During my time at CWR (Crusade World Revival) one employee, I recall was called Pete from Marketing, cracked a 'joke' about why Selwyn liked Nigerian people, alluding to the biscuit in his hand said they were like raisins in his cookie. Cue giggle from a woman standing by. Deeming this to be potentially racially offensive to some I reported it to the appropriate person, the finance guy for some reason was in charge of complaints, but he simply said he would not look into it unless I could provide him with the exact time, to the minute, when the joke was made - MAJOR cop out!
Anyhoo, there was a guy in an office on the ground floor, next to Mick Brooks' office who spent my lunch hour moaning about his girlfriend. When he got caught out for wasting what was actually my lunch hour but his work time, he told my manager I was chatting during work hours! So my manager Brenda and my boss Matt launched a discriminating campaign against me whereby my every move was followed and I was not allowed to talk to colleagues. I was even followed by Brenda to the toilet every time so she could keep an eye on me! But note that Brenda, saying she was stressed with my complaint about her, would happily go during work hours and spend copious amounts of work time praying with Sue, another editor! Hypocrite much?! There then followed a constructive dismissal where Mick, the then acting CEO, let me leave immediately as I complained and said they would pay me my notice period, and therein ended my time at one of the nation's crappiest workplaces!
I made a friend in charismatic christian Simon Ray, mentioned in a previous blog entry, who used to like going looking for chipmunks in the grounds or teaching me the ins and outs of football. We kept in touch after I left and he and his wife were all for visiting us etc. However, when I came forward about serial paedophile Cundick, who was a church preacher, Ray like many others turned very cold towards me. Years later he checked back with me but was more obsessed with his own issues, such as his having got bad feedback from his employees at CWR, rather than offering any true friendship to me, making it clear to me he still didn't support me having reported a peadophile.
Note, I'm so over certain christian's hypocrisy and do not identify with them any longer.
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