Now that’s an abusive boss
December 8th, 2012 at 4:00 pm by David FarrarNews.com.au reports:
Former Mildura laundry owner Kevin Andrews has been convicted of repeatedly bullying several of his workers physically, psychologically and verbally at his business between 2007 and 2009.
Magistrate Hugh Radford said Andrews’ “disgusting and appalling” behaviour had caused workers to suffer nightmares and depression up to five years on.
Mr Radford said Andrews had asked one employee to bring his dogs to the laundry, “and if an employee stuffed up they would be bitten by the dogs, that is the employee would be locked up with the dogs in a shipping container”.
“Further the accused threatened the employees that he would dissolve them in acid, a substance that was available to them in the workplace,” Mr Radford said. …
Andrews also referred a female employee as a “big fat bush pig”, called women “brain-dead c—s” and had said “all women are dogs”.
I’m amazed he was only fined $50,000!
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December 8th, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Sorry- can’t get it.
What did this “boss” actually DO (ie as in action) to his employees?
If they were uncomfortable why didn’t they just get a job elsewhere?
Nightmares and five years of depression??
Bullshit.
This reads like just another shakedown of a non PC small town businessman by a commie judge and money grabbing whiners clued up on how to work a corrupt system.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Probably the boss belomged to the aussie Labour Party.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 5:08 pm
How surprising to find Redbaiter standing up to be counted with the bullies.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 5:17 pm
You see ” brain dead cunts” mentioned in an article and the first comment is from one of our very own, in fact the biggest.
The universe in perfect synergy, nooice.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 5:30 pm
Pffft, locked in a shipping container full of rabid dogs? Listen mate, come complain to me when you’ve spent an hour in a room with Winston Peters and Micael Lhaws.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 5:43 pm
Rex
… now quick… claim some compensation. Someone must be made to PAY for your suffering
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 5:55 pm
That’s right Rex, do as KK says and you’ll win big time. The more you can embellish and exaggerate, the more money you will receive. Don’t forget the bit about the nightmares.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 6:29 pm
Locked in shipping container with Winston Peters, Michael Laws and Redbaiter. A nightmare
Vote:A shipping container locked with Winston Peters, Michael Laws and Redbaiter. A dream come true.
December 8th, 2012 at 6:34 pm
Is he a Muslim?
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 6:36 pm
Why Kiwiblog has gone down hill.
Its over populated with anti-freedom of expression petulant and cowardly little try hard unfunny fags like eszett.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
Sorry- can’t get it.
What did this I actually DO (ie as in action) to you to limit your freedom of expression?
If you are uncomfortable why don’t you just go to another blog elsewhere?
anti-freedom of expression and cowardly little try hard ??
Bullshit.
This reads like just another rant of a small town old man whiner without a clue on how anything works in the real world
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Is our Reddy an old man? I generally think of him as just a very naughty boy.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 6:47 pm
I would, krazykiwi, I would… but Winston would find a way to bill it to the taxpayer, and then I’d have Kiwibloggers demanding I make repatriations…
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 6:50 pm
“What did this I actually DO (ie as in action) to you to limit your freedom of expression?”
Don’t pretend you don’t know you vicious petty little girl.
You fags are committing the same kind of Orwellian attacks all over the west, having people locked up and fined for “offending” your precious sensibilities.
If this guy did treat people this way, its sad, but having the state fine him and punish him is the much greater crime IMHO.
And its a crime that has ony been visited upon us because of the ceaseless whining of nasty cowardly little Orwellian dirtbags like you.
Answer your question OK?
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 6:53 pm
Now now Reddy, you are working yourself up to another tantrum. Perhaps Mum should bring cocoa time forward an hour this evening and get you off to bed.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 6:55 pm
Redbaiter is just butthurt because he’s been convicted of the same thing in the past.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 6:56 pm
You’re the one who appears to be worked up Moron. You’ve been making your snide little abusive comments all day and not one has had anything to say about the subject at hand. Another sad leftist intellectual coward whose worthless presence is helping to drive this blog down the drain.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 6:58 pm
“Redbaiter is just butthurt because he’s been convicted of the same thing in the past.”
Wow, a leftist lying, smearing and making completely unsubstantiated false allegations.
How unusual.
Obviously that ignorant boss could well do with some instruction on how to behave decently by you right Jimmy, seeing as you’re so civilised and respectable.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:06 pm
You are getting lots of likes on KB today weddy
Vote:Almost not quite fifty
December 8th, 2012 at 7:17 pm
Fifty is nothing on Kiwiblog Griff.
