A capital construction worker is going to have a hard time pushing for a promotion after driving his boss’s car into a lake on Saturday.

Borrowing his employer’s ride to run an errand, the man was driving through Sen Sok district’s Teuk Thla commune when he veered to avoid a water tank, only to drive straight into an even bigger body of water.

Crawling out without injury, the muddied man hurried to call out for bystanders and police to help him remove the car and minimise the damage.

Koh Santepheap