Overview
- In Gannaur in Sonipat, employees were filmed tossing Soan Papdi boxes at a company gate and urging colleagues to discard their gifts.
- The footage was posted on X by user @WokePandemic and rapidly circulated across social media platforms.
- Critics condemned the visible food waste during a festival, invoking cultural reverence for food and calling the act disrespectful.
- Others framed the rejection as a display of anger toward management and pay disparities between desk staff and production workers.
- The incident revived the running meme that Soan Papdi is a regifted or least desired Diwali sweet, and no employer statement was reported.