I have got over 100 here, and mostly when I have been taking the piss out of politically confused worthless little commie wankers like you.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:22 pm
Getting a bit wound up, red?
Not just commies in your closet, but now there are fags under your bed? Or in your bed? Commies out of the closet, so to speak.
Astonishing what few determined masculine men can achieve, according to you? Just 5% of the population and yet so powerful, manly, dominant. You must be very envious, red all these fags and lefties easily achieving of what you only dream about.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:25 pm
Btw, calling me a fag is that supposed to be an insult or are you trying to ask me out on a date?
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:32 pm
The subject at hand? What about the subject in your hand, Reddy?
Vote:This thread has become about you because you are the only one courageous enough to come out in support of workplace bullying.
December 8th, 2012 at 7:37 pm
Its funny that the so called liberals who frequent and attempt to dominate discussion on Kiwiblog, (and are revealed more and more each day as a clique of far left homosexuals) are apparently in full agreement with the judge’s findings, but not one of them can present any logical argument to support their position.
Conversely they line up to heap just the kind of abuse the “boss” was convicted of upon another commenter (with one well known coward actually transferring the actual words even) in a carbon copy of the behaviour they profess to find unacceptable in the boss.
Only liberals could be guilty of such arrant hypocrisy.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:41 pm
“you are the only one courageous enough to come out in support of workplace bullying.”
You pitiful braindead leftist moron. I do not support any kind of bullying.
I merely reject Orwellian attempts at speech and thought control and decry the growth of the massive state apparatus (voted for by uncivilized uneducated ignorant of history thugs like you) that has that as its objective.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:43 pm
So punishing a bully is thought control? Would you punish a physical assault?
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
ROFTL
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:44 pm
Only redbaiter could think that the laundry owner is being perfectly reasonable. After all he is the boss!! (and definitely not a liberal).
Vote:I think redbaiter has found an equal, he may even secretly like him. (But not in a gay way of course).
December 8th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
“…..You fags are committing the same kind of Orwellian attacks all over the west, having people locked up and fined for “offending” your precious sensibilities.
If this guy did treat people this way, its sad, but having the state fine him and punish him is the much greater crime IMHO.
And its a crime that has ony been visited upon us because of the ceaseless whining of nasty cowardly little Orwellian dirtbags like you….’
Well…red is right….’feeling offended’ is arbitary. No other laws I can think of are arbitary, so it then follows that being charged with one of these ‘crimes’ is an arbitary act. And that is orwellian!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:49 pm
Reddy, your fan Harriet has arrived. Please don’t turn on her just because her arguments make even less sense than yours.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Harriet is a he, apparently. Or so he/she said recently, IIRC.
Vote:Maybe Harriet is confused about his/her sexual identity.
December 8th, 2012 at 7:51 pm
Thanks for addressing the issue Harriet.
..and I dare say you’ve discovered by now that the intellectual level of debate on Kiwiblog seldom rises above gutter height, and that’s apparently because almost anyone with any degree of sophistication and intelligence has left in disgust at the prevalence of low IQ poorly informed knuckle dragging left wing thugs. (many of them queer)
Most of them can’t read or comprehend, and their contributions are in so many cases just the modern day equivalent of a caveman’s grunt.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:56 pm
“ROFTL”
Why don’t you explain why you see that as funny fag?
Give readers another example of the vain self obsession and low comprehensive ability that typifies the innate narcissism of so many homosexuals.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:56 pm
I apologise Reddy, for being congenitally unable to rise to the heights of sophistication represented by your labelling anyone with the temerity to disagree with you as a knuckle-dragging commie queer.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:58 pm
Liberals
Well done Muppet you just defined your adversary: Liberals
Makes a change from your more normal conservo nuttery of random spittle
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:58 pm
In your mind, is there anyone other than yourself, Harriet and the laundry boss (what a nasty trio that would be) that isn’t either a commie, liberal or homosexual redbaiter?
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
ANYONE READY TO DEFEND THE JUDGE’S FINDINGS?
Or are you all intent on proving that when it comes to thuggery, you’re no better than the subject employer.
And therefore guilty of rank hypocrisy.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Well let’s see Rebaiter:
Vote:The judge says that the laundry owners behaviour is “digusting and appalling”. Sounds right to me, do you disagree?
