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Thread ID: 119807	2011-08-11 00:23:00	75c DVD thief vows to clear name over sacking	SKT174 (1319)	PC World Chat

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1222435	2011-08-11 00:23:00	The man who was sacked after taking a 75 cent DVD from his workplace says he will continue to fight to clear his name. David Dumolo was dismissed from the Lakes District Health Board in May last year, and the Employment Relations Authority has ruled the sacking was justified. tvnz.co.nz Justified? Can't imagine if every time I want to use a disc I have to fill out an application form and wait for approval .	SKT174 (1319)
1222436	2011-08-11 00:36:00	Got to be more to this story than a 75 cent DVD...	johcar (6283)
1222437	2011-08-11 00:37:00	No Union?	zqwerty (97)
1222438	2011-08-11 00:41:00	I was thinking more along the lines of employee behaviour/performance at work... The DHBs aren't stupid (usually) and usually have very "touchy-feely" HR departments.	johcar (6283)
1222439	2011-08-11 00:45:00	Semantics - he wants to clear his name, they want to erase it.	R2x1 (4628)
1222440	2011-08-11 00:47:00	Copy Pasted Content: (www.kiwiblog.co.nz) My first reaction to this is that it was vast over-kill. Hell, I’m pretty sure I’ve taken the odd blank CD home in the distant past, just as I’ve sometimes taken a pen home. A month before he lost his job, Mr Dumolo had gone into work on Saturday, April 24, to get a blank DVD. On the day he took the DVD, another employee spotted Mr Dumolo and reported him to their manager. This changes it somewhat. I would not go into work to grab something for personal use. I’d go to Dick Smith’s and buy it. If it was a “I was heading out the door and realised I need a blank CD and grabbed one from my desk” I think it would be less of an issue. The Employment Relations Authority found that Mr Dumolo’s dismissal was justified. His managers’ decision to fire him was fair in that in the seven months he had been working he had been given a formal warning and had been spoken to on several occasions about other incidents. This I suspect is the major reason he was sacked. There had been other problems and they used the DVD as a catalyst to get him fired.	bob_doe_nz (92)
1222441	2011-08-11 00:52:00	But the DHB said that the employer had a number of complaints against him and was subject to performance management. Happened to someone I know once, he'd used some courier tickets from his work. They knew and didn't care. Until. He had a couple of warnings and upset another staff member so the next time a ticket was used, it was the final excuse to fire him. So I bet this guy had used up his chances.	pctek (84)
1222442	2011-08-11 00:58:00	Quote: A month before he lost his job, Mr Dumolo had gone into work on Saturday, April 24, to get a blank DVD. this is theft. The value of stolen goods doesnt alter that fact. There is the issue of his attitude, going to work to get(steal) a blank DVD, rather than a shop to buy some for $10	1101 (13337)
1222443	2011-08-11 01:17:00	Oh I missed that part where he intentionally goes to work and grab a disc, I thought he just grab one to use for his own purposes while he's at work.	SKT174 (1319)
1222444	2011-08-11 01:31:00	The other end of the scale "On Saturday 5 February the Waikato DHB released a media statement that it had recovered $143,400 from a doctor (by implication a specialist) it employed “who was being paid as a fulltime employee while working two days every week in private practice. This followed a lengthy investigation arising out of a complaint in September 2009 from the mother of a patient. Although Waikato DHB tends to be more proactive in media releases that most other DHBs, the public complaint may be the main reason for making this media statement." The doctor was able to resign rather than be sacked. It cost $23,000 to recover the $143,400 with no mention that those costs were recovered as well.	PaulD (232)
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