07-09-2010, 12:08 AM
(07-08-2010, 10:55 PM)Lissa Wrote:(07-08-2010, 01:18 PM)eppie Wrote: I just read that in Holland a guy got vuvuzela fired today.
Some colleagues of his had been using vuvuzela's for some time already and he got pissed with them and asked them several times to stop.
The next day they had build a mega-vuvuzela using pressurized air, which made an enormous noise.
So the guy took a big knife and cut the vuvuzela in two.
He had to go to his boss who fired him.
Sad for the guy but hell of a story.
To bad the guy's not in the US, he'd have a major lawsuit against the company for harrasment (he asked them to stop and they went and continued).
I think firing him was the right choice. He basically took a knife to another employee's property. Annoying or not, that sounds like a firing offense to me. Also, the article only says that the worker asked his colleagues to stop. The boss isn't mentioned until the firing happens. Clearly the correct response when something is happening and confronting the responsible party about it doesn't solve the problem is to then go to the Boss for a solution. This doesn't sound as if it happened. So it seems pretty clear to me that while the vuvuzela playing employees should also be punished; the guy was fired with ample cause.
Heck, even if the Boss was in on it (which the article linked by kandrathe also doesn't say he was) I still think the guy should have been fired. Taking a knife to another employee's property is pretty much going to get you fired in most cases that don't involve lunch.