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Fired for the right reason
by Rishi Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:01 am
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/man-shark-wrestle-video-fired-155745529.html
Paul Marshallsea and his 56-year-old wife, Wendy, were on leave from the Pant & Dowlais Boys & Girls Club in Wales for "work-related stress" in January, when he was spotted on a video grabbing the shark in shallow water as it approached the children and pulling it in the other direction. The footage, captured by a local television crew, went viral, with Marshallsea "hailed a hero," as London's Telegraph newspaper put it.
"We don't recommend manhandling sharks, but this gentleman did a great job," a spokesman for the Australian coast guard said at the time.
But Marshallsea and his wife returned from Australia to find a letter from the charity's board of trustees informing the pair they had been fired.
"Whilst unfit to work you were well enough to travel to Australia," the letter read in part. "And, according to recent news footage of yourself in Queensland, you allegedly grabbed a shark by the tail and narrowly missed being bitten by quickly jumping out of the way.”
The husband and wife had worked there for 10 years.
"You think being in charge and running a children's charity, they would have patted me on the back and congratulated me," Marshallsea told the paper. "But to sack us both without any sort of discussion first is just disgusting."
Paul Marshallsea and his 56-year-old wife, Wendy, were on leave from the Pant & Dowlais Boys & Girls Club in Wales for "work-related stress" in January, when he was spotted on a video grabbing the shark in shallow water as it approached the children and pulling it in the other direction. The footage, captured by a local television crew, went viral, with Marshallsea "hailed a hero," as London's Telegraph newspaper put it.
"We don't recommend manhandling sharks, but this gentleman did a great job," a spokesman for the Australian coast guard said at the time.
But Marshallsea and his wife returned from Australia to find a letter from the charity's board of trustees informing the pair they had been fired.
"Whilst unfit to work you were well enough to travel to Australia," the letter read in part. "And, according to recent news footage of yourself in Queensland, you allegedly grabbed a shark by the tail and narrowly missed being bitten by quickly jumping out of the way.”
The husband and wife had worked there for 10 years.
"You think being in charge and running a children's charity, they would have patted me on the back and congratulated me," Marshallsea told the paper. "But to sack us both without any sort of discussion first is just disgusting."
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Re: Fired for the right reason
by Rishi Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:03 am
Work place rules and policies are there for a reason. I don't blame the employer.
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Re: Fired for the right reason
by southindian Thu Mar 14, 2013 8:20 am
Completely agree with the employer. And employers can do the same to people found posting on websites (SuCH) from work.
Some employers do snoop into employee activities and have taken steps (blocking sites FB, email etc) to restrain or fire.
Some employers do snoop into employee activities and have taken steps (blocking sites FB, email etc) to restrain or fire.
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