December 8th, 2012 at 8:06 pm
Do you know what the law says under which the judge made this ruling Reddy, or shall we just discuss it on the basis of one newspaper article? Remembering of course that the news media is controlled by lying commies.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:08 pm
“Well done Muppet you just defined your adversary: Liberals”
I’m speaking of post modern liberals Grief, who are fakes.
The describe themself as such, but the reality is that they are authoritarians who viciously attack and attempt to marginalize anyone who challenges their doctrines, as this thread so amply demonstrates.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:08 pm
As always mr red I would need to read the actual court proceedings at the very least before I would pass judgment.
Vote:The judge who would have far more experience than I was of the opinion that the guys actions were excessive. We need some standard of employment law. Ours is reasonably workable .
As a union delegate, I used to take great delight in informing my employer that I could swear at them yet they could not swear at me
December 8th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Don’t forget that the news media are all homosexuals as well mikenmind!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:09 pm
Obviously the dog owning employee was next in line to take over Mr Andrews business.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:12 pm
“The judge says that the laundry owners behaviour is “digusting and appalling”. Sounds right to me, do you disagree?”
Not entirely. If its true, it is sad that employees were treated this way. (as I have already said)
My point is a free society cannot disbar this kind of behaviour without infringing on individual liberties to an unacceptable extent.
In a free society, people cannot expect to go through life free of any chance of being offended. If they are “offended’ they should take personal steps to avoid such offense, like removing themselves from the place it is occurring, rather than call for Orwellian legislation to deal with the problem.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Caustic is of course far more efficacious at dissolving folk than acid, as all us employers that have a passing knowledge of chemistry know!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:14 pm
“I used to take great delight in informing my employer that I could swear at them yet they could not swear at me”
As I said, rank hypocrisy made even more odious and cowardly by the addition of the apparently compulsive smiley face.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Once the caustic has reduced the erstwhile shit-stirring employees to bone then you toss them into the acid!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:17 pm
My smiley faces are entirely based on stupidity Red. Hipocracy is not in my vocabulatory!!!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:20 pm
‘In a free society, people cannot expect to go through life free of any chance of being offended. If they are “offended’ they should take personal steps to avoid such offense, like removing themselves from the place it is occurring, rather than call for Orwellian legislation to deal with the problem.’
Vote:I’m going to take that as being as near as Reddy can get to stating a coherent case.
1. I should like to know under which law this action was decided.
2. I should like to hear Reddy’s explanation for finding said law to be ‘Orwellian’.
December 8th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Johnboy, you smiley faces are a genune expression of good will.
Griff et al use them in the most hypocritical and slimy manner, mostly to sign off from some cowardly false allegation or the like, in a feeble attempt to disguise the seething hatred they have for those who don’t think like them, ie in the “approved liberal” manner.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
Redbaiter @ 8.12pm.
Not entirely?? What does that mean excatly? Either you agree with the judges assessment of the laundry owners behaviour or you don’t. I can’t see any middle ground here.
So according you if you get offended then you remove yourself from the place of offense. This means using redbaiter logic, the employees walk away from their job. So now not only they are the victims of extreme harassment, they are also now unemployed. Meanwhile, the boss carries on as usual with a new batch of workers.
Shaking head in disbelief.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:24 pm
Too late Milky, you’ve already solidly identified yourself as a time wasting troll and I reject your patently false attempts to portray yourself now as a serious debater.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
MNM
Take that as a win mate. When ever Bedwetter refuses to engage with you it means that he has lost.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:26 pm
That’s how you make soap John boy
Do the smileys wind you red you seem to be the only one that worries
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
“….As a union delegate, I used to take great delight in informing my employer that I could swear at them yet they could not swear at me…”
And that is why the call is being made in Australia for Unions to be registered under the companies Act instead of the likes of incorporated societies Act.
Company executives, directors and agents are not allowed to lie or mislead under the companies act. They face heavy fines and imprisonment if they do.
Unionists can and do lie and mislead virtually anyone without fear of consequence. And that is why union disputes drag on and on and on…..and productivity takes a back seat in unionised industry.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:27 pm
You are right onto it Red. Johnboy hasn’t got a seething hatred bone in his whole Adonis like body.
He just likes to come here for a bit of a laugh!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:28 pm
“Shaking head in disbelief.”
Well, no chance of brain damage from that shaking. we both know that. And I already know that you leftist thugs hold freedom of speech in low regard, so your response doesn’t surprise me one but.
