Tuesday, May 15, 2012


Must not accuse employees of laziness?

Australia.  Chubb runs a lot of security trucks for delivering cash
A CHUBB Security boss was forced to apologise to workers and undergo counselling after circulating an email describing injured cash-in-transit guards as "oxygen thieves".

But the National Union of Workers believes the punishment is too lenient and have called for him to resign.

The email, written on April 24 and obtained by The Sunday Telegraph, was sent by Chubb's national security manager Brian Lee.

Mr Lee, a former NSW policeman, was formerly the company's manager of compliance in charge of workplace ethics. He made the comment in an exchange with a counterpart at Chubb Victoria, who needed to fly a worker to Sydney for weapons testing.

Mr Lee was first asked in the email: "You don't have anyone there on workcover who can pick up one of my guys from Airport (sic) on 2nd May?"

He responded the same day, writing: "I have plenty of oxygen thieves, but they can only work limited hours, so I may need to use a couple of them depending on the amount of time needed."

He then circulated the email to four Chubb supervisors in Sydney, asking them: "Do we have a body and vehicle around who can help?"

Workers were irate over the "oxygen thieves" comment, sticking copies of the email around Chubb offices in protest. The remark referred to guards injured during cash-in-transit robberies or those on restricted duties because of post-traumatic stress disorder.

Source

He has obviously not yet  learned to be "sensitive"





4 comments:

Bird of Paradise said...

PC a new desease that is effecting everybody and makes that act foolish LIKE ALL LIBERALS DO

Anonymous said...

You mean like the disease of undermining the English language?

Anonymous said...

Hey Jon,

Why do you not delete Bird's comments? He reflects badly on conservatives.

Anonymous said...

L.O.L. that a manager of workplace compliance (obviously a completely PC office and job) could fall into such a trap.