KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 1 — A company director who grumbled on Facebook about a security guard who refused him and his wife a bay at KLCC’s “ladies-only” parking zone gained instant Internet infamy after his post on the incident went viral.

Internet users were quick to roast the man known as “Peter Cheng” for criticising the guard for doing her job and for feeling “entitled” to special privileges because he claimed to have spent RM700 at the popular city mall.

Overnight, Cheng, who is said to be the director of a leading construction firm’s engineering arm, made it to third place on Twitter’s Malaysia trends, became the subject of several Internet memes and after issuing an apology and deactivating his Facebook account, still found himself hunted down on other networking sites like LinkedIn.

“So he apologised… But I wonder if it’s a case of succumbing under public pressure and managing reputational risk. Hmm,” one Facebook user wrote.

“He apologised for offending people. Not for his act. Just saying,” another user said.

“To be more precise, he posted a status update on FB. Has he actually apologised to the one person he should… i.e. the security guard?” asked one user.

“Yup. Seems like to me he apologised bcoz he knew ppl are offended not bcoz he knows what he did was wrong,” said another.

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