As I said, you are uneducated uncivilized ignorant of history thugs, and that is said to you as fact rather than insult.
If you were not that kind of knuckle dragging thug, you would not need the argument I am making to be presented in such incredibly simple terms.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
What it means Bigot Bruv is that Milky is like you, written off as a worthless cowardly and contemptible troll whom I should spend the least possible portion of my time dealing with.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
I know Griff. I used to work for Colgate Palmolive!
Soft soapy soaping was my profession then!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:30 pm
Translation of rebaiter @ 8.24pm for you mikenmild:
Vote:Damn, he make a valid point. However, I’m very insecure so I can’t admit that. So instead I’ll revert to abuse and say that you don’t meet my intellectual standards. I’m so good at it, that no one will be able to see through it.
December 8th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Repeat tactic @ 8.28pm
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
You HAVE intellectual standards bc?
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:32 pm
I never realised we had measuring devices that went that low!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:34 pm
Special order for leftists and liberals Johnboy.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:36 pm
Oh come on Weddy. I have only ever asked you one question really. One that you refuse to answer.
Remember how you said that in your ten year plus war against the left you had achieved many victories?, remember how I asked you to name just one of those victories?
I am still waiting to hear what one of those victories might have been.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
Johnboy
Vote:I think Reddy likes you better than me. What make you so special?
December 8th, 2012 at 8:37 pm
You slow witted idiot.
The day I dance to the tune of cretins and cowards like you is the day pigs pilot space ships around the sun.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
I just have vastly superior chutzpah compared to you milky.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:40 pm
Just one Wed, just one.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
Oh Johnboy, are you sure it’s not the eau d’ewe you exude?
Vote:BB – well done – he is dancing to your tune.
December 8th, 2012 at 8:42 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiW0bw2TEc4
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:43 pm
Loretta Swit could always do it for me!!!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:44 pm
“I just have vastly superior chutzpah compared to you milky.”
I am sure you do Johnny. Milky’s Kiwiblog presence is always figuratively accompanied by the strong and repulsive stench of soiled underpants.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:45 pm
Reddy, we gave you a chance to make an argument. Go ahead, you only have 15 minutes before Mum brings in your cocoa.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:47 pm
harryit
Vote:How to you conflagerate to lying from using the language of the shop floor. The only time I swore at them was when one of my crew lost his thumb on a machine that had allready taken two thumbs prior. The oposed digits are inportant to a man
December 8th, 2012 at 8:48 pm
I made my argument Milky.
All you have done is ask falsely premised and idiotic questions.
I am not here to be interrogated by losers and idiots.
Either make an argument or fuck off.
On second thoughts, do the latter. Whatever argument you might try to construct, I know from previous experience it will be worthless irrational shit anyway, and not worthy of response.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:50 pm
Lack of the opposed digits would preclude a man from performing here on KB Griff.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:52 pm
You are changing your story again Reddy. First you said you wouldn’t debate me because you think I am a troll. Now you claim my questions were falsely premised. Well done, you have edged towards a real grown-up debate. Now all you need to do is explain why those premises were false.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
No johnboy you only need one functioning pointy thing to hash out dribble.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
What I NEED TO DO is not waste any more of my time responding to braindead commie trolls like you.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
The very fact you are a self-confessed HOBM supporter milky takes you beyond the pale where any rational argument could possibly be countenanced.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Sure Reddy, but we know you’re going because it’s cocoa time.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:57 pm
And I thought you always wore your underpants when commenting here Bach!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 8:59 pm
Johnboy
Vote:There is no room on this thread for your jealousy of superior rugby clubs.
December 8th, 2012 at 9:00 pm
So you go commando sheep shager
Vote:under my jeans yes underpants and a t shirt
heavy socks and steel cap boots shaven head and a Viking moe with six days beard
December 8th, 2012 at 9:04 pm
Which part of you hangs through the neckhole of the t shirt you wear under your jeans Bach?
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 9:05 pm
the missis
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 9:08 pm
Inheriting the Father Superior that came with the Marist Catholics doesn’t count milky.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 9:10 pm
As you know Johnboy, religion should play no part in sport, so I’d be happy for Hutt to drop the catholic label.
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 9:13 pm
But they would lose the Vatican contribution to their chequebook milky!
Vote:December 8th, 2012 at 9:31 pm
Get the money out of rugby along with politics and religion, Johnboy.
Vote: