aramco’s Dhahran offices. Aramco in a statement on Twitter called the act abusive and added that it wanted its employees to be health conscientious amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

As per the company's statement, the act was immediately stopped and taken steps to ensure that it never happens again.

The image was first posted on Twitter by @HishamFageeh, an actor/producer, which has since racked up more than 3,000 retweets.
Many dubbed the act to be modern-day slavery.
“Man the humiliation in his eyes is just shattering,” Twitter user @hannxbaI wrote.

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