15-07-2025
Worker's bizarre act at a water feature baffles Aussies - but there's a very simple explanation
A businessman has left other corporate workers scratching their heads after he was captured dunking his head in a public fountain this week.
The man, wearing just his business shirt and pants, was seen submerging his face in the water feature in the centre of Martin Place's MLC Centre forecourt in Sydney 's CBD on Monday.
The pool of water sits above the underground food court connected to the Martin Place train station.
In a clip shared to TikTok, the man could be seen putting his face just below the water line while fully dressed in a business shirt, slacks, and with a watch on.
He appeared to be shouting as water bubbled around his face and was seen gesturing both through the water and toward himself.
Amused workers walked past the man, watching the bizarre display, many in fits of laughter.
But one fellow TikTokker pointed out the man was likely waving to a friend below in the food court who he could see through the glass bottom of the fountain.
A corporate worker has been filmed appearing to speak through a water feature in the centre of Sydney's CBD (pictured)
'You can see down into the food court he's (probably) got a mate under it,' she wrote.
Others joked the man was simply fed up with his day job.
'Drowning in work took [on] a new meaning,' one wrote.
'Mondays in corporate be like,' another said.
'Me in the bathroom sink in the office on a Friday after Thursday drinks,' a third remarked.
Others said they understood the apparently frustrated worker.
'Honestly, as someone who works in that building, mood,' one wrote.
'It really gets like that,' another said.
'He's doing what we all wish we could,' a third wrote.
